Recaps

Huo Shuang watched Jingye Meinan sneak into ten homes and then Li Xue’s villa, while reporters photographed his encounter with the actress. In an abandoned city, Wei Hu secretly observed Chen Mudou watching an imaginary performance by Jiang Mingshu, who appeared to kiss her forehead in her vision.

• Huo Shuang and a River Phoenix Society member tracked Jingye Meinan as he secretly entered ten homes in twenty minutes and learned that the member knew him as a regular customer.
• Jingye Meinan climbed into Li Xue’s villa, and reporters watched Li Xue invite them to take pictures as she appeared with him behind her bedroom curtains.
• Huo Shuang vomited in disgust and vowed to cripple Jingye Meinan if she ever caught him.
• Wei Hu watched Chen Mudou applaud an empty stage in a ruined city and wondered whether she could see ghosts.
• Wei Hu received a file identifying Chen Mudou as a Zanyin Group intern with a 2% Fusion Rate and a history of delusional mental illness.
• In Chen Mudou’s vision, Jiang Mingshu performed magic, slid down to her, conjured a rose, and kissed her forehead.

After Lu Zun identified Qin Yiguan as the killer of Jiu Zhengxuan’s beloved Auntie Lan, Jiu Zhengxuan declared war on the Dog Gang’s Hall 157. Qin Yiguan, meanwhile, took a job targeting Jiu Zhengxuan’s squad after arranging care for the injured and traumatized Teacher Qing.

• Jiu Zhengxuan left his mechanical puppet behind and rushed home after hearing that Auntie Lan was in danger, while Qin Yiguan apologized to Teacher Qing.
• At Lu Zun’s residence, Jiu Zhengxuan found Auntie Lan dead, and Lu Zun used his Absolute Hit ability to identify Qin Yiguan as the killer.
• Lu Zun urged Jiu Zhengxuan to establish his Youth Order Squad by solving the case, and Jiu Zhengxuan declared war on the Dog Gang’s Hall 157.
• Qin Yiguan bought Teacher Qing a small courtyard house, changed his clothes, and asked Xiao Ning to care for him while he returned to work.
• At DOG headquarters, Qin Yiguan took Chen Fazheng’s job targeting Jiu Zhengxuan, Wei Hu, and Huo Shuang, saying the bonus did not matter.

Qin Yiguan tested his growing strength and combat abilities by fighting simulated robots, then headed toward the Youth Order Squad mission with Jingye Meinan and Chen Mudou. He left confident he could overpower Jiu Zhengxuan physically, while Jingye Meinan agreed to help only against Huo Shuang.

• Qin Yiguan visited the strength-testing shop and asked for robots set to simulate different Fusion Rates.
• Qin Yiguan defeated robots at increasing levels, tested several killer techniques, and raised Brain Hyperactivity Zone B05 development to 20%, gaining Dismantling and Imitation.
• Qin Yiguan destroyed the shop's 68% Fusion Rate robot and paid only eighty, leaving the owners stunned.
• Qin Yiguan judged that his physical strength could crush Jiu Zhengxuan and thought about relying on the Silver-Winged Yaksha against special abilities.
• Jingye Meinan and Chen Mudou approached Qin Yiguan about joining the Youth Order Squad mission, and Jingye Meinan agreed while limiting his involvement to Huo Shuang.

Jiu Zhengxuan staged a public arrest at the Dog Gang, but Qin Yiguan arrived in the Three-Legged Cat and faced him in front of the cameras. Jiu Zhengxuan accused Qin Yiguan, Chen Mudou, and Jingye Meinan of serious crimes and moved to arrest them, leaving Jingye Meinan lamenting how badly his reputation had changed.

• NST Wulong Baiyan celebrated the attention surrounding the Youth Order Squad's public presence outside the Dog Gang.
• Jiu Zhengxuan told Wei Hu that Qin Yiguan would return rather than hide, while students at 053 High School watched the livestream.
• Qin Yiguan arrived in the Three-Legged Cat with Huo Shuang, Jingye Meinan, and Chen Mudou, revealing his identity to his classmates and Officer Wang.
• Jiu Zhengxuan accused Qin Yiguan of murdering Dr. He Hongyuan and Auntie Lan and disabling Teacher Qing, then ordered his arrest.
• Jiu Zhengxuan also accused Chen Mudou and Jingye Meinan of being Qin Yiguan's accomplices and said they would be arrested.
• Jingye Meinan complained that he had been blamed for everything and had become despised by the crowd.

