Recaps

Su Ziyu returned to the Su family and killed his uncle Su Mingyi after revealing his mastery of the Grimoire of the Old Days. He left Su Mingyi’s wife terrified and surrounded by the horrors of his powers.

• Su Mingyi accused Su Ziyu of killing Xiao Hao and transformed with his Awakening Ninth Stage ability, Powerful Multiplication.
• Su Ziyu blocked Su Mingyi’s punch with black matter and evaded his attacks.
• Su Ziyu cast Dark Wisdom: Deep Dark Prison, trapping and crushing Su Mingyi inside black pillars.
• Su Mingyi’s wife screamed for help as black flames and a strange affliction overwhelmed her.
• Su Ziyu summoned the Rage Knight, whose monstrous appearance drove Su Mingyi’s wife into despair.

Su Ziyu fought and killed his transformed cousin Su Mingyi, who had turned to an evil god for power. Before dying, Su Mingyi warned that an organization would come after Su Ziyu, leaving him to wonder what secrets the family had hidden.

• Ruan Xiaoqi sent Rage to grapple with the transformed noblewoman.
• Su Ziyu confronted the tentacled Su Mingyi in the dining hall and attacked him with Netherworld Ghostfire spears.
• Su Ziyu used Dark Wisdom: Bound Dungeon to bind and weaken Su Mingyi.
• The Void Shadow Beast emerged from the darkness and cut off Su Mingyi’s head with its black scissors.
• Su Mingyi warned Su Ziyu that an organization would not let him go before he died.
• Su Ziyu extracted materials from Su Mingyi and left the dining hall, pondering the organization and the family’s secrets.

Su Ziyu took revenge on his aunt-in-law and interrogated her about the cult that had corrupted her family. Before she died, she named the Old Days and warned that a Grand Lord would come for him, leading Su Ziyu to investigate the manor’s library.

• Su Ziyu ordered Rage to use the Eighteen Torments of the Netherworld to force his aunt-in-law to reveal the cult’s name.
• Rage tortured the wounded woman with the hellish stake while Su Ziyu reflected on his revenge and the need to keep his Mental Body stable.
• Before dying, Su Ziyu’s aunt-in-law named the Old Days and said a Grand Lord would come to kill him.
• Su Ziyu left Rage and Ruan Xiaoqi to clean up and went to the library, sensing something hidden there and hoping to find books about the Morning Star Tier and Extraordinary factions.

Su Ziyu entered his grandfather’s sealed study and found a secret tome describing advancement to Morning Star. He discovered that its apparent reader was his long-missing second granduncle, Su Jingtian, whose power seemed corrupted.

• Su Ziyu opened the iron door to his grandfather’s study and noticed signs that someone had recently been using it.
• Su Ziyu found a skeletal old man seated at the desk, reading a sorcerers’ tome about advancing to Morning Star.
• Su Ziyu reached for the tome, but the old man attacked and demanded that he return it.
• Su Ziyu recognized the old man as his second granduncle, Su Jingtian, who had vanished years earlier.
• Su Ziyu sensed that Su Jingtian possessed distorted, corrupted power and suspected he had become a corrupted Morning Star powerhouse.

Su Jingtian lost control while forcing his way toward Morning Star, transforming into a monster and attacking Su Ziyu in the study. Su Ziyu fought back with shadows and spells, and the chapter ended with him appearing behind Su Jingtian as pillars of light illuminated the room.

• Su Jingtian tried to take the ancient book from Su Ziyu, then grew multiple eyeball-covered arms as his spirituality surged toward Morning Star.
• Su Jingtian lost control and attacked Su Ziyu with elongated arms, beams of evil light, and sorcery while borrowing a trace of Astral Might.
• Su Ziyu dodged the attacks and used his shadow and the Void Shadow Beast to strike Su Jingtian from the darkness.
• Su Jingtian surrounded himself with spells, unleashed a flaming tornado, and summoned pillars of light that revealed Su Ziyu behind him.

Su Ziyu defeated Su Jingtian, who regained his sanity briefly and warned him about the Old Days curse before dying. Su Ziyu found Su Jingtian’s diary and learned that the Old God Cult had offered him a path to Morning Star, then contaminated and controlled the family; he began examining an old book for more clues.

