Recaps

Hu Qi killed the seemingly immortal man and found the Blood Script, but the book dragged him into its pages. Elsewhere, Wei Fan and Gao Qian escaped into the real world, while Hu Qi’s apparent execution revealed that bullets could not harm him.

• Hu Qi repeatedly killed the man guarding the Blood Script until the man failed to return, then watched the room transform around the enormous book.
• The Blood Script opened, froze Hu Qi, and dragged him into its pages as Fox Three identified it as the book’s true body.
• Wei Fan, Gao Qian, and Ouyang Shuokong emerged from a pond in Qingyin City after escaping the Blood Script, while Wei Fan resolved to kill the person who had disrupted his plans.
• A judge sentenced Hu Qi to death for killing thirty-four villagers, and Hu Qi recalled finding his kidnapped daughter and attacking the villagers who tried to stop him from taking her away.
• At the execution ground, bullets bounced off Hu Qi without injuring him, and his shackles and ropes shattered as he demanded to know whether they were playing with him.

Hu Qi broke free from the Blood Script’s false world after killing the human trafficker, then emerged from the script and completely refined it. He turned on Fox Three and began burning it alive.

• Hu Qi survived the guards’ gunfire, escaped prison, and fled toward Tianhang City as authorities launched a pursuit.
• Hu Qi destroyed the armed helicopters and the heavily fortified prison, then killed the human trafficker inside.
• Hu Qi remembered that he had been trapped in the Blood Script, and the scene gave way to a yellowed page.
• Golden flames consumed the Blood Script as it begged Hu Qi to become its master, and Hu Qi emerged after refining it.
• Fox Three congratulated Hu Qi, but Hu Qi tightened the Hanging Rope around its neck and began refining it in flames.

Hu Qi devoured Fox Three and the Blood Script, gaining their memories and learning how the Blood Script collected Dream Eyes. In the Grotto-Heaven, he used a costly Scarlet Panel modification to recover from splitting off another thread of essence, then sent that thread beyond Ecological Island Zero.

• Hu Qi refined and swallowed Fox Three, gaining 3,201 and 2,670 Modification Points and access to its memories.
• Hu Qi learned that Fox Three had used Dream Binding with the Blood Script to trap him in a fabricated script world, and that the Blood Script created missions to harvest fear and collect Dream Eyes.
• Hu Qi entered the Blood Script's collection space, identified the crashed God Statue Dream Eye, and focused inward on his Grotto-Heaven.
• Hu Qi split off another thread of his essence, then spent over 30,000 Modification Points to restore his unstable soul and body to normal.
• Hu Qi sent the new thread of essence through Ecological Island Zero's protective layer and out of the Grotto-Heaven.

Hu Qi fused seventeen Dream Eyes into a God Statue and used it to create a vessel for his second thread of essence, planning to build a deity that could absorb faith without being corrupted by it. He brought hundreds of Scarlet Apartment residents before the statue to worship, and confirmed that their faith reached his new deity in a purified form.

• Hu Qi refined seventeen Dream Eyes and shaped them into a lifelike God Statue that resembled his own appearance and bore the weapons of the mythological Di Jun.
• Hu Qi’s second thread of essence entered the God Statue, and Hu Qi planned to use it to absorb mortal faith while relying on the Dream Eyes to filter out its corrupting influence.
• Hu Qi transported hundreds of Scarlet Apartment residents to a white jade plaza, where golden words ordered them to worship the Sun God and a towering statue appeared.
• The residents began praying to the Sun God, and their faith flowed into the smaller God Statue in the blood-red space.
• Hu Qi absorbed 336 faith threads, including one from the youth he recognized from the Ghost Bus, and refined them into three wisps of Divine Strength.

Hu Qi prepared to spread the Sun God’s faith, and Yuan An Ning encountered the Sun God’s teachings while fleeing a nightmare she believed foretold disasters. After reading the group owner’s materials and falling asleep, she woke terrified that her newest nightmare was targeting her directly.

