Recaps

Ye Buyu used a purifying Light Wheel to cut through the mist’s giant hand and help the crowd resist its influence, but the Calamity spread the swamp beneath the fleeing people. The person in charge and other evacuees sacrificed themselves to delay it as Ye Buyu and the survivors kept running.

• The person in charge activated the Sealing Device, but the Calamity destroyed it and formed a giant hand from mist to attack the evacuating crowd.
• Ye Buyu urged everyone to keep running and threw a purifying halo that became a Light Wheel, severing the mist hand and restoring some people’s senses.
• The mist withdrew into the swamp, which spread beneath the fleeing crowd and slowed their escape.
• The person in charge charged into the mist and detonated himself, briefly stopping the spreading swamp.
• Other evacuees sacrificed themselves to push their teammates forward, while Ye Buyu and the survivors ran on through the mud.

Ye Buyu and the others escaped the Corrosion Swamp after the Calamity's attack, and Little Whale blocked its attempt to control her mind. As Ye Buyu struggled with the lives they had lost, survivors and Wang Yajing reminded her to keep going, and Mu Bingge arrived with help from the Tidewater Workshop and the Social Security Bureau.

• The Calamity opened its eyes and drove the swamp's erosion level higher as Ye Buyu and the others fled toward the rescue aircraft.
• Wang Yajing caught a Grappling Cable, and Ye Buyu used her Light Wheel to cut through the fog hands pursuing them.
• The Calamity tried to control Ye Buyu's mind, but Little Whale crushed the intrusion before the aircraft pulled everyone to safety.
• Ye Buyu felt guilty about the casualties, and Little Whale and a surviving explorer told her she could not save everyone.
• Wang Yajing and Qiu Zhi prepared for another attack until Mu Bingge arrived and said the rescuers had taken over.

Ye Buyu joined Mu Bingge and the Social Security Bureau’s response team, sharing what she knew about the Calamity in the Corrosion Swamp. As Si Weijian and Mu Yang attacked it, they learned it belonged to [Abyssal Erosion] and had come for the Tidewater Workshop’s crown of the Flood King.

• Mu Bingge brought Ye Buyu to a fighter jet, where Ye Buyu told Si Weijian and Mu Yang that the Calamity was a powerful mental attacker that hid in mist and could control the swamp.
• Ye Buyu revealed that the Calamity had attacked her directly, but she had escaped, shocking the response team.
• Si Weijian and Mu Yang entered the mist and attacked the Calamity while the team monitored them from the jet.
• The Calamity recognized the Social Security Bureau and the Tidewater Workshop, then accused Mu Yang of taking the crown of the Flood King.
• Mu Yang identified the Calamity as part of [Abyssal Erosion], and Si Weijian prepared to fight it for entering Great Xia.

Si Weijian and Mu Yang fought the Thin Mist Priest, who revealed that his apparent ascension had been a ruse and that his true body was targeting the fighter jet. Ye Buyu and the others escaped as the jet struck the Priest’s location, but Ye Buyu then sensed a fresh killing intent behind her.

• Si Weijian and Mu Yang attacked the Thin Mist Priest as he gathered water to pray to his god, but they failed to stop his ritual.
• The Thin Mist Priest revealed that the figure they had fought was not his true body and used chimes to hinder Si Weijian and Mu Yang as he approached the fighter jet.
• A Social Security Bureau member tracked the Priest, while Li Yan activated a formation that evacuated the people from the fighter jet.
• The unmanned fighter jet plunged toward the Thin Mist Priest and exploded as Ye Buyu and the others reached the safe zone.
• Mu Bingge urged Ye Buyu to leave the Corrosion Swamp, and Ye Buyu felt killing intent behind her as she relaxed.

Ye Buyu faced a Mist Priest who trapped everyone around her in a daze and tried to turn her into a follower. With Little Whale's help, she lured him into her Mindscape and shattered him, though he re-formed weakened and terrified.

• Ye Buyu shot a disguised Mist Priest and discovered that Mu Bingge, Li Yan, Qiu Zhi, and the others were trapped in his domain while she remained lucid.
• The Mist Priest explained that people who left the Corrosion Swamp either died or became his followers, and revealed his plan to use everyone as sacrifices.
• Little Whale told Ye Buyu to pretend to join the Mist Priest so he would enter her Mindscape, but he rejected her and mocked her in front of the dazed crowd.
• Ye Buyu provoked the Mist Priest into examining her mind, where she and Little Whale attacked him and Little Whale shattered him with a whale cry.
• The crowd began regaining control of their bodies as the Mist Priest re-formed in a weakened, translucent state and asked Ye Buyu what she was.

