Recaps

In Heart Lake, Li Chen met a personality controlling the Su Family Saint Son, who warned that the passes were failing and revealed the Strange Pavilion’s interest in him. The others arrived and the Daoist Family Saint Son halted the Academy Tournament because a crisis had begun outside the sealed Secret Realm.

• The Su Family Saint Son told Li Chen that the outside world was in chaos, the passes were close to falling, and enemies had already infiltrated them.
• He said he was not the Su Family Saint Son’s real body, disclosed that three personalities were fighting for control, and identified himself with the Strange Pavilion, which was betting on Li Chen and awaiting him at Dawn Pass.
• Another personality seized control and threatened the Strange Pavilion before the Su Family Saint Son regained awareness.
• A rift opened, and Jianping, Su Zhe, and others joined Li Chen; Jianping said Su Xian had disappeared after fighting the Daoist Family Saint Son.
• The Daoist Family Saint Son announced that the Secret Realm had been sealed and ended the Academy Tournament for the day because something had gone wrong outside.

Li Chen realized the Secret Realm might be deliberately sealed while the Eerie Tide struck all Four Great Passes at once, leaving Canghai City and the border in crisis. As people fled and Sequence Users rallied to defend the passes, Wei Laoda summoned Slaughterers to fight in Canghai City.

• The Daoist Family's holy son revealed that the Secret Realm was sealed and urged everyone to wait for rescue, while Li Chen suspected their families might know what was happening.
• Dark clouds and swarms of Eerie Monsters gathered at Canghai Pass as defenders learned that all Four Great Passes were under attack and no support was available.
• Kuang Dui ordered the Special Affairs Bureau to evacuate Canghai City as panic spread and heavy rain began.
• Sequence Users across the Xia Kingdom set out for the border, including a man who vowed to his mother that he would become a hero.
• Wei Laoda watched Eerie Monsters fall into Canghai City and summoned Slaughterers to join the battle.

As the Eerie Tide devastated Canghai Pass, the Godless Cult attacked the Bird’s Nest to enter the Secret Realm and capture the Child of Destiny. The Darkest Angel reached the realm’s center and crushed a sphere of light, triggering flashes across the Bird’s Nest.

• Eerie Monsters overwhelmed Canghai Pass, and Wei Laoda confronted the Seventh Seat after the cult announced it intended to destroy the pass.
• The God-Deceiving Angel led the Godless Cult into the Bird’s Nest to open the array and capture the Child of Destiny.
• Cang Lao and an old swordsman confronted the cult, and the swordsman attacked while Cang Lao trapped the God-Deceiving Angel in an illusion.
• The God-Deceiving Angel revealed that another of the Four Angels had come, and the Darkest Angel descended into the Bird’s Nest.
• The Darkest Angel crushed a dim sphere of light to destroy the Secret Realm, setting off streaks of light throughout the Bird’s Nest.

Li Chen opened the Life Door in the Throne Space and met a conscious memory of his former self, who revealed the truth about reincarnation, Authority Powers, and the forbidden. The memory explained that Li Chen’s safest path was to become a god born from the forbidden, leaving Li Chen to face the most dangerous route to power.

• Li Chen opened the emerald-green Life Door and found its shattered steps releasing a powerful breath of life.
• A ball of white light entered Li Chen and transported him to an old house, where he met another man named Li Chen.
• The other Li Chen explained that they had originally been one and that reincarnation had reset their shared universe.
• The other Li Chen revealed that Li Chen carried six damaged Authority Powers and that the forbidden came from the Elder Gods, who had destroyed the world.
• The other Li Chen said he had fused the forbidden into Li Chen to help him grow stronger, but using it steadily eroded his reason.
• The other Li Chen urged Li Chen to become a god born from the forbidden, since no god had ever mastered the Forbidden Authority.

Li Chen learned from a fading fragment of his former self that the Black Mist threatened Earth and that he had to claim the forbidden authority to become the Lord of Taboo. He chose to pursue that path, then emerged from the Life Door as the Secret Realm began to break apart.

