Recaps

Yan Fei and Lu Qianyu began investigating the suspected Demon Race shelter, while Hua Yixuan rushed toward Yin City after learning his father would be taken to meet the Beast King. Lu Qianyu's mechanical insects uncovered a hidden passage beneath the shelter and flew deeper underground.

• Yan Fei warned Lu Qianyu that the Laboratory might be a Demon Race trap, and Lu Qianyu prepared surveillance devices to investigate it.
• Hua Yixuan emerged from the sea on Kaiyang Continent and set off toward Yin City, hoping to reach his father before daybreak.
• Lu Qianyu connected his senses to mechanical insects and began the intelligence-gathering operation, leaving his body unconscious under medical staff's care.
• The mechanical insects slipped past the guards at the shelter entrance and found a section of floor that concealed a passage underground.
• Lu Qianyu sent the insects through the passage to search for intelligence deeper beneath the shelter.

Lu Qianyu discovered signs of recent activity in the supposedly abandoned Shahai Laboratory and set his mechanical insects to search and monitor it. In Yin City, Shisui decided to develop soul-damaging Radiant Feathers and identified Hua Yixuan and the Insect Mother as a potential source of knowledge, while Chi An arrived near a shelter in Shahai City.

• Lu Qianyu found fresh bloodstains in Shahai Laboratory and realized someone had used the facility recently.
• Lu Qianyu sent mechanical insects to search for research records and hide as monitors.
• Shisui concluded that his Radiant Feathers needed soul damage to threaten powerful souls and Spirit Race targets.
• Shisui sensed Hua Yixuan and the Insect Mother approaching Yin City and spread the fog toward the coast to trap them.
• Chi An landed on a rooftop opposite a shelter entrance in Shahai City and watched the patrolling soldiers.

Chi An infiltrated the Shahai Laboratory, drove Lu Qianyu into a soul-shattering madness, and used his blood-red eyes to send the surrounding Demon Race army into a frenzy. He escaped as the bombs he had planted destroyed the laboratory, while Hua Yixuan unknowingly approached trouble near Yin City.

• Chi An entered the underground Shahai Laboratory and scattered civilian bombs throughout it.
• Lu Qianyu recognized the bombs through his mechanical insects, but Chi An caught the insects’ gaze and severed their connection, leaving Lu Qianyu unconscious and bleeding red tears.
• Chi An emerged from the laboratory and revealed his blood-red eyes and black wings to the surrounding Demon Race army.
• The soldiers fell into madness and attacked one another, allowing Chi An to slip away unnoticed.
• The bombs exploded, setting off a massive blast that shook Shahai City.
• Hua Yixuan traveled through a foggy valley toward Yin City, unaware that trouble was about to begin.

Hua Yixuan raced through the fog to stop the Beastfolk from taking his father, Hua Guangqi, but Shisui ambushed and defeated him. Shisui captured the Insect Hive and discovered that Hua Yixuan’s tentacles could deliver a soul attack, giving him material for his research.

• Hua Yixuan rushed toward the Spirit Resonance Rainforest after learning that Hua Guangqi’s departure had been delayed only until six in the morning.
• Hua Yixuan became trapped in the fog and was attacked by Radiant Feathers, but his tentacles shielded him from the explosions.
• Shisui emerged from the fog and stabbed Hua Yixuan in the eye with his Rinkaku Scorpion Tail.
• Hua Yixuan’s tentacles turned blood red and struck Shisui’s Bikaku, attacking Shisui’s soul without causing him harm.
• As Hua Yixuan’s brain began to die, he sent Psychic Energy into the Insect Hive, but Shisui sealed it with Spatial Energy and seized it.
• Shisui left with the Insect Hive, pleased that Hua Yixuan’s attack had provided material for studying soul attacks.

Shisui decided to attack the Spirit Resonance Rainforest Beastfolk for Flesh Crystals, while the Beastfolk leadership struggled to locate Hua Yixuan and chose to engineer Hua Guangqi’s death. The chapter ended with Song Xinrong heading to Hua Guangqi’s detention site to tell him his son was dead and steer him toward suicide.

• Shisui sealed away his experimental materials, checked that his traces in Yin City were erased, and decided to attack the Spirit Resonance Rainforest himself.
• The Spirit Resonance Rainforest Settlement Management Committee worked through the night to locate the source of the Soul Energy and contact Hua Yixuan.
• The old chairman concluded that Hua Yixuan was unlikely to return in time and decided Hua Guangqi should die rather than be sent to Lantiao.
• The old chairman ordered Song Xinrong to tell Hua Guangqi his son was dead and guide him toward self-destruction.
• Song Xinrong destroyed the written order and went to Hua Guangqi’s temporary detention site.

