Recaps

Lu Yuan explained how he and Frey had reached this world and learned that Frey carried a strong scent of Heretics, suggesting she was the Holy Sovereign’s Seed. Brunkel considered using Frey’s importance to their advantage, but Lu Yuan refused, while Frey feared she would bring danger to everyone and be transformed by Contamination.

• The Blue Knight assured Lu Yuan that she, Brunkel, and the nuns were protected, then asked how he had entered the world.
• Lu Yuan recounted the Knight Academy’s recent events and explained that Frey had previously escaped this world, easing the Blue Knight’s and Brunkel’s fears about being trapped.
• Lu Yuan told the Blue Knight they were heading to the camp of the Wanderer who had saved Frey and described the Wanderers.
• Brunkel smelled a strong trace of Heretics inside Frey and concluded that she was the Holy Sovereign’s Seed they had been seeking.
• Brunkel began considering what they could do with Frey’s importance, but Lu Yuan firmly refused, and Frey panicked at the thought of endangering him or being transformed by Contamination.

Lu Yuan defended Frey against Brunkel’s unsupported accusation and led the group toward a Wanderer camp. They reached a much larger camp, but the sight of it made their hopes falter.

• Lu Yuan rebuked Brunkel for accusing Frey without evidence, and Brunkel acknowledged that her conclusion was hasty.
• Lu Yuan kept Frey on his back and led the Blue Knight and Brunkel toward the nearest Wanderer camp.
• Frey guided them along a low slope while Lu Yuan urged the group to reach the camp before Heretics found them.
• Frey spotted the camp beyond a bend, and the group hurried toward it with different hopes for what they would find.
• The group saw a camp with at least three main tents, seven or eight smaller tents, and a tall wall built from bone fragments, and their hopes began to sink.

Lu Yuan, Frey, Brunkel, and the Blue Knight searched a ruined Wanderer camp and found signs that its inhabitants had been purged months or years earlier. They concluded that some Wanderers might have escaped through a gap in the wall and left the camp to follow their trail.

• Lu Yuan and the others found a larger camp covered in blood, and Brunkel estimated that the battle had happened at least six months earlier.
• Brunkel judged that four or five Wanderers had died and at least half might have escaped, giving Frey hope that some people who had helped her survived.
• Lu Yuan led the group into the camp, where they found rotting bodies and evidence that the Wanderers had fought to their last breaths.
• The group searched the wreckage and found stone beds and cooking stoves that suggested the Wanderers had tried to recreate ordinary human life.
• Brunkel pointed out the gap in the wall behind the main tent, and the group decided to follow the trail beyond it.

Lu Yuan and his companions found a Wanderer while searching for a way to contact his people and learn whether sanity could be restored. After the Wanderer recognized Frey and led them onward, he stopped to inspect an inconspicuous pile of Black Stones, leaving them waiting behind him.

• Lu Yuan spotted a Wanderer arranging Black Stones, but the figure fled before the group could catch him.
• Lu Yuan decided to stop the chase and return toward camp, reasoning that the Wanderers were alive and could still be contacted.
• The Wanderer reappeared and recognized Frey, who told the others he had once taken her from the small camp to the large camp.
• The Wanderer sensed something in the distance and led Lu Yuan, Frey, the Blue Knight, and Brunkel onward while repeatedly looking back at something they could not see.
• The Wanderer stopped at an angled stretch of terrain and silently studied a pile of Black Stones.

The Wanderer brought Lu Yuan and the others to his unfinished camp and explained how the surviving Wanderers stayed in contact. Frey revealed how she had escaped the sacrifice, and the Wanderer recognized that she could still return to the real world while he could not; Lu Yuan then asked how long he had wandered and how he resisted losing his sanity.

• The Wanderer explained that four survivors of the fallen Large Camp hid separately and used Signal Points to communicate.
• The Wanderer led Lu Yuan, Frey, the Blue Knight, and Brunkel to his unfinished camp, where they rested.
• The Wanderer asked Frey how she had survived being taken for sacrifice, and Frey looked to Lu Yuan before deciding to explain.
• Frey described how she had been pulled from the sacrifice and returned to the real world before coming back.
• The Wanderer said that Frey and her companions could still return to the real world, unlike him and the other Wanderers.
• Lu Yuan asked the Wanderer how long he had wandered the Land of the Dead Silence and how he resisted the erosion of his sanity.

