Recaps

Fang Cheng stopped Benjamin Walker’s ritual, defeated the Evil God, and claimed Mother’s Left Arm before escaping Steve Jackson. He repaired Ye Yuqing and Asaka Akie’s souls, learned more about the forces gathering around him, and returned to Machine City.

• Fang Cheng infiltrated Gate of Heaven’s base, stole enhancement serums, and discovered Walker planned a sacrificial ceremony involving Mother’s Left Arm.
• Fang Cheng interrupted Walker’s ritual, fought him through the collapsing base, and killed Tony Kent and Joanna when they attacked him.
• Fang Cheng and Tsukimi Mei dragged the Evil God through a gate with the Ark, and Mother’s Left Arm fused with Fang Cheng, giving him 671 lives.
• Fang Cheng escaped Steve Jackson and used Mother’s Left Hand to repair Ye Yuqing’s and Asaka Akie’s souls, after which a Black Hole took them away and they returned in restored bodies.
• Izanae made Asaka Akie her Proxy, while Ye Yuqing reunited with Akie and the three resumed traveling with Fang Cheng.
• In Hawaii, Fang Cheng met Isis’s assistant Eve, learned Dracula and the Apocalypse Knights might target him, and received intelligence about them and the Human Revolutionary Alliance.
• Death left Jerusalem carrying Fang Cheng’s photograph, while Kujo Tairou met Sato Junko and became infatuated with her.
• Fang Cheng returned to Machine City with Asaka Akie and Ye Yuqing, reunited with Yuguang Kaori, and learned Ugou Mirai was doing well.

Fang Cheng strengthened Machine City and the Iron-Cast Palace while Shuten-doji and Ghost Cultivation Mountain moved against them as the contest for Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters approached. A white light swept across Hokkaido, and Fang Cheng began fighting Death, whose power overwhelmed his attacks.

• Fang Cheng discovered that the Sessho-seki had awakened inside Kanzaki Rin, then later gave Celestial God Serum to the group, triggering Ugou Mirai’s Nirvana State and Kanzaki Rin’s transformation into a Fire Phoenix.
• Qingxue returned to Machine City, where she and Ye Yuqing confronted Alcmene’s agents, while the Nine-Tailed Fox warned that the contest would make eligible Great Demons hunt one another for their Proofs.
• Tamamo-no-Mae told the Nine-Tailed Fox to protect Ugou Mirai’s egg, then joined Shuten-doji and Ghost Cultivation Mountain in preparations for the contest as Fang Cheng and Yuguang Kaori traveled to the Iron-Cast Palace.
• Fang Cheng exposed Shuten-doji’s moles in the Iron-Cast Palace, and Oni Yunjie purged the infiltrators before promising to protect both the palace and Machine City during the contest.
• Kanzaki Rin’s forces discovered a vast Rift advancing toward Machine City, and Kamikawa Takumi encountered Shuten-doji while investigating the tunnel Ghost Cultivation Mountain had dug toward the city.
• Shuten-doji and Ghost Cultivation Mountain attacked Machine City, where Kanzaki Rin and Kamikawa Takumi fought them as disguised monsters began attacking residents and soldiers.
• Shuten-doji attacked Qingxue and the Nine-Tailed Fox while they guarded Ugou Mirai’s egg, but the egg became Fang Cheng’s clone, which struck him and fought back.
• A white light swallowed Fang Cheng and the others across Hokkaido, and Fang Cheng faced Death, whose green beam and attacks overwhelmed him as he raised Super Strength to Level Four.

Fang Cheng survived the transformed Hokkaido, helped rescue his companions, and uncovered the corruption threatening Ugou Mirai. After learning that a Death Knight had entered Hokkaido, he returned with Tamamo-no-Mae and the others toward Iron-Cast Palace as the island’s battles worsened.

• Fang Cheng fought Death, lost fifteen lives to their clash, and was engulfed with him in a blinding light.
• Kanzaki Rin and Ye Yuqing reached Machine City as Asaka Akie defended it from Black-Skinned Monsters, while Fang Cheng met Li Yu and learned that Hokkaido had been pulled into a Subspace.
• Li Yu and Fang Cheng defeated the Kraken, and Fang Cheng secretly absorbed its life force as battles spread across Hokkaido.
• Asaka Akie, Kanzaki Rin, Ye Yuqing, and Fang Cheng fought Ghost Cultivation Mountain, and Fang Cheng destroyed it from within before helping evacuate Machine City’s residents.
• Fang Cheng found Yuguang Kaori and Qingxue, then joined Tamamo-no-Mae and Ibaraki-doji to pursue Shuten-doji after he stole the Giant Egg.
• The Giant Egg hatched into Ootengu, and Fang Cheng killed Shuten-doji before using Mother’s Left Hand to purge the Evil God’s corruption from Ootengu.
• Ugou Mirai’s consciousness emerged as dominant within the merged Great Tengu, and Tamamo-no-Mae revealed that she and Ibaraki-doji had sought revenge against a Four Horsemen knight.
• Fang Cheng identified the knight as the Death Knight and agreed to help Tamamo-no-Mae and Ibaraki-doji in exchange for a favor from each, then took them and the others toward Iron-Cast Palace as a shadow possessed General Khun Phaen.

Fang Cheng and his allies defeated Alcmene, uncovered the system’s upgraded features, and prepared for the Death Knight’s arrival. Their battle with Death and the summoned Death Angel ended with the group heading to southeast Hokkaido after Mother’s Right Arm and the Proofs.

• Oni Yunjie and Fang Cheng battled Alcmene as she overwhelmed the Iron-Cast Palace with insects and spider webs, and Fang Cheng ultimately killed her after Oni Yunjie disrupted her underground plan.
• Fang Cheng reassured Oni Yunjie that she had helped save the world, gave her Alcmene’s Proof, and helped secure Ibuki City while the survivors gathered the battlefield dead.
• Fang Cheng’s system upgraded, granting him Skill Trees and new functions, while Oni Yunjie and Ibaraki-doji considered the Iron-Cast Palace’s future and its alliance with Fang Cheng.
• Fang Cheng learned that Tamamo-no-Mae, Ibaraki-doji, and Ugou Mirai intended to confront the Death Knight, then discovered that Death had arrived outside the Iron-Cast Palace.
• Fang Cheng drew Death away from Ibuki City and fought him with Ugou Mirai, Tamamo-no-Mae, Ibaraki-doji, Li Yu, Tsukimi Mei, and Izanae, while Death’s power rose to match his.
• Death summoned the Death Angel, which grew to level 145 and opened the Heavenly Gate, and Kanzaki Rin helped Fang Cheng recover, and the angel’s self-destruction killed Li Yu and Kanzaki Rin before both revived.
• Tsukimi Mei told Fang Cheng that Mother’s Right Arm and the Proofs had gone southeast, so the group flew toward southeast Hokkaido and stared in shock at what awaited them.