Recaps

Chen Mo survived the Hairy Savage and joined forces with Red Hare, who offered to help him awaken as a Transcendent. In Apricot Blossom Town, Chen Mo entered a rule-bound clinic to face Doctor Wen and escaped after discovering what drove the doctor’s violence.

• Chen Mo fled the Tide Cry devastation, reached Sunward Village, and escaped the old woman’s black wind in his dump truck while Big Niu transformed behind the convoy.
• Chen Mo and Hu Yaya exposed and killed the Hairy Savage, but a black-and-white donkey took its corpse, and Chen Mo secretly kept one of its fingers.
• Red Hare revealed itself as a level-two Variant, agreed to help Chen Mo awaken, and asked him to hide it from the Spectral Bear pursuing it.
• Lin Lu traded Chen Mo a truck modification for the Hairy Savage’s claw, but the convoy soon split up near Apricot Blossom Town to reduce its losses.
• Red Hare sent Chen Mo into the town clinic to face a level-two rule-based horror and gave him a clay token that could return him ten minutes after a fatal attack.
• Doctor Wen killed Chen Mo for lying, but Chen Mo revived and learned he had to follow the doctor’s treatment rules and tell him the truth.
• Chen Mo escaped the clinic with Red Hare after Doctor Wen severed two of his fingers, explaining that the doctor’s resentment stemmed from a medical dispute and his hatred of dishonest patients.

Chen Mo awakened as a Blade Wielder, survived the Prosper City mall’s monsters, and escaped the Cold Cicada with Red Hare’s help. Separated from his old convoy and poisoned by silent extinction cold, he joined the Rocksolid Convoy, where Han Ningbing revealed her connection to the Tide Cry.

• Red Hare defeated Doctor Wen, and Chen Mo risked absorbing Wen Li’s power, awakening as a First Tier Blade Wielder.
• Chen Mo and Red Hare rescued Hu Yaya from Li Xia, looted Hualian Supermarket, and fled as the Spectral Bear attacked Apricot Blossom Town.
• Chen Mo joined the Starfire Council, traded Red Hare to Old Zhang for a vengeful soul and an Energy Core, and later reunited with the donkey after its escape.
• At Prosper City International Shopping Center, Chen Mo and his companions fought a giant catfish, White Mannequins, and the Six-Armed Weird while Frost Cicadas awakened around an ice cocoon.
• Chen Mo and Red Hare stayed behind as the Starfire Convoy escaped, but the Cold Cicada struck Chen Mo with silent extinction cold poison and Red Hare drew the monster away.
• Li Xia drove Chen Mo toward Camel City, and he joined the Rocksolid Convoy after claiming the Cold Cicada had scattered his former group.
• Chen Mo failed to purge the cold poison and used Energy Cores to recover some power while Han Ningbing told him about her blindness, illness, and the Tide Cry.
• Chen Mo asked Han Ningbing whether he should call her Miss Han Ningbing or the Cold Cicada King.