Recaps

Li Jiye escaped the Titan Ancient Gods’ grasp when the Main God extracted his true self, but the experience left him briefly stripped of his body and emotions. Back on the platform, he recovered, discovered his rewards and a Dimension Key, and learned that his next mission could take him to one of three worlds.

• Li Jiye delayed the Titan Ancient Gods’ attempts to seize him until his mission timer completed, then chose to settle the mission and escaped through the Main God’s teleportation.
• The Ancient Gods lost track of Li Jiye, destroyed the remaining sacrifices and related objects, and issued a command to find the bearer of the God-Ancestor Mark.
• Li Jiye returned to the green platform, recovered from damage to his essence, and spent hours instinctively imitating the grasp of the colossal stone hand he had glimpsed.
• Li Jiye checked his mission results and received 4,200 Universal Points, a Rare Grade exchange card, and a Dimension Key, while paying 1,722 points for repairs.
• Li Jiye examined the Dimension Key and found that it could add Wrath of the Gods, Silent Hill, or Dark Universe Event to his next cycle’s mission options.

As the Main God's influence spread, Li Yun attended the opening of Yuan Zhengxin's Xinlin Group and saw how users were building organizations and secure communities. Leaving the ceremony with Cheng Kai, Li Yun noticed the sky had turned uniformly azure, a sight Cheng Kai recognized.

• The Main God's influence grew as users and their products reshaped society and the economy.
• Li Yun, Old Li, Fang Yishu, and Ning Yu attended Yuan Zhengxin's Xinlin Group opening ceremony.
• Li Yun learned from Cheng Kai that Xinlin Group combined technology, security, and training, and was developing a guarded residential complex backed by local companies.
• Cheng Kai offered Li Yun a chance to stay in a unit and provide feedback on the complex.
• Li Yun stopped and stared at the uniformly azure sky, and Cheng Kai recognized the sight.

Li Yun oversaw the second descent of Numinous Spark, as meteors and rain transformed the sky and sent people into a frenzy searching for fortune. The meteor shower faded without answering anyone’s hopes, and people began fighting over the traces left in the rain.

• Meteors appeared across the azure sky as darkness fell and rain carrying Numinous Spark began to descend.
• Li Yun observed the transformation while Cheng Kai suggested sheltering from the rain, and Li Jiye briefly sensed Li Yun’s immense vitality.
• People reacted wildly to the rain and falling stars, chasing meteor fragments, collecting rainwater, and rushing out of the city despite traffic and communications breaking down.
• The meteors ignored the crowds’ attempts to attract their attention, then faded as daylight returned.
• Disappointed people noticed faint traces of azure on the wet ground, and new conflicts began over what remained.

As azure rain spread Numinous Spark across the city, Li Yun and his companions hurried to a raided transfer warehouse after Cheng Kai received a call for support. They found a massacre and evidence of an inside job, while the attackers’ target appeared to be valuable Numinous Materials.

• People across the city collected the azure rain as Ning Yu, her black cat, and others noticed plants, animals, and people reacting to the Numinous Spark.
• Cheng Kai learned that unidentified attackers had raided a nearby transfer warehouse during the communication blackout and led the group there.
• Li Jiye carried the exhausted Cheng Kai while the group raced through congested streets, and Li Yun identified the smell of blood near their destination.
• The group entered the ruined warehouse and found many dead workers and security personnel; Cheng Kai tried to rouse his colleague Old Xu before Li Jiye confirmed he was dead.
• Li Yun examined the blast and footprint patterns, concluded that an insider had coordinated with outside attackers, and learned that the warehouse handled Numinous Materials bound for a provincial research institute.

After attacks on spiritual-energy sites exposed a suspected insider network, the city restored order while worldwide changes and meteorite falls continued. Yuan Zhengxin told Li Yun about a likely undiscovered meteorite site, and they arranged to investigate it with Li Jiye’s team.

