Recaps

Red Candle, Xie Yu, and Silver Willow escaped Vast Kingdom by helicopter, then Xie Yu used the Evil God's A Li Sword to tear open a spatial passage. They entered the passage protected by Xie Yu's Ghost Domain, leaving Vast Kingdom behind.

• Vast Kingdom's officials hesitated to attack Red Candle's helicopter because the captured superhumans were aboard.
• Director Chen told the officials the helicopter lacked enough fuel to reach another country, while Red Candle and Xie Yu continued toward international waters.
• The helicopter ran out of fuel and plunged into the sea, but Red Candle carried Silver Willow above the water.
• Xie Yu summoned the Evil God, which used the A Li Sword to tear open a passage through space.
• Xie Yu entered the spatial passage first, followed by Red Candle and Silver Willow, and shielded them from spatial turbulence with a miniature Ghost Domain.

Xie Yu, Red Candle, and A Li arrived in the Sachax Kingdom, where the First King was gravely ill and an unidentified King-class energy signature triggered alarms. Glasses Man feared an attack and ordered the Destroyer activated.

• Xie Yu used the A Li Sword to open a spatial passage and brought Red Candle and A Li to the foreign continent after the Vast Kingdom declined to attack them.
• The three arrived in the Sachax Kingdom, setting off alarms throughout its underground facilities.
• Doctors told Glasses Man that the First King's condition was worsening too quickly for treatment to save him within the time he had left.
• Glasses Man learned that an unidentified energy signature above S-rank had appeared near the coast and feared another country had discovered the First King's condition.
• Glasses Man ordered the Destroyer activated before the approaching King-class threat could reach the city.

Dr. Kemanen and the other authorized personnel launched the Destroyer toward the abnormal energy readings. Xie Yu, Red Candle, and Silver Willow saw the weapon approaching their chosen beach in the Sachax Kingdom.

• Dr. Kemanen authorized the Destroyer launch after completing three levels of verification.
• The laboratory entered the coordinates of the abnormal energy readings and launched the Destroyer after a ten-second countdown.
• Xie Yu, Red Candle, and Silver Willow arrived at an undeveloped beach in the Sachax Kingdom to avoid endangering ordinary residents.
• Red Candle and Silver Willow sensed the danger as the Destroyer hurtled toward them.
• Red Candle spotted the incoming weapon and remained confident that ordinary weapons could not harm prepared Contract Anomalists with Ghost Domains.

Red Candle used the incoming Destroyer to teach Xie Yu’s group what it felt like to be targeted by a technologically advanced civilization. The weapon vanished inside strange mist without exploding, leaving the three unharmed as the doctor demanded to know where it had gone.

• Red Candle told the others to remember the feeling of being targeted so they could react calmly and quickly next time.
• Observers across the country watched the Destroyer approach Xie Yu’s group and feared that ordinary weapons might not stop superhumans.
• The Destroyer fell into strange mist and disappeared without an explosion, radiation, or any visible damage.
• After the mist cleared and the three remained unharmed, the doctor slammed the table and asked whether the Destroyer had been transferred elsewhere.

The Doctor considered surrender after the Destroyer failed to eliminate Xie Yu and the others, but the factions in his country refused to give up. Red Candle spotted another missile attack as they prepared to face it with Weird energy.

• The Doctor realized the Destroyer had disappeared and struggled to find a way to stop Xie Yu and the others.
• Xie Yu and Red Candle looked toward the satellite filming them, unsettling the people watching the feed.
• The Doctor concluded that surrender was the only way to preserve some dignity, since the country’s factions would not unite to resist.
• The factions rejected surrender and believed they could overwhelm the invaders with more Destroyers.
• Red Candle saw countless missiles flying toward them and explained that their Ghost Domain and Weird energy could withstand the weapons.

Missiles launched at Xie Yu’s group vanished into his Ghost Domain, while the Sachax Kingdom descended into chaos and its factions acted without realizing the First "King" was dying. The chapter ended with the attackers demanding that Aerte be brought to them.

• Missiles streaked across the sky, triggering panic, looting, and attacks on security posts as supernatural organizations expanded their influence.
• The factions assumed the First "King" would handle the crisis, unaware that he was suffering genetic collapse and might die within months.
• The doctor’s dependable subordinate hesitated, and the doctor told him he could leave rather than stay through the coming battle.
• Xie Yu’s Ghost Domain swallowed every missile fired at his group of three without a sound.
• The attackers, horrified by the group’s strength, demanded to know where the First King was and ordered someone to bring Aerte.

