Recaps

Bai Zhu and his allies uncovered the Specialist Association’s plan to steal a Blue Crystal fragment and discovered that the Black Tower was part of a mobile treasure vault. The tower recognized Bai Zhu as an administrator, leading him to a sealed chamber where an awakened Second Administrator challenged him.

• Bai Zhu and his allies exposed the Specialist Association’s ambush, but a thief escaped with a Blue Crystal shard and trapped Bai Zhu in the Collection Room.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki worked out how the Blue Crystal, Blackstone Key Pieces, and Feathered Metal Tube controlled the ruins, and Bai Zhu opened the Black Stone Gate.
• The group discovered that the Black Tower stood above a sealed underground cavity and that the Specialist Association was using its stolen crystal fragment to move through the ruins.
• Bai Zhu led the group across the lake on a Reishi road and fought Hua Qiulang’s team, while Ging learned to disrupt Gait’s teleportation and helped capture Gait and Hua Qiulang.
• The Black Tower separated the group as they entered, and Bai Zhu’s Blue Crystal Necklace guided him through an authorization test that granted him temporary Administrator permissions.
• Bai Zhu used the Soul King’s Pen to translate the tower’s records and found a gate linked to a foreign system that had infected the world’s rules.
• Bai Zhu opened the Core Observation Room, where a chained figure awakened as the Second Administrator and asked which version of system Bai Zhu carried.
• The Second Administrator attacked Bai Zhu with a sphere of Blue Crystal energy, and their clash ended with Bai Zhu bleeding after the sphere exploded against the Stone Gate.

Bai Zhu emerged from the Black Tower with clues about calamities and a new mission at sea, then followed the Chimera threat to Kakin and uncovered a plan involving his blood, the Seed Urn, and the Royal Family. After Netero helped him understand how Pariston had steered him, Bai Zhu agreed to bait Unma while Ging and Netero investigated the experiment.

• Bai Zhu defeated the ancient corpse’s assessment, learned from the gravekeeper that his system might not belong to him, and explored Zhang Ye’s diary before the Black Tower vanished and left him with a contaminated insect egg.
• Bai Zhu joined Morel’s project to acquire a Titan-class ship, and the group encountered a sonar anomaly in the Caspian Sea that drew a colossal tentacled creature to the egg Ging carried.
• Bai Zhu and his allies left the blockade and decided to confront Pariston in Kakin, where Bai Zhu sold blood to Unma and learned that Tserriednich had arranged for Camilla’s guards to approach him.
• Bai Zhu met Camilla to ask about Ella, then told Ging he suspected someone was pushing him into the Succession War and sought a secret meeting with Netero.
• Netero and Ging helped Bai Zhu connect Unma’s blood research to the Seed Urn and Pariston’s manipulation, while Netero urged him to strengthen himself and explained the dangers of his unknown power and blood.
• Bai Zhu revealed that he had given Ging an insect egg from the ruins, and Netero showed him an application linking contamination research to the Royal Family’s bloodline.
• Bai Zhu, Ging, and Netero agreed that Bai Zhu would draw out Unma’s findings, Ging would investigate the researchers and their funding, and Netero would block the application within the Association.
• An unknown sender showed Bai Zhu a claw and black feather growing in golden culture fluid and warned that his blood was awake, as Ging carried him back toward Kakin.

Bai Zhu and his allies traced the Black Feather to Kakin’s secret experiments while Ging’s team discovered that golden parasites from the Caspian Sea could copy Nen abilities. The parasites overran both Tserriednich’s estate and Unma’s facility, leaving Bai Zhu and Unma facing the creatures in the incubation room.

• Ging split the investigation, sending Morel, Bai Zhu, and Piyu to uncover the source of the Deep-Sea Incubation Chambers while he, Gela Jiang, and Milluki investigated the Caspian Sea.
• Morel tracked the chamber’s shipment to the Royal Charity Hospital, rescued the injured Shuto from Lina Pokkle’s men, and brought him to Bai Zhu, who healed him and failed to restore his severed arm.
• Bai Zhu visited Unma’s experimental zone, discovered its cultivation chambers and the Natural Enemy Reaction caused by his blood, and learned that a stolen specimen had been used in a secret experiment.
• Ging’s team encountered a vast shadow made of golden particles, then found that the parasites copied their aura and Nen patterns and were linked to Kakin Royal Hospital.
• Netero warned Bai Zhu that the particles were gathering around him, but Tserriednich’s estate and Unma’s facility were already under attack by creatures that copied abilities and impersonated people.
• Bai Zhu and Unma chose to destroy the facility’s records and blood samples, but the call with Morel ended after three identity signals unlocked their doors.
• Bai Zhu revealed seven creatures beyond the blast gate with his Reiatsu, cut the gate down, and faced them as they charged.

Bai Zhu fought the golden-particle Fear Incarnation as it threatened Totorro Port, then entered the ruins to stop Hecatos from reclaiming its full body. Ging joined him inside, and the arc ended with Bai Zhu nearing the seal’s convergence point as his system revealed the sealing operation lines.

• Bai Zhu destroyed the Slender Hound with Bankai, cutting through Totorro Port and the Caspian Sea before collapsing from depleted Reiatsu.
• Piyu rescued Bai Zhu from Unma, and the Hunters and military began containing the Husks as the golden-particle infection spread through the city.
• Bai Zhu learned that the Fear Incarnation regenerated from fear and headed for the harbor, where the Gatekeeper Giant Squid confronted the monster.
• The Gatekeeper battled the Fear Incarnation while the infection spread through the city and the Stone Gate beneath the Chimera Ruins began to open.
• Netero crushed the golden sea monster and helped suppress the contamination, while Bai Zhu and the others entered the ruins through the failing Stone Gate.
• Bai Zhu confronted Hecatos inside the buried city and learned that Zhang Ye had used its power to seal the continent, while Hecatos demanded that Bai Zhu repay Zhang Ye’s debt.
• Hecatos attacked Bai Zhu with copied Nen abilities, but Bai Zhu used the city’s sealing patterns and his Kidō to resist until Ging arrived and intervened.
• Ging and Bai Zhu located the seal’s convergence point, and Ging broke one of Hecatos’s wings to draw the city closer as Bai Zhu crossed toward the altar and the system revealed the sealing operation lines.