Recaps

Dr. An explained that the Research Institute’s classified archives might hold secrets about the Crimson Moon and the first-generation researchers, and the team began investigating the ruins. The chapter ended with Master Li sending electronic flies inside to scout while Lu Xin questioned whether their defensive shock was useful against dangerous creatures.

• Dr. An told Lu Xin that confidential paper records had been left in the Research Institute, while the researchers and remaining staff had later disappeared.
• Dr. An gathered the team and explained that completing the investigation would clear their charges for using parasitic items.
• The team reached the Research Institute’s fenced entrance and began the first stage of its investigation.
• Master Li deployed tiny electronic flies to photograph the ruins and detect radiation or signal interference.
• Dr. An explained that the flies could short-circuit and release a thousand volts to startle nearby mental forces or mysterious creatures, leaving Lu Xin unconvinced.

Lu Xin and the others discovered an identification card bearing his face in the abandoned Research Institute, linking Lu Tianming to its High-Dimensional Life Research Project. Dr. An explained the project’s pre-Crimson Moon origins and described a society where people had lost happiness, ending with the revelation that some believed God had awakened.

• Lu Xin watched Master Li’s electronic flies map the abandoned Research Institute and noticed a familiar sheet of paper in the west building of Area A.
• Master Li reconstructed the paper as an identification card marked “HHIII013: Lu Tianming,” with a photograph identical to Lu Xin.
• Dr. An said she had never seen Lu Tianming, but recognized the card as one issued to people involved in the High-Dimensional Life Research Project.
• Dr. An explained that the project was among the Crimson Moon Research Institute’s earliest pursuits and recounted the pre-Civilization Era’s prosperity and technological advances.
• Dr. An described how people in that era increasingly fell into loneliness and emptiness despite their comfort and security.
• Dr. An said some people believed the widespread loss of happiness was the beginning of a cycle and that God had already awakened.

Dr. An explained that some researchers believed high-dimensional life caused civilizations to vanish, while the Crimson Moon Research Institute centered its work on the Genesis Hard Drive. Lu Xin entered the institute and discovered signs that he knew Area A despite having no reason to have been there, leaving his connection to the site unexplained.

• Dr. An told Lu Xin that researchers had proposed high-dimensional life as the cause of recurring disasters and said the Genesis Hard Drive was the institute’s main research focus.
• Dr. An led Lu Xin, Sister, Sisi, and Doctors Zhang and Wang into Area A while Master Li and the others continued scanning outside.
• Lu Xin said the building felt familiar and that he believed he had once worked there for a long time.
• Dr. An explained that experimental subjects had been confined in Area D and that only first-generation researchers could enter Area A.
• Lu Xin entered an office and found a magician’s deck containing the Ace of Spades and King of Hearts, though he could not explain how he knew it was there.

Lu Xin and Dr. An’s team searched the abandoned Research Institute for records about the Genesis Hard Drive, but found the archive empty. Lu Xin’s growing familiarity led him to a skeleton identified as Bi Zaizhi, where he recognized a scene from an earlier nightmare and realized more of the Institute lay ahead.

• Lu Xin suppressed his confusion after finding the deck of cards in an office, and the team continued through the abandoned Research Institute.
• The team reached the sealed archive, and Lu Xin opened its iron door by hand after recognizing it from his strange memories.
• Dr. Zhang and Dr. Wang found the archive empty, but Lu Xin sensed that some information remained and led the others down a corridor.
• Lu Xin followed vivid memories through the underground building and found a skeleton carrying an identification card for Psychological Counselor Bi Zaizhi.
• Lu Xin recognized the corridor from a nightmare he had experienced in Qinggang and saw a fallen metal shelf, scattered blackened pills, prison-like wards, and three doors ahead.

Lu Xin entered the abandoned Crimson Moon Research Institute and triggered memories of his past there, including experiments and conversations about humanity’s supposed evolution. As Dr. An recorded the mental information he uncovered, Lu Xin faced the dancing man whose blood-drawn symbols appeared to hold the key to the investigation.

