Recaps

The bishop searched the school for the Chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association, ruling out the two celebrated students before spotting a detached boy in a second-year classroom. The boy’s unsettling presence convinced the bishop he had found the Chairman, who seemed close to losing control.

• The bishop listened to two high-achieving students’ classes and concluded that both were ordinary people, not the Chairman.
• The bishop suspected the Chairman might be hiding among unremarkable students and reminded his cultists to conceal their identities and disdain for ordinary people.
• The principal led the bishop and his group through the second-year classrooms as they searched for the Chairman.
• The bishop met the gaze of a detached boy at a classroom window and felt certain that he had found the person he was seeking.
• The bishop concluded that the Chairman had lost much of his humanity and was on the verge of losing control.

The principal learned that Chen Yu attended school despite having delusions, while the bishop recognized him as the person he had been seeking. The bishop offered to pay Chen Yu’s expenses and take responsibility for any incidents so the school would let him stay.

• The principal noticed Chen Yu looking out the window and questioned the grade dean about him.
• The grade dean pulled the principal and bishop into the stairwell, explaining that Chen Yu had a special situation.
• The grade dean revealed that Chen Yu experienced visual or auditory hallucinations and took medication, but attended school part-time as he recovered.
• The bishop realized Chen Yu was the person he had been searching for and worried the principal would remove him from school.
• The bishop offered to cover Chen Yu’s tuition and school supplies and accept responsibility if anything went wrong.

The bishop secured Chen Yu’s continued enrollment at Phantom High School and used his test papers to support the Church of Birth’s aid agreement with the school. After recognizing that Chen Yu was the Chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association, he left Yeyang City and contacted his rival bishops to help capture him.

• The principal agreed to let Chen Yu remain enrolled after the bishop vouched for him and reviewed his condition.
• The bishop examined Chen Yu’s test papers, praised his perseverance, and persuaded the principal to let him copy them.
• The bishop arranged student grants and future funding for teaching equipment, then left Phantom High School and District D.
• After confirming the Chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association was at the school, the bishop decided he could not capture him alone and contacted the other five bishops.
• The other bishops teased the bishop about his request for help.

Bishop Sheng gathered the other bishops to reveal what he claimed was the Anomaly Containment Association Chairman’s secret, but they dismissed his evidence and fought with him. The bishops left without a plan, while Sheng threatened to report their treatment of him to the Church Leader.

• The bishops discussed capturing Contract Anomalists to strengthen the Church of Birth and earn favor as the aging cult leader’s successor.
• Bishop Sheng argued that capturing rookie Contract Anomalists would reveal little and claimed he had a plan to overturn the Anomaly Containment Association by exposing its Chairman.
• The bishops doubted Sheng’s claim, so he invited them to meet in a city near Yeyang City and explain his discovery.
• Sheng showed the bishops high school test papers and said the handwriting belonged to the Chairman, but they mocked him and one bishop, Gewei, punched him.
• Sheng fought back, was kicked by the bishops who tried to break up the fight, and threatened to report them to the Church Leader.

Bishop Sheng tried to convince the other bishops that test papers led to the Chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association, whom they called The One. He revealed that Yi Gui Company's headquarters had first been established in Yeyang City, leaving the bishops eager to hear what else the investigation had uncovered.

• Gewei accused Bishop Sheng of fabricating the discovery and hit him, but the other bishops stopped them and persuaded Gewei to apologize.
• Bishop Sheng explained that he had arranged cooperation with the Calamity Organization using resources and Divine Stones, with the Church Leader's approval.
• Bishop Sheng told the bishops that Yi Gui Company's headquarters had first been established in Yeyang City.
• The bishops realized Yeyang City was nearby and that they could not simply enter, since the Church of Birth was wanted in Xia Kingdom and other countries.
• Bishop Sheng began describing further findings from the Anomaly Tamer's investigation, which had not gotten close to The One.

Bishop Sheng persuaded five other bishops that The One was hiding as a student at Phantom High School, and the six bishops organized a covert operation to capture him. As their forces prepared an encirclement in Yeyang City, Gewei watched Shen Yu leave school and judged him frail.