The doctor explained that Aerte could not answer the military’s call for help because his forced breakthrough had left him with severe genetic collapse and other complications. With three invading superhumans approaching and the military in disarray, the doctor left the nation’s defenders with only a desperate chance of overwhelming them through sheer force.

• The doctor watched the sleeping Aerte in a medicine tank and concluded that bringing him to fight would be useless.
• A laboratory subordinate reported that the military wanted to speak with the doctor, then threatened the laboratory unless he provided Aerte’s contact information.
• The doctor told the military to gather the nation’s superhumans and military forces because Aerte could not come.
• The doctor explained that Aerte’s forced breakthrough into the King class had caused genetic collapse and other hidden dangers.
• The doctor ended the call, leaving the military to consider exhausting the invaders’ spiritual power while already fighting among themselves.

The Sachax Kingdom learned that Aerte had suffered genetic collapse and quickly declared surrender to Xie Yu’s group, but the invaders disappeared before the factions could contact them. Xie Yu found the laboratory where Aerte lay in a nutrient tank, his condition worsening under Xie Yu’s aura.

• The military learned that Aerte had suffered genetic collapse and panicked over losing their strongest defender.
• The Sachax Kingdom’s factions debated resistance and surrender, then declared surrender to Xie Yu’s group.
• Xie Yu’s group disappeared, leaving the factions unable to locate them even by satellite.
• Xie Yu followed the energy he had sensed to a laboratory, where he found Aerte in a nutrient tank with his genetic collapse worsening.

Xie Yu used a healing potion to revive Aerte, then gathered the country’s high-level superhumans in the laboratory to question them about superhumans and ordinary people. The chapter ended as they considered whether superhumans were all new humans.

• Xie Yu gave the doctor a healing potion and ordered him to make Aerte drink it.
• The potion stopped Aerte’s bleeding and revived him, but his genes were still collapsing and the gene potion remained undeveloped.
• The doctor let the gathered high-level superhumans enter the laboratory after Xie Yu asked for them.
• Xie Yu asked the group how superhumans related to ordinary people and whether all superhumans were new humans.

Aerte offered to join Xie Yu’s group if they could save him, but Xie Yu summoned the Evil God to question the high-ranking superhumans about whether they considered themselves superior to ordinary people. Terrified by the Evil God, they admitted that they believed superhumans were evolution and the world’s choice.

• Aerte’s worsening condition led the high-ranking superhumans to suspect that he was suffering from genetic collapse.
• Aerte told Xie Yu he would follow him if he could be saved, regardless of the group’s goals.
• Xie Yu summoned the Evil God and asked the superhumans whether they thought superhumans were different from ordinary people.
• The Evil God’s terrifying presence froze the superhumans, and they confessed that they believed superhumans were evolution and the world’s choice.

Aerte defended the rise of superhumans and blamed ordinary people for holding back the world, but his genetic collapse killed him. Xie Yu condemned the superhumans and the countries that enabled human experimentation, leaving the gathered leaders furious.

• Aerte argued that ordinary people were remnants of evolution and that the world should advance by turning everyone into superhumans.
• Silver Willow pointed out that Aerte’s failing body made him seem abandoned by the times, and Aerte admitted it might be true.
• Aerte blamed ordinary people for the world’s weakness, then began bleeding from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth and died.
• The doctor looked away as Aerte died, while the other superhumans pretended to mourn him.
• Xie Yu criticized Vast Kingdom and other countries for allowing human experimentation, called the superhumans frogs at the bottom of a well, and angered them.

Xie Yu drew the high-ranking Transcendents from countries around the world into his Ghost Domain and brought them to an uninhabited island. There, the leaders learned that Aerte, the First King, had died from a genetic collapse, while all the nations’ high-ranking Transcendents gathered together.

• The Transcendents from the Vast Kingdom and Sachax Kingdom recognized each other inside Xie Yu’s Ghost Domain.
• He Jue asked where the Sachax Kingdom’s king was, and the Vast Kingdom’s Transcendents identified their battered king.
• The Sachax Transcendents said Aerte had suffered a genetic collapse and died; He Jue lamented that he had never met the famous First King.
• Xie Yu and his companions visited the surrounding countries and took their high-ranking Transcendents.
• Xie Yu released everyone onto an uninhabited island, gathering the high-ranking Transcendents of every country in the world.

Xie Yu let the Evil God deal with the Transcendents who had organized a revolt, and the rest became obedient after witnessing the beating. The Evil God was taken back by Xie Yu, disappointed that no one else had challenged it.

