Recaps

The Contract Anomalists escaped Azure Martial City under the cover of Lord Candle Shade’s absolute darkness. Ren Yuemian woke unharmed from her coma as the group was taken back to the branch for treatment.

• Hong Tang brought Ren Yuemian out of a Weird and gave her a healing pill, waking her from her coma.
• Ren Yuemian panicked when she could not see, and Hong Tang explained that Lord Candle Shade’s ability had created absolute darkness.
• As the darkness lifted, the Contract Anomalists saw that they had left Azure Martial City and that logistics staff had come to collect them.
• The injured Contract Anomalists boarded the vehicles and headed for the branch, while Hong Tang told Ren Yuemian to rest.

Shen Yu used Candle Shade’s power to withstand the War God and destroy His divine domain, prompting the War God to propose an alliance. Candle Shade unlocked the Hanging Sun ability, and Shen Yu turned his attention to the Weird protecting human cities.

• The War God judged Candle Shade to be a powerful god unlike the one worshipped by One Kill and considered whether they were allied.
• The War God explained that gods avoided fighting directly because alliances and oaths limited their actions, then invited Candle Shade to join forces against their rivals.
• Shen Yu saw Candle Shade’s Character Perfection increase by 15% and unlocked the Hanging Sun ability, which let Candle Shade control the sun in his palm.
• Shen Yu noted that the other Character Cards had improved too, with One Kill’s completion rate reaching thirty percent.
• Shen Yu looked through Candle Shade’s eyes at the Weird protecting human cities and observed that they appeared more human than Weird in other worlds.

Candle Shade refused to ally with the War God but avoided fighting him by plunging the area into darkness and disappearing. The War God then attacked the hidden gods and wondered how Candle Shade and his faction had become so powerful.

• The War God proposed joining forces with Candle Shade until the other gods were gone, but Candle Shade neither accepted nor refused.
• Candle Shade closed his golden-sun eyes, plunging the area into darkness and trapping the hidden gods and Weirds in it.
• When the darkness lifted, Candle Shade had vanished, and the War God turned to attack the gods concealed nearby.
• The War God tore apart a Divine Descent host, but the gods abandoned their bodies and returned to their true forms.
• The War God wondered when the powerful Sword Demon, Candle Shade, and his gifted god-blessed ones had emerged.

A God-blessed one questioned the family of a suspected traitor, then ordered them kept alive and placed under heavier guard. The War God's followers struggled to identify the faction that had attacked Azure Martial City, whose members wielded powers associated with many different gods.

• A God-blessed one questioned the suspected traitor's family about her recent contacts, but they said they knew nothing.
• The God-blessed one decided to spare the family because the incident involved a powerful enemy and ordered more guards assigned to their home.
• War God's followers acknowledged that their forces had been overwhelmed in Azure Martial City despite the city's divine domain weakening the attackers.
• A God-blessed one wondered when the mysterious faction had emerged and noted its members used abilities linked to many gods.
• The God-blessed one concluded the faction's varied powers were strange because a devout believer could normally worship only one god.

Ren Yuemian registered as a Contract Anomalist Reserve and learned that her brother had been chosen as the new vessel for Divine Descent. Hong Tang warned her that blood relatives remained mystically connected, leaving Ren Yuemian shocked by the dangers those ties could pose.

• Ren Yuemian completed her registration at the Anomaly Containment Association and received her identity card.
• Hong Tang welcomed Ren Yuemian and explained the branch to her.
• Logistics personnel reported that Ren Yuemian's older brother had been selected as the new vessel for Divine Descent, while her other family members remained somewhere in the Temple of the War God.
• Ren Yuemian mocked her family and said she was happy her brother had finally made a contribution.
• Hong Tang explained that blood relatives could be tracked through their blood and that curses could pass through blood ties.

After Ren Yuemian was rescued, Hong Tang and Zhang Butong agreed to give her time to recover before deciding whether to become a Contract Anomalist. As Zhang Butong reflected on the dangers of their work, Zhu Xiaoqiang caused trouble by racing through the corridor with a box of medicine.

