Recaps

Ian destroyed Gogar’s royal leadership after learning it had plotted against him, then took Ging to the Dark Continent and explored its forest. Meanwhile, Netero persuaded Maha and Zeno to test Ian’s Performance-Enhancing Liquid, leaving Maha eager to know whether Sashado could match his new strength.

• Ian told Ging that Sashado had survived the Rose Bomb and revealed that he had detonated two similar bombs beside him before.
• Ian entered Gogar’s palace, captured the King, tortured First Prince Kafka, killed many ministers, and ordered Oster to choose which nobles would survive and end the royal bloodline.
• Ian destroyed much of the palace with a giant paper dinosaur, then left Egina to handle the surviving nobles and royal family while he prepared to go to the Dark Continent.
• Ian and Ging used the Anywhere Door to reach the Dark Continent, where they enlarged a white stone crab and rode it into the forest.
• Ian and Ging investigated the forest, captured strange creatures in Ian’s Miniature World Refrigerator, and discovered that a powerful underground predator had consumed much of the local wildlife.
• Ian empowered the White Stone Crab with the Big Light, and it unearthed and subdued a gigantic mushroom monster, which Ian stored in the Miniature World Refrigerator.
• Netero told Zeno that Ian had created the Performance-Enhancing Liquid, and Maha tested it, regaining nearly ten times his power before asking whether Sashado could match him.

Ian and Ging explored the Tutantlu ruins, where Ian awakened the Seat of Light and unleashed a threat he had to contain before leaving the Dark Continent. Back home, Cat Teacher escaped the Gate of Glory, died and revived after a breakthrough, then Ian rushed him to Netero after learning Netero had been gravely injured by Sashado.

• Ian and Ging discovered the Tutantlu ruins beneath a sinkhole and found the Seat of Light, which showed Ian how the civilization had harnessed solar energy before its rulers’ greed caused its collapse.
• Ian used the Seat of Light to awaken the ruins, then investigated the Black Mist Parasitic Apes and nearly let a Black Hole Fragment consume the city before reversing the damage with the Time Cloth.
• Ian and Ging left the Dark Continent and returned to Gugurian, where Ian learned that Cat Teacher had been training Uvogin and the others inside the Gate of Glory for 274 days.
• Cat Teacher revealed that he was Chehu, had been trapped for twenty thousand years, and had grown attached to life inside the Gate, and Ian used the Make-Lies-Come-True Eraser to free him.
• Cat Teacher left the Gate of Glory, ate with Ian and the others, then appeared to die as time caught up with him, but his body revived after his long cultivation culminated in a breakthrough.
• Cat Teacher awakened as an Earthly Immortal and demonstrated his harmony with the world, then taught Nobunaga to let his sword follow its momentum.
• Beans told Ian that Netero had been injured while hunting Sashado, so Ian took Cat Teacher through the Anywhere Door to the hospital.
• Zeno explained that Sashado had infiltrated human society by parasitizing people and that a weak host had nearly torn out Netero’s internal organs, and Ian said he would handle Sashado, but the doctor warned that Netero could not be moved.