Recaps

Wakamatsu Kazuki explained why he wanted Kitaryu Shingen dead and revealed that a Holy Seal kept him trapped in the Truth Cult. Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin let him believe they represented the Countermeasure Department, then questioned him about the cult’s power.

• Wakamatsu Kazuki admitted he wanted to destroy the Truth Cult because Kitaryu Shingen’s schemes would eventually bring disaster on its members.
• Wakamatsu Kazuki showed Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin the Holy Seal that let Kitaryu Shingen control his subordinates, and Fang Cheng found the same mark on Tamagawa Shu.
• Wakamatsu Kazuki explained that he had revealed himself because Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin’s bold arrival made him think the Countermeasure Department was investigating the cult.
• Fang Cheng let Wakamatsu Kazuki believe the Countermeasure Department might protect him if he proved useful, then asked where the Truth Cult’s power came from.
• Wakamatsu Kazuki said the cult’s powers, including the wish-granting Holy Grail, came from Kitaryu Shingen, though Shingen claimed the Grail came from Shiva.

Fang Cheng forced Wakamatsu Kazuki to guide him and Kanzaki Rin underground, where they planned to find Kitaryu Shingen and the core of Shambhala. The three reached a dark passage behind an elephant-carved door, and Kanzaki Rin sensed danger within.

• Fang Cheng learned that Tamagawa Shu had been cared for by Wakamatsu Kazuki since childhood and let Tamagawa stay behind while taking Wakamatsu along.
• Wakamatsu Kazuki revealed that destroying Shambhala's core would return Kitaryu Shingen's strength to normal, though he did not know where the core was.
• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin exchanged teasing and concerned remarks as Wakamatsu Kazuki led them toward the underground entrance.
• Fang Cheng unlocked a large elephant-carved door at the deepest part of the Grand Temple, exposing a pitch-black passage that made Kanzaki Rin sense danger.

Fang Cheng, Kanzaki Rin, and Wakamatsu Kazuki entered Kitaryu Shingen’s underground Kingdom of Shambhala and traveled through its strange artificial landscape. They found a town whose inhabitants and vehicles were frozen in place.

• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin equipped themselves with Blood Battle Suits and weapons, then used a drone to inspect the dark cave entrance.
• Fang Cheng, Kanzaki Rin, and Wakamatsu Kazuki entered the cave, with Fang Cheng holding Kanzaki Rin’s hand and a Blood Beast carrying Wakamatsu.
• Wakamatsu explained that Kitaryu Shingen had expanded a natural cave to build Shambhala, a hidden domain inspired by the Truth Cult’s beliefs.
• The group reached a vast underground space lit by a dim artificial sun, and Fang Cheng sent Blood Eagles to carry them toward a cluster of buildings.
• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin saw that the bustling town’s pedestrians and cars were all frozen in place.

Fang Cheng, Kanzaki Rin, and Wakamatsu Kazuki entered Kitaryu Shingen’s eerie town of mud-made God-Humans and encountered its Divine Envoy, a replica of Sakurajima Mai. After Fang Cheng defeated her, the Mud Men turned toward the group and attacked.

• Fang Cheng, Kanzaki Rin, and Wakamatsu Kazuki crossed the silent town, where Fang Cheng confirmed that the motionless people were mud-made and bore Holy Seals.
• Wakamatsu Kazuki led Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin to the Divine Envoy, a Bunny Girl resembling Sakurajima Mai.
• Sakurajima Mai declared that the two newcomers without Holy Seals were Animal Humans and attacked them.
• Kanzaki Rin’s bullets failed to hit Sakurajima Mai, but Fang Cheng dodged her strike and kicked her apart, revealing her mud body.
• Sakurajima Mai accused Wakamatsu Kazuki of betraying the Son of Brahma, and the surrounding Mud Men turned toward the group and lunged at them.

Fang Cheng, Kanzaki Rin, and Wakamatsu Kazuki fought through the Mud Men and followed an underground river toward Kitaryu Shingen. As they approached his domain, an unseen force attacked them under the Son of Brahma’s order to kill the intruders and Wakamatsu.

• Fang Cheng used War Stomp and four Vulcan Gatlings to destroy the Mud Men surrounding the group.
• Kanzaki Rin and Wakamatsu Kazuki watched Fang Cheng’s display, and Wakamatsu agreed to lead them to Kitaryu Shingen.
• Wakamatsu warned that Kitaryu Shingen would know they were coming and said he continually made Mud Men.
• Fang Cheng, Kanzaki Rin, and Wakamatsu followed the underground river past buildings filled with tens of thousands of Mud Men.
• As they traveled, Fang Cheng proposed a bet with Wakamatsu about whether danger awaited them in the air.
• Kanzaki Rin sensed an attack, and a voice invoked the Son of Brahma’s decree to kill the intruders and the traitor Wakamatsu Kazuki.

