Recaps

Skander Beshavich addressed thousands of desperate people in a cavern, promising them a chance to survive and settle their grievances if they pledged everything to the true god. He began a bloody invocation to summon the god’s gaze, leaving the crowd poised to seek the promised chance.

• Thousands of people gathered in a cavern and watched Skander Beshavich descend onto a raised platform in the form of a human.
• Skander told the crowd that the true god could grant some of them a chance to survive, settle scores, and gain everything.
• Skander warned that anyone granted the chance would owe the god their faith, life, and possessions, and must obey every command.
• Skander scattered powder and symbols around a hollow, cut his palm, and recited an invocation to the true god.
• The pale-faced followers knelt around the hollow, offered their blood, and repeated, “We offer blood and life. May our Lord bear witness.”

Skander led a blood ritual that summoned a white phantom, allowing people to seek the Progenitor’s favor. The phantom vanished after selecting some participants, and Skander announced that Divine Grace would open again in seven days.

• Skander’s followers and the assembled people added blood to the pit until the stone surface turned white and a phantom appeared.
• At Skander’s direction, people entered the white circle, enduring intense sensations as they faced the phantom and pleaded for hope.
• The phantom pulsed, and some people inside the circle froze with white reflections in their eyes before the light vanished.
• Several participants collapsed or showed unusual symptoms, and the pale-faced figures separated them for care.
• Skander told the crowd their opportunity depended on their resolve and ability, announced Divine Grace would return in seven days, and left Soro to receive the remaining honored guests.

Skander received divine grace that restored his strength and pushed his Vampire bloodline to the brink of Fourth Tier. As he hurried to prepare for his transformation, similar signs began appearing among spiritually sensitive worshippers in other turbulent regions.

• Skander staggered away from the ritual site as divine grace stirred his bloodline and nearly overwhelmed him with the urge to transform.
• He recognized that organizing large-scale worship and draws had brought him a divine blessing, and he chose to build a loose church rather than pursue his former plan of becoming a God of Vengeance in the Night.
• His body began crystallizing and developing signs of wings as he rushed to the meditation chamber to recover and sever ties to his bloodline descendants before advancing.
• Skander realized his transformation could make him a true Vampire Kind creature rather than a human user with Vampire Bloodline.
• Prayers and masses in turbulent regions, especially the Middle East, began showing unusual effects among people with strong spiritual sensitivity.

Taiga Haruki joined a well-paid march promoting the Main God Platform, but the procession collapsed when a masked swordsman chased down and killed a fleeing man in front of the crowd. The killer returned to the sea, leaving Taiga and the other marchers to scatter as police cordoned off the scene.

• Taiga Haruki joined a Shibuya march promoting the Main God Platform, carrying a sign and handing out flyers for the promised pay.
• An elderly woman rejected the march’s message, and Taiga reflected that he had joined mainly for the money.
• The marchers stopped at Aoyama Avenue after spotting two men racing across the water toward the pier.
• A wounded man ran into the crowd, but a masked swordsman in black hakama followed and severed his arm with an unsheathed uchigatana.
• The masked swordsman called the man Tsukatatsu, said the Shark Group did not allow retirement, and killed him before walking back across the water.
• Taiga watched the march dissolve as the crowd fled and police cordoned off the body.

Li Jiye visited a classified research facility to hear the preliminary results of tests on his Tianhuang Stone. The researchers suspected it could convert conventional energy into spiritual energy, but Professor Xin warned that officially classifying it as a meteorite might bring outside researchers and put Li Jiye’s possession of it at risk.

• Li Jiye toured the research facility and sensed spiritual energy from specimens collected near meteor craters.
• Professor Xin and other researchers argued over access to Li Jiye’s stone before he arrived.
• Professor Xin told Li Jiye that the initial tests had revealed unusual properties and asked to continue examining the stone.
• Li Jiye insisted on taking the stone back unless the researchers could explain their findings.
• Professor Xin warned that a meteorite classification could bring in more resources and researchers, potentially costing Li Jiye control of the stone.
• Professor Xin said the stone might inefficiently convert conventional energy into spiritual energy.

Li Yun heard Qian Yisheng explain the worsening changes outside cities and the Special Investigation Bureau’s effort to recruit powerful users. The chapter ended with Qian reporting grave disturbances and unexplained rural disappearances.

