Recaps

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong arrived in an apocalyptic world and learned that they had been pulled into a Horror Game survival instance. After Hu Jiu triggered the instance’s fear-based killing rule and found a strange game item, Du Zhong questioned why this world’s language and civilization so closely resembled those of other worlds.

• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong escaped the erasing universe through a stable spatial anchor and arrived in a silent world of ruins.
• Hu Jiu searched the area, found a person, and made Du Zhong a body before they approached him.
• A young man told them they had been chosen by the Horror Game and described the dangers of its survival instance.
• Hu Jiu beat the young man until he revealed that anything a player feared would materialize and hunt them.
• Hu Jiu caused the young man’s childhood fear of a chainsaw killer to manifest, and the killer split him in two before vanishing.
• Du Zhong examined a box of unusual matches and questioned why different worlds shared nearly identical races, languages, civilizations, and histories.

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong encountered Nie Zheng’s group in a Horror Game instance, where Hu Jiu exposed Nie Zheng’s cruelty and discovered that Nie Zheng feared Sirius. Fake Sirius killed Nie Zheng and remained in the world, seemingly reborn as a living person.

• Nie Zheng’s team defeated a fear-born black bear after he waited for others to weaken it, and Hu Jiu and Du Zhong arrived soon afterward.
• Hu Jiu killed a lackey who tried to bring them to Nie Zheng, then struck Nie Zheng and destroyed his Sirius pendant’s protective gem.
• Ms. Chu appeared, but Hu Jiu snapped her neck and concluded that she could be defeated with physical attacks.
• Nie Zheng shot Hu Jiu with his silver pistol, but Hu Jiu examined the bullet unharmed as Nie Zheng fled with his group.
• Fake Sirius manifested from Nie Zheng’s fear, and Nie Zheng revealed that he had stolen Sirius’s items and eliminated him after resenting his superiority.
• Fake Sirius took Nie Zheng’s gun and killed him, then examined his body as he began to feel alive.

Hu Jiu, Du Zhong, and the resurrected Qin Lang escaped the closing horror instance and entered a world nearly identical to the ones Hu Jiu had encountered before. After creating new identities, Hu Jiu and Du Zhong set out to investigate the Horror Game’s supernatural system, while Qin Lang left to pursue his own path and seek revenge on Nie Zheng.

• Qin Lang recovered his memories and learned that he had returned from death as a being bound to both the supernatural and the instance’s rules.
• Hu Jiu tore open the collapsing instance, and he, Du Zhong, and Qin Lang crossed into reality.
• Hu Jiu recognized that the new world closely resembled other worlds he had seen and fabricated identity documents for himself, Du Zhong, and Qin Lang.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong parted ways with Qin Lang, who left the alley resolved to take revenge on Nie Zheng.
• Du Zhong explained that the Horror Game was gradually bringing supernatural powers into reality, and he located Zhao Kun, a player and member of the Blood Rose guild.
• Hu Jiu entered Zhao Kun’s VIP room at the Blues Bar and erased a lackey’s face after the man cursed at him.

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong hunted Horror Game players in the real world, draining their powers and gathering information while investigating an unfamiliar extraordinary system. After killing several targets, they left the arena and continued their cautious search for other players.

• Hu Jiu froze Zhao Kun and the other players’ attacks, drained their powers, and killed them; Du Zhong took valuable items from their bodies.
• Hu Jiu interrogated Zhao Kun’s consciousness and learned that Chen Mingyuan, the B-rank player called Scholar, worked at the city library.
• Hu Jiu overwhelmed Chen Mingyuan, absorbed information and energy from an ancient book taken from a Horror Game instance, and drained Chen Mingyuan’s power after discovering the book claimed Lu Bu was a double ★.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong went to an underground fighting arena, where Du Zhong used the Space Chaos Cube to trap Lei Gang, the A-rank player called Bloodaxe.
• Hu Jiu drained Lei Gang’s power and killed him, then explained that he and Du Zhong were proceeding cautiously to learn about the unfamiliar system without revealing their own information.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong left the arena, and Lei Gang’s gruesome death soon stirred the Horror Game player community.

