Recaps

Zhou Tian oversaw the cleanup after the battle in Garrison City and discovered that someone had infiltrated the area. Hertz avoided him, then used blood and a teleportation circle to summon the chained demon Xize Akar.

• Zhou Tian watched logistics workers remove monster remains and the bodies of people killed in the Black Market.
• Zhou Tian noticed traces of a person near a collapsed wall and warned the other Anomaly Tamers and logistics workers about an infiltrator.
• Hertz hid from Zhou Tian and blamed the Anomaly Containment Association and Huaxia Nation for killing their divine agent.
• Hertz drew a teleportation circle with blood and summoned the chained, wounded demon Xize Akar.

Hertz sent the chained Xize Akar to capture Wu and kill anyone who obstructed him, promising freedom while threatening him with a curse. Meanwhile, Fu Zeyu struggled to understand his growing power and his past failure to protect the city, and Li Jin invited him to explain what troubled him.

• Hertz told Xize Akar that he could earn freedom by bringing Wu back to Headquarters and killing everyone who stood in the way.
• Hertz warned Xize Akar that a curse would kill him if he failed to return within ten days, then left after erasing the scene.
• Xize Akar destroyed Wu's files and departed across the ruins as Anomaly Tamers arrived and searched elsewhere.
• Fu Zeyu reflected on how his power kept growing beyond the limits of ordinary Anomaly Tamers and wondered why he had failed to protect the city in the future.
• Li Jin noticed Fu Zeyu's confusion and offered to hear what was troubling him.

Wu summoned tens of thousands of evil spirits from the ashes of fallen Anomaly Tamers, shocking Li Jin and the others when they recognized their former companions among them. As the monsters gathered outside the city, Li Jin prepared for the walls to fall and urged those who could to escape and preserve humanity.

• Wu summoned evil spirits from the ashes of fallen Anomaly Tamers, and the Anomaly Tamers recognized many of their dead companions among them.
• Wu ordered the evil spirits to rush beyond the city walls.
• Li Jin and the Anomaly Tamers saw the vast monster army gathering outside and despaired at the coming attack.
• Li Jin said that if the walls were breached, anyone who could should flee and preserve a spark of humanity.
• Li Jin hoped Wu and Fu Zeyu could survive and hold on until the savior grew strong enough.

Fu Zeyu and the other Anomaly Tamers fought to defend the city from a massive monster horde and the strange entities summoned by the Salvation Society. As the defenders neared defeat, a fallen hero returned and saved an Anomaly Tamer.

• The Anomaly Tamers vowed to defend the city rather than surrender to the Evil Deities or flee.
• Li Jin ordered the artillery to fire, slowing the advancing monster horde.
• The Salvation Society summoned strange entities, leaving the defenders facing overwhelming odds.
• Fu Zeyu summoned the Everchanging Demon Lord, and the Anomaly Tamers threw themselves into battle.
• A returning hero tore a charging Weird in half and rescued an exhausted Anomaly Tamer.

Akar fought the Everchanging Demon Lord while an unexplained force replenished the fighters’ spent strength. The Salvation Society’s elder grew anxious that Akar had not defeated his opponent and was destroying their valuable Weirds.

• The fighters found their strength returning as they battled, and Fu Zeyu suspected Wu was behind the mysterious power.
• Akar and the Everchanging Demon Lord clashed at incredible speed, clearing monsters and Weirds from the battlefield with the force of their blows.
• Fu Zeyu observed that the Everchanging Demon Lord changed his size and shape to trade speed for strength and defense.
• The Salvation Society members worried that Akar was destroying their summoned Weirds, but the elder could not precisely control the berserk beast.
• The elder questioned why Akar had not defeated the Everchanging Demon Lord, while Akar continued fighting.

Fu Zeyu discovered that the Salvation Society was controlling Akar through a strange energy thread and broke the connection. Akar collapsed, while furious roars sounded from the Salvation Society’s base.

