Chapter Summaries

A girl who enjoyed the fabricated world killed a man who wanted her help escaping, then turned his corpse into fertilizer for flowers. At the hospital, Ye Jiang found Xiao Pei sneaking into the records room and brought her to the roof to talk.

• The girl listened as the haggard man explained that the citizens had refused to leave the Ability Control Bureau, then killed him and used his corpse as plant fertilizer.
• Xiao Pei entered the hospital records room to retrieve documents but left when she sensed something was wrong.
• Ye Jiang appeared in the records room, and Xiao Pei recognized her before Ye Jiang led her to the hospital roof.
• Xiao Pei asked Ye Jiang why she had returned to the hospital instead of looking for the woman who had made a fool of her.

Ye Jiang used a flower to reconstruct a scene of the flower-selling girl attacking Ming Chun, alarming Ming Xia and Xiao Pei. She revealed that Ming Chun was still alive, and the chapter left them finding her unconscious on a rooftop.

• Ming Xia showed Xiao Pei and Ye Jiang photographs of bougainvillea growing from a citizen's corpse and playing on a loop in the central square.
• Ye Jiang identified the culprit and used her ability to reconstruct a scene from a flower, showing the flower-selling girl piercing Ming Chun's chest.
• Ming Xia cried out when she saw what appeared to be her sister's death, while Xiao Pei recognized Ming Chun as the Waiter from her shop.
• Ye Jiang told Ming Xia and Xiao Pei that Ming Chun was not dead and sensed her on a nearby rooftop.
• Ye Jiang, Xiao Pei, and Ming Xia found Ming Chun alive but unconscious, and Ming Xia embraced her sister.

Ye Jiang confronted the flower-wielding girl in a suburban garden after she had attacked Ming Chun and caused chaos, while Xiao Pei and Ming Xia dealt with the aftermath. The girl launched poisoned petals at Ye Jiang but recalled them before they struck, and the chapter ended with the two facing off.

• Xiao Pei questioned Ming Xia about Ming Chun’s transformation, but Ming Xia asked to explain after the crisis was over.
• Xiao Pei assigned Ming Xia to protect the citizens, then followed Ye Jiang as she went to find the girl who had attacked Ming Chun.
• Ye Jiang found the girl in a closed garden, where the girl spoke about flowers and questioned Ye Jiang’s priorities.
• Ye Jiang seized the girl by the throat and called her withered, prompting the girl to slip free and send blackened petals toward her.
• The petals circled Ye Jiang without striking, and the girl recalled them, saying she could not bear to hurt someone so beautiful.

Ye Jiang overpowered a flower-controlling girl who revealed herself as a powerful Polluted, and the girl recognized that Ye Jiang was a monster. The girl sensed others approaching as Ye Jiang prepared to face them.

• The girl recalled how she had failed to defeat the elegant woman who had turned her into a monster, then tried to warn Ye Jiang that humans had limits.
• Ye Jiang repeatedly outpaced the girl, who unleashed poisonous petals and a mass of Pollution across the garden.
• Ye Jiang froze the girl's attack, released a wisp of her own Pollution, and forced the girl to withdraw hers.
• The girl realized Ye Jiang was a monster and recalled how she had become one after the elegant woman offered to make her a child.
• The girl sensed someone approaching while Ye Jiang let her ability flow between her fingers.

Xiao Pei arrived in the garden and discovered that the woman Ye Jiang wanted her to help fight was Ghost Mother, who had come to free her child. Ghost Mother attacked with porcelain masks, but Ye Jiang destroyed them with ease, leaving Xiao Pei to realize how powerful Ye Jiang was.

• Xiao Pei reached Ye Jiang and recognized the elegant woman as Ghost Mother, then realized Ye Jiang had expected her to help settle a score with her.
• Xiao Pei urged Ye Jiang to escape and find Ming Xia, but Ye Jiang refused to release Ghost Mother's child and said she had been looking for Ghost Mother.
• Ghost Mother summoned a porcelain mask and sent it against Xiao Pei, whose chains struggled to hold it back.
• A second mask flew at Ye Jiang, but she shattered it with her hand and used a fragment to crack the first mask, which Xiao Pei's chains then crushed.

Ye Jiang fought Ghost Mother after learning she was Monster No. 4, while Xiao Pei guarded the cage containing a conscious Polluted girl. The girl revealed that she could create the poisonous projectiles Ye Jiang controlled, then asked Xiao Pei to chat.

