Recaps

Li Chen rejected Su Xian and Su Zhe’s attempt to bring him home, declaring that he would annihilate all living beings and reset the world. As the purge at Sinful Pass neared its end, a man in a cyan robe fought the heavens in the Black Mist to claim godhood for the Human Race.

• Su Xian and Su Zhe asked Li Chen to stop killing and come home, but Li Chen told them they could not return to how things were.
• Su Xian demanded to know what Li Chen was pursuing, and Li Chen revealed his plan to annihilate all living beings and reset the world.
• Li Chen told Su Xian to search the future for a way to kill him, and Su Xian left with Su Zhe after wishing him well.
• The Eldritch God mocked Li Chen for still being ruled by human emotions, while Li Chen put on his mask and surveyed the nearly completed purge.
• Beyond Sinful Pass, a man in a cyan robe challenged the Cosmic Consciousness and fought through the Black Mist as lightning struck him.

After Li Chen devastated the factions in Sinful City, he learned that the God-Slaying Cult was entrenched there and set his sights on confronting it. As he gathered the Eerie Monsters through the Forbidden Door, the mystery of the Great Old Ones and Li Chen’s own identity remained unresolved.

• Su Zhe mourned Li Chen’s departure, while Su Xian urged him to face the coming era and follow Li Chen’s path.
• Li Chen learned that the Throne Authority Holders had fallen, the Seven Sins had splintered, and the pass’s master had stayed away from the fighting.
• Calamity told Li Chen that the Evil Cult was moving toward the pass wall and identified the God-Slaying Cult as the faction entrenched in Sinful City.
• Li Chen considered the cults’ knowledge of his Forbidden Door and the possibility that he was connected to the God who caused the Black Mist.
• Li Chen opened the Forbidden Door and drew the Eerie Monsters inside, while Ling stopped Jingang from entering and Calamity asked whether a God was imprisoned there.

As the Evil Cults attacked Sinful City, Li Chen watched their assault and anticipated a new conflict with the God-Slaying Cult. Warden Qin Jiao mobilized the enforcers to defend the city while continuing secret experiments with S-rank ability genes.

• Li Chen observed the Evil Cults attacking the pass wall and decided to wait and see what they intended, intrigued by the world beyond the wall and the God-Slaying Cult.
• Ling struggled to reconcile his human memories with his Eerie Monster perspective as he watched people destroy the pass wall.
• Qin Jiao ordered enforcers in Chijie Armor to guard the city exit and sent Special Squad 001 to arrest the Evil Cults, authorizing lethal force and Heavenly Eye Sanction.
• Qin Jiao recognized that the Evil Cults' arrival might mean Li Chen's identity had been exposed and accepted the danger this posed to her.
• Qin Jiao entered her hidden human experimentation laboratory, injected herself with a syringe, and concluded that S-rank ability genes accelerated cellular absorption.

After losing contact with Mu Hen and Uncle Mu, Su Xian considered fighting for the throne as the only way to escape Sinful City. At the Rose Garden, Li Chen confronted Cang Yue, who revealed she had summoned him and could manipulate Black Mist.

• Su Xian and Su Zhe discussed their lack of identities, their inability to leave Sinful City, and their lost contact with Mu Hen and Uncle Mu.
• Su Xian decided he would have to fight for the throne and help the others before leaving.
• Li Chen arrived at the Rose Garden with Calamity and Lust and met Cang Yue, the God-Slaying Cult’s saintess and his former acquaintance.
• Cang Yue flirted with Li Chen and claimed she loved him, while Li Chen demanded to know why she had guided him there.
• Cang Yue manipulated the Black Mist into a sofa, and Li Chen formed a throne from it as their negotiations began.

Cang Yue revealed that the God-Slaying Cult intended to sacrifice her to summon an unknowable God, and claimed she had brought Li Chen there to rescue her. She proposed that the world was false, humans were invaders, and the sleeping God inside her might awaken within Li Chen and reveal the truth.

• Li Chen asked Cang Yue why she had summoned him, and she said she was the God-Slaying Cult’s holy maiden and intended sacrifice who needed rescuing.
• Cang Yue described the cult’s God as an indescribable terror, then asked Li Chen whether the Black Mist might shield the planet from greater threats beyond the stars.
• Li Chen considered that the Black Mist could be a barrier against cosmic monsters and questioned whether his own power had been meant to strengthen humanity against them.
• Cang Yue claimed the world was false, humans were invaders, and Li Chen also had a God inside him that had been corrupted.
• Cang Yue told Li Chen that the God inside her was asleep and that she needed to become one with him so it might awaken and provide answers.

