Recaps

Chen Fan succumbed to the curse Yu Jingcai had placed on him, and One Kill answered by killing Yu Jingcai with a single sword strike. The chapter ended with Yu Jingcai’s family discovering his beheaded body.

• Tang Jun used strange energy to ease Chen Fan’s pain, but the curse remained rooted in his body and caused him to faint.
• Ink Feather said Chen Fan would not last long without a contracted strange entity and called on One Kill to act.
• One Kill drew his longsword and sent a streak of sword aura toward Yu Jingcai.
• Yu Jingcai was beheaded before he could collect Chen Fan’s corpse.
• Yu Jingcai’s family rushed in, discovered his body, and broke into grief-stricken cries.

One Kill dealt with the curse at Yu Jingcai’s former home, and Chen Fan’s group completed their mission. Outside, Priest Mu sensed an unfamiliar divine aura and suspected that a foreign God’s Favored or a wild god had entered the city.

• One Kill sheathed his sword after dealing with the curse, and Chen Fan suspected Yu Jingcai had died.
• Tang Jun explained that the group’s mission was complete and that the high-level fighters had come to protect them from the city’s pseudo-gods.
• Chen Fan spoke with the neighbors who remembered him from childhood, then asked whether the remaining curse could harm anyone else.
• The group left the building, where Priest Mu investigated the unfamiliar divine aura he had sensed nearby.
• Priest Mu wondered whether a wild god or a God’s Favored from another deity had entered the city.

Chen Fan and his companions encountered the powerful priest Mu after the area had been cleared of bystanders. As Mu prayed for divine power, Chen Fan ordered the group to stop him, but Mu launched a massive fireball at them.

• Chen Fan turned around and found the pedestrians gone and Chen Ke and the others standing motionless.
• Chen Fan recognized Mu's priestly robes as belonging to a high-ranking Godblessed and feared provoking the god behind him.
• Mu suspected the group had infiltrated the area, reported the situation, and began praying to stall them until reinforcements arrived.
• Chen Fan realized Mu was preparing an attack and shouted for his companions to stop him.
• Mu condemned the group as evildoers and summoned a massive fireball that crashed down toward them.

Chen Fan woke in the hospital after One Kill’s attack, learned that the strike had destroyed his original eyes, and discovered they had been replaced. Chen Yue had recovered enough to walk, and Chen Fan left the chapter healthy and able to see.

• Chen Fan regained consciousness in the hospital and saw Chen Yue resting beside him.
• Chen Yue fetched the medics, who examined Chen Fan and confirmed that he had recovered.
• Chen Yue told Chen Fan that both his original eyes had burst apart and been replaced with new ones.
• Tang Jun explained that One Kill’s killing intent and sword aura had destroyed Chen Fan’s eyes, though his brain had survived.

Chen Fan told Chen Yue that the gods were monsters and that he had joined the Anomaly Containment Association, while the temples investigated the deaths of 158 Blessed. At the association branch, Zhang Butong began training Chen Fan and handed him a Contract Anomalist application card.

• Chen Fan told Chen Yue that the Goddess of Life was fake, and Chen Yue agreed to stop worshipping her and promised to speak with their parents.
• Temple clerics reported that 158 high-level Blessed, including Priest Mu, had died, and the High Priest ordered them to find the culprit at the Goddess's command.
• Zhang Butong introduced himself to Chen Fan and said One Kill had asked him to provide training.
• Zhang Butong fought Chen Fan, judged his condition and combat awareness decent, and gave him a Contract Anomalist application card.
• Zhang Butong explained that Chen Fan could not become a Contract Anomalist while staying at the branch and that most association members could not return to Headquarters without a transfer order.

Chen Fan earned approval to go to Headquarters and become a Contract Anomalist, while Greenwood City's god-touched hunted down followers of other gods. Rumors of a divine war spread, and new intelligence revealed that the War God's battle-hungry god-blessed had recently suffered an attack.

• Zhang Butong told Chen Fan that his performance had passed the test and that One Kill had given up his application slot for him.
• Chen Fan asked Zhang Butong to look after his family, then received approval and left for Headquarters with logistics staff.
• Greenwood City's god-touched attacked believers and god-touched who worshipped other gods, amid reports that more than a hundred had died.
• God-touched investigated the deaths and feared that the Goddess of Life's former enemy, the Elf King, might have started a divine war.
• An informant said the War God's god-blessed had recently had a temple smashed and several members killed in battle.

Zhang Butong attacked the War God Temple while searching for the woman who had been taken away, and his Eye Worm killed the temple’s god-favored ones and cultists. Ren Yuemian remained in luxurious quarters, unaware that the temple had issued a wanted notice for Zhang Butong.