Qin Yiguan fought Jiu Zhengxuan while Wei Hu tried to arrest Chen Mudou, whose unseen ally Jiang Mingshu kept making the handcuffs disappear. Jiu Zhengxuan revealed how years of isolation shaped his Reality Enhancement, then unleashed darkness that engulfed Qin Yiguan and the surrounding area.

• The police officers backed away, and Jiu Zhengxuan ordered Wei Hu to arrest Chen Mudou and Huo Shuang to arrest Jingye Meinan.
• Jingye Meinan ran toward a grove, and Huo Shuang chased him; meanwhile, Qin Yiguan attacked Jiu Zhengxuan, who drew him away from the others.
• Wei Hu tried repeatedly to handcuff Chen Mudou, but the handcuffs vanished each time as Chen Mudou spoke to the unseen Mingshu.
• Jiu Zhengxuan confronted Qin Yiguan over the deaths of He Hongyuan and Auntie Lan and Teacher Qing's injuries, then described his father's years-long isolation experiment and the imagined world he created.
• Jiu Zhengxuan's pupils turned black as darkness erupted from him and swallowed Qin Yiguan and everything within a thousand meters.

Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan clashed inside Jiu Zhengxuan’s light-filled Black Room, while Jingye Meinan tried to win Huo Shuang’s sympathy by recounting his childhood. The fight continued as Qin Yiguan summoned the Silver-Winged Yaksha, and Jingye Meinan reached the next stage of his attempt to get through to Huo Shuang.

• Jiu Zhengxuan revealed that his father’s training had enhanced his brain and that his natural Fusion Rate was 68%.
• Jiu Zhengxuan transformed the darkness into a brilliant Black Room filled with countless copies of himself, then sent them charging at Qin Yiguan.
• Qin Yiguan spread his Liquid Black Hole’s darkness over the white world and summoned a Silver-Winged Yaksha to face Jiu Zhengxuan’s creations.
• Huo Shuang froze and shattered the tree hiding Jingye Meinan, then chased him through the woods with her frost ability.
• Jingye Meinan told Huo Shuang that his father’s concubines had frightened him as a child, prompting Huo Shuang to feel some sympathy.
• Jingye Meinan saw that his Opposite-Sex Resonance release level had reached 75% and told Huo Shuang he had found a way to overcome his fear.

Chen Mudou’s fight with Wei Hu became a dazzling spectacle as Jiang Mingshu diverted every attack, while Qin Yiguan overwhelmed Jiu Zhengxuan with four replicated Silver-Winged Yakshas. Jiu Zhengxuan then revealed a powerful creation from the Black Room, Michael, and turned the fight against Qin Yiguan.

• Wei Hu fired an electromagnetic tranquilizer at Chen Mudou, but the beam vanished before it reached her, and he responded with a barrage of weapons.
• Jiang Mingshu used his magician’s cloak to turn Wei Hu’s weapons and ammunition into rose petals, while spectators saw the battle as a colorful blur.
• Qin Yiguan used Gestalt Collapse to create four Silver-Winged Yakshas, which slaughtered Jiu Zhengxuan’s replicas until only one remained.
• Qin Yiguan mocked Jiu Zhengxuan for copying himself instead of using the Black Room to create stronger weapons.
• Jiu Zhengxuan summoned the golden, six-winged Michael, whose holy flames destroyed the Silver-Winged Yakshas and left its sword pointed at Qin Yiguan.

Qin Yiguan used Lucifer’s outline to transform into a demon and defeat Michael, then overpowered Jiu Zhengxuan in combat. Jiu Zhengxuan conceded defeat and asked about the deaths he had investigated, but Qin Yiguan denied responsibility and accused him of trying to trick him.

