Chapter Summaries

Bai Cangshu, posing as Mercenary Tao, was ambushed by the Chaos Sage team after they killed Shiro, but he provoked them and fought back. Their coordinated attacks appeared to cut him apart, while Red Dust warned the Sage that he would regret it as a powerful Conqueror’s Haki surged toward the battlefield.

• Bai Cangshu realized the Chaos Sage team had hidden themselves from his perception and identified their leader’s ability as a form of cognitive manipulation.
• Archimedes threatened Bai Cangshu with his Naginata, but Bai Cangshu ignited Radiant Flame on him and mocked him after Red Queen extinguished it.
• Left Eye attacked Bai Cangshu with a sword strike that split the car hiding Lily of the Three-Section Staff and Fubuki, while Indra disrupted Bai Cangshu’s balance.
• Left Eye, Indra, Red Queen, and Zhou Si coordinated their attacks, and Archimedes used his imagined strike to cut Bai Cangshu’s body into pieces.
• The Sage told Red Dust that Mercenary Tao was no match for his team, but Red Dust warned him that he would regret it as Conqueror’s Haki and a huge phantom swept toward them.

The Chaos Sage and his allies attacked Mercenary Tao, but his left arm resisted Archimedes's cutting magic and he transformed into a crimson monster. His Gaze of Arrogance devastated the team, leaving Zhou Si dead and Red Queen and Left Eye immobilized.

• Zhou Si prepared to trap Mercenary Tao with Bird in a Cage, but Archimedes warned that Railseiden had failed to cut Mercenary Tao's left arm.
• The team retreated and attacked as Mercenary Tao erupted from the ravine, surrounded by crimson energy and Conqueror's Haki.
• Mercenary Tao's Gaze of Arrogance struck Red Queen, Zhou Si, Left Eye, Archimedes, and Indra, causing severe injuries.
• Archimedes told Red Queen to protect Zhou Si and Left Eye, but Mercenary Tao's mental ability froze Red Queen before she could move.
• Mercenary Tao's second Gaze of Arrogance ruptured Zhou Si's blood vessels and killed him before he could activate Bird in a Cage.

Bai Cangshu, transformed into Mercenary Tao, overwhelmed the Chaos Sage reincarnators and killed Zhou Si and Indra while crippling Left Eye. He faced Red Queen and Archimedes next, absorbing their attacks as he prepared to challenge Tang Sanzang.

• Left Eye cut Bai Cangshu in half with her Iaido sword technique, but the figure vanished as the real Bai Cangshu seized her and tore off her right arm.
• Indra struck Bai Cangshu with a huge blade aura, but Bai Cangshu shattered it with one hand and left Indra too afraid to attack again.
• Bai Cangshu sensed Indra's thoughts and stomped the ground, then appeared where Indra had stood and hurled him into the floating city, killing him.
• Red Queen and Archimedes gathered behind the wounded Left Eye as Bai Cangshu approached, and Red Queen released poison from her shield.
• Bai Cangshu absorbed the Chaos Sage's poison, Internal Qi, lightning, and magic power into a protective cocoon and challenged the group to fight harder so he could absorb their power before facing Tang Sanzang.

The Sage and Tang Sanzang confronted Mercenary Tao after the Sage’s forces collapsed, and the Sage began a battle using strange abilities that imposed deadly rules and transferred damage. Mercenary Tao welcomed the challenge as lightning erupted around him.

• The Sage abandoned his plan to recruit Mercenary Tao and summoned Tang Sanzang, while Red Dust realized they had arranged an ambush.
• The Sage pulled Bai Cangshu, Red Queen, and Left Eye into the scene and recognized Bai Cangshu’s powerful sin-based abilities.
• Bai Cangshu attacked the Sage through the spreading blood mist, but the Sage survived and imposed a rule that Bai Cangshu would die if he dodged his punches.
• Bai Cangshu fought back and destroyed the Sage’s apparent body, only to discover it had become the corpse of a woman as the Sage reappeared.
• The Sage imposed another deadly rule against blocking his fists, and Bai Cangshu suspected the Sage could transfer damage while Tang Sanzang watched for clues.
• Bai Cangshu welcomed the fight as lightning gathered around the Omen of the Evil God.

