Recaps

The Illuminati pursued Messiah’s cargo ship through the English Channel while Huang Ji used a deception to summon a French patrol ship. Huang Ji prepared to move his group underwater and leave the Evil Dragon aboard as a decoy as the chase continued.

• Laffey urged Thomas to attack the cargo ship, but Thomas held fire in the busy Dover Strait and sent seven vessels to pursue it.
• Huang Ji tricked a French intelligence chief into believing he was a threatened agent, prompting the French Navy to send a patrol ship from Calais.
• Huang Ji explained that he wanted the Illuminati to treat the French patrol ship as an ally before his group boarded it.
• Huang Ji ordered the Evil Dragon to remain visible on deck while the others prepared to dive, and the Evil Dragon pushed all six containers overboard.
• Thomas ordered two patrol vessels to inspect the floating containers while the rest of his force continued after the cargo ship.

Huang Ji led Messiah’s people from the sunken containers aboard a French patrol ship, then drove its crew to abandon ship and took control of it. He planned to disguise the patrol ship as an ally of the Illuminati and use it to rejoin the pursuit of Evil Dragon.

• Huang Ji injected his companions to help them endure underwater, then evaded the bald Illuminati diver by using bioelectricity to confuse him into thinking he had inspected every container.
• A French patrol ship blocked the Illuminati vessels, allowing Huang Ji and his companions to surface unseen and climb aboard from the far side.
• Huang Ji ordered Saiwen to start a fire, Alan to set off the armory, and himself to disable the engine, prompting the French crew to abandon ship.
• Huang Ji repaired the engine while his companions extinguished the small fire, and Messiah’s people took control of the patrol ship.
• Huang Ji refused to go rescue Evil Dragon and instead planned to turn back, pretend to return to port, and join the Illuminati pursuit as an ally.

Thomas learned that General Hank had taken ten million dollars while only pretending to deploy a patrol ship and two gunboats, so the Illuminati moved to bypass Hank and bribe Captain Pierre directly. As the ships pursued the Messiah cargo vessel, the supposedly abandoned Glorious Patrol Ship unexpectedly sailed unmanned toward the British blockade, drawing the rescue fleet into the chase.

• Thomas learned Hank had claimed the Glorious Patrol Ship was deployed while ordering it back, and decided Hank had become useless.
• The bald man contacted Captain Pierre and offered him a withdrawal code for five hundred thousand dollars if he resumed patrolling and pursued terrorists.
• Pierre agreed, and the Glorious Patrol Ship turned around to follow the Messiah cargo ship.
• Huang Ji directed Saiwen to position the patrol boat beside the Illuminati vessel as sailors in lifeboats spotted the Glorious Patrol Ship heading west.
• Pierre's crew concluded that the ship's fire and engine trouble had ended, leaving it sailing unmanned toward the British blockade.
• A repair vessel, tugboat, transport boat, and two gunboats pursued the unmanned Glorious Patrol Ship to prevent it from causing trouble.

Evil Dragon and the Messiah members escaped the British encirclement aboard the Glory, leaving Thomas's mission in ruins. Saya killed Thomas for making excuses, while Laffey watched from his wheelchair.

• Thomas's forces torpedoed Evil Dragon's cargo ship, and an unknown sniper shot Evil Dragon as the ship began to sink.
• The unmanned Glory rammed the cargo ship and sped away, while Messiah's members escaped aboard it and radar interference prevented the British from targeting it.
• Thomas realized the Glory was carrying the enemy, but his pursuit failed and he returned to face Saya.
• Laffey taunted Thomas and denied sabotaging the mission, while Thomas accused him of influencing the sniper.
• Saya killed Thomas after he continued making excuses, and Laffey reflected that he had understood Saya's temper better than Thomas had.

As the Glory sailed safely across calm seas, Huang Ji taught the crew the Inner Canon while Evil Dragon explained why he had abandoned the Illuminati. He revealed that the organization’s highest ambition was to become immortal servants of aliens, leaving Messiah to consider what it meant to resist an unjust order.

• Huang Ji guided the damaged Glory around storms for ten days and taught the crew the Inner Canon, which Alan and Lin Li learned especially quickly.
• Alan asked Evil Dragon why he had joined Messiah, and Evil Dragon described how the Illuminati treated even elite soldiers as expendable toys for Dis.
• Evil Dragon explained that no one had risen from Level 1 to Level 33, and that the Illuminati’s top members sought immortality by obeying Six and becoming nonhuman servants.
• Evil Dragon said he had defected after realizing that reaching Level 33 would only turn him into a dog, and Huang Ji described the Illuminati as a powerful coward that bullied the weak while submitting to stronger beings.
• Evil Dragon said Saya accepted alien rule as humanity’s best option, but insisted that there was nothing just about it.

