Recaps

Jin Junxi drowned in Song Tide and mutated into an offensive priest who defended Yuki, while Bai Zuo mocked their transformation as pure love. Shen Yu and the God of Games watched Bai Zuo fight the two priests, remaining wary of the god behind them.

• Jin Junxi suffocated in Song Tide, and after his death his token lost its power and merged into the tide.
• Song Tide polluted Jin Junxi's body and transformed him into a powerful priest with a trident.
• The transformed Jin Junxi swam to Yuki and protected her from the spiders as she sang.
• Bai Zuo applauded and called Jin Junxi and Yuki's transformation pure love, while the God of Games watched and planned to make it a dungeon.
• Shen Yu observed the two priests fighting Bai Zuo and judged that the Song Tide God was the true threat.

Bai Zuo exploited Jin Junxi’s selfish instincts to disrupt Yuki’s singing and weaken the Song Tide. After Bai Zuo captured Yuki and Heart Gu killed Jin Junxi, the Song Tide’s expansion stopped at Cosmic Nation’s border.

• Bai Zuo fought Jin Junxi while splitting his attention to play chess with God of Games, and he recognized that Jin Junxi’s intelligence made him vulnerable to manipulation.
• Jin Junxi recovered memories of his selfish human nature and hesitated when Heart Gu attacked Yuki, allowing her singing to be interrupted.
• Heart Gu mauled Yuki, and Bai Zuo imprisoned the weakened Song Tide Priest in the Anomaly Cage.
• With Yuki gone, the Song Tide stopped expanding at Cosmic Nation’s border, and Xu Zhou and Norden helped deal with the mutated monsters.
• Heart Gu tore Jin Junxi in half, leaving him dazed as he realized that either choice had led to defeat.

Bai Zuo broke the priests’ coordination and contained Yuki and Jin Junxi, while Shen Yu and the God of Games discussed a powerful illusionist called The One. The Song Tide remained active because Luomosi was still in its waters, and Bai Zuo’s spiders began subduing the mutated monsters there.

• Bai Zuo exploited Jin Junxi’s hesitation to disrupt the priests’ teamwork, then defeated them with Heart Gu’s help.
• The God of Games described The One, a master of illusion arts obsessed with perfecting art, and Shen Yu grew curious about him.
• Heart Gu tore into Jin Junxi, leaving both Yuki and Jin Junxi contained as Shen Yu identified them as Fierce Fiend Class entities empowered by the Song Tide.
• Shen Yu and the God of Games watched the battle end without the Song Tide God appearing, while the Song Tide continued to cover the waters where Luomosi remained.
• Bai Zuo spread Heart Gu’s spider avatars across the tidewaters, binding the mutated monsters in webs and hanging them upside down.

Shen Yu and God of Games followed Luomosi through an unstable rift into a world submerged in the Song Tide, where the Song Tide God’s power had twisted its former inhabitants into mindless monsters. They began exploring the ruined world, with God of Games provoking the conches around them.

• Bai Zuo was left fighting the remaining Weird as Luomosi escaped, and Shen Yu tracked it with his mental power.
• Shen Yu and God of Games followed Luomosi to a deep-sea canyon and discovered an unstable passage bearing a powerful divine aura.
• Shen Yu and God of Games entered the passage and arrived in a world completely submerged beneath the Song Tide.
• Shen Yu examined the tidewater and recognized that its anomalous energy and the Song Tide God’s power could mutate or overwhelm Contract Anomalists.
• God of Games tore a mollusk from a conch, prompting it to screech and the surrounding conches to sound in response.

The God of Games and Shen Yu entered the Song Tide God's territory to challenge Him, and the God of Games provoked Him by killing one of His followers. The Song Tide God attacked, but the God of Games opened his game domain and drove back the tides, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• The God of Games crushed a musical conch creature, alerting and provoking the Song Tide God.
• The Song Tide God appeared, asked why they had killed His follower, and attacked after the God of Games identified Him as their target.
• The God of Games stepped forward to fight while Shen Yu retreated beyond the battlefield.
• The Song Tide God amplified His power tenfold by singing and sent the tides surging toward them.
• The God of Games invoked his game world, forcing away the tides and transforming the battlefield with fantastical buildings.

The Song Tide God attacked Shen Yu and the God of Games, but the God of Games analyzed the monsters entering his domain and transformed them into game data he could control. Watching him use laws and rules, Shen Yu gained insight into a new human power system and considered visiting the God of Games' world to study it.

