Recaps

Lu Zhe, Mi Lan, and Yu Ba searched the venue for an anomaly inside a Ghost Domain after Lu Zhe reported encountering a Wolf-Headed Man. Lu Zhe located the nearest anomaly but suffered a severe mental assault when he saw it, leaving Yu Ba trying to protect him.

• Yu Ba failed to catch Mi Lan and gave up trying to make him delete the embarrassing photos.
• Mi Lan suspected the group was inside a Ghost Domain, and Lu Zhe told him they had encountered a Wolf-Headed Man resembling a tabletop role-playing game NPC.
• Lu Zhe explained that his Nondirectional Guidance Sphere could locate only anomalies he had seen, or the nearest anomaly when the target was unknown.
• Lu Zhe used the sphere to find the nearest anomaly and led Mi Lan and Yu Ba through a corridor toward it.
• Lu Zhe came face-to-face with the anomaly and collapsed under an overwhelming mental assault.
• Yu Ba resisted the urge to look at the anomaly and urged Lu Zhe to concentrate anomalous energy in his brain to block some of the damage.

Lu Zhe escaped Satan's Eye’s mental contamination by gathering Weird energy in his brain, then identified the monster for Yu Ba. Mi Lan distracted Satan's Eye and blocked its eye beams with a Blood Curtain, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Lu Zhe heard a familiar voice tell him to gather Weird energy in his brain, and doing so made the darkness and its monsters vanish.
• Yu Ba called to Lu Zhe until he recovered, and Lu Zhe showed him an image of Satan's Eye from a tabletop role-playing game.
• Yu Ba checked Satan's Eye's information while Mi Lan ran ahead, taunting the one-eyed monster.
• Satan's Eye fired beams at Mi Lan, who blocked them with a Blood Curtain formed from his blood.
• Mi Lan's Blood Curtain weakened, and he turned to face Satan's Eye without shedding more blood.

Mi Lan used Blood Parasite to control Satan's Eye, but the Weird destroyed itself rather than lead them to the others, warning that an evil god would descend and cleanse humanity. Yu Ba and Lu Zhe left to replenish ammunition as Mi Lan continued investigating, while Headquarters dispatched additional teams to the area.

• Mi Lan resisted Satan's Eye's mental corruption and planted a blood seed in its body, allowing him to control and track the Weird.
• Satan's Eye refused to submit, spoke of an evil god coming to cleanse humanity, and detonated its own energy; Mi Lan pulled it into his Ghost Domain, where the Blood Demon consumed the blast.
• Yu Ba and Lu Zhe discussed the threat and the possibility that the evil god was a powerful Weird, while Lu Zhe admitted he was not equipped to fight a Green Face.
• Yu Ba left with Lu Zhe to replenish ammunition after telling Mi Lan not to fight a Fierce Calamity-class Weird alone.
• Yu Ba uploaded their findings to Headquarters, collected ammunition, and learned that several teams would be sent to the area.

Yu Ba gathered Contract Anomalists to contain a dangerous Weird, while Lu Zhe and teams of newcomers were sent into the building to help track it. Xie Yu entered with another team after confirming that nearby residents were being evacuated, and the sounds of battle soon came from inside.

• Yu Ba told Lu Zhe to wait for the other Contract Anomalists and advised him to improve his physical skills.
• The Daoist Priest arrived with Yang Yu, Zhao Hun, and seven newcomers, then led them and Lu Zhe into the building.
• Yu Ba stayed outside to brief the remaining teams and relay information about the Blood Robe-level threat.
• Xie Yu arrived with ten newcomers and confirmed that logistics staff had been notified to evacuate people nearby.
• Xie Yu led his team into the building, and battle sounds soon emerged from inside.

Several squads of Contract Anomalists gathered inside the building to contain a suspected Vicious-class Weird while the city evacuated its residents. After the newcomers fought their way through the building and reunited, one of them was suddenly pulled through a strange door.

• Local officials evacuated the city's residents after learning a Vicious-class Weird might be present.
• Yu Ba welcomed Wang Qing, an S-rank Contract Anomalist, and his seven newcomers to the mission.
• Xie Yu and Wang Qing let their newcomers fight low-level Weirds as the squads searched the building and eventually met up.
• The newcomers compared their injuries and encounters with Weirds while discussing the suspected threat's level.
• One newcomer approached a strange door and was sucked inside.

