Chapter Summaries

Wu Heng extracted and refined a high-purity Twisted Seed from twelve demons, then decided to travel to Colorado to feed it more demonic power. After receiving hunters’ pleas for help, he agreed to deal with the crisis himself and left the manor under heightened security.

• Wu Heng extracted Twisted Power from twelve demons and refined it through mutual devouring into a high-purity Twisted Demon Power Seed with spatial-rending properties.
• Wu Heng concluded that the seed could only grow by absorbing power cores plundered from demons and identified Colorado as his next target.
• Hannah brought Wu Heng urgent messages from hunters describing a spreading supernatural disaster in Colorado, blamed on Dean and Sam Winchester opening a Gate of Hell.
• Wu Heng told Hannah that he would personally address the crisis and ordered her to keep Eleanor at the manor under Level Two Alert.
• Wu Heng ordered the Reaper Butler to stay behind and secure the manor against demonic retaliation or surveillance.

Dean, Sam, and Ellen tried to save Lisa from a demon, but a transfer ritual moved the demon into Bob, who tricked Lisa into believing the hunters were kidnappers. The chapter ended with Lisa aiming a revolver at Dean as he cautiously approached her.

• Ellen found Dean and Sam and asked them to help with Lisa, who was possessed and attacking people.
• Dean, Sam, and Ellen restrained Lisa and learned that an exorcism might destroy her soul.
• Bob volunteered to take the demon into himself, and the transfer ritual left Lisa apparently freed and Bob seemingly lucid.
• The demon in Bob convinced Lisa that the hunters were kidnappers, using a private memory to gain her trust.
• Lisa broke free, grabbed a revolver, and aimed it at Dean as Sam tried to warn her that Bob was possessed.

Lisa shot Dean and Sam as they tried to exorcise the demon possessing Bob, forcing the brothers to leave the house. Dean then said their boss was coming, but a wary middle-aged hunting couple arrived instead, leaving the situation unresolved.

• Lisa shot Dean in the thigh and threatened Sam when he tried to approach.
• Sam pretended to free Bob, then began a Latin exorcism, causing the demon to scream.
• Lisa shot at Sam, destroying his Exorcism book and wounding his arm, so Sam helped Dean out of the house.
• Lisa rushed to free Bob as Dean and Sam noticed someone approaching and Dean said their boss was coming.
• A middle-aged man and woman in hunting gear entered and raised their weapons at the injured brothers, Bob, and the crying Lisa.

After Dean and Sam were rejected by fellow hunters, they planned to search for the remaining Seven Deadly Sins while Ellen secured the safe house. Wu Heng encountered a ghost ship rising from the river, and its supernatural attack began killing a driver on the bridge.

• A hunter couple refused to cooperate with Dean and Sam, accusing the Winchesters of opening the gates of Hell.
• Dean told Ellen to fortify the safe house and take care of Lisa while he and Sam went searching for the remaining demons.
• Wu Heng drove toward Dean and the others as a storm flooded the river beneath the Weslit City Bridge.
• A ghost ship rose from the river and fixed its malicious attention on the traffic crossing the bridge.
• A ghostly hand seized a sedan driver, and murky river water began bursting from his body.

Wu Heng subdued the ghost ship’s evil spirit and claimed the vessel as a supernatural means of transportation. Meanwhile, Dean and Sam traced abnormal energy readings to the Midnight Blues bar and found evidence of interference in nearby surveillance footage.

• The sailor evil spirit appeared in Wu Heng’s car, but his tentacles restrained it and began devouring its power.
• Wu Heng abandoned his damaged car, crossed the river to the ghost ship, and found records identifying it as the River Claw and its first mate as Edgar Hollis.
• Wu Heng bound Edgar Hollis to the ship as the family boatman, then tested the ghost ship’s ability to vanish and reappear downstream.
• Dean and Sam investigated reported energy fluctuations and found an extreme EMF reading near the Midnight Blues bar.
• Dean and Sam obtained nearby surveillance footage and saw static, jumps, and missing segments at several times.