• The Song Tide God discovered that his tide remained under his control outside the God of Games' Ghost Domain and began exchanging long-range attacks with him.
• The Song Tide God realized the God of Games' attacks could not harm Weird without Weird energy, then sent a swarm of monsters to overwhelm him.
• The God of Games refused Shen Yu's help and activated Game Domain—Yellow Spring Never Falls as the tide and monsters destroyed his domain's colorful facilities.
• The God of Games dissolved the attacking monsters into particles, reconstructed them as game data, and took control of them.
• Shen Yu studied the God of Games' use of laws and rules, considered learning his world's power system, and decided it could serve as an alternative to contracting with strange entities.

The God of Games trapped the Song Tide God inside a domain built from the Song Tide God’s own energy, while Shen Yu and the God of Games bet on how quickly He could escape. Shen Yu accelerated time around the Dungeon, and the God of Games praised his grasp of time’s laws.

• The God of Games discovered that his domain could assimilate the Song Tide God’s monsters and absorb the energy in His tides, then expanded the domain around Him.
• The Song Tide God found Himself confined by the domain’s rules as the God of Games towered over Him and invited Shen Yu to bet on whether He could escape.
• Shen Yu proposed betting on how long the Song Tide God would take to get out, and the God of Games wagered one month.
• Shen Yu accelerated time inside the Dungeon with a fragment, prompting the God of Games to praise his control over time.

God of Games and Shen Yu wagered on how long the Song Tide God would take to leave the game Dungeon, while the trapped deity encountered Sister Ru and was drawn into her story. The Song Tide God followed Sister Ru into a forest and tried to persuade her after she injured herself.

• God of Games admired Shen Yu's talent and placed a wager that the Song Tide God would emerge after a month.
• Shen Yu bet that the Song Tide God would emerge after twenty-six days, and God of Games accepted.
• The Song Tide God found Sister Ru in the Dungeon, where its powers were suppressed and the NPCs were unaffected by its contamination.
• Sister Ru said she would never marry the Mountain God, then ran into the forest as the Song Tide God followed.
• Sister Ru slipped, twisted her leg, and appeared ready to die, so the Song Tide God asked why she did not simply kill whoever was forcing her.

Song Tide God repeatedly watched Sister Ru’s forced marriage to the Mountain God, unable to understand the human emotions needed to break the Dungeon’s repeating story. After more than twenty days, Song Tide God found a rule node and woke in another cycle with Sister Ru’s identity.

• Song Tide God killed Sister Ru’s pursuers in one cycle, then woke to find her fleeing again.
• Song Tide God let Sister Ru run into the mountains, where villagers captured her and forced her to accept becoming the Mountain God’s bride.
• Junsheng arrived but turned away from Sister Ru, ending her remaining hope, and she stopped resisting as the villagers locked her inside her home.
• Shen Yu and God of Games discussed whether strange entities could experience human emotions while Song Tide God remained trapped in the Dungeon.
• God of Games said Song Tide God had found the rules’ node, and Song Tide God woke in a new cycle, believing she was Sister Ru.

Sister Ru poisoned the village, awakening her will to resist and clearing the Dungeon, while Shen Yu won his bet with God of Games. Song Tide God broke free with His memories restored and unleashed His fury upon the world.

• Sister Ru agreed to Junsheng's escape plan but stayed under close watch as the villagers prepared for her wedding.
• God of Games claimed victory over Shen Yu, believing Song Tide God could not escape the Dungeon before its power ran out.
• On the eve of the wedding, Sister Ru poisoned the food and returned to her room, where her parents found her.
• Song Tide God used the poison to bring down the village, and Sister Ru's resistance allowed the Dungeon to be cleared.
• Shen Yu explained how he had predicted Song Tide God's actions, and God of Games conceded the bet.
• Song Tide God regained His memories, broke free of the Dungeon, and sent the world's tides surging in rage.

Shen Yu and the God of Games defeated the Song Tide God, whom Shen Yu contained at Headquarters. After the God of Games returned to his world, Shen Yu took control of Cosmic Nation and the Anomaly Containment Association turned the monster-infested area into a training ground.

