Recaps

Shisui defeated the Insect Mother’s five fighters, leaving her facing certain death. As the planet sought to recruit the anxious Dragon King with the promise of power, news of the Insect Mother’s death pushed him toward a choice between himself and the Sea Race.

• Shisui tore an insect’s wing and pierced its brain, breaking the Insect Mother’s control and collapsing her battle formation.
• Shisui killed the remaining four insects with Koukaku blades and Space Wormholes, ending the fight in forty seconds.
• The Insect Mother trembled inside the Insect Hive, knowing she was about to die.
• The planet offered the Dragon King enough power to resist his enemies if his body could withstand it, and the Dragon King considered accepting.
• After the planet told the Dragon King that the Insect Mother had died, he closed his eyes and chose between himself and the Sea Race.

The planet secretly used a Soul Contract to reinforce the Dragon King's willingness to accept its energy, while Shisui harvested the Insect Mother and hive for energy. Shisui headed to deal with Jiqu and the surviving Demon Race as deadly fog neared Wanren Laboratory.

• The planet issued a one-sided Soul Contract through the dormant Planetary Will and planted a suggestion in the Dragon King's mind to keep him committed to accepting its energy.
• The Dragon King agreed to accept the planet's energy, then began preparing to activate the grand array despite an unexplained feeling of unease.
• Shisui dismantled the Insect Mother's corpse and discovered the hive contained vast numbers of living earthworm-like insects, which he began collecting with Feather Powder.
• Shisui planned to deal with Jiqu and the remaining Demon Race before spending ten days or more absorbing the energy he had gathered.
• At Wanren Laboratory, the fog broke through another Psychic Energy Barrier and approached the facility as the Demon Race researchers watched in fear.

Shisui destroyed the laboratory and killed Jiqu, whose weakened body could no longer protect him from the Ghoul’s attack. The surviving core researchers were left to die in the fog, unaware that Jiqu had already been devoured.

• Shisui crushed the laboratory’s metal shell, allowing Feather Powder to flood inside and devour researchers and test subjects.
• The laboratory head tried to reassure the last core researchers that Jiqu would save them.
• Jiqu sensed Shisui’s return after the Insect Mother’s death, and Shisui appeared before him.
• Shisui struck Jiqu with his Rinkaku Scorpion Tail, spreading toxin and Rc Cells through his Undying Cells.
• Shisui used a Kakugan to pin Jiqu’s soul in place, and Rc Cells tore it apart.
• The core researchers wailed and cursed Jiqu, unaware that he had already been killed.

The Dragon King completed a formation around Chongming City and gathered leaders from dozens of Sea Race settlements under the pretense of granting fiefs. With hundreds of thousands trapped inside, he began sacrificing them to absorb their energy and strengthen himself against the Ghoul.

• After learning that a Demon Race Heaven-Controlling Realm expert had died, the Dragon King hurried to prepare the Sacrificial Formation before the Ghoul finished digesting its prey.
• The Dragon King's personal guards secretly installed formation nodes throughout Chongming City while its nobles chose to ignore their movements.
• The settlement leaders and their elite guards arrived in Chongming City after the Dragon King summoned them to receive fiefs.
• At a palace banquet, the Dragon King's formation sealed the city with barriers that blocked outsiders and trapped the Sea Race inside.
• The Dragon King ordered the sacrifice to begin, and the victims' flesh, souls, and Psychic Energy were forcibly separated.
• Protected by barriers in the Dragon King Hall, the Dragon King absorbed the converging energy as the planet focused its attention on him.

The Dragon King completed the Sacrificial Formation, devoured Chongming City, and grew powerful enough to receive the planet’s energy. Shisui continued absorbing Flesh Crystals in the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range as the Dragon King’s blessing gathered above him.