• Hu Qi recognized the three hundred-plus script actors as the Sun God’s first believers and planned to have them spread the faith.
• Yuan An Ning left Mrs. Brown’s home in Fengyu Country despite warning her that a typhoon might be coming.
• Yuan An Ning recalled how her prophetic nightmares had preceded deadly disasters and how she had escaped them by leaving in advance.
• Yuan An Ning performed her nightly prayers to the many deities she worshipped, then found the group owner’s detailed account of the Sun God in the Flying Spaghetti Monster Cult chat.
• Yuan An Ning privately asked the group owner for more information and decided to follow the Sun God’s prayer ritual the next morning.
• Yuan An Ning woke from a nightmare in terror and realized it seemed to be coming specifically for her.

Yuan An Ning prayed to the Sun God and received a sign of divine favor, then invoked that power when a hair-covered monster attacked her hotel room. The monster vanished, leaving her alive with a pair of black scissors on the floor.

• Yuan An Ning prayed to the Sun God after another nightmare, and Hu Qi recognized her as a uniquely talented high-level believer whose dreams could glimpse the future.
• Hu Qi used his divine power to answer Yuan An Ning's prayer, and she felt warmth before seeing a golden figure and a fading sun-shaped mark on her hand.
• Yuan An Ning joined a group for Sun God believers, studied its materials, and later fell asleep from exhaustion.
• After waking at night to find her phone signal gone and her room darkened, Yuan An Ning saw black hair enter through the window and form a woman carrying huge scissors.
• Yuan An Ning prayed as the monster approached, and the mark on her hand blazed with golden light, driving the monster away and leaving black scissors on the floor.

Yuan An Ning survived a Dream Eye encounter, received a revelation from the Sun God, and learned to use Divine Arts, deepening her devotion. More than a year later, Hu Qi destroyed an ordinary Dream Eye and advanced the Crimson Sun Demonic Elephant Hellfire Art toward the True Body Realm, where he found himself looking at the Spirit Realm.

• Yuan An Ning picked up the hair-wrapped scissors, and the Sun God’s light repelled the hair and made the Dream Eye vanish before its memories overwhelmed her.
• Yuan An Ning awakened with a divine revelation, briefly conjured a fireball, and resolved to become the Sun God’s most devout believer so she could gather more Dream Eyes and heal her legs.
• Hu Qi observed Yuan An Ning’s growing faith and planned to strengthen the Sun Church to gather Dream Eyes and Modification Points.
• More than a year later, Hu Qi destroyed a bizarre Buddha statue in a ruined temple and absorbed its ordinary Dream Eye for 136 Modification Points.
• Hu Qi used Crimson to raise the Crimson Sun Demonic Elephant Hellfire Art to the True Body Chapter and found himself facing a blazing world within the Spirit Realm.

Hu Qi witnessed a memory of the Three-Eyed Yuan Snake battling a Demonic Elephant, then broke through to the True Body Realm and gained the Crimson Sun Hellfire and Heavenly Phenomenon Manifestation traits. After advancing to the third level, he repelled the World Will’s lightning and left to investigate the deeper Nightmare Gaps.

• Hu Qi watched the Three-Eyed Yuan Snake and the Demonic Elephant battle in a Spirit Realm imprint, destroying smaller worlds as they fought.
• Hu Qi awakened the Crimson Sun Demonic Elephant Hellfire Art’s True Body Chapter, and the World Will struck him with lightning that he absorbed.
• Hu Qi’s body transformed, his Dream Eyes began burning away, and he found that his art had gained the traits Crimson Sun Hellfire and Heavenly Phenomenon Manifestation.
• Hu Qi used Modification Points to raise the art to the third level, then absorbed a second wave of lightning from the World Will.
• Hu Qi sensed ordinary people and Dream Controllers approaching, vanished, and decided to explore deeper Nightmare Gaps for the source of the Dream Eyes.

Hu Qi explored the Nightmare Gap and discovered a Strange Painting Fragment in an eerie city’s art exhibition, suspecting the painting was the source of the world’s Dream Eyes. He left to pursue the mystery through Wei Fan, while the chapter ended with a hole erupting in a hall inside a mountain.