• Qin Yiguan used his own body and Lucifer’s outline to become a towering, six-winged demon.
• Lucifer and Michael fought in the sky, and both vanished in an explosion of golden and black light.
• Qin Yiguan used seven enhanced abilities to defeat Jiu Zhengxuan with a rapid series of strikes.
• Jiu Zhengxuan admitted defeat, lamented that he could not bring justice for He Hongyuan, Auntie Lan, or Teacher Qing, and asked Qin Yiguan what had happened to them.
• Qin Yiguan denied committing the crimes and accused Jiu Zhengxuan of pretending to seek the truth so he could launch a surprise attack.

Qin Yiguan revealed his theory that Jiu Zhengxuan was one of nine test-tube children created by Lu Zun, and that his brothers had committed the crimes attributed to others. As Jiu Zhengxuan rejected the accusations, Seven Zheng Xuan appeared in the Black Room and announced he would kill him and take his place.

• Qin Yiguan persuaded Jiu Zhengxuan to admit defeat in exchange for hearing the truth about his name and the cases.
• Qin Yiguan connected the charred figure at Zanyin Group, the attack on Teacher Qing, and Auntie Lan's murder to Jiu Zhengxuan's lookalike brothers.
• Qin Yiguan accused Lu Zun of creating nine sons as tools and said Jiu Zhengxuan was the only mentally sound one.
• Jiu Zhengxuan angrily denied Qin Yiguan's claims and insisted that Lu Zun had no other sons.
• Seven Zheng Xuan appeared behind Jiu Zhengxuan and declared that he would kill his younger brother and take his place.

Jiu Zhengxuan used his “Daybreak Has Come” ability to overwhelm Seven Zheng Xuan, but Qin Yiguan killed the unconscious man before Jiu could turn him over for justice. Jiu confronted Qin over the execution as Qin argued that Lu Zun’s authority made justice impossible.

• Seven Zheng Xuan revealed that Lu Zun had raised his children as tools, shattering Jiu Zhengxuan’s faith and leaving him defenseless against the vines.
• Jiu Zhengxuan activated “Daybreak Has Come,” repeatedly resetting the Black Room and wiping away Seven Zheng Xuan’s plants.
• As Seven Zheng Xuan taunted Jiu, Jiu repeatedly refreshed the room until the strain knocked Seven unconscious, while the resets also left Qin Yiguan in pain.
• Qin Yiguan snapped Seven Zheng Xuan’s neck and damaged his body to ensure he was dead.
• Jiu Zhengxuan protested that he had wanted Seven handed over for justice, but Qin argued that Lu Zun’s power made that pointless.

Jiu Zhengxuan rejected Qin Yiguan’s plan and used Lu Zun’s visual detector to help his father kill Qin Yiguan, then claimed he had executed a murderer. Jingye Meinan and Chen Mudou were arrested as Lu Zun watched approvingly.

• Jiu Zhengxuan refused to cooperate with Qin Yiguan, then played Lu Zun’s message revealing that the visual module could let his father target Qin Yiguan with Absolute Hit.
• Jiu Zhengxuan decided to send Lu Zun the image, convinced that concealing his brothers’ deaths would let him return to his old life and public identity.
• Wei Hu’s weapons failed to harm Chen Mudou as Jiang Mingshu protected her, while a flying fountain pen struck toward the battlefield.
• Lu Zun’s attack killed Qin Yiguan, and Jiu Zhengxuan told reporters that Qin Yiguan had confessed to murder and resisted arrest.
• Jiu Zhengxuan ordered Jingye Meinan and Chen Mudou to surrender, and electromagnetic handcuffs locked around them as Lu Zun watched approvingly.

After the DOG Group battle, Jingye Meinan was imprisoned but secretly released by Wang Shiwei, while Chen Mudou escaped through an unexplained disappearance. Jingye Meinan set off to find the person at the coordinates Wang Shiwei gave him, and Wang Shiwei claimed Chen Mudou had escaped on her own.

• NST Wulong Baiyan lamented that nobody had arrested him after the battle, then mourned Qin Yiguan and celebrated that Jingye Meinan was in prison.
• Jingye Meinan was locked in a high-security cell, mourned Qin Yiguan briefly, and then flirted with a female guard.
• Wang Shiwei used his clearance to release Jingye Meinan and told him to keep the escape quiet and follow projected coordinates.
• Jingye Meinan recognized Wang Shiwei, memorized the coordinates, covered his face with active spray coating, and left.
• Wang Shiwei watched footage of Chen Mudou’s restraints opening and her disappearing from her cell, then decided to claim she had escaped on her own.