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong lured the horror game’s top players to an auction aboard the Heart of the Ocean, then trapped them in a supernatural nightmare. The ship vanished into gray mist after the players were slaughtered, leaving the survivors in the real world terrified.

• Hu Jiu impersonated Horton and staged two successful auctions to persuade powerful players that the third auction was safe.
• Hu Jiu announced that the grand auction would take place aboard the Heart of the Ocean, while Du Zhong promoted it and later impersonated Horton onstage.
• More than a hundred top players gathered aboard the ship as Du Zhong presented the supposed Phoenix Tear and Hu Jiu spread supernatural power through the vessel.
• The Phoenix Tear turned into a deadly fake, Du Zhong vanished, and the ship transformed into a distorted horror scenario filled with undead and manifestations of the players’ deepest fears.
• The gray mist swallowed the Heart of the Ocean and its passengers, and news of the top players’ deaths sent fear through the remaining players.

Hu Jiu traced the Horror Game’s mass player deaths to its pale-brained core, then invaded the core and destroyed it while extracting a powerful crystal. He left with the crystal, while Qin Lang remained in the real world and the nature of the stolen power was still unknown.

• The Horror Game’s pale giant brain detected the mass loss of player terminals and scanned the real world for the cause.
• Hu Jiu sensed the brain’s probe, traced it to the Horror Game core hidden in the Abyssal Echoes instance, and used Qin Lang to locate it through the power protecting him.
• Hu Jiu blasted a passage into the core space and entered with Du Zhong as the brain activated its emergency defenses.
• Hu Jiu ignored the brain’s attacks, stripped a crystal core from it, and destroyed it before its self-destruction protocol could finish.
• Hu Jiu pocketed the crystal and told Du Zhong it was probably this world’s God, while admitting he did not know exactly what it was.

Hu Jiu destroyed the pale brain, causing the horror game and its simulated world to collapse, then accelerated the destruction before leaving with Du Zhong. They arrived in a world where transmigrators were common and an apocalypse governed by rules had begun, while Qin Lang was left behind to die with his world.

• Hu Jiu tore out the pale brain's core, triggering the collapse of the horror game, its dungeons, and players' powers and items.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong returned to Earth Onlion and discovered that its simulated world was breaking apart to reveal an apocalyptic wasteland beneath it.
• Du Zhong estimated the world would disintegrate in 3.7 days, and Hu Jiu unleashed power that rapidly annihilated its data-based structures and inhabitants.
• Qin Lang tried to escape through a spatial fissure but could not enter, as a voice told him the son of destiny had to live and die with his world.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong emerged on a busy street in another world, where a woman explained that transmigrators had appeared for six months and that the apocalypse had begun seven days earlier.
• The woman told Hu Jiu and Du Zhong that the apocalypse followed rules and that people would be safe if they obeyed them.

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong explored a world where laws and morality had become rules enforced by lightning, making society orderly but fearful and stagnant. They concluded that ordinary people gained protection while the privileged class saw its power—and the old institutions of government—overthrown.

• A young woman explained that breaking the world’s rules brought lightning punishment, and Hu Jiu and Du Zhong were repeatedly struck for their actions and thoughts.
• Hu Jiu investigated the city through his intangible form while Du Zhong blended in, and they observed the polite, spotless streets and near-total elimination of crime.
• Du Zhong and Hu Jiu learned that conflicting laws were enforced according to the strictest standard, while authorities and online platforms promoted the new order and suppressed criticism.
• Du Zhong warned that censorship had removed entertainment and other outlets for ordinary people’s stress, and further investigation revealed that fear had halted innovation, art, and honest expression.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong concluded that the rules protected ordinary people but destroyed the privileged class’s ability to wield power, reducing governments and other institutions to figureheads.

