Recaps

Fang Cheng strengthened the Life Extension Society with A1 Enhancement Serum and extra lives, then arranged an alliance delegation to meet the Human Revolutionary Alliance. He returned to Tokyo to bring its monsters into his fold, where Kitajima Maki learned that he was back.

• Fang Cheng tested the remaining A1 Enhancement Serum on Sato Hayato, raising his level to 66, and learned the drug had no effect on himself.
• Fang Cheng distributed serum and extra lives throughout the Life Extension Society, bringing its total to fifteen Aces while keeping the group and its resources secret.
• Li Yu told Fang Cheng that the Human Revolutionary Alliance headquarters had accepted his alliance proposal, and they agreed to discuss its details in person.
• Fang Cheng sent Kanzaki Rin, Asaka Akie, Minamoto Kaori, Takeda Masumi, and Nangong Saya to the headquarters while he and Qingxue left to recruit monsters in Area 11.
• Fang Cheng checked into the Yuguang Family residence in Tokyo, and Hayakawa Kazuma rushed into Kitajima Maki's office to announce that he had returned.

Fang Cheng returned to Tokyo, unsettling Area 11’s government, while he and Qingxue decided to strip the authorities of their ability to threaten them. At an emergency meeting, Sakaue Yusuke claimed Fang Cheng was only an Ace who had stolen credit for defeating Isis, and circulated a report to support his accusation.

• Hayakawa Kazuma told Kitajima Maki that Fang Cheng had returned from Hokkaido, prompting her to summon the other Aces.
• Fang Cheng relaxed with Qingxue at the Yuguang Family’s home, and they decided to take away Area 11’s ability to cause them trouble.
• Politicians fled or hid as Noda Kaname gathered the government’s senior officials and the Three Aces to discuss Fang Cheng’s return.
• Sakaue Yusuke mocked the officials’ fear and claimed Fang Cheng had not reached Disaster-Class, but had relied on allies and an N5 bomb to defeat Isis.
• Sakaue Yusuke distributed reports naming Ye Yuqing as the Evil God’s Proxy and identifying Tamamo-no-Mae, then urged the officials to stop fearing Fang Cheng.

Sakaue Yusuke persuaded Area 11's leaders to approve an attack on Fang Cheng, but Fang Cheng interrupted the meeting and confronted him. Sakaue attacked Fang Cheng and vanished with him, while Qingxue froze the meeting room and restrained everyone.

• Sakaue Yusuke convinced the ministers that Fang Cheng was not as strong as rumored and urged them to kill him with N5 bombs.
• Kitajima Maki sensed something was wrong, but Sakaue accused her of misplaced loyalty and Noda Kaname led a vote approving the attack.
• Fang Cheng and a woman emerged from the conference table, and the panicked ministers found themselves unable to escape.
• Fang Cheng questioned why Sakaue Yusuke hated him, discovered Sakaue's favorability toward him was -100, and watched Sakaue order Kitajima Maki and Kamikawa Mirei to attack.
• Sakaue lunged at Fang Cheng, and the two disappeared; Qingxue then froze the meeting room and warned the ministers not to move.

Fang Cheng defeated Sakaue Yusuke in Subspace and learned that the Happiness Science Cult had used him to infiltrate the Area 11 government and provoke a conflict with Fang Cheng. After returning to the meeting room, Fang Cheng confronted the officials, who blamed Sakaue Yusuke and claimed they had been hypnotized.

• Sakaue Yusuke dragged Fang Cheng into his shadow domain, but Fang Cheng transformed into a Blood Sphere and took over Sakaue Yusuke's body.
• Fang Cheng read Sakaue Yusuke's memories and discovered that the Happiness Science Cult had recruited him to infiltrate the government and turn it against Fang Cheng and Machine City.
• Fang Cheng extinguished Sakaue Yusuke's soul, absorbed energy from his body, and destroyed the corpse in Subspace.
• Fang Cheng returned to the meeting room, where Qingxue and the two female Aces had kept the officials from leaving.
• Fang Cheng told the officials that he had killed Sakaue Yusuke, and Kitajima Maki and Noda Kaname blamed Sakaue Yusuke for deceiving them with hypnosis.

