Recaps

Shen Qingzhu told Lin Qiye that the Black Killer Group had found Cao Yuan, who was being held in a Tokyo detention center. After the team confirmed the whereabouts of all its members, Lin Qiye prepared to gather them and return home.

• Shen Qingzhu revealed that he was the Black Killer Group’s Grand Leader and told Lin Qiye that his people had found Cao Yuan.
• Cao Yuan was detained in Tokyo after police questioned passengers on a Shinkansen, then released when Yurina of the Kazari Family bailed him out at Lin Qiye’s request.
• Cao Yuan confirmed Lin Qiye’s identity over the phone and said he knew where An Qingyu and Jiang Er were.
• Lin Qiye said all the members’ locations were accounted for and announced that they would gather and return home.

Lin Qiye and his companions discussed the Shang Xie Association’s plans for relocating people before destroying the Human Circle. In Paradise, An Qingyu and Jiang Er reunited with the others in contact and examined old footage that revealed Cao Yuan’s face amid a mysterious black-fire attack.

• Jialan asked whether An Qingyu and Jiang Er had been found, and Lin Qiye said Cao Yuan expected them to make contact soon.
• Shen Qingzhu questioned who the Shang Xie Association would evacuate before destroying the Human Circle, and Wei Dong said it would prioritize people deemed valuable while excluding gangsters.
• Jiang Er told An Qingyu that Cao Yuan had contacted Lin Qiye and the others in Hokkaido, bringing their team back into contact.
• An Qingyu asked Jiang Er to replay surveillance footage of a battle in Hachimantai City and told her not to show it to Cao Yuan.
• An Qingyu spotted a pupil-less face with a sinister grin in the distorted footage and recognized it as Cao Yuan’s.

An Qingyu concluded that Cao Yuan was the prison containing the Black King and warned Jiang Er to keep the theory from him. In Hokkaido, Shen Qingzhu’s group discussed the Pure Land and the Oracle Envoys before a television suddenly turned on.

• An Qingyu told Jiang Er that Black King Annihilation had controlled Cao Yuan after the divine punishment and might have destroyed Hachimantai City while escaping its damaged prison.
• An Qingyu reasoned that Cao Yuan was a prison of fate that kept the Black King from escaping completely, and he warned Jiang Er not to tell Cao Yuan because he might leave the Nightfall Squad.
• Jiang Er said she had tracked Lin Qiye’s location and could establish contact, and An Qingyu asked her to connect to a video device near him.
• Shen Qingzhu’s convoy arrived at the Black Killer Group’s clubhouse in Hokkaido, where his group gathered to exchange intelligence.
• Wei Dong explained that the Pure Land was the source of Divine Authority in the Human Circle, and the Knight said the seven Oracle Envoys were weaker than administrators in Norse and Greek territories.
• The group discussed the difficulty of breaking through the Pure Land, then the television in the private room switched on by itself.

An Qingyu contacted Lin Qiye from the Pure Land, revealing that he and Jiang Er had driven away the Oracle Envoys and that he could not leave without risking their return. In Tokyo, Yurina Takishiro spotted a high-level man and a little girl in passing before Uncle Kyosuke suffered another bout of illness.

• An Qingyu appeared on the television and told Lin Qiye that he had been searching for him with Jiang Er’s help.
• An Qingyu revealed he was in the Pure Land and had driven away the Oracle Envoys, shocking Lin Qiye, Wei Dong, and Knight.
• An Qingyu explained that the Oracle Envoys were likely near Tokyo and that he had to stay behind to keep them from reclaiming the Pure Land.
• Yurina Takishiro noticed a level 72 man and a level 58 girl in a Kazari Family car passing through Akihabara.
• Uncle Kyosuke began coughing blood, took medicine, and Yurina Takishiro warned him that his serious illness debuff was active again.

