Recaps

Third Prince rode Skyfire Demon toward the heavenly curtain, where its immense pressure tested his resolve. After his contract, Xie Yu completed the special scenario and the curtain vanished, leaving most viewers with blurred memories of what they had seen.

• Third Prince summoned Skyfire Demon and flew toward the heavenly curtain as Chen Qingcheng and Chen Mingzhong watched from below.
• Third Prince felt the pressure grow stronger near the curtain but refused to retreat.
• Xie Yu reached 100% Character Perfection, unlocked the Character Card’s full personality and strength, and completed Forsake Immortality to obtain an Hourglass of Time Fragment.
• The heavenly curtain vanished as lights drifted down, and most people forgot what they had watched.
• Evil Deity believers raged when they found they could no longer clearly remember the Anomaly Containment Association’s people and secrets.

Evil deity followers realized that someone had altered their memories and began planning to infiltrate Huaxia for answers. Third Prince approached Xie Yu in the sky, but Xie Yu struck him and appeared to have lost control, prompting Third Prince to call for S-rank reinforcements.

• Evil deity followers discovered that their memories had been altered and feared the unknown man who had bypassed their deities' protection.
• Evil deity followers planned to infiltrate Huaxia and investigate, despite the Bureau of Special Affairs' crackdown.
• Third Prince flew to Xie Yu, who was hovering near the concentrated anomalous energy, and berated him for being trapped in a Ghost Domain.
• Xie Yu's anomalous energy blasted Third Prince away and injured his arm.
• Xie Yu opened his eyes with pitch-black pupils and dark-gold irises, and Third Prince suspected he had lost control and summoned S-rank reinforcements.

Xie Yu’s Weird power grew increasingly unstable, leaving the Third Prince and the Association’s Anomaly Tamers fearing he had suffered a backlash. As Wu, the Daoist, and Taishi A watched from a safe distance, Luo Ping and Huang Bei learned that Xie Yu had lost control, and Zhou Tian reported that an S-rank senior was being beaten down.

• The Third Prince feared that Xie Yu might lose control of his Doomfate Class Weird, while Wu, the Daoist, and Taishi A settled in to watch from a safe vantage point.
• The Daoist said Xie Yu’s crisis could become a trial that led to a breakthrough, or leave him mad or dead, and the group chose not to intervene.
• The Third Prince rose again as Xie Yu’s Weird aura spread across Forest City, prompting the Anomaly Tamers on the ground to suspect a backlash.
• Chen Qingcheng told Luo Ping and Huang Bei that Xie Yu seemed controlled by his Weird and had begun attacking his companions indiscriminately.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei assumed the S-rank reinforcements would suppress Xie Yu, but Zhou Tian said one of the powerful seniors appeared to be getting beaten down.

Xie Yu awakened to the Evil God’s power by accepting its kind, evil, and wrathful faces, then overwhelmed Third Prince in battle. The chapter ended with Skyfire Demon shielding Third Prince and striking back at Xie Yu.

• Luo Ping and Huang Bei took the special glasses from logistics staff to watch the distant battle.
• Third Prince transformed Skyfire Demon into a towering magma giant and fired molten lava at Xie Yu.
• Xie Yu formed a hand seal, manifested the Evil God’s changing faces, and blocked the lava with a defensive barrier.
• Xie Yu accepted his suppressed malice and rage, awakened, and unleashed a powerful force that drove Skyfire Demon backward.
• Xie Yu repeatedly punched and kicked Third Prince through the air while Taishi A, Wu, and the Daoist debated whether to intervene.
• Third Prince called on Skyfire Demon, which blocked Xie Yu’s next kick and swung its magma-covered palm at him.

Xie Yu defeated Skyfire Demon and revealed that he had awakened to the Evil God's power, reaching S-rank. He returned to the branch with Wang Qing, where his squad celebrated his breakthrough and his potential to reach SSS-rank.