Xie Yu and Wang Qing entered a Ghost Domain after newcomers were drawn through anomalous doors, and Xie Yu stayed behind to guard those left mentally incapacitated. Inside, the group speculated that the anomaly wanted to become the evil god from a game; Mi Lan and the Taoist priest’s Ghost Domains could not overpower it, so the Taoist priest told everyone to enter their domains.

• Xie Yu and Wang Qing entered the Ghost Domain and found several newcomers standing dazed from an apparent mental attack.
• More newcomers were pulled into the domain, and Xie Yu explained their situation while Wang Qing went to find the anomaly.
• Mi Lan, Lu Zhe, the Taoist priest, and others arrived and discussed whether the anomaly was imitating the evil god from the game.
• Mi Lan and the Taoist priest activated their Ghost Domains, but neither could overpower the Vicious-tier domain.
• A Weird wrapped in talisman papers spoke to the Taoist priest, who then instructed everyone to step into their Ghost Domains.

The rust spots spread across the ruin, dissolving food and feeding on the mental energy of newcomers immobilized by the Weird. Xie Yu drew the spots toward his finger, leaving the others to wonder what would happen when he touched them.

• The newcomers crowded into the Taoist priest's, Mi Lan's, and Xie Yu's Ghost Domains as the ruin began to change.
• Crimson rust spots covered the ruin and dissolved a packet of compressed biscuits, stopping just outside the Ghost Domains.
• The Taoist priest learned from the Resentful Woman that the rust spots drained mental energy and caused hallucinations, then asked Xie Yu to inspect the immobilized newcomers.
• Xie Yu found rust patches on the immobilized newcomers, and the patches streamed toward his finger when he reached for them.
• Despite Yang Yu and Zhao Hun's concern that the rust spots could drain Xie Yu's mental power, Xie Yu lowered his finger toward them.

Xie Yu drew the rust spots off the rookies and onto himself, then fell into a terrifying mental pollution illusion. As Lu Zhe warned Mi Lan away from the rust spots, Xie Yu struggled to remember that the crushing deep-sea world around him was an illusion.

• Xie Yu pulled the rust spots from the rookies onto his own arm, leaving four of them unconscious but no longer drained by the spots.
• Xie Yu suppressed the rust spots below his elbow and observed that they stopped multiplying while still consuming his mental power.
• Xie Yu realized the rust spots were causing mental pollution and abruptly became motionless inside his Ghost Domain.
• Lu Zhe explained that mental pollution infected the senses and could drive its victims toward madness, then pulled Mi Lan away from the rust spots.
• Xie Yu experienced an illusion of being trapped underwater as pressure and sucker-covered tendrils painfully attacked him, and recognized that remaining inside it could kill him.

Xie Yu resisted the Fierce Malevolence-class anomaly’s mental contamination, and the phantom of his contracted Evil God drove it to retreat. The Contract Anomalists gathered the newcomers in the Daoist’s Ghost Domain as Captain Wang confronted another Weird, and Mi Lan charged into the rust patches to fight.

• Xie Yu resisted the anomaly’s mental contamination as it attacked him with a giant eye and tentacle-like strands.
• A powerful phantom appeared behind Xie Yu, frightening the anomaly into abandoning its attempt to devour him.
• Xie Yu returned from the dark space, and the newcomers rejoiced while the Daoist explained Xie Yu’s potential strength.
• The Daoist expanded his Ghost Domain to gather the newcomers and drive out the rust patches as Captain Wang’s thunderous battle began.
• Mi Lan left the newcomers’ protection and charged into the sea of rust patches, shielded by blood.

After Mi Lan and Xie Yu left, the Taoist priest stayed behind with the newcomers as thirteen Weirds surrounded their Ghost Domain. He let the attackers inside and joined the Resentful Woman in fighting them while Zhao Hun, Yang Yu, and the newcomers took on the rest.

• Mi Lan left first, and Xie Yu followed with a smile, leaving the Taoist priest to protect the newcomers.
• The Resentful Woman sensed approaching danger, and the Taoist priest drew his sword and prepared to fight beside her.
• Zhao Hun and Yang Yu counted thirteen Weirds surrounding the Ghost Domain and warned that sustained attacks could exhaust the Taoist priest.
• The Taoist priest let the Weirds enter and divided the fight among himself, Zhao Hun, Yang Yu, and the newcomers.
• The Taoist priest and the Resentful Woman engaged three powerful Weirds, including a peak Green Face and two Malignant Curses, while her Ghost Claw weakened one opponent.

The Taoist priest and the Resentful Woman helped contain the strongest anomalies while Yang Yu and Zhao Hun subdued another, leaving the newcomers to battle nine anomalies under supervision. After the Ghost Domain shook, the newcomers watched a distant fight between a towering Fiend-class anomaly and an unseen opponent erupt in flames.