Li Chen sought the truth about the world from the awakened Cang Yue in the Throne Space. She revealed that humanity had survived the annihilation of its previous world through Li Chen’s reincarnation authority, but the current world was still being invaded by Eerie Monsters.

• Li Chen entered the Throne Space and found the white-haired Cang Yue following him.
• Cang Yue woke, mistook Li Chen for her father, then thanked him for ending her slumber.
• Cang Yue told Li Chen that the distinction between reality and falsehood depended on a person’s will and beliefs.
• Cang Yue warned that humanity faced annihilation in the river of time unless Li Chen gained Forbidden’s recognition.
• Cang Yue explained that Elder Gods had destroyed the previous world after humanity drew their attention, and Li Chen’s reincarnation authority had created the world anew.
• Li Chen asked why Eerie Monsters still invaded if the reincarnation authority had already been used.

Cangyue revealed that Li Chen’s world was humanity’s last protected refuge and that he had to master Forbidden Authority to become the Lord of Taboo before the Elder Gods arrived. Accepting that this was his final chance, Li Chen chose to pursue freedom despite the deadly path ahead and called Cangyue to follow him.

• Cangyue explained that the Elder Gods’ gaze had destroyed the universe, while Li Chen’s planet survived behind a barrier created by his father using Rule Authority.
• Cangyue warned Li Chen that the barrier would disappear when he approached godhood, exposing humanity to Eerie Monsters from the planet and the wider universe.
• Cangyue told Li Chen that humanity had reincarnated countless times and that this was the final cycle, in which he had to master Forbidden Authority and become the Lord of Taboo.
• Li Chen voiced his fear and despair over being humanity’s only chance, then resolved to face the truth and pursue freedom even if he died.
• Li Chen walked deeper into the darkness and asked whether Cangyue would come with him; Cangyue nodded and vanished.

Li Chen learned that the God-Slaying Cult’s leader would arrive at Sinful Pass in two days, then chose to attack the cult immediately and rescue Cang Yue. As the battle began, a cultist summoned Ghost Infants and declared that killing Li Chen would earn him eternal life.

• Cang Yue told Li Chen that the God-Slaying Cult leader would come to Sinful Pass in about two days for the sacrifice.
• Li Chen decided to rescue Cang Yue before the sacrifice and ordered Calamity and Lust to kill the cultists.
• Calamity spread a plague through the garden while Li Chen attacked the cultists with a giant hand of Black Mist.
• A cultist sent Ghost Infants to devour Li Chen, but Ling bound and crushed them.
• The cultist used the remaining Ghost Infant to raise dead cultists and vowed to kill Li Chen to gain the leader’s approval and eternal life.

Li Chen’s forces battled the Evil Cult in the garden as Ling attacked the Ghost Infant and Blood Charm turned against his fellow cultists. Lust and Calamity overwhelmed their opponents, leaving the remaining cultists exposed to Calamity’s plague.

• Li Chen ordered Ling to kill the cultist, and Ling attacked the enormous Ghost Infant, whose strength grew despite the explosions inside it.
• Blood Charm revealed his identity as Skeleton, attacked an Evil Cult member, and said he would no longer fight against destiny.
• Lust struck two cultists with his black saber and pursued them, cutting them down in a frenzy.
• Calamity revealed himself as Pride and spread a plague that made two cultists bleed black blood.
• Calamity approached the infected cultists and identified himself as Calamity.

Li Chen watched his forces crush the Evil Cult in the Rose Garden, accepted Blood Charm’s surrender, and then broke through the shattered dome toward a mysterious black stairway. As his followers watched, he stepped onto the stairway and saw visions of his former self and familiar figures vanish.

• Blood Charm killed a pleading Evil Cult member, then knelt and pledged allegiance to Li Chen, who accepted him as a useful recruit.
• Ling destroyed the Ghost Infant, mutilated its creator, and killed him after he cursed Li Chen and threatened that the Cult Master would retaliate.
• Lust, Calamity, and Ling slaughtered the remaining Evil Cult members while Li Chen watched from his throne.
• Li Chen sensed an unseen consciousness watching him and decided to take the next step toward surpassing his current bottleneck.
• Li Chen shattered the Rose Garden’s dome and stepped onto a black stairway that appeared before him, as his followers watched and visions of familiar figures vanished.