• Cheng Kai confirmed that insiders had tampered with the transfer station’s surveillance, while reports revealed coordinated attacks on spiritual-energy sites across the city.
• Armed troops restored order, but meteor sightings and communications disruptions were reported around the world as people searched remote areas for meteorites.
• Yuan Zhengxin visited Li Yun after advancing to the Second Tier, showing him a bracelet containing a meteorite fragment he had obtained from a divided fall site.
• Yuan Zhengxin revealed that he had heard of another likely meteorite site and invited Li Yun to join him in searching for it.
• Li Yun called Old Li, and they agreed to bring Li Jiye’s team along on the expedition.

Li Yun's group left the city to pursue their journey, only to find the wilderness transformed by spiritual energy into a rapidly growing, chaotic landscape. Despite the dangers and Boss Yuan's misgivings, Li Yun decided they would continue into the forest.

• Boss Yuan helped Li Yun's group obtain permission to leave the restricted city, and they set out in a modified off-road vehicle.
• The group found that vegetation had overrun the road and tree roots had cracked and corroded the pavement; Fang Yishu sensed intense life activity, while Ning Yu felt the wilderness's vitality and danger.
• Boss Yuan chose to leave the vehicle and continue on foot, and Li Jiye led the group through the overgrowth as Ning Yu's black cat caught and released an unusually large field mouse.
• The road soon gave way to broken pavement and chaotic vegetation, and Ning Yu noticed that the plants had advanced through their seasons far ahead of schedule.
• Li Yun suggested spiritual energy was accelerating plant growth and that humans might be evolving as well; after Fang Yishu was overwhelmed by underground activity, Li Yun chose to keep going toward the dark forest.

Li Yun's group trekked through a wilderness transformed by the Numinous Spark and discovered three starving survivors covered in mushrooms. After giving them water and food, Li Yun learned that they had become stranded when the forest changed after the spiritual rain.

• Li Yun reflected that the latest Numinous Spark had strengthened the wilderness's spiritual conditions and encouraged plants to change.
• Ruan Chenggang and the others rested while Li Yun boiled their water, and Ning Yu sensed living people nearby.
• Li Yun's group found two men and a woman leaning motionless against a rock, with fungi growing on their clothes and bodies.
• Boss Yuan gave the survivors water and food, and they slowly regained enough strength to speak.
• Li Yun asked how long they had been stranded, and the bearded man recalled that the forest changed after the rain.

Li Yun’s group rescued three lost hikers and struggled through an increasingly hostile, overgrown wilderness while Old Li drew swarms of biting insects. After more than a day of slow progress, Li Yun spotted signs that their destination was close.

• The three hikers explained that rain had erased their trail, and Li Yun discovered mushrooms growing on their damp clothes and skin.
• Ning Yu healed the hikers, and the group brought them along through the wilderness.
• Old Li attracted swarms of insects and suffered repeated bites until Ning Yu treated the effects of the venom.
• The group forced its way through dense growth for more than a day, with the hikers trailing behind on a rope.
• Li Yun returned from scouting the treetops and said their destination should be just ahead.

Li Yun’s group reached a Sinkhole surrounded by unusually vigorous plants and gathered animals, then discovered a Third Tier tiger guarding a Meteorite Fragment inside. Li Yun left the fight to Captain Li, who prepared to approach the tiger with Fang Yishu and Ning Yu supporting him.

• The group reached the ridge, where unusual mist, thriving vegetation, and animal tracks revealed the Sinkhole’s influence.
• Li Yun killed a camouflaged snake that had been creeping toward the black cat, then asked Fang Yishu to check the pit with her mental power.
• Old Li climbed a tree and spotted a massive tiger inside the Sinkhole, resting beside a jade-like Meteorite Fragment amid scattered bones and hides.
• Li Yun judged that the tiger had only recently reached the Third Tier and told Old Li he would not directly help him take the fragment.
• Old Li agreed to try fighting the tiger and assigned Fang Yishu and Ning Yu to support him while Li Yun handed him the black cat and reminded him that cats were wild animals too.