• Hong Tang and Zhang Butong agreed that Ren Yuemian should settle her emotions before making a choice about contracting a Weird.
• Zhang Butong wondered whether bringing Ren Yuemian into the Anomaly Containment Association had saved her or led her into another dangerous life.
• Zhu Xiaoqiang dragged a box through the corridor at high speed, irritating Zhang Butong with the scraping noise.
• A logistics staff member warned Zhu Xiaoqiang that the medicines could release anesthetic gas if their containers broke.
• Zhu Xiaoqiang insisted that nothing would go wrong, while the logistics staff member recalled the damage caused by his previous mishap.

Ren Yuemian agreed to join Zhu Xiaoqiang’s activity, believing it would help her relax, but he took her on a reckless ride through the corridor on a robot. The logistics staff rescued her, and she vowed never to agree to Zhu Xiaoqiang again.

• Ren Yuemian worried that refusing to help would make Zhang Butong and Sister Tang think she was ungrateful.
• Ren Yuemian asked Zhu Xiaoqiang what activity he had planned, and he took her agreement as permission to begin.
• Zhu Xiaoqiang kidnapped two robots and raced through the corridor with Ren Yuemian clinging to one of them.
• The logistics staff recognized Heaven Slayer and rescued a pale, nearly fainting Ren Yuemian from the robot.
• The logistics staff warned Ren Yuemian not to agree to Heaven Slayer’s ideas again, and she promised she would not.

A clash between the divine blessed of the Goddess of Life and the God of Plants escalated into a battle in Greenwood City, trapping an ordinary logistics staff member under a collapsed house. His colleagues received his distress signal and sent other logistics staff to rescue him, without notifying the Contract Anomalists.

• The God of Plants' divine blessed killed the Goddess of Life's divine blessed during a fight over a healing beast and disposed of their bodies.
• After the Life Temple rejected the God of Plants' account, its divine blessed attacked a Plant Temple stronghold, and the fighting spread into a city.
• The battle damaged houses and injured or killed ordinary people, while a logistics staff member was trapped beneath a collapsed house and sent a distress signal.
• Branch logistics staff located him in Greenwood City and asked other logistics staff there to attempt a rescue.
• The logistics staff decided not to notify the Contract Anomalists because the cities were under tight lockdown.

Li Er secretly entered the sealed city and used his ability to locate and free logistics staff trapped beneath the rubble. He brought them to a rented apartment, where he revealed that rescuing them had been a convenient detour during his planned visit.

• A logistics staff member alerted Li Er that several of their people were trapped underground.
• Li Er sensed the buried staff members and shook the ground to expose them beneath the rubble.
• Rescuers freed the exposed staff members and rushed them for treatment while Li Er and several others slipped away.
• At a rented apartment, a rescued staff member wondered whether a Contract Anomalist had saved him.
• Li Er said he had rescued the staff member while sneaking into the city for fun, leaving the others visibly exasperated.

After using Time Rewind, Shen Yu realized that controlling time and space together meant controlling the world, but restarting would demand an enormous price. Meanwhile, Li Er infiltrated the area near the Life Temple and listened as its followers condemned the God of Plants and his favored ones.

• Shen Yu studied how space and time complemented each other and found that Infinity and the Time Hourglass enhanced related law-based abilities.
• Shen Yu saw that the System Headquarters technology tree's top icon had lit up, but realized he could rewind only three years at great cost and that a full restart might consume every available resource.
• Shen Yu suspected that the empty rooms in the headquarters had once held Weird that were spent as the price of a previous Time Rewind.
• Li Er infiltrated the ground near the Life Temple in Greenwood City and isolated a nest of rats with earth.
• Li Er overheard Life Temple followers curse the God of Plants' favored ones and argue that the Goddess of Life alone held the authority of life.
• Li Er dismissed the Goddess of Life and the God of Plants as Weird who had mistaken themselves for gods after receiving human faith and offerings.

Candle Shade briefed the Contract Anomalists on devices from the Research Department that could disrupt communications and seal off space, then assigned them to install the devices secretly. The devices could be activated remotely, leaving the team ready to begin the task.