As the Glory headed toward North America, Huang Ji explained the Buddha Bone Finger’s alien origins and demonstrated its ability to control nearby electronics. He proposed using it to deceive the Illuminati into searching Africa while Messiah went to New York, then asked Evil Dragon for intelligence on the city’s forces.

• Nuoqila reflected on his betrayal of Messiah and misread Huang Ji’s efforts to motivate the group as a scheme to manipulate them.
• Evil Dragon argued that Messiah should head to New York, and Huang Ji rejected switching ships, proposing they abandon the Glory and mislead the Illuminati instead.
• Huang Ji revealed the Buddha Bone Finger, explained his theory about alien visitors and Shakyamuni’s relics, and claimed the Illuminati possessed the other fragments.
• Huang Ji used the Buddha Bone Finger to activate the ship’s cannon, ring Chu Shaojun’s phone, and switch on Chuan Zhi’s electric razor, showing that it could control electronic devices within ten meters.
• Huang Ji proposed staging evidence of their presence in Africa using forged footage and a Morgan Bank withdrawal to divert the Illuminati from their real destination.
• Huang Ji told the group that only someone who knew the alien language could operate the Buddha Bone Finger, then asked Evil Dragon to explain the Illuminati’s New York forces.

Messiah arrived in New York and sought shelter with Adams, but learned that Illuminati Sentinel trainees were hunting him. Huang Ji posed as the new instructor York’s replacement and took command of the trainees, leaving the group poised to return to Base X13.

• Messiah members landed in New York and regrouped at Adams Dental Clinic, where Adams reluctantly gave Evil Dragon keys to an apartment.
• Huang Ji deduced that Adams was in immediate danger, and Adams revealed that eighty-two Sentinel trainees from Base X13 were pursuing him.
• Huang Ji ordered Messiah to disperse and disguise himself while he stayed behind to handle the trainees.
• When six trainees arrived, Huang Ji pretended to be Dragon, claimed he was replacing Instructor York, and ordered them to take Adams back to base.
• Huang Ji commanded the trainees to return to Base X13 with him.

Huang Ji used his supposed authority as the new Instructor to send Suomi and the other Sentinel trainees back to Base X13, then discussed infiltrating the academy with his allies. After learning that the base might hold the Illuminati’s Nano Industrial Trio, he ordered Evil Dragon to capture the real Instructor so Huang Ji could impersonate him and make him take the blame.

• Huang Ji’s shout made the six Sentinel trainees stand at attention, but they questioned his order to take Adams back to base, so Huang Ji left Adams with them and announced a test at B3 Training Ground.
• Suomi and the others restrained Adams with Password Handcuffs and escorted him to Base X13, where Suomi worried that his chest pain meant he had entered the dangerous Collapse Period.
• Suomi and the other trainees returned to the Military Zone without finding Huang Ji, and Suomi said he needed to ask the missing Instructor what had happened to him.
• Huang Ji rejoined Evil Dragon, Sophia, and their allies, and Evil Dragon explained that Base X13 might contain a High-Energy Electric Arc Refining Furnace, a Molecular Material Synthesizer, and a 3D Printer.
• Huang Ji rejected infiltrating the base through robbery and ordered Evil Dragon’s people to capture the real Instructor before he entered the school, intending to make him take the blame.

Huang Ji bypassed Morning Light Academy’s security systems and led Suomi and the others into the Military Supply Depot to collect materials and a 3D Printer for the assessment. He discovered an alien energy gun in a sealed vault but left it behind for now, planning to secure the other parts of the Nano Industrial Trio first.

• Huang Ji entered the academy using a playing card as an access card and evaded the security department’s cameras and systems.
• Huang Ji led Suomi and the others through the Military Zone’s security gates, which he secretly controlled, and ignored their warnings about restricted areas.
• Huang Ji brought the group into the Military Supply Depot and persuaded the head of security, Cage, to let them move supplies for the assessment.
• Huang Ji ordered Suomi and the others to carry three crates of materials and a portable 3D Printer.
• Huang Ji opened the 33 Heavens Lock and found a Zeta Grey energy gun, but decided to leave it in the vault until he obtained the Electric Arc Refining Furnace and Molecular Material Synthesizer.
• Huang Ji closed the vault and told the group it was time for the exam.