• The Sacrificial Formation spread magma through the Dragon Palace and Chongming City, consuming the Sea Race, the guards, and the city’s inhabitants as their energy flowed to the Dragon King.
• Shisui isolated the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range behind a spatial barrier and rapidly absorbed Flesh Crystals while the planet watched.
• Two days later, the Dragon King completed the ritual, shed his old skin, and emerged larger and stronger.
• The planet began bestowing its blessing, forming a vast mass of Psychic Energy that hurtled toward the Dragon King and parted the seawater.

The Dragon King swallowed a sphere of the planet’s energy and spent a day assimilating it before confronting Shisui. He attacked the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range with magma, and his assault clashed with Shisui’s Feather Powder in a stalemate.

• The Dragon King swallowed the energy sphere, endured its destructive force, and began healing and assimilating it.
• After seven days of seclusion, Shisui sensed the Dragon King appear above the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range.
• The Dragon King summoned the planet’s power and unleashed a torrent of magma at the mountain range.
• Shisui’s Feather Powder gathered to meet the magma, and the two forces collided and began wearing each other down.

Shisui trapped the Dragon King and his magma in spatial barriers, then battered the weakened king while devouring the planetary energy sustaining him. After Shisui inflicted a devastating wound and injected the Dragon King with toxins, he retreated as the battle neared its end.

• Shisui confirmed that the Dragon King could not directly draw on the planet's power and used spatial barriers to trap him and his magma.
• Shisui's barriers neutralized the magma's energy, while his attacks and Rc Cells rapidly drained the Dragon King's strength.
• The Dragon King tried to send a wisp of energy away, but Shisui pinned it with a Radiant Feather and devoured it.
• As toxins made the Dragon King briefly daze, Shisui detonated a Bikaku against his waist, destroying part of his body and one claw.
• Shisui injected more toxins into the Dragon King's wound with his Rinkaku Scorpion Tail, then retreated to guard against a final counterattack.

Shisui crippled the Dragon King with toxins and exploding Radiant Feathers while Ruolan Star sacrificed its surface biosphere to protect its core. Shisui realized the planet’s plan and sent his Radiant Feathers underground, intent on devouring the core itself.

• Shisui poisoned the Dragon King, then drove Radiant Feathers through his eyes and detonated them inside his skull, leaving him helpless and near death.
• Ruolan Star sensed the Dragon King’s life force fading and drew the atmosphere’s Psychic Energy into its interior to protect its core.
• The Psychic Energy’s sudden contraction devastated Ruolan Star’s ecosystem and triggered earthquakes, eruptions, and other disasters that destroyed Layered Peaks City and many settlements.
• Shisui understood that Ruolan Star had abandoned its surface life to hide its core, but his Radiant Feathers followed the Psychic Energy underground.

Shisui prepared to hunt Ruolan Star by having the Radiant Feathers locate and destroy the sleeping Planetary Will, then open a Wormhole to the planet’s core. The Planetary Will was eliminated, Ruolan Star’s core was exposed, and the Wormhole formed.

• Shisui waited while the Radiant Feathers stabilized space and searched for the Planetary Will before the hunt.
• The Radiant Feathers found the sleeping Planetary Will deep underground and gathered around it, sealing off the surrounding space.
• Shisui used soul attacks with the Radiant Feathers to shatter the Planetary Will, causing it to dissipate.
• Ruolan Star briefly released energy in shock and panic, revealing the direction of its core before pulling its power back.
• The Radiant Feathers locked down space, and Shisui opened a Wormhole from the surface directly to Ruolan Star’s core.

Shisui trapped Ruolan Star’s Planetary Core and stripped away its energy, ignoring its offer to become his subordinate. The core’s light and self-awareness faded as Shisui harvested it for energy crystals.

• The Radiant Feathers sealed a space around Ruolan Star’s Planetary Core and formed a wormhole to the surface.
• Shisui replenished his energy by eating the Dragon King, then arrived at the Planetary Core in the planet’s depths.
• Ruolan Star offered to become Shisui’s subordinate, but Shisui decided to harvest its energy instead.
• Shisui compressed the spatial barrier and used the Radiant Feathers to shave energy from the Planetary Core and carry it to an Alternate Space.
• The weakened Planetary Core lost its self-awareness, and its azure-gold light went out.