• Professor Xin warned Li Jiye that a meteorite fragment could be claimed as a strategic resource, while a stone sample would be easier to research through a provincial institute project.
• Qian Yisheng told Li Yun that outsiders had accessed Li Jiye’s and Li Yun’s information, then cautioned him against becoming entangled in outside affairs.
• Qian showed Li Yun photographs of wilderness areas where vegetation and building materials were changing, and Li Yun demonstrated his ability to capture Numinous Spark.
• Qian tried to recruit Li Yun into the official ranks and described worsening disorder abroad, pressure on urban security, and the growing danger of rural settlements.
• Qian reported that rural graves had been disturbed and corpses had vanished, alongside unexplained disappearances among countryside residents.

Li Yun heard about worsening environmental disruptions and suspected corpses moving on their own, while Ning Yu’s black cat showed off its supernatural strength outside his home. Qian Yisheng offered Li Yun a flexible position with the Special Investigation Bureau, and Li Yun agreed after hearing about the benefits and research resources.

• Qian Yisheng and Officer Hu told Li Yun about stolen corpses, failing satellite monitoring, and plans to consolidate rural populations into cities.
• Li Yun caught Ning Yu’s black cat trying to sneak into his teacup, and it fled with a small crystalline object in its mouth.
• Outside, the black cat defeated and chased off a group of cats and dogs while Qian Yisheng’s driver watched in disbelief.
• Qian Yisheng presented Li Yun with identification documents and offered him a flexible role assisting the Special Investigation Bureau.
• Li Yun asked about compensation, heard that the department offered valuable experimental research, and agreed to join.

Li Yun learned that two more Main God Users had reached the Fourth Tier: an unstable bearer of Perfect Blood and Hedit, a necromancer who led a horde of undead. Hedit continued his brutal campaign while exploiting online rituals to gather spiritual power, and Li Yun observed him without intervening.

• Li Yun watched an English bearer of Perfect Blood break through to the Fourth Tier using [White Dragon Ether] and enhancement resources, but judged the transformation unstable and lopsided.
• Hedit reached the Fourth Tier and led his undead horde in slaughtering a town, then gathered prisoners, supplies, and corpses to sustain his growing power.
• Hedit ordered Declan to find a network connection, question survivors, and plan their route, then asked how many views his necromancy tutorials had received.
• The Main God explained that Hedit’s altered online rituals secretly funneled spiritual energy to him through newly possible links in the changing world.
• Li Yun learned that Hedit had become partly undead and was using satellite internet and dark-web tutorials to expand his influence, but chose not to interfere.

As Numinous Spark spread through the changing world, Li Yun observed the new conditions and the growing pressure on Main God users. When a patrol officer vanished in the East District sewers amid unexplained bodies, Qian Yisheng assembled a response team and saw Fang Yishu at the top of the recommended list.

• Li Yun confirmed that a newly awakened Fourth Tier was absorbing Numinous Spark and chose not to push his own cultivation further.
• Li Yun watched a sneaky cat head for the kitchen as strange phenomena and rumors increasingly appeared in everyday life.
• Qian Yisheng reviewed the rising scarcity of Main God slots and the changing balance between users and official organizations.
• A staff member told Qian Yisheng that a patrol officer had disappeared in the East District sewers, where investigators found several bodies and disturbing figures.
• Qian Yisheng decided to recruit nearby users from the secondary list, and the first recommendation was Fang Yishu, a Second Tier user suspected of having psychic detection abilities.

Fang Yishu joined a Special Investigation Bureau team investigating a sewer after using her psychic abilities to detect corpses and destroy a lurking Spirit Entity. The group realized that Yin Souls had begun appearing in reality and continued toward an unknown threat deeper in the passage.

• Fang Yishu accepted the Bureau's request to investigate the sewer, and Ning Yu and her black cat accompanied her.
• Fang Yishu called Li Jiye for backup, and he joined the group after explaining that he could not reach Li Yun.
• The gathered users equipped themselves and entered the sewer, with Fang Yishu and Ning Yu positioned near the middle of the group.
• Fang Yishu detected several corpse-like presences near a fork in the passage and sensed a sinister spiritual atmosphere.
• Ning Yu raised a glowing hand as Fang Yishu focused, but Fang Yishu's psychic ripple silenced a hidden Spirit Entity.
• The man surnamed Lan identified the entity as a Yin Soul and warned the group that such beings were now appearing in reality.

Fang Yishu and the team investigated a sewer passage and found three bloated corpses, then discovered a vast tide of reanimated creatures advancing on them. They fled through the tunnels, with Fang and the others slowing the horde as a flare briefly revealed its scale and made it hesitate.

