Recaps

A hunting party detoured around a village to avoid mutated monsters, but three lizard-like monsters ambushed them from the trees. As the captain ordered some hunters to hold the beasts back so the rest could escape with the prey, he called for those with no family ties to stay behind.

• The hunting party captain ordered everyone to detour around the village and lead the group down the mountain by another route.
• Sharp-Ears heard rustling overhead, stopped the group, and warned that something was following them.
• Three lizard-like mutated monsters dropped from the trees, scattering the hunters and seriously injuring several of them.
• The captain told a few men to hold off the monsters while the rest escaped with the prey, then called for those with no family ties to stay behind.

As the hunting party tried to escape with their prey, the captain ordered Shattered Soul and Terminus to leave too. Shattered Soul stayed and killed three mutated monsters with a blade, leaving the hunters amazed by his strength and skill.

• Several older and injured hunters stayed behind while the others carried the prey out of the mountain forest.
• The captain ordered Shattered Soul and Terminus to leave the fight.
• Shattered Soul drew his ordinary blade and charged at the mutated monsters.
• Shattered Soul cut down all three monsters with swift, decisive strikes.
• The captain laughed along when Shattered Soul claimed his strength was great, and the hunters looked at him with awe.

Shattered Soul and Terminus escorted the hunting party back toward the city after rescuing them from a mutated monster. The hunters revered the two as heroes, and the chapter ended with the survivors hauling their prey up beneath the city walls while suppressing their grief.

• The captain thanked Shattered Soul and Terminus for saving the hunting party and learned their names.
• The hunting party treated Shattered Soul and Terminus as honored fighters and carried the prey themselves as they headed back.
• Shattered Soul killed another mutated monster with a single slash on the way down the mountain.
• The hunting party reached the city walls, where the others helped move and haul up the prey while solemnly holding back their grief.

The captain and his hunters returned alive after Shattered Soul and Terminus saved them from mutated monsters, bringing prey and injured teammates back to the city. Fu Zeyu learned that a Doomfate Class aberration was in the mountain, and Shattered Soul warned that the group could only survive a little longer against it.

• The hunters returned to the city believing the captain and his rear guard had died, and their families grieved.
• The captain and the others came back with injured teammates, surprising the hunters and reuniting with their families.
• The city celebrated that the entire hunting team had survived and brought back plenty of prey.
• The families offered Shattered Soul and Terminus a feast for saving the captain and the others, but the two escaped the crowd.
• Terminus asked Shattered Soul what he had found, and Shattered Soul reported signs of a powerful presence, probably a Doomfate Class aberration.
• Fu Zeyu asked if the group could contain the Weird together, and Shattered Soul said they could only survive a little longer against it.

Fu Zeyu asked whether the others could defeat a Doomfate Class Weird, and Shattered Soul explained the overwhelming power gap between the highest Weird ranks. Terminus said he could trade his life for a chance to take down the enemy, leaving Fu Zeyu stunned.

• Shattered Soul said he could not defeat a Doomfate Class Weird across two ranks and explained that rank differences became immense above Fierce Fiend Class.
• Fu Zeyu summarized that lower-rank fights could depend on abilities and counters, but the gaps at higher ranks were nearly impossible to overcome.
• Shattered Soul explained that Doomfate Class Weirds could destroy the world and matched the Execution Department's SSS-rank pillars.
• Fu Zeyu asked whether Terminus could defeat the Weird, and Terminus said he could not.
• Terminus added that, if he staked his life and the Weird was not unusually powerful, he could trade two lives for one; Fu Zeyu was stunned.

Shattered Soul and Fu Zeyu planned to monitor the mountain anomaly and find Fu Zhang, their missing executor. Elsewhere, Fu Zhang recovered enough anomalous energy to fly high above a distant city, where he sensed unusual energy and a powerful hidden presence.

• Shattered Soul explained that neither he nor Fu Zeyu could fight the anomaly, so they needed to keep it from leaving the mountain and find Fu Zhang.
• Fu Zeyu said the Smart Brain had not connected to Fu Zhang, and they feared he had landed on another continent.
• In a distant city, Fu Zhang recovered some anomalous energy and rose ten thousand meters into the sky.
• Fu Zhang sensed spiritual-energy-like forces in the air and wondered whether a powerful, concealed aura belonged to a Weird.

Fu Zhang returned to the city after dealing with nearby Weirds and planned to visit the Doomfate Class Weird once his energy recovered. At the Anomaly Containment Association, he observed how its Contract Anomalists’ changing appetites reflected their growth and the dangers of losing control to Weird energy.