• The God of Games used his domain and Anomaly Artifacts to drain the Song Tide God’s power and blast Him into pieces.
• Shen Yu stopped the God of Games from finishing the weakened Song Tide God and contained Him in the Anomaly Containment Facility, earning ten million Construction Points.
• Shen Yu used Absolute Boundary to summon the God of Games daily, but later summons produced only weak creatures.
• The God of Games said farewell to Shen Yu and returned to his world through Absolute Boundary.
• Shen Yu took over Cosmic Nation and sent Contract Anomalists to eliminate its monsters while the Anomaly Containment Association sealed off the polluted area.
• The Anomaly Containment Association designated Cosmic Nation a combat zone, divided its monsters by rank, and marked the roaming Malignant Curse Class monsters.

Rookie Contract Anomalist Luo Ping and his companion Huang Bei went on a mission to contain Weirds in Cosmic Nation, where Luo Ping found a rare Song Tide Conch. After they arrived at their destination, Luo Ping vanished without warning, and Huang Bei began searching for him and alerted their captain.

• Luo Ping and Huang Bei avoided a roaming Malignant Curse while traveling through Cosmic Nation and learning about the Weirds there.
• Luo Ping found a Song Tide Conch and packed it to bring home for his younger sister.
• Luo Ping chose Zone C for their mission to contain ten Wraith Class Weirds and three Green Faces, hoping to qualify for C-Class rank.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei drove to their destination, but Luo Ping disappeared within minutes of getting out of the car.
• Huang Bei could not reach Luo Ping, sent a distress message to Captain Xie Yu, and searched nearby shops, suspecting Luo Ping had gone into a jewelry store.

Huang Bei was caught in the accessory shop’s anomalous effect, and Xie Yu traced the missing newcomers to a Dungeon entrance and entered it. Xie Yu arrived in a world resembling Blue Star and contacted them, while Luo Ping had been captured after appearing among a crowd.

• Huang Bei entered the accessory shop and was overwhelmed by an effect that clouded his consciousness.
• The Logistics Department team leader located the newcomers’ motionless Smart Brain signals and told Xie Yu where to find them.
• Xie Yu reached the accessory shop, recognized the concealed Dungeon entrance, and stepped inside.
• Xie Yu resisted the entrance’s mental impact, entered a new world, and destroyed thousands of mutant insect eggs with his power.
• Xie Yu found the world strikingly similar to Blue Star and messaged the newcomers through his Smart Brain.
• Luo Ping appeared in the middle of a crowd in the new world and was captured before he could escape.

Luo Ping and Huang Bei realized they had fallen into a massive Ghost Domain rather than being transported to another world, but the local Anomaly Tamers captured them and accused them of serving an evil god. The chapter ended with Luo Ping challenging their plan to sentence them without questioning them.

• Luo Ping was held in a solitary cell while the Bureau of Special Affairs investigated his unexplained appearance and blank identity.
• Luo Ping contacted Huang Bei, who identified their situation as a Ghost Domain and told Luo Ping to escape and meet him.
• Luo Ping escaped the cell and met Huang Bei, who teased him about being captured before assigning him three months of reports.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei were caught in a giant net, rendered unable to use their abilities, and imprisoned again.
• The Anomaly Tamers accused Luo Ping and Huang Bei of serving an evil god and proposed sentencing them to death, prompting Luo Ping to demand a proper questioning and ask whether they had no law.

Luo Ping and Huang Bei were mistaken for Evil God believers and detained by Anomaly Tamers, but they contacted Xie Yu after the captors left to respond to a crisis at Tonghao Bridge. Xie Yu headed to their location, while the story revealed that their world was a half-formed Dungeon.

• Chen Qingcheng ordered the Anomaly Tamers to convict Luo Ping and Huang Bei, whom he suspected of serving an Evil God.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei privately discussed whether they had entered a Ghost Domain, a Dungeon, or another world, while finding they could not use their abilities.
• A report arrived that an Evil God's figure had appeared in the water at Tonghao Bridge, where the bridge collapsed and dozens of cars fell into the river, so Chen Qingcheng and the other Anomaly Tamers left to investigate.
• Xie Yu messaged Luo Ping and Huang Bei, and Huang Bei sent him their location.
• Xie Yu set out to find them, and the narration revealed that their world was a half-formed Dungeon.

Xie Yu arrived at the Bureau of Special Affairs as a bomb-carrying evil god follower charged toward its entrance. The attacker’s ability overwhelmed the Bureau personnel, but Xie Yu stopped him before he could detonate the explosives, leaving the follower frozen in terror.