Tang Sanzang and Dimple faced Midnight Watch and Li Qingzi inside the Spirit World while Bai Cangshu continued fighting the Sage. The Sage imposed a dangerous new rule on Bai Cangshu, whose Spirit attribute warned him that a special ability had affected him.

• Tang Sanzang realized Midnight Watch had trapped his mind in a Japanese-horror-inspired world, where two eerie women crawled toward him under a rule-based killing ability.
• Midnight Watch found Psychokinesis Master Sera dead and ordered Tang Sanzang sent into the Spirit World as Li Qingzi arrived and seized his body.
• Tang Sanzang unleashed the Great Luo Incantation and struck Li Qingzi, devastating the Spirit World and threatening the building Dimple inhabited.
• Dimple regained his peak strength as the Spirit World crumbled, but Tang Sanzang struck him down before Dimple surrounded him with afterimages.
• Bai Cangshu destroyed the Red Queen and confronted the Sage, who declared that Bai Cangshu would die the next time he touched him.
• Bai Cangshu sensed the Sage's new rule was unusually harsh, and his Spirit attribute reported that a special ability had affected him.

Bai Cangshu uncovered the Sage’s restrictions and suspected that he was a devil whose contracts let others die in his place. The Sage trapped Bai Cangshu in an apparent otherworld and challenged him to guess how many contracted people could take his death.

• The Sage approached Bai Cangshu, but Bai Cangshu unleashed a scarlet attack that pierced the Sage and caused widespread destruction.
• The Sage transferred the attack’s damage to Loka, killing him, then imposed another restriction on Bai Cangshu.
• Bai Cangshu attacked the Sage anyway, reasoning that the Sage’s restrictions forced exchanges and were not absolute; the Sage’s substitute deaths revealed that his ability drew on numerous bodies.
• Bai Cangshu identified the Sage as a devil from Chainsaw Man, and the Sage transported him to an ocean-like realm with his abilities suppressed.
• The Sage asked how many people who had contracted with him could die in his place, and Bai Cangshu said he would simply kill him again.

Bai Cangshu realized he was fighting Sage inside the Collective Subconscious Ocean, where Sage unleashed a Mind Storm against him. Their battle was interrupted when a vast black figure tore through the Spirit World and swallowed much of the city, vowing to kill the reincarnators.

• Sage recognized that Bai Cangshu had realized he was in a dream and considered how Mercenary Tao's tiny Mind Reef explained his ability to retain his thoughts.
• Sage stirred a Mind Storm in the Collective Subconscious Ocean, while Bai Cangshu tried to influence him and guessed he had mastered a Dreamer ability.
• Red Dust recovered from the poison and found Sage and Mercenary Tao locked in a battle of minds, with Mercenary Tao bleeding from his nose.
• A tremendous blast erupted as a black figure shattered golden spirits, destabilized the Spirit World, and swallowed more than half the city.
• The black figure tore apart the red kasaya, threatened to kill all reincarnators, and blasted Red Dust, Mercenary Tao, and Sage away with its psychic power.

A world main storyline began after ??? transformed into the Spirit World Evil Lord, and Tatsumaki confronted it with overwhelming telekinetic force. Red Dust tried to contain the surviving threats, but Satoru Gojo and a vast host of spirits emerged, revealing that Mercenary Tao’s condition was far beyond what he had imagined.