Fang Cheng fought through Kitaryu Shingen’s enormous armies of birdmen and Mud Men, using Blood Eagles and cannons to destroy them. He and Kanzaki Rin reached the underground temple, where they found Kitaryu Shingen sitting with his back to them and playing with mud.

• Garuda led waves of birdmen against Fang Cheng, Kanzaki Rin, and Wakamatsu Kazuki, and Fang Cheng countered them with exploding Blood Eagles.
• After the birdmen overwhelmed his defense, Fang Cheng brought Kanzaki Rin and Wakamatsu Kazuki to the ground, where Kitaryu Shingen’s Mud Men army charged them.
• Fang Cheng created forty cannons and blasted the advancing army while Blood Eagles and antiaircraft guns held off the remaining birdmen.
• Fang Cheng destroyed the Mud Men army, and Garuda abandoned the battle and fled.
• Fang Cheng carried Wakamatsu Kazuki onward with Kanzaki Rin until they reached the underground temple and found Kitaryu Shingen playing with mud.

Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin confronted Kitaryu Shingen in Shambhala, where he demonstrated his ability to create living beings from mud. Kitaryu Shingen offered Fang Cheng a place in his plan to remake the planet, but revealed that he intended to kill all of humanity.

• Kitaryu Shingen rebuked Wakamatsu Kazuki, then shaped a mud figure into a living being and sent it from the hall.
• Kitaryu Shingen showed Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin the Soul Stabilizer around his neck and called his creation a miracle.
• Fang Cheng mocked Kitaryu Shingen's claim to godlike power and explained that humans could create life too.
• Fang Cheng demanded the Soul Stabilizer, claiming it belonged to him through the Ultimate Bliss Cult, and Kitaryu Shingen said he would have to pay a price to reclaim it.
• Kitaryu Shingen invited Fang Cheng to help turn the planet into Shambhala and declared that he planned to kill every human being.

Fang Cheng fought Kitaryu Shingen, whose immense power and Shambhala-backed defenses shrugged off Fang Cheng’s strongest attacks. Fang Cheng sent Kanzaki Rin and Wakamatsu Kazuki to find Shambhala’s core while he stayed behind to hold Shingen off, but Shingen remained unharmed and began floating above the ruined temple.

• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin condemned Kitaryu Shingen’s plan to kill humanity, and Shingen challenged them to take the Soul Stabilizer by force.
• Fang Cheng’s mental attacks, shotgun blasts, and rocket launcher failed to harm Shingen, whose invisible barrier deflected or absorbed them.
• Shingen unleashed Great Might Heavenly Dragon, shattering the temple hall, and Fang Cheng escaped with Kanzaki Rin and Wakamatsu Kazuki.
• Fang Cheng gave Kanzaki Rin an object and sent her and Wakamatsu Kazuki to find Shambhala’s core while he stayed to fight Shingen.
• Fang Cheng bombarded Shingen with cannons and Word Spirit Arts, but Shingen’s defenses repelled nearly everything and he rose into the air above a collapsed pit.

Kanzaki Rin and Wakamatsu Kazuki searched Shambhala’s temple for its core while Fang Cheng fought Kitaryu Shingen outside. After Kanzaki Rin and the Blood Wolf defeated Garuda, a furtive figure lunged at her from behind.

• Kanzaki Rin fought off Birdmen attacking her and Wakamatsu Kazuki until Blood Eagles arrived to help.
• Wakamatsu Kazuki located the temple area containing Shambhala’s core, and Kanzaki Rin flew there with him on a Blood Eagle.
• Kanzaki Rin and Wakamatsu Kazuki entered the temple and followed Wakamatsu Kazuki through its maze-like corridors to a meditation room full of Mud Men.
• Kanzaki Rin and the Blood Wolf fought the animated Mud Men, then faced Garuda, who emerged from the room.
• Kanzaki Rin used grenades, Flashbangs, and fire while the Blood Wolf attacked, and together they tore Garuda apart.
• As Kanzaki Rin prepared to search for the core, a furtive figure lunged at her from behind.

Kanzaki Rin discovered that Wakamatsu Kazuki had lured her to a nonexistent Shambhala core so Garuda could capture her, then killed him with a blood trap Fang Cheng had planted. Meanwhile, Fang Cheng remained unable to penetrate Kitaryu Shingen’s defense as Kitaryu Shingen unleashed a golden beam that tracked him.