• Bishop Sheng explained that he had seen The One at Phantom High School and believed he could not capture him alone.
• Gewei and the other bishops accepted Bishop Sheng's intelligence and agreed to join forces against The One.
• The six bishops adopted investor identities and moved Church of Birth forces into Yeyang City to prepare traps in District D.
• After school, Shen Yu walked with a cane while a bodyguard followed with a wheelchair.
• Gewei observed Shen Yu from a distance and noted his pale, frail appearance.

Shen Yu let the Church of Birth believe that he was mentally deteriorating while he secretly watched its bishops from within his Ghost Domain. As the bishops intensified their efforts to drive him toward collapse, Gewei witnessed the terrifying effects of Shen Yu devouring a Weird.

• Gewei saw Chen Yu pass him and mistook his pale appearance for signs of illness and mental decline.
• Shen Yu sat in a wheelchair as a Ghost Domain proxy pushed him, and he recognized that the Church of Birth's bishops had entered his domain.
• Shen Yu resolved to deal with the Church of Birth and the Mother of Birth, but waited for all his prey to enter his trap.
• The bishops sent Weirds and stirred up abnormal incidents and violence in Yeyang City to worsen The One's mental state.
• Gewei reported that The One secretly dealt with Weirds near the school in District D and devoured the ones the bishops sent.
• Gewei witnessed black matter and markings emerge from The One as pale hands wrapped around his neck after he devoured a Weird.

Bishop Gewei and the other bishops prepared a plan to capture the Chairman, while also considering whether to summon the Mother of Birth if the Chairman’s uncontrolled power proved too great. Meanwhile, Kong Yubo reviewed reports of worsening Weird-related disasters and kept the Church of Birth under close watch.

• Gewei told the bishops that the Chairman was close to losing control, based on his observations and evidence gathered from Yi Gui Company’s internal network.
• The bishops debated exposing the danger facing Contract Anomalists, but decided to wait until their preparations were nearly complete.
• Gewei warned that the Chairman’s power after losing control might exceed their expectations, so Bishop Sheng ordered preparations for both a trap and summoning the Mother of Birth.
• The six bishops prayed and informed the Mother of Birth about their plans, while their aging church leader reaffirmed his support for the scheme.
• Kong Yubo reviewed reports of rising casualties from Weird-related disasters and horror Dungeons, then continued monitoring the Church of Birth as a top threat to Xia Kingdom.

Kong Yubo investigated the Church of Birth’s sudden disappearance and suspected that a major conflict with the Anomaly Containment Association was brewing. He ordered heightened security across Xia Kingdom, while the chapter ended with Chen Yu at Phantom High School as a mangled lump of flesh hit the ground.

• Kong Yubo reviewed reports and found no recent evidence of the Church of Birth operating domestically or abroad.
• A team member told Kong Yubo that the Church of Birth had abandoned plans to target Contract Anomalists and sharply reduced its activities for unknown reasons.
• Kong Yubo ordered border defenses and cities to increase vigilance and deploy day-and-night patrols.
• At Phantom High School, a mangled lump of flesh slammed onto the ground, and Chen Yu’s eyes shifted.

Bishop Sheng and the other bishops arranged for a student to die at Phantom High School to worsen Chen Yu's mental state, but the school records and students showed no sign that anyone was missing. Bishop Sheng saw the supposedly dead student alive and uninjured, though deathly pale, and the student gave him a strange smile.

• Chen Yu watched a student fall to their death at Phantom High School, while Bishop Sheng and the other bishops observed the aftermath and believed their plan had worked.
• The ambulance left without the body, and the school continued as though no student had died or disappeared.
• Bishop Sheng questioned the principal, who denied that anything had happened and showed him records accounting for all nine hundred students.
• Bishop Sheng found Jia Ren in class, alive and playing with his classmates despite his corpse-like pallor.
• Jia Ren gave Bishop Sheng a Weird smile, leaving him chilled and unnerved.

Bishop Sheng investigated rumors of a student’s attempted suicide at Phantom High School and found that Jia Ren had apparently recovered, while students and staff denied anything had happened. Gewei suspected the Chairman’s power was unconsciously maintaining an illusion of peace around him, and urged the bishops to continue their plans.

