Recaps

Ji Jue discovered that a drifting Time Ruins was approaching Yacheng, and the Security Bureau scrambled to contain it after Tong Hua went missing. The ruin pulled Ji Jue inside, where he woke in an unfamiliar place with the stench of blood and a stranger assessing him.

• Ji Jue received warnings that a drifting Time Ruins was rapidly closing in on his location.
• Lu Ma comforted Youngest after he woke frightened, saying something huge and scary had passed nearby.
• Tong Shan told Wen Wen that a Time Ruins had broken free from Spring City Grotto and entered North Mountain District, while Tong Hua had disappeared.
• Wen Wen realized the ruin might be drawn toward Ji Jue, but could not reach him by phone.
• Ji Jue was pulled into the Time Ruins and woke in a blood-scented room, where someone at the doorway praised his qualities as a newcomer.

Ji Jue was pulled into a Time Ruins hospital, where grotesque doctors assigned the Chosen Ones to departments. After witnessing a patient who tried to flee get devoured, Ji Jue learned he had been made a Resident Doctor under Director Qian, who assigned him to Obstetrics and Gynecology.

• Ji Jue woke in a blood-covered meeting room and realized the Time Ruins had taken him, while his car and gun were gone and his watch showed “Train Preparing.”
• The hospital dean and grotesque doctors welcomed the Chosen Ones, gave them bloodstained white coats that appeared clean, and assigned them to different departments.
• Director Qian took Ji Jue through the hospital and warned him that disobeying the Hospital Rules would bring punishment.
• A Chosen One ran from an examination room and was devoured by patients as Director Qian told Ji Jue to stay at his post.
• Ji Jue asked about his pay, then learned Director Qian had assigned him to the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department.

Ji Jue reported to the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department in Time Ruins Hospital, where he learned that the trapped doctors were being assimilated by the place. After realizing the hospital might itself be an aberration, he confronted a hidden presence and shot at someone wearing Tong Hua’s face.

• Director Qian assigned Ji Jue to the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department and warned him not to disappoint him.
• Zhao Zhou tried to rob Ji Jue, but Ji Jue overpowered him and forced him to explain the hospital’s rules and dangers.
• Ji Jue made Zhao Zhou remember that he had died in the delivery room, and Zhao Zhou became a vacant, assimilated puppet.
• Ji Jue suspected the hospital or the entire Time Ruins was undergoing aberration and built an improvised pistol loaded with an aberration bullet.
• Ji Jue drew out a hidden figure who appeared as Tong Hua, then fired at her without hesitation.

Ji Jue confirmed that Tong Hua was really his companion, and they compared what they had learned about the Time Ruins’ hospital. They began considering how to destroy its core, but approaching footsteps prompted Ji Jue to suddenly strip Zhao Zhou’s rigid remains.

• Ji Jue fired a mutated bullet at Tong Hua, then verified her identity and realized she was the real Tong Hua.
• Tong Hua saw the terrifying, flame-wreathed essence beneath Ji Jue’s ordinary appearance, but he regained control of his Spiritual Substance with the Blessing of Primacy of Spirit.
• Tong Hua explained that obeying the Hospital Rules protected explorers, while mistakes allowed the hospital and its patients to consume their flesh and souls.
• Ji Jue and Tong Hua discussed finding the Time Ruins’ Lord, and Ji Jue suggested that the hospital itself might be the core and could be destroyed using its utilities.
• When footsteps sounded in the corridor, Ji Jue hurriedly lifted Zhao Zhou’s rigid remains and began stripping off his clothes.

Ji Jue and Tong Hua were ordered to conduct rounds through the dangerous hospital wards, where Ji Jue discovered that his authority as a doctor could frighten the patients into backing down. He began offering treatment to the ward’s monstrous patients, and the chapter ended as he plunged his arm into Flesh Mountain’s mouth to perform an “imported” procedure.