Fang Cheng forced Area 11’s leaders to agree to destroy their nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, then left with Qingxue. He headed for the Happiness Science Cult’s headquarters, intending to wipe it out.

• Fang Cheng killed the Minister of Defense and silenced the panicked officials, then demanded that Noda Kaname take responsibility for deceiving him.
• Fang Cheng demanded the destruction of all nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and the officials agreed after he threatened to kill them if they refused.
• Fang Cheng warned the officials not to hide any weapons, said he would return to discuss another deal, and left with Qingxue.
• Qingxue asked why Fang Cheng had not taken control of the government, and he explained that he needed to show respect to the Human Revolutionary Alliance headquarters while Kanzaki Rin negotiated an alliance.
• Fang Cheng and Qingxue arrived at the Happiness Science Cult’s headquarters, where Fang Cheng planned to destroy the cult.

Fang Cheng and Qingxue destroyed the Happiness Science Cult’s leadership and Tokyo bases after the Evil God ordered Okawa Ryuho to kill Fang Cheng. Fang Cheng then forced Area 11 to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction, and its leaders visited him to learn what he wanted.

• Okawa Ryuho announced that Sakaue Yusuke would seize control of Area 11’s government and eliminate Fang Cheng, while an Evil God watched through him.
• When Fang Cheng and Qingxue appeared, Okawa Ryuho’s followers attacked, and Fang Cheng escaped the manor’s expanding shadow with Qingxue before returning to confront Okawa Ryuho and Sakaue Yusuke.
• Fang Cheng killed Okawa Ryuho, Sakaue Yusuke, and the cult’s officials, then destroyed the Happiness Science Cult’s Tokyo bases with Qingxue.
• Area 11’s Cabinet and National Diet passed bills to destroy nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and Fang Cheng remained in Tokyo to oversee their destruction.
• Prime Minister Noda Kaname, the new Minister of Defense, Kitajima Maki, and Kamikawa Mirei visited Fang Cheng at the Yuguang Family estate to ask what he wanted.

Fang Cheng offered to reclaim Area 11’s monsters in exchange for research resources, promising psychics, and restrictions on religion. The government accepted his terms and sent him research materials first, while he prepared to begin clearing monsters from Tokyo.

• Noda Kaname met Fang Cheng, who offered to make the monsters in Area 11 disappear in exchange for a deal.
• Fang Cheng revealed that he had become the Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters, shocking Kitajima Maki and the other officials.
• Fang Cheng demanded a biological research team and equipment, Enhancement research, Fujiwara Hirotetsu’s research materials, one thousand promising psychics, and a nationwide crackdown on cults and religious growth.
• Fang Cheng told Qingxue that he planned to use Enhancement Drugs to build an Ace army, since humans had greater potential than monsters.
• The Area 11 government accepted Fang Cheng’s demands and sent him the research materials, while it prepared the team, equipment, and psychics.
• Kitajima Maki relayed the government’s request for Fang Cheng to start clearing monsters from Tokyo, and he agreed.

Fang Cheng began reclaiming every Monster in Tokyo while Kitajima Maki and Kamikawa Mirei watched. He left the story as his Elemental Net spread across the city, turning Monsters into light and absorbing them.

• Fang Cheng hosted Kitajima Maki and Kamikawa Mirei for barbecue before beginning the reclamation, and Kamikawa Mirei asked whether she could defect to Machine City.
• Kitajima Maki revealed that Uehara Takashi had raped and murdered her younger sister, and she thanked Fang Cheng for killing him.
• Kamikawa Mirei teased Kitajima Maki about offering herself to Fang Cheng, prompting an embarrassed misunderstanding before he departed to reclaim the Monsters.
• Fang Cheng multiplied his special elements into a vast Elemental Net that spread outward from the Yuguang Family's home.
• The Elemental Net passed through Tokyo and absorbed Monsters hidden across the city, leaving their human victims unharmed.

