Recaps

After Li Chen awakens the Forbidden and saves Canghai City, he wakes a year later imprisoned in the City of Sin. He allies with Uncle Mu and sets out to claim the Greed Throne, while rival factions begin reacting to his moves.

• Li Chen escaped the First Seat and the Eighth Seat, but the Darkest Angel pierced his chest to force open the Forbidden Door.
• A white figure merged with Li Chen and taught him to wield the Forbidden, letting him drive back the Eerie Tide and banish Distortion before he collapsed.
• One year later, Li Chen woke in the City of Sin, where Qin Jiao ordered him to serve his sentence and barred him from using his abilities, fighting, or escaping.
• Li Chen joined Seven Sins and resolved to seize the Greed Throne, then allied with Uncle Mu to cut off the Lust Throne’s drug supply.
• Li Chen and Uncle Mu raided Lust’s shipments, killing the traders and hiding the stolen medicine and armor while unrest spread among the throne factions.
• Uncle Mu and Li Chen won a fortune from Gluttony’s casino, then secured Gluttony’s help selling the stolen goods while keeping Li Chen’s identity secret.
• Lust’s men confronted Uncle Mu and Li Chen outside the casino, but Uncle Mu wounded their blond leader and they escaped before the executors arrived.
• At Heaven on Earth, Lust questioned Xi about Sloth and suspected that Gluttony also wanted the throne as reports about the stolen shipment came up empty.

Li Chen used the War of Kings to overthrow the Seven Sins and spread the Forbidden through Sinful City, turning defeated authority holders into Eerie Monsters. As the city fell into chaos and his memories faded, he encountered Su Xian and Su Zhe again while they fought for the Greed Throne.

• Li Chen entered the Forbidden Door, recruited Ling, and learned that he had only five years before the Eldritch God could escape its seal.
• As Lust and Pride launched the War of Kings, Li Chen fought Evil Cult members and unleashed Ling and the Eerie Monsters against the Seven Sins.
• Li Chen turned Lust into an Eerie Monster, killed Gluttony, and spared Pride by transforming him into Calamity.
• Li Chen ordered Calamity to spread the Forbidden through Sinful City as the contest for the vacant thrones began and Su Xian and Su Zhe sought the Greed Throne.
• Black water transformed fighters into Eerie Monsters, and Li Chen’s forces overwhelmed the associations, killing Weilan and transforming Jingang.
• Wrath escaped Li Chen’s forces with Greed, while Li Chen learned that roughly fifty thousand Eerie Monsters had appeared and turned toward the Greed Throne.
• After Weiyang vowed to escape the city following her friend’s death, Li Chen ordered Ling to let Su Xian and Su Zhe go unharmed, and Su Xian wondered whether Li Chen was still the person he had known.

Li Chen learned that humanity faced a final cycle and resolved to pursue his own vision of freedom, then led an Eerie Tide against Huizhou City. He spared some civilians but destroyed the city’s defenders, while reinforcements raced toward Huizhou and Calamity and Lust moved to stop them.

• Li Chen rejected Su Xian and Su Zhe’s pleas to return, revealing that he planned to annihilate all life and reset the world.
• Cang Yue explained that humanity’s final cycle depended on Li Chen mastering Forbidden Authority, and Li Chen resolved to pursue freedom on his own terms.
• Li Chen and his followers attacked the God-Slaying Cult, after which he climbed the God-Ascending Staircase and entered the Calamity Realm.
• Su Xian and Su Zhe escaped Sinful Pass as its walls crumbled, while Li Chen left for the inland and learned that authorities viewed him as an enemy.
• Li Chen unleashed an Eerie Tide on Huizhou City, and Lust, Calamity, Ling, and Cang Yue joined the assault as the city’s defenses collapsed.
• Li Chen killed Special Affairs Bureau commander Mr. Yan but walked away from the remaining civilians, acknowledging that he had become a bad guy.
• Cang Yue warned Li Chen that reinforcements would arrive from Raccoon City at dawn and whispered a plan to him.
• The Order of Justice leader and the Shi Family Saint Son sent forces toward Huizhou City, while Calamity prepared to seal the Blood Net passage and Lust opened more breaches in the city walls.

Li Chen destroyed Huizhou City, learned that Cang Yue had shaped events to save him, and resisted the God-Slaying Cult before heading toward Dawn Pass. As the Human Race fought the Eerie Tide, Li Chen faced Wasteland Realm experts and was captured alive for sealing.

• Li Chen unleashed the Black Mist and the Forbidden Door in Huizhou City, then fought Shi Kun and triggered an explosion that reduced the city to ash.
• Cang Yue admitted that she had sent information to the Evil Cult and changed the world to make Li Chen capable of opposing the gods, leaving Li Chen to walk away from the ruins with her and Ling.
• Light Fiend convened an adjudication meeting as refugees and food shortages mounted, while Di Li sought answers from Su Zhe about Li Chen and the destruction of her hometown.
• Li Chen rejected the God-Binding Cult’s negotiation and fought the God-Slaying Cult, escaping its attempt to trap him after Ling defended him and was badly wounded.
• Li Chen ordered Blood Charm to lead the survivors toward the Black Mist Border and Dawn Pass, then clashed with Jianping, declared he would seek the truth about his parents, and insisted he would remain the Eerie Lord.
• As Operation Hope began, Human Race forces fought to retake Huizhou City while Li Chen’s orderly Eerie army advanced on Dawn City, where Wangyang confronted him.
• Wasteland Realm fighters dragged Li Chen toward a spaceship, and Yan Qing’s Judgment Blade left him near death after his explosion failed to stop them.
• Yan Qing had old man Dun carry Li Chen to the spaceship, where Dunhuang explained that they would seal him rather than kill him because his death could send the Eerie Monsters into a frenzy.