• Xie Yu reached the Bureau of Special Affairs while most of its personnel were away at Tonghao Bridge.
• A bomb-carrying attacker rushed the Bureau’s entrance, shrugging off gunfire with help from his Weird-enhanced body.
• The attacker released a rotting-flesh stench that made nearby Bureau personnel dizzy and nauseated.
• The attacker prepared to detonate the bomb, but Xie Yu appeared behind him and immobilized him with overwhelming pressure.
• Xie Yu gently told the attacker that his team members were still inside.

Xie Yu stopped an evil god cultist from detonating a bomb at the Bureau of Special Affairs and revealed that he had come for two teammates who had been arrested. The director arranged for someone to return to meet him while he remained at the river, where a summoned servant had broken the bridge.

• Xie Yu frightened the evil god cultist into putting down a bomb and surrendering, and Bureau personnel arrested him.
• Bureau personnel discovered that the case held a bomb capable of destroying everything within several hundred meters and took the cultist to an Anomaly Tamer cell.
• Xie Yu asked to see his two team members, and Bureau clerks realized he meant the two people they had arrested as suspected evil god followers.
• A clerk reported Xie Yu's intervention to the director, who told someone to return, avoid offending him, and assess whether he could be recruited.
• The director stayed behind to deal with the water monster and the broken bridge, which had been damaged during the cultists' summoning ritual.

After the bridge disaster, Zhong Xing apologized to Luo Ping and Huang Bei and tried to recruit them to the Bureau of Special Affairs. The two stayed loyal to the Anomaly Containment Association, and Zhong Xing dropped the matter.

• Zhong Xing returned to the Bureau of Special Affairs after considering how to explain the bridge’s destruction and the casualties to the public.
• Zhong Xing met Xie Yu, Luo Ping, and Huang Bei, mistook the two newcomers for civilian Anomaly Tamers, and apologized for their arrest.
• Luo Ping admitted that their sudden appearance had frightened ordinary people, while Huang Bei checked Xie Yu’s reaction before speaking.
• Zhong Xing described the Bureau’s benefits and invited Luo Ping and Huang Bei to join.
• Luo Ping declared his loyalty to the Anomaly Containment Association, Huang Bei slapped him, and Zhong Xing laughed and abandoned the recruitment attempt.

After Xie Yu and his companions left the Bureau of Special Affairs, Zhong Xing investigated the bridge incident and reviewed footage of Xie Yu subduing an evil god follower. He was left puzzled by Xie Yu’s power and the meaning of his final words as he waited for the Director to return.

• Xie Yu told Zhong Xing that the misunderstanding was cleared up, and Zhong Xing escorted him and his two companions out of the Bureau of Special Affairs.
• Zhong Xing learned that the summoned evil god’s spawn had been sealed at the bridge, though several Anomaly Tamers were injured and one struggled to suppress the Weird inside him.
• Zhong Xing reflected on how using abilities accelerated Anomaly Tamers’ decline and noted that the Bureau’s depleted staff needed time to rest.
• Zhong Xing watched surveillance footage of Xie Yu overpowering the evil god follower who had tried to destroy the Bureau, and wondered whether Xie Yu used word spirit or mind control.
• Zhong Xing could not understand Xie Yu’s final sentence and waited for the Director to return from the bridge.

After the Tonghao Bridge disaster, Zhong Xing and Li Jin discussed preparing the public for the revelation of Weird phenomena and Anomaly Tamers, then reviewed footage of Captain Xie. Shen Yu saw Xie Yu unlock his benevolent Evil God face as Xie Yu led Luo Ping and Huang Bei through a half-formed Dungeon, where they waited for the rift to stabilize.

• Li Jin told Zhong Xing that thirteen people had drowned, five more had died on the way to the hospital, and 107 survivors were injured.
• Zhong Xing and Li Jin discussed gradually preparing the public for the truth and preventing Evil Deity believers from exploiting the coming disorder.
• Zhong Xing explained that Luo Ping and Huang Bei were novice Anomaly Tamers who had lost control of their powers, and Li Jin watched footage of their captain, Xie Yu.
• Shen Yu saw Xie Yu unlock the perfect benevolent side of his Evil God ability, which suppressed his evil and rage while raising his divinity without limit.
• Xie Yu led Luo Ping and Huang Bei through a half-formed Dungeon, explained that they were in a real world, and said they would need to wait a few days for the rift to stabilize.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei used money taken from robbers to secure supplies, then followed the smell of roast chicken while joking together.