• Li Chen’s former self revealed that he had tried to control the forbidden authority, become an Eerie Monster, and ended up sealed inside the final Door.
• Li Chen’s former self urged him to keep advancing and seize the power needed to protect Earth from the Black Mist and dangers beyond the universe.
• Li Chen chose to become the god of the world and the Lord of Taboo, and his former self faded away as the old room collapsed.
• Back at the Heart Lake, cracks spread across the Secret Realm’s sky as forbidden substance from Li Chen blackened the water.
• Li Chen stood with a black umbrella, declared it was time to leave, and appeared in the broken sky, realizing that taboo power could corrode even gods.

The Godless Cult broke open the Secret Realm and attacked Canghai City as students returned to the Bird's Nest amid the chaos. Li Chen descended toward the city with the others, while Su Xian searched for him before an unknown person grabbed him and blurred his vision.

• Cang Lao and the saber-wielding old man decided to clear a path for the students as the Godless Cult's attack plunged Canghai City into battle.
• First Seat refused to intervene against the cult's plan to capture Li Chen, trusting that someone else would act and ordering his follower to wait.
• Li Chen forced his way out of the Secret Realm with the others, and they began descending toward Canghai City.
• Su Xian emerged at the Bird's Nest with the other students and took to the air to look for Li Chen.
• Su Xian saw red-robed cultists attacking students at the Bird's Nest, then an unknown aged person grabbed his shoulder and blurred his vision.

Yu Qingnian summoned the nine Supreme Beings of the Sequences to confront their disagreement over whether to defend the Four Passes from the Eerie Tide or let the Eerie Monsters in. Sword Elder forced them to go aid the passes, then told Yu Qingnian that he would take charge of the world and should center everything on Dingzi.

• Yu Qingnian told the gathered Sequence Supreme Beings that the Four Passes were under attack by an Eerie Tide and asked whether they would help defend them.
• The Sixth Sequence argued that the passes should fall so the Human Race would be forced to fight, while others warned that letting the Eerie Monsters in would doom countless people.
• Yu Qingnian threatened to start a War of the Kings and argued that Sequence Users had to protect the Human Race rather than gamble its future.
• Sword Elder arrived and ordered each Sequence Supreme Being to go to a pass and help hold back the Eerie Tide, threatening to cut down anyone who refused.
• The Sequence Supreme Beings departed, and Sword Elder told Yu Qingnian that he would take charge of the world and should put Dingzi and the bigger picture first.

As the Eerie Tide and cultists overwhelmed Canghai City, Li Chen and the others arrived at the Bird's Nest, where Li Chen attacked the cultists and then flew toward Canghai Pass. The chapter left the city’s defenders fighting for survival while Li Chen sought forbidden substance to strengthen himself.

• The Ninth Seat confronted Blood Charm, who armored himself in bone and charged into battle, while the Sixth Seat escaped after a dragon-masked fighter struck her.
• The dragon-masked team’s captain ordered them to drive the cultists out of Canghai City and asked where Yan Li was after learning he had gone to save people alone.
• Li Chen brought the group down to the Bird's Nest, told Su Zhe to stay with the others, and used black blades to kill cultists attacking the venue.
• The Daoist Family’s holy son told everyone to remain inside the Bird's Nest, while Mu Hen sent Tomb People to collect fallen cultists for their bounties.
• Li Chen flew toward Canghai Pass, hoping to obtain forbidden substance and improve his power.

The First Seat fought his former senior brother Jun Liang while humans struggled to hold Canghai Pass against an overwhelming Eerie Tide. Li Chen arrived at the pass, helped clear the monsters below the wall, and was asked whether the city had evacuated.