Uncle Kyosuke spent the evening caring for Yurina Takishiro, cooking for him, and playing games together. Over dinner, Yurina spoke about the father he had never met, while Uncle Kyosuke kept his identity to himself.

• Uncle Kyosuke took Yurina Takishiro to buy a newly released game and groceries, then cooked curry pork cutlet rice at their apartment.
• While Yurina played, Uncle Kyosuke reflected on how games had helped him grow close to his son.
• At dinner, Yurina asked whether Uncle Kyosuke was a father and explained that someone had told him his father was waiting for him.
• Yurina said he had never met his father and would ask him to play a game if he ever came, and Uncle Kyosuke invited him to stay up gaming after dinner.

After learning the Oracle Envoys had abandoned Takama-ga-hara and were preparing an army, Lin Qiye agreed that his squad needed to return to Great Xia and take up its role as the Walkers of the Mist. An Qingyu planned to preserve and study the Pure Land’s technology, while Yurina told Cao Yuan that he would leave for Hokkaido tomorrow night and might never return.

• An Qingyu shared intelligence about Takama-ga-hara and the Oracle Envoys’ plans, and Lin Qiye agreed that the Knight should report it to Great Xia.
• The Knight thanked Lin Qiye and promised the Shang Xie Association would help his squad in the mist.
• Wu Xiangnan explained that Special Squad 005 would become Great Xia’s Walkers of the Mist and urged Lin Qiye to return home quickly.
• The Knight said the Shang Xie Association would handle the Human Circle’s evacuation and destruction plans, so Lin Qiye agreed to leave.
• An Qingyu told Jiang Er to copy the Pure Land’s data and preserve its devices so he could study the Oracle Envoys’ technology.
• Yurina told Cao Yuan that Lin Qiye had found the way home and that Cao Yuan should leave for Hokkaido tomorrow night.

Lin Qiye discovered that Baili Pangpang might have landed in the Human Circle far earlier than anyone believed, after Amamiya Haruki revealed that Magatsu Blades had been unusable in the ruins for twelve years. The chapter ended with Lin Qiye fearing that Pangpang had been sitting on the meditation cushion for at least twelve years and might never wake up.

• Lin Qiye and Jialan worried that Baili Pangpang showed no signs of waking, and Lin Qiye said they would carry him back if necessary.
• Lin Qiye found Amamiya Haruki on the rooftop, where Haruki explained that he wanted to save the Human Circle's fifty million residents despite the city's sins.
• Amamiya Haruki proposed merging the nine Magatsu Blades into a divine artifact world that could shelter the people from Divine Authority.
• Lin Qiye offered to leave Duo E and Black Rope with Amamiya Haruki so he could pursue his plan.
• Lin Qiye realized that Amamiya Haruki's master had known Magatsu Blades could not be used in the ruins twelve years earlier, suggesting Baili Pangpang might have landed there at least twelve years ago.
• Lin Qiye wondered whether Baili Pangpang could ever wake after sitting on the meditation cushion for so long.

Shen Qingzhu addressed the Black Killer Group in Chinese, admitting he was an outsider and offering to trust them as brothers if they continued to accept him. After their members bowed back without understanding his words, he visited the Knight and asked to make a deal.

• Imori Hiroshi asked Shen Qingzhu to speak to the Hokkaido Black Killer Group members, and Shen agreed.
• Shen Qingzhu told more than three hundred members that he was an outsider named Shen Qingzhu of the Nightfall Squad and apologized for deceiving them.
• Shen Qingzhu said he would trust the members as brothers if they still chose to follow him after learning who he was.
• The Black Killer Group members bowed to Shen Qingzhu, who returned to the club with his question finally answered.
• Shen Qingzhu went to the Knight's room and asked to make a deal.

Lin Qiye learned that Shen Qingzhu had gone to Tokyo alone to kill an Oracle Envoy in exchange for a thousand Utopia spots for the Black Killer Group. After Shen Qingzhu refused help, Lin Qiye told An Qingyu what had happened and began proposing a new plan.