Fang Cheng used the Elemental Net to capture every Monster in Tokyo, demonstrating his power and prompting the government to ask him to clear the suburbs as well. After returning to the Yuguang Family, he accepted the possibility of another paid deal, while Sato Hayato returned to his old home and encountered someone unexpected.

• The Countermeasure Department director watched the Monsters in the underground prison vanish into motes of light despite his guards’ efforts to stop them.
• Kitajima Maki learned that Monsters across Tokyo’s four districts had disappeared and realized Fang Cheng had fulfilled his promise.
• Fang Cheng completed two sweeps with the Elemental Net, capturing 110,000 Monsters without harming any humans, then absorbed them himself.
• Kitajima Maki thanked Fang Cheng on behalf of Tokyo’s citizens, and he told her to prepare the agreed payment.
• Kitajima Maki asked whether Fang Cheng would clear Monsters from the suburbs, and he agreed depending on the payment.
• Sato Hayato returned to his old home after Kujo Yuri went to her family and encountered someone he had not expected.

Sato Hayato was ambushed by the shape-shifting Vampire Selina and lost a life before his immortality let him turn the fight around. Selina escaped and revealed that Fang Cheng and the people close to him were her targets.

• Sato Hayato returned to his ransacked childhood home, then visited his parents' graves before encountering a frightened woman at the cemetery.
• Sato Hayato tried to protect the woman from a middle-aged pursuer, but she and the man merged into Selina and stabbed him from behind.
• Selina poisoned Sato Hayato, repeatedly resurrected after his Psychokinetic attacks, and tore out his heart, killing him.
• Sato Hayato revived using one of the thirty lives Fang Cheng had given him, battered Selina, and failed to stop her escape.
• Selina regrouped at a hotel and studied photos of Fang Cheng and the people close to him, calling them her targets.

Fang Cheng confronted Selina after she attacked Sato Hayato, then received an invitation from The Count Dracula to attend the Eternal Life Banquet in Romania and discuss their enemies and hidden secrets. After Selina tried to flee, Fang Cheng caught her and learned she had attacked his people to provoke a war between him and Dracula.

• Selina chose Kanzaki Rin's photo as her next target, but Fang Cheng appeared in her suite after following her from the fight with Sato Hayato.
• Fang Cheng questioned Selina, who revealed that The Count Dracula had sent her to deliver a letter and invite him to the Eternal Life Banquet in Romania.
• Dracula's letter spoke to Fang Cheng and proposed an alliance against the Apocalypse Knights and Evil Gods, promising secrets about the Mother and the Evil Gods at the banquet.
• Fang Cheng pressed Selina about why she had attacked his people, and she tried to escape by scattering into streams of blood.
• Fang Cheng's Elemental Net trapped Selina, and he read her thoughts, discovering that she had planned to provoke Fang Cheng and Dracula into fighting so the Aces could exploit the outcome.

Fang Cheng used Dark Consciousness to alter Selina’s mind and sent her back to Dracula as a spy, then learned from Eve that Dracula’s Night Banquet invitation was likely a trap. Eve began considering how Dracula planned to harm Fang Cheng, but the chapter ended before she could answer.

• Fang Cheng raised Dark Consciousness to Level Four and altered Selina’s memories and thoughts, making her devoted to him through a psychic link.
• Fang Cheng ordered Selina to return to Dracula, accept the Night Banquet invitation on his behalf, and investigate Dracula’s plans and contacts.
• Fang Cheng warned Sato Hayato against overconfidence after Selina’s ambush and threatened the group with extra training, then threw Sato out when he offered to dress as a girl.
• Fang Cheng called Eve about Dracula’s Night Banquet invitation, and she concluded Dracula meant to harm him and believed he could succeed.
• Fang Cheng asked Eve how Dracula planned to deal with him.

