Recaps

The Anomaly Containment Association contained Du Rutian inside a Ghost Domain and brought him to Headquarters while researchers searched for the system hidden within him. Unable to locate the system, Mr. Tan issued an SS-rank mission, which several powerful Contract Anomalists chose not to take as Wu continued studying fate and Absolute Boundary went back to sleep.

• Xu Li transported Du Rutian to Headquarters inside his Ghost Domain and handed him over to Mr. G.
• Mr. G brought Du Rutian into the Research Department, where Mr. Tan said the researchers still could not find the system’s true body.
• Mr. Tan issued an SS-rank mission to find a solution to the system, and eligible Contract Anomalists received the notification.
• Wang Qing ignored the mission to continue training rookie Contract Anomalists, while the three executive officers also passed on it.
• Wu continued studying fate at his stall, and Absolute Boundary ignored the notification and went back to sleep.

Bai Zuo accepted an SS-class task to investigate systems that had infiltrated Spirit Blue World, and he brought two affected people into his Ghost Domain to examine them. The chapter ended with Song Kai and Du Rutian trapped in a spider-filled manifestation of Bai Zuo’s mental Ghost Domain.

• Feng Pan declined the SS-class task, while Xie Yu tried to accept it but found that Bai Zuo had already taken it.
• At Headquarters, Mr. Tan explained that systems had parasitized people in Spirit Blue World and that the Research Department could not locate their true bodies.
• Bai Zuo agreed to investigate and went with Mr. Tan to release Song Kai and Du Rutian from the Ghost Domain maintained by Mr. G.
• Bai Zuo used his own Ghost Domain to pull Song Kai and Du Rutian inside, where they found themselves surrounded by sticky threads and indistinct webs.
• Red-eyed spiders swarmed Song Kai and Du Rutian, cocooned them in silk, and dragged them into the darkness.

Bai Zuo found the hidden systems inside Song Kai and Du Rutian and uncovered how they drained the world's origin by changing its fate. When he tried to remove a system, a powerful force erupted inside the men’s brains, leaving Bai Zuo to decide whether to keep suppressing it.

• Little spiders carried Song Kai and Du Rutian into their nest, where Bai Zuo confronted them atop a giant spider.
• Bai Zuo sensed the men’s malice and used spiritual spider silk to probe their brains.
• Bai Zuo discovered a concealed system that converted outside power into rewards while siphoning energy and origin from the world.
• The system triggered a powerful force as Bai Zuo tried to extract it, threatening to destroy Song Kai and Du Rutian’s brains.
• Bai Zuo protected the men while resisting the force, then weighed whether to continue suppressing it despite sensing further complications.

Bai Zuo extracted the system from Song Kai and Du Rutian, but the contract behind it damaged their minds and let its mastermind use them as anchors. He took them to the Spirit Blue World, where the presence descended through a rift in the sky as Shen Yu watched and waited.

• Bai Zuo suppressed the system in Song Kai and Du Rutian, but the contract’s force burned their souls and mental power when it sent a message.
• Bai Zuo pulled the system out and learned from Mr. Tan and Mr. G that they had prepared a special container to restrain it.
• Bai Zuo warned that the contract’s mastermind could use Song Kai and Du Rutian as anchors, then took them to the Spirit Blue World inside his Ghost Domain.
• Bai Zuo released Song Kai and Du Rutian and waited as the presence locked onto them and descended through a huge rift in the sky.
• People in the Spirit Blue World watched the rift and mistook it for an ordinary natural phenomenon while Shen Yu continued waiting for a larger target.

A giant eye appeared through a rift in the sky, causing the world’s inhabitants—especially awakened superhumans—to suffer fear and pain as the world urged them to fight it. Ye Xuan recovered enough to go outside and saw the eye, accepting that their world possessed some degree of consciousness.

• The giant eye emerged from a growing rift, and the world’s fear filled people’s minds while superhumans heard a command to stop it.
• Ye Xuan cried out in pain as Jian Bai, Chu He, and Xu Zhou tried to help him.
• A logistics staff member reported that only locally hired employees were affected and that people outside were suffering dizziness and vomiting after the eye appeared.
• Jian Bai, Chu He, and Xu Zhou smashed through the windows and rushed outside, while Ye Xuan took the elevator down.
• Ye Xuan went outside, saw the giant eye, and accepted the world’s warning to stop it.

Skywing A confronted the Evil Deity in the spatial rift, while the battle’s shockwaves injured people across the world. Governments failed to observe the fight and feared Yi Gui Company’s power, leaving the strength of the invader and the Contract Anomalist uncertain.