• Bishop Sheng reflected on how the Yi Gui Company had built a welcoming community around the school and suspected its students, parents, and staff had been carefully selected to protect the Chairman.
• Bishop Sheng recalled how the Church of Birth’s followers had trapped Jia Ren in debt and driven him toward suicide, then questioned how the student had become cheerful after surviving.
• Bishop Sheng asked Jia Ren’s homeroom teacher about him and heard that Jia Ren was doing well, while the teacher appeared unaware of any recent crisis.
• Bishop Sheng left Phantom High School unsettled because people seemed to have forgotten the reported suicide attempt and the school felt sinister to him.
• Bishop Sheng reported his findings to the other bishops, and Gewei suggested that the Chairman’s power was preserving an illusion of peace around him.

The six bishops intensified their efforts to break Chen Yu’s mind, arranging a student’s death to traumatize him and then watching students who had supposedly died return to school. As the Church of Birth prepared to begin its ritual in District D, Yeyang City’s Investigation Team investigated the growing Weird energy and stationed a squad nearby.

• A person fell from a rooftop in front of Chen Yu, and the bodyguard shielded him as the six bishops celebrated the trauma their plan had caused.
• Chen Yu struggled to leave the scene, then sat in his wheelchair and was pushed away by his bodyguard.
• The next day, Bishop Sheng and the other bishops saw a photograph of the supposedly dead students back at school and decided to begin drawing in their ritual net.
• The Church of Birth increased its activity in District D, prompting Yeyang City’s Investigation Team to investigate unfamiliar people and rising Weird energy.
• The Investigation Team found no illegal activity among the believers posing as factory workers but left a squad in District D, where Xu Feng surveyed Weird energy with Yi Gui Company equipment.

Xu Feng investigated a surge in Weird energy near a commercial street, where a ritual by the Church of Birth triggered an attack that his protective shield blocked. The bishops summoned Mother of Birth, who descended upon D District to pursue a powerful Weird entity inside the Chairman.

• Xu Feng tracked an extreme Weird-energy reading to a commercial street, but his instrument stopped working and his messages failed to send.
• The Church of Birth's six bishops began a ritual using everyone on the street as sacrifices, causing people to collapse in pain.
• Xu Feng's protective shield automatically activated when an unseen force tried to drain him, and he realized the street was under attack.
• The bishops found that the ritual lacked enough sacrifices and drained life force from people around the world who carried Church of Birth tokens.
• Mother of Birth answered the bishops' summons and descended upon D District, hoping to devour the powerful Weird entity within the Chairman.

Xu Feng witnessed people apparently dying and then resuming their normal activities, while Mother of Birth decided to seize the Anomaly Containment Association Chairman to gain power. Its Flesh Wombs and cultists attacked Phantom High School, and Xu Feng remained trapped in the commercial street as night fell.

• Xu Feng watched people vomit blood, stop breathing, and then get back up as if nothing had happened, so he fled from the shop owner offering him lemon tea.
• Mother of Birth sensed thousands of aberrations gathered peacefully and recognized the Chairman’s distant aura as unstable.
• After learning that the Chairman was restraining a powerful Weird, Mother of Birth decided to capture him and exploit the opportunity to grow stronger.
• Mother of Birth sent its Flesh Wombs and six bishops with the cultists toward Phantom High School to seize the Chairman before the Anomaly Containment Association could respond.
• Xu Feng found that every route through the commercial street brought him back to the same place as the sun set.

Xu Feng avoided Phantom High School and discovered the Church of Birth and its Flesh Wombs in D District, while the Investigation Team detected an extreme anomaly and began evacuating the city. The cultists found that the locals kept acting normally even as the Flesh Wombs attacked them, leaving the bishops to suspect that the dead in the area had been inexplicably revived.

• Xu Feng followed his instincts and stayed away from Phantom High School after an old woman warned him that the area was unsafe.
• The Investigation Team traced Xu Feng’s readings to D District, found the anomaly levels surging, and called for Contract Anomalists and Yeyang City’s help.
• Yeyang City’s leaders ordered evacuations across D District, C District, B District, A District, and Anyang Island.
• Xu Feng hid in a residential building and recorded the Church of Birth cultists and their Flesh Wombs entering the street.
• Bishop Sheng and Bishop Gewei recalled that the students they had killed had returned to school, and suspected that an unknown force was reviving the dead.
• The Flesh Wombs attacked the smiling locals, who kept greeting the cultists as though they were NPCs following preprogrammed scripts.

