Recaps

Di Wanxin used his Personal Space to harvest Holy Water and cultivate, but his routine was interrupted when the Main God announced a major change to reincarnation rules. The announcement activated periodic forced True-Body missions, prompting users such as Li Ce to react in alarm and sending people to check the Main God Website.

• Di Wanxin entered his monastery-like Personal Space and inspected the Holy Pool, which had accumulated nearly half a pool of Holy Water.
• Di Wanxin filled silver bottles with Holy Water and practiced beneath the hall’s Holy Light, but he failed to form a Holy Mark.
• The Main God announced that the reincarnation rules had been revised and periodic forced True-Body mission dispatch had begun.
• Li Ce heard the announcement while undergoing Fourth Tier testing, nearly damaged the equipment, and demanded to know whether others had heard the voice.
• Users confirmed the announcement and rushed to the Main God Website, where a new notice had appeared.

The Main God announced mandatory monthly True-Body missions, warning that users who failed to comply would face a forced deployment and erasure if they could not pay the required price. As officials scrambled to assess the danger and identify Fourth Tier users, Xia Guangjie brokered a request for high-purity Spirit Dew and then violently lost his temper after the call ended.

• The Main God announced that users had to enter a True-Body mission once each real-world month, and that the first simultaneous deployment would happen in seven days.
• Captain Li and the others at Cloudmist Tower discussed the fatal risks of True-Body missions, while Ning Yu said her father had ordered her home for dinner.
• An elderly leader ordered Yanjing officials to investigate all reachable Third Tier and suspected Fourth Tier users, both domestically and abroad.
• Xia Guangjie told Young Master Huang that the Huanjing Association would arrange a contact the next day to discuss supplying high-purity Spirit Dew.
• After ending the call, Xia Guangjie slapped the waitress who had held his phone and smashed objects around the private room.

Hu Dingjun and his colleagues visited Li Yun at a training site to assess his condition amid the emergence of True-Body Forced Dispatch. They watched Yuan Zhengxin drive wavering trainees from the group with cash, and Li Yun invited Hu inside to discuss his visit.

• Hu Dingjun received a summons, gathered two colleagues, and changed course after learning their target was at an old materials factory outside the Third Ring.
• Hu Dingjun and his colleagues found Li Yun watching Yuan Zhengxin address a formation of trainees at the factory.
• Yuan Zhengxin warned the trainees that they would risk their lives and offered one hundred thousand as travel money to anyone who wanted to quit.
• Several trainees left and took Yuan Zhengxin's cash, while the remaining group stayed in formation and resumed training with greater resolve.
• Li Yun reflected that the threat of True-Body Forced Dispatch was pushing users to prepare and strengthen themselves sooner.
• Li Yun invited Hu Dingjun to a small building to discuss why he had come.

Li Yun and Li Jiye received visits from Special Office contacts who urged them to relocate, discussed the risks surrounding the coming True Body Missions, and delivered warnings and materials about user legacies and mission dangers. Li Jiye reviewed the evidence and ended the chapter practicing a stance, newly shaken by the risks ahead.

• Hu Dingjun and two officers visited Li Yun, checked on his condition, and urged him and other users to move into designated special zones.
• Li Yun pointed out that officials were also concerned about what would happen to users’ valuable legacies if they died, and warned that careless publicity could intensify conflict among users.
• Li Yun saw the visitors off after they left him with information, while judging that the authorities treated him as important but not exceptional.
• Two Special Investigation Bureau contacts urged Li Jiye to move to the High-Tech Development Zone, but he refused to leave the factory where the jade was stored.
• The contacts gave Li Jiye access to a resource exchange and warned him about users forming groups and the possibility of betrayal in True Body Missions.
• Li Jiye studied classified materials and survivor accounts about mission dangers, then set the document down and practiced a grounded stance.

As the Forced True Body Mission heightened fears and reshaped the value of user slots, Li Yun agreed to give Fatty Yuan two invitations for volunteers willing to risk entering. Meanwhile, Chen Ruiping and Li Ce struggled with pressure to protect favored newcomers, and Qian Yisheng learned of unusual wildlife activity near a factory district registered to a user surnamed Yuan.

• Fatty Yuan asked Li Yun to use his connections to obtain invitation slots for people from his hometown, and Li Yun agreed to provide two.
• Chen Ruiping told Li Ce that a Yanjing official had asked him to help the official’s son enter a True Body Mission, and Li Ce said he had received similar requests.
• Qian Yisheng dealt with mounting demands to favor certain users while noticing that local winter citrus had grown larger and tougher.
• Luo Wen told Qian Yisheng that drones had detected unusual gatherings and activity among plants and animals near an abandoned factory district.
• Qian Yisheng learned that the factory district was registered to a user surnamed Yuan.

