Recaps

Lin En met Shakira, who claimed to be his girlfriend, and their public kisses did not restore his memories. After he agreed to meet her after school, Shakira revealed she was manipulating Loren and urged him to kill Lin En out of jealousy.

• Shakira told Lin En they had been together for three years and showed him the brooch he had given her for their anniversary.
• Shakira kissed Lin En repeatedly in the hallway, but he still could not remember her.
• Shakira invited Lin En to her house after school to try to recover his memories, and he agreed to go.
• Loren confronted Shakira about kissing Lin En, and she called him her puppy and used her red Sequence to influence him.
• Shakira told Loren to kill Lin En, framing the act as jealousy.

Lin En learned that he was in a prestigious academy for Origin Substance users and savored sitting at a classroom desk, but Loren kicked the desk and provoked him. Lin En beat Loren so badly that the whole class had to restrain him, while Loren remained furious.

• Lin En learned that the academy trained Origin Substance users and that his class required students to possess at least two Sequences.
• Lin En delighted in sitting at his desk and shook it until the girl in front of him asked him to stop.
• Loren entered the classroom, kicked Lin En’s desk, and taunted him about a kiss outside.
• Lin En punched Loren, then repeatedly struck and stomped him with a folding stool.
• The students finally restrained Lin En and pulled Loren away, but Loren threatened to kill him.

Lin En fought Loren in class, prompting Loren to summon a Hanged Ghost with his [Ghost Control] Sequence. The ghost attacked Lin En but became terrified of him and fled into a nearby student’s arms.

• Lin En repeatedly struck Loren with a folding stool, and students struggled to restrain him.
• A voice told the blond boy that Loren had been affected by Charm, but Loren broke free and formed a pitch-black [Sequence].
• Loren activated [Ghost Control] and summoned a powerful Hanged Ghost, causing the students to panic and someone to fetch an instructor.
• Loren ordered the Hanged Ghost to kill Lin En, but she stopped inches from his face when he challenged her.
• The Hanged Ghost grew increasingly frightened of Lin En, abandoned her rope, and clung to a nearby boy while begging him to stop.

Lin En defeated Loren after Loren's Evil Spirit refused to attack him, then was taken to the academic affairs office for questioning. The blond boy realized Lin En had sensed the Abyss Succubus inside him, and the spirit admitted that Lin En frightened her.

• Loren ordered his Evil Spirit to attack Lin En, but it clung to Lin En instead and refused to answer Loren's summons.
• Loren charged Lin En with a flying kick, and Lin En struck him in the groin and kicked him repeatedly.
• The blond boy revealed that Loren's second Sequence was [Weak Egg], while teachers arrived and Loren was taken to a church for treatment.
• Lin En told the teachers and students that Loren had started the fight, and the students backed up his account.
• As Lin En left for the academic affairs office, the Abyss Succubus told the blond boy that Lin En had noticed her presence and made her afraid.

The Academic Affairs Office failed to learn why Loren had attacked Lin Ke, then learned that Loren was undergoing surgery at the Church and received a report that someone may have tampered with his eyes. Meanwhile, Hana Ye misunderstood rumors about the fight, while Lin En anticipated further tests and left school, where someone called out to him.

• The teachers questioned students and concluded that Loren had provoked Lin Ke, but none could explain why the fight began.
• The Church sent the teachers a photo of Loren under anesthesia and announced that his surgery to cure his desire had succeeded.
• Xiliu arrived at the Academic Affairs Office and reported that something seemed wrong with Loren's eyes.
• Hana Ye heard a rumor about the fight, briefly thought Lin Ke had been injured, then decided to check on him after school.
• Lin En speculated that someone had tested him with charm, checked his satiety, and looked forward to seeing what would happen next.
• At dusk, Lin En left through the school gates and heard someone call his name from behind.

Lin En traveled with Shakira and learned how Clockwork City faced nightly incursions from the Spirit Realm and that she possessed the Transmutation Sequence. Shakira said Lin En had the Flesh Sequence, and he left the story embarrassing her while Hana Ye watched from a disguised trash can.