Lu Yuan and the others questioned the Wanderer about his condition and the world, learning that sanity could recover there but that they needed to leave soon. The Wanderer then discovered that Frey carried a Seed marked by the Holy Sovereign, confirming why the heretics had pursued her.

• Lu Yuan told the Wanderer that he was still human in some respects, while the Wanderer said his group had become inhuman to survive and protect people.
• The Wanderer revealed that he had wandered for an unknown span of time, could not return to his body in the Real World, and had once lived in the Visarion Empire.
• The Wanderer confirmed that sanity could recover in this world, but warned that recovery slowed the longer someone stayed and that their bodies became more connected to it.
• Lu Yuan calculated that he could recover enough sanity to attempt reaching Sanity V without risking his sanity running out.
• The Wanderer sensed the Holy Sovereign's presence on Frey and identified it as a Seed mark, while Frey denied carrying it.

The Wanderer explained that Frey was the Seed chosen by the world and warned that heretics were pursuing her. He led the group deeper into the Land of the Dead Silence for protection, while the Heretic Leader sought help from the Bloodred Tower.

• The Wanderer explained that Frey had been chosen as the Seed and that the heretics had tried to sacrifice her to awaken their Holy Sovereign.
• The Wanderer warned that the heretics had detected Frey and said the group needed more allies and a safer place to hide.
• Brunkel decided that escorting Frey out of the world alive was her priority and silently assessed the Wanderer as a possible threat.
• The Wanderer led Lu Yuan, Frey, and Brunkel away from their resting place toward another Wanderer camp.
• At a heretic outpost, the Heretic Leader sent an emergency message to the Bloodred Tower and waited for help.

The grand leaders of the Withered Wood Seat set out to reclaim the Holy Sovereign’s seed, while the Three Nuns summoned the Angel to aid the Blue Knight and Brunkel. The Angel’s golden light healed the two women, who seemed close to waking.

• The leader of the Withered Wood Seat sent one grand leader to guard the Great Tower and took two others to reclaim the Holy Sovereign’s seed.
• The Three Nuns noticed the Blue Knight and Brunkel’s auras worsening and decided to contact the Angel.
• The leading nun prayed with their last pure white feather and crushed it to summon the Angel.
• The Angel froze the blizzard, restored the Three Nuns, and sent golden light to heal the Blue Knight and Brunkel.

The lead nun’s golden feather failed to awaken the two women, though it healed their injuries and restored their sanity. In the Land of the Dead Silence, Lu Yuan and his companions fled with the Wanderer as a powerful presence watched them, and the Wanderer concealed their auras to help them escape.

• The golden light shattered before it could bring the two women back, but it healed them and restored their sanity.
• Lu Yuan and his companions chased the Wanderer across the Land of the Dead Silence as he urged them to move faster.
• Lu Yuan sensed a powerful gaze watching them, and Frey whispered that she felt it too.
• Lu Yuan warned Frey not to look back or show that she had noticed the watcher, which he believed was a Fifth Order being.
• The Wanderer released an aura that concealed the group and caused the oppressive gaze to fade.

The Wanderer brought Lu Yuan and the others to a hidden group of Wanderers and revealed that Frey carried the Seed sought by the heretics. The group debated whether to help and agreed to ask how soon the outsiders could leave the Land of the Dead Silence before deciding what limited assistance to offer.

• The Wanderer led Lu Yuan, Frey, and the others to a hillside where two black skeletons emerged from the mountain and examined Frey.
• One skeleton entered the mountain while the other stayed behind, and the Wanderer explained that his companions had their own plans and contingencies.
• Inside the mountain, the Skeleton Guard reported the Seed and the outsiders to three awake skeletons gathered around a table.
• The skeletons argued over whether intervening was worth the danger, noting that they could mobilize only two Fifth Order beings and might face powerful heretics.
• The three skeletons agreed to ask how long the outsiders would remain in the world and to offer only limited help if the time was short.
• The Skeleton Guard returned from the mountain alone.

The Skeleton Guard questioned Lu Yuan and Frey, then reported their answers to the skeletons, who decided to awaken the Seventh Seat to escort the group. The Wanderer departed, leaving Lu Yuan and the others alone with their new, imposing guardian.

