Recaps

Hao Ren returned to Earth with the Nangong family after releasing alien life into the Sea of Io, and they settled into his chaotic household. Elsa and Nangong Wudi realized how much the world had changed during their century away, while Vivian urged them to adapt.

• Hao Ren watched Doudou leap into his arms after the Data Terminal explained how life could survive even catastrophic destruction.
• Hao Ren brought the Nangong couple through the spatial rift to Earth, where Elsa was startled by the dark snowfield and Nangong Wudi reflected on their narrow escape from the wrath spirit.
• Hao Ren and the others rested at Andre Castle before returning to his old house in the South Suburbs.
• Elizabeth tried to take a liquefied-gas cylinder out for refilling, while Doudou offered to light it with holy flame and frightened everyone.
• Elsa and Nangong Wudi discussed how unfamiliar Earth had become, and Vivian told them they would need to learn about the modern world rather than withdraw from it.

Hao Ren invited Nangong Wudi and Elsa to stay at his home while they adjusted to a world that had changed beyond recognition. He took them to report to Raven and deliver the recovered database, leaving them wondering why he said they were going to meet God.

• Hao Ren suggested that Nangong Wudi and Elsa stay at his home, and Lily told them their old home had become a tourist attraction.
• Vivian and Hao Ren's companions revealed their unusual backgrounds, astonishing Nangong Wudi and Elsa.
• Nangong Wudi and Elsa agreed to stay nearby while they reacclimated, and the Nangong siblings celebrated their reunion with them.
• Hao Ren said he was taking the couple to report to Raven and deliver the database recovered by the Time-Space Administration Bureau.
• The Nangong couple asked where Hao Ren was taking them, and he replied that they were going to meet God alive.

Hao Ren and Raven 12345 discussed the ancient Starry Sky People and the possibility that they had survived by hiding from the Firstborn. Unable to find a reliable way to locate them, Hao Ren set the search aside and began reviewing the Ark civilization’s database.

• Raven 12345 identified the Starry Sky People as naturally occurring spiritual entities, likely older than the Primordial Seed and possibly dating back to the Creation Goddess’s era.
• Raven 12345 suspected the Starry Sky People had survived the Firstborn by escaping its attacks and hiding, but left Hao Ren to figure out how to find them.
• The Nangong couple visited Raven 12345 and went home after eating her leftover noodles.
• Hao Ren and his family failed to devise a reliable way to find the Starry Sky People, and Lily’s idea to broadcast a missing-person notice was rejected as dangerous.
• Hao Ren discussed his role in seeing off doomed civilizations with the Data Terminal and connected to the Ark civilization’s database.

Hao Ren searched the Ark civilization’s database and uncovered Starry Sky People records claiming that intelligent beings had killed the Creation Goddess. The records offered no further explanation, leaving Hao Ren to continue investigating on his own.

• Hao Ren examined the Ark civilization’s final records and found a scientist’s account of the mysterious Red Nova Eaton, which had flared brightly and then vanished.
• Hao Ren discussed Eaton with the Data Terminal and considered whether its outburst was connected to the Creation Goddess’s fate.
• Hao Ren searched the database’s records of the Starry Sky People and found conversations recorded by the Spirit Speaker Freeman.
• Hao Ren learned from the Starry Sky People’s account that intelligent beings had disturbed the universe’s root and killed the Creation Goddess.
• Hao Ren searched the records for more details but found none, then compiled his discoveries and reported them to Raven 12345, who left him to investigate further.

After learning that mortals had killed the Creation Goddess, Hao Ren and his family discussed whether to tell Big Beard and waited for more evidence. During a quiet summer at home, Vivian examined an ancient grimoire that might be connected to her.

• Hao Ren told his family that the Ark database said the Creation Goddess had been killed by mortals, and Vivian urged him to wait before telling Big Beard until they found evidence.
• The Nangong couple settled at Hao Ren's home, while Lily continued tending to stray dogs and bickering with Vivian during the hot summer days.
• Vivian cooled the house with her powers and froze Lily after Lily teased her about not working.
• Vivian showed Hao Ren an ancient Latin book titled On Evil Spirits and Myths, which Heiserana had found at Athens Sanctuary and which Vivian suspected was connected to her.
• Vivian explained that the grimoire's pages were treated black goat hide and described how witches made elaborate magic books, often exposing themselves to Demon Hunters.

