Recaps

Hao Ren returned Becky to Horleta, investigated the seals and the Firstborn’s past, and discovered a seed weapon on the Moon. Back home, he began pursuing new leads while Roll’s strange behavior raised concern.

• Hao Ren and his companions returned to Horleta, where Ofra introduced them to King Moron and the Church leaders seeking help with the Firstborn.
• Hao Ren observed the Marking Ritual and learned that the Church’s Blood of Origin was replicated Primordial Seed source blood.
• King Moron rewarded Becky with an estate and the title of viscount, and Hao Ren installed a teleporter in her cellar before joining the expedition to Sunset Volcano.
• Hao Ren examined the Firstborn and its sacred coffin, learned that the Life Progenitor was failing, and abandoned the expedition after seeing the dangers of attacking the dormant creature.
• Hao Ren left Becky in Horleta and took his companions to the Moon, where they found a frozen seed that the Data Terminal identified as a Firstborn warship.
• Hao Ren returned home and offered Nangong Sanba a place with the Time-Space Administration Bureau, then learned that the three masters had settled into lives around the world.
• Hao Ren recovered a fragment of a Wrath Spirit for research, but the group soon searched for Roll after he vanished with glowing red eyes.
• Nangong Sanba tried to teach Dou Dou to use her Demon Hunter powers, but her practice sent her flying across the coffee table.

Hao Ren investigated Roll’s transformation and Vivian’s forgotten past while uncovering new dangers connected to the Firstborn and the Red Nova. The arc left him preparing to build a Dream Plane research station with Raven 12345’s help and planning to safely contain Horleta’s eldest son.

• Hao Ren learned that a golden apple had awakened Roll’s intelligence, and Raven 12345 approved Nangong Sanba as his assistant while accepting Origin Blood and Tanagrus records for safekeeping.
• Vivian and Hao Ren uncovered her hidden manuscript describing forgotten awakenings and recurring episodes of fury before her involuntary sleeps, then Raven 12345 sent a charm that seemed to suppress her narcolepsy.
• The Data Terminal’s experiments revealed that the Firstborn’s tissues consumed dead matter and provided tools to keep Horleta’s Firstborn dormant and interfere with its behavior.
• Hao Ren and the Nangong siblings began analyzing the wrath spirit for clues about May’s parents while Hao Ren secured Raven 12345’s approval and funding for a Dream Plane research station.
• Hao Ren linked Tanagrus’s mysterious Arcana First Star with Horleta’s legend of the Manula Disaster Star and named the suspected celestial phenomenon the Red Nova.
• Hao Ren arranged with Hilda to excavate two immense buried Firstborns, but a Firstborn Seed in Demon King’s City’s new furnace projected a phantom city until the furnace was shut down.
• Hao Ren returned to Earth with Roll and his companions, and Raven 12345 revealed her construction module had exploded before offering to help build the research station and bind Horleta’s eldest son in a divinely empowered vessel.

Hao Ren helped the Erem Elves extract two Firstborn from Horleta and contain them at the Crystal Apple Core Research Station, while the Return Sect’s link to a Giant Brain remained under investigation. Back on Earth, he found an injured Siren whose account connected the Queen’s strange behavior and the coming Day of Return to a grotesque brain-like sea monster.

• Hao Ren and Raven 12345 built a moon-sized research station in Tanagrus’s orbit to contain the Firstborn, and the Erem Elf crews began work on Horleta.
• Hao Ren’s team excavated the Firstborn entangled in the Giant Life Tree’s roots and moved it and a second specimen to the station.
• At Moron’s feast, a Return Sect monster attacked, and Izax later confirmed that the sect had created it and used a divine scroll connected to a Giant Brain.
• Hao Ren and Vivian learned that the Firstborn’s red spheres, nerve ganglia, and nerve fibers formed a distributed brain, then left the station to study the cores as they recovered.
• Hao Ren investigated abnormal water with Nangong May and found an injured Siren named Shaqila hiding in a water tower.
• Shaqila explained that the Queen’s Guard had begun forcibly reclaiming surface-dwelling Sirens and that the Queen had changed after the Sirens captured a grotesque brain-like sea monster.

Hao Ren and his allies entered Nathatone to free the Siren Queen and stop a Giant Brain from widening a route to the Dream Plane. They restored the Queen to her body and shut down the city’s shield, but learned they had only a month to find the Great Vortex’s other end and discovered Nathatone might reveal the Sirens’ lost homeworld.

• Shaqila guided Hao Ren’s group and the Demon Hunters toward Nathatone, where they fought the Ghost Ship North Sea Queen and rescued General Vanessa, who warned that a monster had possessed the Siren Queen.
• The group infiltrated Nathatone, found Sirens and other Others enslaved to power the Great Vortex, and Hao Ren discovered that the city was an ancient spaceship.
• Hao Ren’s allies fought through the palace as he reached the Giant Brain’s chamber and realized the brain held the Siren Queen’s consciousness, while the Queen’s body battled Izax and the Demon Hunters.
• Hao Ren used a Protective Crystal to weaken the brain monster’s control, and he and his allies subdued the Queen before restoring her consciousness to her own body.
• The Siren Queen explained that the Great Vortex had fused with the Great Shield Wall, then shut down Nathatone’s shield to buy time as Hassu promised to keep the city’s exposed defenses secret.
• The Data Terminal concluded that the vortex threatened the Wall of Reality and that the group had a month to find its other end, while Katerina revealed the Sirens had stopped resisting because the vortex’s aura matched their homeland.
• Hao Ren realized Nathatone might know the location of the Sirens’ origin planet.