Ye Buyu exposed the Thin Mist Priests’ twin nature and fought the surviving priest, whose mist chains threatened the captives. Mu Bingge arrived and shattered the chains, leaving the battle poised to turn in the captives’ favor.

• Ye Buyu learned that the Thin Mist Priests were twins who shared Priest authority, then seized the Mental Control specialist and resisted his powers.
• The Thin Mist Priest switched places with Ye Buyu, but she tricked him and struck his neck with a Light Wheel.
• The Thin Mist Priest sent controlled captives after Ye Buyu, but her healing ability left them unable to move without paying its cost.
• The Thin Mist Priest tightened mist chains around the captives and slammed them toward the ground.
• Mu Bingge appeared, shattered the chains with a mirror, and struck the Thin Mist Priest with her whip.

Mu Bingge, empowered by the Flood King's Crown, and Ye Buyu fought one Thin Mist Priest while Si Weijian and Mu Yang battled the other. After Ye Buyu revealed the Priests were twins who had to die simultaneously, both teams struck together and destroyed them.

• Mu Bingge revealed the Flood King's Crown and attacked the Thin Mist Priest while Li Yan alerted Si Weijian and the authorities.
• Ye Buyu caught the Thin Mist Priest from behind and explained that the two Priests shared separate authorities and could only be killed for good at the same time.
• Si Weijian and Mu Yang learned the secret and attacked the other Thin Mist Priest as he tried to reunite with his counterpart.
• Ye Buyu held the first Priest in place while Mu Bingge drove Water Mirror into his head, and Si Weijian and Mu Yang killed the second Priest with simultaneous attacks.
• The combined attacks shattered the Corrosion Swamp, dispersed the mist, and ended the crisis.

After Mu Bingge killed the Thin Mist Priest, Ye Buyu reassured her that she brought hope rather than calamity and healed her wounds. Mu Yang then told Si Weijian about Mu Bingge’s painful past and the unexplained day she spent away from home, but Si Weijian insisted that her present happiness mattered more than uncovering it.

• Mu Bingge killed the Thin Mist Priest as he cursed her and the Tidewater Workshop, and the mist over the battlefield cleared.
• Ye Buyu tried to heal Mu Bingge and comforted her, saying their meeting had been good and that she brought hope.
• Ye Buyu joked about her strange abilities, and Mu Bingge laughed as the dark clouds above her dispersed.
• Mu Yang told Si Weijian that Mu Bingge’s mother had fused the Flood King's Crown into her when she was ten and that Mu Bingge had run away afterward.
• Mu Yang explained that the Tidewater Workshop never learned what happened during the day Mu Bingge was away, but Si Weijian said no one should force her to talk about it.
• Mu Yang praised Ye Buyu as stronger than he had first thought, while Si Weijian called her a calamity radar.

After the battle, Si Weijian questioned Ye Buyu about how she had injured the Thin Mist Priest and learned about the twins. Ye Buyu concealed Little Whale’s role but deliberately showed Si Weijian that she knew she was connected to the [Whale of Wailing], leaving the Social Security Bureau to decide how to handle her.

• A Social Security Bureau member reported that Ye Buyu had tricked a Thin Mist Priest into accepting her as a believer and severely injured him, after which Mu Bingge and Ye Buyu killed both Thin Mist Priests.
• Si Weijian questioned Ye Buyu about her knowledge and abilities, but she followed Little Whale’s advice and refused to reveal its existence.
• Si Weijian concluded that Ye Buyu had unusually strong mental defenses and wondered whether they were connected to her experience at the River of Forgetfulness.
• Si Weijian hinted that the Social Security Bureau had lost track of the [Whale of Wailing], then checked Ye Buyu’s reaction before leaving.
• Ye Buyu admitted to Little Whale that she had deliberately shown her connection to it so the Social Security Bureau would know she trusted them and could choose how to handle her.

Si Weijian sealed Ye Buyu’s file as top secret over her suspected connection to the level-ten Calamity [Whale of Wailing]. After surviving the Corrosion Swamp, Ye Buyu and Mu Bingge parted ways, while the Social Security Bureau began investigating everyone who had entered the swamp.

• Si Weijian ordered Ye Buyu’s file sealed as top secret, and an official placed Mu Bingge’s file beside it for close observation.
• On the flight back, Mu Bingge recalled a threatening voice, and Ye Buyu and the others discussed training harder after escaping the Twin Priests.
• At the Space Elevator, Mu Bingge told Mu Yang she might have brought Calamities to Ye Buyu, but refused to explain what she had encountered in the past.
• Si Weijian and He Min began reviewing records of people who had entered the Corrosion Swamp to investigate the Thin Mist Priest’s claims.