• Candle Shade had the logistics staff reveal teleportation, interference, and spatial lockdown devices in the carts.
• The logistics staff explained that interference devices could disrupt signals and energy transmissions within a set range.
• The logistics staff explained that spatial lockdown devices could prevent anyone, including Weird entities, from entering, leaving, teleporting, or escaping through Divine Descent.
• A Contract Anomalist asked whether the lockdown would trap the team inside too, and the logistics staff confirmed that it would.
• The logistics staff said the Contract Anomalists only had to install the devices because they could be activated remotely, and Candle Shade sent them off to do so secretly.

One Kill read a file from Candle Shade about the God of Commerce and Their human lover, Meryl, the wealthy founder of Vast Source Corporation. The file revealed that the company secretly conducted forced human experiments and had ties to human traffickers, while its charitable reputation rested on genuine support for orphanages and their children.

• Candle Shade gave One Kill a file about the God of Commerce and Their lover, and One Kill began reading it.
• One Kill learned that Meryl had founded Vast Source Corporation, a wealthy conglomerate revered within the God of Commerce's sphere of influence.
• The file stated that Vast Source Corporation had secretly conducted forced human experiments and partnered with human trafficking organizations.
• One Kill read reports showing that the company had genuinely funded orphanages, paid for children's schooling, and offered jobs to graduates.
• Logistics staff reported that some people treated by Vast Source Corporation had died, but no reports or notices disclosed what illnesses they had.

One Kill reached Gathering Treasures City and tracked the suspicious smell of medicine, blood, and disinfectant to Vast Source Corporation. As he wondered how to enter the building, a brown-haired girl approached him to ask if something was wrong.

• Logistics staff transferred One Kill to a business van, and he rested while his sword aura made the driver sweat.
• After waiting in traffic for over two hours, One Kill arrived in Gathering Treasures City and left the vehicle near a residential complex.
• One Kill swiftly crossed the city and reached Vast Source Corporation, where he smelled medicines, blood, and disinfectant.
• One Kill focused on the building's seventeenth floor and considered whether to fight his way inside.
• A brown-haired girl approached One Kill and asked if he had a problem he could not bring himself to share.

Huiting mistook One Kill for someone seeking help for a sick family member and brought him into Vast Source Corporation. One Kill threatened the supervisor and forced him to take them to the seventeenth floor.

• Huiting saw One Kill outside Vast Source Corporation and assumed he was seeking treatment for a sick relative.
• Huiting led One Kill past security and to the supervisor's office on the thirtieth floor.
• One Kill described symptoms he had learned about, and the supervisor identified the illness as a difficult-to-treat congenital genetic disorder.
• One Kill drew his sword and held it to the supervisor's neck, demanding to be taken to the seventeenth floor.
• The supervisor passed facial recognition at the elevator, which began taking him, One Kill, and Huiting to the seventeenth floor.

One Kill forced a Vast Source Corporation supervisor to guide him through the company’s laboratories while investigating illegal human experiments and missing orphans. After sensing a particularly clear killing intent, One Kill struck down the supervisor and vanished as armed personnel rushed in.

• One Kill held the supervisor at swordpoint and made him lead One Kill and Huiting through the seventeenth-floor laboratories.
• One Kill rejected the public laboratory and demanded to be taken to the place of origin.
• One Kill accused Vast Source Corporation of illegal human experiments, contraband, and abducting orphans from several named orphanages.
• One Kill sensed a distinct killing intent, moved, and left the supervisor collapsed in a pool of blood.
• Alarms sounded, and armed personnel in protective suits rushed past Huiting.

One Kill broke into Vast Source Corporation’s hidden laboratory and discovered its human experiments, including monsters created by the company. He slaughtered the creatures and blinded the people watching, while Dr. Ma remained in the laboratory, terrified.

• Huiting lost control after smelling blood and began eating as the surveillance camera recorded her.
• One Kill followed the killing intent through the facility and broke into the hidden laboratory, where he found mutated human test subjects.
• Vast Source Corporation’s watchers voted to kill One Kill and ordered Dr. Ma to release the monsters from cold storage.
• One Kill beheaded the monsters that first attacked him, then destroyed the surveillance monitors with a flash of sword light that blinded the watchers.
• One Kill cut down the more than one hundred monsters as Dr. Ma sat frozen in fear.