Hao Ren, Vivian, and Lily examined a strange magic book that described a ritual for summoning the King of Blood, whom Vivian suspected was herself. Hao Ren and Lily decided to try the ritual that night, since it was a full moon.

• Vivian explained how wizards and their magic books had spread during a chaotic period of European history.
• Vivian found an illustration and ritual in the book that resembled her, including a cross worn by the depicted Bloodkin.
• Vivian read that the ritual required two people to offer blood on a full moon and promised to transfer part of one person's lifespan at the cost of their life.
• Vivian said she could not remember whether she had met the book's author, and explained that Heiserana had sent her the book.
• Hao Ren proposed trying the ritual, and Lily agreed when she realized that night was a full moon.

The group examined a spellbook that described a ritual for summoning Vivian, and Lily persuaded them to try it on the full-moon night without telling Vivian. They began the ritual in the wilderness behind the house, where the moonlight revealed a faint blood-red glimmer.

• Nangong Wudi and Elsa decided to take over a nearby flatbread shop, and Nangong Wudi gave Hao Ren his old gold and silver to cover their debt.
• Nangong May examined the spellbook while Lily proposed using its ritual to summon Vivian, who dismissed the book as a worthless collectible.
• The group spent the day at home while Izax and Elizabeth continued dismantling Hao Ren's motorcycle as they tried to repair it.
• After nightfall, Lily set up the summoning ritual behind the house and kept Vivian occupied by having her bathe Roll.
• Hao Ren studied the spellbook by moonlight as the group prepared to test the ritual, and a blood-red glimmer appeared in the full moon.

Lily led Hao Ren and the others through a botched-looking ritual meant to summon Vivian, but the first attempts failed when her wounds healed too quickly. The ritual finally activated when Hao Ren opened the genuine magic book at the circle’s energy focal point, leaving a strange red glow spreading from its pages.

• Lily assembled a summoning circle with dubious offerings, and Hao Ren and the others questioned whether her ritual could work.
• Hao Ren and Lily tried to provide the required blood, but Lily’s wounds healed too quickly, so Nangong Sanba stepped in to complete the blood offering.
• The circle showed no immediate effect, and Lily blamed the failure on the lack of human blood while Hao Ren noted that everyone present was nonhuman.
• Hao Ren examined the magic book while standing at the circle’s center, and full-moon light struck the illustration of the Summoning of the King of Blood.
• A chill rose from the book as red light spread from its pages, revealing that the ritual had activated once the book reached the circle’s energy focal point.

Hao Ren and his companions accidentally summoned a dangerous, red-haired being resembling Vivian, which attacked them with a power that rapidly decayed living things and objects. They led it into the wilderness and launched a coordinated assault, but it vanished into the moonlight, which then began to affect them.

• The magic book and summoning array transformed, and a red-haired figure resembling Vivian emerged from the blood mist.
• The figure attacked Lily with a red light that withered plants and turned rocks to dust, while the Data Terminal warned everyone that it was not Vivian.
• Hao Ren drew the figure away from nearby homes and led it into the wilderness as it pursued him and damaged everything in its path.
• Hao Ren and the others surrounded the figure and attacked, but it became a beam of red light and disappeared into the moonlight.
• Hao Ren noticed the moonlight had turned red and was making his skin deathly gray-white, and he warned everyone to watch out.

Hao Ren and the others fought Vivian’s moon-summoning evil spirit, teleporting the group to Mars so they could attack without the deadly moonlight. As the battle turned against them, the real Vivian appeared with a frying pan and knocked the evil spirit flying.

• The evil spirit’s red moonlight drained life from the wilderness and made her nearly impossible to hit, while Lily and the others began to weaken.
• The Data Terminal struck the evil spirit with a brick and teleported everyone together to Mars, where the moonlight could not reach them.
• Hao Ren and the others attacked the evil spirit on Mars, discovering that her recovery had slowed but that her power was still rising.
• As Hao Ren charged to help Izax seal the evil spirit, the real Vivian appeared in an apron and struck her with a frying pan, sending her flying.

Vivian appeared on Mars after being teleported from home and helped the group destroy a mysterious red-haired spirit that resembled her. As Hao Ren collected a sample from the remains, Lily spotted what looked like a Mars rover nearby.

