Recaps

Chen Gongrang’s sacrifice helped the Safe Zone repel the invaders, but unrest and a new assault threatened the Eighth Domain. As the Large Gods fought to defend it, Qin Siyang entered the Red Carp’s Succession Trial and woke before the wounded Sacred Carp.

• Chen Gongrang betrayed the invaders by guiding them into Wei Rulai’s ambush, where the Safe Zone’s forces killed most of them, and he died beneath their attack.
• Qian Wendao honored Chen Gongrang’s sacrifice, and Chen Zhongming received his final message before returning to public office as Governor of State No. 2.
• Qian Wendao told Qin Siyang that Sima Ji had betrayed the Seventh Domain and revealed his own past as the World-Destroying Church’s Yusi.
• After public anger targeted families linked to the invaders, Huan Ruoyu survived through a Life-Substitution Lamp and Ban Dingyuan persuaded Qin Siyang to let him serve under a concealed identity.
• The Paddle Lizard warned William that the First Domain’s failed invasions had made the Gods fear losing their stakes, then learned from the Succession Envoy that her relatives had died.
• Frost Tiger and other beings attacked the Eighth Domain, while Power Bull, the Sturgeon Crocodiles, and the Red Carp joined its defense and fought the invaders at its borders.
• Qin Siyang found the Great River inaccessible after the battle and began the Red Carp’s Succession Trial, enduring poisoned fish-god remains and searching for a way to survive its rounds.
• Qin Siyang broke the red bone spikes to end the corpse assault, but the red mist overwhelmed him, and he awoke before the badly wounded Sacred Carp.

Qin Siyang learned that the gods feared his rise while a massive invasion struck the Safe Zone. After War Readiness Zone 931’s defenders died resisting, William took its people hostage and forced Qian Wendao to begin negotiations.

• Red Carp gave Qin Siyang [Feign Death and Rebirth] before her condition worsened, and Qin Siyang used Zuo You’s revival drug and emergency medicines to save her.
• Li Qinghui returned to the Eighth Domain and told the others Qin Siyang had saved her, while the Succession Envoy mistakenly threatened her with punishment before Niu Douchong clarified the contract rules.
• Qin Siyang accepted Li Tianming’s tier five flying artifact, celebrated the New Year, and learned that 207 invaders had attacked multiple War Readiness Zones under William’s command.
• William and Sima Ji redirected their forces toward five weak points, then concentrated the assault on War Readiness Zone 931 after Rong Xin broke its Anti-Aircraft Dome to draw in gods.
• The invaders killed Xia Qiuyu and Qiu Human, but Norman Richarl trapped them in the command building and helped Rong Xin destroy it with concentrated fire.
• Rong Xin’s defenders continued resisting as battalions sacrificed themselves, and the last defenders died after killing eleven invaders while Rong Xin restored the shattered blast-resistant glass.
• The invaders took control of War Readiness Zone 931 and seized more than two hundred thousand people, while Qin Siyang could not surprise them because their skill linked them together.
• Qian Wendao chose to negotiate despite Chu Zhongxiong’s objections, and opened the communication channel after William threatened to kill a thousand hostages.

Qian Wendao saved the hostages of Zone 931 and sacrificed himself to unite the Safe Zone against the invaders, but William’s forces answered with a massacre in Zone 937. As the Safe Zone mourned its dead, Olof married Liu Yingfeng and Zhao Longfei proposed to Lin Yaman.

• Qian Wendao exposed William’s plans, secured the release of more than two hundred thousand hostages, and named Gu Weirong as his successor.
• Qian Wendao told Qin Siyang that his survival mattered to the Eighth Domain, but Qin attacked Granny Hua and was killed when defenders’ bombardment engulfed him.
• Qian Wendao sacrificed himself in a concealed strike that killed seventeen invaders, and people across the Safe Zone rallied behind his call to resist.
• William led an attack on War Readiness Zone 937, where his forces slaughtered hundreds of thousands of civilians and deepened the Safe Zone’s hatred of the invaders.
• Sima Ji revealed that Qian Wendao had been Wen Daoqian and told Chen Xiao'en that his death might give the Eighth Domain a chance to survive the next assault.
• The Safe Zone held funerals for Qin Siyang and Qian Wendao, while a newly ascended domain-sequence fighter slipped across the Great River toward the hidden invaders.
• Olof married Liu Yingfeng in a small ceremony, and Zhao Longfei proposed to Lin Yaman, who accepted his Vine Heart ring.
• Li Tianming declined Zhao Longfei and Lin Yaman’s wedding invitation as Chen Fenghe, Li Pengfei, and others grieved Qin Siyang.

The Safe Zone exposed its traitors and used Quan Taibin’s technology to turn native gods against the invading armies. As the battle spread across the War Readiness Zones, new domain-sequence fighters reinforced the defenders, but Qin Siyang remained hidden and the war continued to threaten a costly stalemate.

• Zhao Longfei and Zhao Sifang married Lin Yaman and Gu Yunxuan in a modest joint ceremony, while the Safe Zone’s residents used a three-day holiday to celebrate and remember the dead.
• Quan Taibin gave Li Tianming his completed technology for disguising objects as gods, and the Safe Zone began training its forces to fight alongside the gods.
• The Invaders attacked with more than a hundred thousand troops, while Xie Nanyun and Han Shuo were exposed as moles and fought Zhu Haifeng, Zhao Longfei, and the others.
• The Invaders breached the War Readiness Zones, but Li Tianming’s trained soldiers used disguised bait to draw native gods into the battle and disrupt the enemy formations.
• Wei Rulai’s Mobile Fortress Unit helped destroy an invading force, and he and Yan Bunan reinforced other battles before William and Margaret sent elite troops to stop them.
• Zhu Haifeng and Zhao Longfei killed Han Shuo and Xie Nanyun, broke through to the domain sequence, and secretly reinforced Yan Bunan’s forces against Margaret.
• Qin Siyang stayed hidden in Sigma District, recognized that the invaders remained protected by Granny Hua’s support ability, and decided he still needed to reach the domain sequence.
• Zhu Haifeng and Wei Rulai held their position against William’s renewed assault, knowing they might have to abandon the War Readiness Zone as the invasion threatened to become a prolonged struggle.