• Su Ziyu and the Void Shadow Beast killed Su Jingtian after the beast pierced him with God-Slaying Flash.
• Su Jingtian apologized to Su Ziyu, warned him to beware the Old Days curse, and pointed him toward a drawer before dying.
• Su Ziyu searched the ruined study and found a black notebook, several ancient tomes, and a yellowed book.
• Su Ziyu read Su Jingtian’s diary and learned that the Old God Cult had offered him a way to advance to Morning Star and later contaminated him and Su Mingyi’s family.
• Su Ziyu considered the cult’s motives and the priest’s role, then used the All-Seeing True Eye to read the yellowed book.

Su Ziyu found an evil Morning Star advancement ritual among Su Jingtian’s books, then uncovered the Spiritual Visualization Method his grandfather had hidden for him. After reading his grandfather’s guidance, Su Ziyu returned to the villa with Ruan Xiaoqi following him.

• Su Ziyu recognized the yellowed book as a sacrificial ritual that could corrupt its user, and set it aside along with two books he planned to study.
• Su Ziyu searched beneath a banyan tree and uncovered an iron box his grandfather had buried ten years earlier.
• Su Ziyu opened the box with his birthday and found a notebook titled “Spiritual Visualization Method!”
• Su Ziyu read that reconstructing a Visualization Diagram was necessary to advance to Morning Star, and learned his grandfather had prepared diagrams for him in a cabinet.
• Su Ziyu read his grandfather’s farewell message, wiped away his tears, and returned to the villa, followed by Ruan Xiaoqi.

Su Ziyu searched his grandfather’s former room for the Visualization Diagram and discovered several hidden among old paintings. After examining the Ironblood Giant Dragon painting, he began considering which diagram to use for visualization.

• Su Ziyu praised Xiaoqi, told Rage to stand guard in disguise, and searched his grandfather’s room with Ruan Xiaoqi.
• Ruan Xiaoqi noticed several dusty paintings, and Su Ziyu used the All-Seeing True Eye to discover that the Venomous Toad painting was a Visualization Diagram.
• Su Ziyu recognized the Flower Fairy and Coldplain Purple Spider paintings as more Visualization Diagrams, and Ruan Xiaoqi happily took the spider painting.
• Su Ziyu uncovered the Ironblood Giant Dragon painting and considered which creature to visualize.

Su Ziyu began visualizing a being of his own design instead of copying the Ironblood Dragon, using his authority in the System Space to shape the Primordial Demon God from chaotic currents and Creation Magma. The visualization took form as a colossal dragonlike phantom that incorporated the powers of monsters he had created.

• Su Ziyu considered the importance of matching a Visualization Diagram to his Elemental Manipulation ability, then decided not to copy the Ironblood Dragon completely.
• Su Ziyu sat cross-legged and sent his spirituality around the Ironblood Dragon portrait while entering the System Space.
• Su Ziyu used chaotic currents to shape a dragon head and body, then awakened its golden eyes.
• Su Ziyu commanded Creation Magma to climb the God-Creation Stairway and fuse with the chaotic currents, forming the Primordial Aura.
• Su Ziyu completed the visualization of the Primordial Demon God, a vast dragonlike phantom bearing Dread Demon Eyes and the Void Shadow Beast's shadow power.

Su Ziyu broke through to Morning Star, manifesting blood-red clouds that alarmed residents and Professor Bai. He then began helping Ruan Xiaoqi advance using the Coldplain Purple Spider portrait, but the All-Seeing True Eye revealed something unexpected about her spirit body.

• Su Ziyu completed a Visualization Diagram node and broke through to Morning Star, sending his spirituality into the sky and forming blood-red clouds.
• Residents across the city witnessed the strange crimson sky, while Professor Bai suspected it might be connected to Burial Venerable.
• Su Ziyu discovered that his pets had also reached Morning Star Initial Stage and noticed Ruan Xiaoqi's unusual reaction to the Coldplain Purple Spider portrait.
• Su Ziyu agreed to help Ruan Xiaoqi advance to Morning Star and explained the Spiritual Visualization Method to her.
• Su Ziyu used the All-Seeing True Eye to inspect Ruan Xiaoqi's spirit body and noticed something strange.

Su Ziyu stopped an old witch from taking over Ruan Xiaoqi’s spirit body during her advancement and destroyed her with the Spider God’s power. He gained two materials, while Ruan Xiaoqi remained safe and her visualization neared its end.

• As Ruan Xiaoqi began advancing to Morning Star, Su Ziyu recognized that the old witch hidden in her spirit body was trying to seize control of it.
• The old witch emerged from Ruan Xiaoqi and attacked, but Su Ziyu blocked her with the Spirit Scissors and trapped her webs in Netherworld Ghostfire.
• Su Ziyu pressed his hand to the old witch’s forehead, causing the Spider God’s power to mutate and destroy her spirit body.
• Su Ziyu extracted Rootless Tendrils and Cursed Black Soul, then confirmed that Ruan Xiaoqi’s spirit body was normal and her Mental Body was pure.
• Su Ziyu reflected on the Old Gods Cult and the Grimoire of the Old Days before noticing that Ruan Xiaoqi’s visualization was nearly finished.