• Fu Zhang returned to the city, where the residents respected him for dealing with nearby Weirds and the city lord sent him delicious food.
• Fu Zhang considered replacing the world’s vegetable seeds with seeds from the Anomaly Containment Association and clearing out the mutated monsters polluting the environment.
• The Anomaly Containment Association’s new Contract Anomalists trained and then lined up hungrily for food, giving the kitchen chefs trouble.
• Fu Zhang noted that stronger Contract Anomalists needed special ingredients and relied more on Weird energy than ordinary food.
• The chapter explained that an imbalance of Weird energy could make a Contract Anomalist lose control and go berserk.

Fu Zhang discovered that four Anomaly Containment Association members had been transported to the same world and went to check on them, worried they were near a Doomfate Class anomaly. He knocked on their door, leaving them on alert as they prepared to face whoever was outside.

• Fu Zhang used the Smart Brain to find Fu Zeyu, Absolute Boundary, Shattered Soul, and Terminus nearby.
• Fu Zhang learned that the four were staying in a city of living people and judged they could survive there for a while.
• Fu Zhang realized their city was dangerously close to the aura of a Doomfate Class anomaly and hurried to their address.
• Fu Zhang knocked three times, and the four inside silently gathered anomalous energy and prepared for the unknown visitor.

Fu Zhang arrived to protect the Contract Anomalists and let them rest after days of tension in the unfamiliar world. As he kept watch alone, he sensed something approaching the city.

• Fu Zhang arrived at the house, checked Fu Zeyu, and praised him for doing well.
• Terminus and Shattered Soul told Fu Zhang they had detected a possible Doomfate-Class Weird on a nearby mountain.
• Fu Zhang said he would assign the Contract Anomalists tasks and reassured them with his presence.
• The Contract Anomalists slept while Fu Zhang stayed awake in the main hall to keep watch.
• Fu Zhang heard something approaching, set down his teacup, and chose not to wake the others.

Mutant monsters attacked the city under cover of darkness, catching the soldiers on the walls by surprise. As the alarm rang, the hunting teams mobilized to defend the city and prevent the monsters from breaking in.

• Fu Zhang set up a barrier that blocked the noise outside from carrying in.
• A mutant monster fired a sharp spike from a distance, killing a soldier and alerting the guards on the city wall.
• The city alarm rang, and soldiers rushed to the walls while hunting team members armed themselves and moved to defend their homes.
• Hunting team members warned that some mutant monsters could swim, climb, or fly, and feared the creatures might scale the walls and spread contamination inside.
• The hunting teams resolved to kill the monsters outside the city before they could break in.

A swarm of mutated monsters attacked the city, and Fu Zhang stopped poison from killing a wounded soldier. The defenders fought from the walls as the monsters continued advancing, while Fu Zhang wondered what had drawn them there.

• The city’s residents and hunters stayed to defend it, knowing the wilderness offered no safe refuge.
• Mutated monsters attacked with poisonous spikes, and a commander cut off a wounded soldier’s arm to stop the poison.
• Fu Zhang expelled the poison from the soldier’s body and surveyed the monsters approaching by water and air.
• Fu Zhang recognized the attackers as mutated animals and questioned what had attracted so many to the city.
• The soldiers fired volleys of arrows, killing some monsters, but many kept swimming toward the walls.

Fu Zhang appeared above the city wall and used lightning to destroy the mutated monsters attacking the city. The soldiers hailed him as a god of thunder.

• The soldiers held their positions as mutated monsters reached the city walls and began climbing.
• Fu Zhang floated above the wall, wreathed in brilliant blue-violet electricity, and the soldiers mistook him for a god.
• Fu Zhang swept his hand through the air and killed the mutated monsters with falling lightning.
• The soldiers saw the attacks stop and knelt before Fu Zhang, calling him the divine lord and Lord God of Thunder.

The soldiers and general celebrated as Fu Zhang destroyed the mutated monsters and saved the city from falling. Shen Yu recognized that Fu Zhang’s overwhelming strength let him act without restraint, but warned that his display would soon draw envy and hatred from the people of that world.

• The soldiers and general knelt in gratitude after Fu Zhang saved them and the city from the mutated monsters.
• The general recalled that the city’s defensive lines would have failed if the monsters had breached the walls.
• The researchers praised Fu Zhang’s decisive action and discussed how his strength set him apart from other Contract Anomalists.
• Disaster mocked Evil Disaster, who grew furious but could not challenge him.
• Shen Yu judged Fu Zhang’s actions reasonable given his strength and predicted that the locals would soon envy and hate him.

