Recaps

Xu Huo left Cockscomb Flower City with the painted woman, explored the Battle Ruins, and accepted Granny Bai’s inheritance. His search for Building Block Fairy Tale Town’s vanished residents led him to District 008, where he uncovered abuse at a special school and evidence of the Tian Family’s crimes, ending as he learned that Old Tian planned to dispose of experimental subjects.

• Xu Huo left Cockscomb Flower City with the painted woman and entered Harmony City, where a cannibal player escaped a patrol using a Ticket.
• Xu Huo and the painted woman fought the Boxing Arena’s players, and Xu destroyed its Artifact before leaving with her.
• Xu Huo experimented with the Battle Ruins’ Space Rays, accepted Granny Bai’s inheritance, and found Building Block Fairy Tale Town abandoned.
• Xu Huo used hotel footage to learn that the city’s residents had boarded a vessel, then followed the trail to District 008 and a special school.
• Xu Huo investigated the school’s mistreatment of students and uncovered evidence of a cover-up, while the painted woman explored a vessel linked to Haiyun Technology.
• Xu Huo exposed crimes tied to the Tian Family and Fu Jie, helping Fang Jing bring evidence to the authorities as the scandal spread.
• Xu Huo traced the vessel investigation to Kesi Biology and questioned an employee, who revealed that Old Tian was already arranging to dispose of experimental subjects.

Xu Huo pursued the truth behind Granny Bai’s death and the Stolen Declaration murders while exposing the Tian Family’s crimes and helping organize a trap for Dou Shengnan. The operation began in Lichuan City, but Dou Shengnan’s powers overwhelmed the attackers, and Xu Huo moved toward the hotel to investigate.

• Xu Huo raided Kesi Biology and confronted the Tian Family over Granny Bai’s death before entering the Stolen Declaration Dungeon in Chongming Bird Administrative Region.
• Xu Huo studied the serial murder files, joined forces with Zhao Zizhen, and spread a forged declaration and accusations that linked the Tian Family to the killings.
• Xu Huo and Zhao Zizhen investigated the Tian Family’s transportation company as rumors about its experiments and the murders spread among the public.
• Xu Huo challenged Dr. Dian over District 008’s secrets and technological rule, while Zhao Zizhen investigated the Tian Family and Xu Huo encouraged public criticism of its abuses.
• Xu Huo and Nie Xuan organized a plan to trap Dou Shengnan, while the painted woman escaped the Tian Family Villa with captives and later agreed to guard Xu Huo’s important item.
• General Zhuo authorized Spring Thunder Organization to operate in the city for six hours, and its Players attacked Dou Shengnan at the hotel.
• Dou Shengnan evaded the attackers’ traps and killed Players through her Black Water and Manifestations as a lockdown barrier enclosed the hotel and a wide surrounding area.
• Xu Huo and Nie Xuan realized the blockade had not stopped Dou Shengnan’s abilities, and Xu Huo headed toward the hotel to investigate.

Xu Huo fought Dou Shengnan in Chongming Bird and disappeared into a black vortex, then recovered in a remote town and set out with A Hai toward the Goddess’s Holy Land. At Purple Lake City’s Temple of Inquiry, Xu Huo survived a mental ordeal and began investigating how the temple judged and influenced its visitors.

• Xu Huo and Nie Xuan lured Dou Shengnan into Chongming Bird’s containment area and fought her alongside local Players, but she overwhelmed them and wounded Xu Huo and Nie Xuan.
• Xu Huo used the Time Tower’s power against Dou Shengnan, but she resisted it, injured him, and sent him into a black vortex as the instance disappeared.
• Nie Xuan escaped and reported Xu Huo missing, while Xu Huo repeatedly drowned in an illusion before his childhood personality helped him survive in the wilderness.
• A Hai and the townspeople rescued Xu Huo, who recovered and learned that Dou Shengnan had escaped while his childhood personality had stolen her core Manifestation and Super Artifact.
• Xu Huo agreed to travel with A Hai to the Goddess’s Holy Land, and they journeyed through satellite cities toward its temples.
• At Purple Lake City’s temple, Xu Huo and Blondie entered the Temple of Inquiry and faced grotesque figures in a gray-black space before Xu Huo destroyed them and returned.
• Xu Huo concluded that the Temple of Inquiry tested visitors’ hearts and gradually influenced their minds, while Blondie discovered that he and A Hai bore Divine Envoy marks but Xu Huo did not.

Xu Huo investigated the Goddess Cult’s secrets while A Hai joined the temple and the Saintesses prepared for God’s Birthday. As the festival began, the Goddess’s true form was revealed and its mental force struck the gathered Players.

• Xu Huo discovered that the child personality had stolen an anchor from Dou Shengnan, then investigated the Temple of Inquiry and its effects on Players.
• After a Saintess was reported killed, Xu Huo followed clues about a fleeing believer and traveled with A Hai to Holy Land City, where A Hai accepted an invitation to join the Saintess selection.
• Xu Huo learned that the temple had taken a healthy child from a local woman and that her husband had vanished while trying to retrieve him.
• Xu Huo studied the temple’s patterns and saw visions of the Goddess Cult’s origins, its efforts to govern the country, and its failed experiment with children of Outer District ancestry.
• Xu Huo healed and strengthened himself with a P5S potion as Players debated whether to plant bombs near the temple.
• At daybreak, aircraft scattered eye-marked materials and Floating Balloons over the city as God’s Birthday festivities began.
• Blondie identified the rain as Evolution Potion, and Xue Yi asked the Goddess to reveal her true form.
• The covering was removed from the statue, revealing a humanoid form covered in eyes and chaotic patterns that overwhelmed several Super Evolvers and Blondie.