Qin Yiguan met Jingye Meinan and Chen Mudou in Vortex Cloud City after faking his death, then explained his plan to investigate Lu Zun’s suspected mass murder scheme. Jiu Zhengxuan agreed to help, though he still hoped his father might be innocent.

• Qin Yiguan ordered a Hidden Soul Grass caramel macchiato, disliked its taste, and failed to notice Jingye Meinan recognizing him.
• Jingye Meinan joined Qin Yiguan, drank the remaining coffee, and asked what they would do next.
• Chen Mudou arrived and told Qin Yiguan she knew Lu Zun was his target, while Jingye Meinan questioned how she had learned about the plan.
• Qin Yiguan recalled persuading Jiu Zhengxuan to cooperate by explaining his suspicion that Lu Zun planned to torture and kill tens or hundreds of thousands of people to raise his Fusion Rate.
• Jiu Zhengxuan agreed to help Qin Yiguan fake his death and investigate Lu Zun, but said he still hoped his father had been used or controlled rather than being evil.

Qin Yiguan waited for the tattoo-shop owner Jiaolong, hoping to learn about the Leviathan Rift and Lu Zun's plans, while explaining Jiang Mingshu's connection to Chen Mudou. The chapter ended when Qin Yiguan saw a bloodied Jiaolong return to her shop.

• Qin Yiguan decided to wait for Jiaolong, believing she could explain the Leviathan Rift and He Hongyuan's research.
• Jingye Meinan told Qin Yiguan that he had not slept with Huo Shuang and explained why he had held back.
• Qin Yiguan revealed that Jiang Mingshu was an imaginary figure in Chen Mudou's mind whose power protected her.
• Chen Mudou brought four cups of coffee, and Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan pretended to greet Jiang Mingshu when she said he was there.
• Qin Yiguan saw Jiaolong stagger to the tattoo shop with blood dripping between her legs and enter inside.

Qin Yiguan and his companions found Jiaolong stitching a deep wound in her back at her tattoo shop. She revealed that she had killed Ba Zheng Xuan after he ambushed her during her attempt to assassinate Lu Zun, and Qin Yiguan unexpectedly admitted that he liked her.

• Qin Yiguan followed the blood trail to Jiaolong’s shop, where he and his companions found her sewing up her own wound.
• Jiaolong greeted Qin Yiguan and agreed to continue working on Lucifer after cleaning the blood from her hands.
• Jingye Meinan teased Qin Yiguan about being attracted to Jiaolong, but Qin Yiguan said his Conscience-Free Syndrome made it difficult for him to grow fond of people.
• Jiaolong showed Qin Yiguan a severed head and explained that Ba Zheng Xuan had attacked her after she was sent to a false location while searching for Lu Zun.
• Qin Yiguan recognized the head and admitted to Jingye Meinan that he suddenly liked Jiaolong, leaving Jingye Meinan exasperated.

Qin Yiguan received the Leviathan consciousness tattoo from Jiaolong and experienced the demon god’s presence in a dark, endless sea. Afterward, he asked Jiaolong about making the tattoos real and about parallel universes, but she had fallen asleep against him.

• Chen Mudou sent Jingye Meinan away, then rode off with Jiang Mingshu on a winged unicorn.
• Qin Yiguan noticed the strange black tattoo spreading across Jiaolong’s back and stayed alone with her in the shop.
• Jiaolong asked when Qin Yiguan had completed Lucifer, then began drawing Leviathan after he chose it as his next tattoo.
• Jiaolong completed Leviathan’s design and code, sending it into Qin Yiguan’s mind, where he sensed the demon god waiting beneath a vast black sea.
• Qin Yiguan asked Jiaolong whether his tattoos could become real and whether parallel universes and their rifts existed, but she fell asleep against him.

Jiaolong took Qin Yiguan to the Mars-like terrain near Lenghu to answer his questions about parallel universes. She revealed that the landforms were fragments of Mars left behind when Parallel Universe No. 2 collided with their universe eighty-three years earlier.

