Chapter Summaries

Ten minutes before the giant cats attacked the mall, “Cheng Xin” discovered a cocoon holding the mall’s origin energy and began corrupting it to make a powerful vessel. The chapter then returned to Ye Jiang and the Bureau as one cat awakened, unleashing devastating corruption and leaving Yu Hai and the civilians helpless.

• Mirror Woman warned Ye Jiang that someone who had entered a cat’s body had soon died, but Ye Jiang still wanted to investigate.
• Yu Hai blocked Ye Jiang from entering the giant cat, while the young man slipped past and promised to go in and find her.
• “Cheng Xin” emerged from the cat, lost a foot to Rong Yin’s black hole, then grabbed a toy and left the mall.
• One giant cat rose, released overwhelming corruption, and swept apart the overhead walkways as people fell and lost control of their bodies.
• A second cat began to move, and two more catlike figures appeared inside the mall as Yu Hai watched the civilians suffer and lost consciousness.
• In the darkness, “Cheng Xin” found the cocoon containing unattributed origin energy and fused a lump of his corruption to its surface.

“Cheng Xin” drew nourishment from the cocoon before leaving as the toy cat’s contamination overwhelmed the mall and its people. Ye Jiang used Mirror Woman’s shard to shelter the humans, then faced the corrupted cat, which still refused to harm her; Monster No. 3 pulled her clear of its attack while Slaughter God demanded that he let her go.

• “Cheng Xin” watched the cocoon struggle, drew energy from it, and briefly monsterized before leaving the dark space.
• The toy cat’s contamination spread through the mall, incapacitating humans and affecting the monsters, while the cat wrecked the building without attacking anyone.
• Mirror Woman realized the cat’s duplicates were restraining its main body and urged Healer to use her mirror shard.
• Ye Jiang threw the shard down, creating a clean barrier, and Mirror Woman moved the remaining humans inside it.
• Ye Jiang confronted the corrupted cat, which redirected its paw rather than strike her, but its fully contaminated duplicates merged back into its body.
• Monster No. 3 pulled Ye Jiang away from the cat’s enlarged attack, and Slaughter God told him to let her go; Ye Jiang thanked No. 3 and said she was fine.

Ye Jiang recovered a lost energy ball from the strange cat and remembered that she had created the Blood Moon System, the Wishing Tree, and the miraculous mall. She learned that the mall and its toys had been made for a little coal-ball monster, while the strange cat had endured a century of loneliness and pain.

• Ye Jiang climbed onto the rampaging giant cat, sensed the source of its sickness, and punched open its chest.
• A small dark red energy ball escaped the cocoon inside the cat and returned to Ye Jiang, awakening memories of her creations.
• Ye Jiang remembered that she was the world’s only miracle and that the Blood Moon, Wishing Tree, and ability systems came from her.
• Ye Jiang recalled creating the mall and its wind-up toys as a playground for a little coal-ball monster, then leaving the mall underground.
• The strange cat’s memories revealed its pain and long loneliness, and it nuzzled Ye Jiang’s hand after she gently stroked it.

Ye Jiang freed the strange cat from its cocoon, and her willing gift of energy transformed the mall’s quasi-life into living monsters. She recognized Rong Yin as the original little monster she had raised, then healed Yu Hai after he woke from the contamination.

• Ye Jiang tore the black flesh from the strange cat, freeing him from his cocoon as his body began to disintegrate.
• Time and space stopped briefly, and the strange cat and the mall’s other quasi-life became living monsters.
• Ye Jiang realized the new monsters had been born from her energy and that Rong Yin was the original little monster she had raised.
• The strange cat withdrew his contamination, allowing Yu Hai to regain consciousness.
• Yu Hai staggered toward Ye Jiang to protect her, and she healed his wounds and cleared his mental contamination.

Ye Jiang treated the big cat after ending the danger in the mall, and Rong Yin admitted that he had known her before and wanted her to remember him. She took control of the mall and opened an exit for Yu Hai to evacuate the civilians, while Ability Control Bureau officials outside realized they could no longer enter.

• Ye Jiang finished treating the big cat and leaned against him as Rong Yin apologized for lying and asked her to remember him again.
• No. 3, No. 5, and No. 7 were stunned to see Rong Yin lower his head to Ye Jiang, then stood at attention when he fixed them with an icy gaze.
• Yu Hai asked for help evacuating civilians, and the big cat returned control of the mall to Ye Jiang.
• Ye Jiang opened an exit in a wall, told Yu Hai that the mall was under her control, and sent him to bring in bureau personnel and evacuate the survivors.
• The Ability Control Bureau members outside discovered that they could no longer enter the mall, and senior officials gathered to discuss what to do.