A black cat wounded a buffalo and sent it into the Sinkhole, drawing out the giant tiger that guarded it. Li Jiye charged into the pit to seize the chance, but after injuring the tiger and trading blows, he faced it again as his temporary enhancements began to run out.

• The black cat disguised its scent, slipped among the animals, and used an energy attack to wound a buffalo and startle it into the Sinkhole.
• The giant tiger roared, scattered the animals, and dragged the buffalo back down into its territory.
• After the airborne lookout reported that the fragment remained at the bottom, Li Jiye charged into the Sinkhole with a machete, strengthened by Ning Yu's [Bear's Strength—Lesser Effect].
• The tiger struck Li Jiye with its tail, but he wounded its leg and fired his gun at its biological weak point, badly injuring it.
• Li Jiye dodged the tiger's counterattacks and realized his temporary strength boosts could not last through a prolonged fight.
• As the wounded tiger closed in again, Li Jiye discarded his machete and took a strange fighting stance.

Li Yun's group defeated the Third Tier tiger in the Sinkhole and recovered a powerful Jade fragment, which helped heal Old Li and gave the others valuable spoils. After collecting the tiger's hide, crystallized soil, and glowing insect eggs, the group left the pit to return.

• Old Li emerged from the Sinkhole badly injured after killing the tiger, and Li Yun told Ning Yu to disinfect his damaged arm while his Life Energy restored him.
• The black cat retrieved the Jade fragment from beside the tiger's corpse and brought it to Ning Yu, after which Li Yun examined it and had Old Li absorb its energy.
• Li Yun gave Boss Yuan a small piece of the Jade as payment for providing information about the location.
• The black cat ate a large amount of the tiger's spiritually powerful flesh while Ruan Chenggang skinned the carcass and the group gathered crystallized soil and glowing insect eggs.
• The group climbed out of the pit with their spoils and prepared to head back.

As the group prepared to leave the Sinkhole, Li Yun warned that the infected hikers needed rest and proper treatment, then headed alone toward his hometown. Meanwhile, officials reviewed the planet’s accelerating environmental changes and learned that ordinary people had successfully circulated cultivation techniques under normal conditions.

• The group packed up their spiritual materials and food, while noticing that mycelium had begun growing again on the exhausted hikers.
• Li Yun stopped Ning Yu from healing the hikers further and said they needed to leave the wilderness for sterilization and rest.
• Li Yun gave Old Li directions to the nearest town, then left alone, saying he wanted to visit his hometown.
• Officials discussed worsening wilderness hazards, disrupted roads and satellites, rising oxygen levels, and the need to relocate rural populations.
• A middle-aged official told an elderly man that ordinary people had successfully circulated cultivation techniques under normal environmental conditions for the first time.

Li Yun flew to his hometown and visited a temporary research institute built around the first Sinkhole before returning to his family. He left his uncle and aunt a box of medicine, learned that his cousins had become users too, and ended the visit at his grandfather’s grave without explaining why the incense there remained undisturbed.

• Li Yun concealed himself and flew to No. 47 Temporary Research Institute, where he saw that the staff and equipment had been reduced.
• Li Yun walked through the changed, nearly empty town and greeted the stone lion near the fields on his way to Li Luyuan’s home.
• Li Luyuan welcomed Li Yun, and they discussed family matters before Li Yun gave him a box of medicine and admitted he had become a user.
• Li Luyuan and his wife told Li Yun that Anshan had become a user and brought his older brother into it, and Li Yun reassured them.
• Li Yun and Li Luyuan cleared a path to the grandfather’s grave, where Li Luyuan wondered whether Li Yun had kept the incense and grave free of weeds; Li Yun smiled without answering.