• The First Seat met Jun Liang on the pass wall, rejected his plea to stop, and began fighting him.
• A burly Sequence User discovered that Eerie Monsters had killed Lao Chen and hacked at the creature while grieving.
• Fighters below the pass struggled against eight Calamity Realm Eerie Monsters, then faced the arrival of a Wasteland Realm monster.
• Li Chen reached the devastated pass and wondered whether his parents had died in similar conditions.
• Li Chen used blades of light to kill the Eerie Monsters climbing the wall, and a red-headbanded fighter asked him how things were below and whether the city had evacuated.

Li Chen joined the defense of the pass, killing Eerie Monsters and absorbing their Forbidden Substance while the defenders waited for the elementalists to recover. Meanwhile, Jianping urged Su Zhe and the others to leave their bird's nest because danger was growing and Su Xian was still missing.

• A defender warned Li Chen not to look at the sea and explained that Eerie Monsters could use people's eyes to confuse them.
• When the elementalists withdrew, Li Chen rejected an offer to join them and stayed to help defend the pass.
• Li Chen flew above the wall, killing Eerie Monsters with blades of light and drawing their Forbidden Substance into Ink.
• Su Zhe and the others searched for Su Xian but could not find him, and Jianping said he was probably taking care of something.
• Jianping decided the group had to leave the bird's nest and approached the Daoist Family Saint Son.

Cang Lao and an exhausted old man fought the Darkest Angel and God-Deceiving Angel inside an illusion, only for the angels to discover they had never truly escaped it. After Cang Lao emerged with the old man, he ordered the students to evacuate Canghai City, while the angels realized the Child of Destiny was no longer at the Bird's Nest.

• The Darkest Angel and God-Deceiving Angel struggled against Cang Lao inside his Limitless Formation as he worried about the students and the battle outside.
• The God-Deceiving Angel found what seemed to be the illusion's weak point and shattered it, but the angels later realized they were still trapped in Cang Lao's illusion.
• The Darkest Angel and God-Deceiving Angel reached the Bird's Nest and found Pandora's Box no longer gave off a guiding aura.
• Cang Lao emerged inside the real Bird's Nest, supporting the exhausted old man, and ordered all students to evacuate Canghai City.
• Cang Lao assigned the Imperial Capital Team and Canglan Team to protect the students as the two angels broke into the Bird's Nest.
• The God-Deceiving Angel told the Darkest Angel that the Child of Destiny was no longer there and looked toward Canghai Pass.

Cang Lao and the old man fought Darkest Angel while Shenqi went after the child of destiny. As the students escaped the city, Evil Cult members ambushed them, but Su Xian arrived to shield and strengthen the group, and the Puppeteer raised the dead to join the fight.

• Cang Lao and the old man engaged Darkest Angel, who trapped them in his Darkest Domain, while Shenqi left to find the child of destiny.
• Su Zhe and the other students headed out of the city, and Jianping said they did not need to contact Li Chen because he would be fine.
• Black-robed Evil Cult members ambushed the students, and Jianping, Su Zhe, Ji Shao, Ji Mumu, and Mu Hen prepared to fight.
• Su Xian arrived, blocked the attackers with spells, bound their spellcasters, and empowered the students.
• The clown-masked man and the Puppeteer watched from a power line as the dead rose, and the Puppeteer announced that the revelry was beginning.

Blood Charm opened the Shiva Box, unleashing a catastrophe across Canghai City as the God-Deceiving Angel and a silver-haired Special Affairs Bureau agent fought near the pass. With eerie rain and a girl's song spreading, Cang Lao feared the tragedy of sixteen years ago would happen again.

• Blood Charm revealed the Shiva Box, sacrificed his beating heart to open it, and declared that the Great Wilderness would overrun the land unless the Child of Destiny awakened their power.
• A blood-red pillar rose from the box, and the God-Deceiving Angel rushed toward the pass while a silver-haired Special Affairs Bureau agent blocked her path.
• The God-Deceiving Angel and the silver-haired man clashed as black rain fell, transforming people touched by it into eerie creatures.
• A girl's singing spread through Canghai City, reaching Cang Lao, the Darkest Angel, and the old man inside their overlapping domain and illusion realm.
• Cang Lao confronted the Darkest Angel about unleashing the creature, but the Darkest Angel fled into the darkness as Cang Lao feared Canghai City and the pass would fall.