• Vivian struck the evil spirit with her frying pan, startling everyone and drawing the creature's attention.
• Vivian realized she could not see the spirit's face, though the others saw a figure resembling her.
• Hao Ren, Lily, Vivian, Izax, and the Nangong team fought the spirit, and Vivian's lightning attacks severely damaged it.
• Vivian and her swarm of bats destroyed the spirit, leaving a pool of blood that Hao Ren collected as a sample.
• Vivian explained that a pentagram array had teleported her from home to Mars, where Hao Ren admitted he and Lily had experimented with the magic book.
• Lily spotted what looked like a Mars rover on a nearby hillside.

After a rover approached the battlefield on Mars, Izax erased the traces with a precisely aimed meteorite. Back home, Vivian identified the summoned creature’s blood as an unknown, shapeshifting substance, and she decided to contact Heiserana to learn where the spellbook came from.

• Hao Ren and his companions spotted a Mars rover approaching the battlefield, and the Data Terminal urged them to clean up without harming it.
• Izax caused a meteorite to destroy the battle’s traces while leaving the rover outside the danger zone.
• The group returned home and found Lily’s summoning ritual reduced to ashes, then checked on Vivian, who was tired but unharmed.
• Vivian explained that she had seen the evil spirit only as a shapeless mass, while the others had seen a figure identical to her.
• Vivian examined the evil spirit’s Blood Drop and found that it was dead but continually mimicked the blood of other creatures.
• Vivian decided to ask Heiserana about the spellbook, suspecting that it had sealed a magical creature rather than contained a summoning ritual.

After the Summoning Ritual, Hao Ren wondered about the evil spirit that resembled Vivian and spoke of someone coming back. Doudou asked whether she would grow up like the others, and the next morning Vivian reported that Heiserana could not identify the magic book’s origins before revealing she had something to show Hao Ren.

• Hao Ren and Vivian wondered whether the destroyed evil spirit had been a summoned creature or connected to Vivian’s blood, and decided to wait for Heiserana’s research.
• Doudou asked Hao Ren whether she would grow as big as the family and whether she would be different from him; he reassured her that he would always be her father.
• The next morning, Hao Ren found Doudou cheerful and exercising after her late-night questions.
• Vivian told Hao Ren that Heiserana had received the magic book from a follower who bought it at a black-market auction, leaving its author and origins unknown.
• Vivian changed the subject and told Hao Ren she had something to show him.

Hao Ren and Vivian discovered that Vivian had gained the evil spirit’s power to wither and destroy things, and they speculated that the spirit might have been a fragment of Vivian’s lost abilities. The chapter left Vivian wondering whether more of her power had been sealed away elsewhere.

• Vivian demonstrated a new ability that turned a stone to sand and withered nearby grass, and she told Hao Ren she had first noticed it after returning from Mars.
• Hao Ren and Vivian tested the ability, and Vivian explained that using it felt instinctive and that she had accidentally broken Roll’s food bowl.
• Vivian described her Red Moon as an innate ability that let her create moonlight and use it to move, become invisible, or amplify her power.
• Hao Ren speculated that the evil spirit had been a sealed fragment of Vivian’s power, and Vivian admitted the theory fit what they had observed.
• Hao Ren noted that red-haired Vivian had been unable to use her Red Moon on Mars, suggesting her power was incomplete, and Vivian asked whether more of her abilities might be sealed elsewhere.

After Vivian absorbed an evil spirit and developed a new ability, she lectured the household for recklessly performing the summoning ritual. Becky then reported that the Return Sect’s headquarters had been found, so Hao Ren and his group traveled to Horleta to help capture the other brain monster.

• Vivian said she felt no different after absorbing the evil spirit, and Izax suggested she had absorbed a Power Fragment.
• Vivian scolded Lily, Hao Ren, and Izax for their actions surrounding the summoning ritual.
• Becky messaged Hao Ren that her group had found the Return Sect’s headquarters and asked for immediate help.
• Hao Ren warned Becky to have Ofra hold the situation steady and avoid approaching the brain monster, then led his group to Horleta.
• Hao Ren met Becky in her cleared wine cellar and introduced Elsa and Nangong Wudi as the Nangong siblings’ parents.

