Chapter Summaries

Ming Xia suspected that Mushroom Man might be her missing sister and struggled with the thought while watching her interact peacefully with Ye Jiang. As the students gathered for the Blood Moon awakening, Ye Jiang and Mushroom Man played one final game, and the chapter ended just before the Blood Moon rose.

• Ming Xia warned Ye Jiang that danger lurked at the trial grounds, then noticed Mushroom Man follow her and gently fix her hair, reminding her of her missing sister.
• During the final three days of trials, Ming Xia watched Mushroom Man closely and grew increasingly uncertain whether the corrupted being was her sister.
• On the last day, Ming Xia saw Mushroom Man spasm against her cage and was pulled away by classmates heading to the assembly.
• Ye Jiang played a final Go game with Mushroom Man across the trial room before leaving without declaring a winner or saying goodbye.
• Seventy-six students assembled as the Blood Moon drew near, while Yan Pei privately doubted that most of them would awaken useful abilities.

During the Blood Moon awakening, twelve students in Ye Jiang’s training room awakened with B-rank abilities, and Ming Xia set a record by awakening at A-rank. Ye Jiang discovered a Blood Moon mark on her finger as Ming Xia explained the ability ranks, leaving Ye Jiang’s own ability rank unknown.

• The Blood Moon appeared, and students began awakening abilities.
• Twelve students from Training Room A revealed B-rank abilities, stunning Yan Pei and the other students.
• Ming Xia showed that she had awakened an unprecedented A-rank ability and shared the news with Ye Jiang.
• Ye Jiang asked what abilities were, and the students mistook her question for a joke.
• A student noticed a Blood Moon mark on Ye Jiang’s finger, and Ming Xia explained the ranks of abilities.

Ye Jiang discovered that her awakened ability was an F-rank Sewing Box, while Yan Pei blamed Trial Room A’s success on the Jin Family’s contaminant. Gao Peng transformed into a contaminant after Yan Pei cruelly dismissed him, and Ye Jiang learned about contaminants from Ming Xia, revealing that her perception of humans and contaminants was abnormal.

• Ye Jiang viewed her ability screen and learned that Sewing Box was F-rank.
• Yan Pei credited the Trial Room A students’ high ranks to the C-rank contaminant supplied by the Jin Family and ordered them to thank the family.
• Gao Peng asked Yan Pei whether he could awaken, but Yan Pei mocked his poor potential and called his hopes foolish delusions.
• Gao Peng transformed into a contaminant, and Yan Pei crushed it with a huge rock before the assistant teachers could act.
• Ye Jiang asked Ming Xia what contaminants were and learned about their origins, ranks, and danger to humanity.
• Ye Jiang wondered how people distinguished contaminants from ability users, and Ming Xia realized Ye Jiang’s perception of the two was abnormal.

After Blood Moon Day produced fewer awakenings than expected, Trial Ground 165’s exceptional results gave humanity renewed hope. Ye Jiang discovered that her ability system’s “Domination” feature could control someone far away, though she was left nauseated by the experience.

• The Ability Control Bureau’s headquarters received grim reports from trial grounds until Trial Ground 165 reported twelve newly awakened B-rank ability users and one A-rank.
• Qin Daichuan learned that two students at Trial Ground 165 had become contaminated and that Yan Pei had fled with the C-rank contaminated, then ordered Zhao Yi to arrest him.
• The Ability Control Bureau personnel searched for Yan Pei and the mushroom person while Ye Jiang waited at the trial ground for a ride into the city.
• Ye Jiang inspected her F-rank Sewing Box ability and discovered an item-storage grid in the system’s “Domination” section.
• Ye Jiang focused on a bright point of light in the grid, and the restaurant owner far away briefly fell under her control.

Ye Jiang discovered that her F-rank Sewing Box ability could restore worn and damaged things, then returned home to find Yu Qingyi worried and afraid of losing her. Yu Qingyi apologized for sulking and explained how frightened she had been while Ye Jiang was missing.

• Ye Jiang used her ability to refresh her clothes and learned from the discussion section about ability users and the corrupted.
• The Ability Control Bureau sent people to pursue Yan Pei, while Ming Xia asked to join the pursuit after learning he had taken the Mushroom Man, but the Bureau refused.
• Ye Jiang returned to the city with the Ability Control Bureau and heard the students and crowd cheering; the Trial Room A students thanked her before their bus drove away.
• Ye Jiang found Yu Qingyi acting unusually distant and discovered that she had made breakfast and was exhausted from a night shift.
• Ye Jiang used her ability to restore the wilted bouquet, furniture, refrigerator, and Yu Qingyi's clothes, then admitted to Yu Qingyi that she had awakened an ability.
• Yu Qingyi explained the world's danger, apologized for sulking, and told Ye Jiang she feared losing her after she had disappeared for half a month.