As Li Chen climbed toward the Calamity Realm, he endured the Eldritch God’s attempts to corrupt him and began treading the Desolation Tribulation. Qin Jiao denied the Heavenly Eye’s request to erase the detected energy explosion, while Uncle Mu reflected that Xiao had failed.

• The Heavenly Eye detected an energy explosion near Sinful City, and Qin Jiao ordered it not to erase the threat after seeing that Wrath and Greed were involved.
• Li Chen continued climbing the stairway as the Eldritch God tried to tempt him with promises of power and freedom.
• Li Chen rejected the Eldritch God’s view of the universe and pressed onward despite the chains and monsters hindering his steps.
• Uncle Mu watched from Sinful Pass and realized that Li Chen had begun the Desolation Tribulation before reaching the Calamity Realm.
• Uncle Mu looked toward the black fog and concluded that Xiao had failed.

After reaching the Calamity Realm, Li Chen tried to climb farther up the God-Ascending Staircase but was attacked by swords linked to the Justice Alliance and a powerful Supreme Being. With Sinful City devastated and the Black Mist too dangerous to enter, Li Chen decided it was time to leave and head inland.

• Li Chen reached the Calamity Realm and tried to take another step on the God-Ascending Staircase, but flaming swords attacked him.
• Li Chen used Vector Manipulation and the Demon Blade Vermilion to stop the swords and found the word “Justice” engraved on one.
• Blood Charm explained that the swords belonged to the Order of Justice, led by the Judgment Angel, one of the nine Supreme Beings.
• Calamity proposed slaughtering the remaining people in Sinful City and making it a stronghold, while Ling suggested moving into the Black Mist.
• Li Chen rejected Ling’s suggestion because he feared the powerful Eerie Monsters in the Black Mist and said it was time to leave for the inland.

As Sinful Pass crumbled, Su Xian and Su Zhe forced the city guards to open the gates and led the crowd toward the inner route. Wrath attacked Qin Jiao, but her Heavenly Eye Judgment drove him across the rooftops as the pass continued to fall.

• Black branches struck Sinful Pass and began crumbling its walls, while the absent Pass Master left the city in chaos.
• Su Xian ordered Su Zhe to clear a path through the crowd, and they confronted the guards who were blocking the gates.
• Su Xian ordered the guards to open the gates, and the officers let the crowd flee toward the inner route.
• Su Xian and Su Zhe left with the crowd, and Su Xian said they would reunite with Li Chen and Mu Hen someday.
• Wrath attacked Qin Jiao, but she summoned Heavenly Eye Judgment, whose red beam chased him across the rooftops.

After Sinful Pass fell, Li Chen left the ruined pass and traveled toward the inland while the Special Affairs Bureau branded him a fugitive and ordered his arrest. He approached the bounty hunters’ grounds, uncertain what identity he would use to enter the first city.

• Li Chen walked away from the fallen pass as Cang Yue and the other Eerie Monsters followed and protected him.
• At a meeting in the Imperial Capital, Light Fiend ordered factions to reinforce border cities and announced that Li Chen was wanted as a member of the Evil Cult.
• A red-haired woman wondered what had happened to Su Xian and the others, while Light Fiend studied Li Chen’s photograph after the meeting.
• Li Chen crossed the barren land outside the inland, with Cang Yue and Ling discussing love behind him.
• Blood Charm told Li Chen that the inland was about fifty li away and that they had entered the bounty hunters’ hunting grounds.
• Li Chen wondered whether he would enter the first city as a criminal, an Evil Cult member, or a trainee.

After Sinful Pass fell, Su Xian and Su Zhe learned that false reports had made the inland blame Li Chen as a calamity and the Evil Cult, leaving them unable to clear his name. Su Zhe prepared to leave for Magic City with a token from the Order of Justice, while Sister Sun hunted mutated creatures in the Black Mist.

• Ji Shao told Su Xian and Su Zhe that the public wanted a scapegoat and that false reports had made it impossible to free Li Chen, whom the inland viewed as a calamity tied to the Evil Cult.
• Su Xian gave Su Zhe an Order of Justice token, told him to keep Li Chen's return secret, and said the Order of Justice had begun to act.
• Su Zhe agreed to leave for Magic City and report Mu Hen's disappearance as its special-grade adjudicator.
• Su Zhe sat alone, wondering what conviction he was defending and whether this was the kind of world Li Chen had lived in.
• In the Black Mist, Sister Sun complained about the low Merit paid for hunting mutated dogs as a man guided her toward the remaining bounty locations.