• Shakira embraced Lin En and asked whether he had recovered his memories, and he told her he remembered little and had lost his reading ability.
• Lin En said he had likely been attacked on Clockwork Street and claimed the Exorcist Squad had given him a Flintlock Pistol; Shakira invited him to her home, and he accepted after she kissed him.
• A trash can followed Lin En and Shakira as they walked away, and Hana Ye watched them leave while lamenting that Lin En no longer wanted her.
• Shakira explained that the Spirit Realm overlaid parts of the city at night and described the Church's Spirit-Sealing Talismans and the Exorcist Squad's role in defending the city.
• Shakira demonstrated her Transmutation Sequence and told Lin En that his Sequence was Flesh; Lin En turned her toward him and made an explicit joke, embarrassing her and startling Hana Ye.

Lin En told Shakira he suspected his Origin Substance had been removed, and she brought him to her home to help him recover his memories. At the church, teachers discovered Loren’s violent jealousy had been amplified by someone using the high-level Sequence [Heart Corrosion], while Shakira’s attempt to jog Lin En’s memory ended with her undressing before him.

• Lin En pretended he could not use his Sequence and suggested his [Origin Substance] might have been removed when he fell unconscious, but Shakira insisted that removing it would have killed him.
• Shakira brought Lin En to her home in the lower city, hoping the place would help him remember their past.
• Teachers questioned the injured Loren about attacking Lin Ke, and his anger erupted when they mentioned [Jealousy].
• A blond boy identified Loren’s condition as the work of someone using [Heart Corrosion] to amplify his jealousy.
• At Shakira’s home, she drew the curtains, removed her red dress, and asked Lin Ke whether he remembered anything.

Shakira tried to make Lin En remember his past with Lin Ke, but her affection turned into violent obsession when she revealed that Lin Ke’s [Holy Flame] Sequence had separated them from her [Rot]. She killed Lin En while raging over his supposed abandonment.

• Shakira showed Lin En keepsakes from her relationship with Lin Ke, but he could not remember them.
• Shakira pressed Lin En onto the bed and covered his eyes, claiming their intimacy might restore his memories.
• As night fell, Shakira recalled how she and Lin Ke had studied together and hoped to join the Exorcist Squad and rise in society.
• Shakira transformed her hands with bone spurs and scales, then smashed Lin En’s head and killed him.
• Shakira blamed Lin Ke’s [Holy Flame] Sequence and her own [Rot] Sequence for driving them apart, lamenting that he had abandoned her.

Shakira killed Lin En and planned to consume his body, but Hana Ye confronted her and was nearly killed. Lin En suddenly revived with a black tentacle and turned Shakira’s attack aside.

• Shakira crushed Lin En’s head, blamed Lin Ke for his return, and called for her allies and a doctor.
• Shakira caught Hana Ye spying and threatened to eat her alive.
• Hana Ye scratched Shakira, escaped her grasp, and shot her while accusing her of killing Lin En.
• Shakira lunged at Hana Ye, but a black tentacle struck her and pulled Hana Ye away.
• Lin En sat up despite his mangled head and teased Shakira about being watched.

Lin En revealed to Shakira that he was an otherworldly being occupying Lin Ke’s body, while Hana Ye fainted after seeing his shattered head repair itself. Shakira attacked Lin En and used her Heart Corrosion ability, but he resisted it and left her stunned.

• Lin En repaired his smashed head in front of Hana Ye, who lost sanity and fainted.
• Lin En told Shakira she had recognized that he was not Lin Ke and accused her of luring him there to kill him.
• Lin En identified himself as Lin En, a person who had crossed over from another world, and said the body now belonged to him.
• Shakira entered her Transmutation state, attacked Lin En, and tried to drive him out of Lin Ke’s body.
• Shakira used Heart Corrosion on Lin En, but he revealed he had built up resistance to psychic abilities and left her shocked.

Lin En confronted Shakira with evidence of her years of tormenting Lin Ke and accused her of arranging his parents’ murders and his death. He crushed her arm and threatened to kill her unless she told him the truth, leaving Shakira terrified and at his mercy.