Ye Jiang returned to work at the little restaurant, where the owner dealt with a corrupted while continuing to suspect Ye Jiang was a powerful ability user. Meanwhile, Yan Pei tried to hand the mushroom man over to the Jin Family, but their detection bracelet revealed that it was an A-rank corrupted.

• Yu Qingyi fell asleep holding Ye Jiang's hand, then hurried out to work when a noon phone call woke her.
• Ye Jiang found her fifty-thousand bounty paid, failed to find a suitable mission, and went to the little restaurant to work.
• The owner let Ye Jiang stay despite claiming she was not hiring, and questioned her about awakening an ability after spotting her Blood Moon mark.
• A corrupted entered the restaurant, and the owner kicked its head away before ordering Ye Jiang to dispose of the corpse; Ye Jiang refused because she was only paid to carry plates.
• Yan Pei waited with the caged mushroom man for the Jin Family's ability users, having told them he had rescued it from the Ability Control Bureau.
• The Jin Family's ability users checked the mushroom man with a detection bracelet and discovered it was an A-rank corrupted, not a C-rank one.

Ye Jiang and the restaurant owner served a crowd of students while contaminated beings appeared across City A in unusual numbers. At the Ability Control Bureau, Qin Daichuan learned that the awakened students had felt discomfort during their trials and remembered Teacher Turbot’s soothing touch.

• The owner ordered Ye Jiang to cook, but Ye Jiang stayed still until the owner went into the kitchen herself.
• A fish-headed contaminated being lingered outside the restaurant, and the owner dealt with it before a female student arrived and brought a group of friends to eat.
• The Ability Control Bureau received reports of contaminated beings across City A and sent out operations groups.
• Qin Daichuan questioned the thirteen awakened students from Trial Ground 165 about their awakenings and the C-rank mushroom man.
• Ming Xia and the other students recalled that Teacher Turbot’s hands had soothed them, then admitted they had felt discomfort during the trials.

Qin Daichuan investigated the students’ unusual recovery and learned that their assistant teacher was an F-rank with a sewing ability, but a surge of polluters interrupted him. Across the street, a polluter attacked an underground department store, and an Ability Control Bureau operative discovered that it had rapidly evolved from E-rank to A-rank.

• Qin Daichuan questioned the students about their sudden weakness and recovery, then learned that Teacher Turbot was an F-rank with a lifestyle ability for sewing and mending.
• A subordinate told Qin Daichuan that polluters were appearing in large numbers, so he arranged special training for the students and went to investigate.
• A drum-headed polluter attacked an underground department store, causing everyone inside to lose their sight or hearing for one minute at a time.
• An Ability Control Bureau operative rescued four people from a children's clothing shop and stayed behind to contact the cleanup team.
• The drum-headed polluter revived and attacked the operative, who realized it had evolved from E-rank to B-rank and then A-rank.

The restaurant owner fought the A-rank drum-headed contaminated being while Ye Jiang and a group of students watched. The owner gained the upper hand with her chains, though the drumbeat’s hidden effect briefly slowed her.

• An operations team member warned the mall’s evacuees about an A-rank contaminated being before collapsing, and the drum-headed creature emerged from underground.
• Students warned Ye Jiang and the restaurant owner that the drumbeat could steal people’s senses, and the owner sent them to flee before charging the creature.
• The owner climbed onto the drum-headed man, looped a chain around its neck, and dragged it down, then bound its arm and slammed it to the ground.
• After a drumbeat stole the owner’s sense of touch and briefly slowed her, she recovered and bound the creature with corrosive chains.
• The students stayed to watch and cheered as the drum-headed man writhed in pain.

A surge of unusually mild Class A contaminants struck City A as a gigantic Class S contaminant approached, prompting Qin Daichuan to order an evacuation. The chapter revealed that Mushroom Man’s second ability, Borrowing strength, was causing contaminants to evolve, while Xiao Pei faced the return of the helplessness she had felt against Stormbringer.

• The owner defeated a drum-headed Class A contaminant, and Ye Jiang repaired her clothes and bandages before casually striking down another attacker from across the street.
• Qin Daichuan and the captain of Team Two noticed that newly evolved Class A contaminants were less aggressive and found hyphae emerging from their corpses.
• Class A contaminants appeared throughout City A, and Zhao Yi discovered a towering white contaminant whose dense contamination shattered his detection bead.
• Qin Daichuan identified the giant as a Class S contaminant and ordered the citizens of City A to evacuate.
• A citizen recognized the restaurant owner as Captain Xiao Pei, and Xiao Pei admitted she had been unable to save anyone from Stormbringer three years earlier.