• Hu Qi entered the deeper dream realm, where grotesque monsters attacked him and burned or fled when they encountered his power.
• Hu Qi reached a skyscraper and rode its blood-lit elevator to the fifty-third floor, where he found an exhibition of sinister paintings.
• Hu Qi touched a painting of a glowing island and obtained a fragment, then identified it as part of the Strange Painting, one of the nine Primal Dream Eyes.
• Hu Qi concluded that past Dream Controllers, including Tian, might have entered the Strange Painting, and planned to let Wei Fan uncover clues before taking the prize.
• A huge hole burst through the wall of a hall inside a mountain, scattering sand and stones.

Wei Fan’s squad subdued an armored giant but lost its Dream Eye and a torn cloth to Yuan An Ning and the Sun God Cult, whose radiance suppressed Dream Eyes. Back home, Wei Fan used the Bone Luo Cards to investigate the cult, and the card’s answer left him stunned.

• Teng Liu froze the armored giant, and Wei Fan spotted a Dream Eye token and a strip of cloth on its armor.
• Yuan An Ning and four Sun God Cult followers arrived, took the token and cloth, and drove Wei Fan’s squad away with radiance that weakened Gao Qian’s Dream Eye.
• Ouyang Shuokong identified the newcomers as Sun God Cult followers, and Wei Fan decided to report them to the Sword Bearer.
• Wei Fan reviewed how his rebirth had changed events and suspected the cult’s power came from a special Dream Eye rather than a god.
• Wei Fan consulted his Bone Luo Cards about the Sun God Cult’s secret and its connection to the Primal Dream Eyes, then froze when he read the answer.

Wei Fan discovered that the Bone Luo Cards could reveal little about the Sun God Cult and learned that the remaining Strange Painting Fragments would return once he gathered more than anyone else held. Meanwhile, Hu Qi’s Sun God Cult expanded worldwide, and Hu Qi agreed to attend a council meeting as its Holy Son.

• Wei Fan found that the Bone Luo Cards repeatedly gave only the same cryptic answer about the Sun God Cult, but revealed the locations of six Strange Painting Fragments and explained how the fragments would return to whoever controlled the largest portion.
• Hu Qi sensed a subtle probe through the Mind Realm, blocked it, and continued strengthening his Divine Avatar with Power of Faith.
• Over the next two years, the Sun God Cult gained followers through its Divine Arts, while governments and organizations failed to infiltrate or destroy it.
• Hu Qi reached the limit of his current body’s strength and considered pressuring others to speed up the gathering of the Strange Painting Fragments.
• A white-robed woman invited Hu Qi to a council meeting at the Sunlight Holy Temple, and he agreed to attend.

Hu Qi delivered the Sun God’s decree to purge the Dream Controllers and led an attack on Morning Light City’s Security Agency. After removing the Dream Eyes from its Controllers, he left the three ministers dying, while the Sun God Cult prepared to begin its purge in Yu Country.

• Yuan An Ning gathered the twelve Holy Radiance Bishops in the Sunlight Holy Temple, where Hu Qi arrived as the Holy Son and announced the Sun God’s decree to eliminate Dream Eyes and their Controllers.
• Luo Yan questioned the timing of the purge, but Hu Qi’s overwhelming pressure forced him to kneel; Yuan An Ning affirmed the decree, and the bishops agreed to target Yu Country first.
• Hu Qi’s display of power caused Luo Yan’s faith to waver, and he hurriedly suppressed his doubts to keep from losing his Holy Power.
• Hu Qi appeared at Morning Light City’s Security Agency, where Qin Yizhou, Zhu Xiao, Li Chenguang, and the other occupants lay pinned beneath his power.
• Hu Qi unleashed radiant light that erased the Dream Eyes within the Security Agency’s Controllers, killing or gravely injuring many, including the three ministers, before vanishing.

Wei Fan was overwhelmed by Hu Qi and the Sun God Cult, then gathered all the Strange Painting Fragments and entered the completed painting to seek the source of the Dream Eyes. Hu Qi followed him inside, leaving their confrontation and the painting’s mysteries unresolved.

