Recaps

Xu Huo investigated a cannibal organization in South City and learned from Yu Qingqing that a tracked Player had entered a factory backed by Nan Mingzhu. He left for South City that night, warning Yu Qingqing to stay out of trouble until he arrived.

• Xu Huo questioned Players on the Special Defense Department's internal network about the South City disappearances, and Yu Qingqing offered to sell him information for a B-class item.
• After Jiang Qiao identified the seller as a new member of Yu Qingqing's organization, Xu Huo pressured her into sharing what her people had discovered.
• Yu Qingqing said a Player they had followed entered a foreign-owned factory backed by Nan Mingzhu, whose food-processing business might be connected to the disappearances.
• Xu Huo warned Yu Qingqing not to investigate the factory yet and gave her three B-class items and one A-class item in exchange for waiting.
• Xu Huo visited his neighbors, spoke with his family, then left the Safe Zone for South City.

A woman named Wang Huiqin went out at night to find medicine for her feverish child, but a Cannibal Player abducted her before Special Defense Department Players could reach her. A female Player found Wang Huiqin alive after another person drove off the attacker, while the rest of the patrol pursued the fleeing figure.

• A woman left Camphor Tree Compound with her feverish child and asked the guard for help getting to a hospital, but he refused to go outside and directed her to a pharmacy.
• The woman reached a pharmacy, received no answer, and disappeared when a nearby streetlight briefly went out as she headed for another shop.
• Special Defense Department Players reviewed security footage, realized the woman had vanished, and split up to search the area.
• A female Player and her companion encountered a blood-scented figure in a black Protective Suit, and the companion chased after them while she entered an alley.
• The female Player found Wang Huiqin injured but alive, and Wang Huiqin explained that a Cannibal Player had attacked her before someone intervened and drove it away.

After the Cannibal Player escaped another hunt, he hid in South City and joined a group planning a larger operation. Xu Huo investigated Dafeng Slaughterhouse, where Manager Liu was preparing to receive fresh victims.

• A female Player checked the rescued woman's child and arranged to take them to the hospital while the Special Defense Department failed to find the escaped Cannibal Player.
• The Cannibal Player hid near the Camphorwood Residential Complex, disguised himself as an ordinary migrant worker, and passed an inspection by the Special Defense Department.
• He contacted a Cannibal Player in a group chat and arranged to meet at the Fresh Pork Bun Shop on Da Lin Street.
• The shop owner directed him to Manager Liu at Dafeng Slaughterhouse, where he was invited to join a larger operation.
• Xu Huo searched Dafeng Slaughterhouse with his Spiritual World and found frozen corpses, two Player employees, and Manager Liu discussing fresh goods on the phone.

Xu Huo discovered that Nan Mingzhu’s owner, Hua Baoren, had founded a cult that recruited Cannibal Players and helped them advance through dungeons. He arrived at the cult’s gathering and watched Hua Baoren reassure the assembled members as they prepared to eat.

• Xu Huo traced Manager Liu’s operation to the Little Star Food Processing Plant and learned Nan Mingzhu Enterprise was preparing a gathering.
• Yu Qingqing sent Xu Huo files revealing that Nan Mingzhu’s owner had founded a cult for Cannibal Players and organized human sacrifices.
• Xu Huo questioned Yu Qingqing about the cult and decided to investigate its leader without relying on her team.
• Xu Huo visited the Special Defense Department and then went to Nan Mingzhu’s headquarters, where Cannibal Players gathered around a feast.
• Hua Baoren arrived wearing a Mask, and when attendees raised concerns about the Special Defense Department, he promised to resolve their problems.

Hua Baoren proposed legalizing the Wushan Cult and negotiating with the Special Defense Department so Cannibal Players could keep their identities secret and obtain food without harming South City residents. A voice in the crowd warned that recognition could normalize cannibalism and that the cult might not be able to control its members’ Gluttony Urge.

• A thin, tall man asked how the Cannibal Players could escape the Special Defense Department’s search after the missing-person cases came to light.
• Hua Baoren said the cult members had killed criminals and that impostors had abducted ordinary people, causing the department to blame them.
• Hua Baoren announced that he would approach the Special Defense Department and seek legal recognition for the Wushan Cult, keeping the members’ identities secret if possible.
• The cult members objected that the department would restrict or punish them and that they needed a way to satisfy their hunger without killing people nearby.
• Hua Baoren proposed buying food from other sub-districts and argued that legal identities could help stabilize society.
• A voice behind the crowd warned that Cannibal Players might exploit recognition to kill citizens and gradually lose control of the Gluttony Urge.

