Recaps

Xu Ye used his heart’s simulations to prepare for an attack on Count An Lu, then entered the Red Fortune Company and struck. Count An Lu evaded the first assault, and the Saintess appeared as the confrontation began.

• Shangguan Tian went to seize Chen Yu and her daughter, while Zhong Little Hua recognized Xu Ye had likely entered the First Dreamscape Layer and prepared to kill whoever came next.
• Xu Ye’s simulations revealed interference in Count An Lu’s office and warned that a hand might steal one of his kidneys, but he decided to proceed with Alice and Bandit Lord’s help.
• Xu Ye entered the Red Fortune Company in spirit form and confirmed Count An Lu appeared to be alone.
• Xu Ye attacked Count An Lu from behind with a dagger, but An Lu ducked, fired his Silver Pistol, and floated to the ceiling as a Hydrogen Balloon.
• Count An Lu spotted a corridor appear behind Xu Ye and realized the Saintess had arrived.

Xu Ye discovered that Qin Yingying had returned as the vessel for the Lord of Darkfall, then followed the King of the Underworld and the Heart of the Order Keeper to East Grand Harbor. As the King fought Ji Ying, Xu Ye slipped toward the abandoned church to disrupt the ritual.

• Qin Yingying abducted Count An Lu and vanished through a spatial Taboo Object, leaving Xu Ye shocked by her return and the Lord of Darkfall's presence within her.
• The Bandit Lord traced Qin Yingying's escape to East Grand Harbor, and Xu Ye informed Li Wan so the King of the Underworld could respond.
• Xu Ye reached the harbor and saw Shen Xinghai and the King of the Underworld arrive with Zhu Dalong and a Rank B Taboo Object that plunged the area into darkness.
• The King of the Underworld confronted Ji Ying, whose Nightmare Eye protected nearby civilians from his attacks, and declared judgment on the Matchmaker Society for aiding an Otherworldly Deity.
• While the King of the Underworld fought Ji Ying and Shen Xinghai prepared to destroy the ritual, Xu Ye used the Red Veil to sneak toward the abandoned church.

Xu Ye entered the abandoned church and used his tentacles to drain an Abyss Woman, clearing the way through the distorted maze. In the church hall, Shen Xinghai and Father Hall fought with decoys and flame-powered movement as Xu Ye watched from the shadows.

• Xu Ye disguised himself and entered the abandoned church, where Heavenly Dao distortion had created a maze filled with Abyss Women.
• Xu Ye used his tentacles to drain an Abyss Woman, and the others fled from him into the walls.
• Xu Ye crossed the maze and reached the church hall, where Father Hall and Shen Xinghai were fighting.
• Shen Xinghai used Flame Leap to evade Father Hall and shoot at him while Xu Ye watched from the shadows.

Xu Ye and Shen Xinghai fought their way into the underground chamber to stop Qin Yingying’s ritual and the Lord of Darkfall’s return. Qin Yingying mistook Xu Ye for the father of her monstrous child and attacked them with a sound wave that sent Xu Ye’s blood surging toward her.

• Shen Xinghai used Alice’s illusion and Xu Ye’s attack to destroy Father Hall, then Xu Ye shot the priest in the head to prevent his Flesh Rebirth.
• Xu Ye told Shen Xinghai that Qin Yingying planned to give birth to the Lord of Darkfall’s lower half, and they hurried to the underground chamber.
• Shen Xinghai charged toward Qin Yingying as Count An Lu told Shangguan Tian to offer himself to the Lord of Darkfall.
• Shangguan Tian began crumbling into ash, and Qin Yingying declared that Xu Ye was the father of her child.
• Qin Yingying destroyed Shen Xinghai’s fire dragon with a shriek, injured Xu Ye, and pulled his blood toward herself.

Xu Ye, Shen Xinghai, and Ye Qingnuo stopped Qin Yingying from delivering the Lord of Darkfall’s projection, though a mysterious “Gift” appeared in her blood after the altar collapsed. Xu Ye then killed Count An Lu and used his ability to question the corpse.

• Shen Xinghai trapped Qin Yingying with the Mad Demon Lich’s arm bone as the Lord of Darkfall began emerging from her belly.
• Xu Ye, Shen Xinghai, and Alice attacked Qin Yingying, while Ye Qingnuo’s paper dagger struck the projection’s eye and helped destroy the altar.
• Ye Qingnuo stabbed the projection and explained that she wanted revenge because he had taken someone from her.
• Blood spread across the shattered altar and formed the Great Xia characters “Gift,” unsettling Shen Xinghai and Ye Qingnuo.
• Xu Ye killed Count An Lu despite his plea for mercy, then dragged his corpse into a church prayer room to question it.