• Red Dust was nearly killed by ???’s attack until Tatsumaki unleashed her power and shattered the boundary between the real world and the Spirit World.
• Tatsumaki protected Fubuki from the blast, while Red Dust froze the Sage and Mercenary Tao and sent them toward a collapsing void.
• Lilith challenged Red Dust’s attempt to send the two into the void, but he threatened her and prepared to stop Fubuki from interfering.
• Red Dust sensed danger and escaped as Satoru Gojo emerged from the ground and taunted him.
• More than a thousand faceless spirits appeared around Satoru Gojo and Uchiha Madara, leaving Red Dust to question whether Mercenary Tao could still be considered human.

Bai Cangshu's hidden Yin spirits overwhelmed the Sage in the Collective Subconscious Ocean, forcing the Sage to withdraw as Bai Cangshu lost control of them. Back in the frozen battlefield, the Sage attacked the spirits, but the figure inside the Cocoon of Greed emerged and challenged him.

• Bai Cangshu's body cracked open to reveal countless consciousnesses, which formed a pitch-black Mind Island and struck the Sage with a Yin Ghost Dragon and a wave of resentment.
• Bai Cangshu embraced the overwhelming power within him, while the Sage realized he had chosen an opponent whose abnormal mind and abilities countered his own.
• The Sage withdrew from the Collective Subconscious Ocean as the frenzied consciousnesses turned back and began devouring Mercenary Tao.
• The Sage escaped the ice, leaving Short Hair to die inside it, while Lilith mourned and Fubuki tried to send her and Lily of the Three-Section Staff away.
• Red Dust feared the Sage could not be killed, and the Sage made the Yin spirits around Bai Cangshu explode one by one.
• The Cocoon of Greed cracked open, and the giant figure emerged, declaring that the Yin spirits he had killed repeatedly could not resist him.

Bai Cangshu removed his Satsui Seal and unleashed overwhelming power, while Fubuki risked herself to get Lilith and Lily of the Three-Section Staff to safety. He killed the Sage and struck down Red Dust, then called down lightning as the Sage returned from the dead through another Substitute Death.

• Bai Cangshu’s awakening drove the yin spirits into a panicked retreat, and his killing intent wounded Fubuki and Lilith.
• Lilith urged Fubuki to escape and accepted her death, while Fubuki used her psychic power to send Lilith and Lily of the Three-Section Staff away.
• Bai Cangshu removed his Satsui Seal: Forbidden, raising his Satsui no Hado to Lv5 and suffering intense corrosion as his power surged.
• Bai Cangshu appeared behind the Sage and smashed his head apart, then launched Red Dust thousands of meters away with a punch and a Dark Hadouken.
• Bai Cangshu summoned thunderclouds and lightning, disregarding the Sage’s return from the dead through a Substitute Death.

Sage Yu Huaxin revealed that he had been using Psychological Invisibility and attacked Bai Cangshu with his Dragon of Fantasy form. Though Bai Cangshu was mentally contaminated and gravely wounded, he awakened a powerful new realm of Conqueror’s Haki intertwined with Satsui no Hado.

• Bai Cangshu summoned lightning, but Sage’s declaration that the attack would miss left him unharmed; Sage collapsed instead.
• Yu Huaxin appeared after Bai Cangshu realized the Sage he had fought was a decoy, and explained how Psychological Invisibility had concealed him.
• Yu Huaxin struck Bai Cangshu with Dragon strength, then used Mind Stripping and Mind Breath to attack his body and spirit.
• Yu Huaxin transformed into a dragon, and the sight contaminated Bai Cangshu’s mind, but Bai Cangshu instinctively resisted the dragon’s bite.
• Bai Cangshu fired a Ki Blast through the dragon’s jaw and awakened intense Conqueror’s Haki intertwined with Satsui no Hado, reaching the realm he had long sought.

Bai Cangshu anchored Limit Break Spiral and used its ability to absorb information, understand powers, and overcome the Sage’s mental contamination. After defeating Sage Yu Huaxin in dragon form, Bai Cangshu caught him as he tried to escape into the Collective Subconscious Ocean and hurled him away.