As the True Body Mission approached, Li Yun’s group witnessed a vast flock of birds darken the city and prepare for the dangers ahead. At the final hour, users began logging in, while some panicked and required emergency support.

• Li Yun took his companions to the rooftop, where they watched an enormous flock of birds sweep over the city and block the falling droppings with an air shield.
• After the flock passed, Li Yun warned the group that the world was changing and urged them to stay cautious before the True Body Mission.
• When the final hour arrived, users began vanishing from the room as they logged in for the mission.
• A new user panicked and begged to withdraw, so medical staff sedated and stabilized him.
• Colonel Ji criticized the panicking users, while an observer said overseas participants often needed much stronger anti-stress medication.

He Qiu, Du Qifeng, and Lu Yansheng arrived at Grayrock Town as messengers from Doron Ferry and delivered a sealed letter to Mayor Tantus. The mayor hired them to gather evidence of the threats plaguing the town, giving them five days to collect proof of three different threats.

• Grayrock's guards questioned He Qiu, Du Qifeng, and Lu Yansheng before admitting them after verifying their letter and He Qiu's strength.
• Captain Denov escorted the three messengers through town to Mayor Tantus's residence.
• Mayor Tantus confirmed their letter and welcomed them as demon hunters recommended by Hizan.
• Mayor Tantus paid them a deposit of twenty Eagle Gold and asked them to bring back evidence of nearby threats.
• The Main God changed their mission, requiring them to provide evidence of three different threats within or outside Grayrock Town in five days.

He Qiu, Du Qifeng, and Lu Yansheng investigated the dangers threatening Grayrock and discovered that the town faced attacks both inside and outside its walls. They lured a hideous forest creature with blood, and the chapter ended as it pounced and Lu Yansheng fired at its head.

• He Qiu, Du Qifeng, and Lu Yansheng inspected their payment and supplies before leaving town to investigate the black forest.
• The trio saw a cart carrying victims with matching throat wounds and learned that people were being killed after curfew.
• Du Qifeng noticed that the corpse collector driving the cart had no discernible heartbeat or breath, so the trio planned to investigate him that night.
• Captain Denov warned them that few people returned safely from the forest and let them pass through the gate.
• He Qiu killed two chickens to bait a predator, and the trio waited until a fast, grotesque creature approached.
• The creature pounced on He Qiu, Du Qifeng blocked it with his shield, and Lu Yansheng fired at its head.

He Qiu, Du Qifeng, and Lu Yansheng returned to Grayrock Town with a dead Bat-Eared Monster after escaping a pack of red-eyed creatures in the Black Forest. After reporting their discovery, the three set out again at night to investigate the corpse collector, hoping to find more evidence.

• Denov and the sentries saw He Qiu, Du Qifeng, and Lu Yansheng fleeing the Black Forest with monsters close behind, then opened the gate for them.
• Lu Yansheng fired his long gun at the pursuing creatures, and the guards shut the gate as the pack battered it before retreating into the forest.
• He Qiu presented the monster's corpse as evidence for Mr. Tantus, and Denov notified the mayor.
• The three demon hunters concluded that the Black Forest was too dangerous to explore further and discussed the creatures' strength and behavior at their lodging.
• After only two hours of rest, He Qiu, Du Qifeng, and Lu Yansheng left their lodging in disguise and headed toward the corpse collector's home under cover of night.

Du Qifeng, Lu Yansheng, and He Qiu were ambushed by a pack of human-faced Blood-Red Hounds while investigating the town at night. After driving the creatures off and treating themselves and two injured residents, they followed a blood trail into the darkness.

• Du Qifeng, Lu Yansheng, and He Qiu heard barking draw near and took positions at a street corner.
• A Man-Faced Bloodhound sprang from behind a fence, and Du Qifeng struck it back while He Qiu illuminated its grotesque human face.
• The trio discovered more Blood-Red Hounds surrounding them and fought the monsters, finding that they were powerful, hard to kill, and carried blood that affected anyone it touched.
• Du Qifeng used a Basic Antidote Pill and Holy Water to counter the blood’s effects, while the hounds fled after their leader howled.
• The three treated two residents wounded by stray bullets, left Silver Lang coins, and warned the family to guard the corpses until the authorities arrived.
• Du Qifeng, Lu Yansheng, and He Qiu followed one of the hounds’ blood trails after arranging the aftermath.

