Recaps

Huang Ji led the prisoners through the games and forged an alliance with the Lizardmen, then helped them escape the Illuminati’s hunt. He surrendered himself while Lin Li and her allies infiltrated the search forces to cover the escape.

• Huang Ji revealed that he had voted against Collective Pardon, rallied the prisoners to power the battery, and led them into the next game after the cycling stage was cleared.
• Huang Ji helped the group evolve through the food-chain contests, coordinated their defense against Heavenly Tribulation, and outlasted Kogas’s bets.
• Kogas sent the survivors into Great Serpent Valley, where Huang Ji identified the Lizardmen as the intended threat and led the group into the forest.
• Huang Ji treated Alexei and the Lizardmen for poisoning, exposed the Illuminati’s role, and helped Alexei turn against them.
• Huang Ji and the Lizardmen plotted an escape, while the Magician betrayed the group, poisoned several people, and died after Alexei caught him.
• Huang Ji faked his death, warned the Lizardmen about the coming assault, and surrendered to the Illuminati after they escaped underground.
• Lin Li planted false Dragonkin evidence near Santa Fe, then impersonated Illuminati personnel with her allies and misdirected the search forces away from the escape route.

Huang Ji manipulated the Illuminati and Dragonkin as Santa Fe was destroyed, then used the chaos to secure a promotion and take Keke from Mu Yuan. The arc ended with Brando realizing he had likely killed an innocent Osiris, while Huang Ji remained inside the Illuminati and moved Keke to safety.

• The White-Skinned Strongman searched the empty mountain hollow, then questioned Mu Yuan and used Huang Ji to uncover the Lizardmen escape and the secret of the Σ-95 sequence.
• Huang Ji controlled Weeks, reunited with Lin Li, and infiltrated Great Serpent Valley, where he transformed wealthy men into Dragonkin and baited the Illuminati into attacking them.
• The White-Skinned Strongman and his Super Sentinels left Santa Fe, and Huang Ji helped the Dragonkin assault the base before Santa Fe’s own defenses killed much of Osiris Squad.
• Osiris fought Lin Li and the arriving Dragonkin as Vahana’s group seized the Black Wand, and Huang Ji persuaded Vahana to abandon Mu Yuan and join the effort to escape Earth.
• Huang Ji gathered Santa Fe’s serum supplies, joined Messiah, and secretly turned 103 prisoners into Ascenders before Brando arrived to investigate the ruined base.
• Brando questioned Amu, Mu Yuan, Huang Ji, and Osiris, then accused Osiris of conspiring with Luo Yan and killed him after their fight.
• Brandy’s evidence convinced Brando that Luo Yan had likely turned the missing tycoons into Lizardmen, leaving Brando to realize he had probably killed an innocent Osiris.
• Huang Ji completed his Illuminati initiation and reached Level 9, then impersonated Keke, disconnected her, and took her life-support capsule while Mu Yuan prepared Huang Ji’s test.

Huang Ji used the Nature Disruptor’s appearance and the Illuminati’s search for ancient relics to uncover Earth’s history and the alien powers threatening humanity. He united the group around a plan to take over and reshape the Illuminati, while preparing to infiltrate an alien city in the Sirius Star System.

• Mu Yuan suspected Brando had taken Keke, while Brando released Luo Yan and ordered the Longevity Elixir promise kept secret.
• Huang Ji trained with Amu, arranged for Keke to pilot a living aircraft, and sent her to warn the Illuminati about Haiti’s coming earthquake.
• The Nature Disruptor appeared over Haiti, issued an earthquake warning, and led the Illuminati to evacuate Port-au-Prince before the disaster struck.
• Huang Ji helped the Illuminati locate the Winged God in the Sahara and explained the ancient history behind it and the Environment Modifier.
• The Great Light Ball gave Carmen a list of potential leakers, and Huang Ji warned that Feis might sacrifice them to appease the Anunnaki Corporation.
• Huang Ji launched into space aboard Preaching, gathered Earth’s historical information, and explained the Dragonkin, the Yellow Emperor, and Zhuanxu’s Severing the Heavens to his allies.
• Huang Ji argued that humanity should preserve and reshape the Illuminati while secretly developing its spaceflight capabilities, then revealed his plan to infiltrate a city in the Sirius Star System.
• Huang Ji proposed killing the Nature Disruptor to secure the Torch Dragon, and the group formed the Kunlun Ruins with Huang Ji as its first-generation leader.

Carmen and Luo Yan gathered support for a revolt as the factions converged on Saint Qing Island. Huang Ji discovered Feis’s army of clones, and Chairman Folo ordered them destroyed just as Feis entered the main hall.

• Huang Ji prepared Hawking for his mission among the Little Greys, then recognized that Saya had secretly tried to protect Evil Dragon while Brando detained him.
• Huang Ji and Hua Ji traced God Shao Hao to the Winged God, and Carmen used its unveiling to declare himself Eternal Sword-Keeper and challenge the Sword-Keepers.
• Huang Ji recruited Luo Yan into Carmen’s rebellion, supplied him with Longevity Elixir, and promised to keep Royia and her unborn child safe.
• Luo Yan won the Morgan and Onassis Families’ support, and he and Huang Ji arranged to move their forces toward Saint Qing Island under cover of the Pilgrimage Assembly.
• Marco killed Pick and his household, then sailed for Saint Qing Island, where he tried to expose Luo Yan and Brando before the Sword-Keepers.
• Arona rejected Marco’s accusations and declared there was no Double Pupils Faction, while Brando warned that a great battle would come the next day.
• Huang Ji and Lorna discovered nine hundred sleeping clones of Feis beneath Saint Qing Island, and the Double Pupils Master ordered No. 18 to impersonate Feis and attend the assembly.
• Luo Yan learned that Royia was under house arrest as Lorna and Huang Ji told Folo about the clones, prompting Folo to send Huang Ji and Musta to destroy them as Feis entered the main hall.