• Akar fought the Everchanging Demon Lord with relentless strength, despite his many injuries.
• Fu Zeyu arrived and realized that Akar was stronger and more experienced than he was.
• Akar knocked the Everchanging Demon Lord away, then attacked Fu Zeyu.
• Fu Zeyu sensed a strange energy thread connecting Akar to an unknown source and struck at it.
• Fu Zeyu severed the thread, causing Akar to howl and collapse as roars came from the Salvation Society’s base.

Huang Bei and the others discussed recruiting Akar into the Anomaly Containment Association and undoing the Salvation Society’s crude brainwashing. After the battle, Fu Zeyu’s strength increased, the city was saved, and Wu unlocked a new Character Card trait and received a rare reward.

• Huang Bei proposed having the Research Department imprint Akar and argued that the Anomaly Containment Association could offer him freedom and a place in the organization.
• Fu Zeyu questioned whether the Association would accept someone from the Salvation Society, and Huang Bei, Luo Ping, and Uncle Ge explained its broad tolerance and inclusiveness.
• Wu’s Character Perfection reached 100%, unlocking the Character Card’s independent personality, consciousness, and memories when Wu was not controlling it.
• The Character Card’s strength and the Weird’s abilities were completely unsealed, and Wu completed the Gate of Fate scenario and obtained an Hourglass of Time Fragment.
• Fu Zeyu’s power grew after the battle, and Wu’s intervention saved the city and ended Fu Zeyu’s isolation against the Evil Deities and Weirds.

Wu returned from the reflection of history and reunited with Shen Yu, pledging his fate to the Chairman and resolving to become a god. After Shen Yu accepted the renewed bond between them, Wu left to seek the best future for the Anomaly Containment Association.

• Wu emerged high in the air after leaving the special scene, and a breeze carried him safely onto a high-rise roof.
• Wu reunited with Shen Yu and told him he was back.
• Wu resolved to become a god and offered Shen Yu control over all his fate.
• Shen Yu accepted Wu's fate, reconnecting their severed thread and noticing Wu's level might advance.
• Wu promised to find the best future for the Anomaly Containment Association, then left the roof with firm resolve.

After contracting Weirds at Headquarters, Fu Zeyu, Uncle Ge, and Dark Moon were taken on their first mission so they could gain practical experience. The chapter ended as Luo Ping led them out under the protection of two C-Class Contract Anomalists.

• Patrol officers found a man dead and reported a series of unexplained hangings to the Bureau of Special Affairs.
• Fu Zeyu chose to contract the Everchanging Demon Lord, which Lord Skywing A had already contained.
• Uncle Ge received a more suitable body and contracted a Green Face-class Weird, while Dark Moon contracted an assassin-type Weird.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei greeted the newcomers and said the captain wanted them to join a mission for practice.
• Fu Zeyu questioned whether they were ready, but Uncle Ge and Luo Ping reassured them that the seniors would protect them.

Luo Ping, Huang Bei, and their team traveled to the Holy Covenant Kingdom to investigate The Hanged Man, where they found a city terrorized by the Salvation Society. After learning the cult was using the Hanged Man’s killings to intimidate people and punish those it judged guilty, the group prepared to confront it.

• The group followed an inconspicuous social-media lead overseas, and logistics arranged their travel documents and a private jet within an hour.
• The team arrived in the Holy Covenant Kingdom and saw bloodstained streets, abandoned shops, and flyers promoting the Salvation Society.
• Uncle Ge and Luo Ping tried to ask locals for directions, but a wary brown-haired girl told them to leave and shut her window.
• Huang Bei used his Smart Brain, Candle Dragon, to find local reports and videos about The Hanged Man, including accounts of victims found hanged and Salvation Society members calling the deaths divine punishment.
• The team realized the Salvation Society was using the killings to intimidate people and punish those it deemed guilty, and they resolved to beat the cultists.