• The troublemaking Transcendents rallied others and charged at Xie Yu after being released from the Ghost Domain.
• Xie Yu summoned the Evil God, which met the attackers with its bronze hammer and other Anomaly Artifacts.
• The Evil God beat the attackers, leaving some unconscious or dead and others crying out for mercy.
• After several minutes, the surviving troublemakers were subdued, and the remaining Transcendents stayed docile.
• The Evil God regretted that the others had not resisted, and Xie Yu took it back.

Xie Yu reported the world’s dangerous treatment of superhumans and ordinary people to Headquarters, then applied to the Anomaly Containment Association for a restriction order so the world could be guided away from disaster. He accepted responsibility for its future and judged that Silver Willow should receive both recognition for exposing the crisis and punishment for her extreme actions.

• Xie Yu contacted Headquarters and explained how the resurgence of spiritual energy, illegal experiments, and divisions between ordinary people and superhumans threatened the world.
• Xie Yu concluded that the world was on a dangerous path and applied to the Anomaly Containment Association for an adjudication and restriction order.
• Xie Yu offered to oversee the world’s development and take responsibility for preserving its civilization.
• Xie Yu judged that Silver Willow’s actions had exposed the world’s crisis, but that her extreme conduct still warranted punishment.

Xie Yu’s report found Silver Willow had killed superhumans while stopping illegal experiments, and recommended intervention against those responsible along with a warning and three-month suspension for her. The elders questioned whether her punishment was too lenient, but Shen Yu defended giving young members time to learn.

• Xie Yu’s investigation concluded that Silver Willow had killed superhumans who had attacked first and were involved in excessive human experimentation.
• The report recommended intervening in that world, judging those who crossed the line, and giving Silver Willow a warning and three-month suspension.
• The elders brought the report to Shen Yu and worried that the verdict would make members disregard the Humanity Code.
• Shen Yu said the punishment was justified and asked Yuan Wu to give the young members time.
• Canna Lily agreed with Shen Yu, and Yuan Wu became irritated with her.

Shen Yu approved the ruling, officially allowing the passage to the other world to open. As people rushed to go there, Xie Yu agreed to livestream and revealed a floating device that startled the superhumans.

• The elders approved the report, and Shen Yu stamped it, making the ruling official.
• The ruling was sent to the departments, which accepted its leniency because something had gone wrong in that world.
• After learning the passage could open, people hurried to leave for the other world, while those stuck on missions asked Xie Yu to livestream.
• Xie Yu agreed and took a floating smart livestreaming device from his spatial equipment.
• The superhumans realized Xie Yu had spatial abilities and were stunned by the device disappearing into its surroundings.

Xie Yu’s tiny, stealthy drone convinced the high-level superhumans that his organization possessed technology powerful enough to upset the balance between superhumans and ordinary people. The Vast Kingdom superhuman wondered whether Xie Yu’s group belonged to the Defense Force, while the growing spiritual energy continued to reshape the world.

• The high-level superhumans examined Xie Yu’s palm-sized drone and questioned how it could fly silently without visible engines.
• The superhumans recognized that Xie Yu’s organization combined powerful abilities with technology beyond the ordinary forces’ weapons.
• The high-level superhumans considered how the organization could overthrow the balance and establish a nation ruled by superhumans.
• A superhuman from the Vast Kingdom asked whether Xie Yu’s group belonged to the Defense Force.
• The Vast Kingdom superhuman criticized the Guardian Squad’s belief that ordinary people and superhumans were equal, as spiritual energy continued to grow denser.

Xie Yu explained that rising spiritual energy could either awaken abilities or kill people who could not digest it, then announced a livestream trial involving his junior, Silver Willow. The livestream began appearing on screens and websites worldwide, leaving viewers confused about what was happening.

• Xie Yu’s experiments revealed that spiritual energy was increasing and that people who could not digest it risked fatal bodily damage.
• Xie Yu called Silver Willow to his side and told the superhumans he would hold a livestream trial involving his junior, saying it would also benefit their world.
• Drones began broadcasting the scene worldwide, prompting viewers to mistake the stream for a virus or an advertisement.
• The Anomaly Containment Association and Yi Gui Company pinned the livestream room prominently on their websites, and people began noticing it.

Newly joined Contract Anomalists watched the Anomaly Containment Association’s trial and learned that its mission was to contain Weirds and preserve civilization, not to save every human. The chapter left them with the expectation that they might one day help force a doomed world back onto the right track.

