Recaps

Bai Shuang freed the deity and forced a contract, but Shen Hao’s bugs and the Instance boss killed her and the deity. After strengthening Xiaobai with the deity’s shadow, Shen Hao entered a new SS-rank Instance as its warden, while two teams of players arrived at the prison.

• Bai Shuang killed Ma Rui, then led her surviving teammates through the city to destroy the final Formation Eye and reach the imprisoned deity.
• Bai Shuang failed to contract with the man in the cage, and the Instance boss killed Li Qu and An Qian while Yang Hua transformed into a monstrous creature.
• Bai Shuang freed the deity and forced a contract, but the boss defeated her and stripped the deity’s shadow from her.
• Bai Shuang died in the Instance, and Shen Hao completed his missions as she later returned to reality at level 5.
• Shen Hao strengthened his abilities and fused the remaining deity’s shadow into Xiaobai, giving her the power to control shadows.
• The Horror Game updated its rules and matched Shen Hao with the SS-rank Home of Evil Ghosts, where he became the warden tasked with killing players and destroying the prison.
• Xu Chao, He Ru, Tang Yun, Wei Changping, and Li Xingyu discussed the Instance’s risks, and He Ru asked Li Xingyu what he had learned about the connection between the Netherworld and their world.

Shen Hao used the warden and Xiaobai to hunt the players who entered the Home of Evil Ghosts, while two teams tried to uncover and complete the Instance’s mission. After destroying the Home’s core and surviving a strange mist, Shen Hao returned home with a newly awakened ability.

• Tang Yun’s team tried to control the warden, but he killed He Ru and later hunted down Xu Chao, Tang Yun, Wei Changping, and Li Xingyu after their enhanced abilities failed to stop him.
• Qiu Ming’s team found the passage to the Home of Evil Ghosts’ core, but the doll charmed them and revealed herself as a powerful puppet whose shadow attacked the group.
• The warden and Xiaobai killed Huo Jun, Wu Yong, and Fang Jing, while Qiu Ming gathered soul fragments and strengthened his contracted general ghost by feeding it other ghosts.
• Qiu Ming ordered his strengthened ghost to fight the warden, but the warden shattered it and tortured Qiu Ming to death.
• Shen Hao restrained the general ghost and had Xiaobai absorb it, then destroyed the Home of Evil Ghosts’ crystal core inside his Demon Domain.
• A strange mist spread through Shen Hao’s Demon Domain, where he learned it corroded and absorbed whatever it consumed.
• Shen Hao left the Instance, found his Mental Attribute had risen to 850, and awakened Demon Curse, which could kill a target at any distance if its conditions were triggered.

Shen Hao entered the Monster Factory as its boss and tortured the players who tried to defeat him, then transplanted the Demon Heart and gained powerful abilities. As he prepared for a dangerous Special Instance, he used the Eye of Cause and Effect to track down Meng Jie, a player who had escaped an earlier Anomalous Instance.

• Shen Hao entered the Monster Factory as the Mad Scientist while five players debated whether to explore or flee, and Gan Lingling led them back to the factory.
• The group found the laboratory notes and the underground passage, but Shen Hao captured Gan Lingling and tortured her while the others searched for the Demigod’s missing heart.
• Cao Wenzhe, Du Ze, Zhu Heng, and Jiang Wen encountered Shen Hao’s traps, and he killed them after inflicting prolonged suffering.
• Shen Hao took the Demon Heart out of the Instance and transplanted it into himself, unleashing a dark-red sky vortex that frightened people across several cities.
• Shen Hao reached level 30, gained the Eye of Cause and Effect and Ruler of All Things, and learned that a Special Instance would open the next month.
• Shen Hao read players’ speculation about Anomalous Instance bosses and discovered that someone had escaped the Home of Evil Ghosts Instance while still earning its bonus.
• Shen Hao traced the survivor’s connection to Meng Jie, observed him at home, and saw Meng Jie abruptly react to a sensed danger.

Shen Hao entered the Land of Reincarnation as Yan Jun and turned its trials against the players who came to destroy it. Fang Jun and his companions tried to escape and break the Wheel of Reincarnation, but the arc ended with Fang Jun trapped and surrounded by the boss and the Demigods.

• Shen Hao killed Meng Jie through the Demon Curse and chose to wait for the remaining players before receiving a new Instance assignment.
• Shen Hao entered the Land of Reincarnation as Yan Jun and resolved to protect the realm and restart it.
• Pei Yunfei led Wang An, Miao Qian, Yao Ting, and Chen Tai through the hell trials, then abandoned them to Avici Hell, where they were sentenced to three hundred years for suicide.
• Fang Jun freed imprisoned transcendent beings in Red Lotus Hell and persuaded them to help destroy the Land of Reincarnation.
• Shen Hao used Demon Blood and Monster Maker to turn four Demigods into obedient pets as Fang Jun's group climbed toward the Wheel of Reincarnation.
• Fang Jun's escape attempt failed after Yu Fei betrayed him under the boss's control, while Xue Tong died by suicide and was sentenced to Avici Hell.
• Fang Jun tried to destroy the Wheel but Yan Jun's domain and the Mist killed him, forcing him to use a revival item and seek the teleportation point.
• Fang Jun fought the boss and the Demigods with a talisman from the Supreme Will, but the boss shattered the teleportation gate and left him surrounded and unable to struggle.