As an S-rank Mushroom Man approached City A, the Ability Control Bureau ordered an evacuation and sent leaders to seek help from Rong Yin on Mount Songjing. Xiao Pei led Ye Jiang and a convoy out of the city, but their escape stopped when they encountered Yan Pei, now an exceptionally murderous A+-rank contaminated being.

• City A's Ability Control Bureau broadcast evacuation instructions as Mushroom Man drew near, and its leaders decided to ask Rong Yin for help despite his silence during a past crisis.
• Xiao Pei's reputation as a protector moved citizens, and she urged them to leave the city with her.
• Ye Jiang and Xiao Pei joined over twenty people in a cramped convoy, bringing along an unconscious Ability Control Bureau member as they fought off contaminated beings on the road.
• Xiao Pei questioned Ye Jiang about her strength, but their conversation was interrupted when Xiao Pei deflected a huge boulder thrown at the convoy.
• Ye Jiang recognized the black-scaled contaminated being as Teacher Yan, and Xiao Pei realized its murderous intent was far more blatant than that of the other A-rank beings.
• Yan Pei was revealed to have evolved independently to A+ after absorbing Mushroom Man's pollution, having slaughtered people on his way into the city.

After Xiao Pei left the convoy to fight an A+ pollutant, Ye Jiang protected the evacuees as they traveled through City A, though she believed her victories came from luck. The convoy picked up a stranded old man and offered to escort a larger group whose Ability Control Bureau protector had been injured.

• Xiao Pei told Ye Jiang to take charge of the convoy, then stayed behind to battle the black-scaled pollutant while the vehicles drove away.
• Ye Jiang easily defeated several pollutants, including one whose tongue she snapped off, and dismissed them as weak opponents.
• An elderly man hiding in a supermarket fled from a pollutant, but Ye Jiang stopped it from attacking the convoy and knocked it into a crater.
• The convoy invited the old man to join them, and he gratefully climbed into the last car.
• The convoy encountered a larger group whose Ability Control Bureau escort had been injured, and its members offered to lead them to safety behind Ye Jiang.

Ye Jiang led a growing convoy toward the highway and escaped a Jin Family convoy when A-rank corrupted attacked it. At the evacuation exit, Yu Qingyi distributed supplies and reassured a departing mother and child that they would return.

• Ye Jiang gathered stranded citizens into her convoy and protected them from corrupted on the way out of the city.
• The Jin Family convoy blocked the road, and Ye Jiang knocked down several men after they attacked her convoy and dismissed her warning about smoking.
• A-rank corrupted attacked the Jin Family convoy, so Ye Jiang returned to her own convoy and left without helping.
• Yu Qingyi gave emergency supplies to arriving citizens while worrying about Ye Jiang's safety.
• A mother asked Yu Qingyi whether her family could return, and Yu Qingyi gave the mother's child a hair clip and promised they would all come back.

Ye Jiang escorted a huge convoy to the intersection, reunited with Yu Qingyi, and agreed to help the Ability Control Bureau rescue Old Hu. As she headed back into City A, Mushroom Man began running toward the city, prompting an alarm and drawing several powerful defenders into action.

• Ye Jiang escorted more than a hundred vehicles to the intersection, where grateful citizens called out to her.
• Ye Jiang reunited with Yu Qingyi and helped her distribute supplies while reassuring her that the corrupted she had encountered were weak.
• When Ability Control Bureau members said Old Hu was in danger, Ye Jiang agreed to go help and left the intersection after arranging a way for them to locate her.
• An observer at the city gate saw Mushroom Man break into a run toward City A and sounded the alarm.
• Xiao Pei sped up her fight against the black-scaled A+ corrupted, while Mr. Mobster and the captain of Team Two headed out to respond.
• Mushroom Man ran across the desolate land, murmuring that it hurt and that it had to go.

Mushroom Man fought past Zhao Yi and continued toward City A, her confused memories of her little sister returning as she gathered flowers. Qin Daichuan, the second team’s captain, and Xiao Pei chose to hold back rather than provoke her, while Ye Jiang reached the city wall and approached an observer.

• Mushroom Man attacked Zhao Yi, who used a curtain of fire to delay her until she overwhelmed him and ran on.
• Zhao Yi clung to Mushroom Man’s foot to stop her, but she shook him off and continued toward the city.
• Mushroom Man remembered her little sister and gathered fallen flowers as a gift while nearing City A.
• Qin Daichuan and the second team’s captain decided to wait for Mushroom Man to act and focus on holding her back, and Xiao Pei joined them.
• Ye Jiang learned that another team had resolved the crisis at her assigned location, then went to the city gate and climbed onto the wall.
• An observer turned in alarm at the sound of Ye Jiang opening her water bottle.

Ye Jiang waited at the city gate while Mushroom Man fought off three A-rank ability users and continued toward the city. As the warning bells rang, the observer fled, mistaking Ye Jiang’s decision to stay for a sacrifice, while Ye Jiang calmly watched Mushroom Man approach.