Xu Huo exposed Secretary Fang's role in the missing persons cases at Hua Baoren's Wushan Cult gathering and urged Hua Baoren to disband the cult. Hua Baoren questioned whether Cannibal Players were doomed to live as outcasts, while Xu Huo warned that recognizing them would endanger society.

• Xu Huo challenged Hua Baoren's ability to vet Wushan Cult members and revealed that Secretary Fang was involved in the missing persons cases.
• Xu Huo paralyzed Secretary Fang, sealed the hall, and displayed encrypted chat logs from Fang's account.
• Hua Baoren recognized that the messages recorded selections beyond the company's needs and accused Secretary Fang of acting behind his back.
• Xu Huo brought out three captives who identified Secretary Fang and described his hideouts and his use of company resources to supply Cannibal Players with props.
• Xu Huo told Hua Baoren to disband the Wushan Cult and end its ceremonies, then argued that Cannibal Players could not be publicly accepted without threatening society.

Xu Huo exposed and eliminated Secretary Fang’s operation involving Cannibal Players, then turned the remaining cases over to South City’s Special Defense Department. He met Yu Qingqing and her team, warned her about her behavior, and asked why they had come to South City.

• After confirming Secretary Fang’s connection to the missing-person cases, Xu Huo executed him, Manager Liu, and several others.
• Xu Huo reported the suspected Cannibal Player groups to the South City Special Defense Department and left the department to handle the cleanup.
• Yu Qingqing and her Fair and Foul team raided two Cannibal Player gathering places but found little of value.
• Xu Huo revealed himself to Yu Qingqing, warned her not to torture corpses, and asked whether she had sought help from Professor Tang Guangbo.
• Yu Qingqing introduced the members of Fair and Foul, then tried to leave for late-night food when Xu Huo asked why they had come to South City.
• Xu Huo grabbed Yu Qingqing and told her to answer while he was still easy to talk to.

Yu Qingqing told Xu Huo about a stable entrance to an unformed Dungeon, but their monitoring devices were destroyed by an unknown force in the fog. Xu Huo took the footage and called the Special Defense Department, leaving Yu Qingqing and her team to wait while he prepared a late-night snack.

• Yu Qingqing demanded that her team receive the largest share if they worked with Xu Huo, then explained that Duo Yun had found an isolated space that might become a Dungeon.
• Xu Huo watched the footage of monitoring devices being destroyed in the fog but could not identify what had attacked them.
• Xu Huo took the remaining footage and told Yu Qingqing he would contact the Special Defense Department.
• Yu Qingqing agreed not to interfere if the Special Defense Department paid well for her information, and Xu Huo asked her to gather her other four friends.
• Yu Qingqing told Zhen Yu and Da Yu that Xu Huo likely wanted to help Da Xue and the others because their team was too weak to enter the space.
• Xu Huo returned after making a call and prepared a late-night snack while the group waited for headquarters.

Xu Huo warned Yu Qingqing and her teammates against risking exposure to Super Evolution, then explained psychic and spatial abilities. While discussing whether Time Rays had a visible color, he reconsidered their nature and began sensing fluctuating temporal forces through his Spiritual World.

• Yu Qingqing asked Xu Huo to bring her group along to experience Super Evolution, but he warned them that entering such dangerous conditions could cost them their lives.
• Xu Huo explained that Super Evolution required talent and was difficult to develop, while Yu Qingqing insisted she would undergo a second Evolution someday.
• Xu Huo described psychic and spatial Super Evolution to Yu Qingqing and her teammates.
• Yu Qingqing asked whether Time Rays had a color, prompting Xu Huo to realize that the Time Rays people had seen might have been amplified rather than in their original state.
• Xu Huo connected his ideas about Time Rays to Curved Time and concluded that time was dynamic and could not be grasped.
• Xu Huo expanded his Spiritual World around the building and sensed tangled, irregular lines of temporal force fluctuating among the spiritual lines and Space Rays.

Xu Huo discussed controlling space-time and spiritual power with Yu Qingqing while cooking poisonous mushrooms for his companions and Nie Xuan. Nie Xuan reported that Ting City had been settled and arrived with a Special Defense Department team of Super Evolvers before asking Xu Huo to show them the entrance to Chaos Space.