• Zheng Mian told the team that the sewer phenomena resembled corpse-manipulation rituals he had seen online, but the group decided to continue investigating.
• Fang Yishu led the team to a side passage, where they found three swollen corpses slumped against the wall.
• Fang Yishu sensed creatures approaching from the side passage and other tunnels, so Li Jiye ordered everyone to retreat.
• A horde of twisted living corpses poured from the darkness, and the team fought their way back as the buzz-cut man used green flames to slow the creatures.
• Fang Yishu used her psychic power and Yuanbao cut down pursuers while the team fled; a flare lit the tunnel and briefly made the horde pause.

Li Jiye, Lan Shicheng, and the others escaped a sewer overrun by infected corpses, and Lan Shicheng warned officials to seal the area and bring in heavier firepower. Elsewhere, two influential men met a curse master in his basement, where a shadowy figure appeared and questioned his kind of enhancement.

• Lan Shicheng and the others fought their way to the shaft and were pulled to the surface, where Special Office personnel locked and barricaded the entrance.
• Ning Yu treated the crew-cut man's bite, while Lan Shicheng warned officials that the sewers had become a nest and needed to be sealed and searched.
• Mr. Lan told Li Jiye that infections had become unusually dangerous and that researchers were investigating changes to the environment and microorganisms.
• Gold Ring and the man in the jacket visited a basement curse master to warn him about the sewer investigation and ask for more supplies.
• The curse master refused to stop his work, claimed the creatures below would hinder investigators, and placed a coated wooden doll inside a sack.
• After the visitors left, a shadowy figure took the box from the table and asked the curse master whether people still developed that kind of enhancement.

Li Yun discovered that a Thai curser was using a Feng Shui layout and tortured victims to cultivate Sha Energy, then destroyed his spirits and forced him to experience their suffering. He freed captives and left the curser incapacitated, while the fat man and jacket-wearing man fled after he tossed a box into their car.

• Li Yun broke into the hidden room, found a Kuman Thong altar, and took a Second Tier Feng Shui book from it.
• Li Yun examined the basement’s grisly Feng Shui layout and recognized how it had tainted the Numinous Spark with Sha Energy.
• Li Yun confronted the curser, exposed his fake elixirs, and offered him the choice of cleaning up and leaving or being dealt with.
• The curser attacked with a puppet and Spirit Children, but Li Yun destroyed them and forced the curser to experience the victims’ pain.
• Li Yun freed the drugged captives, destroyed the mud figures and urns, and told the servant to call the police.
• Li Yun threw a box through the sedan’s window, and the jacket-wearing man drove away in a panic while the driver watched.

After the sewer corpses died and investigators uncovered a criminal network, Qian Yisheng suspected the case had been made to end too neatly. Li Yun returned home and examined how Sha Energy affected bone and flesh, while officials received reports that the land itself was undergoing rapid, abnormal expansion.

• A military team found more than two hundred motionless corpses in sewers across a limited area, and investigators linked them to a house where people had been killed and bodies disposed of.
• The Special Office traced the house to stolen crematorium bodies, psychiatric patient deaths, abductions, and other crimes, but Qian Yisheng worried that the case had been resolved too conveniently.
• Li Yun returned to his courtyard, where a black cat pawed at out-of-season buds growing under the influence of the Numinous Spark.
• Li Yun drew Sha Energy from a bone shard into his hand, observed it turn gray and stone-like, then burned away the altered flesh with lightning.
• Officials reviewed reports of tunnel collapses, landslides, subsidence, shifting waterways, and apparent expansion of the Earth's surface since the meteorite incident.

Chen Ruiping reached the crucial stage of condensing qi into astral force as he cultivated in a chamber filled with Sinkhole materials, while a mysterious figure briefly sensed his breakthrough across the void. His progress appeared to bring him to the threshold of Fourth Tier, stirring envy and resentment among the observers.

• As changes spread through the wilderness and infrastructure, Chen Ruiping remained isolated in a specially prepared chamber, cultivating with Sinkhole materials to raise his energy.
• Chen Ruiping endured repeated injuries as he refined himself, and his broken sword began to tremble while blurred memories of a past life surfaced.
• A shadow beneath a vast Light Wheel briefly sensed Chen Ruiping and angrily berated him before their connection vanished.
• Chen Ruiping grasped the transformation of qi into astral force, and his broken sword hummed as the chamber's spiritual energy rapidly declined.
• Li Ce and other observers suspected Chen Ruiping had reached the threshold of Fourth Tier, while a bald Third Tier man resented the resources devoted to him.