Fang Cheng secured the 11th District’s support, cleared its monsters, and strengthened Machine City’s research capabilities. Kanzaki Rin returned with an alliance and refuge agreement from the Human Revolutionary Alliance headquarters, but its condition was that Fang Cheng collect every monster in the world within two years.

• Eve warned Fang Cheng that other monsters might join Dracula and said she would investigate the Undead Kingdom; she also cautioned him about the Foundation Church and the missing War and Famine.
• Fang Cheng reached a deal with the 11th District government, which agreed to fund Machine City and allow free movement in exchange for his clearing the district’s monsters and keeping the Iron-Cast Palace’s monsters in Hokkaido.
• Fang Cheng cleared roughly eight hundred thousand monsters across the 11th District in seven days and gained 1,475 lives.
• Fang Cheng brought the government’s research team, equipment, and Level 4 Enhancement materials to the Spaceship, where Dr. X eagerly took them up for research.
• Kanzaki Rin returned from the Human Revolutionary Alliance headquarters with an alliance and permission for up to ten thousand people to take refuge there if Earth faced an Evil God invasion.
• Kanzaki Rin told Fang Cheng that the alliance required him to collect all the world’s monsters within two years, then showed him the monster blood Li Yu had given her.

Kanzaki Rin underwent a transformation using Vermilion Bird Blood to address her Sessho-seki problem, while Dr. X kept a small portion for research. She awoke in a vision of a ruined Japan and reached Machine City, only to find it destroyed.

• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin identified the gift from Li Yu as Vermilion Bird Blood, and Li Yu hinted that it was a major opportunity for Rin.
• Dr. X tested the blood, then received a tenth of the drop to research while the rest was reserved for Kanzaki Rin’s transformation.
• Dr. X’s team injected diluted Vermilion Bird Blood into Kanzaki Rin as Fang Cheng watched over her and used Lucky Halo.
• Kanzaki Rin awoke in an apocalyptic Tokyo, transformed into a fire phoenix, and protected fleeing citizens from a collapsing building and a meteorite.
• Kanzaki Rin flew through devastated cities and monster hordes toward Hokkaido, then found Machine City reduced to ruins.

Kanzaki Rin experienced a vision of a possible future in which Earth was destroyed and learned that Mother had arranged her reincarnation and entrusted her with humanity’s future. After awakening from her transformation, she gained the Vermilion Bird’s power, absorbed the Sessho-seki, and reached level 97.

• Kanzaki Rin found her friends and Fang Cheng apparently dead beneath a horde of monsters before a giant hand struck her into darkness.
• Kanzaki Rin met Mother in space, saw a possible future of Earth’s destruction, and learned Mother had reincarnated her and had something to entrust to her.
• Kanzaki Rin awakened in a nutrient pod with fiery red hair, and Dr. X confirmed that the Vermilion Bird Blood had integrated perfectly with her body.
• Kanzaki Rin tested her transformed abilities with Fang Cheng, and her Phoenix Fire evolved into Vermilion Bird Divine Flame with Nirvana Rebirth.
• Kanzaki Rin absorbed the Sessho-seki in Subspace and reached level 97, then took on a body of flame and asked Fang Cheng to put on women’s clothes.

After collecting monsters in Steal Country, Fang Cheng returned to Machine City, where the others trained for his upcoming trip to Dracula’s Night Banquet in Romania. He spent private time with Yuguang Kaori, but their return from Subspace left them exposed before the assembled group.

• Fang Cheng negotiated compensation from Steal Country’s government, then swept the peninsula and collected over three hundred thousand monsters.
• Fang Cheng returned to Machine City and watched Kanzaki Rin, Oni Yunjie, Asaka Akie, and the others train for the growing threat.
• Fang Cheng caught the Nine-Tailed Fox and Tsukikage Hatsuka playing a game instead of training, then sent them out after cuddling them.
• Yuguang Kaori came home early, and Fang Cheng took her into Subspace, where they shared an intimate moment and discussed his coming trip to Romania.
• Fang Cheng and Yuguang Kaori returned to a living room packed with the people from training, leaving Yuguang Kaori red-faced and mortified.