• Director Qian assigned Ji Jue and Tong Hua to conduct rounds, then devoured Zhao Zhou for violating the Hospital Rules.
• Tong Hua compiled five years of hospital records and transferred their contents into Ji Jue’s mind.
• Ji Jue rejected a patient’s demands in the corridor and led Tong Hua into the maternity ward to find a way to earn money.
• Ji Jue intimidated Patient No. 1 by threatening surgery and realized that patients feared his authority to choose their treatment.
• Ji Jue offered Flesh Mountain an expensive imported treatment, then plunged his arm into her mouth and seized her internal organs.

Ji Jue used Non-Aggression and Alchemy to drain Flesh Mountain, then killed her husband and turned his skull into a Spirit Essence Cage. After leaving the ward with Tong Hua, he encountered Director Qian, who confronted him over a report that someone had violated the Hospital Rules.

• Ji Jue drained Flesh Mountain of her spirit essence, forced her to expel the souls she had swallowed, and gave Tong Hua the extracted glycerin.
• Ji Jue killed Flesh Mountain’s husband, converted his skull into a Spirit Essence Cage, and filled it with aberrant Spirit Essence.
• Ji Jue finished his rounds and left the terrified patients behind with Tong Hua.
• Ji Jue and Tong Hua walked through the corridor as the patients fled from him and his hanging consultation fee.
• Director Qian appeared and asked Ji Jue whether he had violated the Hospital Rules.

Ji Jue was forced by Director Qian to lead a delivery operation in the Time Ruins, despite having no medical license, and used a hammer to knock the monstrous patient unconscious. After Tong Hua used her Aether Eye to scan the patient, Ji Jue discovered that the delivery was far more dangerous than he had expected.

• Director Qian praised Ji Jue for treating a patient without permission, then assigned him to lead an operation delivering a baby and warned him of the consequences if he failed.
• Ji Jue made Tong Hua his assistant, and they hurriedly studied childbirth records and medical material before the operation.
• Ji Jue and Tong Hua arrived to find a chained, many-limbed expectant mother watched by Director Qian and a crowd of hungry family members.
• Ji Jue used a rusted hammer to knock the expectant mother unconscious, striking her repeatedly when she woke and resumed screaming.
• Ji Jue ordered Tong Hua to use her Aether Eye as a CT scan, and the scan revealed a dangerous situation inside the mother's body.

Ji Jue operated on a dying mother carrying two violent ghost fetuses, while Director Qian supplied him with blood and souls taken from the gathered family members. Ji Jue began reshaping the fetuses into Spirit Essence material, repeatedly demanding more transfusions as his supply dwindled.

• Ji Jue opened the mother's abdomen and found two underdeveloped ghost fetuses violently battling within her.
• Ji Jue proposed drawing blood from the assembled family members, and Director Qian drained one-fifth of each person's blood and soul to stabilize the mother.
• Ji Jue tore open the final membrane, confronted the ravenous fetuses, and used Disintegration Art and Non-Aggression to dismantle and reconstruct them.
• Ji Jue consumed the mother's and fetuses' life and Spirit Essence while transforming the fetuses, then called for emergency transfusions when the supply ran low.
• Director Qian ordered repeated blood transfusions from the family members as Ji Jue continued his work and called out that something was wrong again.

Ji Jue completed a surgery that fused two Spirit Essence Fetuses into one newborn, and his Blessings interacted to strengthen his control over spirit essence. After the operation, Tong Hua revealed that the entities in the Time Ruins had died decades earlier in intense suffering, and showed Ji Jue visions of their past.

• Director Qian ordered blood transfusions from the family members while Ji Jue worked on the mother and the Spirit Essence Fetuses.
• Ji Jue fused the two fetuses into one creature, and the interaction between his Blessings improved his control over spiritual bodies.
• Ji Jue announced the operation was complete, and the newborn cried as Director Qian declared mother and child safe.
• Director Qian left Ji Jue responsible for the newborn, which Ji Jue leashed and tested as it crawled around the operating room.
• Tong Hua told Ji Jue that the entities had been dead for decades and showed him the painful shadows of their past.

Ji Jue and Tong Hua learned that the hospital Time Ruins had recently formed and used spirit spiders to map much of its outpatient building. They identified the archives room as their next target, while Wen Wen suspected the Evil Transformation Cult was behind coordinated Time Ruins incidents across Haizhou.

