Recaps

Att transformed into the Tumor Emperor and used Tumor and Heaven to overpower William, while Yi Chen’s attacks failed to stop him. After Att shattered William’s abyssal body, he found a cold, lifeless sun inside as William announced that the inversion was complete.

• Att merged Heavenly Divinity with his plague and created the Tumor Emperor and the malignant cityscape of Tumor and Heaven.
• William began inverting the storybook inside his abyss while Att’s golden rain forced him into the role of a prostrate pilgrim.
• Att bound William with golden grapevines and repelled Yi Chen’s weakened attacks with the golden arms on his Disc Wings.
• Att struck William’s abyssal body with a hammer and Sacred Nail, shattering his head and revealing a cold, lifeless sun inside.
• William announced that the inversion was complete as the city trembled more violently and began to rotate.

William used the Flipping Room to reverse the storybook’s surface and prepare the city for the Final Performance, while Yi Chen helped suppress the book and kept Atet occupied. The city turned upside down, causing the Cancer Cells and golden angels to release their energy, which the Abyss gathered into Little Grape’s revealed Dead Sun.

• William explained that his Internal Subspace served as a Flipping Room and that he had only managed to reverse the storybook’s surface.
• William praised Yi Chen for disguising his strength and asked him to force Atet back while the city flipped.
• Atet tried to destroy the Evil Sun inside William’s Abyssal Body, but Yi Chen cut through the golden palm and forced him to retreat.
• The entire city rotated 180 degrees, and the golden angels fell to their deaths as their Cancer Cells released energy.
• The Abyss absorbed the energy released by the angels and Cancer Cells, revealing Little Grape’s Dead Sun inside William’s shattered body.

William’s preparations culminated in Little Grape raising the Dead Sun and taking control of the stage, while William inverted his role to become armor supporting Yi Chen. Yate responded by creating a replica of a divine God-Slaying Spear, setting the stage for their final battle.

• William had Little Grape study the Evil Sun’s sons, hoping Little Grape’s Evil Sun Inversion would help defeat Yate.
• Little Grape rose above the shattered Abyssal Body as the Dead Sun, covering Yate’s Tumor and Heaven and creating a cold, dark stage that restored Yi Chen’s strength.
• William transformed his Abyssal Stance into armor for Yi Chen, making himself the supporting Second One while Yi Chen became the protagonist.
• Yate acknowledged William’s performance, tore off and swallowed his Disc Wings, and drew on memories granted by divinity.
• Yate pulled a golden Tumor Relic from his growing Swollen Cathedral: a replica of a God-Slaying Spear.

Yi Chen fought Ater while enveloped in abyssal armor, repeatedly stopping the Tumor Emperor’s attacks and overwhelming him with death-infused strikes. Ater survived decapitation and regeneration, but Yi Chen began relentlessly pulling him back and beating him as his consciousness faded.

• Yi Chen heard the voice of his deceased teacher, who urged him to trust himself and carry out his obsession.
• Ater used Time Proliferation and his God-Slaying Spear to attack Yi Chen, but Yi Chen blocked the thrust with his chain and Black Blade.
• Yi Chen pulled Ater close with an abyssal vortex and decapitated him, but Ater regenerated by sacrificing people within the Swollen Cathedral.
• Ater’s headless body counterattacked with the spear, but Yi Chen blocked it and kicked him through several high-rises.
• Yi Chen used Abyssal Adsorption to pull Ater back and punched him repeatedly, leaving Ater’s consciousness and connection to Heaven fading.

Yi Chen battered Ater until Ater compressed himself into a golden tumor and escaped the inverted scene, while William let him go to set up a final performance. Ater tried to transfer his consciousness by killing his body, but awoke in William’s theater with every member of the Smiling Face Club restrained in the audience.

• Yi Chen’s hybrid barrage shattered Ater’s body and nearly destroyed the Swollen Cathedral, but Ater recovered his identity and unified himself into a golden tumor.
• Ater used Heavenly Holy Light to blast Yi Chen through several buildings, then split into many Smiling Face Tumors and escaped through a hole in the scene.
• William told Yi Chen to let Ater go so the final performance could have an audience, and Yi Chen lowered his hand.
• Ater returned to the Old World, restored his body, and drove a holy nail into his own brain to transfer his consciousness into a Smiling Face Club member.
• Ater woke in William’s theater, where every member of the Smiling Face Club sat restrained in the audience.

