Chapter Summaries

Bai Cangshu learned that Lost Requiem was Li Qingzi’s Heartlight and then activated the Villain Savior deathmatch task. Deployed in an abandoned city, he killed one opponent and raced toward the next as the other Reincarnators recognized him as Mercenary Tao.

• Bai Cangshu learned from Knight Sister that Lost Requiem was Li Qingzi’s Heartlight and that Heartlight was a power of the Fourth Tier of God's Staircase.
• Bai Cangshu spent a B-rank Anomaly Point and 10,000 Dimensional Points to activate the Villain Savior title task.
• The Space generated Deathmatch World A993 and deployed Bai Cangshu into an abandoned city with seven opponents.
• Bai Cangshu sensed the other Reincarnators, killed the nearest one, and collected a Scarlet Drop Card.
• Bai Cangshu flew toward another target while the remaining opponents realized that Mercenary Tao was in the city.

Xing Liu and Yelu joined the Deathmatch Task to kill Mercenary Tao, but Bai Cangshu overwhelmed them with his strength and terrifying presence. Yelu vanished in the blast of a fuel-air bomb, and a hidden woman ordered her to locate Mercenary Tao.

• Xing Liu accepted the Deathmatch Task and hurried toward the blood scent, hoping to join the other Reincarnators against Mercenary Tao.
• Xing Liu found Mercenary Tao standing over the defeated Fiend · Jiang Ming and attacked him in Earth Bear form with gravity and earth spikes.
• Bai Cangshu blocked Xing Liu’s crushing paw with one hand and lifted it away, leaving Xing Liu terrified.
• Bai Cangshu exposed Yelu’s invisibility and made her panic before she fired a Dodon Ray at him.
• Yelu vanished as a red-glowing black box was pierced by the Dodon Ray and exploded, while a hidden woman slapped Yelu and demanded she sense Mercenary Tao’s location.

Ling Xin and the other Reincarnators tried to coordinate against Mercenary Tao, but he overwhelmed their attacks and killed Xing Liu. The remaining Reincarnators gathered together while Bai Cangshu searched for them.

• Ling Xin used the Op-Op Fruit to evade Mercenary Tao, but Bai Cangshu struck her with a close-range World-Shaking Thunder Roar and left her badly injured.
• A Reincarnator with teleportation magic rescued Ling Xin, who asked them to find Yelu and said she needed the woman's eyes and ears.
• Xing Liu used Racial Magic: Earthquake to shake the city and flush out hidden enemies, then confronted Bai Cangshu as he walked through the destruction unharmed.
• Bai Cangshu blasted a collapsing skyscraper away with an air strike, and Xing Liu transformed into an eagle to search for him.
• Bai Cangshu appeared from the wind and killed Xing Liu with a hand-blade strike, while the surviving Reincarnators gathered in the shadows.

Ling Xin’s remaining Reincarnators tried to prepare for Mercenary Tao, but Bai Cangshu tracked them and evaded Akira’s Gauss Sniper Rifle shots. Akira’s Geass forced him to survive as Bai Cangshu launched a punch at his escaping Mecha.

• Black Box warned Ling Xin’s group that Mercenary Tao was approaching, and Ling Xin ordered Akira to restrain him while she supported him.
• Akira’s survival ability activated as a Knightmare crashed through the rooftop, revealing that Mercenary Tao had reappeared nearby.
• Ling Xin used ROOM to teleport the group several kilometers away, but Bai Cangshu revealed that he had already marked them.
• Akira fired repeatedly at Bai Cangshu with a modified Gauss Sniper Rifle, but Bai Cangshu dodged each shot by moving in advance.
• Akira’s Geass forced him to escape in his Mecha, and Bai Cangshu struck it with a Blazing White Cloud Dragon punch.

Bai Cangshu overwhelmed the Reincarnators with his speed and activated Cleaner Authority against Ling Xin. Akira’s explosion engulfed the city, but Bai Cangshu escaped with Ling Xin and received confirmation that a Reincarnator had been designated for purge.