Li Jiye woke inside a bone-built sanctuary after the sacrificial procedures in the mission world had failed and learned that released monsters were roaming outside. Realizing the shelter would soon stop protecting him, he accepted a bone-whistle pendant from his dying companion and prepared to face the horrors from The Cabin in the Woods.

• Li Jiye woke in a chamber made from human bones and received a Two-Star mission to survive for as long as he could.
• An injured man warned Li Jiye not to damage the Bone Church because its Sacrificial Effect concealed them from the creatures outside.
• The man used a bone-whistle pendant to hide his presence and explained that his body was being consumed as the church's sacrifice.
• The dying man told Li Jiye that a couple had disrupted the sacrificial procedure, releasing the monsters, and Li Jiye recognized the world as The Cabin in the Woods.
• Li Jiye triggered the Horror Hunter side mission and decided to leave the failing sanctuary rather than wait to die.
• The man gave Li Jiye his bone-whistle pendant and died after urging him to keep moving forward.

Li Jiye escaped the Bone Church into a blood-soaked facility crawling with horror-movie monsters, using a bone whistle to conceal himself. As an approaching mummy searched for him, he recognized its muttering and tried to address it.

• Li Jiye used an ID card to leave the Bone Church and found a corridor full of corpses and destruction.
• Li Jiye used psychokinesis to glimpse Jason Voorhees killing a researcher, then hid as a giant bat and a ghost rushed past.
• Li Jiye watched numerous monsters, including werewolves, an Alien, and possessed humans, hunt survivors throughout the facility.
• Li Jiye realized a mummy was following his tracks and grew alarmed as it muttered about Anck-su-namun.
• Li Jiye asked the mummy whether it was High Priest Imhotep from ancient Egypt.

Li Jiye encountered the partially revived High Priest Imhotep, who recognized the bone amulet and offered to help him escape the cursed world in exchange for it. After Li Jiye accepted, Imhotep seized him with living mummy wrappings and identified him as Zhen Dan rather than Bloodline of Amun.

• Li Jiye questioned the mummy, and Imhotep revived part of his face by consuming a nearby corpse before asking who knew his name.
• Imhotep explained that the bone amulet had once been his and offered to return Li Jiye to his homeland after recovering his magic.
• Li Jiye refused to leave the mission area, and Imhotep proposed that they travel together while he regained his power and sought a way home.
• Li Jiye accepted the offer and handed Imhotep the amulet, but Imhotep's mummy wrappings immediately bound him.
• Imhotep examined the bound Li Jiye and exclaimed, "Not Bloodline of Amun—Zhen Dan?"

Imhotep cursed Li Jiye into a half-corpse guard to hide his life aura and ordered him to help find the organs needed for the Canopic Jar ritual. As they crossed the slaughtered facility, Li Jiye fought and subdued an axe-wielding monster in a raincoat, then dragged him toward Imhotep.

• Imhotep wrapped Li Jiye in a curse that drained much of his life force but increased his strength and concealed his living aura.
• Imhotep led Li Jiye through the blood-soaked facility to search for the organs needed to complete the Canopic Jar ritual.
• An axe-wielding man in a raincoat ambushed Li Jiye, and Imhotep ordered Li Jiye to subdue him without killing him.
• Li Jiye fought the raincoat man, exposed his face, and beat him unconscious as the raincoat's power weakened.
• Li Jiye tied the raincoat man's collar to the axe and dragged him after Imhotep.

Li Jiye and Imhotep encountered Thor after the resurrected god blasted through a hall full of monsters, then split up to search the base for relics and people. Li Jiye recruited Thor to help hunt monsters, and Bruce Wayne awakened and approached them.

• Imhotep warned Li Jiye to flee when Thor awakened in the hall and unleashed lightning that struck the monsters, including a witch.
• Imhotep told Li Jiye that his scarab talisman and the Seal of the Ram were likely in a laboratory in the base’s southern section, then sent Li Jiye to gather living men while he searched for the relics.
• Li Jiye decided to take advantage of the reduced danger and enlist Thor’s strength to help him hunt monsters for the [Horror Hunter] side quest.
• Li Jiye convinced Thor that he was a cursed staff member and gave him an axe, which Thor used to kill the demonic unicorn.
• Bruce Wayne revived, found a weapon, and introduced himself to Li Jiye and Thor.