You Huang met Coyote and made him worry about Grania by implying her mission might have gone wrong, then headed to B3 Training Ground. There, Seth and the other trainees prepared an elaborate series of traps to test the new Instructor as You Huang entered.

• You Huang told Coyote that Grania had been his teammate in New Mexico and would finish her classified mission within two days, leaving Coyote concerned.
• You Huang snapped Coyote's hand away with one finger, causing Coyote's arm to go limp briefly, then left for B3 Training Ground.
• Suomi announced that the new Instructor would hold a test at 16:40, prompting Seth and other unruly trainees to plan to mess with him.
• Seth and the trainees set up a crossbow loaded with a Muscle Relaxant syringe, poisonous powder, Super Slip Liquid, Blood-Sucking Spores, and invisible mines.
• You Huang entered B3 Training Ground in a trench coat as Seth greeted him and claimed the trainees were ready for the test.

Huang Ji endured the trainees’ traps and punished Seth after Seth injured teammates, while revealing his ability to shut off painful sensations. The chapter left Seth attacking Huang Ji, only to be sent flying by a palm strike.

• Huang Ji crossed the poisoned, slippery entrance without reacting to the traps and kicked Seth when Seth tried to explain the prank.
• Seth’s spinning kick shattered a teammate’s bottle of Blood-Sucking Spores, forcing the trainees to burn the spores off his arm.
• Huang Ji ordered Suomi to give Seth one hundred strikes for hurting a teammate, and Seth endured the punishment without speaking.
• Seth touched Huang Ji’s poisoned arm, then screamed and snapped his own fingers when the Severe-Itch Poison Powder overwhelmed him; Huang Ji explained that he could block the sensation.
• Seth shoved Hawk off the platform, triggering a Carpet Bomb that badly injured Hawk, so Huang Ji ordered another hundred strikes for Seth.
• Seth attacked Huang Ji, mistakenly reacted to a kick that never came, and was knocked off the platform by Huang Ji’s palm strike.

Huang Ji faced Seth in combat and used feints and deceptive sensations to make the strongest trainee waste his strength and evade attacks that were not there. The chapter ended with Seth dodging wildly with his eyes closed while Huang Ji stood still.

• Seth tried to shoot Huang Ji with Hawk's damaged crossbow, but the bolt struck and paralyzed another trainee, earning Seth another hundred strokes.
• Seth entered a combat state and attacked Huang Ji, who dodged his strikes and baited him into exhausting himself.
• Seth learned to change his movements mid-attack, but Huang Ji feinted and made Seth injure his own back for nothing.
• Huang Ji used electrical signals to create false sensations for Seth after Seth closed his eyes.
• Seth performed a series of impressive evasions against imagined attacks while Huang Ji remained motionless.

Huang Ji exposed Seth’s imagined combat instincts, but Hawk suddenly suffered a deadly Gene Collapse during the commotion. Huang Ji used Bioelectricity to guide Hawk’s body toward survival, and Hawk’s symptoms stopped worsening as the trainees waited to learn whether he would live.

• Seth hallucinated an opponent and was knocked down when Hawk told him he had been fighting empty air.
• Hawk suddenly began combusting as his genes entered the Collapse Period, and Huang Ji warned the trainees not to give him medicine.
• Seth slipped across the Super Slip Liquid while trying to reach Hawk, whose internal bleeding, muscle dissolution, and spontaneous combustion worsened.
• Huang Ji cut away Hawk’s dissolving muscles and used Bioelectricity to guide his body’s response to the serum.
• Hawk’s symptoms stopped worsening, and Seth pleaded for Huang Ji to save him.

Coyote left the training hall to ask Musa about Grania, who had been unreachable on a classified mission for four months. Musa refused to help and dismissed Coyote’s feelings, leaving Coyote hurt and resentful as Musa returned to his pursuit of longevity.

• Coyote stopped sparring with Kelly and went to find Musa after suspecting that someone was hiding something from him.
• Musa oversaw a test of Heinrich’s expensive Nano Armor, then refused to fund further research and let Heinrich keep the prototype.
• Coyote asked Musa to contact Grania, but Musa said she could not communicate while on her classified mission.
• Coyote demanded to know whether Grania was alive and admitted he would protect her with his life; Musa mocked the possibility of love between a cat and a dog.
• Musa urged Coyote to focus on becoming stronger and walked away, while Coyote took offense at Musa’s dismissal of their love.