Fang Cheng left the Machine City for Romania to attend Dracula's Eternal Life Banquet at Bran Castle. Dracula's vampires welcomed him as the Blood Emperor, and the chapter ended with them kneeling before him.

• Kanzaki Rin questioned Fang Cheng about his time with Yuguang Kaori, then ended the confrontation by telling him to cook for the exhausted group.
• Fang Cheng said goodbye to the women at home and departed for Romania, promising Kanzaki Rin that he would return with as many people as he left with.
• Fang Cheng crossed Eurasia at high speed and reached Brasov, where he found the brightly lit Bran Castle amid a city overrun by undead.
• Dracula contacted Fang Cheng and arranged for a servant to escort him by car through the castle gates.
• Fang Cheng stepped onto the red carpet as vampires watched, then the crowd knelt before him as the Blood Emperor.

Fang Cheng attended Dracula’s elaborate welcome ceremony and met the powerful figures gathered in the vampire lord’s castle. He discovered that most of the guests—and Dracula himself—harbored deep hostility toward him, while Peng Jie appeared to be a potential ally from the Human Revolutionary Alliance.

• Fang Cheng walked through the kneeling vampires and entered Dracula’s castle, sensing powerful beings inside and losing track of Selina’s condition.
• Dracula welcomed Fang Cheng before a packed hall and introduced the masked Apollonius, the Ghoul King Muhammad Aziz, Werewolf leader Benjamin Joyce, and Peng Jie.
• Fang Cheng used the system to identify the guests, learning that Apollonius, Aziz, and Benjamin had negative affection toward him, while Peng Jie was a level 102 Zombie with positive affection.
• Fang Cheng saw that Dracula was level 124 and had an affection score of -85 despite acting warmly, and wondered whether Dracula could transform.

At Dracula’s Night Banquet, Fang Cheng was introduced to the distinguished guests and watched the castle transform into a theater before Dracula changed the entertainment into a vampire arena. When Fang Cheng saw the wounded Selina imprisoned there, his restrained aura erupted and silenced the entire castle.

• Dracula introduced Fang Cheng as the Blood Emperor and began the Night Banquet in a transformed theater.
• Fang Cheng spoke with Peng Jie, who revealed that he was a Flying Zombie, also known as a Ba.
• Dracula changed the banquet’s entertainment from Daisy’s singing to a fight between Lucas and a prisoner.
• Fang Cheng recognized the chained and wounded Selina, who apologized for failing the mission.
• Fang Cheng confronted Dracula, released his aura, and frightened the guests and vampires throughout the castle into silence.

Fang Cheng challenged Dracula over Selina’s punishment, but the two withdrew their auras and agreed to let her duel Lucas. Dracula proposed a wager over the location of the Mother’s body, and Fang Cheng ended up taking the house’s position while betting on Selina.

• Fang Cheng and Dracula clashed with their auras over Dracula’s plan to punish Selina, then both backed down.
• Dracula explained that Selina had ambushed Sato Hayato without orders and proposed that she could earn her life by defeating Lucas in a duel.
• Dracula offered the location of a piece of the Mother’s body as wager stakes, prompting Apollonius, Aziz, Joyce, and Peng Jie to bet valuable items or information on the man winning.
• Fang Cheng wagered the location of the Mother’s body, first pretended to bet on the man, then said he was betting on the woman and offered to be the house.
• Dracula agreed to let Fang Cheng run the wager.

Fang Cheng secretly empowered Selina, allowing her to defeat Lucas and win their bet. Selina offered Lucas’s heart to the Blood Emperor, provoking Dracula, while Fang Cheng demanded his winnings.