Li Jiye, Thor, and Bruce Wayne escaped into a control room, where Bruce questioned a project supervisor and learned that the facility’s sacrifices were meant to protect the world. Li Jiye studied the surveillance feeds for monsters to hunt, while Bruce decided to verify the supervisor’s warning before they tried to leave.

• Bruce Wayne regained his composure and joined Li Jiye and Thor after they killed the demon Unicorn.
• Bruce analyzed the ruined facility and asked how its monsters had been captured and what purpose the sacrifices served.
• Bruce used a security keycard to open a room where survivors were hiding, then questioned a project supervisor.
• The supervisor panicked upon seeing Thor alive and said the sacrifice order had failed, while Li Jiye recognized that the chosen victims’ roles had been mismatched.
• Li Jiye searched the surveillance feeds for suitable monsters to hunt as Bruce warned that failed sacrifices could destroy the world.
• Bruce proposed verifying the supervisor’s claim before they tried to escape, and Li Jiye agreed to wait and use him as a hunting partner.

Bruce Wayne planned a route to the central control area, and he, Li Jiye, and Thor fought their way through the demon-infested base. After facing Pennywise, a werewolf, and a giant snake, the group reached the central control hall.

• Bruce Wayne used the maps and remaining surveillance feeds to plan a route to the central control area and fashioned a crude bat hood.
• Bruce Wayne, Li Jiye, Thor, and their guide avoided a corridor packed with zombies and slipped past Pennywise, who killed a female agent.
• Li Jiye and Thor attacked a werewolf together, driving it off, while Li Jiye noticed that his curse was draining his life as it strengthened his body.
• Thor met a giant snake head-on, cleaving its skull with his axe, and Li Jiye urged the group to leave the still-thrashing creature behind.
• Bruce Wayne, Li Jiye, Thor, and their guide fought through zombies and descended toward the central control hall.

Batman, Thor, and Li Jiye reached the control hall, where Ms. Ripley revealed that the base’s monsters were bound by an entity beneath it and its remaining sacrifice plan was failing. Batman confirmed the officials were telling the truth and asked Ms. Ripley to take them to the Sacrificial Grounds as time ran out.

• Batman recognized that the masked killers had left the hall and identified the bloated infected as a Vomitifer that attracted zombies.
• Thor destroyed the Vomitifer with lightning, drawing the zombie horde away while the group reached the control hall’s side door.
• Batman used Thor’s identity to persuade the control hall staff to let them in, where Ms. Ripley greeted them and led them toward the surveillance hall.
• Ms. Ripley told Batman that an entity beneath the base bound the monsters, while an old man urged the last three sacrifice subjects to be sent to the Sacrificial Grounds.
• Batman asked Li Jiye whether the others were telling the truth; Li Jiye confirmed it, and Batman asked Ms. Ripley to lead them to the Sacrificial Grounds.

Batman and the others descended to the Sacrificial Grounds, where Ripley explained the ritual meant to appease the Ancient Gods. When the gods sensed Li Jiye’s mark of Khaos, they turned on one another and demanded he surrender it.

• Batman brought Thor, the young couple, and Old Li down with Ripley to the ancient altar beneath the control hall.
• Ripley explained that five sacrifices were meant to die at the hands of a chosen monster so humanity could survive.
• Batman refused to take Ripley’s word for the ritual and asked to speak directly with the Ancient Gods.
• Ripley cut her wrist to summon the gods, and their power suppressed Thor’s lightning and knocked him down.
• The Ancient Gods recognized Khaos’s mark on Li Jiye, argued over seizing it, and demanded that he surrender it in exchange for a promise of power.

Li Jiye was trapped under the gaze of the Titan Gods, who demanded he surrender his Main God User privileges and sacrifice himself in exchange for control of the planet and promised immortality. As the mission countdown neared its end, he chose to stall by asking which god he should offer himself to.

• Li Jiye received warnings from the Main God that an Eleventh-Tier True God had requested a trade and that death in the mission world could affect his true body.
• The Titan Gods discussed the Chaos's Mark and offered Li Jiye power and immortality if he willingly sacrificed everything he possessed.
• Ripley urged Li Jiye to sacrifice himself for humanity, but a silent gaze turned her to ash.
• A bat warned Li Jiye that the Titans had already been defeated, then died in infernal fire after speaking.
• With the countdown nearly over, Li Jiye asked the gods which one he should make his offering to.