Shisui removed Ruolan Star’s planetary core, causing the planet to lose its rotation and undergo devastating disasters. After Shisui left the core, the unsupported planet began collapsing and breaking apart as he watched from space with the Radiant Feathers.

• Ruolan Star’s remains struck Shisui’s spatial barrier, and the planet’s rotation and revolution quickly ground to a halt.
• Ruolan Star suffered planet-wide gales, tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and extreme temperatures that left its surface uninhabitable.
• Shisui left the planet’s core and returned through a space wormhole to the Radiant Feathers near Ruolan Star.
• Shisui withdrew the spatial barrier, leaving the planet’s unsupported rock layers to collapse into the hollow center.
• Ruolan Star’s collapsing layers collided and exploded, hurling fragments through the atmosphere as Shisui watched the planet break apart.

After destroying Ruolan Star, Shisui left its depleted universe and forced his way into another world. He emerged in a mountain forest, where he confronted a group of cultivators and began a new hunt.

• Shisui replenished his Psychic Energy after Ruolan Star collapsed and decided to search beyond its universe for more prey.
• Shisui broke through the universe's barrier, endured the crushing space between universes, and forced his way through another world's mist-like barrier.
• A group of cultivators investigating the object that crashed into their mountain forest approached Shisui as he emerged from its spindle-shaped shell.
• Shisui trapped the group inside a spatial barrier, called them weak, and prepared to feed.

The author thanked readers and contributors for supporting the completed main story, then outlined plans for upcoming extras and a short break before updates resumed. The author planned to focus on Shisui’s previous life, dropped the cultivation-world extra, and ruled out a return to the original story.

• The author thanked readers for their comments, encouragement, fan works, gifts, and support, and thanked those who submitted characters.
• The author planned to write more about Shisui’s previous life and initially considered an extra about the cultivation world, but later decided not to write the latter.
• The author ruled out an extra about returning to the original story, explaining that Shisui’s power and appetite made that scenario unworkable.
• The author said they might consider extras about other worlds and would delay submitting the completion application.
• The author planned to build up a backlog of extra chapters and take about a week off to rest while also updating a Conan fanfic.

Tsukimi Shisui investigated how the Ghoul Restaurant learned his address, then went to its newly opened 5th Ward branch. He left a trail of bodies in the lobby and continued deeper into the restaurant.

• Tsukimi Shisui questioned and killed a Ghoul from Tokyo University who lived in his residential complex, learning that the Ghouls there did not know how the Ghoul Restaurant found his address.
• Shisui watched Ghouls enter the Ghoul Restaurant’s new 5th Ward branch, which had opened on land recently bought by the Tsukiyama Family.
• An S-rated Ghoul who owned the local Feeding Ground demanded to see the person in charge, and a waiter refused him entry.
• Shisui shattered the restaurant’s glass entrance with Feather Bullets, killing the demanding Ghoul and several others in the lobby.
• Shisui killed the wounded waiter and walked past the bodies toward the deeper rooms of the Ghoul Restaurant.

Tsukimi Shisui entered the Ghoul Restaurant and slaughtered the Ghouls in the arena stands and the waiters who tried to stop him. He drove the survivors toward the upper levels and continued through the staff passage.

• Tsukimi Shisui ignored the bodies and blood at the restaurant entrance and advanced toward the arena.
• A human fleeing the restaurant’s dismemberer collapsed onto the blade and was decapitated.
• Tsukimi Shisui entered the first-level stands, killing fleeing Ghouls with crystal projectiles before replenishing his energy from a Kakuhou.
• When a waiter demanded to know why he was attacking, Tsukimi Shisui responded with a barrage and killed the waiters who confronted him.
• Tsukimi Shisui drove the remaining Ghouls toward the upper levels, kicked open the staff passage door, and headed inside.

Tsukimi Shisui attacked the newly opened Ghoul Restaurant, slaughtering its Ghouls while drawing the CCG toward the venue. After defeating three S-rank Ghouls in the VIP lobby, he took their Kakuhou and left before the investigators arrived.