• Lu Xin found a corpse, returned its identification card to the white coat, and continued through the institute’s abandoned cells as memories of the facility’s former patients surfaced.
• Lu Xin reached the second-to-last cell and saw a barefoot man dancing in the darkness, while twisted symbols covered the walls and ceiling.
• Lu Xin’s mental power activated hidden memories of his interrogations and experiments, including his encounter with Bi Zaizhi and a researcher who described humanity’s curse as an opportunity for higher-dimensional evolution.
• Lu Xin remembered himself laughing in a scarred cell and accusing the researchers of destroying the world, then heard the dancing man say that everyone was a mirror.
• The dancing man bit his fingers and used his blood to cover the cell walls with strange symbols, while Lu Xin suffered from the flood of memories.
• Dr. An told Dr. Zhang and Dr. Wang that the information was the key to their investigation and used Profiling to record what Lu Xin was experiencing.

Lu Xin learned through Lu Tianming’s memories that the Genesis Hard Drive was designed to restart the world using a primary consciousness and countless people in cultivation vats. As Lu Xin and Dr. An recognized what the first-generation researchers had pursued, a hidden group prepared to retrieve the experimental subjects and ordered the Genesis Hard Drive’s power activated.

• Lu Xin witnessed Lu Tianming’s history as a vengeful killer, his recruitment into the research project, and his horror after learning he might become the Genesis Hard Drive’s primary consciousness.
• Lu Tianming told Lu Xin to “Restart” before a mental torrent showed him rows of cultivation vats and a vast projected world of buildings and monsters.
• Lu Xin awoke and told Dr. Zhang, Dr. Wang, and Dr. An that he had seen the Genesis Hard Drive; Dr. An confirmed she had seen it too.
• At a hidden facility, a man and a robed old man discussed Professor Wang’s role in finding a suitable vessel and decided to begin retrieving the experimental subjects.
• The man ordered the Genesis Hard Drive’s power activated, or the group’s other method used, because he feared further accidents.

Lu Xin learned that the first-generation researchers’ Genesis Hard Drive plan had caused the Crimson Moon incident and that the information he uncovered might contain the Sole Consciousness. As the mental power at the Research Institute receded, several dangerous beings and forces began moving toward it, and the Circus Master announced that the Sole Consciousness had awakened and the final plan would begin.

• Dr. An told Lu Xin that the researchers knew of the Genesis Hard Drive and had brought him to the old Research Institute site on the advice of a secret letter left by a dead genius researcher.
• Lu Xin admitted he could not fully understand the vast information he had received, and Dr. An realized it contained the Sole Consciousness and ordered the investigation team to protect his departure.
• A deep sigh sounded beneath the Research Institute as the mental power that had connected Lu Xin with the information began to recede.
• A childlike voice in the forest claimed that the bride and the Sole Consciousness belonged to it.
• A headless Buddha awakened, took its head, and walked toward the Research Institute, while a man opened a pit and released the creatures inside.
• The Circus Master identified the power as Ultimate Fantasy and said the Sole Consciousness had awakened, bringing the secret of The Beginning and the final plan to the surface.

Lu Xin learned that the first-generation researchers planned to combine the Genesis Hard Drive’s world-spanning fantasy with the power of True Creation to take control of the world. After he received the information hidden in the Research Institute, its protective taboo began fading, and dangerous entities poured inside as he and Dr. An tried to escape.

• Dr. An explained that the first-generation researchers needed the power of True Creation to use the Genesis Hard Drive’s fantasy to control the world, which she called the Sole Consciousness.
• Lu Xin considered the information he had received and wondered about the failed high-dimensional life experiment, the Crimson Moon incident, and Lu Tianming’s fate.
• A huge tentacle brushed past the electronic flies, and Lu Xin realized the Research Institute’s taboo had been protecting its information for him while keeping other entities out.
• As the taboo faded, strange entities rushed toward the Research Institute, and tentacles began emerging through the corridor doors.

