Recaps

Guan Tong uncovered the Yuze Family’s prison and shipboard experiments, then helped North Star destroy the Yun Jia Hao and defeat Yuze Chun. After celebrating his birthday, he formed the Source Tracing Brigade with Shangyuan Zi and went to Yingqi to meet Suzuki and investigate the rules and the Fire Thief.

• Guan Tong and Shangyuan Zi raided the Yuze Family’s underground prison, freed Suzuki and other captives, and brought evidence of the family’s experiments to North Star authorities.
• North Star rejected a UHC-led investigation and formed its own team, while the Yuze Family destroyed the prison and moved its laboratory to a ship.
• As the Fourteenth Apocalypse Rule ended, deeply parasitized people became dangerous Alien Spore hosts, and the Black Flag Nation fell to parasites.
• Guan Tong’s team traced the laboratory to the Yun Jia Hao, where Shadow found thousands of unconscious test subjects, and North Star sent its fleet to intercept the ship.
• Yuze Chun used the captives as hostages, then unleashed the Snake Slave Army and detonated bombs aboard the Yun Jia Hao as North Star soldiers stormed it.
• Guan Tong and Shangyuan Zi pursued Yuze Chun underwater, and with help from the Flying Fire Fleet and Coal Ball, they killed him and ended the Yuze Family’s experiments.
• Guan Tong celebrated his birthday with friends, learned that Lu Cheng and other students had disappeared, and helped Shi Jingyi test her martial arts techniques.
• Lu Cheng killed fellow runaways while seeking spores, and Guan Tong arrived in Yingqi, named his new organization the Source Tracing Brigade, and welcomed Shangyuan Zi as its first member.

Humanity confronted a dangerous alien intelligence whose answers came at the cost of lives, while Guan Tong pursued his own chance to question it and Xisiya faced rising unrest. The arc ends as the alien consumes 27,395 parasites and prepares to answer the UHC’s question about converting brainwaves into digital signals.

• The UHC declared war on the Sery Divine Kingdom, and Dream Boat One and Empire Pioneer launched successfully before the Fifteenth Apocalypse Rule was announced.
• Fire Thief released the Third Kind Contact rule, and a cookie-shaped spacecraft landed in Xisiya, where the alien intelligence devoured people in exchange for answering questions.
• The UHC’s testing showed that the alien would eat parasites and named the Mind Network as a way to identify them, while Guan Tong traveled to Xisiya and killed Rieka Konia.
• Guan Tong confessed Rieka’s death to Yelena, who said she wanted Rieka dead and offered him a chance to question the alien in return for protecting her as she consolidated power.
• Guan Tong smuggled a Living Dead into the Landing Site’s parasite test, but the alien consumed it before answering the UHC’s question about safe, abundant energy.
• The UHC debated asking about brain-computer links and the next Apocalypse Rule, while Shangyuan Zi noticed suspected Fire Thief Cult followers stirring unrest in Xisiya.
• Louis and Fire Thief Cult agitators led a crowd toward the Landing Site, where the arrests triggered gunfire that left more than half the crowd dead or injured.
• The alien consumed 27,395 parasites before the UHC questioner asked how human brainwaves could be converted into digital signals.

Guan Tong uncovered the Alien Intelligence’s connection to the [Wordless Book], then navigated the Death Race while protecting Yelena from a coup plot in Xisiya. The arc left him and Yelena preparing to expose Valery’s faction before the rule ended, while Wei Xuan boarded the silent Dream Boat One.

• Guan Tong helped repel the Parasite Ascendants at the Landing Site, then discovered that the Alien Intelligence pursued the [Wordless Book] and gained the Nanite Swarm from it.
• Yelena recruited Guan Tong to protect her as she faced Rieka’s supporters, and he began building up his Reserve Mind Power.
• Fire Thief released the Sixteenth Apocalypse Rule, Death Race, and Guan Tong sold information about its hidden rule while choosing not to pursue ranking points.
• Wei Xuan investigated the Empire Pioneer and found its astronauts frozen in terror, then later boarded the silent Dream Boat One after Robert warned him not to come.
• Guan Tong arranged for Black Star and other Ascendants to supply him with Mind Power, while Yelena prepared for competitions and the threat from the Security Bureau.
• Valery offered Guan Tong money to kill Sigaoxin and revealed Rieka’s powerful supporters, but Guan Tong reported the offer to Yelena and Shangyuan Zi.
• Guan Tong killed robbers who ambushed him and took their points, while Yelena said Sigaoxin would cooperate against Valery and planned to expose his faction before Rule End.

Guan Tong helped Yelena defeat Valery, then returned to North Star as the Fire Thief Cult escalated its attacks and Suzuki’s death remained unexplained. After reaching a thousand Mind Power Cap, he reactivated the Mind Network and prepared to use it against parasites as the joint operation against the Cult approached.

• Wei Xuan learned that twenty-three astronauts had died, while Shi Jingyi told Guan Tong that surpassing one thousand Mind Power Cap had reactivated the Mind Network and transformed her.
• Guan Tong and Shadow stole Valery’s surveillance recordings, then helped Yelena defeat Valery’s attack and kill him as Sigaoxin seized the Security Bureau.
• Guan Tong defeated Lucifer, earned third place in the competition, and left Xisiya after Yelena consolidated her power.
• A bombing at the finals killed and injured thousands, and Fire Thief bishop Heath claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Guan Tong returned to North Star, accepted the King of Solloma’s commission to kill the Pope, and discovered that Suzuki had died under suspicious circumstances.
• Guan Tong reached one thousand Mind Power Cap, transformed, received a “Perfect” evaluation, and reactivated the Mind Network.
• Fire Thief released the Scarlet Gaze rule, while Guan Tong investigated Suzuki’s missing surveillance footage and prepared for the operation in Fahe.
• Guan Tong connected to a parasite through the Mind Network and agreed to test people at the Countermeasure Research Institute as Lu Cheng lured Shi Jingyi toward a meeting.