Recaps

Su Yang traveled with Zhao Shengshen and Lina to the Northern Suburb Cemetery, where dead Omniscients were close to mutating. On the way, he learned that Gai Fengyan’s fiancée died in a war against the Fierce Ghosts, and Zhao Shengshen explained why the Soul-Reaping Bureau now opposed organizations that worshipped other Ancient Gods.

• Zhao Shengshen drove Su Yang and Lina from the city to the northern suburbs in ten minutes, leaving Su Yang vomiting while Lina warned him not to ride in the director’s car again.
• Su Yang learned that Lina would join the mission and awkwardly kept her handkerchief to wash after he vomited on it.
• Lina told Su Yang that their mission was at the Northern Suburb Cemetery, where dozens of dead Omniscients were buried and nearing mutation.
• Su Yang recognized the road to the cemetery and explained that Gai Fengyan had brought him there, then learned that Gai Fengyan’s fiancée was buried there.
• Lina and Zhao Shengshen told Su Yang that Gai Fengyan’s fiancée died in the Soul-Reaping Bureau’s war with the Fierce Ghosts ten years earlier.
• Zhao Shengshen explained that the Fierce Ghosts worshipped an Ancient God, killed hundreds of thousands of people, and had made the Soul-Reaping Bureau treat all groups worshipping other gods as enemies.

Su Yang learned about the mass deaths caused by worshippers of the ancient gods and the corrupted Sequence Abilities as he traveled with Lina and Zhao Shengshen to the Northern Suburb Cemetery. At the cemetery, Zhao Shengshen revealed that Su Yang would face the mutated corpses alone while he and Lina watched.

• Zhao Shengshen condemned the ancient-god worshippers for a war that had killed hundreds of thousands, and Lina comforted Su Yang.
• Lina explained that the last three Sequences—Extraction, Omniscience, and Eternal Life—were corrupted, and described how fifth-Sequence abilities could be condensed into containment objects.
• Su Yang asked about differences among the Ability Sequences, and Lina explained that the later Sequences had fewer variations and that corrupted Eternal Life possessors were killed after mutating.
• Zhao Shengshen identified the yellow barrier at the Northern Suburb Cemetery as the Class C containment object Suffocation Screen, code name C-0311.
• Zhao Shengshen told Su Yang to prepare to fight the mutated corpses alone, while he and Lina watched from the sidelines.

Su Yang was tricked into entering the sealed Northern Suburb Cemetery alone after Lina enhanced him, while Zhao Shengshen and Lina stayed outside. Surrounded by mutated corpses, Su Yang felt the enhancement’s bloodthirsty urge take hold and charged at three monsters.

• Su Yang accepted Zhao Shengshen’s explanation that the cemetery mission would be practice and summoned his ink-black saber.
• At the Suffocation Screen, Lina struck Su Yang with a white beam that enhanced him, while Zhao Shengshen opened the barrier and threw him inside.
• Zhao Shengshen and Lina sealed the barrier and agreed to retrieve Su Yang after the enhancement lasted about two hours.
• Su Yang landed among ruined graves, scattered remains, and three green-furred monsters, then cursed Zhao Shengshen for deceiving him.
• The three monsters charged at Su Yang, and he summoned his saber and rushed toward them under the influence of Lina’s enhancement.

Su Yang fought three monsters whose Omniscience let them anticipate his attacks, while Lina’s energy kept him alive and repaired his injuries. After the monsters paused to feed, Su Yang cut one in half, but it reassembled itself and continued eating.

• Su Yang charged the three monsters, but they anticipated his slash and one struck him hard enough to break many of his ribs.
• As the monsters rushed to finish him, a surge of energy repaired Su Yang’s injuries and let him leap out of their attack.
• Su Yang fought defensively for an hour, relying on Lina’s energy to heal him, and realized the monsters’ Omniscience let them predict his moves.
• The monsters slowed, stopped attacking, and fed on a corpse, revealing that they replenished their energy by eating the dead.
• Su Yang crept up and cleaved one monster in two, but its halves joined together and it resumed eating.

Su Yang fought the endlessly reassembling monsters beneath the Suffocation Screen, mastering his strength while watching them devour the corpse of a former colleague. After one monster dissolved from eating a clod stained with Su Yang’s blood, he suspected his blood could kill them, just as Zhao Shengshen and Lina prepared to enter before his enhancement wore off.