• Ling Xin teleported Akira away from Mercenary Tao’s punch, placing One-Shot Soul in his path, but Bai Cangshu resisted One-Shot Soul’s Stand attacks and learned that they could disrupt his movements.
• One-Shot Soul recognized Mercenary Tao’s retaliatory ability and asked Ling Xin to teleport him back, while Ling Xin switched the destroyed Mecha for a weaker black one.
• Bai Cangshu lost interest, appeared behind Ling Xin, and used Cleaner Authority to designate her as a purge target before tearing off her arm.
• One-Shot Soul attacked Bai Cangshu again, but Bai Cangshu killed him with a Dodon Ray, while Akira’s Geass stopped him from rushing into the fight.
• Akira triggered a massive explosion that engulfed Ling Xin, but Bai Cangshu carried her into the sky and survived the blast.
• Bai Cangshu descended with Ling Xin, and the system confirmed that Reincarnator HC73013378 had been designated as a purge target.

Mercenary Tao defeated Ling Xin, while An Junxuan revealed himself and killed Black Box. Bai Cangshu confronted An Junxuan, whose power had rapidly surged to match his own.

• Mercenary Tao pinned Ling Xin down, severed both her arms, and left her unable to resist.
• Black Box panicked after One-Shot Soul and other Reincarnators fell, while An Junxuan revealed his identity and thanked him for gathering data.
• Black Box fled through a barrier and unleashed curses, but An Junxuan caught up and slit his throat.
• An Junxuan resented Mercenary Tao for rejecting an invitation to the Emerald Cluster and objected to his killing the Reincarnators.
• Bai Cangshu confronted An Junxuan through a wall, and their matching blows sent him sliding backward.

An Junxuan used Copy Magic to imitate Bai Cangshu’s abilities and tried to kill him with a copied instant-death power. Bai Cangshu staggered after the attack landed, and the instant-death judgment began.

• An Junxuan attacked Bai Cangshu with copied wind movement and physical techniques, but Bai Cangshu endured his strikes.
• An Junxuan activated Instant and unleashed a rapid barrage, while Bai Cangshu’s defenses extinguished his Radiant Flame.
• An Junxuan used wind to raise a sand-and-stone tornado and hurled it at Bai Cangshu, who activated Omen of the Evil God and Instant: Eighth Stage.
• Bai Cangshu smashed through the tornado, grabbed An Junxuan, and hurled him through several buildings before attacking him from a distance.
• An Junxuan copied an instant-death ability and punched Bai Cangshu in the chest, but the impact also severely injured An Junxuan.
• Bai Cangshu staggered as the instant-death curse entered his body, and the system began its judgment.

Bai Cangshu defeated An Junxuan, a magic-side Reincarnator who had copied many of his abilities, then killed the remaining Reincarnators in the city. He completed the Deathmatch Task and obtained the title Villain Savior.

• An Junxuan thought he had killed Bai Cangshu with a copied instant-death attack, but Bai Cangshu revealed he had only pretended to fall.
• Bai Cangshu identified the limits of An Junxuan’s mana-based Copy Magic and overwhelmed him with a massive tornado and World-Shaking Thunder Roar.
• Bai Cangshu seized An Junxuan and dragged him through buildings, then carried him as he killed the burned woman, Yelu, and Akira.
• An Junxuan recognized Bai Cangshu as a Scarlet Great Sin Reincarnator, and Bai Cangshu revealed he was also a Virtue Reincarnator before killing him with Shun Goku Satsu.
• Bai Cangshu completed the Deathmatch Task and obtained the special title Villain Savior.

After completing the Deathmatch Task, Bai Cangshu received the Villain Savior title and negotiated with Song Xian over Gantz technology and a special request. Meanwhile, Mo Qingzhu learned that his captain Kurushi considered Mercenary Tao far beyond his own level.

