Chapter Summaries

Luo Ruzhuo refused to let Xianzhu extract Guide Element more often than she had agreed, and he apologized and accepted her terms. After learning that a new double-S-rank guide had arrived and that Fenrir Talo wanted to discuss Zhu Rongtian, Luo Ruzhuo encountered the unsettling new guide and began a video call with Fenrir.

• Luo Ruzhuo told Xianzhu she would purify him on her own terms and provide Guide Element only as she had promised Vice-Captain Lin; Xianzhu apologized and backed down.
• Lin Sheng told Luo Ruzhuo that a new double-S-rank guide had arrived and would purify the captain alongside her, with their sessions staggered to avoid contact.
• Fenrir Talo messaged Luo Ruzhuo that Zhu Rongtian had been released, then asked her to video call him that night so he could explain who Zhu Rongtian was.
• Luo Ruzhuo saw the new guide arrive in a white dress and sensed that she seemed unnaturally doll-like.
• The new guide abruptly looked up after detecting Luo Ruzhuo's mental power, so Luo Ruzhuo withdrew it and hurried to her dormitory.
• Luo Ruzhuo placed a video call to Fenrir Talo, and he answered immediately.

Fenrir Talo told Luo Ruzhuo that Zhu Rongtian was an imprisoned guide with lethal offensive abilities and warned her that Ankang Pharmaceuticals meant her harm. Luo Ruzhuo investigated new colleague Bai Li, then invited her to try entering Xianzhu’s Mental Domain after Bai Li accused her of neglecting purification duties.

• Fenrir Talo explained that Zhu Rongtian had killed forty-seven people upon awakening, and the Alliance Court had sentenced her to life imprisonment in a prison funded by Ankang Pharmaceuticals.
• Luo Ruzhuo suspected Zhu Rongtian might be a Dark Guide, and Fenrir Talo warned her to be wary of guides around her and contact him if she faced danger.
• Luo Ruzhuo read Lin Sheng’s file on Bai Li, an SS-rank guide newly assigned to assist with Xianzhu’s purification.
• During the following days, Luo Ruzhuo continued signing in and slacking off while Xianzhu remained in his cross-eyed dragon state.
• Bai Li confronted Luo Ruzhuo for not entering Xianzhu’s Mental Domain, and Luo Ruzhuo admitted she could not get in and invited Bai Li to try.

Luo Ruzhuo agreed to enter Xianzhu’s Mental Domain with Bai Li, who revealed herself as Zhu Rongtian and attacked her as soon as they entered. Luo Ruzhuo forced her way into Zhu Rongtian’s own Mental Domain, where she appeared as a child and encountered a humanoid contaminant.

• Bai Li threatened to report Luo Ruzhuo’s work record unless she joined her in purifying Xianzhu’s Mental Domain, and Luo Ruzhuo agreed.
• The next morning, Luo Ruzhuo and Bai Li entered Xianzhu’s Mental Domain together, where Bai Li attacked her with a giant scorpion Mental Entity.
• Luo Ruzhuo realized Bai Li was Zhu Rongtian and that she seemed driven by destructive instincts despite the contamination consuming her scorpion.
• Luo Ruzhuo charged through Zhu Rongtian’s attack, grabbed her, and drove a needle of mental power into Zhu Rongtian’s Mental Domain.
• Luo Ruzhuo found herself in a shabby village setting with a child’s body and saw a man whose face was obscured by black vapor and garbled characters.

Luo Ruzhuo entered Zhu Rongtian’s contaminated Mental Domain and followed a humanoid contaminant, Wang Fuzhuang, to his home, where she found a chained girl who seemed human. The girl urged Luo Ruzhuo to escape, but Luo Ruzhuo asked whether she recognized her.

• Luo Ruzhuo wondered why Zhu Rongtian’s Mental Domain contained contaminants despite his appearing ordinary.
• Wang Fuzhuang brought Luo Ruzhuo to his home and introduced her to the elderly woman living there, both of whom appeared as contaminants to her.
• Luo Ruzhuo saw a girl chained by the ankle in the courtyard and recognized that she was not covered by contamination’s mosaic.
• Wang Fuzhuang said the girl was Luo Ruzhuo’s older sister and ordered her to cook, while the girl stayed silent.
• The girl quietly warned Luo Ruzhuo not to eat the food and explained how to escape over the back wall after dark.
• Luo Ruzhuo asked the girl whether she recognized her.

Luo Ruzhuo discovered that the pollutants in Zhu Rongtian’s Mental Domain regenerated after being killed, while the chained girl remained central to the domain. When Wang Fuzhuang attacked Zhu Rongtian, Luo Ruzhuo placed a dagger within her reach and told her to do what she wanted.

• Luo Ruzhuo stayed with young Zhu Rongtian, learned that her grandmother had chained her after she tried to run away, and decided not to kill her.
• Luo Ruzhuo killed Wang Fuzhuang and the old woman with Mental Blades, but both returned the next morning.
• The old woman developed a fever, and Zhu Rongtian cared for her while Wang Fuzhuang went out drinking.
• Wang Fuzhuang tried to touch Luo Ruzhuo, then attacked Zhu Rongtian and dragged her toward the bed.
• Luo Ruzhuo placed a dagger beside Zhu Rongtian and urged her to pick it up and do what she wanted.