Li Yun spent the morning with Li Luyuan, hearing about unusual changes in the countryside and the town’s efforts to relocate residents. After lunch, he left town and transformed into a transparent shadow, departing after a final look at a small grave on the hill.

• Li Luyuan insisted that Li Yun stay for lunch, then told him about abnormal plants and animals, new security measures, and officials encouraging residents to move.
• Director Guo and his colleagues visited Li Luyuan to register Li Yun as a temporary resident and persuade the family to relocate, but Li Luyuan refused.
• Little Chen completed Li Yun’s registration and asked to exchange contact information with him, while Li Luyuan encouraged him to accept.
• Li Luyuan accidentally mentioned Li Yun’s parents, then sighed and reassured him that the old master would not blame him.
• After lunch, Li Yun left carrying food from Li Luyuan, looked back at a small mound on a hill, and flew away as a transparent shadow.

After returning to Chengdu, Li Yun met up with the others at Boss Yuan’s abandoned apartment building, where they were containing the Jade and cultivating amid its Numinous Spark. He found their Spirit-Nurturing Talisman, Ning Yu’s growing Vermilion Herb, and signs of Captain Li’s recovery as the group settled into their new refuge.

• Li Yun saw Chengdu’s authorities registering residents and clearing animals and vegetation as the wild’s growth and unrest increased.
• Boss Yuan guided Li Yun through an abandoned factory district to an apartment building where the others had gathered around the Jade.
• Fang Yishu explained that Captain Li and Ruan Chenggang had obtained a Third Tier Spirit-Nurturing Talisman to limit the Jade’s influence and contain its Numinous Spark.
• Boss Yuan explained that he had brought a stray dog for Ning Yu, while Ning Yu had planted Vermilion Herb seeds that were growing rapidly in the Jade’s aura.
• Li Yun saw that Captain Li had nearly recovered and was studying a First-Tier Inner Breath Cultivation Method.

Li Yun meditated beside the jadeite and absorbed spiritual energy, recovering from his depleted state while Li Jiye studied cultivation techniques. By dusk, Li Yun had regained his vitality and sensed that he had returned to the middle of the Fifth Tier.

• Li Yun advised Li Jiye about cultivation, then let him meditate near the jadeite while he rested beside it.
• The jadeite’s spiritual energy replenished Li Yun and restored his damaged, weakened body.
• Ruan Chenggang fetched supplies and found birds gathering around the building, drawn by the leaking spiritual energy.
• Ruan Chenggang eagerly handled errands and shared them with Yuan Zhengxin after realizing the site offered a chance to advance to the Second Tier.
• Li Yun meditated through the afternoon as the others avoided disturbing him.
• At dusk, Li Yun awoke, tested the air with his hand, and recognized that he had reached the middle of the Fifth Tier.

Li Yun’s restraint eased as the changing environment allowed powerful users to advance, while Skander Beshavich broke through to mid-Fourth Tier after using a Godstone Fragment in a public display of divine power. A Chinese research team assessed other emerging Fourth Tier threats and ended by asking about Li Ce’s progress toward advancement.

• Li Yun accepted dinner from Ruan Chenggang and ate calmly as the environment’s loosening suppression enabled breakthroughs among powerful users.
• Skander Beshavich used a Godstone Fragment to release spiritual energy that healed and invigorated his gathered believers, deepening their devotion.
• Skander sensed Divine Grace and crossed the barrier to mid-Fourth Tier, then dismissed a blood descendant who noticed his excitement.
• Chinese researchers presented evidence that Bishop Di’s Holy Water output and effectiveness had increased, suggesting he might have reached Fourth Tier.
• The researchers warned that at least several thousand coordinated corpse-like figures were hunting near western Asia and might be controlled by a Fourth Tier user.
• A Chinese official recalled that Li Ce’s advancement application had been approved and asked about his current situation.