• Wen Wen arrived at the restrained Time Ruins and learned that it had deliberately veered toward Yacheng, while other cities also reported Time Ruins incidents.
• Wen Wen and Tong Shan suspected the Evil Transformation Cult was coordinating attacks to overwhelm Haizhou's Security Bureau.
• Ji Jue returned to the office with Tong Hua, sealed it with Spirit Essence Circuits, and learned that the Time Ruins had drifted from the Spring City Grotto after recently forming.
• Ji Jue summoned residual spirits with the Soul Calling Bell and turned them into spirit spiders carrying scraps of a record book to map the hospital.
• Ji Jue and Tong Hua used the returned scraps to chart the outpatient building, found that no spiders had returned from the inpatient building, and chose the archives room as their next investigation target.

Ji Jue and Tong Hua uncovered records describing the Undying Disease, a plague that had turned Hope Hospital’s patients into an immortal calamity. After Director Qian caught Ji Jue in the records room, Ji Jue talked his way out and secured approval to collect supplies, then learned that three other Chosen Ones had been following them with plans to kill them.

• In a recovered account, High Priest Lian Cheng and the hospital dean celebrated using black blades to rot the Undying Disease, even as new flesh grew back.
• Ji Jue and Tong Hua confirmed from the records that the Undying Disease had spread through Quancheng and could only be stopped by erasing it on both physical and Spiritual Substance levels.
• Director Qian arrived at the records room dragging a mutilated corpse and demanded to know why Ji Jue was there.
• Ji Jue claimed he was studying to become a better doctor, and Director Qian sniffed him, decided he was sick too, and praised his compassion.
• Ji Jue asked for hospital supplies, and Director Qian approved his equipment request and told him to collect it from the warehouse.
• Tong Hua warned Ji Jue that three outside Chosen Ones had followed them and wanted to kill them, and Ji Jue remarked that they seemed to share the same plan.

Ji Jue left the hospital with a cart full of supplies, then used his preparations and Tong Hua's help to ambush the three cultists sent after him. The final fleeing attacker collapsed at Ji Jue's countdown, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Ji Jue bribed the Old Ghost with blood and left the hospital pushing a cart piled with bottles and jars.
• An Jiexiu disguised himself as a dying victim and tried to lure Ji Jue into an ambush, but Ji Jue shot him with a crude mercury-bullet gun and protected himself with a hardened lab coat.
• The blades controlled by Wang Ximin lost their power, while a two-headed ghost vessel attacked and killed her.
• Tong Hua poisoned Kong Yebai with a mixture of purified anesthetics and shot him, disabling the cultist before he could use his ability.
• The last cultist abandoned his companions and ran, but he collapsed just as Ji Jue finished counting down.

Ji Jue and Tong Hua defeated the attackers in the Time Ruins, then met the researcher Xie Lan, who recognized Ji Jue and warned them about the contaminated inpatient building and the Evil Transformation Cult. Xie Lan departed to study the living-corpse puppets, leaving Ji Jue and Tong Hua to continue toward the elevator with their plans to capture more material thwarted.

• An Jiexiu mutated and died after the ashes of The Horde and Mercury spread through him in the Time Ruins.
• Ji Jue and Tong Hua dealt with the attackers, and Ji Jue congratulated Tong Hua on her first kill.
• Xie Lan arrived with living-corpse-like puppets, examined the Ghost Fetus, and identified Ji Jue as the genius who rediscovered Fluid Alchemy.
• Xie Lan said he had met Tong Hua before, thanked Ji Jue for dealing with the Holy Spirit recruiters, and exchanged contact information with him.
• Xie Lan warned that the Time Ruins would soon collapse and advised them to be careful near the contaminated inpatient building and the Evil Transformation Cult.
• Xie Lan left to study the puppets, while Ji Jue and Tong Hua reached the elevator lamenting that they had missed a chance to gather more material.