• The Skeleton Guard asked Lu Yuan when the group could leave and questioned Frey about her capture and the ritual she had witnessed.
• After hearing the report, the skeletons judged that the outsiders might have a chance to escape and agreed to awaken the Seventh Seat.
• The skeleton in the corner awakened the Seventh Seat and ordered him to escort the group, protect the Seed, and kill her only if necessary.
• The Skeleton Guard brought the Seventh Seat outside and told the Wanderer to leave, then said the Seventh Seat would escort the group.
• The Wanderer departed, and the Skeleton Guards vanished, leaving Lu Yuan's group facing the Seventh Seat in the rising fog.

Lu Yuan’s group followed the Seventh Seat through the Wasteland and found an abandoned camp where they could rest and recover their sanity. As they settled in, three travelers elsewhere noticed that the group’s auras had disappeared.

• Lu Yuan identified the Seventh Seat as a believer transcendent whose strength was restricted, and the Seventh Seat enveloped the group in an aura that blocked their connection to the world.
• Lu Yuan, Frey, the Blue Knight, and Brunkel set off with the Seventh Seat following behind, and he pointed them toward a direction to travel.
• The group found an abandoned camp and decided to rest there so the Blue Knight and Brunkel could recover and Lu Yuan could restore his sanity.
• Frey cautiously climbed down from Lu Yuan’s back, and the exhausted group settled inside the main tent.
• Three men advancing through the Wasteland encountered returning fog, and the man on the right noticed that the group’s auras had vanished.

Lu Yuan and his companions fled as three airborne heretics attacked their camp, while the Seventh Seat tried to hold them off. As Lu Yuan called for the authority to arrive, the Sea of Knowledge continued advancing toward his location, and two heretics broke past the Seventh Seat to pursue the fleeing group.

• The heretics sensed the Seed’s connection had been blocked and summoned more followers to hunt the outsiders and the hidden rats.
• Frey woke Lu Yuan when the feeling of being watched returned, and bone spikes erupted beneath the camp.
• The Seventh Seat shattered the spikes and charged out of the tent as three flying heretics approached, prompting Lu Yuan and the others to flee.
• Lu Yuan realized the attackers were three Fifth Order enemies and anxiously called for the authority while running.
• Oden let the Sea of Knowledge carry him toward the Land of the Dead Silence and went back to sleep.
• One heretic engaged the Seventh Seat while the other two flew around him to pursue Lu Yuan and his companions.

Lu Yuan charged into the Heretics’ formation and tore open a passage at the cost of severe injuries, while the Blue Knight and Brunkel held off the Fifth Order Heretics. He emerged with Frey still safe on his back, but the formation’s corruption continued consuming his arms.

• The Heretics surrounded Lu Yuan, the Blue Knight, and Brunkel with a formation while two Fifth Order Heretics pursued them.
• Lu Yuan told the Blue Knight and Brunkel to hold the enemies off, then charged toward the Third Order Heretics.
• Golden eyes appeared over the Blue Knight and Brunkel, restoring their sanity and healing their injuries before their attempt to pull the women away failed.
• The Blue Knight and Brunkel attacked the two Fifth Order Heretics as Lu Yuan and Frey reached the Third Order Heretics’ formation.
• Lu Yuan forced open the corrosive barrier with his hands and shoulders, then escaped through it with Frey protected on his back.

Lu Yuan reached the Fifth Order after killing the three chanting heretics, then turned his attention to the remaining Third Order enemies while the Blue Knight and Brunkel struggled against their Fifth Order opponents. He wiped out all nine remaining chanters, leaving the two women still under attack.

• Lu Yuan killed the three Third Order heretics, advanced to Sanity V, and rose into the air.
• The Blue Knight was overwhelmed by the leading Fifth Order heretic, who trapped her in huge hands rising from the ground.
• Brunkel was pinned by the other Fifth Order heretic’s chanting and the vengeful spirits it summoned.
• The Blue Knight and Brunkel noticed Lu Yuan’s sudden rise to the Fifth Order, while Frey clung to his back.
• Lu Yuan chose to eliminate the nine remaining Third Order heretics before helping the others and killed them before they could complete another prayer.

Lu Yuan confronted the Heretic leader and used the giant hands rising from the ground to close the distance and land a devastating punch. The leader regenerated and shifted to a long-range assault, sending waves of flesh and other attacks toward Lu Yuan.