• Third Prince watched Xie Yu overpower Skyfire Demon and called for Wang Qing, who arrived after Third Prince had been badly injured.
• Xie Yu used the A Li Sword to cut off Skyfire Demon's arm, while Wu and the Daoist recognized that Xie Yu had advanced to S-rank.
• Wang Qing congratulated Xie Yu, who said he had never felt better and had seen his true self clearly.
• Xie Yu and Wang Qing left Skyfire Demon and Third Prince behind and returned to the branch with Wu and the others.
• Wang Qing explained that Xie Yu could eventually reach SSS-rank by mastering the Evil God's abilities, and Xie Yu's squad celebrated his survival and breakthrough.

Chen Mingzhong explained how the God-Worshipping Cult arose as the Bureau of Special Affairs weighed its cooperation with the powerful Anomaly Containment Association. He left the cult’s transformation from hopeful god-messengers into its current form unexplained.

• Chen Mingzhong acknowledged Xie Yu's safe return and said the Bureau of Special Affairs director wanted another detailed discussion with the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Wang Qing asked Chen Mingzhong why evil deity believers sought to summon evil deities into the world.
• Chen Mingzhong explained that the Weird first appeared three years earlier and could not be harmed by conventional weapons, forcing the Bureau to contain them at great cost.
• Chen Mingzhong said Anomaly Tamers later gained the power to fight the Weird, but using that power brought the Weird inside them closer to awakening.
• Chen Mingzhong recounted how frightened survivors began praying for power and formed the God-Worshipping Cult, whose members originally called themselves messengers of the gods and hoped to save the world.

Wu left Forest City and approached Zhong Hong, telling him to find him at Orchid Pond Park if anything happened. Zhong Hong returned home to his family, where a strange growth on his back became several translucent, spider-like appendages.

• Wu left Forest City and drew wary attention from people in a neighboring city.
• Wu approached Zhong Hong and told him to find him at Orchid Pond Park if anything happened.
• Zhong Hong hurried home and reunited with his wife and children.
• Zhong Hong felt a burning lump swelling beneath his skin as his family finished dinner.
• Zhong Hong's wife screamed when several translucent, spider-like appendages grew from his back.

Zhong Hong’s spider-like appendages emerged and nearly attacked his wife, so he struggled to protect his family and gain control of them. He reached Orchid Pond Park to seek help, terrified that his growing appetite for human flesh would turn him into a man-eating monster.

• Zhong Hong grabbed a spider leg before it struck his wife, then urged her to take their children and flee.
• When the appendages tried to carry him after his family, Zhong Hong broke off two of them despite the agonizing pain, and new limbs grew that he could control.
• Zhong Hong crawled down the building and headed to Orchid Pond Park, fearing his uncontrolled power would make him hurt people.
• Zhong Hong arrived at the empty park and found a man standing before the angel statue.
• As his senses sharpened, Zhong Hong smelled people as food and realized he was beginning to crave human flesh.

Zhong Hong sought Wu’s help after strange limbs and a craving for human flesh emerged from his body. Wu separated the parasitic aberration from him, but left the spider legs in place, and Zhong Hong went to the Anomaly Containment Association branch in Forest City for help.

• Zhong Hong reached Wu in the park and asked why his body had changed, and Wu identified the growth inside him as a symbiotic aberration.
• Wu brought Zhong Hong to a mysterious scale that separated the multi-eyed spider aberration from his body, though Zhong Hong’s twelve appendages remained.
• Zhong Hong regained control of the ten limbs he could not previously move and lost his hunger for living flesh, but Wu said the limbs were fate’s choice.
• Wu directed Zhong Hong to a place where he could seek help, and Zhong Hong texted his wife before traveling to Forest City.
• Zhong Hong arrived at the Anomaly Containment Association branch, where Luo Ping mistook him for Spider-Man and Huang Bei pulled Luo away.

Zhong Hong visited the Anomaly Containment Association after Wu sent him there, learned about becoming a Contract Anomalist, and agreed to join so he could support his family. The chapter left Luo Ping asking Huang Bei whether Contract Anomalists living at Headquarters had to pay rent.