Bishop Sheng and the cultists entered Phantom High School after the resurrected residents unnerved them, while Xu Feng followed to record what happened. As the group struggled under an invisible weight, Jia Ren appeared clinging to Bishop Sheng’s back, and the burden continued to grow despite their prayers.

• Jia Ren returned after the Flesh Wombs killed the residents, and Bishop Sheng shot him several times before Jia Ren collapsed, saying, “I found you.”
• The cultists headed toward Phantom High School, and Xu Feng followed them while filming with his phone.
• Bishop Sheng and the others found themselves growing increasingly exhausted and heavy as they walked through the school.
• Bishop Sheng prayed to his idol and discovered Jia Ren clinging to his back, though the other cultists could not see him.
• Gewei prayed for divine protection as the weight on his back kept growing.

Gewei and the believers fought off eerie creatures inside Phantom High School while Xu Feng watched from hiding. Meanwhile, Mother of Birth’s enormous true form appeared above D District, and the Investigation Team and nearby tourists saw it.

• Gewei recognized the corpses clinging to his back as eerie creatures and used divine power to drive them away.
• Gewei urged the believers and bishops to attack the creatures, then warned them that the Chairman’s unstable power had made the school dangerous.
• Xu Feng followed the group into Phantom High School and hid in the landscaping plants after witnessing the creatures attack them.
• Authorities evacuated residents near D District and began preparing to evacuate Anyang Island.
• Tourists on Anyang Island spotted a massive, writhing form in the sky above D District and panicked as they realized it was a Weird.
• Mother of Birth unfurled Her true form above D District, terrifying the Investigation Team.

The Mother of Birth’s appearance contaminated people across Yeyang City, while the authorities struggled to evacuate and treat those affected. Shen Yu engulfed the city and the Mother of Birth in his Ghost Domain, then prepared to test his growing power against It.

• Kong Yubo arrived in Yeyang City and learned that 238 people had developed abnormalities after seeing the Mother of Birth, while Xu Feng remained missing in D District.
• Newly arrived Contract Anomalists struggled to remove the parasitic Weird entities from the victims.
• Shen Yu realized that the Mother of Birth’s contamination would keep spreading as long as people could see It.
• Shen Yu expanded his Ghost Domain across D District and Yeyang City, drawing the Mother of Birth inside and sending the cultists and Flesh Wombs elsewhere.
• The Mother of Birth approached Shen Yu and asked how he had made the Chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association follow him.
• Shen Yu unleashed the power of numerous Weirds layered within his Ghost Domain and said he understood the nature of this realm.

Shen Yu overwhelmed Mother of Birth, then contained Her instead of killing Her and gained the Authority of Birth. After questioning Her, he learned that Her divine alliances could have exposed Blue Star’s location and that gods sought allies to survive the dangerous Road to Divine Ascension.

• Mother of Birth underestimated Shen Yu’s strength until his layered Ghost Domains and control of space trapped and weakened Her.
• Mother of Birth offered an alliance and warned that Her allied gods would target Blue Star if She died, so Shen Yu chose to spare Her.
• Shen Yu transported Mother of Birth to the Anomaly Containment Facility, where the system successfully contained Her and granted him the Authority of Birth.
• After tormenting the cultists in Phantom High School and returning to Headquarters, Shen Yu questioned Mother of Birth about divine alliances and the Road to Divine Ascension.
• Mother of Birth explained that gods formed temporary oaths to face the Road to Divine Ascension and could use those oaths to reveal their location, potentially exposing Blue Star.

Shen Yu dealt with the commotion caused by Bai Zuo and Mi Lan at Headquarters, then approved Bai Zuo’s request to leave and raise Heart Gu’s level. He went to a low-level Dungeon to trace the Horror Game’s Source World, but could not yet find it.

• Shen Yu followed explosions to a corridor, where Bai Zuo and Mi Lan were fighting and damaging Headquarters.
• Shen Yu calmed the situation, checked Bai Zuo’s recovery, and sent Mi Lan away on an overseas mission.
• Shen Yu assigned Bai Zuo the Church of Birth members and approved his request to leave with Heart Gu.
• Shen Yu examined spatial fluctuations in a low-level Dungeon but failed to locate the Horror Game’s Source World.