• Zhang Butong killed a cultist who claimed the woman had been handed over to people above the temple.
• Zhang Butong released the Blood Robe-class Weird Eye Worm, which poisoned and killed the War God Temple’s cultists and god-favored ones.
• Zhang Butong gave the temple’s defenders the false name Zhang Butong before Eye Worm killed them.
• High-ranking god-favored ones found the temple’s corpses and ordered Zhang Butong captured and beheaded, refusing to hand over Ren Yuemian.
• Ren Yuemian stayed in a lavish room, thinking of the life her parents had dreamed of for her.

Ren Yuemian remembered how Zhang Butong had introduced her to the hidden monsters and recruited her into the Anomaly Containment Association, then learned that her family had sent her to the God of War's temple to become a Divine Descendant. Meanwhile, Zhang Butong searched temples for her as the city went under martial law.

• Ren Yuemian recalled how Zhang Butong saved her during a school expedition and how she began seeing monsters invisible to everyone else.
• Ren Yuemian sought Zhang Butong out, and after observing her, he invited her to join the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Ren Yuemian's family took her to the awakening ceremony despite Zhang Butong's warning, and the God of War designated her a Divine Descendant.
• Ren Yuemian feared that the temple would use her as a vessel and that Zhang Butong would be unable to oppose the Divine Hall alone.
• Zhang Butong searched several temples for Ren Yuemian while the city was placed under martial law and the God of War's followers hunted people.

Zhang Butong searched for a newcomer who had been imprisoned by the Temple of the War God, triggering martial law and a citywide search. While the Anomaly Containment Association arranged support, Zhang Butong remained hidden and learned that the temple’s followers had revealed nothing about where the newcomer was being held.

• A logistics officer reported Zhang Butong’s situation to the Anomaly Containment Association, whose Contract Anomalists volunteered to support him.
• Temple searchers questioned the logistics officer, but accepted his documents and business explanation before he left the city with another officer.
• Zhang Butong hid in an alley, unable to leave the city or locate the newcomer because the temple’s followers refused to reveal anything.
• Zhang Butong’s teammates messaged him about the temple attacks, and he explained that he had not expected the situation to escalate.
• Zhang Butong reflected that Eye Worm excelled at fighting but could not force information from the War God’s devout followers.

Zhang Butong fought off the War God’s search squads while conserving his dwindling energy, but the city’s followers gathered their faith and unleashed a Ghost Domain in response to the threat. The city was sealed beneath the War God’s wrath, leaving Zhang Butong surrounded by hostile forces and immense pressure.

• Zhang Butong used Eye Worm to ambush a search squad, then burned the remains to erase the evidence.
• Other search squads found the charred remains and continued hunting Zhang Butong, warning their forces not to engage him alone.
• Zhang Butong realized the encirclement was tightening and his energy was running low, while an unseen gaze seemed to follow him.
• The city’s sky turned blood-red as the War God’s followers prayed, combining their faith into a Ghost Domain that sealed the city and attacked those outside their faith.
• Followers of other gods were trapped and injured by the divine pressure, while Zhang Butong endured it behind Eye Worm and his protective pus and blood.

Zhang Butong used the Eye Worm’s Ghost Domain to reduce his energy consumption while waiting for help, as the War God Temple sent high-ranking Godblessed followers to attack him. Sante and his squad failed to penetrate the domain, and Sante tried to break through by burning his blood to strengthen his strikes.

• Zhang Butong saw that his energy was running low, then used the Eye Worm’s Ghost Domain to resist the surrounding domain and slow its consumption.
• Zhang Butong sensed several powerful Godblessed followers approaching after the War God Temple responded to the new Ghost Domain.
• Sante arrived with a squad of Godblessed followers and attacked Zhang Butong, while his companions tried Purifying Light and a binding prayer.
• Sante’s axe struck an invisible barrier at the edge of the Ghost Domain, and the other followers found their abilities could not affect Zhang Butong.
• Sante repeatedly struck the Ghost Domain and burned his blood to increase his strength.

Desire and the War God's blessed followers entered a damp cave and found Sante dead from a curse that had destroyed his eyes and brain. After realizing the crawling insects could carry the curse, they tried to protect themselves, but one follower’s head exploded even after Desire removed his eyes.

• Desire and the others emerged into a dark, water-filled cave and searched for Sante while avoiding the crawling insects.
• The group found Sante’s corpse and saw that his eyes and brain had burst, despite no signs of a fight.
• Desire concluded that the cave’s insects could serve as a medium for the curse that killed Sante.
• One follower’s eyes began itching, and Desire gouged them out to stop the apparent curse.
• The follower’s head exploded moments after his eyes were removed.

Desire realized a deadly curse was hatching inside the God-chosen’s eyes and ordered everyone, including himself, to gouge them out. The group survived the curse but was left blind.