After finding signs of grave disturbance, He Qiu, Lu Yansheng, and Du Qifeng learned that Blood Hounds were still killing people inside Grayrock Town. At a church murder scene, Lu Yansheng found a warning identifying a ghoul, and the group connected the legend of the living dead to the mortician they had met.

• He Qiu and the other two searched a public cemetery but found only canine claw marks and signs that some graves had been disturbed.
• Mayor Tantus visited the three users after the Blood Hounds’ corpses were displayed, raised their bounty, and asked them to eliminate the threat or gather evidence.
• Tantus brought them to a church, where they found Father Banchute, the bell-ringer, and cleric Sein dead with wounds around their throats.
• Lu Yansheng determined that the wounds were unlikely to have been inflicted by the Man-Faced Blood Hounds and pulled a blood-soaked note from a corpse’s throat.
• The note warned that someone was a ghoul and that Sein had been bitten to death by a disguised attacker.
• Tantus explained Grayrock’s legend of ghouls as recently deceased people who returned as living corpses, prompting the three users to recall the mortician without a heartbeat or breathing.

Du Qifeng, Lu Yansheng, and their companion investigated the corpse collector’s empty house before interrupting a cloaked figure feeding on a man. After a fierce fight, the wounded attacker surrendered, leaving the trio with a prisoner to question.

• Lu Yansheng and his companions searched Duy Fred’s locked house but found no useful clues and no sign of a cellar.
• The three spotted a cloaked figure using a pleading woman’s voice to persuade a man to open his door.
• After hearing a scream and suspicious sounds, Lu Yansheng planted a device while Du Qifeng and their companion approached the house.
• Du Qifeng smashed through the door and fired at the figure as it fed on the homeowner, but the creature used the corpse as a shield.
• Du Qifeng fought the wounded attacker, discovered it was a man imitating a woman’s voice, and forced it to raise its hands and surrender.

Du Qifeng exposed a Ghoul disguised as a woman, but the creature used their conversation to buy time for a Blood Hound ambush. The three companions escaped by detonating explosives and captured the badly injured Ghoul as evidence, then limped away from the burning house.

• Du Qifeng saw through the Ghoul’s disguise and questioned it while assessing its unnatural wounds and features.
• The Ghoul stalled Du Qifeng as Blood-Red Hounds ambushed He Qiu and Lu Yansheng outside.
• Du Qifeng drove the Ghoul back, then joined his companions in fighting their way through the hounds.
• Lu Yansheng detonated the explosives, blasting the house and knocking down the surrounding creatures.
• Du Qifeng and his companions found the Ghoul badly injured but alive, smothered its flames, and took it with them as evidence.

Lu Yansheng, He Qiu, and Du Qifeng fought their way out of a mob of pale, tattooed people trying to reclaim their half-dead Ghoul witness. After returning to their lodgings, they decided to report the danger to the mayor and ask him to seek help from the nobles.

• Dozens of strange, pale figures surrounded Lu Yansheng, He Qiu, and Du Qifeng and demanded that they surrender the Ghoul and leave town by the next day.
• Lu Yansheng pretended to negotiate for payment, then used a Flash Stun Grenade to overwhelm the crowd’s senses.
• The three fought through the blinded and deafened attackers, carried the Ghoul over a wall, and escaped back to their lodgings.
• They restrained the Ghoul, treated Lu Yansheng’s injured leg, and kept watch while discussing their failed mission and the growing danger.
• Lu Yansheng decided they should tell the mayor what had happened and ask him to seek troops from the nobles.

He Qiu, Du Qifeng, and Lu Yansheng completed their quest after a gigantic Squire-Class Mech arrived as the nobles’ reinforcement. Back on the Azure Platform, the trio received repairs, and Du Qifeng realized the journey had exposed and removed several strange influences from him.

• The battered users gave Black Charcoal to Mayor Tantus, submitted their final evidence, and watched him send messages requesting help from the local nobles.
• He Qiu and Denov saw a towering mech cut through the forest and destroy the monsters pursuing it with its Chainblade and Meltagun.
• Du Qifeng recognized the mech as a Squire-Class Mech and noticed that its double-headed eagle emblem matched the emblem on their gold coins.
• The mech reached the wall, the trio’s main quest completed, and white light transported them away from the town.
• Back on the Azure Platform, Lu Yansheng collapsed from his injured leg while the three laughed at having all survived; the surrounding casualties soon sobered them.
• During their repairs, Du Qifeng saw the Main God strip several symbolic influences and a mark from his body, leaving him relieved that he had survived.