• Su Yang hacked at the three monsters as they reassembled and fed, but he could not stop the green-haired monster from digging up and devouring a former Soul-Capturing Bureau colleague.
• Su Yang recognized that the fight had helped him master his power, though the monsters’ treatment of his dead colleagues left him overwhelmed with grief.
• A monster that had lost both arms dissolved after eating a bloodstained clod, and Su Yang suspected the blood was his and could kill the monsters.
• Zhao Shengshen stubbed out his cigarette and told Lina the two-hour enhancement was about to end, then they prepared to enter the Suffocation Screen.

Su Yang reviewed the battle after killing three Mutation Monsters and concealed that his blood had killed them. When Zhao Shengshen and Lina arrived, he credited his victory to Lina’s Sequence Ability and his Black Blade, leaving them stunned by the blade’s power.

• Su Yang confirmed that his blood stopped the monsters’ regeneration and dissolved their flesh, then resolved to keep this secret from the Soul-Reaping Bureau.
• Zhao Shengshen and Lina entered the Suffocation Screen and found Su Yang alone amid the battlefield’s ruined ground and monster remains.
• Su Yang told Zhao Shengshen that he had killed all three Mutation Monsters, prompting Zhao Shengshen and Lina to question him and discuss how valuable his ability could be.
• Su Yang demonstrated the Black Blade dissolving a piece of monster flesh and claimed the blade was responsible, asking why Zhao Shengshen and Lina were surprised.

Su Yang proved that his blood could destroy mutated flesh, though Zhao Shengshen and Lina believed the cause was his Sequence Ability. The group left the Northern Suburb Cemetery with the bureau’s plans for Su Yang and the Divine Book still ahead.

• Lina lent Su Yang her dagger, and he used it to show that the mutated flesh did not dissolve without his blood.
• Zhao Shengshen rejected Lina’s suggestion to take Su Yang to the General Bureau, saying the bureau had urgent matters to handle first.
• Zhao Shengshen warned Su Yang to keep his unusual ability secret because it could attract the attention of a Demigod and other dangerous people.
• Zhao Shengshen removed the Suffocation Screen and left the Northern Suburb Cemetery with Lina and Su Yang.
• Lina explained that the Divine Book was a containment object given to mortals by one of the Seven Gods and could destroy mutated monsters.

After returning to school, Su Yang reflected on the Soul-Reaping Bureau’s unusual group chat and spent the last lesson daydreaming. When class ended, he agreed to visit his sick homeroom teacher, Teacher Zhao, on behalf of the class.

• The principal kept Su Yang in his office for hours, hoping he would put in a good word with Zhao Shengshen about the principal succession process.
• Su Yang checked the Soul-Reaping Bureau group chat and saw its members trade jokes and selfies while Zhao Shengshen tried to remind them about their mission quota.
• Su Yang found the group’s casual atmosphere hard to reconcile with the bureau’s duty to protect ordinary people and grew bored in class.
• After the final lesson, Su Yang prepared to visit the flower and bird market to buy his grandmother a puppy.
• Zhang Qingxuan asked Su Yang to represent the class in visiting their sick teacher, Teacher Zhao, and Su Yang agreed.

Su Yang went to Teacher Zhao’s home after learning he was ill, but found a grotesque creature attacking him. Teacher Zhao had already died, and Su Yang summoned the Soul-Reaping Bureau for help.

• Su Yang received Ren Yexue’s messages saying she was sick and smelled something like a dead mouse beneath her bed.
• Su Yang reached Teacher Zhao’s apartment, found the door open, and entered to investigate a foul stench.
• Su Yang found Teacher Zhao hanging from the ceiling by a red tentacle and severed it with his saber.
• Su Yang discovered Teacher Zhao was dead and alerted the group chat, which fell silent.

Su Yang found his homeroom teacher Zhao dead after an attack by a foul-smelling tentacle, then discovered messages that revealed the struggles of Teacher Zhao’s later life. Remembering Ren Yexue had reported the same dead-rat smell, Su Yang raced to her home and warned her to flee.

• Su Yang told Zhao Shengshen that Teacher Zhao had died in an unnatural Sequence Ability incident and gave him the address.
• Su Yang closed Teacher Zhao’s eyes, then read the messages on his phone, including pleas from his elderly mother and notices about work, debt, and a breakup.
• Su Yang hacked the tentacle in anger, then recalled Ren Yexue had smelled a dead rat beneath her bed.
• Su Yang leaped from the building and messaged Ren Yexue not to move her bed and to leave her home, but she did not respond.