• Bai Cangshu obtained the Villain Savior title, whose abilities weakened attacks from order-aligned factions and could strengthen him as world order collapsed.
• A man ranked 098 from the Throne of Illusion and Reality confronted Bai Cangshu over An Junxuan’s death, but left after Bai Cangshu offered to sell An Junxuan’s Scarlet Drop Card.
• Bai Cangshu met Song Xian at his stall, displayed Gantz equipment and the Special Creation Gantz, and agreed to discuss a major deal.
• Bai Cangshu sent Song Xian a special request, and Song Xian said he would need approval from someone with authority.
• Mo Qingzhu asked Captain Kurushi whether the Emerald War Group would keep recruiting Mercenary Tao, and Kurushi overwhelmed him with her Spiritual Pressure to show the gap between them.

Bai Cangshu struck a deal with Song Xian and Tianjie to supply high-tech equipment in exchange for resources or points, then opened a Cleaner Scarlet Drop Card and obtained the Op-Op Fruit and Extreme of Zero and One Hundred. As he prepared to leave his stall, Jia Qi offered him a Ten Phoenix Nirvana Art scroll, which appeared to imitate an ancient precious art.

• Song Xian and Tianjie agreed to consider Mercenary Tao’s demand for East Xia to stop intervening in Northern Myanmar and asked what resources he wanted in exchange for equipment.
• Bai Cangshu agreed to accept materials, Bodhi Leaves, Dimensional Points, or Singularity Points, giving himself a steady source of resources.
• Bai Cangshu opened a Cleaner Scarlet Drop Card and chose Spirit +6, the Op-Op Fruit, and Extreme of Zero and One Hundred Lv3.
• Bai Cangshu displayed the Op-Op Fruit at his stall, drawing a crowd of reincarnators who recognized its value.
• Jia Qi stopped Bai Cangshu from leaving and showed him a Ten Phoenix Nirvana Art scroll that required high-level immortality or True Phoenix blood.

Jia Qi explained that the Ten Phoenix Nirvana Art was an imitation of a True Phoenix ability from the Native World Primal Era: Desolate Ancient Great World, and argued that Bai Cangshu could use it to strengthen his immortality. As Bai Cangshu considered the trade, Sokchakht offered him an alligator dragon skeleton and revealed that someone had been spreading information about his plans.

• Jia Qi explained the Ten Phoenix Nirvana Art’s origins, limitations, and potential value to Bai Cangshu.
• Bai Cangshu reflected on the Native Worlds, reincarnators’ rapid growth, and the widening divide between the strongest and weakest.
• Jia Qi told Bai Cangshu that the art could complement his immortality if he found a way to enhance it.
• Sokchakht joined the negotiations and offered an extremely rare Alligator Dragon Skeleton in exchange for Bai Cangshu’s Op-Op Fruit.
• Bai Cangshu questioned how Sokchakht knew about his plan to enhance his Dragon Bloodline and suspected someone was spreading information about him.

Bai Cangshu traded away the modified Bloodline of Bai Shen Prometheus and used Gantz to replicate his former self, testing the copy before killing it. He arranged for Black Butler to spread rumors of his anger and prepared Li Qingzi for a new deployment as he looked forward to confronting his hidden enemies.

• Bai Cangshu traded his unidentified belt and modified Bloodline of Bai Shen Prometheus to JG20873354 for the Ten Phoenix Nirvana Art and left Jia Qi's gathering.
• Bai Cangshu told Black Butler to spread information suggesting he was furious, then used Gantz to replicate his own basic information.
• Bai Cangshu fought the replica, observed its different use of talent, and destroyed it with a single punch.
• Li Qingzi arrived, received the Extreme of Zero and One Hundred ability scroll, and began her final training for a new deployment.
• Bai Cangshu reflected on the differences between himself and his replica, then welcomed the prospect of facing the people hiding in the shadows.

White Face hired Jin Ruohai to spread rumors that would make Mercenary Tao paranoid, but Mercenary Tao contacted Jin Ruohai and persuaded him to betray her by revealing clues about her next mission world. After East Xia accepted his terms and made his Paradise a lawless zone, Bai Cangshu prepared to unleash Curse Meme: Desire and increase the world's disorder.