After Atte vanished from the Old World, the Plague Lords followed William’s invitation to the theater inside the moon to witness his confrontation with Yi Chen. Atte attempted to destroy himself and the Old World, but a Dark Shadow swallowed him as the theater fell silent.

• The Warden, the Lord of Respect, Emperor Pride, Pilvina, and the Duke gathered at the Skin Factory, but Atte could not be located.
• A candle doll invited the Plague Lords to William’s theater, and the Duke persuaded them to let William handle Atte.
• Pilvina calmed Emperor Pride, and the Plague Lords climbed a moonlit staircase into the theater’s VIP box.
• The Smiling Face Club members’ heads exploded like fireworks, leaving Atte as the only body still seated among them.
• Atte rejected William’s choices and began to self-detonate, threatening to unleash his accumulated power across the Old World.
• A Dark Shadow appeared beside Atte and swallowed him whole, then crawled inside as the theater fell silent.

William took Atte to the Tenth Abyss to contain his imminent self-destruction and spoke with him through a Consciousness Link. He persuaded Atte to join him in pursuing the Ultimate Evil, and the two began a dance together as the abyss suppressed the explosion.

• William took Atte into the Tenth Abyss, where the Tenth Abyss restrained his golden form and agreed to suppress the self-destruction for fifteen minutes.
• William linked Atte's fading consciousness to the Mad Brain and met him in the library.
• William offered Atte a place beside him on the journey to the world of the Heavenly Divinity and revealed that Atte's evil would complete his performance of malice.
• Atte explained that he had lost his reason to live after the Cancer Cells were eliminated, but William's offer renewed his interest in seeing how far William could go.
• William and Atte accepted one another's company and danced together in the library.

William absorbed Ater Kramer’s body, soul, and malignant-tumor essence, gaining Ater’s qualification and completing his Gestalt Body. He completed Ultimate Ascension and reached the Focus of Infection’s center, where a faceless golden biological template opened an eye to examine him.

• William completed Ater’s education, and the Tenth Abyss stopped Ater’s self-detonation.
• William selected appreciation for Ater and absorbed his body, soul, and malignant-tumor essence, restoring his missing right eye and filling his Gestalt Body.
• William gained Ater’s qualification and began Ultimate Ascension with help from thousands of students who offered their knowledge as brain cushions.
• William reached the center of the Focus of Infection and found a golden biological template above a pool of liquid gold.
• The template opened an eye and examined William as he approached.

William met the Old World's focal world and received the Origin Gene for epilepsy, completing his illness's development. The focal world also gave him authority to turn his theater into a mobile Source Plague Zone, while his Mad Brain collapsed into a black hole.

• The Golden Faceless Man assessed William's illnesses and confirmed that he qualified to become a plague lord.
• William chose epilepsy and persuaded the focal world to give him a World Authority Usage Book instead of a fixed Source Plague Zone.
• The focal world granted William authority to transform his theater into a sealed, movable Source Plague Zone.
• The Golden Faceless Man implanted the Origin Gene fragment for William's Mad Brain, revealing the role of DNA Secret Keys in unlocking life's potential.
• William's Mad Brain expanded and then collapsed into a black hole, assisted by the Abyssal Cavity and his other illnesses.

After William’s plan appeared to succeed, the theater’s audience faced the arrival of the dying First Abyss, who came to settle the circus’s internal affairs. William then emerged transformed as the First Completer and bowed to the audience at his Final Performance.

• The Warden questioned whether William had arranged Art’s rise to the highest wanted level, and Yi Chen explained how William had used Art’s ambition to set up a threefold gain.
• The theater guests waited for William’s outcome and ate instant noodles until the First Abyss arrived with his companions and asked to handle matters within the circus.
• The Duke persuaded the Venerable Lord to hear the First Abyss out, and the First Abyss warned that he could unleash his final fear if denied.
• A black hole formed onstage and drew in special Cancer Cells, which assembled a new body for William.
• William’s new head formed from the black hole, and he appeared under the title The First Completer before thanking the audience for attending his Final Performance.

William was expelled from the circus after admitting he had killed Yate, then revealed his plan to seize Boss’s Primal Fear and leave for the Prime Material Plane. He escaped Boss’s attack with Catherine by transforming the theater into a movable Source Plague Zone, leaving the circus behind in the False Moon.

