Recaps

After a hunting party returned with several members missing or dead, Shattered Soul and Terminus joined the hunters while Fu Zeyu joined the outbound team. Shattered Soul warned Fu Zeyu to call him if anything happened, and Absolute Boundary stayed in the city.

• The hunting party told grieving families that Da Zhuang and others had been captured, while Xiao Qin, A-Gou, and others had stayed behind to cover the retreat and were unlikely to survive.
• Fu Zeyu watched the families accept portions of the hunt’s prey, and Shattered Soul advised him to hide their special abilities and stay cautious.
• Shattered Soul and Terminus passed the hunting party’s skill tests and joined, while Fu Zeyu joined the outbound team that tended the crops outside the city.
• Absolute Boundary remained in the city, and Shattered Soul told Fu Zeyu to call him if anything happened.

Fu Zeyu set out on a mission while Shattered Soul and Terminus planned to monitor him and search for traces of Fu Zhang. At Headquarters, Shen Yu and Disaster discussed the world rift and the Contract Anomalists trapped inside, while researchers analyzed the world's coordinates.

• Fu Zeyu left for the outgoing team's assembly point as Shattered Soul and Terminus watched him go.
• Shattered Soul asked Terminus whether it was safe to send Fu Zeyu alone, and Terminus said Fu Zeyu's A-rank status showed he could handle himself.
• Shattered Soul told Terminus to watch Absolute Boundary while he monitored Fu Zeyu, and they planned to search for traces of Fu Zhang.
• Logistics staff repaired Headquarters and fussed over Disaster, who grew irritated by their attention.
• Shen Yu arrived with Evil Disaster, dismissed the Contract Anomalists, and discussed the world rift and the trapped Contract Anomalists with Disaster.
• Shen Yu said researchers were analyzing the world's coordinates, though he already knew them.

Shen Yu and Evil Disaster watched the chaotic world rift while Fu Zhang faced a trial that might let him approach the divine realm. As Evil Disaster pressed for guidance on reaching it, Disaster advised him to suppress, understand, control, and bind anomalies.

• Evil Disaster examined the increasingly chaotic world rift and worried that the uncontrolled executive inside might destroy the unknown world.
• Shen Yu reassured Evil Disaster that he trusted the executive and would not interfere, calling the situation both a trial and an opportunity.
• Evil Disaster asked whether Fu Zhang might reach the threshold of the divine realm, and Shen Yu said Fu Zhang had been stuck at his current level for a long time.
• Evil Disaster demanded a clear explanation of how to enter the divine realm, but Shen Yu said advancement differed for everyone and could not be prescribed.
• Disaster told Evil Disaster to continuously suppress anomalies, deeply understand their abilities, control them, and bind them.

Evil Disaster questioned Shen Yu about his chaotic aura and the huge number of Weirds he had contracted, then grew angry when Shen Yu could not explain the strange attraction. The exchange ended with Evil Disaster accusing Shen Yu and Disaster of looking down on him.

• Evil Disaster asked Shen Yu whether his chaotic aura came from contracting too many Weirds and why the Weirds inside him wanted to devour Shen Yu.
• Shen Yu explained that he had contracted over fifty Weirds, and Evil Disaster was shocked because Weirds usually clashed within a Contract Anomalist's body.
• Evil Disaster pressed Shen Yu for an explanation, but Shen Yu admitted he was not sure what caused the strange pull.
• Disaster told Evil Disaster to stop questioning Shen Yu, which made Evil Disaster accuse them of looking down on him and messing with him.

Shen Yu kept the hidden danger and the cost of his actions to himself while Calamity worried about what he had paid. On the screen, Fu Zhang lost control in another spacetime and struggled against the voices condemning his strength and weakness, remembering that he had people to protect.

• Shen Yu said his situation was complicated and that he would look for a solution after dealing with the hidden danger.
• Calamity suspected that reviving the dead, rewinding time, and restarting the world had cost Shen Yu something, but Shen Yu did not explain.
• Calamity watched Fu Zhang, whom he considered a crucial Anomaly Containment Association fighter, and noted that the Headquarters' powerful world origin could make it difficult to erase them.
• Fu Zhang arrived in another spacetime while out of control, and lightning struck across the uninhabited area around him.
• Fu Zhang heard accusations that he was both too weak and too strong, then reaffirmed that he had people to protect and convictions to uphold.

Fu Zhang failed to break through to the next realm after losing control of his Weird energy, but gained a clearer sense of the threshold ahead. Shen Yu and Disaster discussed the strongest candidates to advance, and Shen Yu revealed that Mi Lan had overtaken them despite once being only A-rank.