• A logistics staff member guided Zhong Hong aside and learned how he had survived the parasite’s contamination and protected his family.
• The staff member praised Zhong Hong’s willpower, while Zhong Hong worried that his twelve spider appendages would prevent him from returning to ordinary life.
• Luo Ping encouraged Zhong Hong to join the Anomaly Containment Association and asked whether his appendages could shoot webs.
• The logistics staff member explained Contract Anomalist ranks, allowances, and missions, and Zhong Hong agreed to join after hearing about the monthly reimbursement.
• Luo Ping asked whether Contract Anomalists living at Headquarters had to pay rent, and Huang Bei said they did not.

Zhong Hong joined the Anomaly Containment Association and sought help understanding the extra limbs he had gained from Weird. Taishi A determined they were a permanent bodily mutation and explained the Association's team system, but Zhong Hong chose to join Wu's Occult Society.

• Zhong Hong joined the Anomaly Containment Association as its second Contract Anomalist reserve from his world after learning that it provided housing and travel support.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei brought Zhong Hong to the training grounds and tried to teach him to sense anomalous energy, but he could not understand it.
• Taishi A explained that uncontracted people could not sense anomalous energy as Contract Anomalists did and warned the newcomers not to assume ordinary people could use their abilities.
• Taishi A examined Zhong Hong's extra limbs and concluded they were a permanent mutation rather than an ability from the now-gone Weird.
• Taishi A explained that Zhong Hong's situation made Amethyst Hall a suitable team, but Zhong Hong chose to join Wu's Occult Society because Wu had referred him.

Taishi A explained that Zhong Hong’s mutation made him a mutant, a human whose consciousness survived bodily distortion, and that Amethyst Hall was suited to him. Zhong Hong struggled with the label but accepted that he had survived, while Luo Ping and Huang Bei reassured him that the Association would still accept him.

• Taishi A contacted Wu, who said Zhong Hong was no longer suited to ordinary life and that Amethyst Hall would fit him better than Taishi A’s squad.
• Taishi A explained that squads differed in how much guidance they gave new members and that Amethyst Hall’s captain was a mutant.
• Taishi A defined mutants as people who retained their consciousness after mutation, unlike those whose minds were consumed and who became monsters.
• Zhong Hong wondered whether the label meant he was no longer human, then took comfort in having survived and kept his family safe.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei told Zhong Hong that aberrants were still people and that the Association accepted them.

Taishi A explained that Amethyst Hall was made up of mutants and revealed that he was one, easing Zhong Hong’s fears about joining. Zhong Hong joined Amethyst Hall after eating and learned that whoever was targeting him might also go after his family.

• Luo Ping excitedly praised the abilities of merfolk, while Huang Bei wondered whether Amethyst Hall’s members were all mutants.
• Taishi A explained that Amethyst Hall had been founded by a mutant captain and revealed that he was a mutant.
• Zhong Hong felt more comfortable about joining Amethyst Hall after Taishi A’s explanation and the warm treatment he received.
• The logistics staff brought drinks and food, and Zhong Hong devoured the meal because his mutation and regenerating appendages had consumed a lot of energy.
• Zhong Hong joined Amethyst Hall, then grew nervous when Taishi A warned that the people targeting him might also target his family.

Zhong Hong reunited with his companions after escaping the Weird’s control, and they arranged to bring his wife and children to safety. Meanwhile, Gray tracked Zhong Hong’s family to a police station and summoned a corpse-eating rat as he weighed whether to approach them.

• Zhong Hong called his wife, learned that she and their children were safe at a police station, and arranged for Luo Ping and Huang Bei to bring them back.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei drove through the military defensive line outside Forest City on their way to the police station.
• Zhong Hong told his wife he had joined the Anomaly Containment Association, and she said she would support his decision.
• Gray tracked Zhong Hong’s family to the police station and wondered how Zhong Hong had escaped the Weird’s control.
• Gray avoided surveillance cameras, drew a magic circle, and summoned a corpse-eating rat.

Gray sent a Corpse-Eating Rat into the police station to attack Zhong Hong's family and force Zhong Hong to reveal himself. A dog killed the rat at the critical moment, severing Gray's connection and leaving him shocked.