• The Knight told Lin Qiye that Shen Qingzhu had offered an Oracle Envoy's head in exchange for a thousand spots in Utopia.
• Lin Qiye realized Shen Qingzhu had driven toward Tokyo overnight to hunt an Oracle Envoy and called him.
• Shen Qingzhu refused to wait for Lin Qiye's help, insisted he would return for the team meeting, and threw his phone out the window.
• Lin Qiye told Jialan that Shen Qingzhu was heading into danger, then called An Qingyu and explained the situation.
• An Qingyu asked what Lin Qiye wanted to do, and Lin Qiye said he had a crazy plan.

Lin Qiye set Nightfall’s retaliation in motion and arranged for Jialan and the Black Killer Group to help Shen Qingzhu in Tokyo. As Lin Qiye headed to Hokkaido to retrieve something, Baili Pangpang began to show signs of stirring in his sleep.

• Lin Qiye told An Qingyu to launch a major retaliation against the Oracle Envoys, and An Qingyu prepared to begin the Pure Land’s curtain call.
• Lin Qiye borrowed Rain Collapse from Amamiya Haruki and asked about Koyuan Yoshiki’s temperament.
• Lin Qiye told Imori Hiroshi that Shen Qingzhu had gone to Tokyo to kill the Oracle Envoys and might die without help, prompting Imori Hiroshi to prepare a plane and mobilize the Black Killer Group.
• Lin Qiye asked Jialan to fly ahead to Tokyo while he went to a remote region of Hokkaido to retrieve something.
• White radiance flowed through Baili Pangpang as a Jade Ruyi rotated in his dantian and his eyelashes trembled.

Cao Yuan learned from Lin Qiye that their plans had changed and turned back, while Calamity of Prison predicted that Yurina Kurotetsu would soon come to them. In Tokyo, Yurina Takishiro suddenly collapsed after gaming all night, leaving Uncle Kyosuke worried that the Oracle Envoys’ experiments in the Pure Land had caused his condition.

• Cao Yuan told Yurina that they should return after receiving a call from Lin Qiye.
• Calamity of Soldiers reported that the gods had found no trace of Yurina Takishiro or Yurina Kurotetsu, and Calamity of Prison said Yurina Kurotetsu would come looking for them soon.
• Yurina Takishiro and Uncle Kyosuke celebrated clearing a game after an all-nighter.
• Yurina Takishiro collapsed with a bluish-gray face, a stiff body, and a slowing heartbeat.
• Uncle Kyosuke examined Yurina Takishiro and suspected his condition might be connected to the Pure Land experiments.

An Qingyu explained that Yurina Takishiro’s body was collapsing because it depended on two drugs, and he told Uncle Kyosuke to wait until nightfall for a chance to obtain the missing drug. Meanwhile, Lin Qiye reached Koyuan Yoshiki’s hidden residence to collect his repaired blades.

• An Qingyu told Uncle Kyosuke that years of experiments had made Yurina Takishiro dependent on two interacting drugs and that genetic treatment would take at least two days.
• An Qingyu explained that the Calamity of Sickness made the missing drug fresh for each injection, then told Uncle Kyosuke to wait until nightfall for a chance to get it without submitting to the Oracle Envoys.
• Lin Qiye used Koyuan Yoshiki’s token to find the hidden residence in Hokkaido and arrived carrying Rain Collapse, which Amamiya Haruki had lent him.
• Koyuan Yoshiki showed Lin Qiye the Black Box containing the repaired blades and their forged blade spirits.

Lin Qiye tested Zhanbai after Koyuan Yoshiki reforged it, discovering that it let him travel freely through the void. Da Bai became Zhanbai’s blade soul and Lin Qiye’s comrade-in-arms, and Lin Qiye ended by asking Koyuan Yoshiki to lend him Kamikakushi.