Shen Yu contained the Calamity-Class Weird Demon Moon, gaining its ability and claiming its energy-rich space for the Anomaly Containment Association. After distributing the Mother of Birth’s Divine Stones to researchers, he encountered Daoist walking down a road while singing and ringing bells.

• Shen Yu chose Daoist’s Character Card and used Flesh Wombs to lure out the Key Society’s summoned god, Demon Moon.
• Shen Yu trapped Demon Moon in his Ghost Domain, contained it, and gained Tidal Moon’s ability.
• Demon Moon’s containment transformed Shen Yu’s Ghost Domain, adding a blood moon and strange plants and fungi.
• Shen Yu claimed Demon Moon’s energy-rich space and planned to have researchers develop portable energy-replenishment capsules.
• Shen Yu collected the Mother of Birth’s remaining Divine Stones and gave them to the Research Department.
• Daoist walked along a road, singing about impermanence and ringing bells as onlookers stared at his strange appearance.

Ding Yi brought an uncanny Daoist to Prince An’s Manor to treat Prince An and Princess An, who had fallen gravely ill. Prince An agreed to receive the Daoist after dismissing the physicians, leaving the Daoist waiting outside the bedchamber.

• Ding Yi approached the strange Daoist on the road and invited him to Prince An’s Manor, promising a thousand taels of gold.
• Ding Yi and Steward Li discussed how Prince An and Princess An remained ill despite treatment, and how Prince An’s fury had made others reluctant to help.
• Steward Li told Prince An that Ding Yi had brought a Daoist who seemed capable and asked permission to bring him in.
• Prince An ordered the physicians out and told Steward Li to invite the Daoist into the bedchamber.

A talisman-covered Daoist used his bell and peachwood sword to drive a dozen rat fetuses from Prince An’s belly, leaving the prince gravely wounded. Princess An asked him to remove the creature from her own belly, and the Daoist reflected that conquering this low-level Dungeon had triggered a special main quest not issued by the Horror Game.

• Steward Li brought the Daoist to Prince An, who offered ten thousand taels of gold if he cured him and Princess An.
• The Daoist diagnosed Prince An as ten months pregnant with more than a dozen rat fetuses and used his bell and peachwood sword to force them out.
• Prince An’s stomach was torn open as the rat pups emerged, and he fainted; the Daoist impaled and contained the creatures without treating the wound.
• Steward Li and Steward Ding begged the Daoist to save Prince An, while Princess An said the Daoist should not be blamed for removing the monster.
• Princess An asked the Daoist to remove the monster from her belly, and he considered the unusual special main quest he had triggered in the Dungeon.

Daoist discovered that the Horror Game had invaded a martial arts world whose consciousness sought his help to contain its anomalies. After rescuing the world’s hidden martial arts masters and recruiting them into the Anomaly Containment Association, he left them ready to fight the remaining threats.

• The world consciousness told Daoist that the Horror Game’s invasion had thwarted its plan to elevate the world and asked him to eliminate its anomalies in exchange for joining the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Daoist had the Resentful Woman absorb the Weird in Princess An’s womb, saving her and earning Prince An’s Manor’s gratitude.
• Daoist followed the world consciousness’s guidance to a sealed gorge and released the martial arts grandmasters and experts hidden there for decades.
• Lin Feng and Feng Tian learned about the anomalies and joined the Anomaly Containment Association, where they became Contract Anomalists and prepared to contain threats in their world.

Shen Yu helped Daoist complete the Way of Impermanence scenario, earning the final Infinity Fragment, then failed to fully comprehend spatial laws and began studying other laws with the world's consciousness. As the Anomaly Containment Association's Headquarters stabilized, a Contract Anomalist captured a member of the Church of Birth.

• Daoist revisited his childhood, left home to seek the Dao, and fell into doubt when he could not find it.
• Shen Yu brought Daoist to the Anomaly Containment Association, where the Resentful Woman helped him recover his forgotten memories and karmic connection to her.
• Daoist completed the Way of Impermanence scenario, reached 100% Character Perfection, unlocked his full strength, and earned the final Infinity Fragment.
• Shen Yu absorbed the Infinity Fragments but could not integrate all the spatial laws, so he made a deal with the world's consciousness to study other laws in exchange for energy crystals.
• The Anomaly Containment Association's Headquarters stabilized, while high-level Weird entities continued to cause disasters; a Contract Anomalist captured a Church of Birth member.