Disaster worried that Fu Zhang’s actions would bring disaster upon him, but Shen Yu argued that strength protected him from ordinary threats. Shen Yu then asked Disaster and Evil Disaster how the Weird inside their bodies were faring.

• Disaster watched Fu Zhang’s actions and predicted that they would soon bring trouble upon him.
• Shen Yu argued that Fu Zhang was too strong for the people in the city to threaten, and Evil Disaster dismissed the idea that poison could easily defeat a Contract Anomalist.
• Disaster recalled that the Anomaly Containment Association had been founded to give its members time and protection while they grew stronger.
• Disaster explained that Anomaly Tamers faced danger from both external Weird and the Weird inside their bodies, leaving many with psychological problems.
• Evil Disaster sneered at Disaster, and Shen Yu asked whether the Weird inside both men were doing all right.

Evil Disaster and Calamity worried that the Weird inside them would eventually destroy them, while Shen Yu reflected on why he had abandoned the Anomaly Tamer path. In another world, Fu Zhang promised to help the city in exchange for crops, leaving the general to accept the arrangement as payment for dealing with the mutated monsters.

• Evil Disaster admitted that the Weird's influence was making him increasingly irritable and feared its backlash would kill him before he reached a higher realm.
• Shen Yu recalled that Anomaly Tamers faced a dead end and explained that he had abandoned their path to establish a new one.
• Fu Zhang landed on the city wall after dealing with the Weird, and the general mistook him for an immortal.
• Fu Zhang identified himself as an officer of the Anomaly Containment Association's Execution Department and said people would arrive in a few days to help the city.
• Fu Zhang proposed that the city grow crops in exchange for help eliminating mutated monsters, and the general accepted without mentioning money.

After Fu Zhang defended the city from a massive attack by mutated monsters, he returned to the house where Fu Zeyu and the others were staying. The group woke to a lavish meal from grateful residents, while Absolute Boundary wondered when the Research Department would finish preparing the passageway.

• Fu Zhang removed the shielding barrier after meditating through the night to recover his Weird energy.
• Terminus learned from nearby residents that mutated monsters had attacked the city and the Thunder God had destroyed them all.
• Fu Zeyu opened the door to people delivering a pile of cooked food and guessed it was a thank-you from the hunting teams.
• Fu Zeyu confirmed that Fu Zhang had acted during the attack, and Absolute Boundary came out to eat the lavish meal.
• Absolute Boundary asked when the Research Department would finish preparing the passageway, moving its researchers to tears.

Fu Zhang realized that Headquarters had no Executor guarding it while its top Contract Anomalists were away. Worried that an enemy might exploit the weakness, he decided to deal with the strange entity quickly.

• Fu Zhang knew the passageway to the other world was ready, but the Chairman had not ordered the researchers to open it.
• Fu Zhang considered how the Executors outranked other department heads and were among the Association’s strongest fighters.
• Fu Zhang realized that Headquarters might be vulnerable because he and several other Contract Anomalists had been affected by the Anomaly Artifact.
• Fu Zhang abandoned his plan to wait and observe the strange entity, deciding he had to end the matter quickly.

Fu Zhang found a tree god deep inside a gorge, where it lay asleep as Weird energy contaminated its body. As he cleansed the pollution, he saw fragments of the god’s long history of watching over humanity.

• Fu Zhang followed an unstable aura into a deep gorge and found a towering tree glowing green and black.
• Fu Zhang sensed the black glow was pollution clinging to the tree, rather than energy belonging to a Weird.
• Fu Zhang touched the tree and used his Weird energy to erase the pollution surrounding it.
• Fu Zhang received fragments of the tree god’s memories, revealing its long existence and its affection for humans.
• Fu Zhang learned that the tree god had sometimes saved people and calmed disasters while observing humanity’s changing ages.

Fu Zhang learned that the Tree God had resisted Weird energy for decades to keep its pollution from spreading across the world. After he cleared the energy clinging to Its body, the Tree God’s condition improved and a green light appeared before him as a reward.

• Fu Zhang viewed the Tree God’s memories and learned that It had sealed Itself away after Weird energy began contaminating nearby creatures.
• Fu Zhang realized the Tree God had merged with the world to resist pollution, buying time until the Anomaly Containment Association arrived.
• Fu Zhang continued feeding Weird energy to the Tree God, wearing away the black energy on Its body while learning that Its core still held a dangerous amount.
• The Tree God’s blackened leaves fell away, and fresh green leaves grew in their place.
• A ball of green light separated from the Tree God and flew before Fu Zhang.