• The Divine Management Department realized the purge of powerful supernatural individuals had left the world vulnerable to foreign invaders.
• Skywing A attacked the Evil Deity with a storm and drew it away from the spatial rift before it could descend into the world.
• The battle’s roar injured people across the world, overwhelming hospitals even though the Evil Deity had not yet entered.
• Governments used satellites to try to observe the battle, but could not see beyond the rift.
• Officials speculated about whether the invader was stronger than their King-class individuals, but could not reach a conclusion.

A drop of blood from the rift fell into a forest, where it transformed the landscape and its living things into monstrous growths. As the creatures began moving toward nearby towns, the country that claimed the blood struggled to respond.

• Nations and factions sent drones toward the blood, but the closest drones dissolved before reaching it.
• They traced the blood’s fall to a country on the southeastern Mediterranean coast, which rejected others’ claims and asserted ownership.
• The blood struck a forest, and guards who entered to secure it lost contact after encountering signs that the forest had turned crimson.
• Satellite footage showed walking trees and vines bearing the guards’ bodies, prompting officials to order missiles fired before the monsters reached towns.
• The missiles blasted the monstrous trees into pieces.

A drop of the invader’s blood mutated everything it touched into a rapidly growing blood tide that threatened to consume the world. Xu Zhou, Chu He, Jian Bai, and Ye Xuan were sent to the affected country, where they witnessed the tide swallowing a city and began rescuing fleeing civilians.

• The mutated blood proved resistant to the countries’ attacks and spread into a blood tide advancing toward nearby towns.
• Yi Gui Company reported the crisis to other nations, which sent forces to help after learning the blood tide might destroy the planet.
• Chu He, Jian Bai, and Xu Zhou initially told Ye Xuan to stay behind, but the Anomaly Containment Association issued all four a mission to travel to the affected country.
• The four arrived in a neighboring city and watched the blood tide consume another city as frightened residents fled through blocked streets.
• Xu Zhou used Ghost Hands to rescue people from being trampled, while Chu He moved cars to free trapped civilians; they realized they were too weak to save everyone.

Bai Zuo received permission to unleash a world-spanning Ghost Domain to counter the SSS-class Blood Tide threatening Spirit Blue World. His power plunged the entire world into darkness and froze the Blood Tide temporarily, while the nations struggled to understand what was happening.

• A massive Ghost Domain appeared over Xu Zhou's city, and Jian Bai and Chu He realized it might belong to Lord Bai Zuo.
• The Logistics Department received Bai Zuo's SSS-class application to release a Ghost Domain across the entire world, and the elders approved it.
• Bai Zuo ordered Heart Gu to expand the Ghost Domain across Spirit Blue World, cutting off the affected country from drones, satellites, and outside communications.
• Jin Yan of Yi Gui Company's Logistics Department informed world leaders that the company's Execution Department would handle the battle.
• Bai Zuo's Ghost Domain plunged both hemispheres into darkness and froze the Blood Tide, but the Blood Tide soon began expanding again.
• Jin Yan told the anxious national representatives to calm the public and said only a small number of people should learn the details.

Jin Yan livestreamed the Spirit Blue World crisis as Bai Zuo enveloped the world in his Ghost Domain to contain the Blood Tide. The broadcast showed Bai Zuo’s spiders controlling people and sending them into battle, leaving Jin Yan to reveal how easily Bai Zuo could kill them all.

• Jin Yan opened a company livestream and explained that an invader’s blood had become the Blood Tide, which was assimilating Spirit Blue World.
• Jin Yan announced that Bai Zuo’s application to envelop the entire world in his Ghost Domain had been approved.
• Jin Yan showed the darkened sky, where white spiders descended, possessed passersby, and carried away the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled in cocoons.
• Bai Zuo’s spiders controlled adults in cities facing the Blood Tide and sent them charging toward it.
• Jin Yan explained that Bai Zuo could kill every person he controlled with a single thought.

Bai Zuo used Spider, the controlled crowd, and their combined mental power to contain and consume Blood Tide in his Ghost Domain. After the threat was defeated, he took the last remaining drop of blood, while the watching nations recognized they could not challenge or safely claim it.

• Viewers argued over Bai Zuo’s past abuses and whether he had violated rules against harming ordinary people.
• Bai Zuo directed the people controlled by Spider to form a second line of defense against Blood Tide.
• Bai Zuo combined the crowd’s mental power with Spider’s webs to create a wall that absorbed and neutralized Blood Tide.
• The spiders multiplied and swallowed Blood Tide until only one drop of blood remained trapped in the web.
• Bai Zuo took the blood drop, and foreign officials decided they could not afford to challenge him or risk handling it themselves.

Skywing A held off the invading god in the spatial rifts while the god tried to recover the origin power it had scattered through systems. Bai Zuo’s Heart Gu devoured that power instead, leaving the enraged god still facing Skywing A.