• The Resentful Woman defeated a Malignant Curse-class anomaly with its Ghost Claw and helped the Taoist priest subdue a Green Face and another Malignant Curse using Shen Yu’s limited-time Anomaly Artifact.
• Yang Yu and Zhao Hun contained their Green Face-class opponent, while the newcomers struggled against nine anomalies and received help only when they faced mortal danger.
• The newcomers contained all nine anomalies and watched from within the Taoist priest’s Ghost Domain as a distant battle shook the area.
• A several-hundred-meter-tall, pitch-black anomaly appeared on the horizon and attacked a massive pillar of flames, burning its hands as its eyes flashed with intense light.

Yang Yu foresaw the newcomers being slaughtered when a gigantic aberration reached the Daoist’s Ghost Domain, and the Daoist prepared to confront it rather than let it escape into the city. As the beast hesitated at the Ghost Domain’s edge, the Daoist revealed his sealed Nether Eye and met its gaze.

• The gigantic aberration broke free from a pillar of fire and charged toward the Daoist’s group, healing its scorch wounds as it ran.
• Yang Yu foresaw the beast entering the Ghost Domain and killing the newcomers, including Zhao Hun, and warned the group that they would die unless they stopped it.
• The Daoist refused to leave the Ghost Domain because the beast could endanger the city outside, and he reassured Yang Yu that the future could be changed.
• As the beast approached, the frightened newcomers urged the Daoist to run, but he stood at the Ghost Domain’s edge with the Resentful Woman beside him.
• The Daoist removed the talismans sealing his left eye and revealed the Nether Eye, making the charging beast hesitate before their gazes met.

The Taoist priest revealed his golden eye to stop a giant beast, but the power vanished after his eye began bleeding. Shen Yu unlocked the Taoist’s perfected Divine Prayer ability as the Resentful Woman worried over him.

• The giant beast halted when it sensed the Taoist priest’s overwhelming aura, while the pursuing newcomers gathered to see his uncovered face.
• Yang Yu and Zhao Hun saw the Taoist priest’s golden eye and sensed the Weirds within them recoil from it.
• The Taoist priest’s eye began bleeding, his intimidating aura disappeared, and he covered the eye again with talisman paper.
• Zhao Hun recalled learning that the Taoist priest’s covered eyes were a side effect of his ability, not a method of cultivation.
• Shen Yu unlocked the Taoist’s perfected Divine Prayer ability, which required a noon ritual and carried a high risk of failure and a long cooldown.
• The Resentful Woman wiped the blood from the Taoist priest’s face and lamented its weakness.

Mi Lan, Wang Qing, and Xie Yu joined the Taoist priest and the newcomers to fight the giant beast. After the beast broke through Mi Lan’s Blood Curtain and Wang Qing’s flames, it shrank and expelled black blood, leaving the fight unresolved.

• The Taoist priest’s Ghost Domain drew the giant beast toward the group after he concealed his frightening aura.
• Mi Lan arrived, blocked the giant beast with a Blood Curtain, and briefly trapped it before it broke free with beams from its eyes.
• Mi Lan unlocked the Star Bear anomaly artifact and the Wandering Star Zone special scene after his Character Perfection increased.
• Wang Qing and Xie Yu arrived, and Wang Qing struck the giant beast with his Ghost Flame, setting its leg and body ablaze.
• The giant beast fired a beam at Ghost Flame, then shrank to one hundred meters and extinguished the fire by forcing black blood from its body.

Wang Qing overwhelmed the giant beast with his physical strength while Ghost Flame watched, and the battle left the beast badly wounded. The beast tried to withdraw its Ghost Domain and escape into the real world, prompting the Daoist priest and Zhao Hun to realize the danger.

• Wang Qing scorched half the giant beast's face with a flame-wreathed punch, while Ghost Flame mocked the beast's confusion over its bond with a human.
• Wang Qing used his strength, speed, and reflexes to pin the giant beast down and batter it as the newcomers watched in awe.
• Mi Lan observed the giant beast weakening as Ghost Flame's flames continued burning inside it and hindered its recovery.
• The giant beast used the force of Wang Qing's punch to retreat and began withdrawing its Ghost Domain so it could escape.
• The Daoist priest sensed the escape attempt, and Zhao Hun realized the giant beast might flee into reality and reach another city.