As black rain and a mysterious song plunged Canghai Pass into chaos, Li Chen discovered that an unseen Wasteland Realm expert had erased many Eerie Monsters before he returned to the city. Beneath the red pillar of light, a skeletal hand emerged from the Shiva Box and began warping its surroundings as the Ninth Seat fled to report to Lord First Seat.

• A red pillar rose over Canghai City, and the song and black rain drove people on Canghai Pass to attack one another as they became mentally contaminated.
• An enormous brush wrote the character for “domain,” freezing the pass while two mysterious figures appeared; one advanced time and erased many Eerie Monsters before the figures vanished.
• Li Chen realized the song sounded only like breathing to him, collected the forbidden substance, and headed back toward Su Zhe and the others while wondering who had intervened.
• Li Chen saw Wei Laoda fighting the Seventh Seat and caught a drop of black rain, recognizing it as pure forbidden substance that could mutate ordinary people.
• The Shiva Box opened beneath the red pillar, and a skeletal hand emerged and crushed part of the box, distorting nearby buildings and plants.
• The Ninth Seat blamed Blood Charm for releasing the creature and hurried away to report it to Lord First Seat.

Li Chen shielded Su Xian and the others from the black rain and carried them to safety, while refusing to rescue unrelated students. The group escaped the immediate danger, but the rain continued to fall and Mu Hen became more wary of Li Chen’s control over its power.

• As the black rain revived dead Evil Cult members as Eerie Monsters, Su Xian and the others struggled to defend themselves while Ji Shao and Ji Mumu fought off the attackers.
• Li Chen cast Forbidden Shield over Su Xian, Su Zhe, and the others, ignoring calls for help from students outside their group.
• Li Chen flew away with the group protected by the shield, and Jianping poked his face out of a zongzi to complain that he was motion sick.
• After finding a place untouched by the rain, Li Chen released everyone and told Su Xian they would not risk rescuing the remaining students.
• Mu Hen watched Li Chen closely, recognizing that Li Chen had controlled the same strange power carried by the black rain.

Clown confronted Li Chen in Canghai City, using controlled civilians to force a conversation about the opened Shiva Box. After Clown vanished, he met with Puppeteer and revealed their plan to exploit the chaos and replace the God-Binding Cult’s seat holders.

• Li Chen and the others heard about a little girl’s song and noticed its powerful effect on mental strength as Canghai City descended further into chaos.
• Clown attacked with controlled corpses, then used living civilians as hostages while inviting Li Chen to join the God-Binding Cult.
• Clown said the Shiva Box had opened and that he wanted to watch Li Chen and others choose a path; then he disappeared, freeing the civilians and leaving a joker card.
• Clown met Puppeteer on a rooftop, where they discussed the opened Shiva Box, their disrupted plans, and their chance to replace the God-Binding Cult’s seat holders.
• Clown declared that he would risk falling into the abyss rather than miss another chance, insisting that only the ending mattered.

Su Xian confronted Li Chen about the Evil Cult seeking him, but reassured him that he had companions to support him. At Canghai Pass, Jun Liang took First Seat’s sword qi into himself to stop the wall from being destroyed, and the two prepared to fight for their own Daos.

• Su Xian asked Li Chen whether the Evil Cult had come for him, and Li Chen said he was not a cult member but had no control over his fate.
• Su Xian told Li Chen that his companions stood behind him, then left to help the freed ordinary people while Li Chen remained alone.
• At Canghai Pass, First Seat drove his sword qi into the wall, threatening to breach it, while Jun Liang urged him to stop.
• Jun Liang accepted First Seat’s sword qi into his body and said Master had broken First Seat’s Sword Dao to prevent him from suffering qi deviation.
• After Jun Liang used an utterly black needle to heal and restore his aura, First Seat removed his mask and challenged his senior brother to fight.