• Hu Qi destroyed Wei Fan’s Yin Huang Bell and drove him away, while the Sun God Cult captured the remaining Dream Controllers.
• Wei Fan escaped to Morning Light City and decided to enter the Strange Painting early because he feared the Sun God Cult would annihilate Dream Controllers.
• Several days later, Wei Fan assembled the Strange Painting Fragments, causing the complete painting to appear and reveal a vivid, moving scene.
• Wei Fan entered the Strange Painting alone, hoping to find the Dream Eyes’ source and transform his strength.
• Hu Qi arrived moments later and followed Wei Fan into the Strange Painting.

Hu Qi entered the Strange Painting’s miniature world, broke free of his restraints, and raced across the sea toward Immortal Island. As Wei Fan entered the Rebirth Coffin to prepare for their confrontation, Hu Qi reached the island and faced a horde of powerful dead Dream Controllers.

• Hu Qi woke aboard a ship in the identity of Hu Qi, broke his shackles, and killed the guards who tried to humiliate him.
• Hu Qi slaughtered the ship’s Anomalous Ones, sensed Wei Fan’s mark toward Immortal Island, and accelerated the ship through the supernatural storm surrounding it.
• Wei Fan found the Rebirth Coffin and, after Hu Qi’s arrival became apparent, entered it to transform himself rather than face Hu Qi unprepared.
• Hu Qi crashed onto Immortal Island, evaded an attack from an old man with an executioner’s blade, and was surrounded by nearly a hundred dead Dream Controllers.
• Hu Qi’s patience ran out, and he summoned a giant form towering ten thousand meters above the island.

Hu Qi used Heavenly Phenomenon Manifestation to destroy the island and kill Wei Fan, then confronted and refined the Tattered Black Banner with Crimson Sun Hellfire and power from his true body. The Strange Painting vanished in flames, and Hu Qi awoke in chaotic space after successfully refining the banner.

• Hu Qi transformed into a colossal Demonic Elephant and struck the island repeatedly, sinking much of it and destroying the figures there.
• Wei Fan escaped the island in the damaged Rebirth Coffin, but Hu Qi grabbed and killed him despite Wei Fan using his Clock Dream Eye.
• The Tattered Black Banner emerged from a fissure, and its black tide briefly pushed Hu Qi back before he fought it with Crimson Sun Hellfire.
• Hu Qi drew power through the Three-Eyed Yuan Snake mark and engulfed the banner in flames, overpowering the shadow that emerged from it.
• The Strange Painting was consumed by golden flames and disappeared, while Hu Qi continued refining the banner.
• Hu Qi awoke in chaotic space and declared that he had finally refined the banner successfully.

Hu Qi took control of the Tattered Black Banner, escaped the destroyed Strange Painting, and turned his attention to his second avatar. The story then shifted to Li Feng, who believed his dead parents were alive until Zhang Lin told him they had been cremated two days earlier.

• Hu Qi learned Xin's memories and concluded that the World Will had used him to try to seize the Tattered Black Banner, which Hu Qi had now refined.
• Hu Qi used the banner to open a rift out of the collapsing Strange Painting and emerged in the real world after three days, planning to deal with his second avatar.
• Li Feng went to school and heard that a nightmare incident at Lefang Mall had left thirty-one people missing.
• Zhang Lin told Li Feng that his parents were dead, but Li Feng returned home and spoke with his mother as she prepared dinner.
• After Zhang Lin apologized for bringing up Li Feng's parents, Li Feng called him angrily, and Zhang Lin said they had been cremated two days earlier.

Li Feng remembered that his adoptive parents had died and survived a nightmare creature after gaining the Sun God's recognition. Meanwhile, Hu Qi prepared to leave the world and ordered Yuan An Ning and the Holy Radiance Bishops to ready the believers for a journey to the divine kingdom in half a month.

• Zhang Lin's words restored Li Feng's memories of his adoptive parents' deaths, and a creature impersonating his mother entered his room during a nightmare event.
• Li Feng prayed to the Sun God, gained divine recognition, and was saved by a Blazing Sun Priest who had come after Zhang Lin called for help.
• Hu Qi revealed that he had allowed a limited number of nightmare incidents to continue because resolving them strengthened believers' faith and repaired the Tattered Black Banner.
• Hu Qi decided to leave the world and sent a divine decree to Yuan An Ning and the Holy Radiance Bishops.
• Yuan An Ning told the bishops that the Sun God would guide them to the divine kingdom in half a month, and she ordered them to prepare.

