Recaps

Hao Ren’s group uncovered Bethmos’s failed attempt to use the Origin Holy Artifact and escaped the collapsing ruins, then Hao Ren brought the artifact home to study it. Their research linked the device to the origins of the Otherworlders and exposed signs of genetic decline among Demon Hunters.

• Hao Ren and his companions escaped the collapsing ruins with Bethmos after discovering that the Origin Holy Artifact was an incomplete cultivation device, not a Space Gate.
• Heiserana and Jean Lucas helped restore the sanctuary after the Demon Hunters withdrew, while Hao Ren returned home with Hesperis to study her Demon Hunter abilities.
• Hao Ren used Raven 12345’s contract to suppress the mark on Hesperis, and the Autonomous Mechanical Unit removed the arrowhead lodged in her head.
• Hao Ren sent the Origin Holy Artifact and other samples to his ship’s research cabin, where the Data Terminal identified the artifact as a device for synthesizing and growing humanoid creatures.
• Hao Ren, Vivian, and Hesperis connected the artifact to Athena’s cryptic remarks and strange disappearances on Mount Olympus, while the Data Terminal began testing copies of the device.
• The Data Terminal found signs of a genetic disease reducing young Demon Hunters’ magic and fertility, and Hao Ren decided to investigate their decline further.
• Back home, Hao Ren learned that Lily’s tail fur had not regrown, so Vivian prepared an ointment and pinned Lily down with Hao Ren to apply it.

Hao Ren recovered the Holy Church Orb and four ascetics, then retrieved a lost Campbell spaceship from the Blood Lake. The orb returned to Leighton Town as the group learned that Stone Giants had devastated the region and a new monster-filled mountain road threatened the Sacred Lake.

• Vivian’s hair-growth remedy made Lily’s tail swell, while the Data Terminal told Hao Ren that the Kabala United Kingdom had claimed the wrecked spaceship.
• Hao Ren met Kabala’s delegation, identified four transported ascetics on a nearby planet, and set out with Becky and his companions to retrieve them and the Holy Church Orb.
• Hao Ren explained the worlds and their limits to the ascetics, then matched the orb to the Origin Holy Artifact and created a replica for it.
• Doudou swallowed material inside the artifact and developed teleportation hiccups, which the Data Terminal stopped by startling her with music.
• Hao Ren led the group into the Dream Plane, where Kabala’s engineers recovered their spaceship from the Blood Lake and transferred it to Kuiper Station.
• The group found the lakeside outpost destroyed and fought more than a hundred Stone Giants, which Hao Ren defeated by trapping them in his portable space.
• Church and Kingdom knights met the group, recognized the ascetics, and escorted them to Leighton Town after learning the Holy Church Orb had returned.
• Geldon and Marshal Ofra discussed the Stone Giants’ attacks and a new miasma-filled mountain road, while Ofra offered forces to help secure the Sacred Lake.

Hao Ren and his companions investigated the Stone Giants, the Twisted Woods, and a heretical cult as the Beinz Blood Lake collapsed into a vortex. Beneath the lake, they reached the Twisted Woods’ living heart and found an ancient message that began, “We... came from the starry sky...”

• Geldon reported that corpses were disappearing near the Dragon Ridge Mountains, and he sent Ofra to warn the Pope and the King while he investigated a blood-smelling tunnel.
• Ofra summoned Hao Ren’s group to the capital for their rewards, but Hao Ren instead divided the group to investigate the Blood Lake, the Stone Giants, and the southern Sky Road.
• Hao Ren and Nangong May found the Sky Road and discovered that the ground swallowed soldiers’ bodies, while Vivian and Lily fought a tentacle in a tunnel beneath the lakeside outpost.
• Hao Ren and Nangong May uncovered a heretical ritual in a hidden cave, defeated its cultists and Giant Brain, and rescued a drugged child.
• Hao Ren told Ofra about the heretics, but a white pillar rose near Beinz Blood Lake and a gigantic vortex swallowed the Sacred Church and its island.
• Geldon and Ofra led Hao Ren’s group into the vortex to recover the Holy Coffin, and they emerged in a cavern beneath the lake where Big Beard said the group matched an oracle about visitors from beyond the world.
• Hao Ren’s group explored the underground caves, found the Twisted Woods’ roots, and followed Big Beard through an ancient teleportation gate to the Divine Cave’s core.
• Hao Ren and Big Beard found a black box beside the pulsing heart of the Twisted Woods and deciphered the opening line of its ancient message: “We... came from the starry sky...”

Hao Ren’s group fought the awakening Firstborn and destroyed it with an orbital strike, then investigated the Radiant Church’s goddess and celebrated New Year together. Izax recounted his fallen empire, while Lanina’s arrival revived the possibility that his daughter had survived.

• Big Beard read the ancient message, revealing that the Firstborn and Thirdborn had been unleashed by damage to the Primordial Seed and that the Life Progenitor’s safeguards were failing.
• As the Firstborn stirred beneath Beinz Diocese, Hao Ren’s group helped Ofra evacuate Leighton Town and fought the tentacles and Terror Beasts attacking its people.
• Geldon sacrificed himself to open a path for the retreat, and Hao Ren’s group fled as the Twisted Woods rose and revealed the Firstborn.
• Hao Ren summoned the Giant Turtle Rock Platform and used its main cannon to annihilate the Firstborn, then returned from the Dream Plane with his companions.
• Hao Ren investigated the Radiant Church’s goddess with Raven 12345, who concluded that the Creation Goddess was real but extremely weak and offered to help her.
• Hao Ren and his household celebrated New Year, and Izax told him about his daughter, the destruction of his empire, and his failed attempt to unite the world.
• Lily accidentally blasted Lanina out of the sky with a firework, and Izax recognized the former subordinate when she awoke.
• Lanina recounted her journey through other worlds and told Izax that the princess might still be alive.