• Xu Huo tried to grasp the chaotic lines in the air, accidentally caught a Space Ray, and knocked over the soup pot.
• Xu Huo explained his ideas about controlling space-time and spiritual power, then cooked poisonous mushrooms that he and Yu Qingqing ate.
• Nie Xuan arrived with two players, said he had brought a team of ten and a support unit, and ate the mushrooms after telling his companions to use Antidote.
• Nie Xuan told Xu Huo that Ting City had been settled and that a document granting him the city would arrive at his home.
• Xu Huo questioned Nie Xuan about his healed leg and noted the military had sent Super Evolvers, then Yu Qingqing offered to lead them to the entrance to Chaos Space.

Xu Huo and Nie Xuan tested the dangerous fissure into a chaotic space and found they could only guide a drone 459 meters inside. Since they still had some ability to manipulate the Space Rays, Nie Xuan prepared to enter with three teammates while the others waited for equipment.

• Yu Qingqing admitted that Bao Yu had entered the fissure first and asked Xu Huo to rescue him if possible while prioritizing his own safety.
• Xu Huo and Nie Xuan examined the recordings and judged that chaotic Space Power or another force had destroyed the surveillance device.
• Xu Huo and Nie Xuan guided a modified drone through the fissure, but lost control of it after about two hundred meters.
• The drone traveled 459 meters before its video feed went black, while Xu Huo and Nie Xuan confirmed they could manipulate the Space Rays for part of the way.
• Nie Xuan chose Sha Chuan, Wei Xiaoyi, and Tian Zhengjiang to enter with him, gave Xu Huo a special Communicator, and told the others to contact them after the Special Defense Department brought equipment.

Xu Huo and Nie Xuan led a small team into a fog-filled Chaos Space, where their Communicators failed but the game platform still worked. As they explored an ancient-looking city, Xu Huo sensed something watching them.

• Xu Huo followed Nie Xuan and three others into the Chaos Space, where heavy pressure from the Space Rays made progress difficult.
• The team found buildings that the monitor dated to at least two hundred years old, and Nie Xuan noted that old cities were common across the game’s Sub-districts.
• They discovered that their Communicators could not reach anyone outside, though the game platform remained available.
• The group examined the city’s grand, heavily carved buildings, and Xu Huo noticed an eye motif above one entrance that seemed connected to spiritual power.
• At the site where the monitor had been destroyed, the team found neither wreckage nor members of 'Unpredictable,' and Xu Huo grabbed Nie Xuan’s shoulder, warning that something was watching them.

Xu Huo and his companions discovered that an eye-shaped design on the porches was trapping them in a space where they could not retreat and made them feel watched. They debated whether to press forward or disturb the surrounding Space Rays, and Xu Huo proposed carefully shifting smaller spatial masses to explore nearby buildings.

• Nie Xuan checked his shifting-sand item, but it showed only the five companions; Xu Huo nevertheless sensed that something was watching them and ordered an immediate retreat.
• Xu Huo and Nie Xuan each moved their groups two hundred meters, but both times they found themselves back at the same porch.
• The group tested walking forward and returning, then traveled farther until Xu Huo found another porch bearing an eye and concluded that it was causing the interference and preventing them from leaving.
• Xu Huo warned Nie Xuan that the growing mental interference made continuing dangerous, while disturbing the surrounding Space Rays could trigger a chain reaction.
• Xu Huo suggested shifting smaller spatial masses and exploring the nearby buildings instead of forcing their way through the larger barriers.

Xu Huo and the others debated the danger of mental interference and shifting spatial bodies before splitting up to explore the palace. Xu Huo took Wei Xiaoyi with him, and the chapter ended with her helping him move a spatial body while he warned her about nearby Space Rays.

• Xu Huo suggested that the eye patterns might be watching them, but Nie Xuan and the others doubted his theory and warned that disturbing spatial bodies could trigger destructive collisions.
• Xu Huo proposed splitting up and using their Personal Panels to keep in contact, and Nie Xuan asked Wei Xiaoyi to accompany him.
• Xu Huo and Wei Xiaoyi entered a palace, where the sensation of being watched stopped at the threshold.
• Wei Xiaoyi speculated that the vast, sparsely furnished palaces had been built for gods rather than residents.
• Xu Huo asked about Wei Xiaoyi's spatial Evolution and auxiliary item, then invited her to help push a spatial body aside.
• Wei Xiaoyi pushed where Xu Huo directed her as he cautioned her about sharp objects formed by Rays nearby.

Xu Huo and Wei Xiaoyi navigated a chaotic space where dense spatial bodies, mental interference, and signs of Time Power appeared. They entered a preserved scene of the past and overheard worshippers discussing divine eyes said to grant miracles, including restoring youth.