Song Xinrong manipulated Hua Guangqi’s grief and anger to ensure he would resist the Lantiao Main Branch, while Shisui surveyed the Spirit Resonance Rainforest and discovered a recently engineered cultivation treasure land. Shisui recognized the Beastfolk territory’s potential, but expected its ambitions to be cut short soon.

• Song Xinrong visited Hua Guangqi in his guarded room and told him that his son was in grave danger, blaming likely attackers from Lantiao.
• Hua Guangqi nearly fainted from the news, and Song Xinrong summoned a doctor before telling him he would be sent to Lantiao Continent at six in the morning.
• Song Xinrong used his talent to suggest the Lantiao Main Branch might recruit Hua Guangqi, provoking Hua Guangqi to vow he would not help it harm his home.
• Shisui spread his Psychic Energy across the Spirit Resonance Rainforest and sensed a powerful concentration of spirit mist in the core region.
• Shisui discovered that an aboveground settlement and underground structures had been modified into a cultivation treasure land.

Shisui launched a devastating fog attack on the Spirit Resonance Rainforest Beastfolk settlement, overwhelming its defenses and killing Beastfolk as crystals formed in the Alternate Space. The old chairman headed for military headquarters to restore contact while the fog continued to consume the settlement.

• The old chairman ordered the military to investigate Hua Yixuan’s last signal, but the dispatched team’s communications were cut off moments later.
• A dense fog attacked the management committee building, shattered its windows, and forced the leaders to declare a state of war.
• The old chairman left for military headquarters to reestablish contact as the fog spread through the building and killed employees.
• The fog ravaged Beastfolk throughout the settlement, while Flesh Crystals appeared and vanished amid the chaos.
• Shisui watched from above as Psychic Energy Crystals and Flesh Crystals accumulated in the Alternate Space.

Shisui’s Feather Powder overwhelmed the Beastfolk settlement, but the old chairman ordered the army to deploy Forbidden-Class Weapons. An underground attack struck Shisui with a beam that inflicted pain and madness, as the Insect Race surged into the settlement and prepared another attack.

• Shisui noticed the old chairman moving through the mist toward Beastfolk military headquarters and sent Composite Radiant Feathers to follow him.
• The old chairman urged the commander-in-chief to activate the Forbidden-Class Weapons, and the commander-in-chief agreed to submit an emergency request while acting before approval arrived.
• Shisui sensed Psychic Energy being diverted underground as the Insect Race multiplied beyond the Feather Powder’s ability to kill it.
• A beam blasted out of the ground and struck Shisui, filling him with pain and frenzied whispers.
• The Insect Race swarmed into the settlement, and its rapidly growing blood-red eyeballs gathered Psychic Energy and prepared another attack on Shisui.

Shisui survived the Insect Race’s soul attack and vanished when its second beam struck. He then returned with swarms of Radiant Feathers, trapping the Insect Race and Beastfolk leaders as his hunt began.

• The Insect Race’s first beam ravaged Shisui’s soul, but [Predator] consumed the attack’s energy and restored his senses.
• Nearly twenty thousand Insect Race members fired a more powerful second beam, and their bodies exploded after the attack as the underground leaders assumed Shisui was dead.
• A Radiant Feather triggered explosions among the Insect Race, absorbed the blood mist, and sent it to Shisui’s Alternate Space to become Flesh Crystals.
• Swarms of Radiant Feathers swept through the Insect Race, while Feather Powder sealed the space within a hundred li and trapped the Insect Race and Beastfolk leaders.
• Shisui emerged from the Alternate Space with his scarlet Kakugan and unleashed his Kagune as the hunt began.

Shisui survived the beam attack and unleashed a devastating assault on the Spirit Resonance Rainforest Beastfolk settlement, trapping its survivors underground. In the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range, a Demon Race expert sensed the Eye of Madness and ordered his forces to investigate and intensify the coming conflict.

• Shisui escaped the collapsing alternate space after the beam damaged its koukaku defenses.
• Shisui transformed into kakuja, bombarded the settlement with Composite Radiant Feathers, and sealed the area with Feather Powder.
• The Beastfolk and Insect Race leaders found corpses filling the pit and realized they faced a hunter they could not defeat.
• Thick fog and spatial lockdown cut off the settlement, preventing the leaders from contacting reinforcements.
• A Demon Race heaven-controlling realm expert sensed the Eye of Madness and planned to seize it amid the coming war.
• The expert sent a squad to investigate the Spirit Resonance Rainforest, mobilized the Undying Legion, and ordered Hu Lingling to find Soul Modification Technology.