Users returned from the first true body mission, and the dead prompted grief, medical examinations, and disputes over their belongings. Yuan Zhengxin and Ruan Chenggang learned of losses in their group, made plans to support the bereaved, and found that many prospective recruits still chose to stay despite the danger.

• Users reappeared after the mission, where medics tried to revive those who had returned unconscious and staff collected special drops from the dead.
• Yuan Zhengxin and Ruan Chenggang emerged from their sleep pods and learned that eight of their eleven users and three of their five newcomers had survived.
• Yuan Zhengxin told Liao Yi to let grieving relatives vent and assigned Changhe to arrange compensation, inheritances, and support for the dead users' families.
• Yuan Zhengxin and Ruan Chenggang visited the bereaved families and paid their respects to the dead in a refrigerated warehouse.
• Yuan Zhengxin and Ruan Chenggang found more than a hundred prospective recruits still waiting at the old factory, and Yuan Zhengxin asked whether they wanted to risk joining.
• Yao Yang and other recruits said they would rather take their chances than remain trapped in poverty, and Yuan Zhengxin accepted their decision.

After the True Body Mission killed many users, officials debated expanding support and recruitment while society reeled from the losses. Li Jiye heard about Yuan Yao’s brutal newcomer mission and rumors that large teams faced harder scenarios, while Li Yun regarded the deaths as a harsh screening that would shake up the user population.

• An elderly researcher reported that the True Body Mission had killed roughly ten to twenty percent of registered users, and officials argued that they needed to ease restrictions and grow the domestic user population.
• The mission’s deaths disrupted businesses and pushed many users to focus on personal enhancement and trial missions, while Yuan Zhengxin left most of Xinlin Group’s daily operations to others.
• Li Jiye met Yuan Yao, who described surviving an ancient Egyptian newcomer mission as a pyramid laborer and explained that he had chosen an internal martial arts enhancement over restoring his scars.
• Li Jiye and Li Yun discussed reports that large groups faced more dangerous missions, including a Jurassic Park survival mission where fewer than half of nearly a hundred users survived.
• Li Yun considered the casualties a way to select promising users and create upheaval among veterans and newcomers, concluding that the Main God’s interests took precedence.

Qian Yisheng reviewed the violence and political maneuvering surrounding users’ inheritances, then read a detailed forum post about Fourth Tier enhancements. In the Cemetery World, Li Anshan’s déjà vu suggested that the corpse he had just fought resembled the monster that had killed him during the True Body Mission.

• Qian Yisheng watched reports of families being attacked over users’ remains and worried about officials seeking control of unclaimed special resources.
• Qian Yisheng read a forum post describing Fourth Tier users’ energy systems, extraordinary traits, and abilities, and noted the author’s apparent access to privileged information.
• Qian Yisheng received official documents assigning further work related to users and visiting foreign guests.
• Wu Shaoyou and Li Anshan fought undead together in the Cemetery World, with Wu Shaoyou nearly caught between attackers when Li Anshan failed to cover him in time.
• Li Anshan recognized a déjà vu in the corpse before him and recalled a shapeshifting monster that had cracked his skull during the True Body Mission, after which he woke unharmed on the Azure Platform.

Li Jiye was invited to meet an international delegation of Users, while Li Yun heard warnings about worsening travel conditions and the Special Office’s concern over Fatty Yuan’s conspicuous recruitment at an old factory. The chapter left the delegation’s visit approaching as User groups continued seeking capable recruits.

• Professor Yang and the representatives asked Li Jiye to join a meeting with an international delegation that included Bishop Di, and Li Jiye agreed.
• Hu Dingjun brought Li Yun the same invitation, but Li Yun gave him an ambiguous answer and declined to commit.
• Director Qian told Li Yun that transport disruptions and environmental dangers were making travel increasingly difficult, so the delegation would travel by ship.
• Qian Yisheng asked Li Yun to warn the owner of an old factory site that the gathering of people and animals there had attracted the Special Office’s attention.
• Li Yun understood that Fatty Yuan was recruiting candidates for the factory camp, while User groups across the country sought stronger new members after the True Body Missions.

Ning Yu harvested ripened Vermilion Herbs in the Jade Tower and sensed movement among the Anomalous Insect Eggs she had been nurturing. At the factory complex, Fatty Yuan tightened recruitment screening while Li Yun and the others watched, leaving the eggs’ movement as a new development.