Ji Jue interrogated Kong Yebai, a captured Evil Transformation Cult member, and learned the cult planned to trigger an explosion in the Yacheng Time Ruins. After Kong escaped to warn his companions, Ji Jue and Tong Hua discovered that Ji Jue had set off a bomb inside the ruins.

• Xie Lan admitted he had avoided provoking Ji Jue and the Tong Family, while Ji Jue resolved to report him to the Security Bureau later.
• Ji Jue tortured Kong Yebai and learned that the Evil Transformation Cult had sent nine people into the Time Ruins to obtain an Undying Disease specimen and trigger an explosion in Yacheng.
• Kong Yebai revealed that the High Priest had entered the inpatient building while the rest of the cult team supported the mission, but a seal prevented him from disclosing how they had entered the ruins.
• Director Qian took Ji Jue on rounds, and Kong Yebai escaped by sacrificing part of his arm to distract the Ghost Fetus before rushing to warn his companions.
• Ji Jue returned to the empty office, and Tong Hua realized he had assembled a bomb from its chemicals and materials.
• The bomb detonated, shaking the Time Ruins and filling them with smoke and fire.

Ji Jue and Xie Lan scavenged the aftermath of an explosive clash with Security Bureau Chosen Ones, then concealed their involvement from Director Qian. As Tong Hua worried about Ji Jue pushing himself too hard, he revealed that his fight against the Evil Transformation Cult was driven by personal grudges and vowed to destroy them.

• Kong Yebai’s hidden bomb exploded, devastating the office and badly injuring the Chosen Ones, while the Ghost Fetus attacked the survivors.
• Xie Lan turned two survivors into Living Corpses, and he and Ji Jue divided the remains and spirit essence between them.
• Ji Jue and Xie Lan denied responsibility when Director Qian arrived, while Ji Jue quietly pocketed a Blessed Creation.
• Ji Jue returned with Alchemy Creations from the Ghost Fetus, filling Deus Ex Machina’s dial further and considering how to expand his Spirit Essence Cage.
• Tong Hua told Ji Jue he did not have to bear the crisis alone, and Ji Jue thanked her before admitting that he pursued the Evil Transformation Cult out of personal grudge.
• Ji Jue thought of the people and peaceful lives he wanted to protect, then vowed to tear apart everyone who threatened them.

After Ji Jue arrived at the hospital, he confronted Lian Cheng’s fraudulent treatment plan and proposed a clinical trial that would expose the High Priest. Lian Cheng ended the chapter trapped by the offer, as the mutated physicians applauded Ji Jue’s supposed sacrifice.

• After learning that one outsider had killed his subordinates, Lian Cheng ordered his backup unit to release the disaster beasts on the second floor.
• The Dean brought Ji Jue and other mutated figures to meet Lian Cheng, and Ji Jue warmly warned him that he was next.
• At the meeting, Ji Jue questioned whether Lian Cheng’s treatment worked, while Director Qian tried to silence him and then challenged him to suggest an alternative.
• Ji Jue proposed testing the treatment on a mild case, then argued that Lian Cheng should verify his own plan when Lian Cheng objected.
• Ji Jue offered to be inoculated with Undying Disease alongside Lian Cheng as a placebo control, and the moved physicians applauded while Lian Cheng stood speechless with rage.

Lian Cheng was forced to undergo the implantation of Undying Disease, and a black blade from a flesh tumor suppressed his mutation enough to keep him barely alive. Ji Jue then submitted to the same procedure, but as the chapter ended, he showed no symptoms and only asked whether the patient had skipped a meal.

• Ji Jue forced Lian Cheng to accept the implantation of Undying Disease, and Lian Cheng sat in the electric chair amid the doctors’ chants and cheers.
• The dean and the doctors implanted Undying Disease into Lian Cheng, whose body mutated violently as two fiendish influences clashed within him.
• The dean drove a black blade into Lian Cheng’s mouth, suppressing the mutation; Ji Jue recognized the process as resembling Lawrence’s Vortex Planting Method.
• Lian Cheng warned Ji Jue that it was his turn, and Ji Jue calmly let the doctors shackle him and implant Undying Disease.
• A tiny Spiritual Substance spider carrying a record book slipped away from Ji Jue’s discarded belongings while he showed no obvious symptoms.
• Ji Jue burped and asked the dean whether the patient had skipped a meal, while Lian Cheng watched in disbelief.