After Teacher Zhao died, Su Yang raced across the city to protect Ren Yexue, while Zhao Shengshen investigated the tentacle attack and realized the threat might exist elsewhere. Su Yang reached Ren Yexue’s home and smashed her lock open, only to find her safe and startled to see him.

• A blind old man in a blood-drawn formation sang about cleansing the city, growing more tentacles from his wounds as he repeated the song.
• Su Yang raced toward Ren Yexue’s home after leaving Teacher Zhao’s apartment, ignoring his injuries and the peaceful evening around him.
• Zhao Shengshen arrived at Teacher Zhao’s home, found the corpse and severed tentacles, and called Su Yang, who said he was going to save someone.
• Zhao Shengshen identified the tentacles’ lingering power as a Third Sequence Domain ability and suspected other people might be in danger.
• After an hour of running, Su Yang reached Ren Yexue’s home, got no answer at the door, and smashed her smart lock open.
• Ren Yexue appeared upstairs after hearing the piano stop and asked Su Yang why he had broken her door lock.

Su Yang rushed to Ren Yexue’s house after fearing a monster was there, but found only two dead rats beneath her bed. He left Ren Yexue confused and angry after breaking her lock and wrecking her bed.

• Su Yang found Ren Yexue unharmed and stopped her from going upstairs, insisting she stay beside him.
• Su Yang entered Ren Yexue’s bedroom with a Black Longsword and searched beneath her bed for a tentacle.
• Su Yang flung the heavy bed aside and found two rotting dead rats instead of a monster.
• Su Yang picked up the rats and told Ren Yexue he had come to catch them.
• Ren Yexue questioned Su Yang about smashing her door lock and bed, and he tried to leave before she could stop him.

Su Yang stayed at Ren Yexue’s home to guard her after breaking the front-door lock, and learned that her parents had died in an earthquake. Ren Yexue shared how she had endured her loss and urged him to use what little control they had to change their fates, leaving them to toast to that resolve.

• Su Yang sat with Ren Yexue on her terrace while he stayed over as her bodyguard because he had broken her front-door lock.
• Ren Yexue told Su Yang that her parents had died during an earthquake while on a business trip in the southwest.
• Ren Yexue explained that she had gradually adjusted to living alone, though she had often cried after her parents first passed away.
• Ren Yexue said they could use the five percent of life they controlled to move the ninety-five percent fate had decided.
• Su Yang thanked Ren Yexue for liking him and helping him feel less abandoned during his hardest days.
• Ren Yexue raised her cola, and she and Su Yang toasted to the fate they would move.

Su Yang and Ren Yexue shared stories about their pasts, but their conversation revealed that Ren Yexue remembered a different teacher and a two-year friendship, contradicting Su Yang’s memories. Alarmed, Su Yang left to ask Zhao Shengshen whether his memories had also changed.

• Ren Yexue recounted her lonely life after moving to the city, and Su Yang described struggling after his parents disappeared without mentioning the Soul-Reaping Bureau.
• Su Yang claimed he could leap from the eighth floor and asked Ren Yexue if she was curious how he had smashed her door lock, but she dismissed his claims as impossible.
• Ren Yexue said their homeroom teacher had always been Teacher Zhang and that they had been deskmates for two years, while Su Yang remembered Teacher Zhao and meeting Ren Yexue only a month ago.
• Su Yang checked the class group chat and realized its owner was the woman who had substituted for Teacher Zhao that day.
• Su Yang concluded that Ren Yexue’s memories had been altered and went to the bathroom to ask Zhao Shengshen whether his memories had changed too.

After Zhao Shengshen confirmed that he had brought Su Yang into the Soul-Reaping Bureau two years ago, Su Yang discovered that records of the past two years had been rewritten to match altered memories. He realized from Grandma’s notebook that reality had begun changing earlier and that events were being replaced gradually.

• Zhao Shengshen told Su Yang by phone that he had worked at the Soul-Reaping Bureau for two years, then continued on his way without thinking much of the call.
• Su Yang searched his phone and found messages and bank records showing a rewritten history in which he had known Ren Yexue and joined the Soul-Reaping Bureau a year earlier.
• Su Yang concluded that the changes affected not only memories but also the records of what had happened over the past two years.
• Su Yang remembered Grandma’s notebook recording Ren Yexue helping Grandma a year earlier and realized the world had started changing before the events he had just uncovered.
• Su Yang deduced that reality was being altered gradually, with real events covered up and replaced by new ones.

Su Yang realized that reality had been altered and feared the Dead Man’s Book might have vanished, but found comfort in speaking with Grandma. Elsewhere, a red-robed man announced that the God of Fate and Reason had descended and ordered his followers to kill a beautiful woman, while a hidden message warned that cause and effect had fallen into disorder.