• Bai Cangshu anchored Limit Break Spiral, which removed genetic limitations but risked driving his body into Primordial Soup through excessive information.
• Bai Cangshu absorbed information from his surroundings and resisted the Sage’s mythical-form contamination.
• Bai Cangshu struck the Sage with Rakshasa Palm and suppressed his Dragon Roar with Conqueror’s Haki.
• Bai Cangshu understood the Sage’s abilities and used Left Eye’s quick-draw technique to cut Sage Yu Huaxin in half.
• Bai Cangshu caught the fleeing Sage before he could enter the Collective Subconscious Ocean and sent him flying through the clouds.

Bai Cangshu used Mercenary Tao’s overwhelming speed and strength to repeatedly kill Sage, whose Cognitive Devil contracts kept reviving him by transferring death to others. As Bai Cangshu sought the Limiter, a powerful clash erupted in the city below, and he used Sage’s body as a shield against the rising attack.

• Lilith collapsed after pleading with Mercenary Tao to kill, while Lily of the Three-Section Staff continued toward Fubuki without noticing the contrail overhead.
• Bai Cangshu dragged Sage through the sky, tearing apart his body and preventing him from using his abilities effectively.
• Sage revealed that ordinary people influenced by Professional Heroes were his contractors, making him difficult to kill without killing them all.
• Bai Cangshu repeatedly killed Sage despite his Cognitive Devil reviving him, and said he did not regard the world’s people as fellow beings.
• Bai Cangshu sensed two powerful fist intents clashing below, positioned Sage’s body in front of himself, and took cover as the Booming Air Splitting Fist struck.

Bai Cangshu overwhelmed the Sage, whose Mind Dragon breath killed many civilians, before Charanko confronted him over the massacre. Charanko introduced himself and charged at Bai Cangshu, while the cursed Inari Ōkami's Strike appeared to have drawn Bai Cangshu into the clash.

• Bai Cangshu used Super Perception and Gaze of Arrogance to track the Sage, seize him, and crash down with him from a great height.
• The impact crushed the Sage's chest, but his Mind Dragon breath killed or incapacitated many nearby civilians.
• Charanko arrived from a nearby battle involving Bang, Bomb, and Reincarnators, and accused Bai Cangshu of being one of them.
• Bai Cangshu recognized that the cursed seal Inari Ōkami's Strike had likely influenced events and brought him to the scene.
• Charanko declared himself a practitioner of Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist and charged at Bai Cangshu.

Bai Cangshu fought Charanko and then challenged Bang, demonstrating overwhelming power and copying the Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist. The chapter ended with Bang realizing Bai Cangshu had learned the Water Stream Array after seeing it once.

• Bai Cangshu easily evaded Charanko's attacks and stomped the Sage into the ground, sending force rippling through the concrete.
• Bang arrived with a damaged Mecha head, warned Charanko to step back, and confronted Bai Cangshu about his martial arts master.
• Bai Cangshu unleashed Scarlet Conqueror's Haki, knocking out Charanko and causing people across the surrounding area to collapse.
• Bang deflected Bai Cangshu's first strike, then narrowly evaded a follow-up attack after sensing danger.
• Bai Cangshu copied Bang's Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist techniques and countered with the Water Stream Array, sending both fighters sliding backward.

Mercenary Tao fought Bang and the Sage before Skylark arrived and challenged him over whether he was an Ally of Justice. Bang stopped their confrontation to pursue the God Plan, and Mercenary Tao discovered that Skylark wielded an ability like Cosmo.

• Bang asked Mercenary Tao his name and recognized his extraordinary grasp of the Water Stream Array.
• Mercenary Tao caught the Sage and watched as Bang tore away the Sage’s mouth and vocal cords.
• Mercenary Tao dismissed the Sage’s attack as a futile death throe, lowering his reputation with Bang.
• Skylark arrived carrying a slain winged creature, accused Mercenary Tao of not being an Ally of Justice, and blocked his departure.
• Mercenary Tao and Skylark prepared to fight, but Bang stopped them and said he needed to investigate the God Plan.
• Mercenary Tao sensed that Skylark’s power repelled particles and energy around him, resembling Cosmo.