Ji Jue’s Feigong Matrix sealed off the Undying Disease infection, leaving him unharmed while the physicians of the Time Ruins celebrated. He turned Lian Cheng into the test subject for Mad Slaughter Poison, and the chapter ended with the injection triggering a chorus of screams.

• Lian Cheng watched in disbelief as the Undying Disease failed to affect Ji Jue, whose Feigong Matrix armored his body and sealed away the infection.
• Ji Jue questioned why the mutated physicians showed no signs of erosion, then praised Lian Cheng’s treatment before proposing a new method.
• Ji Jue revealed a syringe of Mad Slaughter Poison, and the physicians eagerly supported testing it as a way to free patients through death.
• Ji Jue declared Lian Cheng an ideal clinical test subject, and the physicians restrained him in the electric chair despite his protests.
• Ji Jue injected Lian Cheng with the Mad Slaughter Poison, and the Time Ruins filled with agonized wailing.

Lian Cheng unleashed the Supreme Lord’s authority, freed himself, and sent the Outpatient Building’s patients and monsters into a rampage. Ji Jue detonated the hospital, leaving Lian Cheng staring in shock amid the destruction.

• Lian Cheng broke his final seal and used the Emerald Eye’s authority to suppress the Time Ruins’ interference and unleash the Undying Disease.
• The Bone Wheel freed Lian Cheng and expelled the Mad Slaughter Poison, but his attempted transformation into a calamity vessel remained incomplete.
• Lian Cheng awakened the patients and monsters in the Outpatient Building and ordered them to attack Ji Jue.
• Ji Jue activated his modified air-conditioner remote, setting off explosions throughout the hospital.
• The blast engulfed the buildings in flames, and Ji Jue turned to the stunned Lian Cheng and asked what he had been saying.

Tong Hua and Xie Lan helped Ji Jue escape the hospital ruins, where he faced Lian Cheng and the Bone Wheel. After using the Soul Calling Bell to gather the lingering spirits, Ji Jue created a Sage Remnant that seized control of the Time Ruins.

• Tong Hua revealed that Ji Jue had made her bomb the hospital and pressured Xie Lan into helping fight the disaster beast by threatening his research materials and medical license.
• Xie Lan used dreamlike insects and his puppets to distract the disaster beast, while the destroyed outpatient building left Lian Cheng stunned.
• Ji Jue taunted Lian Cheng and used the Stitched Ghost Fetus to absorb the Bone Wheel's soul attacks through Non-Aggression.
• Ji Jue rang the Soul Calling Bell three times, draining the Ghost Fetus and awakening a vast multitude of lingering spirits across the Time Ruins.
• Ji Jue used the bell's power to create the Sage Remnant, which froze the Time Ruins and restrained the Bone Wheel.

Ji Jue summoned a remnant of Sage Mercury to battle the Abomination while it enhanced him, allowing him to overwhelm Lian Cheng. When Lian Cheng tried to corrupt him with the Supreme Lord’s power, Ji Jue activated his ability to extract Spiritual Substance and began draining Lian Cheng and the Supreme Lord through their connection.

• Ji Jue used the Soul Calling Bell and Feigong to summon Sage Mercury’s remnant, which attacked the Abomination infecting the Bone Wheel.
• Sage Mercury’s remnant enhanced Ji Jue as he battered Lian Cheng with overwhelming speed and strength.
• Lian Cheng unleashed the Supreme Lord’s corruption into Ji Jue, believing he would infect him.
• Ji Jue revealed that he had left his Matrix’s restraints inactive and used its extraction ability to absorb the corruption.
• Ji Jue drained Lian Cheng and followed their connection toward the Supreme Lord, while Lian Cheng desperately strengthened the link.