• Ye Jiang learned from Xiao Pei that their opponent was Ghost Mother, and Rong Yin confirmed that monsters could kill one another.
• Ye Jiang told Xiao Pei to guard the caged girl, identified her as a Polluted, and attacked Ghost Mother with sharp petals.
• Ghost Mother defended herself with countless masks, then shattered Ye Jiang’s petals and sent the masks after her.
• The girl distracted Xiao Pei and escaped her chains, then attacked her with pollution-infused twigs that produced projectiles like Ye Jiang’s petals.
• Xiao Pei recognized that the girl had created the petal projectiles Ye Jiang controlled, and the girl asked her to chat.

Ye Jiang fought the Ghost Mother while Xiao Pei faced the Monster Level girl, and the garden owner’s near-death revealed that she was also a protagonist whose death could rewind time. The Ghost Mother sent her masks to attack everyone in the illusion, leaving Xiao Pei expecting time to reset.

• The girl escaped her cage, revealed herself as a Monster Level Polluted, and watched the fight while attacking Xiao Pei with poisonous branches.
• Ye Jiang transformed and struck the Ghost Mother with a faster punch, knocking off her hat.
• The girl poisoned the garden owner, but Ye Jiang healed her before she died, stabilizing the space and showing that the owner was another protagonist of the illusion.
• The Ghost Mother sent her masks across the city to attack the humans and offered Ye Jiang a final chance to become her child.
• Ye Jiang refused the Ghost Mother's offer and continued treating the garden owner, while the masks dove toward the city's residents.

Xiao Pei tried to separate Xiao Yu from the plants, while Ye Jiang fought Ghost Mother and protected the city. Xiao Yu then attacked Ghost Mother herself, finally getting close enough to confront the monster she had hated for over a hundred years.

• Xiao Pei bound Xiao Yu and dragged her toward the garden exit, but Xiao Yu broke free and returned to the kapok tree.
• Xiao Pei saw that the city's citizens wore armor like the Blood Knight's, while Ye Jiang revealed her powers by summoning dark red masks.
• Ye Jiang battered Ghost Mother with increasingly fast punches, and Ghost Mother transformed into a giant after admitting she had held back because Ye Jiang interested her.
• Xiao Yu broke free of Xiao Pei's chains and stabbed Ghost Mother's chest with a poisonous branch as Ye Jiang dodged her attack.
• Xiao Yu called Ghost Mother "Auntie" and said she was happy to have finally gotten close to her, letting her hatred show.

Ghost Mother devoured Xiao Yu, who had spent over a hundred years cultivating deadly poison inside herself, and the poison began destroying the monster. Ye Jiang and Xiao Pei attacked Ghost Mother, but her true form survived, and her Pollution incapacitated Xiao Pei as Ye Jiang protected her.

• Ghost Mother revealed that she had seen through Xiao Yu’s disguise and her plan to exploit the monster’s weakness, then swallowed her before Ye Jiang could save her.
• Ghost Mother’s body began to rot as the poison Xiao Yu had prepared took effect, and Ye Jiang recognized the decay as the scent she had carried.
• Xiao Pei and Ye Jiang attacked the weakened Ghost Mother, tearing into her body, but she remained alive and began releasing her true form and Pollution.
• Ghost Mother’s Pollution caused Xiao Pei to vomit and lose consciousness, while Ye Jiang caught her and used her abilities to heal and protect her.
• Ghost Mother mocked humans and the partnership between Ye Jiang and Xiao Pei, insisting that poison and their abilities could not kill a high-level monster.

Ghost Mother assumed her true form and attacked Ye Jiang, while Rong Yin tried to protect her and revealed that he believed she was too injured to win. Ye Jiang rejected his help and pressed Ghost Mother about Xiao Yu as the fight continued.

• Ghost Mother shed her host's rotten flesh, spread mental pollution across the city, and fixed her hungry gaze on Ye Jiang.
• Rong Yin stepped in to face Ghost Mother, but Ye Jiang refused his protection and chose to fight her herself.
• Ghost Mother attacked Ye Jiang and Rong Yin with roots, while Rong Yin used black holes to intercept the blows.
• Rong Yin recognized Ghost Mother as a monster beyond the normal limit and prepared to kill her after Ye Jiang had fought.
• Ye Jiang struggled to approach Ghost Mother, who taunted her about revealing her true form.
• Ye Jiang asked Ghost Mother whom she had eaten who was close to Xiao Yu, and Ghost Mother identified Xiao Yu as her daughter.

Ye Jiang revealed her true form as “Sky” and killed Ghost Mother, then returned to the Ability Control Bureau’s base exhausted after treating the others. Xiao Pei woke to find the survivors safe, and Ye Jiang asked the Bureau to pay her treatment fees.

• Ye Jiang stopped dodging Ghost Mother’s attacks and revealed herself as “Sky,” suppressing Ghost Mother with the wind.
• Ghost Mother realized she was facing “Sky” and was sliced apart by the wind before she could escape.
• The young man caught Ye Jiang as she weakened, and she insisted she had not weakened as much as he thought.
• Xiao Pei woke at the Ability Control Bureau’s base and found Ye Jiang, the citizens, Ming Chun, and Ming Xia safe.
• Ye Jiang told Xiao Pei that Ghost Mother was dead and asked the Ability Control Bureau to settle her treatment fees.