Shisui destroyed the underground Insect Hive and crushed the defenders’ resistance. The old chairman died trying to help Hua Guangqi escape, and Hua Guangqi took his own life after Shisui blocked the escape route.

• Shisui’s Radiant Feathers slaughtered the Insect Race while the swarm continued to pour into the crater.
• Shisui used his Bikaku to reopen the crater and demolish the underground tunnels and buildings, sending the Beastfolk and Insect Race defenders into a rout.
• The old chairman of the Spirit Resonance Rainforest Beastfolk challenged Shisui to give Hua Guangqi a chance to escape.
• Shisui noticed the old chairman’s Psychic Energy leading toward the management committee building and blocked the fog-free escape route with Feather Powder.
• Hua Guangqi saw his escape vanish and cut his own throat; something picked up his head before his brain died.

Shisui searched the Insect Race settlement for information about the Eye of Madness and discovered an Insect Mother and a Heaven Realm Beastfolk underground. Meanwhile, Chi An killed the Demon Race pursuers following him, sensed the Eye of Madness, and fled to find somewhere safe to hide.

• Shisui retrieved Hua Guangqi’s head and sent Radiant Feathers deeper underground to search the Insect Race settlement for higher-ups.
• Chi An led twenty Demon Race pursuers into the desert and killed them before they could capture him.
• Chi An absorbed the pursuers’ blood to heal his wounds, then sensed the Eye of Madness and hurried away to find a safe hiding place.
• Shisui’s Radiant Feathers searched the settlement’s underground core and found an Insect Mother and a Heaven Realm Beastfolk.

Feather Powder and Radiant Feathers overwhelmed the underground Insect Race settlement, and Shisui killed the old chairman after he tried to resist. The Beastfolk leaders who fled to the Insect Mother's residence learned too late that she had taken them in as food to replenish her depleted energy.

• The old chairman sent the frightened Beastfolk leaders to the Insect Mother's residence while ordering the remaining forces to hold their defenses.
• Radiant Feathers breached the final defenses and slaughtered the people in the command room and the fleeing Beastfolk leaders.
• Shisui sensed the old chairman and the Insect Mother, then attacked the old chairman with slashes.
• The old chairman survived Shisui's first slash through his strength and rapid healing, but Shisui severed his head and sent it into a Wormhole.
• The Insect Mother accepted the Beastfolk leaders into her residence so she could devour them and recover energy.

Shisui ambushed and killed the Insect Mother, then searched her brain and the brains of two Beastfolk leaders for information about the Eye of Madness. He learned that the weapon had two forms and began examining the Insect Mother's memories.

• The Beastfolk leaders entered the Insect Mother's residence, where a psychic shield sealed them inside as Shisui and his Radiant Feathers waited nearby.
• A Demon Race investigation team crossed into the Kaiyang Continent and planned to divert Chou City's attention before heading toward the Spirit Resonance Rainforest.
• Shisui's Radiant Feathers attacked and killed the Insect Mother while she replenished her psychic energy.
• Shisui searched the brains of Hua Guangqi and the Beastfolk settlement's chairman, learning that the Eye of Madness came in contagious plague-like and transplantable paired-eyeball forms.
• Shisui broke through the weakened soul defense around the Insect Mother's brain and began examining her memories.

Shisui probed the Insect Mother’s memories and discovered that the Eye of Madness was an experimental weapon being developed under orders from a powerful superior. After preserving the brains for later study, he realized he had little time before the Beastfolk main branch’s escort arrived and prepared to leave without obtaining a sample.

• Shisui suppressed the Insect Mother’s resistance and searched her layered memories, carefully avoiding the core to prevent her brain from self-destructing.
• He found a memory of the Insect Mother warning her superior that the Eye of Madness caused severe pain and many deaths among parasitized soldiers.
• The Insect Mother’s superior urged her to continue observing the weapon, promising supplies and suggesting it could help her overcome a bottleneck; Soul Energy in the superior’s voice turned the Insect Mother’s fear into fervor.
• Shisui concluded that the Eye of Madness used against him was likely unfinished and considered using [Fire Thief] and [Predator] to absorb its abilities into his Kakugan.
• After storing [Spirit Dream Recall] and keeping the brains for later, Shisui noted that the Beastfolk escort was due soon and decided not to risk encountering the main branch.