• Lorien watched William’s performance through the Moon Eyes and held the Token of Soldier, a pass to the Prime Material Plane.
• William admitted killing Yate and explained that he had contained Yate’s consciousness and Cancer Cells within himself; Boss expelled him and the Theater Department from the circus.
• William revealed that he had wanted Boss’s Primal Fear and planned to leave for a broader world, prompting Gian and Mr. Rabbit to attack and destroy both his arms before he regenerated them.
• William took Catherine with him and told Yi he would carry Yi’s share of malice to another world to encounter Calamity.
• Boss’s Black Hair engulfed the stage as William turned the theater into a movable Source Plague Zone, transporting it and everyone inside to a cavern in the False Moon; Boss caught only William’s prepared letter.

As William departed through Catherine’s dream tunnel, Yi Chen realized William had secretly taken some of his malice, then accepted the Warden’s help in leaving the false moon. The Duke announced that gods from outside the world would soon arrive, urging the Old World’s powers to prepare and consider setting aside their grudges.

• Yi Chen recalled William’s growing closeness with him and suspected William had stolen some of his malice to improve his performance and earn At’s trust.
• The Warden explained that Yi Chen could claim William’s reward for stopping At, then led Yi Chen, Princess Angelica, and Little Grape away from the false moon.
• William left the other recruited performers behind, while Yellow Skin accepted his departure and planned to reclaim the skin factory before seeking the outside world.
• The Boss read William’s Letter but refused to tell Chief Beast Tamer Zoke what it said, and the Supreme Lord showed no further intention of attacking the circus.
• The Duke summoned Lorien and announced that gods from outside the world would soon descend, urging everyone to consider the greater threat and prepare.

The Lung Venerable led a team of divine puppets on a recruitment mission to a strange Plague World that had parasitized a minor world. The team crossed subspace and reached the conjoined worlds, where their recruitment and efforts to establish contact would begin.

• Two puppets discussed rumors that young people in the Plague World had controlled a storybook Malignant Carrier and received a Token of Soldier from the Lung Venerable.
• The puppets met the Lung Venerable and received orders to recruit soldiers, treat the infected with respect, and establish a passage between the worlds.
• The Lung Venerable warned the team that they would face the Sick Ones in actual combat and that anyone whose shell failed during the crossing would be removed from the mission.
• The Lung Venerable and the ten puppets crossed subspace and saw a minor world joined to a swollen, pus-filled world that was draining its energy and taking its rules.

Two years after William Berens became the first Plague Lord, Zion had grown into a major neutral city-state through Yi Chen’s protection and alliances with several factions. As Nash returned to Zion with Zede, Martin, and Marco, a divine delegation led by the True Jin Hao Hua arrived and announced a test offering an opportunity to the Sick Ones.

• The stargazers, Regan Ludwig, the Blood People, and the Cancer Palace established ties with Zion, while Yi Chen’s reward secured the Plague Focal World’s protection for the city.
• Zion grew into a leading neutral city known as the City of Ascension, and its organization tightened the standards for the Gentleman’s Assessment.
• The Fear Circus adopted a less lethal performance policy, while Nash refused to replace William as Chief Actor and resumed work as J.
• Nash asked Zede, Martin, and Marco to take him to Zion so he could visit the city where William had lived.
• Zede, Nash, Martin, and Marco sensed a divine presence as the True Jin Hao Hua arrived with ten holders of divine authorities and invited Sick Ones to undergo a test.

The Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable invited the Sick Ones to compete for passage to the Prime Material Plane, offering recruitment and rewards to those who could cross his qi barrier and defeat an Incarnation Carrier. As the gathered factions watched, Progenitor Strain Ancient Shark Lokaas became the first challenger to reach the stone platform.

• The Silver Circle Sick Ones gathered at the ocean platform after the Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable announced an assessment, while Zede, Marco, Martin, Regan, Principal Deslin, and Parasite Nash traveled there from Zion.
• Parasite Nash recognized William's lingering scent on Principal Deslin, earning a stomp from her before the group arrived above the sea.
• The Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable explained that challengers below Plague Lord rank who crossed his qi barrier could fight one of ten Incarnation Carriers for a chance to travel to the Prime Material Plane.
• The Emperor watched the gathering through the Twin Eyes and decided to remain in the Plague Focal World for now.
• Progenitor Strain Ancient Shark Lokaas leaped from the sea, resisted the qi barrier with a film of water, and landed on the stone platform as the first challenger.

Qinglun defeated Gusha Lokaias in two blows during the gods’ recruitment trial. The arena was left stunned, then Nash entered and revealed a new figure emerging from his corpse who greeted the Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable as an old acquaintance.