• Gray used the Corpse-Eating Rat's senses to find Zhong Hong's family in the police station break room.
• The rat attacked Luo Tong and her children, and Luo Tong was bitten while shielding Zhong Zhu.
• A patrol officer struck the rat with his baton, and its pus splashed onto his face, causing his skin to rot.
• The rat turned on the injured patrol officer, but Luo Tong kicked it away from him.
• A dog burst through the window and bit through the rat's neck, cutting off Gray's vision and control.
• Gray realized that the rat had not truly been injured and wondered how a dog had killed it.

Gray sacrificed his pinky to gain power and transformed into a spider-like creature while Dead Sacrifice pursued him. At the police station, Luo Ping healed the injured patrol officer and Luo Tong, then took Luo Tong and the children away safely.

• Gray summoned three Ghoul Rats, but Dead Sacrifice descended and killed them as Gray sacrificed his pinky to his Evil Deity for greater strength and speed.
• Gray transformed into a spider-like creature and climbed toward the eighteenth floor while Dead Sacrifice waited below.
• At the police station, officers found a severely injured colleague and Luo Tong, whose bite wound was turning black and infected.
• Luo Ping arrived, showed his credentials, removed the contamination from the patrol officer and Luo Tong, and healed them with injections.
• Luo Ping collected Luo Tong and the two children and left the police station in the waiting vehicle.

Luo Ping controlled the Undead Hound to stop Gray, an Evil Deity follower who had transformed into a spider-like monster, from escaping. After the attack, Huang Bei discovered that a talisman inside the children’s blessing pouches had let the follower track Luo Tong’s family.

• Luo Ping and Huang Bei reached the building where Gray was climbing and sent the Undead Hound to intercept him.
• Gray reached the rooftop and prepared a web to escape, but the Undead Hound bit off his spider legs and killed him.
• Luo Ping ended his remote control of the Undead Hound, while Huang Bei arranged for the branch to handle the corpse and contaminated area.
• Huang Bei asked Luo Tong whether she had any strange items, and she found blessing pouches in Zhong Feng and Zhong Zhu’s pockets.
• Huang Bei identified the talisman inside a pouch as a marker that had revealed Luo Tong’s family’s location.

After Luo Ping and Huang Bei rescued Luo Tong from the Evil Deity’s followers, Wang Qing and Tian Zhao assessed the threat as far beyond their team’s ability to handle alone. They decided to hold their base and await reinforcements as Headquarters prepared a stable passage, while the world received an SSS danger rating.

• Luo Ping and Huang Bei returned Luo Tong to Zhong Hong, then reported the mission and handed the talisman to Wang Qing.
• Wang Qing extracted and destroyed the talisman’s Weird energy, but concluded there was too little of it to locate the Evil Deity followers and estimated the Evil Deity’s class between Calamity and Doomfate.
• Tian Zhao warned that the world’s Evil Deities made its danger rating at least SSS and recommended waiting for Headquarters to send reinforcements.
• Wang Qing argued that the Association could not let the Evil Deity followers act unchecked, and Tian Zhao resolved to defend their base.
• Wang Qing said Headquarters was nearly finished building a stable passage, and Tian Zhao wondered which Highness would be assigned to their SSS-rated world.

Tian Zhao and Wang Qing discussed which prince would join the vanguard mission, while Shen Yu manifested Ao Qu, an SSS-level Contract Anomalist and chief executor. Ao Qu returned to Headquarters and was immediately sent toward a passage leading to another world.

• Tian Zhao and Wang Qing concluded that the prince whose squad members were in the vanguard would most likely join the mission.
• Shen Yu manifested Ao Qu after a hundred consecutive pulls filled Headquarters with new staff and Contract Anomalists.
• Ao Qu awakened, met Mr. G at the Research Department, and knocked him aside when he asked to dissect him.
• Mr. Tan welcomed Ao Qu back and led him to the passage to another world so he could join the mission.

Wu reserved a stall at Garrison City's black market and explored the city with Bo before heading to the market after midnight. They entered through a hidden passage beneath an abandoned construction site, where the black market had gathered.

• Wu paid 10,000 to reserve stall Number 17 and learned that the dark market would open after midnight for seven days.
• Bo joined Wu, and the two encountered drunk men who threatened Wu; Bo knocked them down and took their remaining money.
• A story spread through the underworld about a mysterious hero who beat up criminals and robbed them.
• Wu and Bo searched areas with dense Weird energy, but encountered only low-level Weirds, and Bo warned Wu about the black market.
• Wu and Bo entered Garrison City's black market through a concealed passage near an abandoned construction site.