Wei Kang and Hong Ying investigated the manor, where they found the owners reduced to flesh and discovered evidence of dark sorcery. A surveillance tape showed a shadow-faced figure claiming to be the Lord of Shadows, leaving the Special Affairs Department officers injured and calling for backup.

• Wei Kang led Hong Ying and their armed squad into the manor, where they found traces of blood and discovered three mutilated bodies in the kitchen.
• Hong Ying reported that the servants and butler were unconscious but alive, while the team found a two-star emblem suggesting the bodies belonged to a sorcerer family.
• Wei Kang wondered where the reported Overlord-Tier expert had gone and whether Burial Venerable was involved.
• Hong Ying brought back the only surviving surveillance tape, which showed a waiter carrying the three bodies on a dining cart.
• The waiter raised his shadow-covered face and declared himself the Lord of Shadows, causing Wei Kang, Hong Ying, and other officers to suffer a terrifying vision and call headquarters for backup.

Su Ziyu took Ruan Xiaoqi to the Beyonder night market to gather intelligence, disguising himself in a yellow robe and mask. The guards recognized the robe as belonging to the King in Yellow, a figure connected to a deadly taboo incident, and hurried to alert Steward Wang.

• Su Ziyu reflected on how he had used the Void Shadow Beast's shadow authority to alter a videotape as a warning to the Special Affairs Department.
• Su Ziyu took Ruan Xiaoqi for a haircut, bought her a black Gothic-style dress and snacks, and enjoyed seeing her become more comfortable with the world.
• Su Ziyu changed into a yellow robe from his grandfather's room and led masked Ruan Xiaoqi to a Beyonder night market in the eastern part of the city.
• The guards charged Su Ziyu and Ruan Xiaoqi a hundred Alliance Coins to enter and warned them not to cause trouble on Steward Wang's territory.
• The thin and fat guards recognized Su Ziyu's yellow robe as the costume of the King in Yellow and rushed to notify Steward Wang about his appearance.

At the night market, Su Ziyu discovered a strange bronze key and clashed with a powerful Beyonder who tried to take it from him. The crowd gathered as the Black Bear-masked man prepared to fight Su Ziyu, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Su Ziyu and Ruan Xiaoqi entered the bustling night market, where Su Ziyu searched the stalls for useful items and treasures.
• Su Ziyu found an ancient-looking bronze key at a goatee-masked vendor’s stall and tried to bargain for it.
• A Black Bear-masked man offered one hundred thousand for the key, then raised his bid to two hundred thousand and ordered Su Ziyu to leave.
• Su Ziyu stopped the vendor from selling the key to the Black Bear-masked man, and the two men confronted each other as Beyonders gathered to watch.
• The Black Bear-masked man displayed an earthen-yellow elemental ability and threatened Su Ziyu by pointing out Ruan Xiaoqi.
• Su Ziyu challenged the Black Bear-masked man to attack, and the chapter ended before either man struck.

Su Ziyu killed the Black Bear-masked man after discovering a Seven-Ring Worm was controlling him. Steward Wang arrived and recognized Su Ziyu as the King in Yellow, leaving the crowd waiting to see what he would do.

• The Black Bear-masked man attacked Su Ziyu, but the Void Shadow Beast pierced him with its scissors.
• When the wounded man kept moving, Su Ziyu pinned him down with dark spears and noticed something abnormal in his Astral Spirit Body.
• The Void Shadow Beast pulled a Seven-Ring Worm from the man's brain and killed it, causing the man to go limp.
• Steward Wang arrived with guards and recognized Su Ziyu as the King in Yellow.
• The crowd expected Steward Wang to punish Su Ziyu, while Su Ziyu waited to see what he would do.

Su Ziyu used [Crimson Purgatory] to frighten Steward Wang, who mistook him for the King in Yellow and helped him obtain the Octopus-Head Key and a beginner’s guide. After leaving the night market, Su Ziyu learned that his supposed identity had spread among the crowd and decided to study the book for clues about his grandfather’s costume.