• Xu Huo tried to connect his Space Ray to a dense spatial body but failed to alter it.
• Wei Xiaoyi photographed the space, and she and Xu Huo wondered whether its spatial bodies formed naturally or through battles between Super Players.
• Sunlight and a bustling city scene appeared, and Xu Huo told Wei Xiaoyi the Chaos Space was real rather than a simple illusion.
• Wei Xiaoyi activated instruments that let the passing figures move through her like shadows, while Xu Huo recognized the scene as a fragment preserved from another time.
• Xu Huo and Wei Xiaoyi entered a palace and overheard worshippers discussing divine eyes that could supposedly cure illness and restore youth.

Xu Huo and Wei Xiaoyi traveled through the religious city as violent space bodies began colliding across it, forcing Xu Huo to fight his way through while Wei Xiaoyi disappeared from sight. He continued onward and saw a time fragment of a masked Divine Envoy being worshiped by a crowd of believers.

• Xu Huo and Wei Xiaoyi followed the streets past the mostly empty palaces of the Nine Divine Paths.
• A surge of space bodies crushed the time fragments and began demolishing the city, so Xu Huo pulled Wei Xiaoyi into a palace for shelter.
• Xu Huo carried Wei Xiaoyi through the collapsing streets, but the Space Power shattered his defenses and wounded his arm.
• Xu Huo told Wei Xiaoyi to prepare her Ticket and leave, then pushed her away from an incoming space body and fought on alone.
• Xu Huo continued through the city amid the ongoing collisions and saw a time fragment of believers praising a masked middle-aged Divine Envoy.

Xu Huo crossed the residential outskirts of the Nine Divine Paths and learned that Nie Xuan remained deeper inside after Tian Zhengjiang died and Sha Chuan and Wei Xiaoyi escaped. A vision showed a blue-eyed young man asking about the divine eyes, and Xu Huo continued onward, considering whether he could use Cube Space in the quieter area.

• Xu Huo reached the residential outskirts, where fewer spatial entities floated near the ground, and rested after hours of struggling through them.
• Xu Huo learned from messages that Tian Zhengjiang had died, Sha Chuan and Wei Xiaoyi had escaped, and Nie Xuan was still heading deeper inside.
• A new scene showed a blue-eyed young man buying flowers from a boy and asking about the divine eyes at the Great Temple.
• The young man headed toward the Nine Divine Paths before the vision dissolved into gray mist.
• Xu Huo continued away from the Nine Divine Paths and considered using Cube Space in the residential area.

Xu Huo tested the Cube Space against nearby space entities but could not control the crystallized Space Rays. With Angel's Eyes, he clearly perceived Time Rays and found that he could affect them, leaving him with the discovery that time could only move backward.

• Xu Huo released the Cube Space, which enclosed three nearby space entities and caused dense rays to crystallize around them.
• Xu Huo spent nearly half an hour trying to control the new Space Rays, then stopped after failing to manipulate them.
• Xu Huo took out Angel's Eyes and perceived the Time Rays as long, evenly distributed lines passing through the space.
• Xu Huo swept his hand near three Time Rays, making time accelerate around him and restoring the blue-eyed man to the street as he walked toward them again.
• Xu Huo realized that time could move backward but not forward.

Xu Huo retraced the past at the Nine Divine Paths and witnessed a Divine Eye appear on a temple doorway, provoking a mental attack that pulled him into a dangerous spatial disturbance. He destroyed the doorway eye and fled as the expanding shock waves chased him through the Chaos Space.

• Xu Huo used Angel's Eyes and Time Power to retrace fragments of the past, then returned to the Nine Divine Paths to search for recorded scenes.
• Xu Huo witnessed believers discuss the Divine Envoy as an eye appeared on a temple doorway, and the eye's mental pressure revealed that other Divine Eyes were watching him.
• Space Power suddenly displaced Xu Huo, and the carved eyes invaded his Spiritual World, multiplying as they searched for its core.
• Xu Huo forced a nearby space body into the temple doors, crushing the doorway eye, then fled while keeping his Spiritual World open and using Cube Space.
• After more than ten minutes of flight, Xu Huo was still being pursued by shock waves when a figure appeared on the street ahead.

Xu Huo found Bao Yu dead in the Chaos Space and realized that Time Rays could age a person into ash in an instant. He continued toward the depths of the Nine Divine Paths, while the injured Nie Xuan struggled through ruins on the other side.

• Xu Huo approached Bao Yu’s motionless body and found no visible injuries, suspecting that Time Power had killed him.
• Bao Yu’s corpse cracked apart and disintegrated into ash after Xu Huo nudged a ray in the air.
• Xu Huo gathered Bao Yu’s belongings and realized that Time Rays could rapidly age a person, leaving him vulnerable despite being able to sense them.
• Xu Huo used an image preserved by Time Power to confirm his direction and continued into the gray fog with Angel's Eyes on his back.
• Nie Xuan dragged his injured leg through ruins on the other side of the Nine Divine Paths, using a prop to check for Time Power.