• Su Yang realized that his memories differed from the rewritten world and worried that the Dead Man’s Book had disappeared along with other altered facts.
• Ren Yexue checked on Su Yang, brought him food, and reassured him after he emerged from the bathroom.
• Su Yang reflected on the changed world and called Grandma, relieved when she answered.
• In an ancient mountain palace, a blindfolded red-robed man relayed a prophecy and ordered the Sword-Bearers to slay a beautiful woman.
• In a dark basement, a gaunt old man held a marked piece of black jade bearing a message signed by the Death-Chant Monastic Order.

Zhao Shengshen discovered a powerful, mysterious Sequence Ability fragment in Teacher Zhao’s corpse and summoned the Soul-Reaping Bureau, but Old Wang sensed two Anchors and realized there were two directors. Meanwhile, Su Yang and Ren Yexue shared a meal and promised they would still care for each other even if their memories of the past changed.

• Zhao Shengshen found a Sequence Ability fragment as powerful as a Demigod in Teacher Zhao’s body and called Old Wang to gather the Soul-Reaping Bureau.
• Old Wang stopped the bureau members’ party and prepared to teleport them to Zhao Shengshen, but detected two Anchors and announced there were two directors.
• A second Zhao Shengshen entered the Soul-Reaping Bureau and told everyone to resume the party.
• Su Yang ate Ren Yexue’s cooking, then asked whether she would still care for him if she lost their shared memories.
• Ren Yexue said she would still cook for Su Yang, and Su Yang promised he would still be patient and fight against Fate, adding that she was pretty.

Gai Fengyan led Sword-Bearers into the God of Fate and Reason’s divine kingdom to retrieve a notebook that could hold the dead. In a dreamlike farewell, Ren Yexue told Su Yang about their shared past and pushed him from a terrace; he woke in his own bed to find a red-clad man standing beside him.

• Gai Fengyan explained that the Sword-Bearers would not be fighting the awakened Ancient God and ordered them to enter the divine kingdom to find a pitch-black notebook capable of holding the dead.
• Ren Yexue recalled giving Su Yang a Two-Branch Blue Enchantress and explained that its flower language was predestined fate.
• Ren Yexue said a Demigod of the Omniscience Sequence was waiting for Su Yang at home and asked him not to forget her.
• Ren Yexue pushed Su Yang from the terrace, and he woke in his own bed, realizing the encounter had seemed like a dream.
• Su Yang turned and found a red-clad, blindfolded man standing at the head of his bed.

Heng Hong, a blind Demigod of the Omniscience Sequence from the Soul-Reaping Bureau, confronted Su Yang and showed him a record claiming he had died during a Divine Gift in 2099. Su Yang denied the record and insisted the world’s memories had been tampered with, so Heng Hong began to reveal what he called the real truth.

• Su Yang found himself back in his bedroom, unable to summon his Black Longsword, as a dangerous man in red appeared before him.
• The man identified himself as Heng Hong of the Soul-Reaping Bureau and explained that he had severed his divinity to delay corruption.
• Heng Hong read a manuscript claiming Su Yang had joined the bureau in 2099, advanced rapidly, and died during a Divine Gift after muttering about a God.
• Su Yang panicked at the record, denied that he had died, and told Heng Hong that the world had been tampered with and that his former homeroom teacher had been killed by a Tentacle Monster.
• Heng Hong laughed at Su Yang’s claims, said the God of Fate and Reason had kept him in the dark, and changed the scene to show him the real truth.

Su Yang discovered his own corpse in grave number 23 and learned from Heng Hong that the God of Fate and Reason had created a parallel world to revive him. The two worlds had become intertwined after the deity merged his divine kingdom with reality, leaving Su Yang to confront the cost of his second chance at life.

• Heng Hong brought Su Yang to the Northern Suburb Cemetery and told him to open grave number 23.
• Su Yang dug up the grave and found his own body holding a Twin-Branch Blue Enchantress.
• Su Yang realized the Dead Man's Book had directed him to open the grave, not merely meet Gai Fengyan.
• Heng Hong explained that the God of Fate and Reason had revived Su Yang by splitting time and creating a parallel world inside his divine kingdom.
• Heng Hong revealed that the parallel world and reality had become intertwined when the deity merged his divine kingdom with reality.