• Fu Zhang endured repeated lightning blasts as his Weird energy repaired and tempered his body, but he failed to break through the invisible barrier to the next realm.
• Disaster mocked Fu Zhang's failure, while Shen Yu judged that the attempt had still given him useful experience and insight.
• Disaster named Fu Zhang, Ao Qu, and Candle Shade as likely candidates to reach their realm.
• Shen Yu said Mi Lan had overtaken the others, surprising Disaster, who learned Mi Lan had once been only A-rank.

Shen Yu explained that Mi Lan had entered the God Realm by inheriting the Star God's power, though he lacked the experience of those who advanced gradually. Disaster realized Shen Yu had been secretly monitoring him, then warned that reaching the God Realm could remain out of reach for a lifetime.

• Disaster was shocked that Mi Lan had reached the God Realm in less than a year and asked whether he was still the original model.
• Shen Yu explained that Mi Lan inherited the Star God's power after the Star God died, but had little combat experience and poor mastery of his abilities.
• Disaster suspected Shen Yu had arranged Mi Lan's rise, and recalled Shen Yu's controlling nature from their time in the same organization.
• Disaster realized Shen Yu had been watching him, while Shen Yu silently read the thoughts displayed above Disaster's head.
• Shen Yu considered his system's ability to monitor Anomaly Containment Association employees useful for managing the organization and preventing problems.
• Disaster returned his attention to the screen and said that people could remain stuck just short of the God Realm for their entire lives.

Disaster explained why Evil Disaster was unlikely to break through from SSS rank, while Evil Disaster resolved to seek every opportunity to become stronger. As researchers worked to open a passage to the world rift, they warned that three days would pass on the other side before it was ready.

• Disaster recounted how Shen Yu, Disaster, and Evil Disaster had progressed together before Shen Yu left the organization and Disaster entered the realm of gods.
• Disaster concluded that Evil Disaster had likely reached the limit of his potential and would remain at SSS rank without a major opportunity.
• Evil Disaster rejected the idea that he was stuck at SSS rank and decided that his competitive drive came from not wanting Shen Yu and Disaster to leave him behind.
• Researchers used location data from the Smart Brain to calculate coordinates and stabilize a passage through the world rift.
• Researchers estimated that three days would pass on the other side before they could establish the passage.

Prefect Chen weighed whether to investigate a massive disturbance in the northwest, fearing that the danger could reach his city. With communications cut off and monsters roaming beyond the walls, he remained focused on protecting the city and its people.

• People in a nearby city reported thunder, a great commotion, and tremors from the northwest.
• Prefect Chen hesitated to send an investigation party, worried it might bring danger back to the city.
• Prefect Chen recalled that monsters had cut off contact with other regions and that most of a previous expedition had been killed.
• Prefect Chen, who had some conscience and whose family lived in the city, cared about the city's safety and its people’s livelihoods.
• Officials called to Prefect Chen until he returned to his senses and wiped sweat from his brow.

Prefect Chen ordered soldiers to investigate the lightning storm and contain any forest fire, while preparing them to fight if a monster was responsible. Calamity, Evil Disaster, and Suffering Disaster watched the soldiers with hostility, despite having joined the Anomaly Containment Association.

• An official warned Prefect Chen that lightning could start a forest fire and that a monster might threaten the city.
• Prefect Chen ordered a squad to investigate, extinguish any fire, and fight a monster if necessary.
• A squad of armored soldiers rode out of the city toward the lightning strike.
• Calamity, Evil Disaster, and Suffering Disaster watched the soldiers with hostility rooted in their past persecution by ordinary people.
• The Anomaly Containment Association's logistics staff and department heads worried about the Calamity Organization joining, while the Judgment Department watched them closely.

Calamity feared that the approaching soldiers might provoke the helpless Fu Zhang and trigger a deadly response, while Shen Yu watched without concern. The soldiers reached the lightning-scarred forest, where their horses panicked before they could approach the craters.

• Calamity worried that the soldiers might mistake Fu Zhang for a monster and provoke him, though he knew their weapons could not hurt him.
• Calamity recalled finding the remains of missing Anomaly Tamers in a laboratory after an Anomaly Tamer had suffered an anomaly backlash.
• Calamity and Evil Disaster watched the screen with killing intent, while Shen Yu remained calm and unmoved.
• The soldiers approached the lightning-struck area and found the grass, trees, and ground blasted and scorched.
• The horses neighed, reared up, and panicked when they came within nearly a hundred meters of the craters.

A young officer led soldiers on foot into a scorched, lightning-struck region after their horses refused to enter. As their bodies began to change, one soldier panicked and fled, convinced they had entered a monster’s nest.

• The officer ordered the soldiers to dismount and left one person behind to guard the horses.
• The officer led the rest into the ominous land, where the ground tingled beneath their feet and the lightning damage grew more severe.
• The soldiers noticed their hair standing on end, their skin turning black, and their bodies losing sensation.
• One soldier screamed that monsters had attacked them and ran, shouting that the place was a monster’s nest.