• Steward Wang called Su Ziyu senior after being frightened by [Crimson Purgatory], and the goat-masked owner handed over the Octopus-Head Key.
• Su Ziyu took the key and the beginner’s guide, while Steward Wang paid ten thousand and gave him a business card.
• Steward Wang told Big Ox that he needed to report the King in Yellow and other powerful figures appearing in River City.
• Bystanders concluded that Su Ziyu was the King in Yellow, while the Void Shadow Beast listened from the darkness.
• The Void Shadow Beast returned to Su Ziyu’s shadow and told him what the crowd had said.
• Su Ziyu wondered about the costume from his grandfather’s wardrobe and went to a hotel to study the beginner’s guide.

A cult leader ordered an early assault on the Ghoul Cult after mistaking Su Ziyu’s yellow robes for the appearance of the King in Yellow. As Su Ziyu investigated the Octopus-Head Key, the Calamity Serpent Society, Grotesque Circus, and the leader’s fiery-cloud-robed followers besieged Li Kangming’s forces, and Ghoul Cult members began turning on one another.

• A fiery-cloud-robed man saw footage of Su Ziyu and feared that the King in Yellow had appeared, so he ordered the Calamity Serpent Society and Grotesque Circus to help attack the Ghoul Cult.
• Su Ziyu read about the Beyonder world’s churches and cults, then used his spirituality to reveal an ocean vision within the Octopus-Head Key.
• Su Ziyu recalled that the Black Bear-masked man had been controlled by a segmented insect and received a message from Rage that prompted him to practice swordsmanship.
• The Calamity Serpent Society, Grotesque Circus, and fiery-cloud-robed followers confronted Li Kangming and urged the Ghoul Cult members to defect.
• A Ghoul Cult follower roared, and members of the cult began turning their weapons against their own companions.

Ruan Xiaoqi summoned the Primordial Demon God’s power to strengthen Rage and his warriors as they slaughtered the Calamity Serpent Society and Grotesque Circus. The battle left the fiery-cloud-robed cultists standing, revealing that they too could not be killed.

• Rage’s Evil Spirit Marionettes killed the defiant members of the crowd, and Ruan Xiaoqi emerged and was greeted as the Holy Mother.
• Ruan Xiaoqi unfurled a scroll bearing the Primordial Demon God’s image, empowering Rage and transforming the surviving believers into Evil Spirit warriors.
• Rage led the warriors into battle, killing the Calamity Serpent Society priest and the Grotesque Circus clown priest while proclaiming their lord’s name as Burial Venerable.
• The Evil Spirit warriors slaughtered the believers of both groups, but the fiery-cloud-robed cultists repeatedly rose again after suffering fatal wounds.
• The qipao-clad beauty reattached her head and declared that River City’s forces belonged to her group.

Su Ziyu identified the cultists’ source of immortality and directed the Rage Knight to destroy the Seven-Segment Ringworms, ending their lives. He then appeared behind a fleeing priest, who recognized him as the King in Yellow and cried out.

• Su Ziyu spotted Seven-Segment Ringworms in the qipao woman’s brain and realized they were the source of the cultists’ immortality.
• The Rage Knight and the Evil Spirit warriors fought the cultists while Su Ziyu watched and withheld Ruan Xiaoqi from joining in.
• Rage pierced the qipao woman’s head, froze her Seven-Segment Ringworm, and killed her; the warriors also destroyed the worms inside her subordinates.
• Su Ziyu noticed a hooded priest trying to escape and teleported behind him in an empty alley.
• The priest turned, recognized Su Ziyu as the King in Yellow, and screamed.

Su Ziyu fought a bearded cult leader who summoned a Faceless Ghost Fox, then pursued him into the sewers to learn why the cult had attacked and what the strange undead were. The chapter ended as Su Ziyu used the All-Seeing True Eye and found something that startled him around a sewer corner.

• Su Ziyu used the Void Shadow Beast’s shadow attacks to wound the bearded brute and force him to summon the Faceless Ghost Fox.
• The bearded brute armored the Faceless Ghost Fox with spirituality and ordered it to attack Su Ziyu, then fled when the fight began.
• Ruan Xiaoqi, the Dread Demon Eye, and the Void Shadow Beast stayed behind to fight the Faceless Ghost Fox.
• Su Ziyu followed the bearded brute into the foul-smelling sewers, determined to question him about the cult’s ambush and the undead beings.
• Su Ziyu activated the All-Seeing True Eye, turned a corner, and stared in surprise at what he saw.