Lu Xin and his companions were trapped in an illusion that pulled them into a convincing version of the Research Institute from thirty years earlier, reinforced by the Genesis Hard Drive. Sister tore open the illusion with Fire Thief’s pen, leaving Lu Xin stunned as she denied stealing it.

• Dr. An and the others saw human-faced tentacles emerge in the corridor before the scene shifted to the Research Institute as it had been thirty years earlier, complete with panicked staff and armed guards.
• Dr. An realized the illusion was pulling them into the past, and Lu Xin briefly countered it with his own illusionary power.
• The Genesis Hard Drive overwhelmed Lu Xin’s power and restored the illusion, while Dr. An led the group forward using Profiling and was wounded by gunfire within the fantasy.
• As Dr. An’s condition worsened, Sister appeared and slashed through the illusion with a golden-wire steel pen, causing the fantasy to collapse.
• Lu Xin recognized the pen as Fire Thief’s, and Sister hid it in her backpack and denied taking it.

Lu Xin and the others escaped the illusion in the Research Institute, with Sister using the Fire Thief's pen to clear their path. They regrouped with Master Li, Azhen, and Sisi, and continued fleeing as the institute's abnormalities awakened.

• Lu Xin realized Sister had stolen the Fire Thief's pen, then helped Dr. An and Doctors Zhang and Wang recover after the illusion broke.
• Dr. An asked how the illusion had been broken, but Lu Xin denied hearing anything about the Fire Thief's pen and led everyone toward the exit.
• Sister used the pen to dispel repeated illusions as the group hurried through the Institute's dangerous corridors.
• Lu Xin and the others met Master Li, Azhen, and Sisi on the first underground floor as the Institute began to tremble.
• Sisi's stone Buddha head shone on the group, but Lu Xin's gaze shattered it; Sisi said she had brought it as a gift for Sister.

Lu Xin and the others found the Research Institute surrounded by bizarre entities and Mindless People, while Dr. An concluded the first-generation researchers had laid a trap to keep Lu Xin there. She revealed Plan B: Azhen would carry Lu Xin to safety with the information, while the rest stayed behind.

• Master Li explained that Sisi and the others had come down because bizarre entities were gathering outside the Research Institute.
• Dr. An broke the first-floor windows, revealing the Institute surrounded by mental chaos, bizarre creatures, and Mindless People.
• Dr. An suspected the first-generation researchers had arranged the danger to delay Lu Xin after he received the hidden information.
• Lu Xin proposed breaking out together, but Dr. An warned that the Institute's weakening forbidden power would no longer protect them outside.
• Dr. An activated Azhen's sprint mode and explained that he would carry Lu Xin to the Negative Zero Unit waiting a hundred kilometers away.
• Dr. An told Lu Xin to prepare to leave, revealing that the others considered sending out the information more important than their own safety.

Lu Xin rejected Dr. An’s plan to sacrifice the group and insisted they try to escape together, explaining that his own principles mattered more to him than choosing the supposedly optimal solution. Dr. An agreed to lead a breakout, and Lu Xin reaffirmed that he intended to return to Qinggang, where people were waiting for him.

• Dr. An and the others accepted a plan that would leave Lu Xin behind, but Lu Xin refused to escape alone.
• Dr. An angrily confronted Lu Xin about the importance of what was inside him and the danger of letting the strange creatures take it.
• Lu Xin pushed Dr. An away and said he would not abandon the others, even if his choice seemed foolish to the researchers.
• Lu Xin told Dr. An he was proud to follow his own principles instead of accepting other people’s arrangements, and she recalled someone whose choice had left her in despair.
• Dr. An ordered the group to prepare for a breakout as the Research Institute’s taboo power faded and the creatures drew closer.
• Master Li asked where Lu Xin lived, and Lu Xin said he would return to Qinggang because many people were waiting for him.

Lu Xin led the team out of the Research Institute and unleashed his power against the gathered Mental Monsters, destroying their ranks and revealing an old building filled with bizarre versions of himself. As the building devoured the Mental Lords, Lu Xin looked toward the Crimson Moon and declared himself a tyrant who enjoyed destruction.