The Shiva Box’s surroundings collapsed into a spreading blood mist, while fighters prepared to contain the danger and Li Chen’s group sought safety in Canghai City. The mist poisoned Su Zhe and brought a monster to their location, but Li Chen sensed that the true threat was still hidden.

• Cang Lao said illusions could not contain the blood mist, and the old man entered it while Cang Lao stayed behind to fight evil cultists in the city.
• The silver-haired man continued fighting Shenqi, who warned him that the Shiva Box threatened Canghai City and Canghai Pass.
• Li Chen and his companions debated where to go after sheltering ordinary people, then noticed the red pillar of light fading and the blood mist sweeping across the city.
• Su Zhe was poisoned after absorbing some mist, but Su Xian healed him while Li Chen used Vector Domain to keep the mist away from the group.
• Jianping drew the Demon Blade as a towering monster covered in human limbs emerged, but Li Chen sensed that the creature posing the deadly threat had not appeared yet.

Li Chen fought a Withered Sea Realm Eerie Monster in the red mist while a hidden gaze watched from within it. After the monster regenerated by devouring other Eerie Monsters, Li Chen slaughtered the surrounding creatures and prepared to finish it.

• Li Chen told the others to stay behind the barrier and faced the human-remains-covered Eerie Monster, while Su Xian watched the barrier and Ji Mumu offered to try Healing Flame against the poison.
• Li Chen inferred that the Eerie Monster had grown strong by consuming human energy, then sensed an eerie gaze watching him from the red mist.
• Li Chen blasted a hole through the Eerie Monster and absorbed its Forbidden Substance, but the headless creature remained alive.
• Smaller Eerie Monsters swarmed in and let the wounded creature regenerate by eating them, while Li Chen used Vector Manipulation and Ink to kill the attackers and absorb their Forbidden Substance.
• Mu Hen, Su Xian, Su Zhe, and Ji Shao reacted to Li Chen's strength as he stood atop the Eerie Monster and prepared to end the fight.

Li Chen and the others learned that a Shiva Box had been opened, releasing an Eerie Monster whose Domain covered Canghai City. They reached the civilians they had meant to rescue, only to find them all dead, as another group approached through the red fog.

• Li Chen returned to the group and agreed with Su Xian to rescue the civilians before escaping the city.
• The Su Family Saint Son and the Daoist Family Saint Son chose a route that would bring them into contact with Canglan's team.
• Su Xian explained that one of the six Eerie Monsters sealed in Shiva Boxes had been released and was likely generating the red fog as its Domain.
• Li Chen and Su Xian reasoned that the Domain might be powered by the deaths of people in Canghai City, and that the released Eerie Monster could still be weak.
• Li Chen and the others arrived at the civilians' location and found the barrier broken and everyone dead.
• Several figures emerged through the red fog and headed toward Li Chen's group.

Li Chen and his companions met the Chenlong Squad in the red mist and agreed to take Yan Li with them as they searched for a way out of Canghai City. Meanwhile, the Imperial Capital Team faced cultists and a stone-masked man in a violent confrontation.

• Yan Li argued with his Chenlong Squad teammates that he could trace fate and did not fear death.
• Li Chen sensed people approaching, and Su Zhe verified the newcomers were genuine Chenlong Squad members before letting them through the barrier.
• The Chenlong Squad gave Su Xian a compass pointing toward their vehicles and asked the group to take Yan Li with them.
• The Chenlong Squad members left to continue their mission, while Yan Li joined Li Chen's group as they followed the compass through the red mist.
• The Su Family Saint Son told Gu Changkong to seal off the area as the Imperial Capital Team fought black-robed cultists and a stone-masked man.

Li Chen’s group encountered the Daoist Family Saint Son and other students fleeing the Evil Cult, then joined them in facing the Eighth Seat. The Eighth Seat broke their barrier and fought Li Chen, who recognized his power over stone as the battle around them escalated.

