Recaps

Luo Chuanyi’s rapid Kuuga power growth brought increasingly dangerous impulses to destroy his enemies, though he resisted transforming because he feared losing control. As Tomie’s puppets attacked, he fought through them with overwhelming speed and strength, sealing one Ghoul before its body exploded.

• Li Yun and the Main God discussed how Luo Chuanyi had skipped Kuuga’s evolutionary stages and was balancing his destructive urges against Tomie Kawakami’s mental influence.
• Luo Chuanyi realized that his desire to kill and the pleasure he felt in destroying enemies were no longer caused solely by Tomie’s charm.
• A puppet in a convenience store uniform attacked Luo Chuanyi with tentacles while a Hybrid struck from behind with a tail kagune.
• Luo Chuanyi dodged the attacks, killed the uniformed puppet with one punch, then seized the Hybrid’s tail and struck its head.
• The dying Hybrid pleaded for help, and Luo Chuanyi pressed Kuuga’s armguard against its skull, leaving an Ancient Linto Script seal before moving away.
• Golden cracks appeared beneath the Hybrid’s skin, and its body exploded, swallowing the surrounding puppets.

An internal report described how the Cemetery District and Tokyo District appeared to reward users while placing tourists under greater pressure, and detailed valuable discoveries in Tokyo District. It left researchers considering further expeditions as they investigated the city’s hidden experiments and a native alien who seemed to detect the Main God’s influence.

• A research group reported that both trial worlds offered users opportunities to earn rewards, while tourist competition and danger continued to rise.
• The Detection Group confirmed that users had recovered a Progenitor Virus-Type Enhancement Serum from an abandoned Umbrella complex in Tokyo District, where it could be extracted for less than a third of its Main God exchange price.
• Researchers reported that the complex contained evidence of aberrant organism research and a Dangerous Zombie Cartridge, while most of the project’s results had been transferred elsewhere.
• The Detection Group noted that some temporary users had accepted modifications involving Parasite and aberrant cells, reaching ratings beyond the first three tiers, and recommended sending more elite users into Tokyo District.
• The report said that an extraterrestrial being designated Alien Mephilas had contacted users and might have detected traces of their universal translation function and the Main God’s influence.

Experts worried that Alien Mephilas had recognized signs of an artificial world and tried to extract information from Main God Users, while the public frenzy around the Main God Game continued to grow. He Qiu returned home after a month of training, only to find that his brief return to normal life would not last.

• Two researchers discussed Alien Mephilas’s attempts to obtain users’ information and his ability to notice anomalies in the mission worlds.
• The men turned back to a report about the Main God Game as its public website, translated forums, and daily application lottery drew huge attention.
• People seeking the benefits of the game treated its million-plus users as valuable targets amid growing alien conspiracy theories and competition for slots.
• After a month of training, He Qiu returned home to find that authorities had kept his parents out of public view and maintained the house.
• He Qiu checked with Old Wang Next Door, then paused his routine of farming gold in the Large-scale Newcomer Trial plane to recover from the ordeal caused by the Death Knight.

He Qiu faced his parents’ worries about his life as a user and agreed to let his mother arrange blind dates. After retreating to his room, he browsed news about the Main God Platform and discovered that footage of one of his missions had gone viral, earning him the nickname “Brother Hedgehog.”

• He Qiu’s mother scolded him for being unmarried and pressed him to consider blind dates while his father stayed out of the argument.
• His mother admitted that she and his father worried about the dangers of his user identity, and He Qiu understood their fears.
• He Qiu agreed to let his mother look for suitable candidates and reminded his parents to keep his user identity secret.
• Unable to calm his mind, He Qiu browsed the internet and saw companies and media capitalizing on public interest in the Main God Platform.
• He Qiu found footage of his ancient battlefield mission circulating online as a meme, where viewers called him “Brother Hedgehog.”

He Qiu reviewed how the Main God Space’s emergence had reshaped public life and triggered a global scramble to recruit Main God Users. The chapter left him aware that authorities offered users a path to benefits and business opportunities, but expected them to keep a low profile.