• Lin En trapped Shakira’s arm in his chest, lifted her by the throat, and revealed that he knew she had controlled and tormented Lin Ke.
• Lin En accused Shakira of using her connections to gain privileges while isolating Lin Ke from his friends and keeping him under her control.
• Lin En told Shakira that Lin Ke had recorded his accusations against her in his textbooks, including clues about his parents’ murders.
• Shakira denied knowing what Lin En meant, and he crushed her arm while admitting he had not come only to sleep with her.
• Lin En demanded that Shakira tell him the truth about her history with Lin Ke and threatened to smash her eyes into her brain if she lied.

Lin En forced Shakira to confess why she betrayed Lin Ke, then killed her after she attacked him. He planned to use her help to recover his Origin Substance and take over Lin Ke’s identity, but the story left him alone after crushing her in his arms.

• Lin En learned that Shakira had tortured Lin Ke, resented his awakening of the [Holy Flame] Sequence, and decided to kill him after he rejected her control.
• Shakira blamed Lin Ke for leaving her and insisted that he belonged to her, while Lin En accused her of treating him as property and questioned her about his parents’ deaths.
• Lin En told Shakira that Lin Ke’s final written words were that he hated having fallen in love with her, then demanded she help him recover his Origin Substance and assume Lin Ke’s identity.
• Shakira attacked Lin En from behind and stabbed him repeatedly, but he embraced her and crushed her to death.

Lin En killed Shakira, obtained her origin substance, and woke Hana Ye after she fainted. He questioned why she had followed him, then reluctantly forgave her for trying to avenge him and reassured her that he would not leave her alone.

• Lin En told the dead Shakira that her victim had once hoped to give her another chance, then collected her origin substance and examined its three sequences.
• Lin En revived the unconscious Hana Ye with an exaggerated breath, and she mistakenly thought they had both gone to hell.
• Lin En confronted Hana Ye for secretly following him under a trash can, and she admitted she had been curious and afraid to lose his protection.
• Lin En threatened to abandon Hana Ye, but softened when he remembered that she had tried to avenge him and agreed to forgive her for now.
• Hana Ye pointed out that Lin En had just admitted he might not honor contracts, then clung to his leg and begged him not to leave her alone.

Lin En treated Hana Ye’s wounds after Shakira attacked her, then discovered a bruised handprint on her ankle and a bounty on her that had risen to 50,000 Spirit Coins. Hana Ye explained that she had nowhere to turn because her father hated her, and Lin En asked whether she had been born because her mother cheated.

• Lin En disinfected and bandaged Hana Ye’s neck wounds, teasing her when she recoiled from his tentacles.
• Lin En noticed a hand-shaped bruise on Hana Ye’s ankle and checked the Spirit Realm Bounty Writ, which now offered 50,000 Spirit Coins for her capture and soul.
• Lin En asked why Hana Ye had come to him instead of her teachers or father, and she said she could not stay with her teachers and her father disliked her.
• Hana Ye recalled being abandoned at the Church while gravely ill and said her father favored her older sister and would not care if she died or disappeared.
• Lin En stared at Hana Ye and asked whether she had been born because her mother cheated.

Lin En comforted Hana Ye and agreed to protect her as his wife, then followed her to a roadside cannon to investigate his missing origin substance. Hana Ye accidentally blasted off Lin En’s head, and he retaliated by spanking her.

• Lin En comforted Hana Ye, told her not to cry over people who did not care for her, and promised to protect her.
• Hana Ye thanked Lin En and offered to fulfill a wife's duties, and Lin En agreed to take her as his wife.
• Lin En and Hana Ye went to investigate the accomplice who had dumped his body and to recover his origin substance.
• Hana Ye showed Lin En the modified Portable Cannon she had used to hide and attack Shakira's house.
• Hana Ye fired the cannon while Lin En stood in front of its muzzle, blowing off his head.
• Lin En's head regrew, and he spanked Hana Ye while she protested that he had promised not to hit her.

Lin En and Hana Ye fired her homemade Human Cannon at the Secret Cult members approaching Shakira’s house. Lin En then stripped to prepare for a fight, eager to test what his maxed-out fullness would turn him into.