• Lu Xin decided he could not rely on Father or Mom and led Dr. An and the others out of the Research Institute.
• Lu Xin charged into the gathered Mental Monsters and swept them away with a devastating mental shockwave.
• Lu Xin expanded his Distortion Field to nearly two hundred meters, crushing the monsters that attacked or fled within its reach.
• Lu Xin admitted to Dr. An that he was a monster, then advanced as Mental Lords attacked him with their own fields and shockwaves.
• Lu Xin summoned an old building whose bizarre versions of himself seized the Mental Lords and dragged them inside to be devoured.
• Lu Xin looked toward the Crimson Moon and said he was still a tyrant who liked destroying things.

Lu Xin unleashed his twisted force field and led Dr. An and the others through the wasteland, destroying the strange creatures in their path. A three-headed worm brought two old men to confront him, and one demanded that Lu Xin hand over the Sole Consciousness; Lu Xin asked how much they were offering.

• Lu Xin felt newly free as he used his mental core to control his destructive power, while Sister proudly said the toys in her bag would help her become a queen.
• Dr. An and the others advanced inside Lu Xin's expanding twisted force field, and Dr. Wang estimated that an ordinary Ability User could sustain it for only three seconds.
• Lu Xin swept through the wasteland, erasing strange creatures and mindless people while resisting the growing urge to destroy everything.
• A dark-red, three-headed worm emerged and blocked the path, shielding a jeep as it approached Lu Xin's old building.
• Two old men stepped out of the jeep, and the man in the black robe demanded that Lu Xin hand over the Sole Consciousness; Lu Xin asked how much they were offering.

Lu Xin attacked the two Crimson Moon Research Institute founders, but the chief researcher stopped him with the Ultimate power of Emptiness and revealed the truth behind Lu Xin’s origins. The chapter ended with Lu Xin realizing that the researchers had sealed the imprisoned god’s anger inside him.

• Dr. An recognized the two men beside the jeep as the Crimson Moon Research Institute’s founders and feared that the Negative Zero Unit could not help them.
• Lu Xin unleashed a powerful mental shockwave against the founders, but the chief researcher used a K of Diamonds card to summon Emptiness and erase the attack.
• The chief researcher explained that Emptiness was the strongest defense and told Lu Xin that his hostility toward the researchers came from contamination and false memories.
• The chief researcher used a mirror to show Lu Xin that his reflected face matched Lu Tianming’s, then described how the researchers’ experiment turned a man into a god before they killed and imprisoned him in the Abyss.
• The chief researcher said the imprisoned god’s anger had contaminated Lu Xin, who alone had survived without becoming distorted, and revealed that the researchers had sealed the anger inside him.

The old man explained that Lu Xin had been chosen as a container for the rage left behind by a being killed while transforming into a god, and offered to free him if he handed over Sole Consciousness. Lu Xin rejected the offer, while the old man argued that his group was the only safe choice and promised to end both the world's chaos and Lu Xin's nightmare.

• The old man told Lu Xin that contamination had made him resemble its source and that the rage sealed inside him was beyond the ultimate level.
• The black child demanded its bride, but Lu Xin's glare frightened it into silence.
• The old man admitted that his group had chosen Lu Xin as a container and said their experiments could soon free him if he handed over Sole Consciousness.
• Lu Xin demanded to know why he had been made to bear the power and refused the offer with an insult.
• The old man urged Lu Xin to distrust the Eclipse Research Institute and Qinggang, claiming that handing Sole Consciousness to either could worsen the world's chaos.
• The old man declared that his group would use Sole Consciousness to end the nightmarish world and Lu Xin's nightmare.

After learning the truth about his origins, Lu Xin rejected the researchers’ demands and fled with Sister, only for Mom to cut Sister’s shadow away from him. The chapter left Lu Xin stumbling, with Sister’s shadow fading and Mom standing against them.