Hao Ren reunited with Becky and learned how she had adapted Earth technology into a magical power system while helping expose the Return Sect across several nations. Becky’s report showed that the cult’s network was extensive, and her feelings for Ofra remained obvious.

• Doudou got drunk on the lingering smell of liquor in Becky’s basement, set fires with holy flame, and was contained by Nangong May in a water ball.
• Becky showed off her television, computer, and a magical electrical system she had developed with the Mage Association’s vice president.
• Hao Ren asked Becky for an update on the Return Sect, and she explained that major incidents had prompted nations across the continent to hunt the cult.
• Becky showed the group a map marking Return Sect branches and suspected bases throughout Horleta and neighboring regions.
• Hao Ren teased Becky about her attachment to Ofra, and Becky blushed while hinting that drugs would not work on the Ancient Species.

Hao Ren and his companions learned that the Return Sect’s headquarters lay in the mountains near Beinz Diocese, where the brain monster remained mysteriously still despite being surrounded. Ofra took them to the Mage Tower to travel to the front line and investigate.

• Becky explained that the Return Sect had built its hidden fortress beneath the Werewolf Tribal Nation’s sacred mountain beside Beinz Blood Lake.
• Ofra arrived with the Big Beard ascetic monk and told Hao Ren that Church and Royal forces had sealed off the western mountains with help from the Werewolves.
• Ofra said soldiers had suffered hallucinations near the mountains, while the Pope’s detection spell found an impenetrable energy field deep inside.
• Vivian and Izax questioned why the brain monster had not moved, and Hao Ren suspected something was wrong.
• The group reached the Mage Tower and teleported to Beinz Diocese.

Hao Ren and his companions arrived in Beinz Diocese as the Radiant Church and the Return Sect prepared for battle around the Holy Mountain. Ofra showed them Hodius, a floating fortress built with crystals from Hao Ren’s quarry, as the story left the brain monster’s plans unknown.

• Hao Ren and his companions teleported from the royal capital to the main knight order camp in Beinz Diocese.
• Ofra led them outside and revealed that the fortress stood above the crystal quarry.
• Ofra explained that processed crystals powered Hodius’s levitation and magical systems.
• Hao Ren asked the Data Terminal whether leaving the crystals behind had violated his organization’s regulations, and it said the action was allowed under exceptional authorization.
• Hodius hovered over the Holy Mountain as the Return Sect’s brain monster remained cornered, with its plans unknown.

Hao Ren joined the commanders aboard Hodius to prepare an expedition against the Return Sect’s hidden lair on the werewolves’ Holy Mountain. Uruk hurried the group toward the mountain, while Elson showed them the routes and explained why the werewolves guarded it so fiercely.

• Ofra explained that Hodius had been built from a mountain peak and that its ascent had exposed the Return Sect’s presence in the western mountains.
• Ofra led Hao Ren and his companions to Hodius’s command center, where they met Uruk, chieftain of the Werewolf Tribal Nation.
• Hao Ren told Uruk that his protective crystals could shield ordinary people from the brain monster’s Mind Control, and Uruk immediately set out for the Holy Mountain.
• Elson explained that Uruk’s wife had given him only two days, then showed Hao Ren’s group a living map of the mountain routes.
• Elson described how the Holy Mountain had protected the werewolves from an ancient plague and why they forbade outsiders from entering it.

Hao Ren’s force met Uruk and his Wolf Riders at the Sacred Mountain before beginning their joint search for heretics. The meeting took an unexpected turn when Uruk’s warwolf turned out to be the Wolf King, an old acquaintance of Hao Ren and Lily.

• Hao Ren, Ofra, and the main force reached the rendezvous point at the Sacred Mountain, where Lily greeted her supposed homeland and Nangong May searched for Uruk.
• Uruk arrived with his Wolf Riders and warned Ofra that her knights would be vulnerable traveling on foot, but Ofra confidently defended their abilities.
• Hao Ren and Ofra had the soldiers inspect their protective crystals, which were meant to suppress the monster’s psychic power.
• Uruk’s warwolf recognized Hao Ren as a Tough Human, and Hao Ren and Lily realized the wolf was the Wolf King they had met before.
• The Wolf King explained that he had led his pack from the grasslands to find a new home, leaving Uruk and the surrounding soldiers bewildered.