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong learned from transmigrators how different apocalypses had destroyed their worlds, then saw how Thunder Punishment was overwhelming hospitals and destabilizing society. They decided to hasten this world’s collapse by manipulating the Santos United Emirates into enacting extreme laws that would become part of the rules.

• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong secretly contacted transmigrators and heard accounts of apocalypses caused by runaway technology, depleted magic, supernatural revival, and a consciousness-uploading trap.
• The transmigrators warned that this world’s orderly rules could be a prelude to disaster, and Hu Jiu declared that he would make the world collapse.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong inspected hospitals overwhelmed by lightning-strike victims and recognized that injuries, labor shortages, and mounting anxiety were creating a vicious cycle.
• Hu Jiu proposed changing legal standards so the rules would enforce harsher laws, and Du Zhong agreed to target the Santos United Emirates.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong planned to push Santos toward absurdly cruel laws and headed there to begin their scheme.

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong turned Santos into a fanatical legal state, and the rule made its cruel code universal, killing millions and paralyzing society. Hu Jiu expanded the laws to cover all living things, triggering worldwide ecological devastation, while the pair watched the apocalypse unfold and noted that a few survivors remained.

• Hu Jiu brainwashed Santos and made its leaders pass the Sacred Order Code, imposing brutal restrictions and punishments on the population.
• The rule elevated the Sacred Order Code into universal international law, causing mass deaths and bringing human society to a standstill.
• Hu Jiu issued Natural Ecology Supplementary Regulations, and the rule adopted them, subjecting plants, animals, and microorganisms to lethal punishments.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong watched lightning devastate the world as the ecosystem collapsed and effective human activity fell to zero.
• As the storms weakened, Hu Jiu noticed survivors, and Du Zhong warned that environmental destruction would soon make the world unfit for carbon-based life.

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong found themselves in a peaceful-looking forest with transmigrators from a flood-destroyed world, but armed dogs attacked and revealed that the new world’s humans and intelligent animals were at war. In the original world, Xiao Huang learned that the government knew about the anomalous lifeforms and was assigned to inspect pets for infiltrators.

• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong met Mike and other survivors who had fled a world-ending flood through strange passages, then led the group through a primeval forest.
• An armed black dog attacked the transmigrators, and Du Zhong killed it with a black chain after its gunfire killed several people.
• Du Zhong and Hu Jiu watched a battle between an exhausted human army and well-equipped dogs, while Mike recognized the soldiers as people from his world.
• Xiao Huang learned from a superior that intelligent anomalous lifeforms existed and was transferred to the Special Operations Unit.
• The unit visited a secret laboratory where the leader explained that the anomalous lifeforms were intelligent, armed, and possibly technologically advanced.
• The Special Operations Unit was ordered to inspect every pet in the city to prevent anomalous lifeforms from infiltrating society.

Humans in a canine-led world captured and dissected anomalous human beings, while pets A-Zhe and A-Jian were taken for neutering by their dog owners. Hu Jiu and Du Zhong discovered the laboratory and unleashed a supernatural disaster, ending with canine forces rallying to defend their world against the invaders.

• A pack of armed dogs herded humans to a laboratory, where researchers celebrated capturing them and ordered their language studied.
• Ms. Huang and Ms. Mu brought A-Zhe and A-Jian to the pet hospital for neutering, and the two dogs were restrained and anesthetized in the operating room.
• Researchers concluded that the anomalous humans had weaker bodies than ordinary pets, then Hu Jiu and Du Zhong arrived and found the laboratory's dissection rooms.
• Du Zhong released his Supernatural power, and a supernatural disaster erupted across the city as ghosts rampaged and canine corpses filled the streets.
• A husky officer sent a Samoyed to warn the nation, then charged Du Zhong and was killed by his black chain.
• The remaining dogs rallied to kill the invaders and protect their canine world.