Chen Ruiping and Li Ce abducted a Japanese legislator to learn about Monarch and the Titans, but discovered he knew nothing about them. A livestream revealed a colossal, red-glowing creature rising from Tokyo Bay, and the pair raced toward it as they identified it as a potentially catastrophic Godzilla.

• Chen Ruiping leaped from an overpass, wrecked police cars, and held off officers while Li Ce interrogated an abducted legislator in an alley.
• Li Ce learned that the legislator had no knowledge of Godzilla, Kong, Monarch, or Titans, despite his high status and political connections.
• Chen Ruiping showed Li Ce a livestream of a huge shape rising through boiling, reddening water near Tokyo Bay, and the pair headed for the scene.
• The pair commandeered a police car and forced an officer to drive them toward the bay while watching live footage of the creature's black, cracked dorsal spikes.
• Li Ce told Chen Ruiping that the creature could potentially destroy Tokyo within hours if it became serious, and Chen Ruiping remarked that it must be radioactive.

Shin Godzilla crawled ashore and evolved rapidly as it devastated Tokyo, while outsiders Li Ce and Chen Ruiping watched and tried to work out how to complete their mission. After hearing Godzilla's first roar and seeing military forces gather, they split up to search evacuation sites for information about Kong.

• Shin Godzilla emerged from the sea, grew hind legs, and began crawling through Tokyo, crushing buildings and killing people in its path.
• Li Ce and Chen Ruiping escaped pursuing police and watched the disaster unfold from a convenience store while discussing their mission to make Kong and Godzilla meet.
• Li Ce reasoned that human records might contain no information about either creature and decided to seek leads among evacuees if officials could not help.
• Shin Godzilla grew forelimbs, stood upright, and released its first roar, disrupting the aerial livestream with what appeared to be a high-energy signal.
• After noticing tanks, fighter jets, and helicopters gathering, Li Ce and Chen Ruiping took bicycles and split up to search evacuation shelters for people who might know about Kong.

Li Ce and Chen Ruiping searched officials’ homes and government databases for clues about Monarch, Skull Island, and Kong while Godzilla survived military attacks and returned to Tokyo Bay. Their digital search uncovered a post claiming someone had seen a mountain-sized ape near Tokyo.

• Li Ce found a crowded shelter with its entrance restricted, then watched Godzilla endure missile strikes and plunge into Tokyo Bay to cool itself.
• Li Ce recruited several hackers, and Chen Ruiping reported that interrogated officials knew nothing about Monarch, Skull Island, or Kong.
• Li Ce and Chen Ruiping used the hackers’ studio to search government systems and online data for relevant clues.
• The researchers discussing Godzilla speculated that it could adapt rapidly, regenerate from fragments, reproduce, and eventually grow wings.
• Chen Ruiping spotted a search result from someone who claimed to have seen a mountain-sized ape in the mountains near Tokyo.

Li Ce traced an old photograph of a giant ape-like creature to a Tokyo lodging district while Godzilla returned to land in its fourth form and withstood the military’s attacks. As Godzilla entered Tokyo, Li Ce began a life-burning Force ritual to seek the power of King Kong.

• Li Ce used a forum poster’s historical activity records to locate the poster’s likely area around Minami Doya Street.
• Godzilla resurfaced in a larger, darker fourth form, and researchers suspected it possessed a biological nuclear reactor.
• Chen Ruiping and Li Ce watched as Godzilla endured increasingly powerful attacks and advanced into Tokyo after the defenses failed.
• Li Ce sensed an approaching danger and retreated with Chen Ruiping to a rooftop as evacuation warnings filled the streets.
• Li Ce burned his lifespan and used the photograph and sketches of King Kong to focus the Force into a destructive vision.

Li Ce used the Force to trace the Giant Ape’s connection to a dangerous child with a monkey-like tail, whom Chen Ruiping found supporting an old scavenger near a subway station. As Shin Godzilla advanced through Tokyo and survived an American bombing, Li Ce urged Chen to help the child awaken his qi so he could confront the monster.