• The CCG found invitations on a murdered restaurant waiter's body and sent a scouting squad to investigate the Ghoul Restaurant.
• Shisui entered the VIP stands, where three S-rank Ghouls recognized him as the Eight-Tailed Shadow Owl and tried to negotiate their departure.
• The three Ghouls attacked Shisui, but he killed the airborne Ukaku fighter with explosive Feather Bullets.
• Shisui fought the remaining two Ghouls through the smoke, devouring them as he attacked and killing both.
• Shisui reattached a severed Bikaku tail, collected the dead Ghouls' Kakuhou, and left as the CCG approached.

After slaughtering the Ghouls at the Ghoul Restaurant, Tsukimi Shisui left Tokyo before the CCG could identify him as the killer. Jackal arranged his passage toward the Middle East, where Shisui planned to continue his work.

• CCG investigators arrived at the Ghoul Restaurant and found the aftermath of a massacre, while the rookies struggled with the sight and smell of the bodies.
• The CCG and the Tsukiyama Family’s reinforcements clashed near the abandoned development as Shisui made his way elsewhere.
• Shisui retrieved a hidden phone and called Jackal, telling him he needed to leave Japan because the CCG would recognize the danger he posed.
• Jackal arranged for Shisui to board a cargo ship bound for the United States and transfer to a ship headed for the Middle East.
• At Hinode Pier, Shisui assured Jackal that no one had followed him, and Jackal asked him to work with him once he arrived.

Tsukimi Shisui inspected a shipment for the Knox Mercenary Group at the port and confirmed the goods were intact. Before the cargo could be loaded onto vehicles, an explosion rocked the dock, and Shisui suspected someone had targeted the supplies.

• A report identified the S-rated Ghoul Eight-Tailed Shadow Owl as the likely killer at the Ghoul Restaurant, and an investigator ordered his file upgraded to SS, or SSS if evidence confirmed it.
• Tsukimi Shisui arrived at the port alone to receive a shipment for Knox while Jackal attended to other work.
• Antonio Green introduced himself as the person in charge of Dark River Shipping’s cargo escort, and Shisui met the information broker Bud.
• Shisui inspected the crates, found no problems, and called for Knox’s transport team to collect the goods.
• Antonio offered Dark River Shipping’s ship-chartering services, but an explosion interrupted their conversation.
• Shisui pulled Antonio close and warned him to hope Dark River Shipping had nothing to do with the attack on the supplies.

Tsukimi Shisui spotted a hostile raid on the docks and left Antonio to handle the situation. He slaughtered the raiders attacking the Knox cargo, leaving the supervisors to clean up as his reputation as a god of slaughter began to grow.

• Tsukimi Shisui surveyed the docks from a streetlamp, then asked Antonio for permission to deal with the trouble nearby.
• Masked raiders ransacked the cargo and attacked Knox supervisors, while fleeing dockworkers abandoned the area.
• Knox supervisors received an order to cease fire and withdraw just before a forceful blast and a mass of tentacles killed the raiders.
• Tsukimi Shisui emerged from the corpses, ordered the supervisors to clean up and assess the losses, and left them remarking on his growing reputation.

After Tsukimi Shisui’s slaughter at the harbor spread through the city, Jackal arranged for him to join Knox’s security forces and fight on the battlefield. Shisui agreed, though he would have to serve with a team before he could operate alone.

• Witnesses confirmed that Tsukimi Shisui had charged through gunfire and killed the desperadoes with his black tentacles, spreading fear and awe among the locals.
• People in taverns and alleys concluded that Knox had recruited another Ghoul.
• Jackal told Shisui he had submitted his information to Knox’s security side, and Shisui accepted.
• Jackal explained that Shisui would have to team up with experienced fighters at first, and Shisui showed interest in the prospect.
• Jackal and Shisui ordered food and drinks and began a quiet evening together.