Disaster and Evil Disaster discussed humanity’s fear and malice as soldiers fled from the strange lightning. At the crater’s edge, the general spotted someone below and led a group down to investigate.

• Disaster reflected that humans feared and rejected what they could not understand, while Evil Disaster agreed that human malice could become more terrible than his own evil.
• Shen Yu saw dark, smoky bubbles of resentment above the two men and tried to ignore them.
• The soldiers panicked and scattered as they approached the crater, where the numbness in their bodies grew stronger.
• The general reached the crater’s edge and saw a person lying at the bottom, wondering whether the person had caused the strange phenomenon.
• The general gathered a few soldiers and ordered them to descend into the pit, while the others wondered if the person was a monster.

Fu Zhang awoke in a pit in another world after being pulled through a rift, and realized an Anomaly Artifact had driven him out of control. He learned he had briefly touched a godlike realm and asked what era he had landed in.

• The commander descended into the pit and found Fu Zhang alive, but Fu Zhang's glare froze him in place.
• Fu Zhang recalled being drawn into an Anomaly Artifact, losing control of his Weird energy, and falling through a rift between worlds.
• Fu Zhang assessed his weakness and reflected that his brief touch of a godlike domain had shown him the path toward greater power.
• The commander asked whether Fu Zhang was an immortal, then told him it was the 156th year of Great Xia.
• Disaster and Evil Disaster remarked that the commander had shown good judgment by not attacking Fu Zhang.

Fu Zhang recovered after falling into the pit, while the general mistook him for an injured immortal and hoped he could help defeat the monsters threatening them. The group returned from the ruined area, and the general ordered the soldiers who had fled to receive twenty strokes of the military rod.

• The general believed Fu Zhang’s lingering lightning was an immortal’s thunder tribulation and asked whether he needed help.
• The general offered to help Fu Zhang up and find herbs, but Fu Zhang refused to avoid leaving an embarrassing story for his colleagues at Headquarters.
• After recovering some strength, Fu Zhang followed the group out of the ruined area.
• The general reassured the soldiers waiting at the edge and ordered those who had fled to receive twenty strokes of the military rod.

Fu Zhang learned that Weird and mutated monsters had devastated the surrounding lands and asked Prefect Chen when the attacks began. Prefect Chen said the monsters had appeared a year earlier and admitted the city was powerless to stop them.

• Fu Zhang returned to the city with the general and learned that monsters identical to mutated monsters had appeared across the world.
• Fu Zhang decided to recover his Weird energy and clear out nearby mutated monsters.
• The general brought Fu Zhang to Prefect Chen, who welcomed him as an exalted immortal.
• Fu Zhang asked when the monsters had first appeared, and Prefect Chen said they had emerged in large groups about a year earlier.
• Prefect Chen explained that the monsters had overwhelmed villages and towns, leaving the city struggling to hold out.

Fu Zhang assessed the city’s well-managed conditions and left to deal with nearby monsters, while Fu Zeyu joined an escorted farming team outside the city. As the workers complained about their desperate situation and discussed whether gods existed, one person recalled their grandmother’s story of being saved by a pure, powerful god.

• Fu Zhang used his spiritual power to survey the city, judged Prefect Chen to be a good official, and left to deal with the nearby monsters.
• Fu Zeyu joined an outbound team that crossed the moat to tend farmland under the protection of soldiers.
• Fu Zeyu and the other workers irrigated fields, turned soil, weeded, fertilized crops, and picked vegetables while soldiers patrolled.
• The workers complained about pests, monsters, and their uncertain future as they discussed whether gods existed.
• One worker said their grandmother had once been saved in the mountains by a gentle, powerful god as pure as white clouds, but another doubted the story.

Fu Zeyu questioned whether a god who had once saved a girl’s granny really existed, while the survivors wondered why the gods had abandoned them during the monster attacks. The conversation ended with a call to stop crying and help the soldiers by growing food or joining the city’s defenses.

• Fu Zeyu considered whether the girl’s granny had truly witnessed a god and why that god had vanished after the mutated monsters appeared.
• The girl said her grandpa had found her unconscious beneath a tree, unharmed, after she went missing on the mountain.
• The survivors debated whether the granny’s rescue proved a god existed and questioned why the gods did not defeat the monsters.
• A speaker urged the survivors to stop crying, grow food, or join the city defense squads and hunting teams to fight the monsters.

Fu Zeyu watched soldiers lead a monster away from the reclaimed fields so the workers could evacuate without attracting more creatures. The soldiers killed the monster and burned its remains, leaving the fields safe for now.