Uncle Ge searched the city’s underground hideouts and used homeless people to gather intelligence, while he and the others discussed how overseas cultists exploited the poor. As they ate, people in protective suits arrived and took several homeless people away for unknown purposes.

• Uncle Ge found underground hideouts and used money to obtain information from homeless people.
• Uncle Ge explained that homeless people could be exploited as expendable materials and warned the group that someone would come for them.
• Fu Zeyu, Luo Ping, Huang Bei, Dark Moon, and Uncle Ge ate meals prepared by the logistics staff.
• Several vehicles arrived, and people in white protective suits selected homeless people and dragged them away while the others ignored them.

Luo Ping and the others tracked the Salvation Society to a church, where they found its members preparing vagrants for a bloody sacrifice. They attacked the cultists, and the fight began.

• Luo Ping and the others followed the people transporting vagrants to an extravagant church, where the Salvation Society paid for them and promised them a life in the Pure Land.
• Luo Ping's group reached the church's back entrance, and Huang Bei broke through the locked door.
• The group followed the eerie energy to a ritual room, where Salvation Society members were tying up vagrants beside an altar stained with blood and bones.
• Luo Ping summoned the Undead Hound, while Huang Bei, Uncle Ge, Dark Moon, and Fu Zeyu joined the attack on the Salvation Society members.

Luo Ping and the others fled through the city while enemies tracked them, but a horned monster emerged from the ground and attacked the Undead Hound. With Fu Zeyu and Uncle Ge exhausted, Huang Bei brought the group into an unoccupied house to rest, despite the danger of being caught.

• Luo Ping complained that the pursuers kept finding them, while Huang Bei suspected they had a special tracking method.
• Dark Moon turned invisible, and Uncle Ge concluded the enemies had been watching them from the start.
• Fu Zeyu sensed danger, and the Undead Hound spotted a horned monster emerging from the ground and fought it as the others fled.
• After more than an hour of running, Huang Bei noticed Fu Zeyu and Uncle Ge were exhausted and led them into a house to rest.
• Luo Ping questioned why they had stopped, since the routes out of the city were guarded.

Luo Ping and Huang Bei’s group were cornered by the Salvation Society, and Luo Ping showed the newcomers a Contract Anomalist’s power. The chapter ended with his Ghost Domain transforming their surroundings into a wasteland filled with corpses.

• Uncle Ge worried that the group had no way to escape the citywide hunt, while Luo Ping regretted how he and Huang Bei had made enemies of the Salvation Society.
• Huang Bei pulled Fu Zeyu out of the path of a bullet, then used Dead Sacrifice to draw gunfire from the attackers outside.
• Luo Ping told the newcomers to stay down while he and Huang Bei dealt with the approaching enemies.
• Luo Ping released his Ghost Domain, turning the area into the Wasteland of Resentful Remains and shocking Fu Zeyu and the other newcomers.

Huang Bei and Luo Ping pulled the Salvation Society members back into their Ghost Domain, where the newcomers learned how it worked. The Evil Deity's follower summoned a Malignant Curse-level anomaly, leaving the two senior Contract Anomalists facing a threat beyond their current strength.

• Huang Bei withdrew his Ghost Domain so Luo Ping could retract his, then unleashed Yellow Spring's Descent to trap the Salvation Society members again.
• Dark Moon asked Fu Zeyu about the gestures needed to activate a Ghost Domain, and Luo Ping explained that they helped channel power and intimidate enemies.
• The Evil Deity's follower anticipated the second Ghost Domain and used the corpses of slain members to summon a Malignant Curse-level anomaly.
• Fu Zeyu and the other newcomers sensed the anomaly's power and looked to Luo Ping and Huang Bei for help.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei realized they were still at the peak of C-rank and had not yet broken through to B-rank.

A Weird breached Huang Bei's Ghost Domain and fought Luo Ping's Undead Hound while the newcomers were exposed to gunfire. Fu Zeyu was shot, and Luo Ping's control over Weird energy suddenly improved as the Undead Hound attacked.