Nie Xuan used a rare Time Power detection instrument to cautiously advance through the Nine Divine Paths, while Xu Huo moved more easily through the Time Rays with his Spiritual World. As Xu Huo considered the Divine Eye’s promised ability to restore youth, he concluded that reversing a person’s time seemed impossible.

• Nie Xuan obtained a scarce A-class instrument for detecting Time Power because no known instrument could interfere with it.
• Nie Xuan continued through the Nine Divine Paths despite his shrinking spatial perception, using his crystalized legs to withstand a Time Ray.
• Nie Xuan cautiously surveyed the path and checked on Xu Huo, who remained somewhere ahead among the moving spatial bodies.
• Xu Huo used Angel's Eyes and his Spiritual World to shape Time Rays and travel through the path with relative ease.
• Xu Huo examined past images of the Divine Eye’s wonders and reasoned that restoring youth would require reversing time, which seemed impossible.

Xu Huo reached the ruined central temple and used a Space Ray to see it before its destruction. He witnessed the blue-eyed man confront two Divine Envoys over their tomb and the Origin Stones, leaving the man’s identity revealed as Carmen Field.

• Xu Huo reached the central temple and found its gates, interior, and dais shattered.
• Xu Huo set time in motion with a Space Ray and saw the temple intact before its destruction.
• A blue-eyed man challenged two Divine Envoys for building a grand tomb and keeping the divine eyes for themselves.
• The Divine Envoys produced two Origin Stones, but the blue-eyed man controlled them with fine threads and began drawing out their power.
• The two Divine Envoys shouted the blue-eyed man’s name: Carmen Field.

Xu Huo recognized Carmen Field, the legendary Super Player, in a fragment from two hundred years earlier and watched him fight two Divine Envoys with Spacetime Rays. Xu Huo continued activating nearby Time Rays to follow the battle, but the fragments only revealed pieces of its chaotic final moments and aftermath.

• The Divine Envoy identified the young man as Carmen Field, and Xu Huo recognized him as the Field family's famed Morning Star and former owner of Field Battle Angel.
• Carmen Field trapped the two Divine Envoys in spatial barriers and sent Time Rays through the temple dome, destroying gems, stones, and followers caught in the beams.
• Carmen Field stopped the Time Rays, and Xu Huo left the temple to activate another nearby ray and resume the fragment from two hundred years earlier.
• Xu Huo saw the Divine Envoys join the battle, controlling spatial bodies and using Time Rays to hunt Carmen Field across the city.
• Xu Huo followed more Time Rays as the battle ended in chaotic clashes of Rainbow Light and fine rain, but he could not clearly see its final moments.

Xu Huo studied how Carmen Field and others controlled Space Rays, then tried to imitate Carmen's method of subdividing them. His observations of Time Rays led him to conclude that time could connect across dimensions while Space Power remained confined to each space.

• Xu Huo gave up searching for Carmen Field and focused on learning to control Space Rays.
• Xu Huo attempted to subdivide Space Rays by studying the surrounding space and structures Carmen Field had created, but he failed to reproduce Carmen's method.
• Xu Huo examined the five-ray connection Carmen Field used with the Origin Stone and took out Angel's Eyes.
• Xu Huo inspected a Time Ray from a distance and reflected on Carmen Field's comment about a nearby space where time flowed more slowly.
• Xu Huo concluded that Time Rays could connect to other spaces and cross dimensions, unlike the stable Space Power within a single space.

Xu Huo learned to subdivide Time Rays, which let him control them more precisely and direct the recording ability of "Angel's Eyes." After noticing an unusual Time Ray in the area, he investigated it briefly before turning his attention to the Space Rays.

• Xu Huo recalled how Time Rays could connect to other dimensions and affect the flow of time, then considered what made the rays inside the Origin Stone different.
• Xu Huo remembered a lesson about imagining the structure of things too small to perceive and used it to split a Time Ray into finer units.
• Xu Huo connected subdivided Time Rays to the Origin Stone and learned that finer subdivisions made him more sensitive to the rays and able to control them more precisely.
• Xu Huo used "Angel's Eyes" to record and replay events around a thrown stone by holding the Time Rays in that area.
• Xu Huo sensed an unusual Time Ray strike a nearby street, found dust where it had passed, and watched the ray vanish before returning his attention to the Space Rays.