Ji Jue watched Lian Cheng seize the Marrow of Evil Folly, but the Time Ruins’ dead patients and doctors confronted Lian Cheng and finally killed him. When Ji Jue hesitated to destroy the doctor who embodied the ruins’ central conflict, Director Qian forced his hand and drove the remnant bone into the doctor’s chest.

• The Sage Remnant destroyed the Bone Wheel, and Lian Cheng survived its explosion by stealing the Higher Fiend’s essence and taking the Marrow of Evil Folly.
• Ji Jue warned Lian Cheng that he had forgotten the core conflict between the Time Ruins and the present world, as the patients’ faces emerged and called him a liar.
• Tong Hua was overwhelmed by memories of the ruined hospital, where a doctor had promised to save patients but failed to prevent their deaths.
• The doctors’ afterimages confronted Lian Cheng and consumed his eyes, mouth, hands, spine, brain, and heart, killing him as the patients continued to accuse them of lying.
• Ji Jue picked up the remnant bone and aimed it at the grieving doctor, but hesitated when he saw the doctor’s tears.
• Director Qian seized Ji Jue’s arm and forced him to drive the remnant bone into the doctor’s chest, rebuking him for hesitating in the face of calamity and disease.

Ji Jue accepted the old doctor's badge and began operating on the patients of the collapsing Time Ruins, using a Bone Blade to separate their souls from the Undying Disease. He cured the first patient, a baby, as White Hall's projection weakened and vast forces began to stir above the ruins.

• The old doctor gave Ji Jue his ID badge, urged him to become a good doctor, and faded away.
• Ji Jue told Tong Hua to prepare isolation and protection, then set up an operation amid the ruins.
• Ji Jue crafted a Bone Blade from the doctor's remains and began cutting into the tumor to separate the fused souls from the diseased flesh.
• Guided by the doctors' knowledge and experience, Ji Jue extracted a baby from the tumor and freed its Spiritual Substance from White Hall's pollution.
• Ji Jue declared Patient No. 1 cured as cracks spread through the heavens and the surgery continued.

Tong Hua asked Ye Zhi to assess her troubled friend, and Ye Zhi warned that his need for control and painful past could make him dangerous to anyone who disrupted his plans. When they saw that the friend was Ji Jue, playing happily with his family at the beach, Tong Hua and Ye Zhi watched the lively water fight together.

• Tong Hua described her friend to Ye Zhi and asked whether his behavior suggested a problem with his mental state.
• Ye Zhi listed possible conditions and warned that the man valued control over his life, might avoid Tong Hua, and could ruthlessly remove anything that disrupted his plans.
• Ye Zhi speculated that guilt over a profound loss drove the man's relentless need to make every day count.
• A mischievous child jumped into the sea, and Lu Ling, her siblings, and their mother joined the ensuing beachside water fight.
• Ye Zhi recognized the scarred man with a modified water cannon as the friend Tong Hua had described, and Tong Hua confirmed that it was Ji Jue.
• Ji Jue played with his family through water fights, games, and ice cream as the sun set over the beach.

Ji Jue learned that Hope Hospital had invited him to its training program, but Professor Ye had already refused on his behalf and gave him a diamond VIP card instead. She identified his Bone Blade as a one-of-a-kind work of nature, explained its powerful healing and spiritual abilities, and revealed that it could not harm or kill living beings.

• Ji Jue panicked when he found Hope Hospital’s invitation, while Professor Ye and Ye Chun teased him about being recruited away from Tide Sound Workshop.
• Ji Jue presented Ye Chun with his paper, and Professor Ye praised his conduct in the Time Ruins and dismissed his concerns about the Evil Transformation Cult.
• Professor Ye said she had declined Hope Hospital’s offer for Ji Jue and warned him to be blunt with the hospital, then gave him its diamond VIP card.
• Professor Ye examined Ji Jue’s Bone Blade and judged it a one-of-a-kind work of nature formed through the forces that had converged in the Time Ruins.
• Professor Ye explained that the Bone Blade could destroy matter and Spiritual Substance and grant Ji Jue surgical expertise, but it could not harm or kill living beings.
• Ji Jue asked what shortcoming Professor Ye meant, since he saw the Bone Blade’s limitations as advantages.