• Ning Yu carefully harvested Vermilion Herb fruits while her black cat snuck the damaged ones, and she worried that the Jade’s influence was permanently changing the soil.
• Ning Yu noticed movement from the Anomalous Insect Eggs she had placed near the Jade’s base and nurtured.
• Fatty Yuan caught a rejected former trainee among the applicants, threw him out, and berated the interview teams for letting him pass the first screening.
• Old Li and Ruan Chenggang discussed Fatty Yuan’s forceful demeanor as Li Yun and Fang Yishu watched the activity at the factory.

Li Yun noticed suspicious activity and left the training camp, then tracked a kidnapped girl and an unconscious woman to a guarded manor. He appeared before the traffickers and their buyer, asking to stay for dinner.

• Li Jiye asked Old Li to review a report on the Tianhuang Stone, and Li Yun scanned its proposed follow-up tests.
• Li Yun suddenly left the group after noticing something, while traffickers carried an unconscious girl and woman from the city to a villa and then a guarded manor.
• At the manor, a bespectacled buyer inspected the captives and paid the traffickers, who left them behind.
• Li Yun appeared beside the girl, examined her empty Baby Milkshake bottle, and asked how long she would sleep.
• Li Yun asked the people at the manor if he could stay for dinner.

Li Yun rescued Bubble from Leisure Manor and uncovered a hidden sacrificial site, where a wealthy man used a Yin Spirit bracelet to protect himself. After freeing dozens of captives and reporting the manor, Li Yun returned Bubble to her family.

• Li Yun used his abilities to locate a hidden passage beneath a painting at Leisure Manor.
• He found a sacrificial chamber and caught a middle-aged man abusing a bound woman in a concealed room.
• The man’s bracelet released a Yin Spirit, but Li Yun destroyed it and forced him to reveal how he had obtained it.
• Li Yun discovered dozens of captives held underground and anonymously reported the manor to the Special Office.
• Li Yun brought Bubble back to the restaurant, where an adult inside broke down in relief at seeing her.

Li Yun returned a lost child, then followed traces underground and encountered a broker through a powerful female ghost. The broker asked Li Yun to leave his business alone, but Li Yun instead questioned his connection to the online Death Mentor.

• Li Yun returned the lost child to their parents and slipped away before the police could find him.
• Li Yun entered a hidden well passage and explored the underground waterways, where he saw strange plants, creatures, and weak spirits.
• Li Yun followed masked people pushing a cart, then took another route toward a broad underground river.
• Li Yun drew out a female ghost with a wooden bead and spoke with the person controlling her, who called himself Broker.
• Broker apologized for the day's events and asked Li Yun not to interfere with his business in Chengdu, offering his services in return.
• Li Yun asked Broker about the online Death Mentor, and Broker said the man could be considered his mentor.

Li Yun questioned Mr. Zhong, an underground intermediary who used infant spirits and offered him a crude Soul Crystal as a gift. After leaving, Li Yun explored an underground market and discovered that Hu Dingjun and Luo Wei were there undercover.

• Li Yun questioned the female ghost and learned that Mr. Zhong used discarded infant spirits to produce spiritual goods while presenting himself as a keeper of underground order.
• Mr. Zhong gave Li Yun a Soul Crystal, and Li Yun examined its crude spiritual-stabilizing technique before warning him that the Death Mentor might have withheld parts of his methods.
• Li Yun entered a makeshift underground market and heard traders discuss tighter inspections, dwindling opportunities, and a strange incident at Wolong Nature Reserve.
• Li Yun spotted Luo Wei browsing forged documents with a concealed earpiece and found Hu Dingjun examining stones at another stall.

Luo Wei and Hu Dingjun led a raid on an underground black market and arrested an armed foreigner carrying five forged identities, while Li Yun quietly observed the unusual people there. Meanwhile, researchers reported progress on an experimental cultivation method and received approval for wider confidential testing within the Special Investigation Bureau.

• Luo Wei and her team exposed themselves as police and attempted to arrest a hooded foreigner collecting forged documents at a black-market stall.
• The foreigner drew a gun and fought his way toward an exit, but Li Yun tripped him and the officers restrained him.
• Luo Wei and Hu Dingjun discovered that the foreigner’s documents listed five identities, none matching his face, and Hu took him into custody.
• Li Yun noticed faint signs of numinous spark and unusual physical enhancement among a few people in the market before slipping away.
• Researchers reported that an experimental cultivation method could produce major physical gains in exceptionally talented subjects, though its effects remained limited.
• Officials approved confidential, wider-scale testing of the experimental cultivation method within the Special Investigation Bureau.