• A blood-spattered God-chosen’s face rotted, and healing spells restored the damaged flesh without easing Desire’s concern about the curse.
• Another God-chosen’s eyes bulged and burst as a black shadow emerged from them and burrowed into his brain.
• Desire concluded the curse hatched inside the eyes and ordered all the God-chosen to gouge out their own eyeballs.
• Desire and the others removed their eyes, and the eyeballs burst, revealing that everyone present had been affected.
• The survivors waited through the pain and found that the curse had vanished, though they had lost their sight.

Desire and the other God-blessed emerged from a collapsed cave into a forest of monstrous, living plants, where they saw their own bodies transformed into aberrations. Zhang Butong revealed that their mutations were their true forms and that divine power had come at a cost, leaving Desire to struggle with fear of the power he was meant to revere.

• The God-blessed healed their eyes, then found themselves in a forest filled with grotesque, predatory plants after the cave collapsed.
• Desire attacked a tree and discovered that his own hand had mutated, its eyes showing him that he had become a monster.
• The other God-blessed panicked over their altered bodies while Zhang Butong watched them under the influence of the Ghost Domain and Weird energy.
• Zhang Butong told Desire that the mutations were their true forms, and Desire accepted that they might be the price of gaining divine power.
• Desire felt fear and wariness toward his transformation, even as he believed he should revere it as a blessing from the gods.

Desire and the Blessed Ones transformed into grotesque monsters, and Desire confronted his fear that he had become inhuman. As one Blessed One went mad from the pain of tearing out his spikes, Zhang Butong regretted that they might once have joined the Anomaly Containment Association.

• Desire recognized that his mutations had turned him into a monster and reflected on how people rejected those who looked different.
• The Blessed Ones saw their own monstrous transformations and screamed, vomited, and struggled to accept them.
• One Blessed One tore spikes from his body, screamed in pain, and fell into madness.
• Zhang Butong regretted that the Blessed Ones might have joined the Anomaly Containment Association if the false gods had never appeared.
• Desire ordered the others to calm down, having guessed who had caused their abnormalities.

Zhang Butong headed for the War God Pavilion after learning that Ren Yuemian might be there for a baptism. As he raced across the city, God-Blessed pursued him, but he kept moving toward his destination.

• Zhang Butong killed Desire after the Eye Worm withdrew the Ghost Domain, leaving him exhausted.
• Zhang Butong learned that the War God Pavilion was where high-ranking believers and High Priests could hear the War God's decree, and suspected the baptism there was dangerous.
• Zhang Butong sent the other Contract Anomalists his new information, while his teammates questioned whether Desire had given him a trustworthy lead.
• Zhang Butong decided to follow the lead rather than search the city's more than a hundred temples, fearing for Ren Yuemian's safety.
• God-Blessed spotted Zhang Butong leaping across buildings and attacked him, but he dodged their strikes as he ran toward the War God Pavilion.

Ren Yuemian was taken to the War God Pavilion for baptism despite refusing to become the War God's vessel, while Zhang Butong searched for her. Surrounded by the temple's leaders, she had no chance to escape or alert him.

• Ren Yuemian was moved from her temple to the War God Pavilion after Zhang Butong's search caused a commotion.
• The believers told Ren Yuemian that becoming a vessel for the War God would bring her high status and wealth, but she feared the danger of divine descent.
• Ren Yuemian tried to find a way to escape or make a disturbance so Zhang Butong could locate her, but her escorts gave her no opening.
• Ren Yuemian arrived at the War God Pavilion, where the Grand High Priest and several high-ranking God's Favored were waiting.
• The Grand High Priest urged Ren Yuemian to accept her supposed honor and warned her not to offend the War God, while she questioned why her family had allowed this.

The Grand High Priest discovered that the War God's vessel had vanished during the baptism and pursued Zhang Butong, who had taken her into the Ghost Domain. As Contract Anomalists rushed to support Azure Martial City, Zhang Butong taunted the Grand High Priest and refused to hand her over.

• The Grand High Priest drew the sword hidden in his scepter after sensing the power that had interrupted the baptism and taken the War God's vessel.
• One Kill sensed the Grand High Priest's sword intent and headed toward Azure Martial City as Contract Anomalists hurried there to help.
• The Grand High Priest's sword qi broke through the Ghost Domain's outer layer and slashed Zhang Butong's abdomen.
• Zhang Butong pulled another man into the Ghost Domain, mocked the Grand High Priest's swordsmanship, and refused to surrender the god-descended one.

Zhang Butong defeated the War God Pavilion’s Grand Priest with a lightning-fast sword strike, but the priest mutated and attacked again after Zhang Butong had exhausted his strength. Zhang Butong’s teammates arrived just in time to stop the attack, while the support team fought the god-blessed ones outside.