Huang Ji saved Hawk from the Collapse Period, then told the trainees the Illuminati could have saved them all but had let them die as part of its genetic experiments. He left the trainees shaken by the truth and declared that his supposedly flawed thinking made him reject the organization’s treatment of them.

• Huang Ji used Electrical Power to stabilize Hawk and guide him through the Collapse Period in twenty minutes, then explained the limits of his abilities and his need for medicine.
• Hawk realized he had become a Burning Devotion Sentinel, and Huang Ji introduced himself as Dragon, a level 29 Instructor who had come to replace York.
• Huang Ji claimed the organization had a treatment that made survival from the Collapse Period certain, shifting the trainees’ anger toward the Illuminati’s leadership.
• Huang Ji told Seth and the others that they had all been chosen as experimental subjects for the Burning Devotion Serum and that the organization valued breakthroughs over soldiers’ lives.
• When Seth asked why Huang Ji had told them this, Huang Ji said he disagreed with the organization because he had problems with his thinking.

Huang Ji told the sentinel trainees he would teach them how to survive the Collapse Period and make treatment standard for future classes. After training, Coyote confronted him about Grania and learned she had been assigned to spar with Dis, leaving Coyote fearing she was dead.

• Huang Ji told Seth and the other trainees that he would help them survive and expose the treatment for the Collapse Period.
• Huang Ji said his brother in the Phoenix Group had backed his assignment and that he trusted the higher-ups to change their policy.
• Seth welcomed Huang Ji's teamwork test, and Huang Ji kept all eighty-two trainees training until they passed.
• Coyote overheard Huang Ji's plans, then forced him into a private room at gunpoint to ask about Grania.
• Huang Ji revealed that Grania had been assigned to spar with Dis, and Coyote broke down, fearing she had been killed.

Coyote grieved Grania’s death and revealed that Huang Ji’s supposed brother had set him up to take the blame for saving the trainees. Coyote offered to help Huang Ji escape and asked him to find Kaluo and deliver a message.

• Coyote mourned Grania and told Huang Ji that the Illuminati had sacrificed her as Dis’s sparring partner.
• Coyote realized Huang Ji expected to be executed for saving the trainees, while Huang Ji hoped his brother would protect him.
• Coyote checked the General Affairs Department records and found a transfer order for Marco but none for Huang Ji.
• Coyote explained that Huang Ji’s brother had arranged for him to work without proper authorization so he could deny responsibility and let Huang Ji take the fall.
• Coyote urged Huang Ji to defect and help the trainees escape, then asked him to find Kaluo and say that Coyote was willing to become his deep-cover agent.

Evil Dragon and his allies captured Marco after a planned ambush. At Base X13, Huang Ji prepared Adams to enter the research institute and recruit Heinrich by using a mysterious device and an advanced ion thruster design.

• Evil Dragon ambushed and captured the wounded Marco with help from Nuoqila and Alan.
• Huang Ji gained the trainees’ respect by helping them survive the Collapse Period and teaching them to work together in combat.
• Huang Ji told Adams he needed him to enter restricted areas of the research institute and gave him a patterned wand, claiming it could protect him from Musa.
• Huang Ji instructed Adams to focus on Heinrich, a leading experimental-center researcher, and gave him a data model for an ion thruster.

Huang Ji prepared to escape the Illuminati with stolen equipment, but Beelzebub arrived before he could leave. Coyote told the sentinel trainees that Huang Ji was about to be executed, and they rushed out to confront the Security Department.

• Huang Ji restored the Buddha Bone Finger's force field shield, reshaped it into a bracer, and altered the Experiment Building's records to make it appear Marco had delivered Adams.
• Coyote brought Huang Ji an Electric Arc Furnace and urged him to flee with the equipment, warning that Beelzebub was investigating the trainee deaths and Marco's transfer was likely a trap.
• Huang Ji loaded the stolen equipment into an armored transport, but Beelzebub arrived and called him over before he could escape.
• Coyote told the sentinel trainees that Instructor Dragon had been arrested and was about to be executed for saving them.
• Yam explained that Huang Ji had likely been sent to the trainees to be killed, and Seth and Hawk led the others toward the square despite Yam's efforts to stop Suomi.

Beelzebub and his guards caught Huang Ji attempting to escape the academy and charged him with defection. As Huang Ji awaited execution, Seth and Hawk rushed in to save him.

