Recaps

Xu Zhi used the Game Console and her Familiars to survive the Black Fog, grow stronger, and destroy the lunatics at Affiliated Middle School. After meeting survivors through a temporary Spirit Vessel and finding a Black Fruit, she ate it just as the game began upgrading.

• Xu Zhi discovered a game console that let her raise Familiars, and leveling them improved her own weakened body.
• Xu Zhi killed the black-eyed girl who came to her apartment, then left home with Little One and Doggie to seek safety in the fog.
• Xu Zhi met Shen Jinwen, exchanged information about Attribute Cores, and enlisted her help in drawing the lunatics out of Affiliated Middle School.
• Little One killed the bespectacled leader and collected [Cup] cores, while Xu Zhi discovered the severed limbs were part of a dangerous Scarlet Cup ritual and had her Familiars destroy them.
• Xu Zhi used [Cup] cores to create a Spirit Vessel, met Yan Songlin and Yan Rui, and learned about their settlement of nearly thirty survivors.
• Xu Zhi’s Spirit Vessel crumbled, and Doggie found a shrub bearing four Black Fruits.
• Xu Zhi ate one Black Fruit, nearly lost herself in a vision of being a moth, and regained her senses when Doggie barked.
• Xu Zhi saw a notice that the Game Console was upgrading for two hours.

Xu Zhi strengthened her Familiars, established terms for survivors in the Old Residential District, and began trading with the Special Investigations Office. She found Zhong Lingfan’s group at Nanshan Villa District and left after trading for a [Lamp] Attribute Core, with the group’s possible relocation still undecided.

• Xu Zhi discovered Cloud City was isolated by fog, chose Xiao Zhen as her third Familiar, and began gathering cores and exploring the city.
• Xu Zhi registered with the Special Investigations Office, but her mixed attributes confounded the examiner and her Spirit Vessel crumbled before the assessment was completed.
• Xu Zhi’s Familiars killed a mutated bear, and she learned its core contained Source as her own strength and their levels grew.
• Xu Zhi offered four survivors a place in the Old Residential District for one core per person each week and gave Shen Jinwen Winter cores as an advance on her salary.
• Xu Zhi bargained with the Special Investigations Office for cores and information, then left when its monitoring and probing annoyed her.
• Xu Zhi chose a Cup-attribute Aberration as her fourth Familiar, fed it cores and blood, and named it Little Dummy.
• Xu Zhi reached Zhong Lingfan at the garden estate and proposed that her group relocate to Xu Zhi’s residence, with Zhong Lingfan managing them and Xu Zhi protecting them.
• Zhong Lingfan agreed to consider relocating if Xu Zhi entered a defended room the next day without injury or irreversible harm, and Xu Zhi traded for a [Lamp] Attribute Core before returning home.

Xu Zhi advanced her power, gathered survivors, and uncovered a cult trying to create an Archbishop through human sacrifices. She ended the stretch trying to restore a blind girl’s sight with Moth-made eyes, but the girl’s body rejected them.

• Xu Zhi entered the Special Investigations Office headquarters, traded information with Lin Zizhen, and secured Attribute Cores in exchange for evidence about Cloud City’s Black Fog and nighttime dangers.
• Xu Zhi advanced and gained the [Moth] ability, while her Familiars grew stronger and the Little Aberration transformed after eating a Black Fruit.
• Xu Zhi followed a missing team’s trail to Fanatics, where a blood ritual killed its captives until the Little Aberration consumed the ritualist and awakened its Parasitic Seed ability.
• Xu Zhi rescued stranded survivors, then continued searching Cloud City and brought Qin Qin and her [cup] brother to the Old Residential District.
• Xu Zhi and her Familiars destroyed a nest of Mutated Spiders, gathered their cores and silk, and discovered thousands of spider eggs that she planned to raise for the district’s Transcendents.
• Xu Zhi encountered two rational Fanatics and learned from the boy that an Acolyte planned to sacrifice superhumans and believers to create a bishop, while a rare saintess’s heart was needed to make an Archbishop.
• Xu Zhi crafted Moth’s Eyes from the boy’s eyes, her blood, and Cup Attribute Cores, then placed them in the saintess’s empty sockets and gave her blood when her body began rejecting them.

Xu Zhi forged a partnership with Huo Ze, entered Midnight, and used a flawed ritual to make Yu Shenwei the reserve Archbishop of Jealousy. After building up the Old Residential District and subduing its holdouts, Xu Zhi traveled to the Federation and found a Fanatic hideout that seemed unusually weak.

• Xu Zhi helped Huo Ze hunt believers, forged a Lantern, and entered Midnight, where she encountered a Black Cat that became her Nightmare Familiar.
• Xu Zhi brought Huo Ze and Yu Shenwei to the Acolyte’s followers, killed A-Lin, and used Doggie and Little Cat to defeat the Acolyte.
• Xu Zhi let Huo Ze begin the ritual, but Little Aberration consumed much of its energy as Yu Shenwei became a reserve Archbishop and survived.
• Xu Zhi returned to the Old Residential District, arranged a Mutated Animal breeding ground, and defeated four extraordinary men who had refused to join her management system.
• Yu Shenwei awakened with a rapidly healing body and growing jealousy toward Xu Zhi, while Narrator revealed that she was the Archbishop of Jealousy and that Xu Zhi anchored her power.
• Xu Zhi agreed to help Yu Shenwei absorb more Jealousy, then traveled to the Federation, where Lin Zizhen described the supernatural beings’ mounting losses.
• Xu Zhi joined Lin Zizhen’s raid on a Fanatic hideout, where Wan Luo mistook her for a sheltered princess and Xu Zhi noticed that the believers and Aberrations seemed weaker than those in Cloud City.