• Lin En scolded Hana Ye, learned she had brought two shells, and discovered her disguised mortar could also launch Hana Ye and Lolotia.
• Lin En spotted approaching guests and ordered Hana Ye to fire the cannon down the dark street.
• Three Secret Cult members hurried toward Shakira, discussing Lin Ke’s apparent return from the dead and their plans amid the Red Moon crisis.
• The cannon blast struck the approaching group and raised a small mushroom cloud.
• Lin En’s trousers blew off in the wind, and he said he was preparing to test his stats while Hana Ye recoiled in alarm.

Lin En confronted the three figures who had attacked him, revealed that he had Shakira’s Origin Substance, and challenged them to fight. Hana Ye interrupted his dramatic pose to cover him, and after Lin En scolded her, Nox charged at them.

• Three figures emerged from the smoke, and the ghostfire-cloaked figure realized someone was targeting them.
• Lin En appeared with Shakira’s Origin Substance and told the group he had taken back what belonged to him.
• The ghostfire-cloaked figure asked whether Lin En wanted to fight, and Lin En accepted the challenge.
• Hana Ye rushed in with Lin En’s pants and covered him, ruining his dramatic pose; Lin En then scolded her.
• The doctor called Lin En a mocker, and an enraged Nox charged at Lin En and Hana Ye.

Lin En killed Nox and demanded the origin substance tied to Lin Ke's body from the cloaked skeleton. When they failed to reach an agreement, the skeleton revealed his monstrous form and identified himself as the Skeleton Lord of the Spirit Realm.

• Lin En dodged Nox's attacks, crushed his fist, and killed him with a single punch.
• Igor dropped his blade in terror as Lin En retrieved the origin substance from Nox's corpse.
• The skeleton accused Lin En of being an Abyssal Species and proposed they leave each other alone.
• Lin En demanded the origin substance belonging to his body, but the skeleton refused and said Lin En was only a parasite.
• The skeleton shattered a ring, transformed into a towering skeletal monstrosity, and announced that he was the Skeleton Lord of the Spirit Realm.

Lin En confronted Skeleton Lord Salgon and revealed a terrifying transformation after advancing, as the city’s warning bells rang. He shouted “Tiga” amid a flash of blood-red light, leaving Hana Ye and Salgon stunned and Igor frightened.

• Skeleton Lord Salgon attacked Lin En with his scythe, but Lin En escaped the blow while carrying Hana Ye.
• Salgon identified Lin En as an Abyssal Species and dismissed him as a minor threat, while Lin En hinted that the previous night’s bells had rung for his arrival.
• Lin En used his excess satiety to advance, releasing a twisted aura that made Salgon recoil and caused the city’s warning bells to toll.
• Lin En’s body erupted into black tentacles as the black mist dispersed and the rift watched him.
• Lin En raised his hand toward the sky, shouted “Tiga,” and was enveloped in dazzling blood-red light, frightening Hana Ye, Salgon, and Igor.

Lin En transformed into a colossal tentacled monster in South City, terrifying Skeleton Lord Salgon and drawing the attention of the Exorcists at Gear Street. The chapter ended with Salgon revealing that he saw Lin En as the Thousand-Armed Demon God, the eternal Lord of Crawling.

• The Spirit Bell rang nine times, and Jones learned that an ultra-ancient great demon's aura had appeared in South City's Lower City rather than at Gear Street.
• Lin En grew into a vast tentacled being while Hana Ye hid in her trash can and Skeleton Lord Salgon stared in terror.
• Salgon recognized the aura associated with an outer god, but Lin En told him that this was not his true body.
• Salgon's Ring of True Seeing shattered when he looked at Lin En, and Lin En killed the fleeing doctor with a tentacle.
• Lin En seized Salgon and demanded to know what he had seen, and Salgon called him the Thousand-Armed Demon God and the Lord of Crawling.

Lin En interrogated the Skeleton Lord about his murder and the Crimson Secret Cult, then his second-stage advancement overwhelmed his vessel and shattered reality. Jones and the Demon Horde arrived to find that the surrounding street had fallen into the Spirit Realm.