• Dracula released the wounded Selina, and Lucas dominated her as the vampires cheered.
• Selina suddenly recovered her strength, severed Lucas’s arm, and turned the fight in her favor.
• Fang Cheng denied cheating when Aziz and the other guests accused him of boosting Selina.
• Selina tore off Lucas’s limbs, ignored his pleas, and ripped out his heart, prompting the bettors to demand their money back.
• Selina offered Lucas’s heart to the Great Blood Emperor, and Fang Cheng laughed as he demanded Dracula pay what he owed.

After winning the Night Banquet’s bets, Fang Cheng secured several promised items and information, then rejected Daisy’s attempt to seduce him with a page of math problems. Selina came to apologize for failing her mission, and Fang Cheng let her off with a kick before she offered him a bloody heart as spoils.

• Fang Cheng collected the Five-Thunder Evil-Suppressing Talisman and other wagers, while Dracula promised to provide news about his mother’s body after the banquet.
• Dracula continued the Night Banquet’s performances, then let the guests leave for their rooms after they declined his proposed afterparty.
• Daisy tried to entice Fang Cheng with an offer to fulfill any request, but he gave her math problems instead; she reported her failure to Dracula.
• Selina crossed Brown Castle unchallenged and apologized to Fang Cheng for Dracula discovering her mission.
• Fang Cheng told Selina to turn around, kicked her as punishment, and warned her not to fail again.
• Selina offered Fang Cheng a bloody heart as spoils of war despite her powerful desire to keep it.

Fang Cheng learned that the Undead Kingdom might open soon and that Mother's Body was hidden inside it, while a message warned that Dracula had secretly made a deal with the Apocalypse Knight. He sent Selina to watch Brasov and returned to Brown Castle, where Daisy told him the final two guests had arrived.

• Selina consumed the Ace Vampire's heart Fang Cheng gave her, raising her level to 72.
• Peng Jie told Fang Cheng that the Undead Kingdom could open within days and explained its dangers and entry requirements.
• Selina delivered Dracula's letter, which said Mother's Body was in the Undead Kingdom and included a warning that Dracula had contacted the Apocalypse Knight.
• Fang Cheng ordered Selina to monitor Brasov, scattered concealed eyes throughout the city, and returned to Machine City in Hokkaido.
• Fang Cheng spent the night in Subspace with Ye Yuqing and Asaka Akie, but Kanzaki Rin refused to join them.
• Daisy visited Fang Cheng the next morning and said the last two guests had arrived.

Fang Cheng attended Dracula’s gathering of powerful undead, where the guests discussed the growing threat of Evil God descents. Dracula claimed that the descents were becoming easier because the Rifts between Subspace and Earth were widening.

• Fang Cheng met the hostile Dullahan and Imhotep as they arrived at Dracula’s round-table gathering.
• Dracula introduced the undead guests and explained that the meeting would cover the Evil Gods, Mother’s Body, and the competition for the Undead Kingdom.
• The guests agreed that cults had grown stronger and Evil God descents had become more frequent.
• Dracula said the Rifts connecting Subspace and Earth were widening, making passage easier, and claimed his tests showed the change was alarming.

Dracula proposed an alliance against the Evil Gods and to search for Mother’s scattered body, revealing that one piece lay somewhere in the Undead Kingdom. He then exposed Fang Cheng as the Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters, leaving Fang Cheng’s disguise as a Vampire blown before the other monsters.

• Dracula proposed a voluntary alliance to stop the Evil Gods from descending and search for Mother’s body.
• Dracula explained that Mother’s soulless body could offer immense power, and Apollonius secretly recognized it as a chance to inhabit her body.
• Dracula told the gathering that one piece of Mother’s body was somewhere in the Undead Kingdom, and Fang Cheng let him share the information.
• Dracula suggested that the monsters compete under the alliance’s rules instead of fighting to the death, then said Fang Cheng could not participate because he was already the Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters.
• Fang Cheng realized Dracula had revealed his identity to the others, and Dracula confirmed that he knew Fang Cheng was not a Vampire.