• Skywing A fought the invader to a draw in the spatial currents, and the god wondered how a newly awakened world could have produced such a formidable opponent.
• The invader recalled its scattered origin power, causing system hosts across the world to writhe in pain as their systems began unbinding.
• Bai Zuo’s Heart Gu marks alerted him to the systems’ activity, and a white spider appeared in the hosts’ minds and devoured the systems.
• The invader discovered that it had lost at least a tenth of its origin power and angrily demanded to know who had taken it.
• Skywing A mocked the invader as a revolting maggot, intensifying its fury.

Shen Yu arrived in the spatial rift and stopped the Outer God’s attack on Skywing A. Skywing A returned to the world while Shen Yu faced the enemy, and Jin Yan continued livestreaming the battle from farther away.

• The Outer God used a time-stopping effect to catch Skywing A off guard, but Nameless Bird shielded him from its claws.
• Shen Yu appeared before Nameless Bird and blocked the Outer God’s attack with an invisible barrier.
• Skywing A left the rift at Shen Yu’s order, and Bai Zuo realized the Chairman had arrived.
• Skywing A discovered Jin Yan’s livestream drone and told him to keep it farther from the rift rather than stop filming.

Shen Yu confronted the alien god that devoured world origins and defeated it with his mastery of time and space. After sealing it in a Anomaly Cage, he discovered that it had distributed systems across many worlds and completely consumed the chosen ones’ fortune in some of them.

• Skywing A moved the drone away from the rift, alarming livestream viewers who feared the invader would reach their world.
• Shen Yu entered the rift and identified the alien god as a being that devoured worlds’ origins.
• The alien god trapped Shen Yu with Time Stop, but Shen Yu sealed it with spatial power and then froze its body and thoughts with time.
• Shen Yu overwhelmed the alien god with time and space, compressed it into a ball, and sealed it in a Anomaly Cage.
• Shen Yu checked the worlds the alien god had targeted and found that it had distributed systems and devoured the chosen ones’ fortune in some worlds.

Shen Yu discovered five worlds that were close to destruction after their protagonists’ fortune had been taken, and posted a mission for Contract Anomalists to help save them. The crowded Anomaly Containment Association Headquarters filled with applicants as the new civilization-continuation mission offered places for over a hundred agents.

• Shen Yu found five worlds still hanging on after an Outer God suppressed their powers and took their protagonists’ fortune.
• Shen Yu posted a mission notice, repaired the damaged world barrier, and left through the spatial turbulence.
• Skywing A and Bai Zuo saw the rift disappear and left to avoid fighting over the Executor position.
• Contract Anomalists at Anomaly Containment Association Headquarters received the mission notice and learned it had room for over a hundred C- to A-rank agents.
• The applicants learned that the mission involved five worlds with different threats and required them to help each world reclaim its fortune and avoid destruction.

After Yi Gui Company contained the invader, Spirit Blue World's nations recognized its unmatched power, while Ye Xuan visited the rescued Zhou Yihu and Mona. With her system removed, Mona recovered her memories of her real life and joined the Anomaly Containment Association's Sales Department; Zhou Yihu condemned the system's deception.

• Yi Gui Company informed the nations that it had contained the invader, and its status across Spirit Blue World became unparalleled.
• Ye Xuan hurried to Headquarters after learning that Zhou Yihu and Mona were safe and their systems had been extracted.
• Mona recovered her memories of growing up in Spirit Blue World and applied to join the Anomaly Containment Association's Sales Department.
• Mona reflected that the system had made her believe her world and memories were fictional, and she admitted she might have followed harmful missions for rewards.
• Zhou Yihu angrily called the system a scam, recognizing that its gifts were real but so was its exploitation.

Ye Xuan and Zhou Yihu agreed to apply together to contract a Weird, while Shen Yu sent five low-level Character Cards into different worlds. In Zombie World, Wang Bujian calmly confronted armed survivors who demanded that he stop.

• Ye Xuan and Zhou Yihu decided to apply together to contract a Weird and look out for each other.
• Mona went alone to make her way through the Sales Department.
• Shen Yu selected five low-completion Character Cards to send into five worlds.
• In Zombie World, five survivors debated whether to enter a town for supplies before spotting Wang Bujian walking alone.
• A survivor aimed his gun at Wang Bujian and ordered him to stop and remove his headphones, but Wang Bujian refused to obey.

Wang Bujian used the Eerie Emperor Seal to subdue a group of highway robbers and decided to recruit them as laborers after learning they had not killed anyone. As he ordered them to become his slaves, his Smart Brain warned him about a detected keyword.

• Wang Bujian confronted armed men who demanded the supplies in his bag.
• Wang Bujian summoned the Eerie Emperor Seal, which forced the men to their knees.
• Wang Bujian interrogated the robbers, and they confessed their past deeds against their will.
• Wang Bujian learned the men had robbed people for survival but had never taken lives, so he chose to spare them as potential subordinates.
• Wang Bujian told the men their only choice was to become his slaves, and his Smart Brain sounded an alarm about a keyword.