• Ye Jiang stayed at the city gate after the observer mistook her for a member of Part-Time Cat, and she effortlessly knocked a bone-winged contaminant out of the air.
• Mushroom Man dodged the three A-rank ability users’ attacks, and Xiao Pei recognized it as Ming Chun, a former server at a little restaurant.
• Qin Daichuan and the other ability users attacked Mushroom Man together, but it overwhelmed them and strode toward the city.
• Mr. Mobster pursued Mushroom Man while the observer rang the warning bell three times to announce the S-rank contaminant’s approach.
• The observer urged Ye Jiang to flee, but she stayed because Yu Qingyi had not called; he believed she planned to defend the city and left in tears.

Mushroom Man reunited with Ye Jiang outside City A and was warned that an S-rank contaminant was approaching, but her pain and obsession with finding her little sister drove her toward the city. As Mushroom Man lost control and crossed the walls, Ye Jiang stopped trying to restrain her and watched her suffer.

• Mushroom Man recognized Ye Jiang, gave her a blossom, and listened as Ye Jiang warned her not to enter City A because an S-rank contaminant was coming.
• Shi Tao repeatedly begged the silent figure at Mount Songjing to leave the mountain and help defend City A, but received no answer.
• Citizens panicked when they saw Mushroom Man crouched outside the city walls, while she told Ye Jiang she wanted to find her little sister.
• Mushroom Man tried to leave, but Ye Jiang repeatedly caught her mycelia and warned her that the city was dangerous.
• Mushroom Man's reason collapsed as pain overwhelmed her; she lashed out around Ye Jiang without hitting her, then bound herself while trembling in agony.
• Mushroom Man moved inside the city walls, and Ye Jiang did not stop her.

Ye Jiang tore a corrupting lump from Mushroom Man, restoring her human form and reason. Ming Chun reunited with Ming Xia and fled into the city, while Ye Jiang left the wall and an ominous nurse-like monster appeared in her place.

• Mushroom Man wept with guilt as her obsession drove her toward the city, until Ye Jiang ordered her to squat and tore a pitch-black lump from her chest.
• Ming Xia rushed toward the city wall and saw Mushroom Man disintegrating after her piercing scream.
• Ye Jiang crushed the living lump of flesh, and Mushroom Man transformed into a silver-eyed woman who Ming Xia recognized as her sister, Ming Chun.
• Ming Chun embraced Ming Xia, absorbed the surrounding corruption, and discovered she still had her S-rank powers and now bore a Blood Moon mark.
• As Captain Qin approached, Ming Chun carried Ming Xia through the hole in the wall and into the city, while Ye Jiang left to find Yu Qingyi.
• A monster in a nurse's uniform appeared on the city wall, crushed the scraps of flesh underfoot, and smiled.

After Nurse killed Mushroom Man, City A survived the disaster, and the ability indices of users across the world rose. Ye Jiang discovered a new light in her Domination interface, while Xiao Pei realized the increase had renewed hope for humanity; two days later, someone struggled to wake from a dream of an S-rank contaminant escaping.

• Qin Daichuan found Mushroom Man’s mycelium and told Xiao Pei that Nurse had likely killed the S-rank contaminant.
• The citizens of City A saw Mushroom Man vanish, returned home after the evacuation was suspended, and were protected as operations teams cleared the remaining contaminants.
• Xiao Pei discovered that her ability index had increased by one, and the rise convinced her that humanity’s abilities could still grow.
• Ye Jiang found a brighter red light in her Domination storage, while her Sewing Box ability had risen to E-rank.
• Two days later, at First Hospital, someone fought to wake from a dream in which an S-rank contaminant was escaping and an entire city needed protection.

Zhao Yi woke in the hospital believing he had died, but Qin Daichuan assured him he had survived and returned his treasured pendant. After visiting Yu Qingyi, Ye Jiang encountered Zhao Yi, who recognized her awakened ability and tried to recruit her into the Ability Control Bureau.

• Zhao Yi woke in the hospital and mistook Qin Daichuan for someone who had died alongside him, but Qin Daichuan told him he had done well and was still alive.
• Qin Daichuan returned Zhao Yi’s pendant, which he had recovered along Mushroom Man’s route, and Zhao Yi happily thanked him.
• Ye Jiang brought lunch to Yu Qingyi, whose ward patients discussed the S-rank corrupted’s disappearance and the wildflowers Mushroom Man had secretly delivered.
• Yu Qingyi ate the mushroom dish from Ye Jiang’s lunchbox and asked Ye Jiang to fetch water, then paused to think after Ye Jiang left.
• Zhao Yi recognized Ye Jiang in the corridor, learned she had awakened an ability, and offered her a place in the Ability Control Bureau, but she refused.