• A stern middle-aged man urged the workers to keep tending the crops, and they hurried to finish before nearby monsters found them.
• Soldiers heard footsteps in the woods, sounded a gong, and ordered everyone to leave the fields while they drew the monster away.
• Fu Zeyu followed the workers and watched the soldiers fight the powerful, fast-moving monster with shields, spears, and arrows.
• The soldiers killed the monster without letting it reach the crowd, then burned its remains in a pit and buried them.

Fu Zeyu learned how the city’s disciplined teams killed nearby monsters and harvested crops despite the danger. Although the fields supplied some food, they could not feed the city’s twenty to thirty thousand residents, and the city was expected to last less than a year.

• People explained to Fu Zeyu that monsters were difficult to kill and could spread a deadly disease through contact.
• Soldiers killed three monsters attracted by blood and used ash and pungent substances to mask its scent.
• After a drumbeat, the workers returned to the fields and harvested vegetables until nearly dark, then went back to the city under escort.
• The team’s account revealed that the fields’ harvest could not feed the city’s population, which might not hold out for another year.

Fu Zeyu reported on the mutated monsters, then impressed the outbound team by reclaiming farmland and chose to stay with them rather than join the hunting team. Absolute Boundary was pampered by the elderly people, who celebrated when the sweet potatoes sprouted.

• Fu Zeyu told Shattered Soul and Terminus what he had learned, and Shattered Soul concluded that the mutated monsters had likely appeared within the past three years.
• Shattered Soul and Terminus left during the night to begin clearing mutated monsters, while Fu Zeyu and Absolute Boundary slept until morning.
• Fu Zeyu joined the farmland-clearing team and reclaimed ten mu of land in one day, astonishing the other workers.
• The squad captain urged Fu Zeyu to join the hunting team, but Fu Zeyu refused and stayed with the outbound team because he enjoyed farming and they still needed someone to watch over them.
• The elderly people woke Absolute Boundary, fed him, and announced that all the sweet potatoes had sprouted.

Absolute Boundary taught the elderly men how to plant sweet potatoes and potatoes using plant ash, giving the city hope of ending its food shortages. The elders offered him a reward, and he considered their suggestion of flour, rice, and cured meat after reflecting on how bad food tasted outside Headquarters.

• Absolute Boundary explained how to make plant ash and described its uses, and the elderly men recorded his instructions.
• With Absolute Boundary's guidance, the elderly men planted sweet potatoes and potatoes and hoped for a bountiful harvest.
• The elderly men wept with relief and called Absolute Boundary their savior for providing food that could save the city.
• Absolute Boundary refused a monetary reward, and an old man suggested giving him fine flour, rice, and cured meat instead.
• Absolute Boundary thought about how the chefs at Headquarters made delicious meals and how food elsewhere tasted awful.

Absolute Boundary agreed to let the elderly men prepare him a good meal, while Shattered Soul and Terminus joined another hunting expedition to investigate reports of a mysterious god. The city’s food shortages remained severe, and Fu Zeyu shared what he had learned from the outbound teams.

• Absolute Boundary eagerly accepted the elderly men’s offer to prepare him a meal.
• The hunting party left the city again to stockpile food amid worsening shortages.
• The chapter described how prey was distributed among hunters, outbound workers, and city workers, leaving too little for many residents.
• Shattered Soul asked Fu Zeyu what he had learned from the outbound teams.
• Fu Zeyu said they needed to verify whether the reported god was a Weird entity or a real god, though it had not appeared for decades.

Shattered Soul and Terminus joined a hunting party, then split off to search mountains where a god had appeared before. They found no trace on the first mountain and continued searching separately, while clumps of Weird energy remained tangled around a wounded tree in a hollow.

• The hunting party crossed the mountains, identifying prey and warning each other about predators and venomous creatures.
• Shattered Soul and Terminus agreed to split off and hunt separately after assuring the others they had experience in the mountains.
• Shattered Soul and Terminus hurried to a mountain where Fu Zeyu’s information suggested a god had appeared.
• The two searched the mountain with their mental power but found no strange energy, then headed to separate nearby mountains.
• Clumps of Weird energy remained tangled around a wounded tree in a mountain hollow.

Shattered Soul discovered that The One was a Doomfate Class Weird and retreated, then he and Terminus hunted with the party to conceal their purpose. As the hunters returned from the mountains, they came across an unexpected village and grew wary.

• Shattered Soul found a giant tree surrounded by a lifeless forbidden zone and sensed that The One was far beyond his strength.
• Shattered Soul told Absolute Boundary, Fu Zeyu, and Terminus that The One was likely Doomfate Class, and Terminus agreed they needed to find the Executor.
• Shattered Soul and Terminus hunted deer and joined the hunting party, who praised their skill.
• Shattered Soul pointed the party toward antelope, and the hunters caught enough prey during several nights in the mountains.
• The hunting party headed back and became alert when they saw a small village at the foot of a mountainside.