Ye Jiang restored the mall and learned that the toys in the Toy Graveyard had only wanted companionship, while their final voices revealed how long they had waited for their creator. After the Ability Control Bureau discussed the crisis, Mirror Woman gave Ye Jiang a detection bead Song Cen had left behind, which might contain an important message.

• Ye Jiang returned the energy orb to a toy, restoring the mall, and heard the toys’ last thoughts as she righted them.
• Ye Jiang realized the toys had created illusions to play with people and had never intended to kill them.
• Ability Control Bureau officials discussed the monster impersonating Cheng Xin, the civilians’ contamination, and the Healer’s role in saving them, then doubled her compensation.
• Mirror Woman told Ye Jiang she wanted to follow her, but Ye Jiang ordered her not to.
• Mirror Woman gave Ye Jiang the detection bead Song Cen had left behind and asked her to deliver it to the Ability Control Bureau.

After spending three days studying Rong Yin’s body, Ye Jiang remembered her promise to visit the Ability Control Bureau and headed there. On the way, she saw Captain Qin and his team dealing with the aftermath of a destructive high-level contaminant incident.

• Ye Jiang spent several days studying Rong Yin’s body and only then remembered her agreement with the Ability Control Bureau.
• Ye Jiang learned that three days had passed and ended her study session with Rong Yin.
• Ye Jiang flew straight to the Ability Control Bureau without giving advance notice.
• Ye Jiang saw dark clouds and destruction in part of the city, where Captain Qin and his team had fought a high-level contaminant.

After reaching S-rank, Ye Jiang returned to the Ability Control Bureau and explained that conscious, powerful monsters lived in the mall and were friendly toward humans. She told the leaders she controlled the mall and knew everything about its Origin Power, but withheld what she had discovered.

• Ye Jiang met Yu Hai outside the Ability Control Bureau and told him that 357 and No. 0 had stayed in the mall to absorb its strange energy.
• Ye Jiang asked Yu Hai about the mirror shard, but he had left it in his previous clothes and said it was an ordinary shard.
• At the Bureau meeting, Ye Jiang explained that the mall's Origin Power had awakened conscious lifeforms that entered the toys.
• Ye Jiang told the leaders the little monsters were stronger than S-rank corrupted but would stay in the mall and were not hostile toward humans.
• When Elder Zhu asked what she had learned about the mall's Origin Power, Ye Jiang said she knew everything about the mall but avoided revealing what she had discovered.

Ye Jiang warned the Ability Control Bureau that Cheng Xin was manipulating monsters and offered ability users access to the mall for training. After days of studying at the mall, she emerged and met Zhao Yi waiting for her.

• Ye Jiang told the Ability Control Bureau that the mall could raise powerful ability users’ levels and offered to open half of it for training.
• Ye Jiang showed the bureau a piece of flesh from Cheng Xin that had driven a strange cat mad and explained that similar pieces came from three S-rank monsters.
• Ye Jiang left the flesh for the bureau to study and warned that Cheng Xin was stirring up chaos and that the world was about to fall into disorder.
• The Ability Control Bureau later classified Cheng Xin as Monster Number 10, codenamed World Destroyer, and began selecting two thousand ability users to train in the mall.
• Ye Jiang returned to the mall and studied human anatomy for days, then came outside and encountered Zhao Yi waiting at the entrance.

Ye Jiang gave the Ability Control Bureau temporary mall keys hidden in tea granules, then turned the mall’s first floor into a food supermarket and its upper floors into training rooms. The first ability users arrived expecting a sacred training ground, only to find Ye Jiang loudly advertising her new store.

• Ye Jiang removed Zhao Yi from the candidate list as a joke, then gave him tea containing temporary keys for forty-one mall entrances to distribute among the bureau’s branches.
• Ye Jiang found Invisible Man at Yu Qingyi’s apartment and put him to work stocking a food supermarket in the mall.
• Ye Jiang remodeled the floors above the first into training rooms and divided the first floor into food sections.
• The first group of ability users entered the mall, including the steel ability user who had accompanied Xiao Pei on the City S mission.
• The ability users found Ye Jiang promoting her supermarket, then felt the mall’s energy begin to improve their bodies and stir their abilities.

Ye Jiang followed human laws when dealing with money, despite her monsters’ weak sense of morality. She went to the Ability Control Bureau’s training grounds to return money the toys had brought to the supermarket, surprising the ability users.