Ye Buyu trained relentlessly at Four Symbols Academy and gathered materials to advance before Joint Training began. After exchanging her haul and using mission points awarded for a classified mission, she advanced a tier and prepared to meet her new classmates.

• Si Weijian told He Min to finish screening candidates and said the Bureau would seek outside help if the Thin Mist Priest was right.
• Ye Buyu trained in shooting and martial arts, but her instructors struggled to keep up with her and the martial arts instructor eventually fled.
• With fewer than three days until Joint Training, Ye Buyu remembered she needed breakthrough materials and attacked the school's Calamities to collect them.
• A staff member warned Ye Buyu that the common materials would earn few points, then discovered she already had a large balance from a classified mission.
• Ye Buyu exchanged her points for materials and advanced a tier as Little Whale reminded her that Joint Training was about to begin.

Mu Bingge, Kou Ying, Su Wuwei, Wan Lan, Lou Guanshan, and Ye Buyu prepared to begin classes in Zhaoyang City. Ye Buyu reached the hidden academy fortress, where Su Wuwei greeted her with a strange gift: a pitch-black butterfly egg.

• Mu Yang tried to send Mu Bingge to class with a suitcase of supplies and twelve gifts, but she left without them, and the suitcase broke open.
• Kou Ying left the Great Xia Research Institute Center to attend school as an ordinary Awakened, while Director Yingcao entrusted his safety to Lan Huaiyu and Lin Huaiye.
• Su Wuwei remembered that classes were starting, prepared gifts for his classmates, and headed to the academy.
• Wan Lan and Lou Guanshan left the Social Security Bureau after gaining advancement materials and guidance from Fourth Tier seniors.
• Ye Buyu traveled to the hidden fortress in Zhaoyang City and met Su Wuwei, who gave her a pitch-black butterfly egg as an introductory gift.

Ye Buyu was tricked into becoming the Joint Training Class’s class monitor and found that the students could not leave the classroom after signing in. Shi Can introduced practical training connected to the Thin Mist Priest incident and distributed confidential files, leaving the class to learn what awaited them.

• Ye Buyu signed Shi Can’s appointment letter without realizing it and was named class monitor after reaching tier three.
• The students accepted Ye Buyu’s appointment, and Shi Can explained that signing in barred them from leaving the Designated Classroom during class.
• Ye Buyu took attendance, and Kou Ying arrived late and signed in despite Ye Buyu’s warnings.
• Shi Can announced practical teaching tied to the Thin Mist Priest incident and gave every student a confidential file to read.

Shi Can assigned the class to approach two Cloud Haze figures, Zhu Youcai and Feng Jianyu, and ordered them to form two teams of six. The teams formed, and Wan Lan chose Feng Jianyu as her team's target while Chu Lie asked for information about Zhu Youcai.

• Shi Can explained that the Social Security Bureau had linked the Thin Mist Priest's followers to the secret organization Cloud Haze but lacked evidence to arrest its members.
• Shi Can named Zhu Youcai and Feng Jianyu as targets and told the students to form two teams of six before leaving the classroom.
• Su Wuwei chose Ye Buyu, and Kou Ying joined them; the remaining students split into a second team.
• Wan Lan and Lou Guanshan chose Feng Jianyu, while Chu Lie asked his classmates whether Zhu Youcai was the person they had encountered at the Social Security Bureau.

Ye Buyu explained how Zhu Youcai may have deliberately turned his subsidiary into a place that would attract [Streetlamp], creating sacrifices for the Thin Mist Priest. After the others pressed her for details about her connection to the Priest, the teams named one group Horizon and prepared to plan their approaches to their targets.

• Wan Lan shared a notebook detailing the faults of Zhu Youcai, whose subsidiary had previously been destroyed by [Streetlamp].
• Wei Changming suggested Zhu Youcai may have deliberately attracted [Streetlamp], and Ye Buyu reasoned that the deaths could have served as sacrifices for the Thin Mist Priest.
• Ye Buyu revealed she had survived the [Streetlamp] incident at Zhu Youcai's subsidiary and explained how the Thin Mist Priest's believers might have engineered it.
• Mu Bingge said files linked Zhu Youcai and Feng Jian's abilities to the Thin Mist Priest, then credited Ye Buyu with the most responsibility for killing him.
• The teams finished choosing their targets, and Guan Xiaomei proposed the name Horizon for the first team.

The teams chose the name Hold Up the Heavens and planned to approach Zhu Youcai and Feng Jianyu by having Ye Buyu pose as a tenant. After receiving their mission supplies, Ye Buyu discovered her teammates planned to provoke Feng Jianyu or track him so they could attack him.