• Gusha Lokaias chose Vajra Qinglun as his opponent, and Qinglun’s first punch knocked Lokaias back and scorched his fist.
• Lokaias began transforming into a giant shark, but Qinglun summoned a Vajra Pestle and shattered him with a single strike, sparing his life.
• Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable warned that the visitors would recruit ten talented individuals or lower their evaluation of the Plague Focal World.
• Nash rushed onto the arena, cut off his own head, and let a humanoid figure emerge from his corpse.
• The figure synchronized its breathing with Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable and greeted him as an old acquaintance.

After two years without news of William, Yi Chen met with the Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable and learned William had secretly entered the Prime Material Plane. Yi Chen demanded four qualifications to return to his original world, then faced four Incarnation Carriers at once and revealed a deathly power that overwhelmed their divine presence.

• Yi Chen asked the Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable whether William was with him, and they discovered William had secretly entered the Prime Material Plane two years earlier.
• The Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable said he would investigate William and warned that William’s unregistered arrival with a Malignant Carrier was a serious danger.
• Yi Chen requested four qualifications to return to the Prime Material Plane, and the Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable agreed that he could earn them by defeating four Incarnation Carriers.
• When Morrigan stepped forward to fight, Yi Chen stopped her and insisted that four opponents face him together because he had four Consciousness Bodies.
• Pure Water warned Qinglun Vajra that Yi Chen’s deathly divinity posed a genuine risk, while Yi Chen manifested the Dead Sun and armed himself with Nash’s iron chain.
• The four Incarnation Carriers stepped toward Yi Chen and found themselves on a black beach, where a chained dead man rose as the black sea swallowed their divine presence.

Yi Chen defeated four divine Incarnation Carriers and received the remaining Token of Soldier talismans, while Plague Lords and old allies watched his strength. He and Lorien then departed for the plane’s central region to undergo examinations and investigate matters related to William.

• Fish Origin and the other Plague Lords rose to watch Yi Chen fight, while Baron Cassas, the Warden, and the Emperor also arrived.
• The Emperor and Baron Cassas reunited and discussed their plans to remain in the Old World as the younger generation explored beyond it.
• Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable explained that Yi Chen’s self-focused upbringing made him an unusual ally against the ultimate evil.
• Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable stopped the battle and gave Yi Chen four Token of Soldier talismans after Yi Chen defeated the four Incarnation Carriers.
• Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable used Yi Chen’s purple lung to create an incarnation, and Lorien descended to accompany Yi Chen toward the plane’s central region.

Yi Chen and Lorien traveled with Jin Hao Hua through subspace to a plant-filled world, where he planned to take them to the City of Husks for evaluation as recruits against the Malignancy. Yi Chen learned that his original world had been a Simulated World destroyed by a powerful Video Tape Carrier, and that his imprisoned body was gone.

• Jin Hao Hua led Yi Chen and Lorien through subspace to a world connected to the Prime Material Plane, where they passed through a teleportation gate toward the Land of Deities.
• Jin Hao Hua explained that recruits rated above S-rank could settle in the City of Husks, but first Yi Chen and Lorien would undergo advanced testing.
• Yi Chen asked to return to his original world, and Jin Hao Hua told him it had been devoured by the Malignancy three years earlier.
• Jin Hao Hua revealed that Yi Chen's world had been a Simulated World designed to test talent cultivation methods, and that its oppressive conditions had fostered widespread malice.
• Jin Hao Hua said a high-level Video Tape Carrier had spread through the Simulated World and made its destruction irreversible, then continued toward the City of Husks with Yi Chen and Lorien.

Yi Chen and Lorien arrived in the City of Husks, where Purple Lung Heavenly Venerable explained how the gods used technological carriers to manage their influence in the lower planes. At the registration building, an awakened pharaoh’s Eye of Horus saw through both newcomers and recognized Lorien as a disciple of the Supreme Divinity.

• Purple Lung Heavenly Venerable led Yi Chen and Lorien through the rain-soaked City of Husks toward the registration office.
• Lorien searched for William and found no trace of him, while privately vowing to use moonlight to uncover his trail.
• Purple Lung Heavenly Venerable explained that the city’s workers maintained divine carriers, puppets capable of bearing gods’ incarnations and true bodies.
• A moonlit door appeared in the Eye of Horus registration building, and a staff member made of yellow sand questioned Purple Lung Heavenly Venerable about the two recruits.
• A lightning strike awakened an ancient pharaoh, whose Eye of Horus pierced Yi Chen and Lorien’s defenses and recognized Lorien as the Supreme Divinity’s disciple.