• Wakamatsu Kazuki attacked Kanzaki Rin and admitted that Shambhala’s core did not exist and that he had brought her there as bait for Garuda.
• Kanzaki Rin crushed a blood-red sphere, triggering the blood Fang Cheng had planted inside Wakamatsu Kazuki and impaling him.
• Before he died, Wakamatsu Kazuki revealed that Kitaryu Shingen’s supposedly invincible defense had a limit, and Kanzaki Rin destroyed his corpse with a grenade.
• Fang Cheng and Kitaryu Shingen continued their stalemate, with Fang Cheng’s attacks failing to break through Kitaryu Shingen’s defense.
• Kitaryu Shingen fired his Great Luo Dharma Mantra at Fang Cheng, and the golden beam pursued him as he dodged.

Fang Cheng fought Kitaryu Shingen, whose Buddhist attacks battered him but failed to defeat him. Their battle left Fang Cheng seeking answers about Mother and learning that Wakamatsu Kazuki had deceived him and Kanzaki Rin about Shambhala's core.

• Kitaryu Shingen's giant Buddha phantom unleashed a barrage that drove Fang Cheng into a crater, but Fang Cheng survived and his revealed face shocked Kitaryu Shingen into asking whether he was Mother's child too.
• Fang Cheng asked who Mother was, but Kitaryu Shingen called him an abandoned one and demanded that he join the Truth Cult before learning more.
• Kitaryu Shingen attacked Fang Cheng again while Fang Cheng answered Kanzaki Rin's communicator, and Kanzaki told him that Shambhala's supposed core was fake and Wakamatsu Kazuki had tricked them.
• Fang Cheng realized Wakamatsu Kazuki had made them believe Kitaryu Shingen could be defeated by destroying a core, and Kitaryu Shingen admitted that Shambhala had no core and claimed no one could defeat him.

Fang Cheng fought Kitaryu Shingen in the Underground Space after learning that Shingen’s supposed invincibility was a bluff. He spent lives to strengthen his abilities, survived Shingen’s killing move through revival, and ended the chapter charging at him with a katana and hammer.

• Kitaryu Shingen realized Wakamatsu Kazuki and Garuda had failed, then tried to maintain his act of invincibility against Fang Cheng.
• Fang Cheng spent 45 lives to raise Steel Blood, Power of the Ghost God, and Blood Explosion, transforming into a ten-meter armored mech.
• Fang Cheng’s enhanced artillery pushed Kitaryu Shingen back as their battle shook the Underground Space and forced Kanzaki Rin out of hiding.
• Fang Cheng closed in with ship-cutting swords, but Kitaryu Shingen pierced his chest with his six arms using his killing move.
• Fang Cheng blew himself up, then revived and rushed at Kitaryu Shingen with a katana and hammer.

Fang Cheng killed Kitaryu Shingen and took the Soul Stabilizer, but Kitaryu Shingen's final attack left Kanzaki Rin unconscious in Nightmare Hell. As Fang Cheng tried to use the Soul Stabilizer to help her, someone struck him from behind, and Wakamatsu Kazuki's soul appeared beside the stolen artifact.

• Fang Cheng shattered Kitaryu Shingen's Turtle Shell with Dojigiri Yasutsuna and the Thunder-Strike Hammer, then killed him after demanding to know who his mother was.
• Kitaryu Shingen's head exploded and released white light that swept through the Underground Space, knocking Kanzaki Rin unconscious while leaving Fang Cheng unharmed.
• Fang Cheng took the Soul Stabilizer and looted Kitaryu Shingen's heart, gaining 18 lives and several abilities, including Nightmare Hell.
• Fang Cheng found Kanzaki Rin unconscious behind a boulder and realized Kitaryu Shingen's final attack might have trapped her soul in Nightmare Hell.
• Fang Cheng took out the Soul Stabilizer to help Kanzaki Rin, but an unseen attacker struck him from behind and stole the artifact, which revealed Wakamatsu Kazuki's soul.

Wakamatsu Kazuki seized the Soul Stabilizer after secretly arranging for Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin to fight Kitaryu Shingen, then tried to kill Fang Cheng. Fang Cheng revealed he was unharmed and defeated Wakamatsu, who broke down and explained how his plan had unfolded.

• Wakamatsu Kazuki gloated over Kitaryu Shingen's death and the Soul Stabilizer, then attacked Fang Cheng.
• Fang Cheng revealed he had faked his injury and tried Purification, but it had no effect on Wakamatsu.
• Wakamatsu threatened Fang Cheng, but Fang Cheng projected his soul from his body and chased Wakamatsu when he fled.
• Fang Cheng overpowered Wakamatsu and demanded to know what he wanted.
• Wakamatsu recounted his string of misfortunes, his secret plan to use Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin against Kitaryu Shingen, and how he had obtained the Soul Stabilizer.