Li Chen and Calamity reached the Black Mist near Huizhou City, where bounty hunters lured them into a Skeleton Guild ambush. Li Chen and Calamity overwhelmed the attackers, and Li Chen prepared to question their leader.

• Calamity asked Li Chen whether he should kill Sunjie and her two companions, but Li Chen immobilized them and asked for the nearest city.
• Sunjie's companion revealed that the city was Huizhou and warned that it checked identities, then signaled the Skeleton Guild to open fire and teleport the three bounty hunters away.
• The Skeleton Guild's masked members emerged from the Black Mist, and their leader taunted Sunjie before ordering his men to capture Li Chen.
• Calamity killed the guild members who approached Li Chen, while Li Chen emerged from the smoke unharmed and approached the leader.
• Li Chen's pressure broke the guild leader's legs and forced him to kneel, and Li Chen told him to answer his questions.

Li Chen learned from Sunjie's memories that humanity had branded him a demon and treated him as an enemy, then ordered Ling to unleash the Eerie Tide. At Huizhou City, Lin Hua and the other men on the walls remained unaware of the danger approaching.

• Li Chen questioned a wounded man about freedom and a cage, but the man died from Calamity's ability despite giving an answer Li Chen considered good.
• Li Chen asked Sunjie to make the same choice, and she recognized him as the demon who had destroyed a pass.
• Li Chen probed Sunjie's memories and learned that the cities and major organizations regarded him as an enemy.
• Li Chen vanished into the Black Mist after telling Ling to unleash the Eerie Tide.
• In Huizhou City, Lin Hua declined a drink and talked with the other men on the city wall about marrying Di Li after he became stronger.

Lin Hua’s quiet night on Huizhou City’s wall turned into a sudden Eerie Monster attack, while Calamity, Lust, and their allies led an assault through the city gate. The Special Affairs Bureau mobilized Judicators as the city struggled to respond to the unexpected Eerie Tide.

• Lin Hua carried his drunk companions to their tents, reflected on his defeat by Jianping, and went to sleep before his wife’s birthday.
• Eerie Monsters burst into Lin Hua’s tent, and he rescued a sleeping soldier and used vines to protect the others while calling for reinforcements.
• Lin Hua discovered the monsters were climbing the wall in a ladder of bodies and advanced to hold them off, sending Lizi a message as he prepared to fight.
• An alarm woke Huizhou City as Eerie Monsters covered the wall, and Calamity, Lust, and Blood Charm entered through the blasted city gate.
• Lust attacked a white-robed defender while Ling ordered Calamity to contain the plague; Ling and Cang Yue then left without telling Blood Charm where their Master was.
• The Special Affairs Bureau called all Judicators to support the defense and urged them to face the Eerie Tide.

Li Chen recalled his conversation with the remnant consciousness of his former self, who questioned whether destroying the world would bring freedom and urged him to explore what lay beyond the universe. He remained committed to moving forward and led an Eerie Tide toward Huizhou City, leaving his allies warning that humanity and powerful beings would oppose him.

• Li Chen entered the fourth door in the Throne Space and met a remnant version of himself, who asked what he would do after learning the truth about the world.
• Li Chen declared that he would annihilate humans and Eerie Monsters, return the universe to zero, and create a Realm of Freedom in the name of the Forbidden.
• The remnant Li Chen warned that the Forbidden might protect the universe from outside threats, but Li Chen insisted he would follow his own will and make his own rules.
• As the remnant consciousness shattered, it urged Li Chen to explore the world beyond the universe and carry its old will with him.
• Back in the rain, Li Chen led the Eerie Monsters toward Huizhou City while Cang Yue warned that he would become humanity's enemy and Ling vowed to kill anyone who opposed him.
• Li Chen said he had no way back and could only move forward, then told Ling to go inform Calamity.

As Huizhou City fell to an Eerie Monster attack, Ling questioned the fleeing humans while Cang Yue explained their fear and reflected on Li Chen’s ambitions. Di Li prepared to leave for Lin Hua, who, wounded and surrounded on the city wall, chose to fight to protect his hometown.