• Ye Jiang’s sense of morality combined monsters’ weak scruples with rules she had adopted while living as a human.
• Ye Jiang decided that money used by humans had to be earned through legal human methods, so she went to return the toys’ money.
• The Ability Control Bureau’s ability users thought Ye Jiang had come to inspect their training and eagerly gathered around her.
• Ye Jiang told them she had come because of the toys.

Ye Jiang invited Yu Qingyi into her mall, giving her a chance to awaken an ability, then reunited with Shi Li and Dong Zhen. The two monsters warned her that the Slaughter God had entered the mall, and Ye Jiang realized they meant Rong Yin.

• Ye Jiang repaid the Ability Control Bureau users for the worldly possessions the little monsters had taken and left the mall to find the monsters a teacher.
• Ye Jiang told Yu Qingyi that she could enter the mall through a mark on her bedroom door and might awaken an ability there.
• Yu Qingyi left the apartment, then returned and silently thanked Ye Jiang for giving her the chance she and Tang Su had sought four years earlier.
• Shi Li and Dong Zhen arrived at Yu Qingyi's apartment and said they had been seeking help against the Slaughter God.
• Ye Jiang recognized the monster they feared as Rong Yin, whose human form and black hole ability matched their description.

Ye Jiang hired Luo Manyu, a high-level monster who wanted to teach, to educate the little monsters and questioned Rong Yin about a line in the Ability Control Bureau’s archives. She left their conversation without learning his feelings, then learned that high-level monsters were rare and that Rong Yin had killed two of them.

• Ye Jiang persuaded Shi Li and Dong Zhen that Rong Yin was not as brutal as they believed, then went with them to recruit Luo Manyu as a teacher for the little monsters.
• Luo Manyu accepted Ye Jiang’s ordinary employment contract, and a Blood Moon mark appeared on her hand as she signed.
• Ye Jiang brought Luo Manyu back to the mall and had Shi Li and Dong Zhen help 357 train the little monsters.
• Ye Jiang found Rong Yin reading an illustrated book at the checkout counter and asked whether she had told the Ability Control Bureau to turn to him in humanity’s hour of need; he denied it but did not answer her follow-up question.
• Ye Jiang later asked Shi Li and Dong Zhen about monsters and learned that fewer than ten high-level monsters existed and that Rong Yin had killed two.

Ye Jiang learned more about monsters, watched humans and the mall’s monster “toys” begin interacting, and discovered that Zhao Yi recognized the Invisible Man as a survivor of the Zhou Family. After the Ability Control Bureau invited her to Song Cen’s funeral, she overcame her reluctance and decided to attend.

• Shi Li explained that only high-level monsters generally knew how to enter the human world by fulfilling wishes, while she and Dong Zhen could not explain how monsters were born.
• Shi Li and Dong Zhen argued about where they had been born, then fought and left Ye Jiang alone.
• Ye Jiang retreated to her remodeled room, reflected on her lost memories of Rong Yin, and watched the mall move to new places around the world.
• Zhao Yi recognized the Invisible Man as the Zhou Family’s presumed-dead illegitimate son, while the mall’s little monsters began earning money as sparring partners for human ability users.
• Ye Jiang learned that humans and monsters were interacting peacefully inside the mall and chose not to separate them.
• The Ability Control Bureau invited Ye Jiang to Song Cen’s funeral, and she decided to attend after recalling how the hero’s story had moved her.

Ye Jiang watched Song Cen’s funeral with Mirror Woman, then told her about the ordinary mirror fragment found in his remains. As Mirror Woman received a Blood Moon mark, Ye Jiang noticed changes in her system and discovered that her ability rank had risen to SS.

• Ye Jiang allowed Mirror Woman to follow her to a rise overlooking Song Cen’s funeral, where the two watched his final farewell.
• Mirror Woman thanked Ye Jiang for bringing her to the funeral, and Ye Jiang revealed that an ordinary mirror fragment had been found in Song Cen’s remains.
• Mirror Woman’s Blood Moon mark formed, and Ye Jiang saw a new point appear in her system’s storage slots alongside other monster and corrupted entries.
• Ye Jiang questioned how monsters and corrupted entered her system, while Mirror Woman wondered why her own Blood Moon mark could not open a system screen.
• Ye Jiang’s system showed that her ability rank had advanced to SS, leaving her to suspect that the growing number of monsters and corrupted in her Domination section might be responsible.

Ye Jiang investigated whether Blood Moon marks were harming those stored in her system, then concluded that the marked beings were safe after Captain Wu reached S-Rank. As Headquarters prepared to leave City A, analysts decoded Song Cen’s detection bead and uncovered his final message: “The power of all things shares one origin.”