Bai Cangshu copied Sage’s perception-interfering ability and began extracting information from him while Bang and Skylark discussed Mercenary Tao. Charanko was offered power by a giant divine figure, and Inari Ōkami’s envoy appeared before Bai Cangshu with a deal.

• Bai Cangshu realized Sage had been interfering with the world’s perception of heroes and used his copied ability to make Sage’s Cognitive Devil exchange information with the Hanged Man Devil.
• Skylark told Charanko that Mercenary Tao was infamous among reincarnators for killing many of their kind, and Bang compared Tao to Garou.
• Charanko wished he had Garou’s talent, then found himself alone before a colossal figure that promised him power and filled him with white light.
• Bai Cangshu saw a white glow in the desert as Inari Ōkami’s curse mark flared, and the Fox Divine Envoy appeared to offer him a deal.
• A hidden, unique Divine Power event appeared, asking Bai Cangshu whether he would accept.

Bai Cangshu learned that Inari Ōkami was an Outer God seeking to descend upon the world, while Li Qingzi and Midnight Watch survived ???’s rampage in the Spirit World. As Tatsumaki forced ??? back inside, she set out to find and drag someone out.

• Inari Ōkami revealed a mission for Bai Cangshu to find an altar and offer a sacrifice, promising divine favor if it successfully descended.
• Bai Cangshu deduced that Inari Ōkami intended to invade the godless world and hurried toward the altar, asking Sage whether he could still use Dragon Transformation.
• Dimple perished after trying to awaken Shigeo Kageyama, and ??? erupted in rage, attacking Tang Sanzang and annihilating spirits in the Spirit World.
• Tang Sanzang escaped using a purple gourd, while Li Qingzi and Midnight Watch fled ???’s assault as Tatsumaki dragged it back into the Spirit World.
• Tatsumaki ordered ??? to stay quiet and said she would find and drag someone out, leaving Li Qingzi confused.

Saitama realized that the conveniences of his ordinary life had dulled his connection to people in danger, so he quit his supermarket job to answer their calls for help. After breaking free of a supernatural void, he learned that catastrophic disasters had spread and rushed toward the crisis as powerful beings reacted to his choice.

• While restocking shelves, Saitama recognized that his comfortable routine had taken away the need to do things he once valued and left him unaware of people's cries for help.
• Saitama asked Genos how many people had called for assistance, then quit his supermarket job and told the manager he wanted to do something else.
• The manager revealed a shifting, godlike nature and tried to persuade Saitama that the world held no meaning for him, but Saitama punched through the surrounding void and erased the false supermarket.
• Genos received Fubuki's warning that catastrophic disasters had struck J City and other areas, with many people turning into monsters and the gods possibly revived; Saitama stomped off toward the crisis.
• The Spirit World Evil Lord fled after sensing Saitama's action, a man beneath Z-City withdrew his hand from a ruin and called Saitama's choice fate, and Bai Cangshu sensed an obscure information stream and suspected a Supreme Expert had appeared.

Lilith and Fubuki faced death as Muyun and Branding Iron attacked, but Red Dust arrived to fight them. Just as Muyun’s lightning spear pierced the barrier, an unknown red fist erased the attackers and everything around them, leaving Lilith alive beside the arriving figure.

• Lilith struggled to protect the gravely wounded Fubuki as Muyun’s lightning attack repeatedly broke through her barrier.
• Branding Iron emerged as a colossal Stone Golem and tried to crush Lilith and Fubuki while Muyun waited for Tatsumaki.
• Red Dust arrived and unleashed a huge blade aura at Branding Iron, but Muyun threw a lightning spear toward Lilith and Fubuki.
• A red fist appeared and obliterated the Stone Golem, the surrounding wreckage, the clouds, and the distant spatial rift.
• Lilith gasped as a familiar figure appeared nearby.