[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-heavenly-official-bestows-evil":3,"chapter-heavenly-official-bestows-evil-heavenly-official-bestows-evil-chapter-61":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Heavenly Official Bestows Evil",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2316680,4530,"Chapter 61: Peeling Away the Layers","heavenly-official-bestows-evil-chapter-61",61,"\u003Cp>This isn’t the Jia family’s home at all…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian held a photograph in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The photo showed a family of five, with a doctor in a white coat standing in the center—the same doctor Wu Xian had met that morning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dr. Wei…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian stood still, his mind racing; after a moment, he set down the photo, his gaze now clearer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I understand everything now…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stimulated by these corpses, Wu Xian finally grasped the key to this blessed land—he saw its true nature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cycling through Xu Ming, trying to preserve my memory and break the cycle—that’s how to unravel this blessed land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before proceeding to the next plot point…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though he had seen through the core of the cycle, before finding a way to break it, he still had to follow the plot scripted by the cycle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There must be a way to preserve memory… what could it be…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The criminal’s death, combined with the consumption of the corpse, increased the demonic power within the inspector, causing him to be blinded and kill the doctor’s entire family…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After pondering for a while, Wu Xian remembered the inscription in the doctor’s office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, the memory problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the doctor must become the inspector, the world’s laws have become so twisted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s a cycle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The words on the Ten Souls Banner proved two things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brother Dog, thank you for reminding me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who exactly are Jia and Wei?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could they also be Juan people?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, they can’t be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But these two are indeed caught in the cycle, and they too possess the Cui Mansion’s Flying Blade Spell…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All anomalies exist solely to make Wu Xian overlook the cycle’s existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I feel a bit embarrassed to ask, but could you lend me some more blood?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A smile curled on his lips—he felt victory already beckoning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flash of light passed through Wu Xian’s eyes—if it’s fake, then everything makes sense now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Never forget…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This world is so dull and barren, filled with so many inexplicable bugs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xianwei City is not a blessed land—it’s a special scene within the blessed land, perhaps a mental world, a illusionary realm, or a ghost domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian cleaned away all traces he’d left in the doctor’s home, then found a raincoat and vanished into the endless night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he first woke up in the hospital, the Ten Souls Banner fragment was already there—meaning that within the cycle, only this object remained permanently with Wu Xian; thus, the information written on it must be unalterable!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the mental evaluation scene must occur, the criminal must be captured so the demonic force can guide the way—hence the four inspectors’ absurdly high combat power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian unfolded the Ten Souls Banner fragment; his frown gradually eased, and a smile appeared on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian, clad in a raincoat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All three must pass from doctor to inspector, from inspector to criminal; after the criminal dies, they awaken again on the doctor’s desk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, that won’t work either—my burn scars must be the marks left by my former self.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian wanted to leave some clues to prevent forgetting something important, but any mark he made, no matter where, was erased by some force—the doctor’s office was proof.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After writing this passage…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, the memory problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To achieve this cycle…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Preventing Wu Xian from contacting the criminal, withholding the criminal’s information from the doctor…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The words after this were hastily written and incomplete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After it shattered, it was no longer a divine offering tool and held no use for Wu Xian, yet he kept it all along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t run far before finding an empty house, easily breaking in, and calmly using the household kitchen to make himself tomato and egg stir-fry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian had seen through the blessed land’s true nature as a cycle and knew his memory would gradually fade—but the question was how to preserve it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then… write it on my body?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now it’s clear—it’s not that simple!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The truth of this blessed land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet this storm also erased many traces, delaying the inspectors’ ability to track him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The inspector killed the doctor’s entire family, becoming the criminal himself; the inspector’s position became vacant, and the vacancy caused the doctor to become the inspector.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian opened the Ten Souls Banner fragment again and read its first line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This world is fake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That night…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The doctor deemed the criminal mentally sound, forcing him to be imprisoned outside the city, giving the inspector the chance to kill him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frequent recollection might delay memory loss!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Causally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps this phrase isn’t just reminding me my memory is flawed—it’s also hinting at how to preserve it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though it was somewhat frustrating for him…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But back then, Wu Xian had guessed it was a time loop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian had once again become the criminal from the inspector.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After drawing blood…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s fake…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, Wu Xian understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After entering the blessed land, one forgets everything completely; after total amnesia, one awakens again as the doctor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Identity-wise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian found two syringes in Dr. Wei’s home and located the black dog barking wildly outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly opened his eyes and frantically rummaged through his clothes, pulling out a crumpled cloth bundle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After thinking for a moment…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the inner side of the Ten Souls Banner, clear white characters were written in a small line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This theory is likely correct, but I can’t rely on it alone!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The barking black dog suddenly fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, the self who wrote this passage then was not as composed as the current Wu Xian—meaning this Wu Xian has progressed further than any previous version of himself!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Wu Xian found a white pen and filled in the unfinished words on the Ten Souls Banner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This world is fake; what you see is not the truth. Memory is fading. I am in Xu Ming…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that he had seen through the cycle’s nature, what he needed to consider was how to break it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian now needed to answer four questions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This violent storm had caught Wu Xian off guard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fourth, how to break the cycle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is a fragment of the Ten Souls Banner!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Woof woof…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even when he first met Jia, Wu Xian realized his memory was flawed—the blessed land might be a loop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s the dual cycle of identities and causality among Xu Ming, Jia, and Wei.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This blessed land is a single-person blessed land; only Wu Xian could have entered it from the real world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, who are Jia and Wei?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third, the demonic curse within my body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, the Ten Souls Banner can indeed be used to preserve information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian began pondering the second question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian closed his eyes and meditated for a long while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Xianwei City, only the three of us are human, forming this identity-causality cycle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am a Juan person… and they are survivors of this blessed land!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1158,"2026-06-20T14:31:06.102Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","c8769782bb954df58dacc88135a738a5ce58a6b009db754f6e488221349eef68","heavenly-official-bestows-evil-chapter-62","heavenly-official-bestows-evil-chapter-60",556,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fheavenly-official-bestows-evil-cover.jpg"]