Fang Cheng learned from Wakamatsu Kazuki how to rescue Kanzaki Rin from Kitaryu Shingen’s Nightmare Hell, then prepared to enter the nightmare through possession. After confirming Wakamatsu had told the truth, he entered Kanzaki Rin’s body to bring her back.

• Wakamatsu Kazuki explained that someone had to enter Nightmare Hell with their soul and lead Kanzaki Rin out, and he asked Fang Cheng to protect his family and Tamagawa Shu.
• Wakamatsu Kazuki’s soul disappeared, and Fang Cheng absorbed his power and fused it with Soul Projection to create Yin Spirit.
• Fang Cheng carried Kanzaki Rin away from the Grand Temple, hid in ruins near Nanmoku Village, and secured the area with Blood Beasts and Steel Blood.
• Fang Cheng summoned Izanae and asked her to verify Wakamatsu Kazuki’s account, and she confirmed it was true but refused to help rescue Kanzaki Rin.
• Fang Cheng removed Kanzaki Rin’s Cross Pendant and projected his soul into her body.

Fang Cheng explored Kanzaki Rin's Nightmare Hell, where he encountered haunting scenes and learned that he could die and return to the corridor. The chapter left him facing a grotesque female ghost in the kitchen, knife in hand.

• Fang Cheng let himself be pulled into Kanzaki Rin's Nightmare Hell and found himself in an unfamiliar house, unable to use his abilities.
• Fang Cheng saw a family portrait resembling Kanzaki Rin and her parents, then answered a phone that repeated news of her parents' deaths.
• Fang Cheng heard a ghostly voice on the television and trapped Sadako beneath the television and a cabinet.
• Fang Cheng encountered a hanging female ghost, died when she bit his throat, and woke again in the corridor.
• Fang Cheng avoided the ghost's corridor, explored a kitchen filled with grisly remains, and raised a kitchen knife at a crawling female ghost.

Fang Cheng fought his way through Nightmare Hell searching for Kanzaki Rin, then found her trapped in the form of a frightened child. He tried to coax her into leaving the bedroom, but she refused.

• Fang Cheng chased down and dismembered a female ghost, then avoided another ghost as his stamina began to run low.
• Fang Cheng heard a child crying and followed the sound to a bedroom guarded by two female ghosts, which backed away when he approached.
• Fang Cheng found Kanzaki Rin transformed into her seven-year-old self, apparently reliving the trauma of learning her parents had died.
• Fang Cheng pretended to be a coworker of Kanzaki Rin's parents and offered to take her somewhere safe, but she hid behind a plushie and refused.

Fang Cheng coaxed Kanzaki Rin out of the bedroom and carried her through the haunted house, seeking a safe way out. After leaving her in a lit room to search alone, he found another Kanzaki Rin waiting in a trap, leaving him unsure which girl had been with him.

• Fang Cheng won Kanzaki Rin's trust by telling her bizarre versions of fairy tales and persuaded her to leave with him.
• Fang Cheng carried Kanzaki Rin through the halls and killed a female ghost that attacked them.
• Fang Cheng escaped the pursuing ghosts with Kanzaki Rin into her parents' brightly lit bedroom, where the ghosts stopped outside.
• Fang Cheng left Kanzaki Rin in the room and searched for the exit, marking the halls with a black marker as he went.
• Fang Cheng saw another Kanzaki Rin spring from beneath a sofa and kill a female ghost with a trap, making him question the identity of the girl he had left behind.

Fang Cheng encountered a hardened seven-year-old Kanzaki Rin and brought her back to the bedroom, where she met a sweet girl who looked exactly like her. Unable to decide which girl was real, he left them together to search for an exit, but a swarm of ghosts chased him into a hallway, where another Kanzaki Rin pulled him into hiding.

• Kanzaki Rin killed a female ghost, and Fang Cheng found her in the living room and offered to take her to safety.
• Fang Cheng brought Kanzaki back to the bedroom, where she and Rin-chan met and Fang Cheng noticed their sharply different personalities.
• Fang Cheng rested with the two girls before deciding to leave them together and search for an exit.
• Fang Cheng returned to the living room, encountered a swarm of female ghosts, and fled down the hallway.
• Another Kanzaki Rin pulled Fang Cheng through a door and signaled for him to stay quiet.