• He Qiu reflected on how the Main God Website and its videos had become widely discussed, earning him an unexpected nickname.
• Public reaction overseas grew chaotic as religious groups, conspiracy theories, and speculation about the Main God Light Orb spread.
• Amerika, Britain, Fagaul, and other governments planned major extraterrestrial security initiatives amid concern about alien forces.
• He Qiu checked an internal app and saw that major powers were competing to recruit Main God Users with generous offers and special status.
• He Qiu felt relieved that he had not sold Main God Universal Points or exposed his identity through careless contact with outsiders.
• Authorities curbed aggressive corporate recruitment and offered users official channels for benefits and business while urging them to remain low-key.

He Qiu received the keys and installation details for a rental unit in his building, where an official sleep pod would be delivered discreetly so he could stay near his parents. Meanwhile, Shen Taiguang learned that people had bribed staff to trace sleep pod deliveries, and the investigation suggested foreign contacts had help from insiders.

• Wang Dansheng visited He Qiu to arrange a sleep pod and handed him the keys and smart verification code for a nearby rental unit.
• Wang Dansheng told He Qiu that the sleep pod would be delivered and installed at night to avoid drawing attention.
• He Qiu demonstrated his strength by bending a nail clipper and said he would be careful about threats to his family.
• Shen Taiguang received a report that people had bribed logistics staff and production workers to track sleep pod deliveries.
• Shen Taiguang and a middle-aged man suspected that insiders had helped foreign contacts investigate the shipments.

Li Yun oversaw the installation of his new sleep pod, then confronted Frank Watson, who had been secretly watching his house from the roof. Li Yun identified Watson as the White Wolf and exposed his past, leaving the intruder demanding to know who Li Yun was.

• Li Yun inspected the second floor and watched a disguised cargo van deliver and install his panda-patterned sleep pod.
• After the installation crew left, Li Yun noticed someone watching from the roof and called them out.
• A camouflaged figure revealed himself as Frank Watson, the armed older man from Young Master Xu’s circle.
• Li Yun mentioned Watson’s identity as the White Wolf and his past operation in Detroit.
• Frank Watson stiffened and asked Li Yun who he was.

Li Yun confronted Frank Watson, an armed Second Tier enhanced user who had secretly investigated him and tried to recruit him for Xu. Frank attempted to retreat using his Bio-Camouflage, but Li Yun stopped him with a question before he reached the ground.

• Li Yun exposed Frank's past, his investigation into Li Yun, and the weapons he carried, leaving Frank wary and unable to find an opening to attack.
• Frank asked whether Li Yun was a Second Tier or Third Tier user, and Li Yun replied that rank mattered less than the person pulling the trigger.
• Frank offered money, status, resources, and other terms to recruit Li Yun for Xu, but Li Yun refused and questioned why Frank was not recruiting for the Russian Security Bureau.
• Frank tried to leave by leaping from the rooftop and blending into the shadows with Bio-Camouflage, but Li Yun's voice stopped him before he touched the ground.

Li Yun caught Frank Watson sneaking through his courtyard, paralyzed him, and rejected his offers of money and connections. He ordered Frank to cut himself eleven times before he could leave.

• Li Yun seized Frank Watson in midair, disrupted his camouflage, and carried him into the gazebo.
• Frank regained enough movement to sit up and spoke to Li Yun in halting Chinese.
• Li Yun warned Frank that he knew about the tracking chip beneath his ribs and would not let him stall for his companions.
• Frank offered Li Yun a black card and intelligence contacts, but Li Yun rejected both offers.
• Li Yun floated Frank’s dagger before him and ordered him to give himself eleven cuts before leaving.

Li Yun let the badly wounded Frank leave after teaching him a lesson, then discussed why Frank had been sent to test him and learned how England’s researchers were using Perfect Blood to create stronger users. The chapter ended with Li Yun suspecting they would seek related materials from trial worlds.