Xie Yu accepted a cursed wooden doll from Dark Moon, who had been pressured by an evil god’s followers to hand it over. After he passed it to Luo Ping, the curse seemed to mark him, and an out-of-control truck came hurtling toward him and Huang Bei.

• Dark Moon bumped into Xie Yu, apologized, and revealed through an earpiece that she was being forced to give him something.
• Dark Moon handed Xie Yu a wooden doll and fled after he accepted it, leaving a note warning that it was extremely dangerous.
• Xie Yu told Luo Ping and Huang Bei that he had found suitable lodging, then passed the doll to Luo Ping.
• Huang Bei noticed the doll carried a curse and contamination, and that its aura had marked Luo Ping.
• An out-of-control truck swerved toward Luo Ping and Huang Bei, who both darted out of its path.

Luo Ping and Huang Bei dealt with a truck crash while a cursed puppet went missing, and a chain of dangers threatened the accident scene. Xie Yu revealed he had recovered the puppet as they left the area.

• A truck crashed into a flower bed, and a hollowed-out tree fell on Luo Ping, who healed himself with Weird energy.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei found the tree's insect-damaged trunk and discovered the truck driver was trapped in the cab.
• Huang Bei suspected the missing puppet's curse had caused the accidents, and the two searched for it without success.
• Luo Ping noticed fuel leaking from the truck, while Huang Bei used Dead Sacrifice to tear open the cab and free the driver.
• Luo Ping tried to evacuate the bystanders as broken power lines began sparking near the spilled gasoline, but Xie Yu blocked the sparks.
• Xie Yu warned Luo Ping and Huang Bei to leave, then revealed that he had the puppet.

Xie Yu traced the curse on the puppet to the Peculiar Club, a hideout for Evil Deity believers, and led Luo Ping and Huang Bei there. As they stormed the club, Dark Moon abandoned her attempt to take her own life and hurried out to see what was happening.

• Xie Yu sensed a connection to the person who cursed him and followed it with Luo Ping and Huang Bei to the Peculiar Club.
• Luo Ping recognized the puppet's aura at the club, while he and Huang Bei prepared to confront the people inside.
• Ma Lou told Dark Moon that the puppet was a divine artifact meant to kill Xie Yu and tried to win her trust.
• Dark Moon, despairing that she had harmed an innocent person, went to the bathroom with a knife and filled the bathtub with hot water.
• A commotion outside made Dark Moon drop the knife, and she hurried out after hearing screams.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei knocked down the club's ordinary members and demanded that their boss come out.

Luo Ping and Huang Bei confronted Ma Lou and the Evil Deity followers at their billiards club. Ma Lou sacrificed a subordinate for power, and the terrified ordinary members fled as he prepared to fight back.

• Ma Lou rushed downstairs after a member warned him that intruders were wrecking the club.
• Ma Lou accused Luo Ping and Huang Bei of starting the fight, while Huang Bei warned that Ma Lou was much stronger than the others.
• Luo Ping summoned the Undead Hound, which charged at Ma Lou.
• Ma Lou used an ordinary member as a shield, then invoked the Evil Deity and sacrificed the injured man for strength.
• The ordinary members realized that the Evil Deity followers viewed them as offerings and fled, while Ma Lou vowed to deal with them later.

Ma Lou summoned corrosive slime and turned on the Evil Deity believers at his club, drawing the attention of the Bureau of Special Affairs. Still recovering from a major battle, Zhong Xing sent the least injured Anomaly Tamers to investigate reports of panicked people on 12th Street.

• Ma Lou summoned the Evil Deity’s followers, spreading corrosive slime through the club and forcing Luo Ping and Huang Bei to defend themselves with their summoned creatures.
• Ma Lou realized Luo Ping and Huang Bei were both Anomaly Tamers and activated runes implanted in the club’s ordinary members, forcing them to panic and cry out about their god.
• Passersby reported the fleeing believers to the police, and Zhong Xing received a forwarded call about the disturbance on 12th Street.
• Chen Qingcheng tried to volunteer despite his serious wound, but the doctor stopped him.
• Zhong Xing chose the least injured Anomaly Tamers to investigate, while worrying that the Bureau was understaffed.