• Beelzebub questioned Huang Ji about the trainees and, after his guards noticed suspicious behavior, returned to the plaza as Huang Ji drove an armored vehicle toward the sealed exit.
• Beelzebub smashed into the vehicle, and Huang Ji tried to escape over the steel gate before Mishu struck him down with the Shattered Leaf Blade.
• The guards cuffed Huang Ji, who admitted he was defecting and condemned the Illuminati for treating its members like livestock.
• Beelzebub ordered the guards to take Huang Ji away for execution, but Seth and Hawk charged in, shouting that they had come to save their instructor.

Seth and the trainees charged Beelzebub to save Huang Ji, who revealed a hidden hair-based ability and escaped his restraints. Huang Ji and the trainees fought Beelzebub together, while Mishu went after Huang Ji in C Channel.

• Seth and more than eighty trainees attacked Beelzebub to rescue Huang Ji, and Beelzebub declared that he would execute anyone who resisted.
• Huang Ji freed himself with his transformed hair, redirected Mishu’s blade to kill the two guards, and drove Mishu back.
• Huang Ji led the trainees in a coordinated assault on Beelzebub, but Beelzebub hurled Huang Ji into C Channel.
• Seth struck Beelzebub’s skull with a falling elbow attack, and Beelzebub charged into battle against the trainees despite his injury.
• Mishu rushed into C Channel to find Huang Ji while Beelzebub fought the eighty-one trainees.

Huang Ji completed his evolution and used his force field shield to survive Mishu’s attacks and turn Gus’s gunfire against his own allies. He escaped into the training grounds while Suomi stayed behind to hold off the pursuers, and Gus discovered that Huang Ji had redirected his bullets into two guards.

• Huang Ji completed his evolution, gaining direct neural control over his hair and recognizing the broader potential of the new control system.
• Huang Ji used his force field shield to block Mishu’s stomp and slide away by redirecting the impact.
• At a four-way intersection, Huang Ji spun and deflected Gus’s six bullets into the surrounding attackers, killing several of them and wounding Mishu.
• Huang Ji escaped into a Training Ground as Suomi blocked the passage and fought the two Burning Devotion Sentinels.
• Gus chased Huang Ji and fired at him near a corner, but Huang Ji redirected the bullets into two Security Department guards ahead.

Huang Ji reached the Military Supply Depot while Gus’s shots killed guards, and Mishu went inside to confront him. Outside, Coyote was exposed as a rebel and fought Gus and Carter, killing them before destroying the scene with gasoline and grenades.

• Huang Ji entered the Military Supply Depot, and Mishu shut himself inside with him while Gus called for reinforcements.
• Coyote tried to ambush Gus, but Carter caught him; Gus realized Coyote knew too much and accused him of being a rebel.
• Coyote fought Gus and Carter in the training ground, using Silver Tooth’s recoil to dodge shots and kill Carter.
• Gus hesitated when Coyote froze in a pose resembling Huang Ji’s taunts, but Coyote forced Silver Tooth to fire and blasted Gus apart.
• Coyote crawled to gasoline and grenades and set about destroying the scene.

Yam rescued the badly injured Suomi, while Seth and the remaining trainees chose to fight their way out as rebels. Beelzebub unleashed the forbidden Art of Sacrifice and charged into the trainees, leaving their escape uncertain.

• Suomi nearly died after the exoskeletal Ascender attacked him, but Yam knocked the attacker away and carried Suomi off.
• Musa’s broadcast reported that the rebellion had been largely suppressed, causing the guards pursuing Yam to leave for the Experiment Building.
• Seth and Hawk rallied the trainees after Beelzebub refused to offer them a chance to surrender, and they declared themselves rebels.
• Seth led the trainees toward the base exit while Beelzebub prepared to fight using the Art of Sacrifice.
• Beelzebub surged forward with renewed strength and struck Seth and the charging trainees with armored door panels.

Huang Ji outmaneuvered Mishu in the dark Military Supply Depot and knocked him unconscious, then took his Illuminati badge and went to retrieve the High-Energy Gun. The chapter left Huang Ji opening the thirty-threefold locked gate to reach his final target.

• Huang Ji shut off the lights, and Mishu pursued him through the dark depot using his infrasound hearing.
• Huang Ji and Mishu circled and feinted around each other as Mishu tried to predict Huang Ji’s position and prepare a fatal sword strike.
• Mishu tripped over the ammunition crate Huang Ji had knocked down earlier and missed his attack, leaving his neck exposed.
• Huang Ji grabbed Mishu by the back of the neck, slammed him into the floor, and knocked him unconscious.
• Huang Ji removed Mishu’s Illuminati badge and opened the thirty-threefold locked gate to reach the High-Energy Gun.