• Zhang Butong used a swift sword strike to behead the Grand Priest and collapsed from exhaustion after his Ghost Domain ended.
• Ren Yuemian rushed to Zhang Butong, who reassured her that his injuries would heal once they returned.
• The Grand Priest regenerated his head and revealed a monstrous mutation, then charged at the exhausted Zhang Butong.
• A vine burst from the ground and restrained the Grand Priest’s claws, causing him to fall into the broken ground.
• Zhang Butong’s teammates arrived and told him that the support team was fighting the god-blessed ones outside.

The War God descended into the Grand High Priest during the battle at the War God Pavilion, unleashing immense power that pushed the Ghost Domain to between S-rank and SS-rank. The Contract Anomalists gathered outside faced a worsening fight as they waited to see how the confrontation with the Temple of the War God would unfold.

• The Grand High Priest felt the War God's power descend into its body and grew larger and more terrifying.
• The divine descent changed the Ghost Domain, injuring ordinary people across Azure Martial City and triggering energy alerts outside the city.
• The logistics staff member worried that the Contract Anomalists would be weakened by the Ghost Domain while the Temple of the War God's forces gained strength from it.
• A streak of white light slipped through a brief opening in the Ghost Domain and vanished.
• The nearby Contract Anomalists gathered as the support mission turned into a confrontation with the Temple of the War God.

War God repeatedly tried to recruit One Kill as His kin while One Kill attacked Him with relentless sword strikes. War God’s admiration gave way to killing intent, and He resolved to kill One Kill if he refused again.

• One Kill wounded Grand Ritual Minister and repeatedly cut War God, whose body healed each time.
• War God offered to make One Kill His kin, promising an unlimited lifespan and the chance to reach higher realms.
• One Kill refused and continued attacking War God’s vital points with his sword.
• War God praised One Kill’s skills and potential while secretly deciding to kill him if he would not become His kin.

The War God was dragged into the Sword Demon's Ghost Domain and tried to recruit One Kill, mistaking him for the Sword Demon's dependent. The Sword Demon rejected the War God's attempt to take One Kill away and attacked.

• One Kill stood atop a barren tomb as his sword intent awakened the blades buried throughout the Ghost Domain.
• The Sword Demon appeared and called to One Kill, revealing itself as his contracted Calamity Class Weird.
• The War God was pulled into the Ghost Domain, sensed the Sword Demon's great power, and wondered why it had no followers or dependents.
• The War God offered One Kill power if he became its dependent, while insulting the Sword Demon as a mindless creature.
• The Sword Demon declared its bond with One Kill and sent the buried swords flying at the War God, who knocked many aside but was pierced by others.

The War God fought the Sword Demon in the Ghost Domain, but One Kill joined the battle and helped turn the fight against Him. With His vessel nearing its limit, the War God ignored the Sword Demon’s attacks and charged straight at One Kill.

• The War God dodged the Sword Demon’s blades and fought Him across the crumbling graveyard.
• The Sword Demon cut off half the War God’s head, but the War God regenerated and grabbed His blade to pull Him close.
• One Kill severed the War God’s claw, then joined forces with the Sword Demon against Him.
• The War God, whose borrowed body was nearing its limit, ignored the Sword Demon and charged at One Kill.

Ren Yuemian learned that the Anomaly Containment Association was a family whose members risked themselves to protect one another, and she resolved to grow strong enough to protect them in return. The group reached the edge of the Ghost Domain, where Hong Tang warned that escaping its oppressive barrier would be difficult before their energy ran out.

• Hong Tang reproached Zhang Butong for letting Ren Yuemian join without explaining the situation, while the other companions reassured her and described the Association as a place where members protected one another.
• Ren Yuemian was moved by the companions’ care and resolved to become stronger and help protect everyone in the Anomaly Containment Association.
• The group reached the edge of the Ghost Domain, where its oppressive force continued to drain and injure them despite their Ghost Domains shielding the vulnerable.
• Hong Tang judged that the Ghost Domain came from at least a Calamity Class Weird and possibly a Doomfate Class Weird, while the others discussed One Kill’s chances against Divine Descent.
• The Contract Anomalists considered whether their combined S-rank strength could break through one corner of the Ghost Domain before their energy was exhausted.

The S-ranks and A-ranks struggled to withstand the pressure of the Ghost Domain while trying to escape, and Ren Yuemian was swallowed by a Weird to protect her. One Kill managed to cut a small crack in the barrier and proposed another method to widen it.

• The A-ranks shrank their Ghost Domains to shield themselves and the others, but Zhang Butong and Ren Yuemian suffered from the pressure.
• An A-rank Contract Anomalist had his Weird swallow Ren Yuemian inside a protective space to keep her from the pressure.
• One Kill repeatedly struck the Ghost Domain with his sword and cut a small crack into it.
• When the others asked him to widen the crack, One Kill explained that he needed someone outside who harbored killing intent toward him to use his ability.
• One Kill studied the crack and said he had a method they could try.