• Lou Guanshan proposed the World's Number One Team, but the group rejected it and chose Ye Buyu's suggestion, Hold Up the Heavens.
• Kou Ying offered three flawed plans for approaching Zhu Youcai and Feng Jianyu, and Mu Bingge suggested posing as a tenant.
• The team chose Ye Buyu to pose as a tenant because she was a local and seemed like an ordinary college student.
• Shi Can gave the teams badges containing mission materials, intelligence, and lifesaving devices as they left the base.
• Kou Ying gave Ye Buyu a tracker and told her to provoke Feng Jianyu into attacking or track him so the team could attack him.

Ye Buyu posed as a renter to provoke Feng Jianyu into attacking so her teammates could capture him, but he stayed his hand and planned to murder her later. She planted a tracker on him before they parted, giving the team a way to follow him.

• Ye Buyu called Feng Jianyu and arranged to view rentals near Red Star Jiayuan while her teammates watched from a distance.
• Ye Buyu spent an hour rejecting Feng Jianyu's listings and provoking him with her tiny budget and short-term rental needs.
• Feng Jianyu suspected Ye Buyu was not an agent of the Social Security Bureau, then decided to kill her later and use the murder to create chaos for Cloud Haze's escape to the Third Zone.
• Ye Buyu swiped through Feng Jianyu's terminal and secretly planted a miniature tracker inside his hem.
• Ye Buyu's teammates praised her for planting the tracker, and Kou Ying said they would follow Feng Jianyu shortly.

Ye Buyu and her companions learned Feng Jianyu planned to avoid their appointment and went after him that night. They beat and restrained him, but Feng Jianyu protested that the Awakened were breaking the law as he tried to attract help.

• Kou Ying played surveillance audio in which Feng Jianyu called Ye Buyu an idiot and said he would avoid their appointment.
• Wan Lan carried Ye Buyu, Kou Ying, Lou Guanshan, Su Wuwei, and Mu Bingge through the air toward Feng Jianyu.
• Wan Lan attacked Feng Jianyu, and Ye Buyu and the others pursued him when he tried to flee.
• Ye Buyu shot Feng Jianyu, and the group knocked him down, restrained him, and beat him.
• Feng Jianyu recognized Ye Buyu, accused her of being Awakened, and shouted that they were breaking the law, but no neighbors responded.

Ye Buyu and her companions confronted Feng Jianyu, exposed his betrayal, and fought to capture him. After Ye Buyu nearly killed him with lightning bullets before reviving him, Feng Jianyu agreed to talk and begged the others to save him from her.

• Su Wuwei and the others revealed that they had recorded Feng Jianyu admitting his betrayal, and Feng Jianyu recognized that they were students rather than Social Security Bureau agents.
• Feng Jianyu broke free of Kou Ying's restraint and unleashed his Fourth Tier power, but Mu Bingge matched his presence as the others prepared to fight.
• Feng Jianyu fled toward the crowded street and tried to exploit Ye Buyu's role as the team's support, but she shot him with lethal lightning bullets instead of using healing bullets.
• Ye Buyu's attack brought Feng Jianyu close to death, and she repeatedly healed him until he returned to consciousness.
• Feng Jianyu agreed to reveal what he knew and pleaded with Mu Bingge and the others to save him from Ye Buyu.

Feng Jianyu surrendered to the Hold Up the Heavens squad and revealed Cloud Haze’s plans to become a Man-Made Calamity and leave the Present World. As the squad questioned him, Ye Buyu asked who had warned him to watch out for her.

• Feng Jianyu broke down in fear of his fate after death and agreed to tell the squad everything in exchange for being handed to the Social Security Bureau for soul annihilation.
• Wan Lan and Kou Ying restrained Feng Jianyu while Ye Buyu frightened him, and Su Wuwei began questioning him.
• Feng Jianyu revealed that Zhu Youcai’s company was Cloud Haze’s headquarters and that Zhu held the believers’ lists.
• Feng Jianyu said Cloud Haze planned a grand ritual to become a Man-Made Calamity and leave the Present World, but Kou Ying insisted Cloud Haze could not achieve that alone.
• Ye Buyu asked Feng Jianyu who had warned him to watch out for her.

Feng Jianyu revealed what he knew about Zhu Youcai’s cult, while Wei Changming’s team narrowly avoided being trapped inside the company. Xiao Shuo provided login details for the company system and identified Kou Ying as a Great Xia Red Hacker, revealing he had once lost to him.