One Kill uncovered Vast Source Corporation’s illegal experiments and killed those who attacked him, including Huiting after she had mutated into a monster. Meanwhile, the God of Commerce sensed that his power had vanished and rushed toward Vast Source Corporation as its employees fled a deadly slaughter.

• One Kill forced Dr. Ma to hand over the laboratory’s research materials and confirmed that Vast Source Corporation was creating monsters.
• One Kill reported the completed investigation to Candle Shade, then killed the armed mercenaries and others who showed killing intent toward him.
• One Kill found Huiting transformed into a monster and beheaded her, ending her suffering as a moment of clarity returned before she died.
• The God of Commerce sensed that the power he had left with his beloved had vanished and descended into a follower to rush toward Vast Source Corporation.
• Employees in Vast Source Building fled as they discovered their colleagues and security guards had been killed.

The God of Commerce descended on Gathering Treasures City after One Kill killed Meryl, unleashing a monstrous outbreak and nearly killing One Kill. Candle Shade rescued him and confronted the God of Commerce, whose true body and powers had been drawn out as planned; Candle Shade prepared to defeat him and contain him.

• The God of Commerce returned to Gathering Treasures City, and his uncontrolled aura transformed the city’s people into monsters that attacked the living.
• One Kill sheltered nearby civilians in his Ghost Domain, but the God of Commerce found him and demanded to know why he had killed Meryl.
• The Sword Demon attacked the God of Commerce, who easily destroyed its hand and shattered One Kill’s bones with a single blow.
• Candle Shade pulled One Kill to safety and sent him outside the city, where logistics staff rushed him to a shelter.
• Candle Shade revealed his combined powers of light and darkness, while the God of Commerce used wealth and fortune to defend himself.
• Candle Shade revealed that luring the God of Commerce into battle had achieved every objective, and planned to nearly kill him before containing him.

Candle Shade and Day-Night Eclipse defeated and contained the God of Commerce, ending the battle but leaving Gathering Treasures City devastated by casualties and spreading contamination. Candle Shade burned away the attacking monsters and departed after unlocking two abilities.

• Candle Shade fought the God of Commerce alongside Day-Night Eclipse inside their Ghost Domain, while the God of Commerce attacked wildly in the darkness.
• Day-Night Eclipse charged through the God of Commerce’s attacks and overwhelmed Him as His Weird energy ran low.
• Day-Night Eclipse tore off the God of Commerce’s head, and the God of Commerce was successfully contained.
• Candle Shade left Gathering Treasures City after burning the contaminated monsters attacking its people, though the city remained in chaos.
• Candle Shade’s increased completion rate unlocked Sun and Moon Shine Together and Night Eclipse.

Bei Mu was asked to give up Wealth Reaches the Gods or risk having it devour the far stronger God of Commerce. He chose to keep his contract, and Shen Yu revealed the immense effort Bei Mu already spent managing wealth and fortune across several worlds.

• Shen Yu compared Candle Shade’s darkness ability with Disaster’s sun-and-darkness ability, noting that Disaster was stronger but Candle Shade’s power was still formidable.
• Fu Zhang showed Bei Mu the contained God of Commerce, a Doomfate Class anomaly with financial abilities similar to Wealth Reaches the Gods, and explained the risk of having the weaker anomaly devour it.
• Bei Mu refused to abandon Wealth Reaches the Gods and asked whether Shen Yu had left him any guidance; Fu Zhang said Shen Yu supported whatever choice he made.
• Shen Yu appeared and asked Bei Mu to make his choice, and Bei Mu confirmed that he wanted to keep his contract with Wealth Reaches the Gods.
• Shen Yu explained that Bei Mu used his own spiritual power to extend Wealth Reaches the Gods’ influence across several worlds, revealing that his apparent idleness concealed exhausting work.

Shen Yu agreed to help Bei Mu raise Wealth Reaches the Gods from Blood Robe-Class to Fierce Fiend Class, and Bai Zuo joined them to search for suitable Weirds. They arrived at a world filled with Weirds, where Bai Zuo sent out Heart Gu clones to find candidates.

