Recaps

Huang Ji guided the survivors through the food-chain game and into Great Serpent Valley, where he allied with the Lizardmen and exposed the Illuminati’s experiments and schemes. He let himself be captured while the Lizardmen escaped, and the Illuminati discovered evidence of an insider’s help as their search shifted to the Southern Dense Forest.

• Huang Ji persuaded the prisoners to pedal for their freedom, then led them through the race-evolution game and helped them survive Heavenly Tribulation.
• Kogas transported the survivors to Great Serpent Valley, where Huang Ji broke contact with the organizers and led the group into the forest.
• Huang Ji’s medicine detoxified Alexei and the other Lizardmen, who learned the Illuminati had poisoned them and joined Huang Ji in opposing their captors.
• Huang Ji learned about Vahana’s history and the Dragonkin’s origins, then proposed that the Lizardmen fake an escape while he stayed behind as a spy.
• The Magician betrayed the group with TX Poison Spray, killing Little Wheat, Middle-parted Youth, Alan, and Old Wang before Alexei caught and killed him.
• Evil Dragon revealed that Huang Ji had been hosting the game, while Lin Li planted realistic Dragonkin evidence in a forest south of Santa Fe.
• Huang Ji let the Illuminati capture him after claiming the Lizardmen were still in the cave, and the supervisors took him to the Santa Fe Life Science Center as a Guinea Pig.
• The S4 Super Sentinels found buried Lizardman samples and equipment in Great Serpent Valley, then discovered Lizardman tracks in the Southern Dense Forest and suspected an insider had helped them escape.

Huang Ji deceived the Illuminati, transformed wealthy men into Dragonkin, and helped the Dragonkin and Messiah seize Santa Fe while secretly advancing his own plans. After the battle, Brando killed Osiris based on a mistaken accusation, then learned evidence supported Osiris’s account.

• Lin Li and Huang Ji misdirected the White-Skinned Strongman’s forces while the Dragonkin escaped, but the Strongman uncovered signs of a hidden faction and investigated Kogas and the Longevity Project.
• Huang Ji used the Nano Swarm to manipulate Weeks and enter Great Serpent Valley, where he transformed wealthy men into Dragonkin and set them against the Illuminati.
• The Illuminati’s attack destroyed the base, and Huang Ji drew the Dragonkin’s anger onto himself while Amu escaped, and the White-Skinned Strongman’s forces arrived as the Dragonkin attacked Santa Fe.
• Osiris’s squad was devastated by Santa Fe’s defenses, and the Dragonkin and Evil Dragon’s group took the Black Wand, captured researchers, and looted the facility.
• Huang Ji joined Messiah, gathered the serum supplies, and secretly turned 103 prisoners into Ascenders before returning to the infirmary as Brando’s team arrived.
• Brando suspected Osiris had conspired with Luo Yan and detained him, then fought him after the tycoons’ conflicting testimony sparked an argument, and Brando killed Osiris with a Plasma Cannon.
• Huang Ji’s account and evidence that the tycoons had become Lizardmen supported Brandy’s theory that Luo Yan had deceived Santa Fe, leaving Brando to realize he had probably killed an innocent man.

Huang Ji used Keke and a fake UFO to guide the Illuminati through an alien encounter and avert mass casualties in Haiti, then uncovered Earth’s hidden history and set out a plan to reshape the Illuminati. The arc ended with Huang Ji preparing to infiltrate an alien city in the Sirius Star System alone, seeking the leverage humanity needed to survive.

• Huang Ji completed the Illuminati initiation, reached Level 9, and began training as a Mysterious Investigator under Amu while Mu Yuan mistakenly suspected Brando had taken Keke.
• Huang Ji rescued Keke’s life-support capsule, restored her senses in a virtual world, and built the Yinglong-class aircraft so she could pilot a convincing fake UFO.
• The fake UFO appeared over Haiti and claimed responsibility for coming earthquakes, while Huang Ji and Amu helped the Illuminati understand its messages and prepare evacuations.
• Feis ordered Port-au-Prince evacuated under cover of a fictional coup, and the January 12 earthquake destroyed the city after its residents and armies had withdrawn.
• The Nature Disruptor revealed it was searching for an ancient Environment Modifier, and Huang Ji helped the Illuminati locate the Winged God in the Sahara and identify it as the Shao Hao Mecha.
• Huang Ji returned to Detroit, prepared a rocket with Messiah’s team, and launched into space to absorb Earth’s history before explaining the Dragonkin, the Yellow Emperor, Zhuanxu, and humanity’s place among alien powers.
• Huang Ji convinced the Dragonkin, Sentinels, and others to replace the Illuminati’s leaders and redirect the organization toward humanity’s development rather than destroy it.
• Huang Ji revealed that he would disguise himself as an alien tourist and travel alone to a city in the Sirius Star System to infiltrate its society and seek leverage against the Anunnaki Corporation.

Huang Ji maneuvered the Double Pupils Faction toward a rebellion on Saint Qing Island while the Sword-Keepers prepared their response. The discovery of nine hundred Feis clones revealed a dangerous plan, and No. 18 set out to impersonate Feis at the assembly.

• Huang Ji founded Kunlun Ruins with the united group and became its first-generation leader.
• Huang Ji sent Hawking to infiltrate an Interstellar Civilization, then joined Carmen’s expedition in Egypt as the group uncovered the Winged God and Carmen declared himself Eternal Sword-Keeper.
• Huang Ji recruited Luo Yan into the Double Pupils Faction, used the Longevity Elixir to secure family support, and arranged for the rebels to gather at Saint Qing Island during the Pilgrimage Assembly.
• Marco killed Pick and others to conceal his actions, then reached Saint Qing Island and sought to expose Luo Yan and Brando before the Sword-Keepers.
• On Saint Qing Island, Feis’s allies prepared to counter the rebellion while Brando and Luo Yan maneuvered around Arona, who dismissed claims of a Double Pupils Faction and warned that the Sword-Keepers would defeat any rebels.
• Huang Ji and Lorna discovered an underground armory containing nine hundred sleeping Feis clones, and Huang Ji explained that their pods would awaken as the assembly began.
• The Double Pupils Master told No. 18 that Feis planned to kill the clones after using them against the rebels, then ordered No. 18 to impersonate Feis and attend the assembly.