Luo Ruzhuo helped Zhu Rongtian escape Wang Fuzhuang’s house with her grandmother, but their drive returned them to the town at the center of the Pollution Domain. After Zhu Rongtian claimed they were taking Grandma to a doctor, two pollutants led them into a courtyard crowded with mosaic-faced men.

• Zhu Rongtian killed Wang Fuzhuang, and Luo Ruzhuo urged her to flee with Grandma.
• Luo Ruzhuo tore the nail anchoring Zhu Rongtian’s chain from the wall and carried Grandma to the transport vehicle.
• Luo Ruzhuo drove through the gate and traveled for a day and a night, but the road brought them back to the town.
• Luo Ruzhuo found that attacks only dispersed the town’s pollutants temporarily and suspected the domain trapped people in a repeating cycle.
• Two pollutants approached the vehicle, and Zhu Rongtian told them she and Luo Ruzhuo were taking Grandma to a doctor.
• The pollutants led the group into a large courtyard where more than a dozen mosaic-faced men were waiting.

At a trafficking den, Zhu Rongtian learned that her grandmother had bought her as a child, and the shock triggered the awakening that destroyed the town’s contaminants. Luo Ruzhuo discovered a chip binding Zhu Rongtian’s Mental Entity and chose to help her break free, leaving Zhu Rongtian’s fate in her own hands.

• A bespectacled man revealed from his ledger that Zhu Rongtian’s grandmother had bought her from traffickers when she was three.
• Zhu Rongtian remembered her abuse and imprisonment, then tried to give Luo Ruzhuo a chance to escape before collapsing.
• Zhu Rongtian’s mental power erupted, and Fenrir Talo explained that her awakening had once killed her adoptive father and everyone in the town.
• The surge of power reduced the contaminants and the recreated town to ashes while leaving Luo Ruzhuo unharmed.
• Luo Ruzhuo saw a scorpion-shaped Mental Entity bound by a contaminated chain to a black chip, and her attack could not damage the chip.
• Luo Ruzhuo gave Zhu Rongtian her dagger and urged her to save herself from the restraints in her Mental Domain.

Luo Ruzhuo helped Zhu Rongtian break the chip controlling her and her Mental Entity, freeing them inside Zhu Rongtian’s true Mental Domain. Zhu Rongtian then described Ankang Pharmaceuticals’ experiments on offensive-type Guides and the abuse they endured in prison.

• Luo Ruzhuo and Zhu Rongtian combined their mental attacks with a dagger strike to shatter the chain binding Zhu Rongtian’s scorpion and free her from the chip’s control.
• Luo Ruzhuo found the chip marked SA30067, crushed it, and watched Xianzhu’s town dissolve into a starry desert that Zhu Rongtian called her true Mental Domain.
• Zhu Rongtian thanked Luo Ruzhuo and explained that Ankang Pharmaceuticals had implanted a chip in her brain and forced her to pursue Luo Ruzhuo as an assassination target.
• Zhu Rongtian told Luo Ruzhuo that offensive-type Guides were secretly imprisoned and had their Mental Entities’ claws, teeth, and other traits repeatedly removed for so-called correction.
• Zhu Rongtian recalled that the prison had removed the venom sac from her scorpion’s tail on her first day there.

Luo Ruzhuo learned that the Black Tower used Mental Entity growth potions to expose and imprison attack-type guides, and she resolved to build a rival tower for guides. After waking from Zhu Rongtian's Mental Domain, she pretended Bai Li had caused the damage and demanded Bai Li's transfer.

• Luo Ruzhuo released her sea angel, which comforted Zhu Rongtian and drew her attention.
• Zhu Rongtian explained that attack-type guides could implant pollution inside sentinels' Mental Domains and that growth potions helped the Black Tower detect them.
• Zhu Rongtian warned Luo Ruzhuo to hide her attack-type nature, but Luo Ruzhuo declared that she would one day challenge the Black Tower and build a new one.
• Luo Ruzhuo woke in the medical room after three days, where Lin Sheng and Liu Sui asked what had happened in Captain Xianzhu's Mental Domain.
• Luo Ruzhuo accused Bai Li of damaging Captain Xianzhu's Mental Domain and demanded Guide Bai Li's transfer, claiming only one of them could remain.

After Zhu Rongtian left, Luo Ruzhuo began purifying Xianzhu’s increasingly chaotic mental domain and discovered a strange building at the volcano’s deepest point. She reached it while enduring the domain’s eruptions and heat, but the chapter ended before she entered.

• Lin Sheng promised to report Bai Li to the Black Tower, while Liu Sui brought Luo Ruzhuo compensation from the Guide Association and secretly gave her another Insect Jade.
• After returning to her dormitory, Luo Ruzhuo poured the mental entity growth fluid onto the grass outside.
• Zhu Rongtian told Luo Ruzhuo she was leaving and had misled Ankang Pharmaceuticals to keep them from investigating her for a while.
• Luo Ruzhuo gave Zhu Rongtian a stealth aircraft key, and Zhu Rongtian gave her a secure communication tag; they promised to build a new tower together.
• Luo Ruzhuo entered Xianzhu’s volatile mental domain and followed the lava toward its source, sustaining burns as she went.
• At the volcano’s deepest point, Luo Ruzhuo found a square gray building standing amid the lava.