• Bei Mu asked Shen Yu to help Wealth Reaches the Gods advance, and Shen Yu agreed.
• Bai Zuo barged into the office and volunteered to accompany Bei Mu.
• Shen Yu left Headquarters with Bei Mu and Bai Zuo, while Fu Zhang stayed behind to handle work.
• Bai Zuo explained that Wealth Reaches the Gods needed similar Blood Robe-Class Weirds to advance steadily.
• The group reached a world used as a trial ground for Weirds, and Bai Zuo scattered Heart Gu clones to search for candidates.

Bai Zuo, Shen Yu, and Bei Mu traveled through a contaminated world toward an underground shelter before encountering a rule-type Weird searching for her heart. Bai Zuo agreed to help, and the three were transported into her Ghost Domain, where they faced an unknown challenge.

• Bei Mu struggled to travel through the contaminated air while maintaining a protective barrier, and Bai Zuo identified the area as a concentrated source of contamination.
• Bai Zuo explained that the world held hundreds of millions or billions of low-level Weirds, whose territories made travel dangerous.
• A black-haired woman dragging a sickle approached and asked whether the group had found her heart, while her Ghost Domain caused their hearts to beat painfully.
• Bai Zuo offered to look for the woman's heart, and the group was pulled into a house inside her Ghost Domain.
• Bai Zuo wondered whether they had entered a puzzle, suspense scenario, exploration, battle royale, or search for the real culprit.

Bei Mu rested while Heart Gu and Wealth Reaches the Gods played together, then considered how urgently Wealth Reaches the Gods needed to advance so it could help him manage the flow of fortune. Meanwhile, Bai Zuo and Shen Yu searched the house for a hidden heart and found a kitchen on the third floor filled with steam and the sound of chopping meat.

• Bei Mu summoned Wealth Reaches the Gods, and Heart Gu approached it before the two Weirds began playing together on a silk carpet.
• Bei Mu monitored the countless streams of fortune and realized he needed to help Wealth Reaches the Gods advance so it could support his work.
• Bai Zuo and Shen Yu searched the house room by room while Shen Yu wondered whether Bai Zuo's excitement came from the influence of something affecting his body.
• Bai Zuo and Shen Yu reached the third floor and heard meat being chopped in the kitchen.
• Bai Zuo opened the kitchen door, and white steam billowed out.

Bai Zuo, Shen Yu, and Bei Mu explored a house filling with corrosive blood while searching for its heart. Bai Zuo realized the house itself was the Weird’s heart, and they faced the Heart Weird in its Ghost Domain as its blood attack froze in midair.

• Bai Zuo sent Heart Gu to control the monster chopping human flesh in the kitchen, then found a refrigerator full of body parts but no hearts.
• As corrosive blood flooded the house, Heart Gu carried Bai Zuo, Bei Mu, and Shen Yu above it while they searched for clues.
• Bai Zuo concluded that the entire house was inside the Weird’s heart and that the house itself was its heart.
• The house collapsed, and Shen Yu lifted Bai Zuo into a Weird-energy barrier as they appeared in the void before the Heart Weird.
• The Heart Weird unleashed a tide of blood from its gigantic heart, but the attack stopped in midair before reaching the group.

Bai Zuo controlled a Heart Weird and fed it to Bei Mu’s Wealth Reaches the Gods as they hunted more Weirds. When an eerie nursery rhyme sounded from nowhere and Bai Zuo could not trace its source, Shen Yu vanished and found himself in a room facing a woman in a mirror.

• Bai Zuo trapped the Heart Weird in a Heart Gu illusion, cocooned it, and told Bei Mu to let Wealth Reaches the Gods devour it.
• Bai Zuo and Bei Mu continued hunting, and Bai Zuo captured more than a dozen Blood Robe-level Weirds for Bei Mu’s Weird to consume.
• An eerie nursery rhyme began sounding around them, but Bai Zuo could not locate its source.
• Bai Zuo and Bei Mu realized Shen Yu had disappeared, and Bei Mu withdrew Wealth Reaches the Gods and stayed out of the fight.
• Shen Yu appeared in a room before a vanity mirror, where a red-clad woman reached out from within and tried to pull him through as someone knocked at the window.