• As Huizhou City’s defenses failed, panicked residents fled, and an obese man from the Skeleton Guild shoved a boy aside before the boy and his sister joined the crowd.
• Ling asked why humans with great power ran instead of resisting, and Cang Yue explained that fear and the desire to live shaped their choices.
• Cang Yue wondered whether the ruined city was the world Li Chen wanted and said that becoming king required resolve.
• After reading a message, Di Li put on her Special Affairs Bureau uniform, looked at her wedding photo, and left, promising to return for Hua.
• Wounded and trapped in a plant cage on the city wall, Lin Hua regretted not seeing Di Li again, then gathered his resolve and faced the Eerie Monsters.
• Lin Hua declared that he would protect his hometown and called out, “Rise, great wind!!”

Lust, Ling, Calamity, and Cang Yue helped Li Chen’s forces overrun Huizhou City as the Eerie Tide spread, while the Special Affairs Bureau struggled to protect civilians. With no reinforcements coming, the city’s defenders rallied to fight on their own.

• Lust stood among the dead after killing twenty thousand people, while Calamity told him their mission was complete and confirmed that plague had spread through the rain and mist.
• White-robed Sequence Users fired arrows at Lust, and he charged at them; Calamity left to spread plague and hunt survivors while Ling and Cang Yue went into a supermarket for food.
• At the underground Special Affairs Bureau, an officer learned that the Eerie Tide had been deliberately caused and that the city’s defenses were close to collapse.
• The officer bowed and told the Sequence Users that no reinforcements were coming, then urged them to defend the city; they answered by pledging to fight.

Li Chen walked through Huizhou during a devastating Eerie Tide, killing those who tried to stop him and reflecting on the cruelty of the world. At the giant wheel, he confronted the Special Affairs Bureau’s chief commander, who recognized him as the cause of the disaster, and tore off the man’s arm.

• Li Chen ignored a wounded Special Affairs Bureau captain’s curses after defeating his squad and severing both of the captain’s legs.
• Li Chen walked toward Huizhou’s center, seeing civilians waiting helplessly as the Eerie Tide overwhelmed the city.
• At the giant wheel, the Special Affairs Bureau’s chief commander recognized Li Chen and ordered the crowd to flee.
• Li Chen used his blood-control ability to knock the civilians unconscious, while the chief commander dispersed the energy and confronted him.
• The chief commander accused Li Chen of causing mass deaths and attacked him, but Li Chen blocked his golden fist and tore off his arm.

As Li Chen fought Mr. Yan, the agent helped civilians flee while a father carried his daughter away and left his elderly father behind. Li Chen killed Mr. Yan but spared the fleeing crowd, then faced a boy who blamed him for his mother’s death and called him a bad guy.

• An agent urged the crowd to escape while Mr. Yan held off the Eerie Monsters, and a father carried his daughter away despite leaving Grandpa behind.
• Li Chen attacked Mr. Yan with countless energy particles, steadily overwhelming his defenses.
• Mr. Yan attempted a final assault, but Li Chen’s particles swallowed the golden light and reduced him to nothing.
• Li Chen considered attacking the remaining crowd, then lowered his hand and walked away, deciding not to slaughter innocent people.
• A boy threw pebbles at Li Chen and blamed him for his mother’s death, and Li Chen acknowledged to himself that he had become a bad guy.

Li Chen’s group finished taking Huizhou City, and Cang Yue warned that humanity would soon counterattack. She whispered a possible plan to Li Chen, leaving the next move unresolved.

• Li Chen knocked out a boy and reflected on the approaching fall of the city as the rain intensified.
• Ling asked Cang Yue why humans exploited the poor and fought among themselves, and she explained that she could not fully understand human emotions.
• Cang Yue stored Ling’s potato chips before they joined Li Chen, Lust, and Calamity above the ruined city.
• Li Chen asked which city was connected to Huizhou City, and Cang Yue named Raccoon City and warned that human reinforcements would arrive at dawn.
• Li Chen considered avoiding a direct battle with humanity, and Cang Yue whispered a plan to him.

The Order of Justice and Special Affairs Bureau reinforcements sailed through the Blood Net toward Huizhou City, where Calamity prepared to spread a plague and block the underground passage. Lust continued breaking holes in the city walls as Huizhou City neared collapse.

• The Order of Justice leader ordered her vessel to race ahead and rescue Huizhou City before dawn.
• The Shi Family Saint Son told an anxious agent that they had to support the city despite the danger, then reflected on his coming clash with Destiny.
• The reinforcements continued through the Blood Net toward Huizhou City.
• Calamity approached the Blood Net entrance, where his green haze caused people to faint and scream, and planned to seal the passage while releasing a plague.
• Lust made more holes in Huizhou City’s walls, allowing Eerie Monsters inside and bringing the city closer to collapse.