Fu Zhang accepted the Tree God's memories and resolved to cleanse the world's remaining contamination, then summoned the Thunder Lord to strike mutated monsters while sparing all other life. The world darkened beneath storm clouds as the thunder gathered overhead.

• Fu Zhang accepted the Tree God's green light and learned that it had protected the world from the contamination.
• Fu Zhang's Character Perfection reached 100%, and he remembered the sacrifices of the final battle.
• Fu Zhang vowed to remove the world's remaining contamination and activated Divine Authority Grant and Summon Thunder Lord.
• The Thunder Lord agreed to Fu Zhang's rule designating mutated monsters as targets and exempting other life from lightning damage.
• Black clouds covered the world as lightning and thunder gathered, frightening the people below.

Fu Zeyu and his companions observed Fu Zhang’s enormous thundercloud formation and wondered why it covered such a vast area. Absolute Boundary suspected the attack might be meant for something other than the Doomfate Class Weird, then went to sleep.

• People across the region feared the thunderclouds that had suddenly sealed off the sky.
• Fu Zeyu led Absolute Boundary, Terminus, and Shattered Soul onto a gate tower to observe Fu Zhang’s clash with a Doomfate Class Weird.
• Shattered Soul warned Fu Zeyu to stay cautious around Weirds, regardless of their grade or strength.
• Absolute Boundary noticed the thunderclouds covered an area far larger than a focused attack against one Doomfate Class Weird seemed to require.
• Absolute Boundary wondered whether something else had happened, remarked that the thunderclouds covered too much area, and lay down to sleep.

Fu Zhang unleashed a vast lightning barrage that destroyed mutated monsters across the area while leaving nearby people unharmed. After the storm ended, Terminus and the others found villages cleared of monsters and considered how such a feat could be accomplished.

• Thunderclouds gathered over the area, and the others feared Fu Zhang might have lost control.
• Lightning struck villages and other locations, killing mutated monsters without harming nearby people.
• Fu Zeyu and the others realized Fu Zhang was targeting the mutated monsters rather than the Doomfate Class Weird.
• After the thirty-minute bombardment ended, Terminus and the others searched nearby villages and found only black ash where the monsters had been.
• Shattered Soul and Terminus discussed their own ability to clear areas of mutated monsters.

Fu Zeyu and the others returned home after the passageway to the other world was completed, while Fu Zhang began cultivating with the Tree God’s gift. Shen Yu examined the Tree God’s godhead and found that its original power was inseparably tangled with Weird Energy, leaving the Tree God at risk of becoming a Weird God.

• The researchers established a passageway, and Fu Zeyu received Headquarters’ message that it was ready.
• Fu Zeyu retrieved Absolute Boundary, and the group left the other world aboard a spaceship from the Anomaly Containment Association.
• The Transport Department and Sales Department prepared to introduce improved crops and livestock to the world and begin trade.
• Fu Zhang entered seclusion in a cave and absorbed the Tree God’s cultivation insights, loosening the realm that had trapped him.
• Shen Yu examined the Tree God’s godhead and found that removing the Weird Energy would damage it, while leaving it would eventually turn the Tree God into a Weird God.

Shen Yu offered the weakened Tree God a way to survive by joining the Anomaly Containment Association and becoming a Contract Anomalist. The Tree God agreed and chose the Water God as its contract Weird.

• Shen Yu explained that the Tree God could use Weird energy to gradually cleanse the contamination in its divine spark if it joined the Anomaly Containment Association.
• The Tree God, having endured decades of erosion and sleep, agreed to join.
• Shen Yu searched the Containment Facility for a suitable water- or wood-attributed Weird, ruling out weaker candidates.
• Shen Yu offered the Tree God a choice between the God of Plants and the Water God, and it chose the Water God.
• Shen Yu had the Tree God sign a contract with the Water God.

The Tree God contracted with the Water God, took the codename Cang Ling, and joined the Anomaly Containment Association. His new power and Fu Zhang’s progress brought the Association closer to gaining two more Divine Realm powerhouses.

• The Tree God contracted with the Water God, used its anomalous energy to transform himself, and began purifying the energy within his body.
• The Tree God lifted his self-seal, awakened as a man, and chose Cang Ling as his codename.
• Cang Ling followed Shen Yu to the Anomaly Containment Association’s Headquarters, seeking a way to fight the anomalies that had contaminated him.
• Cang Ling’s Divine Realm strength and growing compatibility with the Water God promised rapid growth, while Fu Zhang moved closer to the Divine Realm.