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong began exterminating the dog civilization on Woof Star after concluding that humans were invaders and suspecting outside interference behind the dogs’ human-like society. The dog army and millions of dogs died, while dog leaders retreated into shelters as the invasion continued.

• Hu Jiu told the transmigrators that dogs ruled Woof Star and humans were pets, then dismissed peace talks as impossible and began using ghost fire to kill the dogs.
• Hu Jiu showed Du Zhong a keyboard with human-like Arabic numerals, and they suspected that outside forces had shaped the dogs’ civilization.
• Hu Jiu’s ghost fire killed over a million dogs, and gray mist turned the army sent to attack the city into zombie dogs that destroyed one another.
• A transmigrator rescued human pets, while Hu Jiu said their rescuers would have to take responsibility for them; meanwhile, dog society learned of the invading upright apes and their deadly supernatural weapons.
• A canine scientist warned that the apes might be far more powerful than the dogs’ defenses could withstand, and influential dogs and their families fled to shelters with supplies.

Human transmigrators and the dog world fought a devastating war as the dogs’ propaganda concealed the scale of their losses. After the Divine Dog Legion was ordered to keep advancing, news of another city’s fall sparked panic, flight, and unrest among dog civilians.

• Dog livestreamers abused and butchered humans for entertainment while newly arrived transmigrators hiding in the sewers watched and resolved to find their main group.
• The dogs lured human transmigrators into an ambush near Demon Dog Forest, but Hu Jiu’s gray fog and Ghost Fire devastated the million-strong dog army as Mike fought with a blood-corroding blade.
• After more than ten hours of combat, the dog army retreated with heavy losses, and Mike ordered the wounded survivors to rest before resuming their attack.
• Dog news falsely declared victory while the transmigrators’ advance left more than thirty cities empty of canine residents; the Divine Dog Legion’s general hesitated to pursue them through contaminated water and supernatural hazards.
• The white dog general was pressured by superiors and public boasts to advance, then learned the transmigrators had breached another city, prompting residents elsewhere to flee and triggering looting, road clashes, and public anger at the government.

As the canine army suffered defeats, officials tried to arrange secret peace talks while Mike and the transmigrators continued killing under the protection of the gray fog and Ghost Fire. Hu Jiu and Du Zhong searched the canine world for the force behind it, then watched a spatial rift drop a new group of humans into the world.

• A corgi accused the Pomeranian reporter and the troops of targeting fleeing civilians, then the troops shot the corgi and forced refugees back toward the city.
• Politician dogs agreed to pursue secret peace talks with the Terrifying Upright Apes so they could gain power and eventually exploit them.
• Mike ordered the transmigrators to keep killing after dogs offered supplies and surrendered, and the gray fog and Ghost Fire destroyed the city and a million-strong dog army.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong surveyed the canine world, discussed spreading the supernatural, and decided to use the transmigrators as bait while searching for powerful beings.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong saw a spatial rift open in the sky and drop a group of humans into the world before it vanished.

A new group of cultivators arrived in the dog city, destroyed it, and attacked Mike’s transmigrator team before a dark entity overwhelmed them. Trapped in darkness, Wang Qian told the entity that he came from the Heavenly Profound Continent, where the Mother of Spiritual Qi had turned the spiritual qi into a living force that transformed cultivators into cocoons.

• The new transmigrators revealed themselves as cultivators who flew on swords and sensed that something was watching them.
• The cultivators mistook the dog city’s residents for beasts and razed the city after its army fired on them.
• The cultivators attacked Mike’s group, but their sword light vanished in the gray fog and Ghost Fire.
• A dark cloud overwhelmed the cultivators, shattered their defenses, and trapped them in darkness where their magic power stopped working.
• Wang Qian answered the unseen entity’s questions and explained that the Mother of Spiritual Qi had called cultivators her children and ordered them to return to her.
• Wang Qian said that the Mother of Spiritual Qi’s voice contaminated cultivators, dissolving weaker minds into strange cocoons.