• Li Yun opened the gate and let Frank leave after Frank inflicted thirteen controlled knife wounds on himself.
• After Frank escaped, Li Yun explained that he had taken the test in Old Li’s place and had left Frank with a mental suggestion rather than killing him.
• The Main God showed Li Yun the Perfect Blood enhancement and explained how England’s researchers had used diluted aether from a White Dragon Core to induce mutations and create Third Tier users.
• Li Yun noted the method’s limits and the researchers’ expanded sources of points, then suspected they were seeking related materials in trial worlds.

After five days of the Ether Assimilation Experiment, Tristan Marchand tested his altered body in Tokyo and struggled with diminished sensations, volatile emotions, and a need to replenish the cold energy leaking from him. While eating in an alley, he sensed a distinctive life energy in a hooded young passerby and fixed his attention on them.

• Tristan Marchand left the laboratory’s trial world for a Tokyo street, where he discovered cigarettes and other stimuli felt unusually weak.
• Tristan crushed a lighter in anger, then calmed himself after noticing that agitation made cold energy leak from his body.
• Tristan bought food and cigarettes, squatted in an alley, and ate while searching the passing crowds.
• Tristan sensed a hooded young figure with a distinctive life energy and watched them intently.

Tristan spotted Luo Chuanyi on a crowded street and followed him, hoping to find a valuable target for bloodline research. Luo Chuanyi sensed the pursuit, led Tristan into a back street, and their exchange revealed that both were Main God Users.

• Tristan noticed Luo Chuanyi among the pedestrians and decided to follow him as a potential blood sample.
• Luo Chuanyi sensed a strange gaze and cautiously checked his surroundings while continuing through the city.
• Tristan trailed Luo Chuanyi, using pedestrians and street fixtures as cover, but Luo Chuanyi headed toward a deserted back street.
• Luo Chuanyi stopped in the alley and confronted Tristan, asking who he was and what he wanted.
• Tristan and Luo Chuanyi recognized the other's speech as evidence that they were both Main God Users.

Luo Chuanyi refused Tristan’s offer to buy blood samples, and Tristan attacked him to take one by force. Their first exchange revealed that Tristan’s arm had become unnaturally hard and possibly scaled.

• Tristan recognized Luo Chuanyi as a fellow User and offered him ten million US dollars for blood samples from his temporary body.
• Luo Chuanyi refused and backed into an alley, wary of Tristan’s concealed greed and malice.
• Tristan dropped his shopping bag and suddenly charged at Luo Chuanyi with a powerful punch.
• Luo Chuanyi dodged the punch and struck at Tristan’s exposed armpit, but Tristan blocked him with his elbow.
• Luo Chuanyi sprang backward after the impact and noticed that Tristan’s left arm had turned gray, rough, and faintly scale-patterned.

Alien Mephilas watched a battle between two powerful opponents while discussing his human disguise and discoveries with the young man who appeared beside him. The young man revealed that Mephilas had hidden his true body and built a human identity as Kio Hiden, while Mephilas openly admitted he had found the Mirror World and its sealed anomalies.

• Alien Mephilas observed the larger fighter's body changing as the two combatants resumed their clash.
• A young man appeared beside Alien Mephilas and startled him, then identified him as an alien.
• Alien Mephilas admitted that he had obtained the Ouja Card Deck and entered the Mirror World.
• Alien Mephilas listed the anomalies he had found sealed within the Mirror World and explained that he could not escape the planet's frozen spacetime.
• The young man said Mephilas had hidden his true body, created a human body, and established the identity Kio Hiden as the city's official consultant.

Li Yun discussed Alien Mephilas’s role in protecting the city and the limits of what he could do. As the fight below intensified, Li Yun warned Mephilas not to repeat his attempt to extract information by copying human consciousness.

• Li Yun observed the increasingly monstrous Perfect Blood-enhanced man fight Luo Chuanyi and chose not to intervene.
• Li Yun explained that humanity balanced beastly impulses with reason and said Mephilas’s restraint helped keep the city safe.
• Mephilas realized the city was more important than he had estimated and asked Li Yun how far he could go without being tolerated.
• Li Yun told Mephilas he could beat up outsiders but warned him not to use quantum interference to copy their consciousness and bypass their mental locks.