• Lin Qiye opened the Black Box and found that Koyuan Yoshiki had reforged Zhanbai’s scabbard to nourish both the blade and its blade soul.
• Lin Qiye drew Zhanbai and discovered that it could send him into the void, where he could pass through obstacles and travel to distant places.
• Lin Qiye summoned Da Bai, learned that the Void White Bear had become Zhanbai’s blade soul, and accepted him as a comrade-in-arms.
• Zhanbai acknowledged Lin Qiye as its true master, independent of King's Blood.
• Lin Qiye returned to Koyuan Yoshiki’s courtyard through the void and asked to borrow Kamikakushi.

Lin Qiye stole Kamikakushi from Koyuan Yoshiki and flew toward Tokyo, intending to overturn the country while using the blade to conceal his power. In Hokkaido, Baili Pangpang woke and set out to join his friends, confronting the mysterious gaze of a Spirit of the Artifact.

• Lin Qiye refused to leave without Kamikakushi, cut it from Koyuan Yoshiki, and knocked him unconscious.
• Lin Qiye suppressed Koyue Yuki with his other Magatsu Blades, took Kamikakushi, and declared that he would overturn the country.
• Lin Qiye used Kamikakushi to hide his aura and Forbidden Ruins fluctuations, then flew toward Tokyo on a cloud while wearing Monkey King's mask.
• Baili Pangpang woke in the club, read Lin Qiye's note, and decided to join his friends in Tokyo.
• Baili Pangpang confronted the mysterious gaze of a Spirit of the Artifact and used his power to try to disarm everything.

Bug Calamity searched Tokyo for Yurina Kurotetsu and Yurina Takishiro, but Shen Qingzhu attacked her with a sniper rifle and an explosives-filled car. As Bug Calamity survived the blast, the third Oracle Envoy, Calamity of Soldiers, arrived.

• Bug Calamity sent poisonous insects through Tokyo as she searched for Yurina Kurotetsu and Yurina Takishiro.
• Shen Qingzhu shot Bug Calamity in the head, but worms repaired her injury, and she dodged his next sniper round.
• Bug Calamity sent poisonous insects after Shen Qingzhu, who escaped through a window and drove away in a sports sedan.
• Shen Qingzhu leaped from the sedan after setting it to keep moving, and its twenty kilograms of explosives detonated beside Bug Calamity.
• Bug Calamity emerged from the flames with charred flesh and exposed metallic bones, revealing that she had survived the explosion.
• The third Oracle Envoy, Calamity of Soldiers, crashed into the street as Shen Qingzhu prepared to attack again.

Shen Qingzhu escaped Calamity of Soldiers with Jiang Er’s guidance and Uncle Kyosuke’s help. He waited in a park as Nightfall Squad began its final mission, and Nightfall Descent plunged Tokyo into darkness.

• Shen Qingzhu threw smoke grenades and fled as Calamity of Soldiers and another Oracle Envoy pursued him.
• Jiang Er located Shen Qingzhu through nearby electronic devices and guided him toward a contact.
• Uncle Kyosuke used Bewildering Pupil to hide Shen Qingzhu from Calamity of Soldiers and led him to a park.
• Jiang Er told Shen Qingzhu that Nightfall Squad was carrying out its final mission in the Human Circle.
• Nightfall Descent darkened Tokyo, and Jiang Er declared that Divine Authority should perish.

Lin Qiye gathered with An Qingyu and Jiang Er above Tokyo’s Pure Land, then marked the sky and prepared to broadcast in order to draw out the hidden Oracle Envoys. Across the city, Cao Yuan and Shen Qingzhu saw the signal and began making their way to him.