Xu Ye absorbed Count An Lu’s memories and discovered that Speaker Auston served the Lord of Darkfall, while the other Supreme Speakers also represented gods. The King of the Underworld confronted Xu Ye, revealed her connection to Chen Dukang, and agreed to help him before he returned to the second dreamscape layer.

• Xu Ye absorbed Count An Lu’s soul and saw memories of Auston giving him the Demon Vein to use against Li Yunyao when the Lord of Darkfall descended.
• Xu Ye and Alice concluded that the Supreme Speakers were spokespeople for gods, and wondered which gods the remaining Speakers served and why one had died.
• The King of the Underworld confronted Xu Ye, accused him of helping bring down Ji Ying, and recognized him by the mark he carried from Chen Dukang.
• The King of the Underworld explained that Chen Dukang had warned her about the gods and said the older generation’s path toward becoming Ancient Sages was flawed.
• As Xu Ye’s Awakening Charm wore off, the King of the Underworld promised to return his body safely and chose to trust Chen Dukang’s faith in him.

Chen Dukang confronted Auston over humanity’s erased history, Earth, and the Lord of Darkfall, then escaped repeated attacks using his sequence talent. In the second dreamscape layer, Xu Ye found Zhong Little Hua with Shangguan Tian’s corpse and brought her inside.

• Chen Dukang rejected Auston’s offer to return to Sky City and accused its leaders of hiding humanity’s history from a hundred years ago.
• Chen Dukang deduced that Auston was the Lord of Darkfall’s representative and questioned him about Xu Ye, Earth, and Heavenly Abyss Star.
• Auston ordered his soldiers to kill Chen Dukang, but Chen repeatedly reappeared and finally vanished, leaving Auston behind.
• Zhong Little Hua dragged Shangguan Tian’s corpse to Xu Ye’s door after realizing she had forgotten how to dispose of it.
• Xu Ye recognized that Zhong Little Hua had likely killed Shangguan Tian, flicked her on the head, and pulled her inside, saying he would tell her mother they were doing practice tests.

Xu Ye discovered that the Lord of Darkfall had fused with his body as a dangerous pregnancy, leaving him nine months to find a way to survive. He ended the chapter by encountering Ivy next door, whose remarks seemed to stir the embryo.

• Xu Ye found Shangguan Tian dead, learned Zhong Little Hua did not want to attend school, and promised to teach her himself.
• Xu Ye heard that the Matchmaker Society's president had died and that Ivy had gone missing, then considered his plans for the psychiatric hospital and Li Yunyao.
• Xu Ye became nauseated while eating, and the Bandit Lord revealed that a pea-like object outside his stomach was the Lord of Darkfall, whose life was bound to his.
• The Bandit Lord warned Xu Ye that he had nine months to absorb the Deity's energy or find a way to miscarry, or he would die when it was born.
• Xu Ye disguised himself as Doctor Xu Bai and met his new neighbor Ivy, who recalled asking him whether men could get pregnant; his stomach reacted, and he shut himself inside.

Li Wan moved into the building and told Xu Ye that his trip to the abandoned cemetery had left him with missing memories, while Xu Ye considered investigating it himself. At lunch with the neighbors, Shenchuan Lan unexpectedly arrived and confronted Ivy.

• Li Wan moved into Room 2101, flirted with Zhou Nian, and then visited Xu Ye with seafood gifts.
• Li Wan told Xu Ye that he had explored the other passage beneath the District 7 cemetery but could not remember what he had seen.
• Xu Ye learned that Li Wan had returned home naked and suspected the Illusion Overlord had erased his memories; Li Wan also mentioned the Matchmaker Society president's death and declared he was willing to follow Xu Ye.
• Zhou Nian hosted lunch for Xu Ye, Li Wan, Ivy, and the other neighbors, and everyone except Zhou Nian joined the Wanderers' Society.
• Shenchuan Lan suddenly entered the restaurant, asked Ivy why she had not told him she was there, and drew Xu Ye's attention.

Xu Ye suspected that the Shenchuan Family and the Federation might be preparing for war, while Shenchuan Lan embarrassed himself at Ivy’s meal and then plotted against her allies. Ten days later, Lü Xiao Dao suffered a vision of the Great Fiend destroying the Land of Exiles and begged the Cat God to save him.

• Xu Ye concluded that the Shenchuan Family’s marriage alliance with the Federation could be part of a plan to start a war inside the Holy Grail’s Dreamscape.
• Xu Ye taunted Shenchuan Lan at Ivy’s table, and the others drove Shenchuan Lan away after Ivy refused his advances.
• Alice caused Shenchuan Lan to stumble into a garbage truck after he stepped on her, while Lu Xiaoyu photographed the accident.
• Shenchuan Lan told Matsumoto Naiko to delay killing Ivy’s companions and instead planned to target council members who opposed Mr. Airo.
• Ten days later, Lü Xiao Dao suffered a painful vision of the Great Fiend devastating the Land of Exiles and cried out to the Cat God for help.