• The leader abandoned his fight with the Blue Knight and flew toward Lu Yuan, while the Blue Knight attacked Brunkel and the Seventh Seat continued battling the Bone Controller in the mist.
• The leader tried to recruit Lu Yuan as a follower of the Holy Sovereign, but Lu Yuan ignored him and escaped his grasping flesh hands.
• Lu Yuan used a giant hand as a springboard to reach the leader and punched away half his body.
• The leader regenerated completely, then rose into the air on a column of flesh and decided to wear Lu Yuan down from a distance.
• The leader sent bone spikes, enormous hands, and towering waves of flesh surging toward Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan fought the Withered Glory Society Grand Leader while protecting Frey, and rejected the Grand Leader’s offer to become a believer of the Holy Sovereign. The Seventh Seat broke free of the Bone Controller and reached the battle, where he discovered that Lu Yuan had advanced to Fifth Order.

• Lu Yuan adapted to the Grand Leader’s giant-hand and flesh-wave attacks, punching through them while Frey clung to his back.
• The Grand Leader offered Lu Yuan power in exchange for becoming a believer, but Lu Yuan refused and insulted him.
• The Seventh Seat decided to reach Lu Yuan and the others to check whether they were alive and prevent the Seed from falling into heretics’ hands.
• The Seventh Seat shattered the Bone Controller’s bone cage, feinted past him, and charged toward the Grand Leader’s position.
• The Seventh Seat and the pursuing Bone Controller saw Lu Yuan fighting the Grand Leader in midair, and the Bone Controller realized Lu Yuan had reached Fifth Order.

The Seventh Seat unleashed his full strength and briefly overwhelmed the Bone Controller, but the Bone Controller recovered with the Holy Sovereign’s blessing. The leader ordered his forces to kill everyone and reclaim the Seed, leaving Blue Knight and Brunkel badly battered while Lu Yuan struggled to reach them through waves of giant hands.

• The Seventh Seat erupted with lightning, charred the Bone Controller’s bones, and smashed him into the ground.
• The leader realized he could not quickly defeat Lu Yuan, then restored the Bone Controller with dark red flesh and the Holy Sovereign’s grace.
• The leader ordered his allies to kill everyone and take back the Seed.
• High Singer overwhelmed Brunkel with souls, and Blue Knight took a soul’s blow while trying to protect her.
• The leader sent dozens of giant hands after Lu Yuan, who dodged them while Frey clung to his back.
• High Singer continued assailing Blue Knight and Brunkel with souls, weakening them and pinning them in place.

Lu Yuan used a deliberate hit to redirect the fight toward the High Singer, creating an opening for the Blue Knight and Brunkel to attack him at close range. The Blue Knight killed the High Singer but was immediately overwhelmed by the resulting contamination, and the leading man prepared to fight Lu Yuan directly.

• Lu Yuan let a flesh palm strike him so he could charge toward the High Singer, forcing the High Singer to turn his attack away from the Blue Knight and Brunkel.
• The Blue Knight used Brunkel's hands to launch herself into the air, grabbed the retreating High Singer, and slammed him to the ground.
• The Blue Knight and Brunkel punched the High Singer together, and the Blue Knight shattered his head with a final blow.
• The High Singer dissolved into dust and blood mist that poured into the Blue Knight, contaminating her and causing her body to flicker.
• The leading man stopped holding back and prepared to fight Lu Yuan at close range.

The Blue Knight fell unconscious after her attack killed one of the High Singer’s lives, forcing Brunkel to retreat with her. Lu Yuan stopped them from fleeing and joined the Seventh Seat to face the three Heretic Grand Leaders, planning to kill one of them.

• The High Singer regenerated after the Blue Knight crushed his head, and the Blue Knight collapsed from backlash.
• Brunkel carried the unconscious Blue Knight away, but Lu Yuan intercepted her and told her the Heretics would find them if they kept running.
• Brunkel retreated behind Lu Yuan with the Blue Knight as the Seventh Seat arrived after breaking through the Bone Controller’s attack.
• Lu Yuan assessed the three Grand Leaders and asked the Seventh Seat to stall them while he tried to kill one of them.