• Lin En battered the Skeleton Lord until he handed over the origin substance, then demanded answers about his host’s death and the corpse’s disposal.
• The Skeleton Lord revealed that Shakira had ordered the host killed and that he, Shakira, and two dead humans belonged to the Crimson Secret Cult, which worshipped the Crimson King.
• Lin En threatened the Skeleton Lord, who offered his loyalty, while Lin En questioned the Spirit Bell’s ranking of powerful beings.
• Lin En’s second-stage advancement reached its limit, his vessel cracked, and his chaotic aura caused reality and the nearby buildings to collapse into the Spirit Realm.
• Jones arrived with the Demon Horde and found a blank area over a hundred meters wide where the street had been, concluding that something had fallen into the Spirit Realm.

Lin En’s immense aura caused reality to collapse repeatedly, sending him, Hana Ye, and the skeleton down through the Spirit Realm’s layers. Lin En forced Hana Ye into his body and returned to the Warp with the skeleton’s skull and soul, leaving the skeleton to realize he had been brought before an Outer God.

• Lin En, Hana Ye, and the skeleton fell from the Surface World into the first layer of the Spirit Realm as Lin En’s aura shattered reality.
• The group fell through the second layer after Lin En’s presence destabilized it, and Lin En realized his body could no longer contain his power.
• Lin En hid Hana Ye inside his body, then used [Dismiss projection] to return and took the skeleton’s skull and soul with him.
• The skeleton awoke beside Lin En’s cocoon in the Warp, saw the Sun, and identified Lin En as an Outer God.
• The skeleton wondered whether the Valkyrie who ended the Eternal Night Era was already dead.

After completing his second-stage advancement in the Warp, Lin En discovered that Salgon had been brought along as an item. Salgon begged to become Lin En’s servant and spokesman, but his final suggestion left them in awkward silence.

• Lin En’s cocoon burst, completing his second-stage advancement and revealing his new tentacled form.
• Lin En discovered that Salgon’s ghostfire had survived even though his skeleton was crushed, and the system log showed that Salgon had returned to the Warp with him.
• Lin En prepared to kill Salgon, but Salgon begged for a chance to explain why he could be useful.
• Salgon offered to guide Lin En, gather information, warn him about powerful ability users, and recruit servants in the Spirit Realm.
• When Lin En demanded a concise explanation, Salgon called himself Lin En’s guide, spokesman, and spymaster, then accidentally offered to abduct and sell little girls.

Lin En brought Salgon back as his loyal servant and returned to his lair, where Salgon mistook the humble surroundings and a battered cooking pot for signs of divine power. Lin En then checked the abilities unlocked by his advancement, including granting a follower the power to harvest emotions and creating and fusing origin substances.

• Salgon pledged eternal loyalty to Lin En, who warned him to obey and asked whether the fallen noble girl would be safe in the Second Layer of the Spirit Realm.
• Lin En teleported with Salgon through the black mist to his lair, believing the aura left in the noble girl's vessel would keep creatures away from her.
• Lin En quickly hid his books, food, and comics before telling Salgon that the lair was his birthplace and divine domain.
• Salgon touched Lin En's battered cooking pot, felt its aura, and mistook it for a powerful demonic artifact, bringing back Lin En's bad memories of cooking his own flesh.
• Lin En opened his panel and reviewed his new second-stage abilities, which let him grant one of up to three followers the power to harvest emotions, forge origin substance from satiety, and fuse two pieces of origin substance.

Lin En discovered that he could create origin substance by spending satiety and merge separate substances together. After learning how sequences worked, he wondered whether combining enough single-sequence substances could let him create a substance filled with identical sequences.

• Lin En considered appointing Salgon to harvest emotional fragments for him, and Salgon eagerly accepted the idea of serving without wages.
• Lin En activated his new skills and spent 300 satiety to create first-order origin substance with two inactive sequences.
• Salgon explained that origin substance drew on the Spirit Realm, that living beings could implant no more than nine substances, and that sequences could not be altered once formed.
• Salgon described the Valkyrie, who had supposedly reached godhood with eighty-one identical Holy Flame sequences.
• Lin En spent another 300 satiety to create a second origin substance, then merged it with the first to make one containing three sequences.
• Lin En asked whether he could combine many single-sequence substances to produce one whose sequences were all identical.