Wu and Bo entered a newly established underground dark market and took their place at a remote ground stall, where Little Six tried to sell Wu a watch. Fu Zeyu arrived at the market with a voice inside his head directing him to search the small stalls for a rare item, leaving him to browse nearby.

• Wu and Bo entered the dark market through a hidden passage and found their assigned stall in a remote row.
• Little Six set out stolen goods beside Wu and offered him a watch, then grew wary after sensing a dangerous presence.
• The dark market filled with stall owners and customers, though most visitors favored the shops.
• Fu Zeyu asked the voice in his head whether the dark market had what it needed, and it urged him to search the small stalls.
• Fu Zeyu followed the voice toward a nearby stall with only a few thousand yuan in savings.

Fu Zeyu bought a strange-energy stone from Little Six after Uncle Ge recognized it as a spellcasting material. Uncle Ge then stopped him at Wu’s stall, where a crystal ball might reveal whether Wu had real Anomaly Tamer skills or was merely pretending.

• Fu Zeyu examined Little Six’s jewelry and watches but lacked the money to buy them.
• Uncle Ge recognized Little Six’s patterned stone as a useful medium for casting spells, so Fu Zeyu bought it for eight thousand Dark Gold Coins.
• Fu Zeyu passed Wu’s stall, and Uncle Ge told him to return after noticing the crystal ball.
• Uncle Ge explained that Wu was either genuinely skilled or putting on an act by selling a crystal ball in the black market.

Fu Zeyu visited Wu’s divination stall in the black market and agreed to a reading about an object after Wu offered to charge only if it proved accurate. As Fu Zeyu touched the crystal ball, he was drawn into a vision and found a monster eating a person in a kitchen.

• Fu Zeyu questioned Wu about the cost and accuracy of his divination, while Uncle Ge considered whether to risk paying for a reading.
• Wu offered to let Fu Zeyu pay after seeing the results, and Uncle Ge urged him to accept.
• Wu guided Fu Zeyu to place his hand on the crystal ball, and Uncle Ge sensed Weird energy from Wu and the ball.
• Fu Zeyu’s consciousness entered a hazy gray space and approached a familiar-looking door standing ajar.
• Fu Zeyu opened the door, followed the sound of chewing into a kitchen, and saw a monster with part of an arm hanging from its mouth.

Fu Zeyu saw a vision of a Weird killing his family and learned that the stone he had been carrying could attract Weirds. After he paid Wu for the divination, Wu was left exhausted from glimpsing Fu Zeyu’s tangled fate.

• Fu Zeyu saw a vision of a Weird swallowing his mother’s arm and killing him at nine o’clock, then woke in the dark market with his hand on Wu’s crystal ball.
• Fu Zeyu told Uncle Ge what he had seen, and Uncle Ge warned him that the Weird-tainted stone could attract Weirds.
• Fu Zeyu exchanged money for dark gold coins and returned to Wu’s stall to pay for the divination.
• Wu gained 7% Character Perfection after divining Fu Zeyu, whose fate was deeply entangled with the world.
• Bo gave Wu a mental energy potion, and Wu drank it before complaining that it tasted awful.

Wu posed as a fortune-teller at the dark market, while Little Six and another stall owner judged his apparent ignorance of the market’s rules. Guan Jingshan bought antiques and copper coins before asking whether legendary assassins or mercenaries could be found there.

• Little Six admired Wu’s commitment to his fortune-telling persona, while another stall owner dismissed Wu as a newcomer who would be punished for breaking dark-market rules.
• Little Six remembered the market’s unspoken rules but chose not to warn Wu, and a buyer purchased all the goods at Little Six’s stall.
• Guan Jingshan bought antiques from several stalls as his elite-looking companion warned him that many items were stolen or illegal.
• Guan Jingshan bought a stall owner’s copper coins for one hundred and twenty thousand, and the owner quickly left after completing the sale.
• Guan Jingshan asked his companion whether legendary assassins or mercenaries could be found in the dark market.