Wang Qian told Hu Jiu how the Mother of Spiritual Qi consumed the Heavenly Profound Continent and how he and his fellow disciples escaped, then surrendered his sect’s cultivation techniques under torture. Hu Jiu stripped the techniques from their memories, sealed Wang Qian and the others as specimens, and handed their transformed black gems to Du Zhong while lying about what he had learned.

• Wang Qian recounted how his elders shattered space with their self-destruction, allowing him and the other disciples to escape the Mother of Spiritual Qi’s apocalypse.
• Hu Jiu confirmed that Wang Qian’s junior brothers and sisters had given matching accounts, then demanded the sect’s cultivation techniques.
• Hu Jiu tortured Wang Qian until he recited the techniques, then extracted them and his cultivation insights from his memories.
• Hu Jiu sealed Wang Qian and the other disciples in darkness as research specimens, compressing them into black gems.
• Hu Jiu told Du Zhong that the gems contained escaped survivors from a cultivation world and handed them over.

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong investigated the corrupted cultivators and noticed that their language and the worlds they had encountered shared striking similarities. They speculated that the worlds might be products of a common creator—or that they and everyone around them were fictional characters—and ended in fearful contemplation.

• Hu Jiu gave Du Zhong the black gems containing Wang Qian and the other cultivators, but Du Zhong detected a corrosive contamination and pulled away.
• Hu Jiu realized the Mother of Spiritual Qi might have followed them, discarded the gems in an underground shelter, and separated his memories of the cultivation techniques and the entity.
• Hu Jiu created a penthouse illusion while humans and dogs fought outside, and Du Zhong observed that the cultivators spoke standard Mandarin.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong reasoned that the worlds might have been mass-produced from a shared template by a creator, with uniform languages and life forms.
• Hu Jiu proposed that they might be fictional characters, prompting Du Zhong to fear that their actions and thoughts were scripted and that an author could undermine Hu Jiu's intelligence.
• Hu Jiu contemplated the possibility in silence as his supernatural power spread, and both men treated the unproven theory as a serious threat.

Hu Jiu destroyed the dog-ruled world and fought its self-proclaimed god before escaping through a spacetime rift. He awoke in a psychiatric hospital, where doctors insisted he was an ordinary patient and his supernatural powers were gone.

• Hu Jiu dragged the moon out of orbit and destroyed the world with the resulting catastrophe.
• A young man who called himself the Only True God confronted Hu Jiu and Du Zhong, admitting he had made dogs rule the world because he believed humans abused dogs.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong attacked the young man, and Hu Jiu annihilated him along with the collapsing world.
• Hu Jiu opened a rift in spacetime and jumped through, then woke up in a psychiatric hospital surrounded by doctors.
• Hu Jiu tried to curse the doctors but found his powers had failed, while they told him he had always been an ordinary person and called for medication.

Hu Jiu rejected an illusion of an ordinary happy life, reclaimed his power, and broke through layer after layer of fictional worlds in pursuit of the reality beyond them. Unable to cross the final boundary, he returned to a world he had visited before and attacked Du Zhong, vowing to keep exploring and creating stories.

• Hu Jiu recognized the hospital scene as an illusion, attacked the two old fogies and the doctor, and refused the doctor's offer of a peaceful ordinary life.
• Hu Jiu and the doctor debated whether their choices were authored, and Hu Jiu declared that he would pursue power and remain true to his evil nature.
• Hu Jiu regained his strength and flew through successive fictional worlds, killing people as he climbed toward the boundary of reality.
• Hu Jiu found that he could neither reach nor affect the reality beyond the wall, and resolved to keep exploring the worlds he could enter.
• Hu Jiu appeared before Du Zhong, rolled him into a sphere, and added him to his collection before continuing his journey.