• A Weird broke through Huang Bei's Ghost Domain, and the Undead Hound fought it inside the house.
• The battle wrecked much of the house and exposed the newcomers to the Salvation Society members.
• The Evil Deity follower ordered his people to open fire, and Dark Moon and Uncle Ge took cover.
• Fu Zeyu reacted too slowly and was struck in the chest by a bullet.
• Luo Ping shouted to the Undead Hound, felt his control over Weird energy improve, and watched it tear flesh from the invading Weird.

Luo Ping explained that an Anomaly Containment Association device had rewound time, restoring the house and its occupants to an earlier state. He and Huang Bei defended the tradition of recording newcomers’ embarrassing moments, leaving Dark Moon and Fu Zeyu demanding that Luo Ping delete their photos.

• Luo Ping laughed at the newcomers’ confusion and recorded their expressions with his Smart Brain.
• Dark Moon hid her face, while Uncle Ge questioned why they were back in an undamaged house and Fu Zeyu prepared to hit Luo Ping.
• Huang Bei stopped Luo Ping from provoking Fu Zeyu, and Luo Ping explained how the Time Rewind device worked.
• Dark Moon confronted Luo Ping and demanded that he delete her photos, while Uncle Ge and Fu Zeyu also asked him to delete theirs.
• Luo Ping claimed recording newcomers was an Anomaly Containment Association tradition, and Huang Bei backed him up.

Fu Zeyu collapsed after the Time Rewind device seemed to trigger an overwhelming surge of Weird energy in his body. Luo Ping and the others suspected his body was being tempered, but they did not know whether he could withstand the immense power.

• Dark Moon slumped after his words, and the three newcomers calmed down.
• Fu Zeyu felt Weird energy surging through his body, warned Luo Ping that something was wrong, and collapsed.
• Uncle Ge and the others examined Fu Zeyu and wondered whether the Time Rewind device or his status as the Savior had caused the reaction.
• The world consciousness, alarmed by Fu Zeyu's genuine death, activated the world's origin within him and drew Weird energy from the Everchanging Demon Lord to temper his body.
• Huang Bei compared Fu Zeyu's condition to the tempering that followed a contract or rank advancement, while Luo Ping worried that the energy exceeded what a human body could endure.

Xie Yu explained to Akar why the Anomaly Containment Association’s members trusted and followed their Chairman, contrasting him with the Salvation Society’s hypocritical leaders. Akar came to understand that the Chairman stood alongside his followers and led from the front.

• Akar asked Xie Yu what he would do if the Chairman demanded something he could not and did not want to do.
• Xie Yu acknowledged Akar’s concerns about the Salvation Society exploiting him and explained that the Anomaly Containment Association’s ideals were embodied in its Chairman.
• Xie Yu said the Chairman’s example inspired members to stand with him and fight, even when facing overwhelming danger.
• Akar reflected on the difference between believers who worshipped distant gods and Contract Anomalists who followed a Chairman who stood among them and faced danger first.
• Akar concluded that comparing the Chairman to the Salvation Society’s leaders or even Evil Deities was an insult to the Chairman.

Xie Yu welcomed Akar to the Anomaly Containment Association, and Akar agreed to seek the ideals he had long since lost. Reflecting on the Association’s principles and the Salvation Society’s corruption, Akar wondered whether the Association could remain true to its ideals.

• Xie Yu told Akar it was not too late to join the Anomaly Containment Association and pursue ideals worth upholding.
• Akar accepted Xie Yu’s invitation and said he would try to find the ideals he had lost.
• Akar considered how the Anomaly Containment Association let its members hold different ideals while uniting them around containing Weird and preserving humanity.
• Akar compared the Association with the Salvation Society, whose good intentions had been twisted by belief in an Evil Deity and selfish desires.