• Jiaolong woke, remembered Qin Yiguan's question about parallel universes, and offered to take him somewhere to explain.
• Jiaolong ran with Qin Yiguan at extraordinary speed, carrying them through a tunnel-like blur to a desolate red landscape.
• Qin Yiguan mistook the landscape for Mars, but Jiaolong explained they were in Core Earth in the Metaverse, near Lenghu in Qinghai.
• Jiaolong described how wind and water formed the local yardang landforms, then revealed that the terrain had actually come from Mars in a parallel universe.
• Jiaolong told Qin Yiguan that Parallel Universe No. 2 had collided with their universe eighty-three years earlier and left fragments of its Mars behind.

Jiaolong explained that the Gemini Metaverse contained many universes and suggested that reality might also be a Metaverse. She revealed that Hell was a reflection of the Milky Way and that she was the reflection of one of its stars.

• Jiaolong explained to Qin Yiguan that parallel universes had converged and that the Gemini Superbrain could create countless universes.
• Jiaolong suggested that universes might be nested and that reality itself might be another Metaverse, unsettling Qin Yiguan as he considered his and Jiaolong’s abilities.
• Jiaolong told Qin Yiguan that his ability resembled her barrier-free traversal and that it had allowed her to take him through space.
• Jiaolong and Qin Yiguan walked along Mars Highway No. 1, passed Mars Town, and reached the Qinghai Lenghu Astronomical Observation Base.
• Jiaolong said Hell was the reflection of the Milky Way and that she was the reflection of one of its stars, while Qin Yiguan kept his eyes on her instead of looking at the sky.

Qin Yiguan and Jiaolong connected Jiao Shensan’s cryptic message to a possible disaster in the B5 and B6 Sectors and investigated Lu Zun’s memory archives. Qin Yiguan found Taotie Clam hiding inside the archive, while the mystery of Lu Zun’s plan remained unresolved.

• Qin Yiguan realized Jiao Shensan’s letter hinted that a multiverse rift might devastate the B5 and B6 Sectors, and Jiaolong recognized his recitation as proof he had visited her father’s grave with wildflowers.
• Jiaolong explained that Jiao Shensan had received memories that seemed to come from the future, while she and Qin Yiguan discussed Lu Zun’s secret preparations and his memory archives on Core Earth.
• Qin Yiguan secretly entered the archive near 053 High School, where he met its elderly inventor, Zhong Yi, who allowed him to stay and said another intruder could use the main entrance.
• Taotie Clam searched for a basement beneath the archive, believing it might hold memories of former esports players, when Qin Yiguan appeared and startled him into fainting.

Taotie Clam woke from his coma to find Qin Yiguan alive and helping him open a hidden door. They descended into a vast underground memory archive, where Clam’s confidence that the room was safe left them unaware of whether anyone else might be inside.

• Taotie Clam awoke and mistook Qin Yiguan for a ghost until Qin explained that he had faked his death and was working with Jiu Zhengxuan to uncover a conspiracy.
• Qin Yiguan asked Clam to help catch up on his missed homework, then refused Clam’s request to join the Dog Gang because the Experimental Zone was too dangerous.
• Qin Yiguan picked the hidden door’s electronic lock and told Clam that the conspiracy could kill sixty million people in B5 and B6 Sector.
• Qin Yiguan descended into the underground chamber and found a vast room filled with rows of black display cases.
• Taotie Clam followed Qin Yiguan downstairs, shut the hidden door, and turned off the lights, then insisted that the room was safe because the workday was over.

Qin Yiguan and Gala explored a basement filled with memory chips belonging to serial killers and their victims. After Qin Yiguan replayed Football Enthusiast’s memories, he noticed her idea to make a football from human skin had appeared suddenly, as if someone had planted it in her mind.

• Qin Yiguan and Gala found display cases containing the memories of serial killers and the people they had killed.
• Clam used a memory reader on Football Enthusiast’s chip and experienced her making a football from her friends’ skin and organs.
• Qin Yiguan used the memory reader to experience Football Enthusiast’s memories and replayed them to investigate her motive.
• Qin Yiguan noticed that Football Enthusiast’s idea to make a football from human skin had appeared abruptly in her thoughts.