• Lin Qiye spread Nightfall Descent over Tokyo, and Calamity of Prison ordered the Oracle Envoys to return rather than pursue the intruders.
• Lin Qiye reunited with An Qingyu and Jiang Er on the silver disc above the Pure Land, where they revealed they had stolen the Oracle Envoys’ research and technology.
• Lin Qiye carved the Nightfall Squad’s mark into the clouds with Zhanbai and Black Rope, then told Jiang Er to begin a broadcast to lure out the Oracle Envoys.
• Cao Yuan left the stalled Kazari Family convoy, and Yurina used paper cranes to carry him toward the Pure Land after he saw Lin Qiye’s signal.
• Shen Qingzhu spotted the mark from a park, and the fat man appeared beside him and offered him a ride.

Lin Qiye and his companions publicly declared themselves the Blasphemers in a livestream broadcast across the Human Circle, challenging Divine Authority from above the Pure Land. The Oracle Envoys rushed to confront them as Amamiya Haruki realized they intended to overthrow the nation's Divine Authority.

• Uncle Kyosuke watched the fat man leave with Shen Qingzhu and sensed that the Bewildering Pupil and Little Gold feared him.
• Jiang Er's livestream turned electronic screens throughout the Human Circle to static, then showed Lin Qiye, Shen Qingzhu, and Jiang Er standing above the Pure Land.
• Lin Qiye addressed the supporters of Divine Authority and announced that they were the Blasphemers.
• Calamity of Prison recognized the broadcast as a declaration of war, and the Oracle Envoys launched from the International Financial Tower toward the Pure Land.
• Amamiya Haruki connected Lin Qiye's challenge to his promise to clear the final obstacle, while Lin Qiye called the approaching Oracle Envoys maggots.

Jialan arrived at the Pure Land in Tokyo and rejoined Lin Qiye's team, then Cao Yuan descended on Yurina's Thousand Cranes as the Oracle Envoys prepared to attack. The Envoys recognized Cao Yuan and realized that his return would make the confrontation more difficult.

• The Oracle Envoys confronted Lin Qiye and the others on the Pure Land, and Calamity of Prison threatened them.
• Jialan dropped from a helicopter, caught Calamity of Soldiers' blade radiance barehanded, and kicked him away.
• Jialan asked to rejoin Nightfall Squad, and Lin Qiye welcomed her back.
• Calamity of Prison failed to analyze Jialan's strength or identify whether she was human.
• Cao Yuan arrived atop Yurina's Thousand Cranes, and the Oracle Envoys reacted with alarm when they recognized him.

Cao Yuan, Baili Pangpang, and Shen Qingzhu returned to the Nightfall Squad beneath the Tokyo night sky, reuniting the seven members. Lin Qiye named their squad and declared war on the Pure Land as Duo E began to crack its surface.

• Cao Yuan reached the Limitless realm, approached Lin Qiye, and requested permission to return to the team.
• Baili Pangpang appeared in the Limitless realm and summoned weapons and Forbidden Relics across Tokyo before requesting to rejoin.
• Shen Qingzhu appeared and requested permission to return, completing the gathering of the seven Nightfall Squad members.
• Lin Qiye welcomed Cao Yuan, Baili Pangpang, and Shen Qingzhu back, then told Calamity of Prison that they were Nightfall.
• Lin Qiye drew Black Rope and Duo E, declared war on the Pure Land, and began cracking its surface with Duo E.

Lin Qiye used the Magatsu Blades to split the Pure Land, then Jiang Er plunged Japan into darkness and broadcast wanted posters of the seven members of their group. The posters vanished and the word “Nightfall” appeared across the screens.

• Lin Qiye used Duo E’s calamity power and Black Rope to pierce and cleave the Pure Land in two.
• Calamity of Prison and Calamity of Soldiers denounced Lin Qiye, who declared that he and his companions would embrace being called evil.
• Lin Qiye ordered Jiang Er to show the Oracle Envoys what true extreme evil was.
• Jiang Er used a magnetic field to shut down lighting across Japan and take control of electronic devices.
• Screens throughout Tokyo displayed blood-red wanted posters of the seven members, labeled “Extremely Evil.”
• The screens went dark, then displayed the word “Nightfall.”

