Recaps

Qin Siyang and the Safe Zone’s leaders defeated Ander’s forces, reorganized the United Government, and moved the population into War Readiness Zones. The revelation of the Life-Substitution Lamp’s method then sparked killings and mutiny, leaving the leaders unsure whom they could trust.

• Qin Siyang pierced Ander's black mist, overwhelmed his defenses, and killed him as Qian Wendao and Fan Baoluo confronted Ander at the secret shelter.
• Chu Baxing and Hu Chan defeated Qin Yingguang and Han Huizhi, prompting their legions to surrender, while Zhong Dingming and Old Johnny found the battered Royt.
• Old Johnny and Zhong Dingming killed Royt, and the gods withdrew after the Sequence Level Ten One presence vanished from the Safe Zone.
• A mysterious woman disintegrated Feng Donghan and his invading companions, then rescued Liu Dao Wu from Yang Lao’er and returned with him to the tunnel.
• Qian Wendao concealed Qin Siyang’s role in Ander's death, exposed Zhang Yang as Old Johnny, and brought him into United Government affairs.
• The United Government memorialized Zone 1’s defenders, reorganized the Safe Zone into War Readiness Zones, and ordered residents to relocate, with Qin Siyang enforcing the plan.
• After the population relocated, Huan Kai fulfilled Royt’s dying wish by revealing how Life-Substitution Lamps worked, and the method spread online.
• Killings began in Sigma District and a level-four commander fled after murdering his soldiers, while officials realized that the lamps could explain past massacres and that they could not trust one another.

Qin Siyang and the Safe Zone’s leaders faced unrest and prepared their defenses while learning that powerful outsiders were approaching. After taking command in Sigma District, Qin Siyang encountered a Large God behaving as if it were testing him.

• Yu Jianyun told Qin Siyang, Qian Wendao, and Old Johnny that outsiders had died after crossing the River, and Qin Siyang concluded that the natural barriers were protecting the survivors from invasion.
• Qian Wendao and Qin Siyang learned the Domain Sequence’s conditions for advancement, while Old Johnny confirmed that he had not reached it and Yu Jianyun refused to change his path.
• Protests spread through the United Government and allied organizations, and Qin Siyang’s leadership offered reforms and recruited demoted officials to help restore order.
• The United Government opened the Giant Ridge Tunnel, and Qin Siyang volunteered to take command of Sigma District as a Satellite City.
• In Sigma District, Qin Siyang met Gu Yunpeng, supported the Underground City, learned brewing from Huo Dangkou, and paid him to search for Huan Kai.
• Power Bull and Sturgeon Crocodile identified Qin Siyang as the Eighth Domain’s Domain Master and arranged for him to take Sturgeon Crocodile’s Succession Trial.
• Margaret accused Sima Ji of betraying his friend, and Sima Ji declared that he would help the Eighth Domain’s Domain Master break through and challenge the First Domain.
• Qin Siyang confronted a Large God in the River, noticed it followed when he retreated and fled when he pursued, then stopped his Capsule Pod to watch its mouth stop closing.

Margaret and Sima Ji led an invasion of the Eighth Domain, but Qin Siyang’s trial reward and the Domain’s defenses forced them to retreat. The Safe Zone exposed corruption tied to an illegal factory and began preparing for the invaders’ return, while Qian Wendao kept Qin’s identity as Domain Master concealed.

• Qin Siyang turned his Capsule Pod back toward the giant mouth and entered it in Olof’s Tier Five Armor, while Margaret agreed to help Sima Ji invade the Eighth Domain.
• Margaret led the invaders across the river in Wooden Boats, and the group entered the Eighth Domain, where Sima Ji killed a captured Sequence Ability User so Liu Xiaofa could search his memories.
• Liu Xiaofa explained that the Domain Master had built a vast, organized Safe Zone, but Sima Ji and the others still set out to kill him as Granny Hua trapped Zhuang Zhong’s patrol in an illusion.
• Yan Changfeng and Olof raised the alarm, and Qian Wendao ordered the Safe Zone to combat readiness as Sima Ji’s group attacked War Readiness Zone 582 and failed to penetrate its shield.
• The invaders continued toward the Domain Master, but a cooldown effect weakened their skills, and Margaret’s party killed factory workers and took their corpses before retreating from the 152nd War Readiness Zone.
• Qin Siyang told Qian Wendao that he had passed the Sturgeon Crocodile’s Succession Trial and chosen a reward that increased the invaders’ skill cooldowns, then realized Qian was posing as the Domain Master to draw danger away from him.
• Qian Wendao and Qin Siyang pursued the illegal factory investigation, which led to convictions for Shao Xiaojing, Shao Xiaoxiang, Chen Gongrang, Sun Xi, and Liu Fuhe, while Chen Zhongming advised his son before exile.
• Qian Wendao gathered the Safe Zone’s strongest fighters to prepare for another attack, and Qin Siyang joined Olof’s meeting as officials discussed the invaders’ weaknesses and likely Tier Four artifacts.

Qin Siyang passed the Sacred Power Bull’s three-stage Succession Trial and learned that its reward would strengthen him against outsiders, while the United Government tightened control over the Safe Zone. The arc left Chen Gongrang surrounded by invaders who wanted him to lead them to Qian Wendao, after they killed Hua Yongsheng.

• Qian Wendao revealed that the invaders might come from several allied Evolutionary Sequence Domains and urged the fighters to pursue Domain Sequence breakthroughs through Succession Trials.
• Qin Siyang found the Sacred Power Bull on Giant Ridge and chose to continue through its increasingly dangerous trial stages.
• Qin Siyang survived the third stage, becoming the first person to pass it, and received a reward that multiplied his physical attributes against inhabitants of other domains.
• The Sacred Power Bull told Qin Siyang that Large Gods could not attack humans first, and Qin Siyang concluded that the reward would not cancel the suppression outsiders faced in foreign domains.
• Qin Siyang marked the New Year by distributing gifts and overseeing Huan Kai’s execution, then arrested and executed 352 suspected traitors who had waited outside the Safe Zone.
• The United Government expanded the Exile Act, and Chen Gongrang hunted gods on Giant Ridge to reduce his sentence.
• A group led by a young woman captured Chen Gongrang and demanded that he guide them to Qian Wendao so they could kill him and his allies.
• The burly man killed Hua Yongsheng before Old Liu could search his memories, and Chen Gongrang explained that the United Government had implanted safeguards in the brains of exiles.