Recaps

Hao Ren and his allies captured Corpus Space and entered the Spirit Realm Bell Tower, where they uncovered a ritual that had awakened a corrupting Ancient Will and stirred the God-Slaying Sword. After Hao Ren removed the dangerous energy, Claude revealed that the First Saint had died millennia ago and an ancient was speaking through him.

• Bai Huo led Hao Ren and his allies to the Tower of Stars’ control hub, where Tutanin explained the Elder Council’s plan to use the energy nodes and the threat posed by the Spirit Realm Bell Tower.
• The Demon Lord’s Army broke through the Elder Council’s defenses, captured the Demon Hunter Master, and began taking Corpus Space’s strongholds.
• Hao Ren recognized the ruined palace as the site of the Creation Goddess’s murder, then found the Spirit Realm Bell Tower covered in darkness resembling Chaos Shadow.
• Hao Ren’s group entered the distorted tower, found vacant Demon Hunters and the dead Betoris, and read his warning that a monster from the nightmare had reached the tower’s top.
• Claude explained that the Saints had awakened an Ancient Will during a ritual and that its influence amplified people’s buried thoughts, while the Saints remained in the Hall of Rituals to contain it.
• Hao Ren and his companions discovered that the Saints had died in the ritual and that the God-Slaying Sword was driving the tower’s corruption, so Hao Ren removed the dark energy and released it on a remote star.
• After the sword fell quiet, Claude revealed that the First Saint had died six thousand years earlier and that an ancient was speaking through him, then invited Vivian and her friends to follow him.

Hao Ren uncovered the Demon Hunters’ history, learned that Vivian had been their Fourteenth Saint and Lily the First Saint’s reincarnation, and helped end the Hunt War. The supernatural races formed the Shadow Council, while Hao Ren began investigating Mimir’s origins and the Godslaying Sword.

• Claude led Hao Ren and the others to Mimir, who revealed how Vivian had helped the Demon Hunters and how the Sword of Darkness had caused the Cataclysm of Madness and erased her from their memories.
• Mimir helped Lily recover memories of the First Saint, whose soul fragment had entered a newborn husky, while Lily insisted she was still herself.
• Hao Ren presented the Demon Hunter elders with ancient records identifying Vivian as the Fourteenth Saint and Lily as the First Saint’s reincarnation, and the elders agreed to reveal their identities gradually.
• Hao Ren left Corpus with Vivian, his companions, and Mimir, then told Mimir that he had come from another world and might have arrived on a spaceship.
• In Athens, Hao Ren and Vivian confronted unrest among the supernatural families and told the leaders that the Demon Hunters had survived their upheaval and would end the hunts.
• Vivian and Hao Ren proposed letting assessed Others leave their sanctuaries under a supervisory organization, and the leaders established the Shadow Council with Vivian holding a special seat.
• Hela gave Hao Ren Gungnir’s spearhead to help locate the Nine Kingdoms, and Hao Ren left Mimir in Athens as a mediator between the Demon Hunters and Otherworlders.
• Hao Ren reported to Raven 12345, who examined the Godslaying Sword and explained that its material was a fragment containing the rules of the world it came from.

Hao Ren searched for the vanished Yggdrasil and helped Zhao Xi recover after a fragment of the Creation Goddess’s thoughts surfaced through her. He spoke with the Godslayer Sword and learned more about the Goddess’s final moments, while her motives remained uncertain.

• Raven 12345 explained the Godslaying Sword’s origins and gave it to Hao Ren, whose year-end bonus turned out to be divine kitchenware.
• Hao Ren and his allies traced Gungnir’s signal to Jupiter and opened a gateway to the Nine Kingdoms, but Yggdrasil severed the connection and fled the Solar System.
• Hao Ren recruited Mimir and mobilized Inspectors to search for Yggdrasil, while Galadriel and Galazhor reported that the Wall of Reality’s rifts had stopped changing since he took office.
• Hao Ren found Zhao Xi barely responsive and learned that a powerful consciousness was entangled with her soul after her capture at the Spirit Realm Bell Tower.
• The consciousness spoke through Zhao Xi, forgave its children, and wrecked Hao Ren’s basement before Zhao Xi regained consciousness and Hao Ren identified the presence as a remnant of the Creation Goddess.
• Hao Ren connected Zhao Xi’s condition to the Godslayer Sword and entered its mental world, where the newly thinking sword recalled that the Creation Goddess had calmly said, “So it's come to this at last,” before she was killed.
• Hao Ren learned that the sword’s whispers echoed listeners’ own thoughts, and Raven 12345 told him his divinity likely blocked its influence.
• Hao Ren considered that the Creation Goddess might have chosen her death to accomplish something, but did not conclude that she had masterminded events.

Hao Ren uncovered the Creation Engine’s core in Corpus Space, learned it could rebuild the barrier between the Dream Plane and the Outer World, and began arranging its construction. As the project took shape, he followed reports of Yggdrasil to a dying star and prepared to contact it with Mimir’s help.

• Hao Ren investigated spatial rifts near the Spirit Realm Bell Tower with Bai Huo, and Vivian opened the hidden vault containing a relic the Data Terminal identified as the Creation Engine’s core.
• Raven 12345 and Maggie examined the core and determined that the Creation Engine could reconstruct the world barrier, separating the Dream Plane from the Outer World and closing the Wall of Reality.
• Raven 12345 gave Hao Ren the core blueprints and told him to seek the finished portion of the engine in the Dark Domain, while the other nine Golden disks would have to be found separately.
• Hao Ren consulted Muru, Lemendusa, and Siv, showed them the God-slaying Sword, and connected them with Mimir, who was welcomed as their surviving kin.
• Hao Ren refitted Patian as a construction ship and began building workshops and dead-star forges at Sulun’s Gate, while Lemendusa stayed behind to oversee the work.
• After learning the Hunters had found Yggdrasil, Hao Ren gathered Nangong May, Nangong Sanba, Izax, and Elizabeth, then traveled to meet Galadriel and Anthony near the dying Chadnell Star.
• Anthony showed Hao Ren Yggdrasil’s partly open domain, and Hao Ren and the Data Terminal used Anthony’s Hibern Crystal to contact it.
• Yggdrasil sensed the signal and tried to flee, but Mimir’s voice crossed the barrier of space and told it to calm down.