After the Ghost Mother’s attack froze the illusion, Ye Jiang repaired it and erased outsiders’ memories from its inhabitants, setting the story on course for its ending. The chapter then returned to the true history from three hundred years earlier, where Ye Yanran told stories to the silent Ye Jiang in the hospital.

• Xiao Pei worried that the damaged illusion might trap them, but Ye Jiang assured her it would not and denied being hurt.
• Xiao Pei ruffled Ye Jiang’s hair, and Ye Jiang later allowed the young man to touch her hair in return.
• After recovering from being overdrawn, Ye Jiang restored the illusion, making time flow again and recalling the armor from the city’s inhabitants.
• Ye Jiang told Xiao Pei that she had purged outsiders and their memories from the illusion, and said its ending was coming.
• At the hospital, Ye Yanran acted out a story for Ye Jiang, who remained silent as she had in the true past three hundred years earlier.

Ye Yanran and the Special Affairs Office set out to retrieve Jing Qiu, a newly reported Living Dead, while Ye Jiang warned Ye Yanran that the afflicted were already dead. The team arrived at Zhao Yuantong’s estate and found him brutally killed on the lawn.

• Ye Yanran told Ye Jiang that the Special Affairs Office had received a report about a new Living Dead, and Ye Jiang silently warned her that the Living Dead were already dead.
• Ye Jiang followed Ye Yanran and her colleagues as they drove to the suburbs, with Xiao Pei following Ye Jiang.
• Ye Yanran learned that Jing Qiu, a beloved elderly woman supported by Zhao Yuantong, had become a Living Dead and that Zhao Yuantong’s acquaintance had asked the Special Affairs Office to treat her.
• Xiao Pei sensed danger at the estate, and Ye Yanran found Zhao Yuantong lying dead and mutilated on the lawn beyond the gates.

Ye Yanran witnessed an A-Rank Polluted massacre the city and kill her teammates, then lost herself amid the destruction. Ye Jiang reached her in the illusion and told her that the people she grieved were already dead.

• Ye Yanran saw the centipede-like Polluted impale Qin Xiu, Pang Wen, and Jia Le, while Xiao Pei recognized it as an A-Rank Polluted.
• Ye Yanran tried to attack the monstrosity, but it blasted the car with fire and raced toward the city, leaving her wounded and unable to stop it.
• The Polluted and the Living Dead rampaged through the city, killing civilians; Living Dead No. 2 impaled a family as Ye Yanran watched helplessly.
• Ye Jiang found Ye Yanran sitting outside the hospital amid the dead experts and their bloodstained research documents.
• In the illusion, Ye Jiang ignored Xiao Pei's warning, approached Ye Yanran as she had three hundred years earlier, and told her, "They're already dead."

Ye Jiang witnessed Ye Yanran sacrifice herself as an aberration to destroy the Living Dead and protect the city, then absorbed the energy released when the illusion ended. Back in the cave, Ye Jiang reached SSS-Rank, while Xiao Pei struggled to voice her suspicion about what Ye Jiang was.

• Ye Jiang offered Ye Yanran energy to kill the Living Dead, warning that the power would kill her and bring no praise.
• Ye Yanran transformed into an enormous aberration, killed the Living Dead, and died after shielding the city with her body.
• Xiao Pei realized the aberration became the mountain range remembered in a story as a hero’s victory.
• A newborn black creature absorbed the unstable energy around Ye Yanran’s remains, and Ye Jiang picked it up before the illusion collapsed.
• The outsiders returned to the cave as the remaining energy entered Ye Jiang, and she saw her rank rise to SSS-Rank.
• Xiao Pei looked at Ye Jiang and struggled to express her growing suspicion about her identity.

Ye Jiang revealed that she created the Blood Moon, the Moon Tree, and the Toy Mall to help humanity, and told Xiao Pei that the Blood Moon could control ability users as a side effect. After Xiao Pei learned that Ming Chun had regained consciousness after Ye Jiang removed a monster’s body tissue, Ming Chun said she needed to go to the City of Flowers to honor a deal with a girl.