Hu Qi absorbed the power and memories of his two avatars, subdued the weakened World Will, and manifested as the Sun God before swallowing the world into his pocket dimension. After discovering that the isolated world could no longer sustain its creatures through the Sea of Sumeru, he began refining the World Will into a possible replacement.

• Ouyang Shuokong remained devoted to Hu Qi and had developed the Holy Warrior path by combining Holy Power with secret martial arts.
• Hu Qi reunited with his two avatars, absorbed their spirit seeds and accumulated power, then overpowered and sealed the World Will.
• Hu Qi appeared as the Sun God, drew stronger faith from the people, and swallowed the world into his pocket dimension while believers' Divine Art stabilized it.
• Hu Qi discovered that creatures in the pocket dimension were declining because they could no longer access the Sea of Sumeru's Soul Light, and he chose to use the World Will to seek a solution.
• A blond young man sitting on a Purple Shell Spirit Realm Creature opened his eyes after sensing a disturbance near the boundary between the Shallow Wave Zone and the Deep Abyss Zone.

Hu Qi completed the Yin Yang Samsara Disk, a Dream Eye that recycled Soul Light through human and animal reincarnation, and installed it in his cave-heaven to sustain life in both worlds. After the disk completed its first cycle and new creatures began to be born, Hu Qi sensed that it had made the cave-heaven more complete and called out to Crimson.

• Xizhong Si sensed the Serpent of Destruction's remnants through a black snake scale and flew toward their location after waiting nearly a hundred years.
• Hu Qi finished forging the Yin Yang Samsara Disk with the Tattered Black Banner and a world's World Will, then replenished it with spiritual seawater from the Sea of Sumeru.
• Hu Qi placed the disk above Zero Island and Nightmare World One, where it began washing and reincarnating Soul Light through its Human Path and Animal Path.
• The disk's first cycle restored life in the worlds, and a green Soul Light entered a bird egg on Zero Island, allowing it to hatch.
• Hu Qi sensed that the completed cycle had strengthened the cave-heaven's connection to the disk, withdrew his will, and called out, "Crimson!"

Hu Qi raised the Three-Eyed Yuan Snake’s mutation to 100%, triggering an unexplained hatching, then searched the Shallow Wave Zone for a suitable world. His exploration ended when Xizhong Si ambushed him, revealing himself as a powerful Apostle-level foe.

• Hu Qi reviewed his changed status, recognized that the Cave Heaven World was evolving, and decided to save his Modification Points for later.
• Hu Qi spent over twenty thousand Modification Points to raise his Three-Eyed Yuan Snake mutation to 100%, triggering a slow transformation marked as Hatching.
• Hu Qi chose to keep exploring the Shallow Wave Zone for worlds with complete supernatural systems rather than enter the dangerous Deep Abyss Zone.
• Hu Qi examined a weak world of mech pilots and Demonic Beasts, then considered entering it to study its method of tempering the will.
• Xizhong Si killed Hu Qi’s giant tortoise mount with a white spear and attacked Hu Qi, who blocked his strike before demanding to know who he was.

Hu Qi fought Xizhong Si, an angel sent by the White King to kill the remnant of the Three-Eyed Yuan Snake, and unleashed the power of two burned Spirit Seeds to overcome him. Xizhong Si was destroyed, but a mote of light escaped, and Hu Qi pursued it to prevent it from reaching the true god behind him.

• Xizhong Si identified himself as one of the four great angels beneath the White Throne and attacked Hu Qi with the Spear of Judgment.
• Hu Qi and Xizhong Si clashed, and their battle’s shockwaves devastated a nearby Spiritual-grade world before Xizhong Si was driven back.
• Xizhong Si recovered and activated a true god’s power, restraining Hu Qi, while Hu Qi’s Red Mirror Saber shattered in their exchange.
• Hu Qi burned the Nightmare Demonic Elephant and Sun God Deity Spirit Seeds, broke free of the restraint, and struck Xizhong Si with his Yuan Eye.
• Hu Qi crushed Xizhong Si and burned his remains, but a glowing mote escaped, so Hu Qi pursued it across the Sea of Sumeru.