Shisui destroyed the Insect Race settlement and concealed the evidence by making the Demon Race look responsible. He returned to the Human Race's Unified Exam Secret Realm and found a spatial anchor connected to Lantiao Continent.

• Shisui scattered Psychic Energy Cannon shells throughout the Insect Race settlement and detonated them, burying it beneath a crater and flames.
• Shisui detected several Heaven Realm auras and found a Demon Race investigation team approaching the blaze.
• Shisui let the demons continue toward the settlement, reasoning that the Beastfolk would suspect them because of their old grudge and the Human Race cannon traces.
• Shisui left through a Wormhole and entered the Human Race's Unified Exam Secret Realm again.
• Shisui searched the secret realm and discovered an anchor connected to Lantiao Continent, despite finding no large Human Race settlements there.

Shisui discovered a hidden anchor leading to the Tree Spirit Species’ territory on the Lantiao Continent, then hurried toward Shahai City to investigate the Eye of Madness. Meanwhile, the Demon Race investigators found a surviving Insect Hive in the burned Beastfolk settlement and encountered an arriving Beastfolk escort party, setting the two groups on the verge of battle.

• Shisui found a hidden anchor in the secret realm and used it to teleport to a forest on the Lantiao Continent, which belonged to the Tree Spirit Species.
• The Demon Race investigation team searched the burned Spirit Resonance Rainforest settlement and found a dying Insect Hive hidden in a ruined building.
• The Demon Race leader ordered the team to return and report that the supposedly extinct Insect Race had survived and might have a settlement.
• Three Heaven Realm Beastfolk scouts arrived and confronted the fleeing Demon Race investigators at the settlement ruins.
• Shisui flew toward Shahai City at tremendous speed, leaving the city unaware that he was approaching.

Arakawa Jiushu searched for a Tree Spirit Species heart while Hu Lingling received orders to retrieve Soul Modification Technology as war broke out between the Demon Race and the Beastfolk. The chapter ended with the Dragon King summoning Yuanli, as the Sea Race prepared to enter the widening conflict.

• Arakawa Jiushu searched among ancient trees for a Tree Spirit Species heart to use as a catalyst for reaching the Heaven Realm.
• Hu Lingling received orders from her superiors to find the Soul Modification Technology and return to her assigned military district after war was declared.
• The Demon Race investigation team surrounded and destroyed a Beastfolk fleet and its three Heaven Realm defenders at the Spirit Resonance River.
• The Demon Race and Beastfolk leaderships declared all-out war after receiving reports of the battle.
• The Dragon King, bound in golden chains, ordered someone to bring Yuanli to him.

Yuanli learned that the Demon Race and Beastfolk had declared war, then carried out the Dragon King's order to contact undersea research bases while [Survival in Desperate Situations] transmitted his memories. Hu Lingling infiltrated the Dragon Palace as the Beastfolk and Insect Race launched their first attack on Shahai City, where Shisui was heading.

• The Dragon King told Yuanli about the conflict between the Demon Race and Beastfolk and ordered him to visit the major research bases with Yuan Shun.
• After leaving the Dragon King Hall, Yuanli briefly lost control as [Survival in Desperate Situations] sent his recent memories to Shisui.
• Hu Lingling slipped past the Dragon Palace's outer wall and headed toward the location marked by her signal receiver.
• The Beastfolk and Insect Race joined forces and sent an army led by three Heaven Realm Second Realm powerhouses toward Shahai City.
• Shisui spotted the advancing army and sped toward Shahai City without slowing down.

An insect tide descended on Shahai City as Shisui used the chaos to locate and enter a hidden Demon Race laboratory near the harbor. He began looting it while the city’s defenders were overwhelmed by the approaching insects.

• The Insect Race and Beastfolk advanced across the Sea of Sand toward Shahai City, prompting the city to request reinforcements.
• A force of twenty thousand Demon Race soldiers reached Shahai City, but the mayor saw the insect tide closing in and sent a desperate call for help.
• Shisui identified the hidden Shahai Laboratory near the western harbor and used a Space Wormhole to reach it.
• Shisui killed the nearby Demon Race people with his Radiant Feathers and let the surviving civilians flee.
• Shisui began looting the laboratory, expecting the city to be overrun by insects before he emerged.

Shisui broke into the Shahai Laboratory and sent Radiant Feathers to collect its records while the Insect Race breached Shahai City's outer shield. The city's defenders held the wall against the insect swarm, but a Beastfolk and Insect Race heavy cavalry charge damaged it and prepared to strike again.