Yi Chen underwent an inspection in the City of Husks and earned the highest evaluation after Tutankhamun recognized his connection to a Supreme Divinity. During their exchange of questions, Yi Chen learned that clown and vortex graffiti had appeared in malignant incident scenarios and asked Tutankhamun to search for his missing friend, Portia Kaufman.

• An employee led Yi Chen and Lorien to sealed coffins, where metallic sand inspected them and an unseen pharaoh recognized Yi Chen as the rumored sole believer of a Supreme Divinity.
• Yi Chen negotiated an equal exchange of questions with the pharaoh, who brought him to a palace and introduced himself as Tutankhamun.
• Tutankhamun asked whether the Plague Focal World had other talented people, and Yi Chen named several potential recruits and advised him to offer benefits and establish a connection between the worlds.
• Yi Chen asked about plague, clown, abyss, and vortex-related incidents, and Tutankhamun reported that teams had found clown and black-vortex graffiti in some malignant scenarios.
• Tutankhamun offered to have teams search for Yi Chen's missing friend, and Yi Chen identified him as Portia Kaufman.

Yi Chen traded information with Pharaoh Tutankhamun, learning that malignancy would destroy the Prime Material Plane within forty-seven years, then received his SSS-Class recruit file in the City of Husks. He and Lorien decided to investigate William together after Yi Chen found traces of his secret dealings with evil.

• Pharaoh Tutankhamun searched for Yi Chen’s named acquaintance and questioned Yi Chen about his contact with the Dead Sea Evil God, but Yi Chen declined to explain his experience in detail.
• Yi Chen asked how soon malignancy would consume the Prime Material Plane, and Tutankhamun predicted its collapse and the fall of all gods in forty-seven years.
• Yi Chen awoke in the testing room with Lorien and checked his recruit file, which listed his associated lifeforms, rare Death Divinity, and SSS-Class rating.
• Lorien questioned the value of their SSS-Class ratings, and Yi Chen proposed they work together because he had found traces of William secretly contacting evil.
• Yi Chen told Lorien he had not revealed William’s situation to the examiner, and Lorien agreed that their investigation had become more interesting.

Yi Chen and Lorien checked into Cloud Peak Hotel, where Yi Chen was assigned an evil-god room on the five-hundredth floor. As the Purple Lung explained the place of evil gods in the Prime Material Plane, Yi Chen encountered a strange mother pushing a carriage filled with infant heads.

• Yi Chen and Lorien checked in at Cloud Peak Hotel, and Yi Chen chose Counter Seven after learning his information was linked to an evil god.
• The attendant assigned Yi Chen room 50051 on the top floor, while Lorien went to a room on a lower floor.
• The Purple Lung explained that evil gods were rare, often persecuted, and generally shared an interest in preserving the world.
• Yi Chen reached his room and saw a veiled woman pushing a carriage of infant heads with tentacles in their mouths; she laughed and entered a room across the hall.

Yi Chen learned how the planes were structured and how malignancy was spreading from the lower planes toward the Prime Material Plane. After the Celestial Venerable avatar left, Yi Chen found a mysterious note bearing the number 1910.

• The Celestial Venerable avatar explained that the Prime Material Plane lay at the center of the planes, while four stable Divine Realms housed most divinity holders.
• The Celestial Venerable avatar described the ranks of gods and said Supreme Divinities could not stop malignancy because they understood the material world's underlying laws.
• The Celestial Venerable avatar revealed that malignancy had corrupted nearly all the lower planes and was spreading upward, and said Yi Chen would be contacted within three days about a suppression mission.
• The Celestial Venerable avatar wrote six names on the tabletop before returning to Yi Chen's body, and someone knocked on the guest-room door as it vanished.
• Yi Chen used Little Grape to inspect the corridor, then found a hidden note under the carpet marked 1910 and wondered who had placed it.

Yi Chen and Lorien followed a clue linking William to Simulated World 1910, and Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable authorized them to investigate with Jin and Regan. The four arrived in the dark world and boarded an empty night bus, where a mysterious old woman offered to tell them a story.

• Yi Chen showed Lorien the note bearing the number 1910 and identified the corresponding Simulated World as a possible place where William was active.
• Yi Chen and Lorien asked Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable for permission to investigate, and he secured authorization for them and two companions to enter the world for up to three days.
• Jin and Regan joined Yi Chen and Lorien, and the four passed through the Plane Door into Simulated World 1910.
• The four appeared at a bus stop in the middle of the night and boarded an approaching, empty bus.
• A black-clad old woman boarded despite no one being at the stop and offered to tell the four a story.