Hu Qi pursued Xizhong Si into a powerful new world, where a colossal face attacked the city that sheltered him. The world repelled the intruder, leaving Xizhong Si badly burned but alive beneath the ruins.

• Hu Qi killed a blood-colored lobster monster and a blue bird while pursuing the fleeing ball of light containing Xizhong Si.
• Hu Qi repaired his damaged Nightmare Demonic Elephant Spirit Seed and Deity Spirit Seed with Modification Points, then continued after Xizhong Si.
• Xizhong Si escaped into an ochre-yellow rift, and Hu Qi followed him into the world beyond.
• Xizhong Si's arrival in the black giant city drew a colossal face that tore through the sky and struck at the city.
• A rune-marked black arm opposed the giant palm, and a silver rune eventually sealed the world against the face.
• The ruined city lay beneath a massive charred palm print, while the badly burned Xizhong Si opened one bloodshot eye.

Hu Qi killed Xizhong Si and escaped after using the Tattered Black Banner, while Caius took command of Iron City’s response and vowed to find his brother’s killer. Hu Qi then emerged injured in a rainy mountain forest, killed a Long-eared Wolf, and called out to someone hiding nearby.

• A dark-skinned young man stabbed Xizhong Si, captured his escaping Soul Light in the Tattered Black Banner, and vanished through a rift after knocking out a woman who confronted him.
• Three combat-uniformed figures found Prince Gwell dead, and Caius arrived, identified the woman’s attacker as a powerful spiritual-type enemy, and vowed to avenge his brother.
• Caius presented Marshal Mukuo’s token, assumed authority over Iron City’s affairs, and ordered the Heavenly Kings recalled and the murderer found.
• In a rainy mountain forest, Lu Shan waited in a tree to ambush a Long-eared Wolf, but a bloodied Hu Qi fell into a muddy puddle and startled the beast away.
• The Long-eared Wolf attacked Hu Qi, who killed it with a flash of black light, recovered from his injuries, and demanded that someone hiding nearby come out.
• A slender figure jumped down from a tree and landed in front of Hu Qi.

Hu Qi traveled with Lu Shan toward Rotten Leaf Settlement, learning about Barren Star and her brother’s illness as a storm forced them to shelter from Blood Mosquitoes. He perfected the Spirit Ape Stance using Modification Points, then discovered that this world’s Essence, Vitality, and Spirit Treasury could not be opened.

• Hu Qi asked Lu Shan to guide him to Rotten Leaf Settlement in exchange for the Long-eared Wolf he had killed.
• A storm drove Hu Qi and Lu Shan into a cave, where they discussed Rotten Leaf Settlement, Barren Star, and the dangers of its wasteland beasts.
• Lu Shan begged Hu Qi to save her sick younger brother, and Hu Qi agreed to consider it after seeing him.
• Hu Qi examined his body and used Modification Points to raise the Spirit Ape Stance to perfection, then restored his drained condition.
• Hu Qi discovered that he could not open the Essence, Vitality, and Spirit Treasury in this world.

Hu Qi reached Rotten Leaf Settlement with Lu Shan after discovering that he could not sense the Essence, Vitality, and Spirit Treasury, and he planned to pursue the local Evolver path. Liu Guang seized most of their wolf bounty at the gate, and Hu Qi saw the settlement leader return from a hunt before Lu Shan brought him to her home.

• Hu Qi carried the Long-eared Wolf to Rotten Leaf Settlement while avoiding wasteland beasts with Lu Shan.
• Liu Guang demanded half the wolf as a joining fee, then gave Lu Shan only one hind leg after his guards stripped and divided the carcass.
• Liu Guang welcomed the leader’s returning convoy and hoped the leader would help him become an Evolver.
• Hu Qi and Lu Shan walked through the settlement, where survivors watched them and the leader’s armed hunting party roared past.
• Lu Shan brought Hu Qi to her container home, where her pale-faced younger brother came out to greet her and noticed Hu Qi.