Dean and Sam spotted the Black demon-hunter couple entering the Midnight Blues bar and went to rescue them from the demons inside. They found Rick being tortured by a Pride demon, who forced his wife to choose whether to set him on fire.

• Sam noticed the Black demon-hunter couple sneaking into the bar, and Dean realized they were walking into a trap with at least six Seven Deadly Sins demons inside.
• Dean and Sam gathered their remaining weapons and holy water and headed toward the bar’s back door despite Dean’s injured leg.
• A Pride demon forced Rick to drink gasoline while its minions held his wife captive.
• After Rick passed out, the demons nailed his hands to the bar counter, tied his legs, and doused him with gasoline.
• The Pride demon handed Rick’s wife a lighter and ordered her to set him alight.

The demons forced a woman to ignite her supposedly dead husband, Rick, then revealed they had kept him alive so she would suffer the guilt of killing him. Dean and Sam rescued her, but the demons cornered them in an alley until a mysterious blonde woman appeared and killed two demons with a silver-glowing dagger.

• The demons tricked Rick's wife into setting him on fire, and Rick died in a gasoline-fueled explosion.
• Overwhelmed by guilt and despair, Rick's wife froze as the demons fed on her anguish.
• Dean and Sam stormed the bar, used salt and holy water to scatter the demons, and escaped with Rick's wife.
• The brothers and the woman fled through the streets, but a demon-controlled roadblock forced them into a dead-end alley.
• As the demons closed in on Dean, Sam, and Rick's wife, an unseen attacker killed two demons with a strange dagger.
• A tall blonde woman in black leather appeared at the rear exit, her blade glowing faintly silver.

Wu Heng arrived in the alley aboard an eerie ghost ship as the rain corroded demonic power and halted the demons’ attacks. He pulled Dean and Sam aboard, leaving the demons and the blonde woman below.

• A mysterious blonde woman urged Dean and Sam toward her, but demons blocked their escape and attacked the wounded brothers.
• Rain intensified, and a demon’s invisible grip on Dean corroded and released him as Dean and Sam glimpsed a tentacle in the clouds.
• Dean recognized their powerful ally’s arrival, while the blonde woman continued fighting and urged the brothers to move.
• A chilling presence froze the demons as Wu Heng sailed into the alley aboard a ghost ship, untouched by the rain.
• Wu Heng cast a hemp lasso around Dean and Sam and pulled them onto the ship’s deck.

Wu Heng used the ghost ship’s water-controlling power to trap the demons and the fused Seven Deadly Sins in a metal-like cage. After Dean and Sam asked him to rescue a blonde woman caught inside, the brothers began to suspect she was a demon who had betrayed her kind.

• Dean and Sam reunited with Wu Heng aboard the ghost ship and watched him trap the demons in the flooded alley with rainwater tentacles.
• The six Seven Deadly Sins demons fused into a powerful monster and blasted a hole in the watery cage.
• Wu Heng used the ship’s anchor to summon a huge wave that smashed the fused monster back into the cage.
• The rainwater tentacles hardened into metal-like restraints, trapping the demons and the blonde woman who had helped Dean and Sam.
• Wu Heng pulled the blonde woman onto the ship after Dean and Sam explained she was their ally.
• Dean and Sam recalled the demons calling the woman a traitor and wondered whether she was a demon herself.

Wu Heng refined demon energy from the captured demons and fed it to the Twisted Power Seed while Dean and Sam watched the dangerous process. The seed began to grow, but the cold waste energy left the hunters shivering and injured, and Wu Heng handed them old newspapers.

• Dean and Sam cautiously accepted the rescued blonde woman as an ally after recalling that she had saved them, while Dean took her demon-killing dagger for safekeeping.
• Wu Heng reassured the hunters that the ship was his territory as the metal tentacle cage spun around the trapped demons.
• Wu Heng extracted pure demon energy from the cage and introduced it into the test tube holding the Twisted Power Seed.
• The seed rejected impurities as freezing black mist, coating the flooded alley with frost and making Dean and Sam shiver.
• Wu Heng noticed the hunters' bleeding injuries, called them a hindrance, and tossed them a stack of old newspapers.