Li Yun learned that Alien Mephilas had created a human infant and named him Aruto, linking the alien to the future Hiden company president. The chapter left Li Yun wondering whether a chain of coincidences had formed a closed loop of causality.

• Alien Mephilas attacked Li Yun at incredible speed, but Li Yun evaded the strike and added a restriction excluding outsider messengers from his offer.
• Li Yun noticed the fight below and used a phantom gauntlet to knock down the rampaging brute.
• Alien Mephilas explained that he had created a human infant to complete his identity and was raising the child while working in Tokyo.
• Li Yun learned that Alien Mephilas had founded Hiden Intelligence and commissioned androids, partly to investigate whether human-modeled AI counted as people.
• Alien Mephilas chose the name Aruto for his infant, and Li Yun connected him to Aruto Hiden while considering whether fate had created a closed logical loop.

Luo Chuanyi spotted two mysterious observers and tried to flee, but one of them pulled him and the injured man onto the rooftop. The stranger then took Luo Chuanyi’s Amadam Spirit Stone Belt, which transformed into a black-and-red form as if it had returned home.

• Luo Chuanyi noticed a middle-aged man holding powdered milk and a strangely blurred figure watching him from nearby rooftops.
• Luo Chuanyi abandoned the injured man and his supplies and ran for the alley exit.
• A mysterious voice stopped Luo Chuanyi and dragged him and the injured man onto the rooftop without seriously hurting them.
• Mr. Mosaic praised Luo Chuanyi’s caution, then extracted his power and took the Amadam Spirit Stone Belt from his waist.
• The belt transformed into a black-and-red pattern with a halberd-like horn in Mr. Mosaic’s hand.

A mysterious figure destroyed Luo Chuanyi’s altered watch face, recreated three copies, and returned one while explaining the unstable Dragonkin-like transformation of the white man. After the figures left, Luo Chuanyi tried to escape, but the building began collapsing beneath him.

• The mysterious figure crushed Luo Chuanyi’s watch face and formed three matching watch faces from its fragments, then returned one to him and threw the others away.
• The figure examined the white man and identified his unstable, life-draining mutation as an embryonic Dragonkin form.
• Alien Mephilas collected blood samples from the half-conscious white man while Li Yun observed.
• Luo Chuanyi waited until the mysterious figures seemed gone, then ran downstairs.
• A strange cracking sound rang through the building, and Luo Chuanyi watched it collapse like sand and mud.

After becoming a user, Li Anshan returned to his hometown to recover and avoid the attention surrounding him. He found that news of his identity had already reached the town, and his family warned him that reporters, businesses, and local officials were seeking access to him.

• Li Anshan left school under the Special Investigation Bureau’s escort after the attention and his recovery needs made it impossible to stay.
• When Li Anshan arrived home, his Second Uncle Pan was waiting outside and asked whether he was a user.
• Li Anshan’s confirmation drew a crowd of neighbors and locals, who questioned him about his abilities, earnings, and government support.
• Li Anshan’s mother brought him inside, where his father, Li Luyuan, told him to lie low and described the calls and visits seeking business with him.

Li Anshan returned home to find people seeking access to him because he had become a user, and his father urged him to avoid them and judge their intentions carefully. While tending the family graves, Li Anshan encountered strange incense on his grandfather’s grave and felt an unknown gaze settle on him before it faded.

• Li Luyuan told Li Anshan that people had been coming to the house and that his second uncle had volunteered to guard the gate, hoping to get close to him.
• Li Luyuan advised Li Anshan to avoid the visitors and rely on his own judgment, then took him up the mountain to tend the family graves.
• Li Anshan and Li Luyuan found three barely smoking incense sticks already placed on Li Anshan’s grandfather’s grave, which Li Luyuan suspected his cousin Li Yun might have tended.
• Li Anshan tried to relight the incense, but the lighter’s flame curled away from the embers as though blocked by an unseen current.
• Li Anshan felt a cold, heavy gaze fall upon him, then sensed it recognize him and fade away.

Li Anshan returned from sweeping graves with his memories strangely smoothed over, then gave his parents a Second-Tier Life Potion from his Potion Chest. After they drank it and felt renewed, he was relieved that sharing the potion had helped them.