• Feng Jianyu told Ye Buyu and Lou Guanshan that Zhu Youcai was a powerful fourth-tier cultivator with trusted subordinates at his company, including a receptionist and a security guard.
• Mu Bingge warned Wei Changming that the receptionist and security guard were dangerous, so Wei Changming staged stomach pain to get his team out of the company.
• Xiao Shuo called an ambulance, and the six teammates regrouped at the hospital and learned that Hold Up the Heavens had kidnapped Feng Jianyu for information.
• Xiao Shuo shared the manager’s account details so the team could access the company system and suggested asking Kou Ying to hack it.
• Xiao Shuo revealed that Kou Ying belonged to the Great Xia Red Hackers and that he had lost to him before.

Kou Ying hacked into Zhu Youcai's Company and uncovered a hidden plan tied to Cloud Haze. Su Wuwei matched a child's drawing to a world map, revealing Cloud Haze's likely targets, and the team prepared to hand the information to their teacher.

• Xiao Shuo admitted Kou Ying had hacked him for a year, and Wei Changming sent Mu Bingge Kou Ying's login details to investigate Zhu Youcai's Company.
• Kou Ying found suspicious company finances and traced the money through a heavily encrypted team-building plan.
• Feng Jianyu revealed that he had been tasked with diverting the Social Security Bureau's attention and recalled Zhu Youcai emphasizing the team-building event and fireworks.
• Kou Ying broke through the plan's encryption and found a child's drawing, which Su Wuwei matched to major cities on a world map.
• Su Wuwei identified the marked cities as Cloud Haze's likely next targets, while Lou Guanshan urged the team to call the police and Wan Lan said they were waiting for their teacher.

Liu Shuai killed Feng Jianyu and destroyed his soul to keep the Abyss from claiming it, then explained the fate awaiting believers and Calamities after death. As the team headed back to base, Ye Buyu learned from her teammates that stronger souls could retain their freedom in the Borderlands.

• Liu Shuai appeared before Hold Up the Heavens, collected the flash drive containing Zhu Youcai's Company map and personnel list, and killed Feng Jianyu after asking whether he regretted his choices.
• When Feng Jianyu's soul was drawn toward the Abyss, Liu Shuai fired again to shatter it and prevent the Abyss from claiming it.
• Liu Shuai explained to the team that believers and Calamities were usually dragged into the Abyss after death, and said he had destroyed Feng Jianyu's soul to deny it to the Abyss.
• Su Wuwei connected Feng Jianyu's fear of Ye Buyu's shot to her ability to show him the world after death, while Little Whale insisted Ye Buyu herself would not be sacrificed to the Abyss.
• Mu Bingge, Kou Ying, and Su Wuwei explained that powerful souls could retain their freedom by becoming vassals of a Major Calamity or Man-Made Calamities, leaving Wan Lan surprised by how much her teammates knew.

After the Hold Up the Heavens Team members revealed their differing goals, they split up to investigate Cloud Haze separately, leaving Ye Buyu confused and ready to go home. She then ran into her former deskmate Zhang Qian, who congratulated her on getting guaranteed admission.

• Wan Lan asked the team what they intended to investigate, and Mu Bingge, Kou Ying, and Su Wuwei each stated their own goals.
• Ye Buyu warned the others that her bad luck attracted high-tier Calamities, but Lou Guanshan and Su Wuwei still wanted her to come along.
• Mu Bingge suggested that nobody had to join her, and the team members agreed to investigate separately.
• Ye Buyu complained that the team should be called the Sky Is Falling Team and refused Little Whale's suggestion to visit the amusement park.
• Zhang Qian recognized Ye Buyu and congratulated her on getting guaranteed admission.

Ye Buyu discovered that Zhang Qian had lured their former classmates to a ritual intended to turn them into Believers, and swallowed a bug-like candy to join them after a stranger warned her not to act rashly. At the same time, the Social Security Bureau raided Zhu Youcai’s company, but Zhu escaped by teleportation, and the manager revealed that the ritual was tied to the Withered Glory Theatre in the Level Six Zone.

• Zhang Qian invited Ye Buyu to meet their old classmates and handed out candy containing crawling insects, claiming it could make them Awakened.
• The lead dancer announced the Dance of Metamorphosis, and Ye Buyu saw the classmates and former square dancers behaving like controlled Believers.
• A stranger stopped Ye Buyu from attacking the lead dancer, and Ye Buyu swallowed the insect candy before being teleported with the others to the Dance Hall.
• The Social Security Bureau raided Zhu Youcai’s company, but Zhu Youcai escaped through a Directional Teleportation Array.
• The manager told Xiao Shuo and Kou Ying that the employees had become Believers of Cloud Haze and named the Withered Glory Theatre in the Level Six Zone as the place to find them before vanishing.