Wu Heng took Dean and Sam to an abandoned pickling factory, where Rot Lizard Gnomes had been killing people to make up for the decline in naturally decaying corpses. After Wu Heng killed the monsters and made a life serum from their remains, Dean reluctantly agreed to try it first.

• Sam found a newspaper report about disappearances and strange claw marks near an abandoned pickling factory north of the city.
• Wu Heng's ghost ship jumped to the factory and followed a trail into its underground warehouse, where the group found human and animal corpses being prepared as food.
• Sam identified the creatures as Rot Lizard Gnomes, and Dean guessed they had started killing people because modern cremation had left them without food.
• Wu Heng used rainwater tentacles to kill all the Rot Lizard Gnomes and extract their life essence.
• Wu Heng transformed the essence into a green life serum and told Dean and Sam to drink it.
• Dean asked how Wu Heng had made the serum, then gritted his teeth and volunteered to drink it first.

Dean and Sam drank Wu Heng’s revolting green medicine, which rapidly healed their injuries and expelled demonic energy. After learning that Ruby had saved them, the brothers disagreed about what to do with her.

• Dean drank the green liquid, vomited corrosive black water from his body, and watched his wounds begin to heal.
• Sam drank the same medicine, and both brothers recovered completely as Wu Heng watched them retch.
• Dean asked Wu Heng about the medicine and ghost ship, and Wu Heng said he had picked up the ship by the roadside.
• Ruby introduced herself and explained that she had helped because she could not stand the Seven Deadly Sins demons’ actions.
• Dean proposed sending Ruby back rather than trusting a demon, but Sam stopped him and pointed out that Ruby had saved them.

Wu Heng released Ruby after she swore not to harm humans, then gave Dean and Sam signal water to summon him if they found demons they could not handle. After Dean was cursed during an investigation, Ruby returned with an antidote just as Wu Heng approached.

• Ruby swore she would stop harming innocent humans, and Sam persuaded Wu Heng to let her go and return her demon-killing knife.
• Wu Heng dropped Dean and Sam off and gave them a bottle of signal water to use if they needed his help.
• Dean and Sam investigated a suspicious death, discovered a demon child rather than a demon, and defeated it with salt and iron.
• The brothers found a new demon lead, but Dean soon began coughing blood and sent Wu Heng a message for help.
• Ruby arrived and gave Dean an antidote, explaining that a demon-controlled group of witches had placed the Black Blood Curse on him.

Wu Heng, Sam, and Dean tracked the curse to a secluded house where three witches were performing a ritual against Dean. Wu Heng stopped them and sent Sam and Dean to search the basement, where Ruby appeared to be held.

• Ruby fled the motel as a ghost ship appeared and vanished, leaving Wu Heng in its place.
• Sam told Wu Heng that Dean had been cursed and Ruby had brought an antidote; Wu Heng identified Hell’s mark and ordered them to find the witch and demon behind it.
• Ruby texted Sam the address of a pin-shaped house, and Wu Heng took Sam and Dean there aboard the ghost ship.
• Wu Heng kicked open the house’s door and found three witches stabbing a doll bearing Dean’s name and hair with green-glowing needles.
• Wu Heng bound the witches with Evil Spirit Puppet tentacles, easing Dean’s pain, then told Sam and Dean to search the basement for Ruby.

Wu Heng confronted a Demon Prince possessing one of the witches, and the fight escalated into a destructive clash between the demon and his Evil Spirit Puppet. The puppet began absorbing the prince’s power while an exorcism array tried to send it back to Hell, and Wu Heng lunged to take advantage.

• The oldest witch broke Wu Heng’s restraints and revealed that a Demon Prince had possessed her, identifying itself as the demon that replaced Azazel.
• Ruby warned Wu Heng, Dean, and Sam that their opponent was a Prince of Hell, and the demon blasted Dean and Sam into a wall when they opened fire.
• Wu Heng summoned his colossal Evil Spirit Puppet, which battled the prince’s Hellfire-laced dark energy and devastated the buildings and surrounding woods.
• The puppet formed a shield covered in exorcism-array symbols and absorbed the prince’s demonic claw, while the array began trying to send the demon back to Hell.
• The demon struggled to withdraw its power from the shield, and Wu Heng lunged forward to exploit its predicament.