Qin Yiguan deduced that Lu Zun was collecting traumatic memories to use in a mass killing, then hid in the underground archive when a wolf-like Jiu Zhengxuan arrived with a memory chip. After fighting off the creature, Qin Yiguan discovered the chip was labeled with Teacher Qing's name.

• Qin Yiguan concluded that Lu Zun planned to make the deaths of 60 million people maximally terrifying to raise his Fusion Rate to 100%.
• Qin Yiguan reasoned that Lu Zun could have collected victims' memories through his access to murder cases and their corpses.
• A wolf-like, older Jiu Zhengxuan entered the archive and delivered a memory chip to a display case.
• The creature scented Qin Yiguan and attacked him, but Qin Yiguan dislocated its arms and drove it away.
• Qin Yiguan read the chip's label, which identified its memory as belonging to the fifth strongest, Mu Qingkuang, and recognized the name as Teacher Qing.

Qin Yiguan read Mu Qingkuang’s memories and witnessed the werewolf attack the Snow City of Heavenly Light, but the damaged headband failed before he could see the outcome. He suspected Officer Wang had secretly extracted the victims’ memories and wondered whether Lu Zun had implanted an idea in him.

• Qin Yiguan repaired Teacher Qing’s headband, inserted Mu Qingkuang’s memory chip, and entered his memories.
• Qin Yiguan saw the Snow City of Heavenly Light veer off course toward the Gobi, where a werewolf awaited it.
• The werewolf unleashed black mist and transformed into a giant wolf that attacked the Snow City of Heavenly Light.
• The headband burned out, ending Qin Yiguan’s memory reading before he could learn what happened to Teacher Qing.
• Qin Yiguan deduced that Officer Wang, now deputy director of the B5 General Police Bureau, had access to the victims’ memories and suspected Lu Zun had implanted an idea in him.

Qin Yiguan went to meet Officer Wang at the wreckage of Snow City of Heavenly Light, suspecting the summons was a trap. He found Officer Wang under control and Xiao Li revealed he had betrayed Qin Yiguan and helped cause Shangguan Xiaotao’s death, then threatened to kill Wang Shiwei if Qin tried to escape.

• Officer Wang summoned Qin Yiguan to the desert beside Snow City of Heavenly Light, claiming he had found a crucial clue.
• Qin Yiguan left to meet him, then visited Teacher Qing and accepted the worn paper streamer Teacher Qing offered as a new electronic textbook.
• Qin Yiguan appeared in the Experimental Zone and found Officer Wang and Xiao Li waiting beside the wrecked city.
• Xiao Li admitted he had supplied murder memories and victims’ memories, given Wrathful Jiao Shensan Qin Yiguan’s address, and revealed where Qin attended school.
• Xiao Li pressed a beam pistol to Officer Wang’s temple and warned Qin not to use his log-off ability to escape.

Qin Yiguan faced Fourth Zheng Xuan, a giant werewolf empowered by CPH4, and was nearly beaten to death despite the Guardian’s protection. As he lost consciousness, Boss Meng’s knowledge of CPH4 unlocked a new development in Qin Yiguan’s Brain Hyperactivity Zone, making Fourth Zheng Xuan a doll in his box world and granting Qin Yiguan an advantage against him.

• Qin Yiguan realized Lu Zun’s schemes were connected to CPH4 and the Jiao Shensan case as Fourth Zheng Xuan injected himself with the drug.
• Fourth Zheng Xuan grew into a gigantic wolf and charged Qin Yiguan, while Xiao Li held Officer Wang hostage and declared Qin doomed.
• Qin Yiguan opened the Liquid Black Hole, but Fourth Zheng Xuan’s wolf eyes illuminated it and countered Netherworld Glimmer.
• The giant wolf repeatedly drove Qin Yiguan underground as the wounded Guardian shielded him, and Qin eventually lost consciousness.
• Qin Yiguan recalled Boss Meng’s knowledge of CPH4, and his Brain Hyperactivity Zone A01 developed as Fourth Zheng Xuan became a doll in his box world.