Hao Ren and Uruk talked as the Wolf Riders led the group into the mountains, and the Wolf King explained how his pack had migrated from the grasslands. The group reached the marked mind-control danger zone, where Uruk warned everyone to stay alert.

• The Wolf King told Hao Ren that climate changes after the Dragon Ridge Mountains collapsed had driven his pack west to join Uruk's tribe.
• Hao Ren chatted with the Wolf King until Uruk interrupted, and the Wolf Riders set off into the mountains with Hao Ren's group following.
• Uruk complained to Hao Ren that his talkative, book-loving wolf mount often caused trouble, and Hao Ren commiserated by demonstrating his argumentative Data Terminal.
• Hao Ren and Uruk joked as the group advanced along the rugged mountain paths, while their companions watched and speculated about their conversation.
• The group reached the Werewolf Tribal Nation's warning flag at the mind-control danger zone, and Uruk told everyone to stay alert.

Hao Ren and his companions entered the Holy Mountain’s psychic interference zone while the Radiant Church began its search for the heretics. They discovered that the brain monster had concealed the mountain’s core from people’s senses for so long that even Uruk could not remember paths he had traveled.

• The Radiant Pope monitored the Holy Mountain with a divine spell while Hodius prepared its magic cannons and the pope received a warning from the Goddess.
• Hao Ren’s group traveled deeper into the mountain as the knight order searched separately, but they found no heretics despite evidence of human activity.
• Uruk became confused at a fork in a path he knew well and realized he had no memory of the newly revealed valley beside it.
• Hao Ren concluded that the brain monster’s psychic interference made people unconsciously ignore the concealed paths and their surroundings.
• Vivian asked Uruk whether the valley had ever appeared in Werewolf history or on its maps, leaving the group alarmed about how long the interference had lasted.

Hao Ren and the search party entered a hidden valley in the Sacred Mountain, where ancient ruins revealed that the Return Sect had been concealed there for thousands of years. As they investigated the valley’s strange mental interference, stitched monsters surrounded the group and Hao Ren led the attack.

• Uruk reported that other Wolf Rider groups had found an unfamiliar valley, which the protective crystal allowed the party to perceive.
• Hao Ren and the others found an ancient obelisk bearing the Return Sect’s marks, and Hao Ren concluded the sect had hidden in the valley before the Werewolves, Kingdom of Horleta, and Radiant Church arrived.
• Vivian suggested that a change connected to the Goddess may have driven the Return Sect to emerge in recent years, while Ofra ordered the party to watch for signs of mental interference.
• Uruk sensed something unclean, and Roll spotted a monster before numerous stitched creatures rushed out and surrounded the group.
• Hao Ren drew his weapons and charged the monsters, ordering the others to take them down.

Hao Ren and his allies defeated the stitched monsters and discovered underground launch passages beneath the Sacred Mountain. After Hao Ren disabled the passages with an electromagnetic pulse, the group prepared to descend in search of the Return Sect’s lair.

• Ofra ordered the knights to use giant-fighting tactics while Izax and the others fought the stitched monsters.
• Roll warned Hao Ren that more monsters were emerging from holes in the ground, and Hao Ren and Lily found alloy launch passages beneath them.
• Lily killed an electrically charged monster with a boulder, and Hao Ren set off an electromagnetic-pulse bomb that disabled the connected passages.
• Vivian confirmed that the passages led into a tangled underground network but could not guide her bat through it.
• Hao Ren asked the group to look for another entrance, and Lily reluctantly approached a stinking passage to search for a way down.

Hao Ren and his companions entered the advanced underground facility beneath the werewolves’ sacred mountain and discovered that the brain monster had operated there for thousands of years. They found evidence that the missing heretics had been turned into stitched monsters and followed machinery sounds deeper into the base.

• Vivian scouted the tunnels, and Hao Ren threw more electromagnetic pulse bombs inside before leading the group underground.
• Hao Ren ordered the Wolf King to remain outside with the war wolves and help receive the approaching soldiers.
• The group found dead stitched monsters and learned that their electrical vests had controlled them through implanted needles and wiring.
• Hao Ren suspected the monsters were made from missing Return Sect followers, and Izax confirmed that they had been transformed while conscious and willingly.
• Ofra left two soldiers at a fork, and the group headed deeper toward the facility’s lit passages.
• When machinery sounded near another fork, Izax rushed forward and got his head stuck in the ceiling.