Fang Cheng found the adult Kanzaki Rin in Nightmare Hell and reunited her with the two child versions of herself, who she believed the nightmare had created. As Rin-chan asked him to bring back her parents, Fang Cheng had a sudden flash of inspiration about how to escape.

• Fang Cheng found adult Kanzaki Rin, who recognized him and initially mistook their encounter for a dream.
• Fang Cheng told Kanzaki Rin how he had entered Nightmare Hell to save her, and she agreed to search for a way out with him.
• Kanzaki Rin met the two child versions of herself and concluded that Nightmare Hell had created them.
• Rin-chan asked Fang Cheng to take the children away and bring her parents back, prompting him to realize something.

Fang Cheng suspected answering the call about Kanzaki Rin’s parents might help them escape Nightmare Hell, so he brought Kanzaki Rin and her two younger selves to the living room. The phone rang, and Fang Cheng approached it while the others watched.

• Fang Cheng asked Rin-chan and Kanzaki whether they had answered the call about Kanzaki Rin’s parents, and learned Kanzaki Rin had already heard the news of their deaths.
• Kanzaki Rin rejected Fang Cheng’s theory that answering the call could open a way out, but eventually agreed to bring Rin-chan and Kanzaki to the living room.
• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin led the two younger girls through the house, fighting off the female ghosts along the way.
• The four reached the living room and waited by the phone; when it rang, Fang Cheng took a deep breath and walked toward it.

Fang Cheng discovered that Nightmare Hell had created Kanzaki Rin to lure him out while the real Kanzaki Rin appeared as both Kanzaki and Rin-chan. He chose to stay behind and pursue Rin-chan, hoping to make her face her parents’ deaths.

• A phone call told Kanzaki that her parents had died on a mission, and she accepted the news and walked through a door into the light.
• Fang Cheng urged Rin-chan to answer the phone, but she refused and ran away as the door began to close.
• Kanzaki Rin tried to pull Fang Cheng through the door, but he realized she was Nightmare Hell’s creation and refused to leave without the real Kanzaki Rin.
• Kanzaki Rin vanished and the door closed, leaving Fang Cheng alone in the darkness.
• Fang Cheng followed his marks to Kanzaki Rin’s parents’ bedroom, found Rin-chan hiding in a closet, and climbed inside with her.

Fang Cheng helped Rin-chan accept that her parents had died by sharing his own loss and promising to stay by her side. After Rin-chan made him a pinky promise, he carried her through the ghost-filled hallway and reached the kitchen badly wounded.

• Fang Cheng told Rin-chan that her parents had passed away, and she ran from the closet before he stopped her.
• Fang Cheng shared how he had coped with his own parents' deaths and reassured Rin-chan that she was not alone.
• Rin-chan agreed to leave with Fang Cheng after he promised never to leave her, and they sealed the promise with their pinkies.
• Fang Cheng covered Rin-chan with a bedsheet and fought through the spider women ghosts blocking the hallway.
• Fang Cheng reached the kitchen with Rin-chan unharmed, but he was severely wounded and missing part of an arm.

Fang Cheng fought through Nightmare Hell with Kanzaki Rin and escaped after learning that her parents had died, sacrificing both legs to get them through the exit. He woke in his Steel Blood hideout still possessing Kanzaki Rin’s body.

• Fang Cheng tied Kanzaki Rin to himself, took a Bone-Cleaving Knife, and fought through the ghosts blocking their way, entering a state of total absorption.
• A ghost resembling Sadako attacked as Kanzaki Rin answered the phone and learned that her parents had died in an accident while on a mission.
• Fang Cheng protected Kanzaki Rin from the ghost’s hair and carried her toward the exit when it appeared.
• The ghost’s hair dragged Fang Cheng back through the doorway, so he severed both his legs and rolled out with Kanzaki Rin.
• Fang Cheng woke in his Steel Blood hideout and realized he was still possessing Kanzaki Rin’s body.

Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin escaped Nightmare Hell and returned to their bodies, then watched the sunrise together. Their teasing and closeness revealed Kanzaki Rin remembered what had happened, while Fang Cheng wondered whether he had brought back the strength he gained in Nightmare Hell.

• Fang Cheng confirmed Kanzaki Rin had recovered, left her body, and returned to his own.
• Kanzaki Rin said she remembered only falling asleep, but privately recalled everything from Nightmare Hell.
• Fang Cheng teased Kanzaki Rin with details from her childhood, and she attacked him before he pinned her down.
• Kanzaki Rin admitted she did not want to think about her childhood again, and Fang Cheng comforted her without pressing her.
• Kanzaki Rin shoved Fang Cheng away after noticing his bodily reaction, then threatened him with a knife as he joked back.