Tsukimi Shisui infiltrated an enemy encampment during a brutal Middle Eastern conflict to reach a wealthy businessman guarded inside an abandoned building. After receiving a brief intelligence report and cutting off communications, he prepared to attack the guards and reach his target.

• Tsukimi Shisui silently crossed a wire-mesh fence and entered the enemy encampment.
• A Knox Security contact briefed Shisui on the roughly hundred guards, their weapons, the snipers, and the businessman's location on the second floor.
• Shisui placed his earpiece in a signal-blocking case and reviewed the mission details.
• Shisui planned to clear the first-floor guards, avoid the snipers, and proceed to the businessman before contacting teammates watching for reinforcements.
• Shisui walked toward the abandoned building under cover of darkness.

Erikson’s bodyguards were slaughtered when Tsukimi Shisui attacked their abandoned building. Shisui killed Erikson and contacted his companion, who asked whether he needed medical attention.

• Erikson told a bodyguard he felt something would happen that night, but the bodyguard reassured him and he went back to sleep.
• A gunshot and an explosion announced an enemy attack, and tentacles burst through the doorway and killed the guards there.
• The surviving bodyguards realized a Ghoul had reached the second floor and gathered around Erikson to defend themselves.
• Dark red crystals tore through the bodyguards before they could fire, and a tentacle killed Erikson.
• Tsukimi Shisui entered the room, caught bullets he coughed up, and told his companion to come collect the bodies.

After Japan seized a Knox cargo ship, Tsukimi Shisui joined Jackal in planning retaliation. Knox operatives destroyed Chiba Port with a massive fire, leaving Japan to face the cost of touching their property.

• Tsukimi Shisui rose quickly through Knox's ranks as his battlefield achievements earned him more assignments.
• Jackal told Shisui that Japan had seized his cargo ship, and Shisui encouraged him to seek permission to retaliate.
• Jackal agreed to bring Shisui along when he applied to the Knox higher-ups for approval.
• Within six hours, Knox operatives reached Chiba Port and planted bombs at the oil storage area and pipelines.
• The explosions ignited oil tanks, spread fires through the docks, and set nearby boats and buildings ablaze.
• Knox's attack turned the port into a sea of fire and warned Japan that seizing its property would bring a bloody price.

Knox escalated the attacks across Tokyo Bay to draw Japanese forces away from Tokyo, then sent Tsukimi Shisui to kill the officials gathered at the Prime Minister's Official Residence. Shisui infiltrated the residence and prepared to continue his operation.

• Explosions and fires struck Yokohama Port and Kawasaki Port after Chiba Port, overwhelming Japanese authorities and pulling security forces toward Tokyo Bay.
• Tsukimi Shisui sailed toward Blue Sea Wharf, where a Knox operative ordered him to kill every target, including the prime minister, and told him Knox would handle Japan's retaliation.
• The operative told Shisui that Knox would handle the CCG and gave him permission to use his full strength, including blowing up the 5th Ward CCG Branch building.
• Senior officials gathered at the Prime Minister's Official Residence as Japanese forces coordinated the response to the port attacks.
• Shisui flew into the residence through an open window, killed a person in a guest room, hid the body in a carpet in the bathtub, and left the room.

Shisui infiltrated the prime minister’s residence to uncover the source of a blood scent and overheard a secret discussion about CCG’s cooperation with the authorities and hidden experiments. He passed the intelligence to Knox’s team, then resumed his mission to hunt down his target.

• Shisui detected a lingering smell of blood near a guest room and requested permission to investigate without delaying the main mission.
• Shisui entered a nearby room and used his Radiant Feathers to reach the guest room’s window and listen to the conversation inside.
• A secretary told Mr. Washuu that the prime minister trusted the Washuu Family and that their hidden experiments depended on cooperation with CCG.
• The secretary warned Mr. Washuu to avoid transporting live test subjects while Japan faced international scrutiny after the terrorist attack.
• Shisui sent Knox’s team a summary of the intelligence, returned to his hiding place, and set out to hunt his mission’s true target.