• White Face paid Jin Ruohai to spread more rumors about Mercenary Tao and implicate Great Demon, Fifth Element, and Heaven's Will.
• After leaving White Face's Private Space, Jin Ruohai received a contact request from Mercenary Tao and agreed to meet him despite his fear.
• Bai Cangshu offered Jin Ruohai a cut of White Face's Scarlet Drop Card if he uncovered her next mission world, and Jin Ruohai said she was gathering Holy Relics for a likely magic or sorcery world.
• Bai Cangshu left without paying Jin Ruohai and returned to his Private Space, where Song Xian told him East Xia had accepted his terms and his Paradise would become a lawless zone.
• Bai Cangshu returned to his manor with Curse Meme: Desire and planned to unleash another wave of chaos.

Bai Cangshu prepared to turn Paradise into a city for Ability Users and criminals, intending to release the Curse Meme: Desire once enough ambitious people gathered there. As Li Qingzi strengthened The Agency and investigated the Kill Bai Alliance, Bai Cangshu considered a possible path to rapid advancement through the Root in the Type-Moon World.

• Bai Cangshu watched reports of Ability Users and violent incidents around the world as the Collapse Value rose.
• Jin Yue'an reported that several Information Brokers were spreading rumors about Bai Cangshu and warned him that the Kill Bai Alliance might have a Ghost Rider enhancement.
• Bai Cangshu took the unsealed Curse Meme: Desire and arranged to return to Paradise to release it.
• Li Qingzi told Bai Cangshu that Great Demon had contacted her about joining the Kill Bai Alliance, and Bai Cangshu told her to infiltrate the group.
• Bai Cangshu ordered Lin Qinfu to prepare Paradise as the world's first city for Ability Users, while planning to attract people with vicious and greedy desires before releasing the meme.
• Bai Cangshu considered the Type-Moon World and the Root as a possible route for Reincarnators to advance rapidly.

Bai Cangshu forced Saw Win to support the creation of an Ability User city on the Myanmar–East Xia border, then prepared to pursue White Face into the dangerous Type-Moon World. White Face revealed that she had deliberately allowed herself to be tracked and wondered whether Mercenary Tao would dare follow.

• Bai Cangshu confronted Saw Win, survived his guards’ gunfire, and demanded that Myanmar publicly promise not to obstruct the planned Paradise City in three days.
• Bancha attacked Bai Cangshu, who killed him and burned the remaining personal guards; Saw Win surrendered and agreed to cooperate.
• Bai Cangshu warned Saw Win that he would replace the commander-in-chief if he opposed the plan, then flew back to the Paradise.
• Mai met Bai Cangshu there, while Jin Yue'an delivered Directional Anchor Record Pointers and warned him about the dangers of entering the Type-Moon World abnormally.
• Bai Cangshu said White Face had likely allowed herself to be tracked because she expected him to pursue her.
• White Face mocked Jin Ruohai and the others, then admitted she had deliberately exposed a flaw to challenge Mercenary Tao to come after her.

Bai Cangshu received the Unsealed Hollow Core from Kidō Master through Kurushi and considered how to use it while browsing trade offers. White Face entered a mission world, found an illusory trail, and took over another person’s life before putting on black priest’s robes.

• Bai Cangshu returned to the Slum Area, where rumors about the Kill Bai Alliance had made Mercenary Tao the focus of other reincarnators.
• Kurushi offered Bai Cangshu an Emerald War Group invitation and tried to withhold Kidō Master's modified Void Core unless he joined.
• Bai Cangshu received the Unsealed Hollow Core and a Special Invitation Letter, then searched the stall listings and noticed Aghanim's Scepter offered for his Op-Op Fruit.
• White Face entered a dark city in the mission world, found an illusory trail, and lived through another person's life.
• White Face took out a set of black priest's robes and draped them over herself.

