Recaps

After defeating Uehara Takashi and Fujiwara Hirotetsu, Fang Cheng left Tokyo with Kanzaki Rin and his companions, then supported Rin’s plan to take control of Machine City. On the way to Iron-Cast Palace, Fang Cheng and Yuguang Qingxue discovered that Ghost Cultivation Mountain was scouting Hokkaido for the Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters competition.

• Fang Cheng killed Uehara Takashi with Mother’s Middle Finger, then killed Fujiwara Hirotetsu and escaped Tokyo with Kanzaki Rin after the Iron-Cast Palace stopped Area 11 from launching a nuclear strike.
• Fang Cheng learned Kanzaki Rin had only two months to live because of Level 4 Enhancement, and she agreed to let him protect her from the Sessho-seki while rejecting his proposal to date multiple women.
• Fang Cheng and his companions reunited with Nangong Saya, made Kanzaki Rin their vice-leader, and received visits from Kamikawa Takumi and Minamoto Kaori before traveling to Machine City.
• Fang Cheng endured Izanae’s test and learned that Kanzaki Rin could be saved by finding Tamamo-no-Mae or helping her control the Sessho-seki’s power, while Kamikawa Takumi set out to search for Tamamo-no-Mae.
• After reaching Machine City, Fang Cheng supported Kanzaki Rin’s plan to seize power and reform the city, then left with Yuguang Qingxue for Iron-Cast Palace.
• Fang Cheng and Yuguang Qingxue encountered Passion Flame Ghost, who revealed that Ghost Cultivation Mountain had sent him to scout Hokkaido for the Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters competition.
• Fang Cheng killed Passion Flame Ghost, purified the curse that transformed Yuguang Qingxue into a white cat, and asked to pet her as payment.

Fang Cheng secured Iron-Cast Palace’s support, helped Kanzaki Rin overthrow Machine City’s rulers, and later took Qingxue and Tsukikage Hatsuka to Hokkaido. The sisters encountered Bone Woman and Lord Nine-Tail, and Fang Cheng rescued Tsukikage Hatsuka after the Nine-Tailed Fox’s illusion failed to affect him.

• Fang Cheng told Oni Yunjie about the coming Hokkaido competition and secured her agreement to grant him Machine City if he solved its supply problems.
• Yuguang Kaori arranged for Yuguang Qingxue to stay with Fang Cheng, but Fang Cheng destroyed the Loyalty Brand and Qingxue later changed her name to Fang Qingxue.
• Fang Cheng helped Kanzaki Rin bring the Resistance Organization and Cyborgs into Machine City through a hidden tunnel, and their forces took control of the city.
• Sato Hayato and Kujo Yuri disabled the N5 missile threat, Siye Yuta died, and Machine City’s former rulers were captured and sentenced to death.
• Fang Cheng reunited with Sato Hayato and Kujo Yuri, while Kanzaki Rin later clarified that Kujo Yuri was Kujo Go’s cousin and a real woman.
• Fang Cheng took Qingxue and Tsukikage Hatsuka to Hokkaido to train, where the sisters fought Monsters before Bone Woman captured Tsukikage Hatsuka.
• Qingxue followed Bone Woman to Lord Nine-Tail’s cavern, where Fang Cheng broke in, rescued Tsukikage Hatsuka, and asked whether the Nine-Tailed Fox was Tamamo-no-Mae.

Fang Cheng fought Isis with help from Kanzaki Rin, Tsukimi Mei, and others, defeating her with a risky assault that involved an N5 Bomb. The victory brought a new threat tied to the Kingdom of the Undead and Tsukimi Mei’s price, while Area 11 began seeking peace with Machine City.

• Fang Cheng defeated Bone Woman and captured a clone of Tamamo-no-Mae, who revealed that only her original body could remove Kanzaki Rin’s Sessho-seki.
• Isis attacked Machine City, and Fang Cheng went to face her after she took Kamikawa Takumi and the others hostage.
• Fang Cheng survived Isis’s attacks and an N5 Bomb blast, but Isis continued to overpower him until Tsukimi Mei descended through Asaka Akie and joined the fight.
• Fang Cheng and Tsukimi Mei trapped Isis, while Kamikawa Takumi struck her through a portrait and Fang Cheng used Mother’s Middle Finger to defeat her.
• Fang Cheng gained lives, Blood Source, and a key to the Kingdom of the Undead, while Tsukimi Mei warned that he would face a competition whose winner could kill him.
• Tsukimi Mei explained that Asaka Akie and Ye Yuqing’s souls were splitting, and Fang Cheng agreed to seek a solution at the Heaven’s Gate Sect in North America despite the price of her help.
• Fang Cheng returned to Machine City, where Area 11’s officials began reconsidering their hostility after learning he had defeated Isis.
• Kanzaki Rin presented Area 11’s peace offer, and Fang Cheng demanded the lifting of technology and network restrictions and the return of Iron-Cast Palace’s people to Tokyo.

Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing traveled to North America to investigate Gate of Heaven, surviving a week of supernatural attacks and a deadly trap at a sealed villa. After uncovering the cult’s mole and pursuing Baldy to its underground base, they reached the Ark and Tony Kent’s office.

• Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing arrived in San Francisco, received invitations that summoned supernatural threats, and began surviving the Death God’s attacks and the Evil Spirit Ragdoll’s ghosts.
• Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing moved to a house near a church, where they fought the ragdoll’s ghosts and the Death God’s increasingly dangerous attacks.
• On the seventh day, Fang Cheng survived a spacecraft crashing down on him, then joined the invited survivors at a villa where a blackout and locked doors trapped them.
• Fang Cheng and the survivors fought through the villa’s maze, defeated attacking clones, and discovered that Baldy had faked his death and Will Tony was a Gate of Heaven mole.
• Will Tony released poison and set Oli, Erica, and Jack against Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing, but Fang Cheng killed Oli while Ye Yuqing defeated Jack and Erica.
• Fang Cheng saved Victor and the Magician from the toxin, read Julia’s memories, sealed the investigators inside blood coffins, and left the villa with Ye Yuqing.
• Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing pursued Baldy to Tony Kent’s estate, followed him into Gate of Heaven’s underground base, and saw its military equipment and giant Ark spaceship.