Luo Ping, Huang Bei, Fu Zeyu, and the others struggled against an Evil Deity Spawn and could not gain the upper hand. As the wounded group considered whether to restart, the enemy continued to toy with them while Fu Zeyu tried to adapt to his growing strength.

• Luo Ping and Huang Bei dodged the Evil Deity Spawn’s falling feathers, but both were injured as their group struggled to defend itself.
• The Evil Deity believer dismissed the Anomaly Containment Association’s reputation and mocked the idea that it had defeated a god.
• Luo Ping asked whether they should restart, but Fu Zeyu said they could hold on longer while he adjusted to his strengthening body.
• Uncle Ge strained his back while dodging and fell, after which the feathers stopped attacking him.
• Huang Bei realized that the Time Rewind device could not overcome the strength gap and would only buy time for reinforcements or help reveal the enemy’s rules.

Akar rescued Luo Ping and the others from the Evil Deity Spawn and revealed that he had turned against the Salvation Society. After killing the cultist, he attacked the angel in the sky.

• The Evil Deity Spawn fired a beam at Luo Ping and the others, but Akar leaped in and blocked it.
• The cultist recognized Akar and accused him of betraying the Salvation Society.
• Akar mocked the Society for treating him as a weapon and declared that he would not spare the gods.
• Akar moved too quickly for Luo Ping and the others to follow and severed the cultist's head.
• Akar snapped off a piece of rebar and hurled it at the angel, ordering it to come down.

Xie Yu discovered that a strange force inside Fu Zeyu was transforming and strengthening him, then sent the newcomers back while he took over the mission. On the plane, Akar revealed how the Salvation Society had treated him, and the group reassured him that he was human and belonged with the Anomaly Containment Association.

• Xie Yu sensed a powerful force in Fu Zeyu's body and concluded it was strengthening him rather than harming him.
• Xie Yu ended the newcomers' mission and told Akar to escort Luo Ping and the others back to the Anomaly Containment Association branch while he handled what came next.
• Akar forced a way through the airport blockade and led the newcomers onto a plane.
• Fu Zeyu cautioned Uncle Ge against calling Akar barely human, prompting Akar to describe how the Salvation Society had treated him as a weapon and a monster.
• Akar said he had found freedom and acceptance in the Anomaly Containment Association, and the newcomers reassured him that he was human.
• Luo Ping volunteered to fly the plane, but Huang Bei stopped him and suggested finding a staff member instead.

Xie Yu unleashed the Evil God against the Evil Deity Spawn and Salvation Society followers who pursued him, leaving the Holy Covenant Kingdom officials to confront the massacre and the Anomaly Containment Association. The officials failed to get an explanation from the Association, whose representative threatened to kill the liaison if he called again.

• Xie Yu summoned the Evil God, which crushed the Evil Deity Spawn and slaughtered the pursuing Salvation Society followers.
• Holy Covenant Kingdom officials discovered the devastation and identified the dead as members of the Salvation Society.
• The officials debated the conflict and contacted Huaxia Nation, which said it could not control the Anomaly Containment Association and provided its contact information.
• An Anomaly Containment Association representative hung up on the officials, then threatened to fly over and kill the liaison if he called again.

Luo Ping and the returning newcomers reached the Anomaly Containment Association, where Qin Yu reassured them and sent the injured group for treatment. Shen Yu handled routine matters at the Association before using mental power on the Disaster Character Card and finding himself in a livestreamed dungeon.

• Luo Ping and the others landed at an Anomaly Containment Association branch, and Huang Bei stopped Luo Ping from frightening their pilot.
• Qin Yu told the returning group they had acted too impulsively but were not at fault, then suggested they join Third Prince's training.
• Luo Ping pretended his injuries had worsened to avoid training, and Qin Yu sent the battered newcomers to the medical room.
• Shen Yu reviewed employee complaints, ordered another restroom built, and had logistics staff retrieve items stolen by a crow.
• Shen Yu poured mental power into the flashing Disaster Character Card and appeared in another world as a livestream began.