Bai Cangshu arrived in a Fate derivative world as an Assassin-class Servant and was forced by his Master, Ma Yuanzhang, to accept a killing order. Meanwhile, White Face failed to summon Bai Cangshu, but began summoning another Servant while Gilgamesh noticed that her appearance had changed.

• Bai Cangshu was summoned into a ritual circle surrounded by the corpses of a murdered family and received the mission to survive as an Assassin-class Servant.
• The summoning circle granted Bai Cangshu the Assassin class, its abilities, and a mission to bloom as a Flower of Evil.
• Ma Yuanzhang used a Command Spell to order Bai Cangshu to kill a teacher, and Bai Cangshu agreed while resolving to kill Ma Yuanzhang.
• White Face failed to summon Bai Cangshu with a rune stone and concluded that he had likely been assigned to another Master.
• Gilgamesh noticed White Face's altered appearance, and she began another summoning with a new Holy Relic.

Bai Cangshu, summoned as Ma Yuanzhang’s Assassin, learned that his Master knew little about the Holy Grail War and was ordered to kill a woman. Just as Bai Cangshu prepared to attack her home, an enemy ambushed Ma Yuanzhang and demanded that he command Bai Cangshu to kill himself.

• Bai Cangshu questioned Ma Yuanzhang about his wish and realized that Ma Yuanzhang lacked ordinary understanding and had no knowledge of magecraft.
• Bai Cangshu reflected that the Fuyuki Holy Grail War was a ritual to sacrifice Servants and estimated that the year was 2004, around the Fifth Holy Grail War.
• Bai Cangshu heard a distant battle and suspected that Berserker Heracles was fighting.
• Ma Yuanzhang pointed out a house and ordered Bai Cangshu to kill the woman who lived there.
• An enemy appeared behind Ma Yuanzhang, wounded him with a spear, and demanded that he use a Command Spell to order Bai Cangshu to kill himself.

Jaken tried to force Ma Yuanzhang to command Mercenary Tao to kill himself, but Bai Cangshu defeated Jaken’s Guardian Spirit Lu Bu while Gilgamesh suddenly attacked. Ma Yuanzhang died, leaving the Holy Grail War without its first Master.

• Jaken threatened Ma Yuanzhang and ordered him to use his Command Spell against Mercenary Tao, but Ma Yuanzhang commanded Mercenary Tao to kill Jaken instead.
• Bai Cangshu struck Jaken aside, and Jaken summoned his Guardian Spirit Lu Bu to fight him.
• Saber, Shirou Emiya, and Taiga Fujimura emerged as Bai Cangshu and Lu Bu clashed, while Gilgamesh appeared and shot Ma Yuanzhang through the chest.
• Bai Cangshu knocked aside two of Gilgamesh’s swords as the third killed Ma Yuanzhang, and Mercenary Tao continued fighting Lu Bu.
• Gilgamesh threatened Jaken after Jaken urged him to kill Mercenary Tao, while Ma Yuanzhang died as Taiga Fujimura rushed to his side.

After Ma Yuanzhang’s death threatened to leave him vulnerable to the world’s purge, Bai Cangshu stole Lu Bu’s Guardian Spirit and escaped the battle in Fuyuki City. He encountered Ryougi Shiki, whose Mystic Eyes of Death Perception made his instincts warn him of imminent death.

• Bai Cangshu realized that losing Master Ma Yuanzhang could leave him unregistered and exposed to the Restraining Force.
• Bai Cangshu fought Lu Bu at close range, overcame his resistance, and captured him with Yin Spirit Possession.
• Bai Cangshu evaded Gilgamesh’s attacks and fled, while Jaken’s spear injured Jaken’s shoulder as it returned.
• Jaken withdrew, and Gilgamesh turned his attention to Artoria and Shirou Emiya rather than pursuing Bai Cangshu.
• Bai Cangshu encountered Ryougi Shiki and felt her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception focus on him, triggering his instincts’ warning of death.