• Li Ce pushed his failing body to guide Chen Ruiping across the city to a boy he sensed was connected to the Giant Ape.
• Chen Ruiping spotted the wary child’s furry tail and suspected he was linked to the mountain-sized creature; the boy shielded the old man he called his grandfather.
• Chen Ruiping tried to reassure the boy while crowds fled into subway stations and Shin Godzilla devastated the city.
• American aircraft dropped bunker-buster bombs on Shin Godzilla, apparently wounding it as people celebrated its damaged defenses.
• Li Ce explained that the child’s powerful qi could be awakened and pointed to Chen Ruiping as someone who could teach him inner breath and sword qi.
• Li Ce urged Chen Ruiping to help the boy experience inner qi, then gathered a bright glow in his hands as he prepared to demonstrate it.

Godzilla awakened a devastating atomic beam and began destroying Tokyo, but the Saiyan boy transformed into a giant ape and attacked it. The battle escalated as both monsters grew stronger, leaving Chen Ruiping and Li Ce near death while Godzilla gathered another massive blast.

• Godzilla recovered from the bunker-busting warhead's damage, unleashed flames across Tokyo, and fired a concentrated beam that destroyed an observing fighter jet.
• Kong appeared suddenly and struck Godzilla, disrupting its attack as Chen Ruiping and Li Ce received the Main God's mission-complete notification.
• Chen Ruiping recognized Kong as the transformed Saiyan boy and observed that Godzilla was adapting to the giant ape's blows.
• Kong and Godzilla fought through the ruined city, trading punches, claws, beams, and tail strikes as their strength continued to rise.
• Kong formed a serrated Light Wheel and attacked Godzilla, which retaliated with a powerful tail strike that blasted mud and flattened buildings.
• Chen Ruiping watched Godzilla gather another surge of purple light and told the Main God to return.

After surviving a deadly Two-Star mission, Li Ce spent his accumulated rewards on a Fourth-Tier Sith Order Force enhancement. He awakened a stronger sensitivity to the Force but struggled to reproduce the energy he had witnessed in the mission world, then left the Azure Platform with Chen Ruiping.

• Li Ce and Chen Ruiping recovered on the Azure Platform and concluded that their Two-Star mission’s difficulty had come from racing to find the Saiyan boy before Shin Godzilla attacked again.
• The two men inspected the exchange listings, and Li Ce used his points and Rare Grade Exchange Card to purchase the Fourth-Tier Force Enhancement: Sith Order.
• Li Ce endured the long enhancement and emerged with heightened Force sensitivity, sensing an unseen constraint around the Azure Platform.
• Chen Ruiping noticed the energy gathering around Li Ce’s hand, and Li Ce tried to imitate the energy he had encountered in the mission world.
• Li Ce gathered the energy to strengthen his arm but could not overcome the feeling that his imitation lacked substance, and he and Chen Ruiping left the platform.

Li Yun saw how the Jade’s mist had strengthened the people and creatures around the factory, while warning Li Jiye that overexposure was beginning to turn his body woody. Outside, he observed Yuan’s security group training and reflected on the rise of user factions, concluding that it was time to intensify the upheaval.

• Li Jiye noticed that the Jade’s mist had greatly improved his inner-breath circulation, but found grass growing into his flesh and his skin turning bluish and hard.
• Li Yun pulled the enlarged black cat away from the Jade and carried it outside, where it hunted a bird after she released it.
• Li Yun spotted a drone overhead as he walked through the increasingly lively factory complex.
• Fatty Yuan showed Li Yun the security group’s disciplined training and sentry drills, which helped prepare its members to compete for user invitation quotas.
• Li Yun considered the growing user factions and learned that more than a dozen users had reached the Fourth Tier, including some at mid-to-late Fourth Tier.
• Li Yun concluded that the rapid changes made it time to add more fuel to the fire.