Lin Qiye and the Nightfall Squad confronted the Oracle Envoys in Tokyo after cutting unnecessary electricity use to save the souls powering the country. The battle began with Cao Yuan and Baili Pangpang attacking while An Qingyu countered Calamity of Sickness’s plague mist.

• Wei Dong and the Knight watched the seven wanted figures on a livestream, and the Knight predicted that Great Xia would gain another top-tier squad.
• Wu Xiangnan remembered his former teammates, gripped Blue Rain’s nameplate, and vowed to find Takama-ga-hara and kill Susanoo.
• Jiang Er explained that the squad had cut Tokyo’s unnecessary power use, and Lin Qiye told Calamity of Prison that the measure would save countless souls.
• Lin Qiye ordered the Nightfall Squad to engage, and Cao Yuan clashed with Calamity of Soldiers, whose blade failed to break the Night Watchmen’s Star Saber.
• Baili Pangpang opened fire on the Oracle Envoys, but Calamity of Prison shielded the Pure Land with a wall of imprisonment.
• An Qingyu countered Calamity of Sickness’s spreading plague mist by releasing poisonous purple mist from his blood and containing the green fog.

Jialan and Shen Qingzhu fought Calamity of Sickness and Bug Calamity as the Nightfall Squad battled the Oracle Envoys. Jiang Er controlled the mindless Calamity of Fire to join the fight, while Lin Qiye confronted Calamity of Prison and attacked after defending Cao Yuan.

• Jialan charged Calamity of Sickness with Sky Palace and challenged him to kill her with his virus.
• Shen Qingzhu burned Bug Calamity's poisonous insects, then revealed Jiang Er-controlled Calamity of Fire, who threatened to burn the Pure Land.
• The Nightfall Squad and three Oracle Envoys fought to a deadlock as Calamity of Prison sought an overwhelming victory for Divine Authority.
• Lin Qiye appeared behind Calamity of Prison and clashed with his black sword using White Slash.
• Calamity of Prison called Cao Yuan a monster, and Lin Qiye defended his brother before slashing at the Oracle Envoy.

Lin Qiye used five Magatsu Blades at once to defeat Calamity of Prison and destroy the Pure Land. The combatants crashed into Tokyo, where the Nightfall Squad and the Oracle Envoys continued fighting amid the chaos.

• Calamity of Prison used Myriad Demon Prison to attack Lin Qiye, who dodged the erasing cages with Night Flicker.
• Calamity of Prison sealed the Pure Land with Spatial Demon Prison and interrupted Lin Qiye's escape.
• Lin Qiye used Duo E and Rain Collapse to break through the cages, then revealed his Three Heads Six Arms transformation.
• Lin Qiye drew five Magatsu Blades and crashed into Calamity of Prison, destroying the Pure Land and sending its occupants down toward Tokyo.
• Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan faced Calamity of Soldiers near Tokyo Tower, where the fight remained evenly matched.

Baili Pangpang summoned the Spirit of the Artifact Thunder Beast and redirected its crimson lightning at Calamity of Soldiers. Elsewhere, Jiang Er and Shen Qingzhu confronted Calamity of Bugs, while Shen Qingzhu compressed Calamity of Fire’s flames into a city-destroying fireball.

• Mad Demon Cao Yuan and Baili Pangpang attacked Calamity of Soldiers, who shattered Baili Pangpang’s Ram Horn forbidden item.
• Baili Pangpang used his power to drag Thunder Beast out of the clouds by its tail.
• Thunder Beast fired crimson lightning, and Baili Pangpang redirected its blast into Calamity of Soldiers.
• Jiang Er controlled Calamity of Fire’s body while Shen Qingzhu fought Calamity of Bugs.
• Shen Qingzhu compressed the surrounding flames into a massive fireball powerful enough to destroy Tokyo.