Xu Ye and Alice rescued Lü Xiao Dao from a painful mental episode and learned that his visions of a Great Fiend attack were memories of the Midnight Church’s destruction twenty years earlier, not predictions of the future. Lü Xiao Dao returned home to his sister, unaware that his strange lack of a second personality also made him resemble Xu Ye.

• Xu Ye returned to Alice and learned that he needed to choose a deity to blaspheme against before advancing to Sequence 7.
• Alice sensed Lü Xiao Dao’s distress through his Dark Night Servant mark and pulled him into an illusory space, where she calmed his suffering.
• Lü Xiao Dao described his recurring visions of a Great Fiend attacking a city, and the Bandit Lord noted that Lü Xiao Dao had no second personality.
• Xu Ye recognized the Midnight Church in Lü Xiao Dao’s account and concluded that the visions were someone else’s memories of the church’s destruction twenty years earlier.
• Alice told Lü Xiao Dao to call upon her if his suffering returned, then sent him back to the bathroom.
• Lü Xiao Dao greeted Lu Xiaoyu and Zhong Little Hua, who teased him after misunderstanding why he had spent so long in the bathroom.

Xu Ye sensed the Lord of Darkfall moving toward his heart, while the Spirit Mirror Knight tracked him to Room 2001. The Knight found Xu Ye gone and left to pursue him, as Zhong Little Hua rushed to warn him.

• Xu Ye decided to give Dark Night Servant marks to Li Wan, Lu Xiaoyu, and Zhong Little Hua, and planned to seek information at the Wild Awakened Club.
• Chen Yu met a frail old man searching for his son and brought him home, where Zhong Little Hua recognized him as the Spirit Mirror Knight.
• Zhong Little Hua realized the Knight had likely followed Xu Ye’s scent and hurried toward the tenth floor to warn him.
• The Spirit Mirror Knight transformed, located Xu Ye in Room 2001, and stabbed the empty blanket before stepping back through a mirror to pursue him.

Xu Ye fled the Spirit Mirror Knight and used an Awakening Charm to return to the First Dreamscape Layer. He planned to seek a way to advance to Sequence 7 before returning, while the knight waited for him to reappear.

• The Spirit Mirror Knight attacked Xu Ye and killed nearby homeless witnesses, so Xu Ye tried to lure the knight away from other people.
• Xu Ye threw Alice at the Spirit Mirror Knight, and her distraction let Xu Ye break through an invisible wall and escape.
• Zhong Little Hua and Lu Xiaoyu watched from a nearby building as Lu Xiaoyu’s use of [Luck] exhausted her and Zhong Little Hua shared the backlash.
• Xu Ye raced away with the Spirit Mirror Knight pursuing him, then shattered an Awakening Charm to return to the First Dreamscape Layer.
• Xu Ye planned to visit the District 7 cemetery and desecrate the Illusion Overlord’s remains to advance to Sequence 7, while the Spirit Mirror Knight stayed behind and waited.

Xu Ye rescued Shenchuan Sato in the first dreamscape layer and persuaded him to search for the Illusion Overlord’s Incomplete Corpse together. Their plans drew the attention of Xia Yuze and Shenchuan Lan, who both recognized that someone had altered Sato’s fate.

• Xu Ye entered Shenchuan Sato’s home, used Delusion to pose as a Fallen Knight, and gained the Sequence 8-051 Spirit Mirror talent when Sato believed him.
• Xu Ye warned Sato that Shenchuan Lan had arranged the assassination, and Sato agreed to find the Illusion Overlord’s Incomplete Corpse with him.
• Xu Ye showed Sato Alice as his second head, convincing him to recruit Xia Yuze, a Sequence 7 Awakened from the Doctor Society, for the cemetery expedition.
• Xia Yuze realized that someone had interfered with Shenchuan Sato’s fate after returning to the first dreamscape layer.
• Shenchuan Lan learned that Sato was alive and resolved to discover who had rescued him.

Xu Ye joined Shenchuan Sato and a group of powerful figures preparing to enter the Illusion Overlord’s tomb, while his heart’s simulation warned of severe interference and a future disaster in Night Spirit City. In the second dreamscape layer, the President and the morgue’s awakened corpses learned that the Illusion Overlord was still alive, but their Goddess of Gloom had forbidden them to get involved.

• Xu Ye read a heavily corrupted heart simulation that warned of danger in the tomb and said Night Spirit City would explode six months later.
• Shenchuan Sato’s Crystal Ball shattered, and he told Xu Ye that he had explored the tomb before but could not remember entering its second passage.
• Xia Yuze arrived, followed by Shenchuan Lan and Shenchuan Jiaying, prompting Xu Ye to seek Jiaying’s protection until he learned the Fallen Knights had once killed Jiaying’s disciple.
• Shenchuan Lan led the group toward the tomb and wondered whether the strange-smelling Xia Yuze was the person who had ruined his plan.
• At Holy Cross Hospital, more than a hundred corpses sat up in the underground morgue as the President reported that the Illusion Overlord was still alive and that the Goddess of Gloom had forbidden them to intervene.