Wang Bujian subdued five survivors with the Eerie Emperor Seal, then accepted them as subordinates and headed for town. As they drove, they began to imagine him establishing a powerful force and proclaiming himself king or emperor.

• Wang Bujian put away the Eerie Emperor Seal after the alarm drew nearby zombies and told the five kneeling people they could get up.
• The five survivors bowed to Wang Bujian and addressed him as their chief, causing the alarm to stop.
• Wang Bujian ordered the five to get into their SUV and drive to town.
• The five watched Wang Bujian and wondered whether he might one day establish a force and proclaim himself king or emperor.

Wang Bujian questioned five survivors about how the apocalypse began and learned that Primordial Zombies had driven humanity into collapse. After they introduced themselves, he told them to call him King, and they accepted.

• Wang Bujian asked the five survivors to explain the state of the apocalypse and how the zombies appeared.
• Han Po and the others described a meteor shower, the spread of Red Spot Disease, and how vaccinations turned infected people into powerful Primordial Zombies.
• The survivors explained that a worldwide rainstorm turned roughly a third of humanity into zombies, causing civilization to collapse and leaving them fleeing a settlement overrun by a horde.
• The five survivors gave their names as Han Po, Wei Dong, Wen Kai, Liu Xiangqin, and Chu Xi.
• Wang Bujian told them his name was Wang Bujian and that they could call him King, and all five shouted, "King!"

Wang Bujian and the others entered a zombie-infested town to search for supplies, but found that survivors had already looted most of the food. They were left hungry with little hope of finding enough supplies.

• Wang Bujian and the group parked outside town to avoid attracting zombies with the car's generator.
• The six entered town and killed several zombies that approached them.
• They searched a convenience store whose glass door had been smashed and whose shelves were mostly empty.
• The group found a few cans and seasonings, then realized they might run out of food if they found nothing else.

Wang Bujian used the Eerie Emperor Seal to recruit zombies as subordinate laborers, then ordered them to clear out damaged zombies. When his companions returned and saw the armed zombie group beside him, they feared another horde had formed and worried about warning him.

• Wang Bujian asked Steward Zhang whether Type One Zombies counted as human and learned that they were virus-dominated corpses without intelligence.
• Wang Bujian marked a streetlamp zombie with the Eerie Emperor Seal and tested how well it followed simple commands.
• Wang Bujian recruited thirty-five intact zombies and had them use axes to kill zombies with missing limbs.
• The five-person group returned, saw dozens of armed zombies gathered near Wang Bujian, and panicked at the sight of a zombie horde.

Wang Bujian used the Eerie Emperor Seal to enslave the zombies and sent them to clear the town while his human subordinates searched for supplies. After gathering canned food and the few viable seeds they could find, the group prepared to drive into town.

• Wang Bujian reassured the group that the approaching zombies were his servants and ordered them to search for supplies while the zombies cleared the streets.
• Wang Bujian had the Eerie Emperor Seal brand newly captured zombies, adding them to the workforce.
• The five human subordinates searched safe houses and collected canned food and instant noodles.
• The five discussed the need for vegetables, then found a store with some seeds that still appeared intact and packed them up.
• Wang Bujian had the zombies push cars aside, clearing the streets so the group could drive into town.

Chu Xi proposed gathering vegetables from nearby farms, and Wang Bujian sent a hundred zombies to protect her group. As the five survivors entered the overgrown fields, they discovered that Wang Bujian could hear and respond to them through the leading zombie.

• After collecting much of the town’s supplies, Chu Xi noted that the group needed vegetables, fruit, and staple foods.
• Chu Xi asked Wang Bujian for permission to visit nearby farms, and he agreed to send a hundred zombies with her group.
• Wang Bujian continued clearing the town and recruiting zombies as he planned to make it the base of his zombie kingdom.
• Han Po asked the leading zombie to stop the horde, and it obeyed, showing the group that Wang Bujian could hear them.
• Han Po and the others entered the fields and found that most of the farmland had gone to ruin.

While gathering vegetables outside town, Wei Dong, Wen Kai, Liu Xianglian, and the others spotted a family fleeing zombies and asked Wang Bujian whether to rescue them. Wang Bujian ordered his zombies to intervene, and the five moved to meet the family as the father carried his daughter.

• The five found pumpkins, sweet potatoes, and other vegetables in an overgrown field, but left the ditch water untouched because it looked dirty.
• They saw a stalled car with more than a dozen zombies pursuing a family of four: a man, a woman, a young child, and an older man.
• Wei Dong asked whether they should save the family, and Wen Kai suggested asking Wang Bujian.
• Liu Xianglian relayed the situation to a zombie used for communication, which nodded to confirm they should help.
• Dozens of zombies ran to block the pursuers while the five stood in front of the family, whose father carried his daughter as he ran.