• Yan Li warned the group that the Evil Cult was nearby and pursuing students, who soon emerged from the red mist.
• The Daoist Family Saint Son and the injured Su Family Saint Son reached Li Chen’s group while an Evil Cult member shattered their blades and surrounded the barrier with black-robed followers.
• The Eighth Seat introduced himself and demanded that Li Chen come with him, then raised the ground around the group and shattered their barrier with a single punch.
• Li Chen blocked the Eighth Seat’s punch with the Demon Blade, while Jianping attacked and was nearly struck by earthen spikes before Li Chen sent him clear.
• Li Chen identified the Eighth Seat’s stone-control ability and charged into the fight as the others battled the Evil Cult members.
• The Eighth Seat summoned moving stone statues with Demon Sculpture and told Li Chen that destroying them would not stop the game he had started.

Li Chen fought the Eighth Seat, whose Demon Sculptures kept regenerating, and learned that the cultist wanted to use Li Chen’s forbidden power to reach the Forbidden Door. The Eighth Seat attacked Li Chen’s companions to force his hand, leaving Li Chen to choose between surrendering and risking their lives.

• Li Chen used forbidden power to destroy the Demon Sculptures and attacked the Eighth Seat with Ink, corrupting the cultist’s hand despite being thrown back.
• The Eighth Seat tore off his injured arm, replaced it with stone, and tried to recruit Li Chen to help him reach the Forbidden Door and rule the world.
• Li Chen refused, warning that the Forbidden Door held a corrupted god, while the Eighth Seat attacked him with stone spikes.
• The Eighth Seat rushed Li Chen’s companions, knocked Jianping into the ground, and forced Li Chen to block an attack on Su Zhe.
• The Eighth Seat struck Su Xian into a wall and taunted Li Chen, who realized he could save his companions by surrendering himself.

Li Chen chose to go with the Eighth Seat of the Evil Cult so the injured survivors could live, and the captors carried him through the red mist. The Sixth Seat arrived with news of the Shiva Box and the pass, while Li Chen silently considered how he might escape.

• Li Chen ignored Su Zhe’s pleas and followed the Eighth Seat into the Evil Cult’s crowd, leaving the wounded survivors behind.
• The Eighth Seat questioned Li Chen about the Forbidden Door during their journey, but Li Chen remained silent.
• The Sixth Seat appeared in the stone sedan chair and told the Eighth Seat that the Shiva Box had opened, the Ninth Seat had disappeared, and Canghai City was nearly occupied.
• The Sixth Seat proposed taking Li Chen back to the Evil Cult, but the Eighth Seat refused and warned that the danger outside the wall made escape difficult.
• The Daoist Family Saint Son reassured Su Zhe that Li Chen had chosen to save them, then began healing Jianping.
• Ji Shao gave water to the injured Su Xian, who used magic arrays to heal himself.

The First Seat and Eighth Seat breached Canghai Pass while forcing Li Chen to accompany them, leaving the city and its defenders in immediate danger. As reinforcements were called and Kuang Dui kept his squad protecting refugees, Su Zhe, Mu Hen, and Jianping resolved to rescue Li Chen, but Su Xian warned they could not go while injured.

• The First Seat ordered the Eighth Seat to disrupt the pass’s arrays, then the two tore open a breach and carried Li Chen away as Eerie Monsters approached.
• Calamity Realm experts outside the pass saw the opening and prepared to seal it with their bodies, while one spearman charged forward after asking Lao Cao to recover his body if he died.
• Masked figures fought the Eerie Monsters in Canghai City, and a middle-aged man reported the breach and requested urgent reinforcements.
• A squad member urged Kuang Dui to enter the city, but Kuang Dui insisted their assignment was to protect the refugees outside it.
• Su Zhe, Mu Hen, and the awakened Jianping said they would go rescue Li Chen, but Su Xian pointed out that their injured group could not go as they were.