• Ye Jiang showed Xiao Pei a missing part of the illusion in which Ye Yanran chose to die as an experiment to awaken human abilities, leading to the Blood Moon’s creation.
• Ye Jiang confirmed that she created the Blood Moon, the Moon Tree, and the Toy Mall, and explained that she wanted to protect human lives because their emotions fascinated her.
• Ye Jiang told Xiao Pei that the Blood Moon could control ability users, but declared that she stood with humanity; Xiao Pei accepted the revelation and prepared to report it to the Ability Control Bureau.
• Ming Xia told Xiao Pei that Ye Jiang had removed a monster’s body tissue from Ming Chun, restoring her consciousness after she nearly attacked City A.
• Ye Jiang said the hostile monster tissue had appeared in the Toy Mall, and Xiao Pei gathered the rescued citizens to return to the Ability Control Bureau.
• Ming Chun declined to go with Xiao Pei immediately because she had promised a girl she would go to the City of Flowers, prompting Xiao Pei to ask what had happened between them in the illusion.

Ming Chun learned that the flower girl’s “seed” was condensed vitality, then continued to Huanxia City to fulfill her promise as the world’s war against the World Destroyer unfolded. Xiao Pei discovered that three years had passed while she was in the Watch Mountain Range, and Ming Chun arrived in a ruined Huanxia City amid humanity’s ongoing counteroffensive.

• Ming Chun recalled how the plant-type Polluted girl spared her, gave her a seed of vitality, and asked her to plant it in Huanxia City.
• Ye Jiang identified the seed as condensed vitality, and Xiao Pei learned that the girl’s power may have helped make Huanxia City fertile.
• Ming Chun parted from Xiao Pei, Ming Xia, Ye Jiang, and Rong Yin, and the others returned to M City, where Xiao Pei learned that three years had passed and the World Destroyer had devastated the world.
• Ming Chun reached Huanxia City and learned that the World Destroyer had raised an army of S-Rank Polluted and captured more than half of humanity’s cities.
• The Ability Control Bureau and allied monsters maintained four major bases while human ability users fought to evacuate civilians from the fallen cities.

Ming Chun entered the deserted City of Flowers, where she discovered four S-Rank Polluted and learned Qin Daichuan had hidden the city’s million citizens in a concealed barrier. She agreed to help fight the Polluted and entrusted a seed to a guesthouse owner, who asked whether the girl who had given it to Ming Chun would return.

• Ming Chun encountered an S-Rank Polluted whose voice spread rust, then Qin Daichuan warned her that three more Polluted were closing in.
• Qin Daichuan led Ming Chun to the Simulated Space, where a million citizens of the City of Flowers were concealed from the four Polluted.
• Qin Daichuan recognized Ming Chun as a Polluted, and she revealed that she was Mushroom Man and had recently parted from Xiao Pei.
• Qin Daichuan asked Ming Chun to help defeat the four Polluted before the barrier expired, and she agreed, hoping to make amends for her past rampage.
• Ming Chun entrusted the guesthouse owner with a seed to plant after the disasters ended, and the owner asked whether the girl who had given it to her would return.

Xiao Pei joined Ming Chun, Qin Daichuan, and Zhao Yi in City of Flowers as humanity’s counterattack began, while the chapter showed a rescue operation in City C unraveling after civilians were intercepted. Ye Jiang returned to the Toy Mall and opened the Domination section of her Ability System.

• Xiao Pei arrived in City of Flowers, stopped Ming Chun from sending a farewell message, and gathered the four S-Rank ability users for the coming counterattack.
• A giant gate to the Toy Mall appeared above City of Flowers, and Xiao Pei announced that humanity’s counterattack was beginning.
• Xiao Pei and the other ability users fought the S-Rank Polluted, with her chains binding and pulling the flying eyeball from the sky.
• A wounded young ability user in City C learned that the last civilians had been intercepted after their evacuation item failed, and she resolved to keep fighting.
• The Toy Mall’s gate appeared through the Pollution in City C, giving the young ability user hope that the legendary Healer had returned.
• Ye Jiang walked out of the Ability Control Bureau, summoned her Ability System, and opened the Domination section to view its three storage slots.

Ye Jiang returned and used the miracles to heal and strengthen humanity, inspiring people everywhere to counterattack. She sent Rong Yin to face the World Destroyer while she prepared to help the wounded, as the Gambler watched the fighting until his sight-bug network suddenly went dark.

• Ye Jiang raised the hidden door and manifested the Blood Moon and Moon Tree, whose gifts healed humans outside the fallen zones and greatly strengthened their abilities.
• Inspired by the miracles, humans across the cities rose and charged back into battle, while Ye Jiang returned to the mall and reunited with Dong Zhen, Shi Li, Luo Manyu, and the other monsters.
• Ye Jiang asked the monsters whether they could fight the Gambler, and Rong Yin volunteered to take on the World Destroyer so she could attend to people in the fallen zones.
• The Gambler watched humanity's renewed resistance and planned to fill the fallen zone with captured survivors, confident that the World Destroyer would prevail.
• The sight-bug signals abruptly vanished, and the Gambler's vision filled with countless arrows aimed at his eyes.