• Lu Xin said he hated the researchers but refused to choose between them over Sole Consciousness, declaring that he would take the matter to someone he trusted.
• Lu Xin grabbed Sister and fled at full speed, while Dr. An, Master Li, Zhang, Wang, Sisi, and Azhen moved to block the researchers.
• The old man in the black priest’s robe criticized the old man in the white coat for seeking the best outcome and summoned a black playing card bearing a rune-covered eye.
• As Lu Xin ran with Sister, he sensed Mom’s presence and saw her holding scissors by the roadside.
• Mom cut toward Lu Xin, and Sister’s shadow began to fade as Mom stood against them.

Mom revealed that she had been placed beside Lu Xin to monitor and contain him, and that their family life had been a lie. Lu Xin stopped himself from striking her, but Mom used her Insight power to trap him in a cage as the Black Bishop closed in.

• Sister disappeared, leaving Lu Xin without her Spider-type ability, and Mom admitted that she had stayed with him under orders.
• The Black Bishop explained that Mom, Father, and the Night Prisoner had been assigned to monitor Lu Xin and restrain his thoughts and powers.
• Mom confirmed that their family had been part of a containment plan and described how the researchers had controlled Lu Xin since his return from the orphanage incident.
• Overwhelmed by the revelation, Lu Xin charged at Mom but stopped his fist, saying he had learned to control his power.
• Mom formed a cage of blood-red eyes around Lu Xin, and the Black Bishop approached, satisfied that his escape had been sealed off.

Black Bishop led the Abyssal Worm as it overwhelmed Dr. An and the others, while Lu Xin remained trapped beneath the Fate Seer’s influence and surrounded by anomalies. Just as the Abyssal Worm began devouring Lu Xin’s incarnations, the Negative Zero Unit arrived by helicopter and formed a defensive circle around him.

• Dr. An, Doctors Wang and Zhang, Master Li, Azhen, and Sisi attacked the Abyssal Worm, but it devoured or killed them as Black Bishop watched.
• Black Bishop summoned a blood-red door that dragged Azhen inside, while the Abyssal Worm consumed Sisi’s blood threads and Dr. An fell wounded.
• Black Bishop crushed Dr. An’s hand as the Abyssal Worm pierced Lu Xin’s old buildings and devoured his incarnations.
• Helicopters launched electric missiles that destroyed anomalies and blew apart part of the Abyssal Worm’s head.
• The Negative Zero Unit descended beside Lu Xin, formed a circle around him, and fired at the surrounding anomalies.

Dean Xue Jia arrived with the Negative Zero Unit and used the Truth Cage to restrain the Abyssal Worm, but the Black Bishop unleashed a horde of monstrous Lu Xin clones against them. The chapter left the Negative Zero Unit and Xue Jia facing the attacking clones as the Black Bishop revealed they had been made into weapons.

• Xue Jia rode into the battlefield and confronted the Black Bishop, saying he would stop his former teacher.
• Xue Jia opened the Truth Cage, whose Domination Chains pierced the Abyssal Worm and began dragging it into the notebook.
• The Negative Zero Unit protected Lu Xin and advanced against the strange creatures while Xue Jia restrained the worm.
• The Black Bishop dropped a playing card, opening dark-red doors that released ferocious monsters against the Negative Zero Unit and Xue Jia.
• The Black Bishop revealed that the monsters were clones of Lu Xin created as weapons after they failed to contain his mental power.

The First-Generation Researchers unleashed the Abyss and overwhelmed the battlefield, while the Crowned Clown’s arrival briefly disrupted the tyrant legion. As the Black Bishop ordered the Sole Consciousness brought to him, Mom warned Lu Xin that she might soon leave his side.

• Xue Jia rescued Dr. An from the savage tyrant legion and revealed that he and others had prepared to face the First-Generation Researchers.
• The Crowned Clown appeared and threw the battlefield’s abnormalities into chaos with his laughter.
• The chief researcher used a trump card to cover the area with the Abyss, silencing the Crowned Clown and terrifying the gathered mental creatures.
• The Black Bishop threatened the Crowned Clown and ordered someone to bring him the Sole Consciousness.
• Mom approached Lu Xin amid the blood-red eyes, told him that Sister was with Little Nineteen, and said she might not be able to stay by his side.