• Li Anshan came home from the mountain after paying respects at the graves, while his father noticed that he seemed dazed.
• Li Anshan summoned a bottle of Life Potion and told his parents that it could strengthen the body and extend life by five or six years.
• After Li Anshan opened the bottle, its fragrance drew the attention of animals outside the house, which began gathering and making noise.
• Li Anshan divided the potion between two bowls and urged his hesitant parents to drink it before its effects faded.
• Li Anshan's mother and father drank the potion and felt warmth and renewed energy, and Li Anshan was relieved for them.

After Li Anshan’s family saw local animals swarming their home in response to the Life Potion’s scent, they tried to keep a low profile. As news spread, town officials approached Li Anshan seeking access to his knowledge and resources, while his father showed visible signs of rejuvenation.

• Li Anshan’s family waited for the animals drawn by the potion’s fragrance to disperse, then his father warned him not to go out casually.
• Li Luyuan buried the retired crystal bottle in the backyard after the family drank the remaining Bottle-Rinsing Water.
• On the third day, the town’s two mayors visited Li Anshan and asked him to share his experience and consider supporting local development.
• Li Anshan politely declined their proposals, citing his health and the need to follow relevant regulations, and the mayors left their business cards.
• Li Luyuan worried the matter would not be easy to dismiss, as his hair had begun darkening and his face and vitality had visibly improved.

Li Anshan faced a stream of relatives and old acquaintances who sought favors after hearing about his new status, leaving him overwhelmed by the attention. As he reflected on how quickly his life had changed, he briefly sensed a missing memory connected to his Third Uncle and Old Master Li’s grave, but could not recall it.

• Li Anshan’s relatives visited, praised his success, and asked him to arrange jobs, money, and qualifications, but he repeatedly explained that he could not help them.
• Li Anshan’s mother sympathized with his discomfort, while his father said he would have to learn to handle family obligations.
• When distant relatives arrived, Li Anshan shared candy with the children and spoke with his Third Uncle’s son, whose family history stirred a fleeting, forgotten memory.
• Li Anshan received contact requests from old friends and classmates, including one elementary school classmate whose only shared memory was being punished for missing homework.
• After declining the classmate’s invitation, Li Anshan reflected on how much his life had changed and gained a clearer sense of his current influence.

Fang Yishu told Ning Yu how university officials offered special academic privileges to keep them close after they became Main God Users, and she worried those benefits might come with future obligations. She also described using a Psychic Crystal to escape attention on campus and planned to keep developing her psychic abilities carefully.

• Fang Yishu returned to Ning Yu's apartment in disguise and explained that the vice dean, dean's secretary, and president had offered her flexible studies, a graduate recommendation, and other privileges.
• Fang Yishu and Ning Yu recognized that the university was investing in them because they were Main God Users and might expect favors in return.
• Fang Yishu admitted the offers tempted her but warned Ning Yu that the benefits could become burdensome later.
• Fang Yishu told Ning Yu that students had crowded around her when she went back to the dorm, so she used a Psychic Crystal to become psychologically invisible and escape.
• Fang Yishu said she planned to absorb the Psychic Crystal and follow advice to avoid mixing too many psychic enhancements, while Ning Yu continued choosing a partner for her Druid path.

Chen Ruiping, a newly advanced Third Tier Sword Cultivator, explored the Cemetery District and showed off his unusual resilience. After beating a Korean user who challenged him, he sensed metal qi in a foggy depression and headed toward it.

• Chen Ruiping examined a sinking skeleton and sampled a poisonous shrub, then forced black blood from his wound and recovered.
• The guides’ information identified Chen Ruiping as a Third Tier Sword Cultivator with an [Innate Sword Body (Pseudo)] who had rapidly advanced through monitored cultivation.
• Chen Ruiping knocked aside a Korean user who protested that the Cemetery District was protected territory, then struck him again for insulting remarks.
• Chen Ruiping sensed a trace of metal qi in the foggy depression and moved toward it, hoping to find natural ore veins.