Lu Yuan used the Seventh Seat’s lightning to ambush the leading heretic and pummel him, hoping to cripple him and learn how much experience killing a Fifth Order enemy would yield. The leader exploded his flesh to escape, and Lu Yuan realized the heretics in the Holy Sovereign’s residence could revive unless he destroyed them in a single blow.

• The Seventh Seat cleared a lightning-shredded path, letting Lu Yuan carry Frey across the battlefield and strike the leading heretic.
• Lu Yuan grabbed the lead man by the neck, dragged him into a crater, and beat him while the Seventh Seat held back the High Singer and Bone Controller’s attacks.
• The lead man’s body swelled, so Lu Yuan hurled him away just before his flesh exploded into a barrage of sharp projectiles.
• Lu Yuan charged back through the blast and saw the lead man’s skeleton retreating as flesh tried to rebuild his body.
• Lu Yuan realized he would have to destroy the lead man in one strike because the heretics could rapidly revive.

Lu Yuan fought the flesh-affinity leader while the High Singer’s souls stripped away his enhancements and the leader’s blows contaminated him. The Blue Knight began to decay as her sanity rapidly failed, and the fight remained unresolved.

• The High Singer sent swarms of dead souls after Lu Yuan, slowing him and erasing the Seventh Seat’s lightning enhancements.
• The Bone Controller trapped the Seventh Seat with endless bones while the High Singer turned his attention to Lu Yuan.
• The leader regrew his flesh, challenged Lu Yuan to close combat, and exchanged blows with him, contaminating him and draining his sanity.
• Brunkel saw the Blue Knight’s body decay and flicker as her sanity dwindled and her aura began to resemble that of the land’s heretics.
• The leader kicked Lu Yuan away when he glanced back, and Lu Yuan caught Frey’s wrist and pulled her back onto his back.

Oden appeared in the Holy Sovereign's residence and joined Lu Yuan and Frey in the fight. Oden attacked the High Singer while Lu Yuan tore off the leader's arms, leaving the battle ongoing.

• The leader ordered the High Singer to target Frey, forcing Lu Yuan to protect her while fighting.
• Oden fell into the battlefield, revealed he had a body, and offered to help Lu Yuan.
• Oden struck the High Singer with a scepter, pulverizing him, but the High Singer re-formed.
• Lu Yuan confronted the leader, grabbed both his arms, and tore them off at the shoulders.
• Lu Yuan tossed the leader's twitching arms to Frey as the leader tried to trap him with the rotting ground and grasping flesh.

Lu Yuan, Oden, and the Seventh Seat gained the upper hand against the estate’s three leaders, but the leader’s attempt to summon the Holy Sovereign triggered a strange transformation in the sky. The gray fog vanished beneath a vast, brilliant display of color.

• Lu Yuan battered the regenerating leader into a mass of rotting flesh while the Seventh Seat broke apart the Bone Cage and Oden repeatedly ground the High Singer into powder.
• Oden discovered that the world beneath the estate was a gigantic mass of flesh and bones where plague herbs were being nurtured.
• The leader escaped Lu Yuan’s attack by melting into the flesh-and-blood ground, then re-formed at a distance and threatened them with the Holy Sovereign.
• A pulsing mass of red flesh appeared on the leader’s chest, releasing an ominous aura that Frey and Brunkel recognized as belonging to a Taboo.
• Oden pointed Lu Yuan toward the sky as a tear opened in the firmament and brilliant colors swept away the gray fog.

The leader summoned the Holy Sovereign, whose awakening exerted overwhelming pressure on everyone and revealed that the entire Land of the Dead Silence rested upon its body. Lu Yuan identified the entity as an ancient taboo projecting only a wisp of consciousness, and the chapter ended as it prepared to bring bloodshed and death.

• The leader rejected the changes in the sky and poured his remaining flesh into the red mass in his chest to summon the Holy Sovereign.
• A vast heartbeat spread through the world, forcing everyone to resist the urge to kneel before the awakening taboo.
• Brunkel fought the pressure while Frey heard whispers from the Holy Sovereign, and even Oden showed signs of discomfort.
• The Holy Sovereign took shape, and Lu Yuan realized that the mass of flesh and bones beneath the Land of the Dead Silence was its body.
• Lu Yuan's text identified the Holy Sovereign as an ancient taboo projecting a wisp of consciousness and warned of bloodshed and death.