Wang Jingyun revealed that he had arranged for Zhang Si huo to infiltrate the research institute and free him and Seven. After learning the researchers’ plan, Wang Jingyun ordered Zhang Si huo to expose the Genesis Hard Drive’s coordinates so they could destroy it directly.

• Wang Jingyun refused to join the First-Generation Researchers’ experiment and said he cared more about Lu Xin’s Trial of Heart.
• Wang Jingyun called on Four Fires, causing the young researcher to reveal Zhang Si huo, who had infected him and opened the cells.
• Wang Jingyun told Seven that he had arranged Zhang Si huo’s infiltration in advance and admitted that he had used her resistance to distract the researchers.
• Zhang Si huo reported that Xue Jia had devised an interesting plan and that the institute’s defenses made direct sabotage of the Genesis Hard Drive impossible.
• Wang Jingyun revealed that Zhang Si huo had planted a controlled consciousness seed in his body and ordered him to release the drive’s coordinates so they could blow it up.

Mom severed the ties that bound her to the Spirit Hall, freeing herself from the control of the other Ultimates and revealing her trust in Lu Xin as family. Her awakened eyes exposed the Abyss’s secrets, allowing Xue Jia to record them and explain the gamble he had made with Mom.

• Black Bishop noticed the Fate Seer was not resisting the Tyrant and sent The Void to protect him while he approached the Sole Consciousness.
• Mom cut the invisible threads binding her to the Spirit Hall, causing Black Bishop’s playing card to lose its power.
• Mom’s essential power fell, but her blood-colored eyes multiplied across the Abyss and seized the consciousnesses of nearby creatures.
• Mom embraced Lu Xin and told him she had chosen to trust him because they were family.
• Xue Jia’s notebook recorded the Abyss’s primordial secrets as Mom’s eyes exposed them.
• Xue Jia told Dr. An that he had agreed to risk the Eclipse Research Institute because Mom wanted her fate—and her family—to remain her own.

Dean Xue and the Eclipse Research Institute used Mom’s revelation and the Infiltrators’ information network to activate the Sky Thunder Plan, aiming to raise The Beginning and threaten the first-generation researchers’ control of the abyss. The five electric pythons entered the abyss as Dean Xue explained his plan to Dr. An.

• Mom severed her connection with the Spirit Hall and used Insight on the Genesis Hard Drive, alarming the Black Bishop and the first-generation chief researcher.
• Dean Xue removed his helmet and read the notebook, using the Infiltrators to transmit the abyss’s secrets despite the Black Bishop’s attempts to destroy them.
• Researchers at the Eclipse Research Institute calculated the data and activated the Sky Thunder Plan, while Xia Chong pushed open a massive door into the abyss.
• Four other laboratories launched electric pythons into the abyss, and an old man in a black priest’s robe adjusted their trajectory.
• Dean Xue told Dr. An that the plan would raise The Beginning by one level and make the first-generation researchers fear using the abyss.

Dean Xue Jia and his allies used a secret device to strike weak points in the Abyss and weaken the First-Generation Researchers’ control, hoping to release The Beginning’s power and create a counterbalance. Black Bishop and the Chief Researcher recognized the threat and began repairing the breach as the Abyss started to collapse.

• Dr. An understood Dean Xue Jia’s plan to strengthen The Beginning’s influence over the Abyss and undermine the First-Generation Researchers’ control.
• The Fate Seer and Dean Xue Jia used insight and the Research Institute’s Abyssal Creature Destruction Device to strike weak points in the Abyss’s framework.
• The Abyss began collapsing in a chain reaction, disturbing people in cultivation tanks beneath a distant base.
• Dean Xue Jia gave Dr. An the last of his protective contract and told Black Bishop that bad students could defeat their teacher.
• The Chief Researcher realized they were trying to release the deepest power of the Abyss to balance against the First-Generation Researchers, and Black Bishop prepared to stop them.
• The Chief Researcher activated the Genesis Hard Drive’s fantasy power to repair the breach while Black Bishop readied his cards.