• New Contract Anomalists celebrated being able to watch the trial, while experienced members explained that the Association pursued correctness rather than justice.
• Veteran Contract Anomalists described how the Association’s idea of correctness centered on containing Weirds and ensuring humanity’s continuation.
• The newcomers heard members praise the Chairman and explain that his leadership had offered a better path than becoming an Anomaly Tamer.
• An experienced member argued that the Association could not save every human across its many worlds and did not require everyone to become a savior.
• The veterans explained that the Association judged this world because its development was leading toward destruction and that it would intervene to return the world to the right track.

Xie Yu livestreamed the captured leaders of the supernatural organizations to the world and announced that he was conducting a trial and cleansing. The Vast Kingdom prepared for supernatural beings to be exposed as the livestream spread, while the captives realized Xie Yu intended to target them.

• Contract Anomalists crowded around the teleportation array as the rush to reach the new world overwhelmed the queue.
• Xie Yu began a livestream broadcast to both the Anomaly Containment Association and the world, showing captured supernatural leaders squatting on the ground.
• The Vast Kingdom failed to stop the broadcast and ordered officials to prepare announcements and responses to public unrest.
• Xie Yu introduced himself as a Contract Anomalist and accused the world of creating supernatural beings unnaturally and controlling and suppressing them.
• Xie Yu declared that he was cleansing the world by cutting away its rotten parts and eradicating parasites, terrifying the captured supernatural leaders.

Ordinary people watched the livestream and began connecting reports of superhuman abilities with a sharp rise in disappearances and unexplained accidents. One viewer said his brother had awakened flame-controlling powers before vanishing, and he feared that someone had taken him.

• Ordinary viewers reacted with confusion to revelations about Contract Anomalists, transformations, and superhumans.
• People compared recent reports and statistics and found that missing persons and accidental deaths had risen dozens of times over the previous year.
• A viewer said his brother had manifested the ability to summon fire and disappeared a week later.
• The viewer said his family had been threatened after seeking help, and that his father was hospitalized while his mother became mentally unstable.
• Other viewers warned him not to reveal identifying information because someone might be watching him too.

As public revelations exposed the cruelty of supernaturals, powerful figures realized a trial could condemn them and fled rather than face Xie Yu. The Anomaly Containment Association prepared to proceed with the trial, noting that its procedures still mattered ahead of a possible move into that world.

• More unjust cases involving supernaturals came to light, changing the public’s view of them.
• High-ranking supernaturals realized they had too many crimes to face the trial with a clear conscience.
• As Xie Yu prepared to begin the trial, the supernaturals scattered and tried to escape.
• The Anomaly Containment Association members discussed the fleeing supernaturals and insisted that the procedures still had to be followed.

Xie Yu summoned the Evil God but let the fleeing superhumans escape without pursuit, intending to avoid making the people of the world see the Anomaly Containment Association as brutal. The superhumans reached the island’s edge, only to discover that a transparent barrier blocked their escape into the sea.

• The narrator explained that the Anomaly Containment Association had to manage its missions carefully because Contract Anomalists were scarce and valuable.
• Xie Yu summoned the Evil God while Silver Willow and Red Candle stayed still, and the superhumans fled in panic.
• The fleeing high-ranking superhumans realized no one was chasing them and rushed toward the island’s edge.
• A superhuman tried to leap into the sea but crashed into a transparent barrier.

Xie Yu trapped the gathered superhumans in his Ghost Domain and told Evil God to make them confess to their crimes. As Evil God began the judgment, Red Candle and Silver Willow watched and learned while the livestream audience questioned the Anomaly Containment Association’s methods.

• The superhumans failed to escape the Ghost Domain, mistaking it for a spatial lockdown and finding their abilities useless.
• The Anomaly Containment Association members recognized Xie Yu’s Ghost Domain and knew the trapped superhumans had no way out.
• Xie Yu told Evil God to make the superhumans admit what they had done.
• Evil God took up his bronze hammer as Red Candle and Silver Willow followed to observe his lesson.
• The livestream audience criticized the Anomaly Containment Association’s violent teaching as Evil God’s terrifying face appeared on camera.

Red Candle interrogated the captured superhumans before a global livestream and revealed their crimes to the public. With the accused found deeply guilty and the Anomaly Containment Association unwilling to recruit them, she prepared to carry out the purge while some Contract Anomalists argued they should suffer lifelong hard labor instead of a quick death.

• Red Candle used her Weird to force the superhumans to confess their hidden crimes during the livestream.
• Ordinary people condemned the accused and demanded justice for the victims.
• Red Candle concluded that every captive was deeply guilty and sighed that they had been given a chance but were useless.
• The captives begged for mercy and offered to submit, but the Anomaly Containment Association refused to recruit them.
• Some Contract Anomalists argued that the superhumans should be sentenced to lifelong hard labor rather than simply killed.