• Shisui drilled through the ground and the laboratory ceiling, then used Feather Powder to incapacitate the researchers on the sixth level.
• Shisui sent Radiant Feathers to gather the laboratory's data and documents, and they covered the entrance with containers before hiding nearby.
• The Insect Race destroyed Shahai City's Psychic Energy Shield and advanced toward the city wall as the mayor rallied the defenders.
• Demon Race gunners blasted the insects climbing the wall, but a Beastfolk and Insect Race heavy cavalry charge struck the wall and left dents in it.
• The mayor ordered the defenders to target the cavalry, but the charge hit before they could stop it, and the cavalry withdrew to prepare another attack.

Shahai City’s defenders struggled to hold off the Insect Race until Demon Race aerial reinforcements arrived. Beneath the city, Shisui investigated the Laboratory’s experiments and caught its director while searching for clues about the Eye of Madness.

• The mayor ordered Shahai City’s soldiers to bombard the heavy cavalry, but the advancing Insect Race used the gaps between the explosions to reach the wall.
• The mayor saw that the Insect Race attackers were paired creatures combining shields and offensive limbs, and they struck the wall hard enough to shake it and drain its formation.
• Demon Race soldiers appeared overhead and shot down the flying Insect Race, disrupting the attack and providing aerial support.
• Shisui explored the Laboratory and found a massive cultivated lump of flesh that he identified as the source of the Undying Cells.
• Shisui’s Radiant Feathers found no information or experimental materials concerning the Eye of Madness, so he changed tactics and caught the Laboratory’s director hiding in a materials freezer.

Shisui killed Shahai Laboratory head Jie Yangwen and searched his memories, learning that the laboratory was trying to fuse the Eye of Madness with Undying Cells for a transplant into a Demon Race Heaven-Controlling Realm expert. He discovered the Eye came from Beast King Qiongqi, but the original eye’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• Shisui found Jie Yangwen hiding in the refrigerated materials storage and killed him with his Rinkaku Scorpion Tail.
• Shisui extracted Jie Yangwen’s brain, refined his body into Flesh Crystals, and used [Spirit Dream Recall] to search his memories.
• Shisui learned that the Shahai Laboratory was attempting to fuse the Eye of Madness with Undying Cells for a transplant into a Demon Race Heaven-Controlling Realm expert.
• Shisui learned that Heaven-Controlling Realm experts faced a planetary limit on their evolution and that the Demon Race expert sought a breakthrough through biological modification.
• Shisui discovered that the Eye of Madness came from Beast King Qiongqi, then wondered where the original eye had gone.

Chi An encountered a blood-red eyeball that fused with his own, subjecting his body to renewed torment as he continued toward Shahai City. At the battle outside the city, Shisui searched for the escaped Eye of Madness and prepared to hunt the fighting troops, while the Beast King Qiongqi stirred briefly beneath its golden chains.

• Chi An dodged a blood-red eyeball in the forest, but it flew into his eye socket and fused with the eye already inside him.
• Chi An endured his body tearing and regenerating, then continued through the forest while Beastfolk and Insect Race forces attacked Shahai City.
• Demon Race soldiers and an Undying Legion cavalry company fought to hold back the insect swarm and its heavy cavalry near the city's eastern wall.
• Shisui spread fog across the battlefield, searched for the escaped Eye of Madness, and began preparing to hunt the soldiers around him.
• Qiongqi sensed a disturbance, briefly opened several red eyes, and was forced back to sleep by the glowing golden chains.

Shisui attacked the battlefield outside Shahai City, slaughtering Demon Race, Insect Race, and Beastfolk soldiers before destroying the city’s eastern wall with Radiant Feathers. As the stunned armies faced his next attack, Beastfolk search teams set out to find the person emitting the Eye of Madness’s aura.

• The Beast King briefly regained consciousness and ordered his guards to find whoever was giving off the Eye of Madness’s aura and bring them back alive or dead.
• Beastfolk higher-ups sent search elites and three guards toward the forest east of the Sea of Sand Desert after suspecting the target had fused with the Beast King’s cells.
• Shisui struck the battlefield outside Shahai City with his Bikaku and Radiant Feathers, killing large numbers of Demon Race, Insect Race, and Beastfolk soldiers.
• Shahai City’s defenders fired Psychic Energy Cannon shells at Shisui, but his Radiant Feathers evaded them and flew toward the eastern wall.
• Shisui’s Radiant Feathers exploded repeatedly, killing the defenders and bringing down Shahai City’s hundred-year-old wall.
• The armies stared in fear as Shisui prepared to attack again.