Su Ziyu confronted the bearded man inside a lavish house hidden in the sewers and used the [Dark Wisdom Chapter] to overwhelm him. The man recognized him as Burial Venerable and unleashed controlled female dolls before Su Ziyu’s fireball struck the house, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Su Ziyu tested the house with dark matter, then used [Dark Wisdom: Bound Dungeon] to surround and penetrate it.
• The bearded man recognized the [Dark Wisdom Chapter] and suspected Su Ziyu was the King in Yellow.
• Su Ziyu questioned the bearded man about the Old God Cult and the gathering at the abandoned factory.
• The bearded man realized Su Ziyu was Burial Venerable, and the Twisting Lines bound him while tearing apart the house.
• Su Ziyu launched a massive black fireball as the bearded man summoned controlled female dolls that fired a combined beam of spiritual light.
• The fireball and spiritual beam collided in a huge explosion, and Su Ziyu watched the house’s ruins through the flames.

Su Ziyu killed Zhang Huan, uncovered the Old God Cult’s Alchemy grimoire and an invitation to the major city, and prepared to investigate the cult there. He vanished from the sewer just before Hong Ying and the Special Affairs Department arrived and found the gruesome aftermath.

• Su Ziyu used the All-Seeing True Eye to learn that Zhang Huan had joined the Old God Cult, learned Alchemy, and turned women into Living Skin Dolls.
• Su Ziyu killed Zhang Huan and found the Grimoire of the Old Days, including the Earth's Seven Mysteries Chapter on Alchemy.
• Su Ziyu found a recommendation letter from a person surnamed Xiao granting Zhang Huan entry to the major city, and decided he might use it to follow the Old God Cult's trail.
• Su Ziyu extracted materials from the damaged dolls, formed a ritual from sewage and dark matter, and vanished into the sewer as footsteps approached.
• Hong Ying led Special Affairs Department agents into the sewer, where she found bloodied walls and a revolting scene.

Hong Ying's squad found a corpse marked with the words “King in Yellow,” adding another terrifying name to River City's growing list of supernatural threats. Meanwhile, Su Ziyu collected cultist materials, used them to evolve Rage and the Netherworld Army, and prepared to edit a new monster.

• Hong Ying and her squad drove off the blood-eyed crows and found “King in Yellow” written in the remains of a corpse, prompting her to report the discovery to headquarters.
• Su Ziyu met Ruan Xiaoqi in an alley, extracted materials from a Faceless Ghost Fox, and transported them to an abandoned factory.
• Su Ziyu examined the corpses of the Calamity Serpent Society and Grotesque Circus cultists, then deduced how Zhang Huan had made living-skin dolls.
• Su Ziyu rewarded Rage for guarding the factory and used Spirit Severing to gather cultist flesh and spirits around Rage, his warhorse, and the eighty-two evil spirit warriors.
• Su Ziyu watched the warriors enter flesh cocoons, then entered System Space to begin editing a new monster.

Su Ziyu used the Five-Star aura and several other materials in the Hundred-Eyed Furnace to create the Hundred-Tailed Serpent Fox. After the creature emerged, the furnace contracted into a flesh cocoon.

• Su Ziyu reviewed the materials in the System Space and chose the Five-Star aura, the Faceless Demon Fox corpse, Rootless Tendrils, Jester's Grotesque Smile, and Calamity Serpent Tails for creation.
• Su Ziyu added the Five-Star aura to the Creation Magma, turning it glittering gold, then submerged the Faceless Demon Fox corpse in it.
• Su Ziyu added the remaining materials, and ninety-nine Calamity Serpent Tails formed grotesque, humanlike faces at their tips.
• The Hundred-Tailed Serpent Fox rose and roared as its last Rootless Tendril became a longer, grotesque-smiling tail.
• The Hundred-Eyed Furnace released white vapor, contracted inward, and turned into a flesh cocoon.

Su Ziyu created the Four-Star Hundred-Tailed Serpent Fox, gained two of its skills, and discovered that it could hide in his subconscious sea. As the remaining flesh cocoons opened, Rage emerged stronger and Su Ziyu named a newly evolved Evil Spirit Marionette the Greed Reaper.

• The Hundred-Tailed Serpent Fox emerged from its cocoon, and Su Ziyu chose [All Things Have Spirits] and [Nature Breath] to solidify as his skills.
• Su Ziyu discovered that the Hundred-Tailed Serpent Fox could retreat into the Chaos Sea, which was his tangible subconscious sea alongside the Primordial Demon God.
• Rage emerged from his cocoon at the peak of the Morning Star Initial Stage, with a larger greatsword, demonic horns, and a stronger Netherworld Ghostfire warhorse.
• Another Evil Spirit Marionette emerged in its second form, and Su Ziyu named it the Greed Reaper.