Wang Qing and Ghost Flame fought the giant beast on both physical and mental fronts after it tried to contaminate Ghost Flame with an illusion of godhood. The newcomers could only watch as the giant beast began to laugh and tried to withdraw its Ghost Domain, just as another powerful aura appeared.

• Wang Qing sent the giant beast flying with Ghost Flame, then fought it again as it attacked Ghost Flame with a mental ability.
• The giant beast trapped Ghost Flame in a star-filled illusion that began transforming it into a deity-like Weird.
• Wang Qing entered the mental confrontation to resist the contamination, while Yang Yu and Zhao Hun realized the battle had shifted to a hidden mental struggle.
• The giant beast began laughing and tried to withdraw its Ghost Domain as the newcomers feared Wang Qing had lost.
• Xie Yu recognized the giant beast's intention, and another powerful aura appeared as it withdrew its Ghost Domain.

Xie Yu unleashed his Ghost Domain and awakened the Evil God within him, who overwhelmed the giant beast with his terrifying presence. The Evil God shifted into his evil face and attacked the beast, while the newcomers remained paralyzed by fear.

• Xie Yu trapped the giant beast in his Ghost Domain, bit his hand, and said farewell as something inside him began to awaken.
• The Evil God appeared behind Xie Yu, and his overwhelming aura froze the newcomers and terrified the giant beast.
• Daoist reinforced the Ghost Domain while Yang Yu and Zhao Hun struggled against the Evil God's pressure.
• The giant beast recognized the Evil God as vastly more powerful than itself and realized Xie Yu had been carrying a powerful ally.
• The Evil God shifted from his wrathful face to his evil face and battered the giant beast with his hammer, forcing it to spend Weird energy to recover.

Xie Yu unleashed the Evil God to defeat the giant beast, risking losing control of his mind. As the Evil God battered the weakened beast, the beast forced Ghost Flame to approach it, leaving the newcomers fearing another fight was about to begin.

• The Evil God gained new abilities as Wang Qing's and Xie Yu's Character Perfection increased, then battered the giant beast across the Ghost Domain.
• Xie Yu let his mind lose control to unseal some of the Evil God's power and stop the Fierce Fiend Class anomaly from escaping to attack humans.
• The giant beast ran out of strength, knelt before the Evil God, and considered helping Xie Yu recover his mental energy so the Evil God would disappear.
• The giant beast took control of Ghost Flame's movements and sent it toward the Evil God, interrupting its transformation.
• The newcomers watched Ghost Flame approach the Evil God and wondered why Wang Qing and Xie Yu were not stopping them.

Xie Yu woke in time to recall the Evil God before it attacked the newcomers, and Wang Qing contained the defeated giant beast. The team completed the mission and returned to the tabletop role-playing venue, where the members parted ways.

• Lu Zhe explained that Contract Anomalists could lose control as Weird energy affected their minds, while the newcomers feared Xie Yu had gone berserk.
• The Evil God defeated Ghost Flame, freeing it to return to Wang Qing and wake him; the giant beast stayed down, pretending to be dead.
• The Evil God turned its hammer toward the newcomers’ Ghost Domain, but Xie Yu woke and forcibly recalled it.
• Xie Yu asked about Wang Qing’s injuries, and Wang Qing glared at him before containing the giant beast.
• The system awarded Xie Yu and the team 200,000 Construction Points for containing the Fierce Fiend Class Weird Satan, and everyone returned to the venue and said goodbye.

After the team defeated a Fierce Fiend, Daoist prepared to perform a Divine Prayer ritual outside Headquarters. As Yang Yu and Zhao Hun watched, Daoist explained that he sought the Dao for one purpose: immortality.

• Mi Lan and the other Contract Anomalists returned from defeating a Fierce Fiend, and Mi Lan assigned Lu Zhe to write the mission report.
• Newcomers shared stories of the battle and heard that Daoist planned to perform a Divine Prayer ritual outside Headquarters.
• Daoist had logistics staff build a Divine Altar on a plain three kilometers from Headquarters and chose an auspicious time for the ritual.
• Yang Yu and Zhao Hun watched the preparations and discussed whether Divine Prayer involved summoning a god to fulfill desires.
• Daoist told Yang Yu and Zhao Hun that he pursued the Dao to achieve immortality.

Yang Yu, Zhao Hun, and the Daoist discussed Contract Anomalists’ unchanged lifespans and the dangers of their profession before returning to preparations for the Divine Prayer ritual. As the ritual time approached, the Daoist drew its formation and livestock sacrifices arrived at the Divine Altar.