Wu Heng defeated and trapped the demon prince, then began extracting its essence into a test tube. Facing destruction, the demon offered information about John Winchester, leaving Sam and Dean stunned by the promise of news about their missing father.

• Wu Heng used the Evil Spirit Puppet’s tentacles to smash through the demon’s psychic barriers and badly wound its possessed witch body.
• The demon tried to escape as black smoke, but Wu Heng caught it in a cage formed from rainwater tentacles.
• Wu Heng activated an extraction ritual that drained the demon’s essence into a test tube.
• As the demon’s essence dwindled, it offered intelligence about the Winchesters and John Winchester in exchange for its life.
• Dean and Sam reacted in shock when the demon mentioned their missing father.

Wu Heng continued extracting the demon prince while Dean and Sam demanded that it return their father, John Winchester. The demon’s attempt to summon John failed because his contract had been transferred, and Wu Heng destroyed the demon, leaving the brothers with their father’s fate still unknown.

• Wu Heng slowed the extraction, and the demon offered to return John Winchester in exchange for its freedom.
• The demon tried to summon John through his contract, but the ritual failed because the contract had been transferred to someone else.
• The demon urged Dean and Sam to spare it so it could search for their father, but Wu Heng warned them that it was lying and could not be trusted.
• Dean and Sam recognized the deception, and Wu Heng resumed the extraction and annihilated the demon, filling the Twisted Seed test tube halfway.
• Wu Heng put away the test tube and told Dean and Sam to ask someone if they wanted news about their father.

Wu Heng drew the attention of Heaven and Hell after extracting the Demon Prince’s power, while Dean and Sam searched for a way to track down the missing contracts. A monk approached Wu Heng in a café and urged him to join the church and hide until the apocalypse began, but Wu Heng refused.

• Wu Heng sensed the gazes of Heaven and Hell after he absorbed the Demon Prince’s remaining smoke.
• Dean and Sam found that crossroads demons might know where the contracts had gone, and they began planning to gather the summoning materials.
• Wu Heng left the safe house and went to a café, where he sensed that the watching forces had become more cautious.
• A disguised monk tried to hypnotize Wu Heng and revealed that he had come to recruit him on the church’s behalf.
• The monk urged Wu Heng to enter the church’s secret holy ground and wait for the apocalypse, but Wu Heng refused.

Wu Heng rejected an angel’s offer of salvation and fought it in a mental prison using the Evil Spirit Puppet. After wounding the angel and forcing it to retreat, he returned to the café and discovered that other hostile beings had noticed him.

• The angel revealed itself and gave Wu Heng one last chance to join or be purified, but Wu Heng refused and summoned the Evil Spirit Puppet.
• The angel attacked with sacred light and chains, while Wu Heng used the puppet to defend and counterattack.
• Wu Heng exploited the angel’s rigid combat patterns and pierced its left wing with a spear formed from the puppet’s tentacles.
• The wounded angel collapsed the mental prison, warned Wu Heng that death would devour him, and vanished.
• Wu Heng returned to the café, left, and spotted concealed, hellish gazes watching him from nearby.

Wu Heng helped Dean and Sam summon a crossroads demon to learn what happened to John Winchester’s soul. The demon revealed that a White-Eyed Demon had taken his contract, but she did not know where it went.

• Wu Heng eliminated the demons watching the safe house while Dean and Sam gathered materials for a crossroads summoning.
• Dean and Sam prepared the ritual at a rural crossroads, and Dean summoned a red-haired crossroads demon.
• The demon recognized Wu Heng and abandoned her plans to bargain after he threatened her with a glimpse of his power.
• Sam asked who held John Winchester’s soul contract, and Wu Heng demanded the information in exchange for the demon’s soul.
• The demon said John’s contract had briefly entered the crossroads demons’ network before a White-Eyed Demon transferred it away.
• The demon could not reveal the contract’s destination, leaving Dean and Sam worried about the lead pointing toward Lucifer’s forces.