Su Yang learned that the God of Fate and Reason had merged His divine kingdom with reality to resurrect him, and suspected that Ren Yexue was the deity who had made the sacrifice. Heng Hong awakened Su Yang’s sealed memories, revealing that the Soul-Reaping Bureau’s deities had been corrupted, while an explosion engulfed the distant city.

• Heng Hong told Su Yang that the God of Fate and Reason had resurrected him by merging His divine kingdom with reality, a sacrifice that would leave the deity in an endless slumber.
• Su Yang realized that Ren Yexue might be the God of Fate and Reason and tried to find her, but Heng Hong immobilized him and awakened his sealed memories.
• Su Yang recovered memories of his two years with Ren Yexue and of seeing a mass of rotting flesh during the Human Race Seven Gods’ divine bestowal.
• Su Yang said the Soul-Reaping Bureau’s deities had been corrupted, and Heng Hong celebrated, concluding that corruption afflicted every sequence.
• An explosion sounded from the distant city, and Su Yang saw it swallowed by flames and wails.

After learning that the God War had ended and the city was in chaos, Su Yang tried to reach Ren Yexue despite his weakened state. Heng Hong lent him his authority for half an hour, and Su Yang rushed toward the city to find her.

• Heng Hong explained that Ancient Gods were fighting over fragments of the weakened God of Fate and Reason's authority, leaving the city in turmoil.
• Heng Hong told Su Yang that his grandmother was safe but stopped him from entering the city, warning that his divine body and shared authority would make him a target.
• Su Yang insisted he had to reach Ren Yexue and bit Heng Hong's hand when he refused to let him go.
• Heng Hong released Su Yang and lent him his authority for half an hour, bringing order to Su Yang's memories and letting him hear mysterious whispers of knowledge.
• Su Yang picked up the Two-Branch Blue Enchantress from gravestone number 23 and raced toward the city, calling for Ren Yexue to wait for him.

As Muyang City descended into chaos, Ren Yexue watched her divine kingdom collapse while Gai Fengyan led the Sword-Bearers to protect civilians. At the Soul-Reaping Bureau, two versions of several people appeared as staff prepared to fight the Fierce Ghosts and Blood Village.

• Ren Yexue watched war and authority-devouring creatures ravage Muyang City, unable to use her power to save its people.
• Gai Fengyan explained that the God of Fate and Reason had destroyed their own divine kingdom and might fall.
• Gai Fengyan changed the Sword-Bearers’ mission from finding a soul-containment book to stopping the attackers, then charged into the city.
• Lina and Old Wang arrived at the Soul-Reaping Bureau and warned that the Fierce Ghosts and Blood Village were slaughtering civilians.
• Zhao Shengshen calmed the bureau members and ordered them to take containment items and prepare to fight.

An aged man used a blood-filled formation and a Black Jade token to restore his body while praising Divine Blood and the Death-Chant Monastic Order. Su Yang raced through the city to find Ren Yexue, but after seeing Gai Fengyan fight a Spirit, he realized Gai Fengyan’s past claims about him were suspicious.

• An old man replaced his blood through grotesque tentacles in a basement and read messages on a scratched Soul-Reaping Bureau Black Jade.
• Su Yang ran through the devastated city, manifested the Black Longsword, and realized Ren Yexue’s battle had ended.
• Guided by whispers, Su Yang avoided a powerful Sequence Ability wielder and headed toward a peak fifth-tier Sword Envoy.
• Gai Fengyan cut down a Spirit with his Ancient Emerald Longsword, slicing through the monster and two office buildings.
• Gai Fengyan questioned why Su Yang was not at the Northern Suburb Cemetery, prompting Su Yang to suspect that Gai Fengyan had lied about his past and his parents.

Su Yang reached Ren Yexue and told her he remembered everything, but she revealed that her Divine Kingdom had shattered and she had no way to save herself. As Ren Yexue prepared to leave him, Su Yang clung to the hope that something could still be done.

• Gai Fengyan hinted that he and Su Yang had been close before, then left to hunt the beasts after Su Yang warned him about a killer from the first Sequence.
• Gai Fengyan took half of Heng Hong's Omniscience ability, and Heng Hong realized what had happened as he prepared to leave the Northern Suburb Cemetery.
• Su Yang reached Ren Yexue's villa and found her wounded on the bedroom terrace, holding a Two-Branch Blue Enchantress.
• Su Yang embraced Ren Yexue, said he remembered everything, and gave her the flower he had brought from the cemetery.
• Ren Yexue told Su Yang that her Divine Kingdom had shattered and said she would have to leave, asking him to listen to Grandma and stop being reckless.