• The Daoist explained that Contract Anomalists remained human and had not gained longer lifespans, while Yang Yu and Zhao Hun reflected on the risks of facing Weirds.
• Zhao Hun said he was satisfied with his life as a Contract Anomalist, and the Daoist explained that Weird energy made higher-ranked Anomalists increasingly resistant to drugs and other treatments.
• Zhao Hun reminded them that they had been discussing the Divine Prayer ritual, and the Daoist checked the time as it neared eight o’clock.
• The Daoist drew a large circular formation on the ground using chicken blood and cinnabar.
• Logistics staff delivered livestock from another world to serve as living sacrifices for the ritual.
• At eight o’clock, a slender figure appeared behind the Daoist.

The Daoist performed a Divine Prayer Dance with the Resentful Woman, and the god accepted the livestock sacrifices. The ritual succeeded and entered a ten-year cooldown, but the Daoist could not tell what reward it had granted.

• The Daoist changed the Resentful Woman into a talisman-covered red dress and led it into the Divine Prayer Dance.
• Yang Yu searched for information about the unusual dance, but a logistics staff member explained it might have come from another world.
• A mysterious force descended, silenced the livestock, and lifted the sacrifices into the air until they vanished.
• The Daoist and the Resentful Woman were bathed in golden light before the force disappeared.
• The Daoist checked his Divine Prayer ability, confirmed its ten-year cooldown meant the ritual had succeeded, and admitted he could not identify its reward.

After the Divine Prayer ritual, the Daoist priest joked that he wished to stay with Resentful Woman forever, prompting Yang Yu and Zhao Hun to wonder about immortality and what happened to a contracted Weird when its Contract Anomalist died. Xiao Zhang told them about a freed Weird that lost control after its contractor was killed by natives in a new world, leaving them silent.

• Yang Yu and Zhao Hun asked the Daoist priest whether his Divine Prayer had succeeded, and he joked that he had wished to stay with Resentful Woman forever.
• Yang Yu and Zhao Hun discussed the Daoist priest's pursuit of immortality and wondered what happened to a Weird when its Contract Anomalist died.
• Zhao Hun asked Xiao Zhang from Logistics what happened to a contracted Weird after its contractor died.
• Xiao Zhang explained that a Contract Anomalist's death invalidated the contract and freed the Weird.
• Xiao Zhang recalled a Contract Anomalist who was killed by natives in a new world, after which his freed Weird rampaged and killed more than half of a city.
• Another Contract Anomalist defeated the rampaging Weird and brought it to Headquarters, where it was broken down into Weird crystals for special weapons.

Yang Yu and Zhao Hun learned that Contract Anomalists and their contracted Weirds shared their fates, then returned to Headquarters to train. Shen Yu saw that the Taoist’s Resentful Woman was evolving after the Divine Prayer ritual, then used a ten-pull and drew an E-rank logistics staff Employee Card.

• Yang Yu explained that the bond between a Contract Anomalist and a Weird could let the Weird survive its contractor’s death, while most contracted Weirds died or were devoured when their contractors died.
• Yang Yu reassured Zhao Hun about the dangers to him, his Weird, and his family, and Zhao Hun resolved to train with him at Headquarters.
• Zhao Hun and Yang Yu returned to Headquarters and went to the training room to seek pointers from Wang Qing.
• Shen Yu checked the Taoist’s Character Card and saw that Resentful Woman was evolving after the Divine Prayer ritual, though the ability had a ten-year cooldown.
• Shen Yu spent 100,000 Construction Points on a ten-pull and drew an E-rank Employee Card with the talent Logistics staff.

Shen Yu drew the SS-Class Character Card Absolute Boundary, whose special ability could summon something from another dimension. Meanwhile, newcomers in the Contract Anomalists' hall mistook the newly summoned character, resting on a sofa, for a tired employee and asked logistics staff to take him to his room.

• Shen Yu spent Construction Points on a ten-pull and drew several Employee Cards along with the SS-Class Character Card Absolute Boundary.
• Shen Yu inspected Absolute Boundary's attributes and learned about his many max-level abilities, his perfect Otherworld Summoning ability, and his contracted Weird.
• Shen Yu celebrated the SS-Class draw and confidently imagined using Otherworld Summoning, while ignoring how many Employee Cards he had drawn.
• Newcomers returning from training spotted an unfamiliar man asleep on a lobby sofa and wondered whether he was an employee or a senior Contract Anomalist.
• A newcomer asked a logistics staff member to take the resting man back to his room, and the staff member thanked him for his concern.