• Ye Jiang brought Mirror Woman back to the mall and assigned her to train the little monsters with 357 while she monitored those bearing Blood Moon marks.
• Ye Jiang encountered Rong Yin training the little monsters and asked how he felt before rushing downstairs after hearing a commotion.
• Ye Jiang discovered that Captain Wu had advanced to S-Rank, and she decided the marked humans, monsters, and corrupted were not being drained dry.
• The Ability Control Bureau’s leaders celebrated the breakthrough and prepared to return to Headquarters as they planned a joint operation against the corrupted.
• City A’s analysts decoded Song Cen’s detection bead and revealed his eight-character final message: “The power of all things shares one origin.”

The Ability Control Bureau’s senior officials examined Song Cen’s messages about the shared origin of all power and a fragment mentioning Ye Yanran, then summoned the newly advanced Wu Zhe to report his experience. The chapter ended with headquarters responding to the reappearance of Ghost Mother in the Watch Mountain Range, where Xiao Pei and Ming Xia remained missing, while World Destroyer watched over cages of polluted beneath City A.

• Zhu Yi warned the officials not to draw rash conclusions from Song Cen’s message and relayed Xiao Pei’s report of sensing a gentle presence after reaching S-Rank.
• The detection bead’s sand revealed another incomplete message: “Ye Yanran was right to insist. In this world, there are polluted who still...”
• The officials summoned Wu Zhe to the laboratory, where they sealed their discussion in the Ability Control Bureau’s top-secret files.
• Headquarters reported that Ghost Mother had reappeared in City M and vanished into the Watch Mountain Range, where Xiao Pei and Ming Xia had gone missing a month earlier.
• World Destroyer sat beneath City A on a black-mud throne above iron cages holding sleeping polluted.

The “Gambler” supplied the “World Destroyer” with a special corrupted and was ordered to create more pollution while avoiding the Slaughter God. Ye Jiang followed a sudden memory into the Watch Mountain Range outside City M, where she and Rong Yin learned that the city was under lockdown after people vanished in the mountains.

• The “World Destroyer” tested a special corrupted with a lump of flesh, judged the material poor, and told the “Gambler” to increase production.
• The “Gambler” reflected on how special corrupted became the monster’s servants and left to spread pollution through cities without attracting the Slaughter God.
• The “Gambler” said he did not know where Ghost Mother was when the “World Destroyer” asked about her.
• Ye Jiang recalled someone giving her the name Ye Jiang and walked toward the Watch Mountain Range outside City M, with Rong Yin following her.
• At a checkpoint, Ability Control Bureau members told Ye Jiang and Rong Yin that City M was locked down after vehicles and their passengers disappeared in the mountains.

Ye Jiang entered the Watch Mountain Range to search for Xiao Pei and encountered Ming Chun, who was looking for her missing sister, Ming Xia. A distortion transported them to a lively city in 2034, where they discovered they had traveled into the past.

• An Ability Control Bureau member recognized Ye Jiang as the Healer and asked her to help Xiao Pei, who had been missing in the mountains for a month; Ye Jiang agreed and asked about the skeleton forming the range.
• Ye Jiang entered the mountains with Rong Yin and found that the strange energy particles there were her own, suggesting she had been there before.
• Ming Chun reunited with Ye Jiang in the mountains and explained that her younger sister, Ming Xia, had gone missing while on a mission with Xiao Pei.
• A distortion in the mountain's energy scattered Ye Jiang and Ming Chun, and Ye Jiang confirmed Rong Yin was present before her consciousness dispersed.
• Ye Jiang and Ming Chun reappeared in a prosperous city, where they learned from a flyer and a passerby that the year was 2034.

Ye Jiang, Ming Chun, and Rong Yin arrived in 2034, nearly three hundred years before their own time, where a joyful Valentine’s Day celebration was shattered by two people falling to their deaths. After leaving the square, Ye Jiang parted ways with Ming Chun and chose to stay in the unfamiliar city.

• Ming Chun realized they had traveled nearly three hundred years into the past and worried that her missing younger sister, Ming Xia, might be there too.
• Rong Yin traded a gemstone cufflink for violets and offered the bouquet to Ye Jiang, who mistakenly thought the flower seller had meant the flowers for Ming Chun.
• Two people fell from a high-rise into the square, interrupting the Valentine’s Day celebrations and prompting officials to clear the area.
• Ye Jiang watched a young official with a megaphone as the crowd dispersed in an orderly manner.
• Ye Jiang said goodbye to Ming Chun, who planned to search for Ming Xia, and decided to stay in the city with Rong Yin following her.