Xu Ye and the Shenchuan group crossed a heavily distorted cemetery where the Awakened were prone to mutation, then encountered a mysterious girl holding a torch near the White Church. The girl answered Xu Ye’s obscene gesture, suggesting she was a real person rather than an apparition created by the forbidden zone.

• Xu Ye prepared the Big Black Umbrella and Human Skin as the group entered the blood-red Gobi, where Shenchuan Lan measured Heavenly Dao distortion at fifty percent.
• Shenchuan Jiaying burned two members who mutated, while Xia Yuze used his calming ability to help Shenchuan Sato resist his second personality.
• Xu Ye slapped Shenchuan Lan back to his senses, then briefly comforted Xia Yuze when his second personality overwhelmed him.
• Near the White Church, the group saw a girl with a torch behind a yellow screen, and Shenchuan Jiaying warned them not to respond to her.
• Xu Ye gave the girl the middle finger, and she returned the gesture, leading him to suspect she was a real person.

The party reached the White Church after Xia Yuze destroyed a deity-born illusion with his mechanical weapons. Inside, Xu Ye alone saw the Goddess of Gloom’s portrait appear and realized the beautiful figure was male.

• Shenchuan Jiaying realized the party had been trapped in an illusion that kept the church out of reach.
• Xia Yuze revealed his biomechanical cannons and blasted apart the illusion.
• The party reached the White Church, where Shenchuan Jiaying recognized the names of divine seats beneath twenty-seven blank portraits.
• The Bandit Lord explained that the frames represented sequence 1 deities and vacant divine seats.
• Xu Ye saw the Goddess of Gloom’s portrait appear in the central frame, while the others did not notice it.
• Xu Ye spotted the portrait’s Adam’s apple and realized the Goddess of Gloom was male.

Xu Ye discovered that the Illusion Overlord had left behind the message that gods could not kill themselves, then triggered the deity’s lingering aura in the church. As the aura trapped and petrified everyone, Xu Ye absorbed the black snake Little Greenhide had left him, interrupting the Azure Sky Dragon’s promise of a treasure.

• Alice rejected the Goddess of Gloom’s image and speculated that she might be a demigod who had challenged his divine seat.
• The Goddess of Gloom’s portrait silently revealed that it knew Xu Ye came from Planet Earth, and Xu Ye found three warnings beneath the frame.
• The Shenchuan family and Xia Yuze removed deity portraits while Mr. Spirit Mirror greedily took down frames, and Xu Ye found the Illusion Overlord’s message that gods could not kill themselves.
• The Illusion Overlord’s lingering aura warped time and space, immobilized the group with colorful snakes, and forced everyone to kneel.
• Xu Ye knelt to avoid being tamed, then absorbed Little Greenhide’s black snake as a transparent python coiled around him; the Azure Sky Dragon recognized the Lord’s aura.

Xu Ye entered an illusion inside his body and encountered Athos, the ancient king of the Green-Skinned Dwarves, whose energy form had been corrupted by an Aberrant aura. After Athos explained the trial and his abilities, the snake-covered Aberrant demanded to be released, and Xu Ye prepared to fight.

• Xu Ye found himself in a distorted inner world and met Athos, who explained that Xu Ye had taken the wrong path.
• Xu Ye recognized Athos as the vanished king of the Tua Kingdom and considered how corruption might have changed him.
• Athos claimed that snake monsters had corrupted him and told Xu Ye to defeat him to reach the treasure.
• Athos described his limited Sequence 8 strength and the effects of [True and False] and [59 Seconds].
• Snakes overtook Athos's energy body, and the Aberrant demanded to be let out as Xu Ye gripped the Big Black Umbrella.

Xu Ye defeated the Snake Monster in the dreamscape, but the Bandit Lord questioned whether hidden forces had arranged his path and wondered if the Illusion Overlord had truly died. As Xu Ye realized he had not advanced to Sequence 7, the Overlord’s aura invaded his body.

• Xu Ye fought the Snake Monster using stealth, tentacles, firearms, and the Black Blade, while its [59 Seconds] ability and [Falsehood] made it difficult to wound.
• Xu Ye used Wang Han as a decoy, and Zhang Qing ambushed the Snake Monster long enough for Xu Ye to shove a grenade into its mouth and destroy its head with the Black Blade.
• The Bandit Lord warned Xu Ye that the convenient events leading to his blasphemy mission might have been arranged by someone and questioned whether the Illusion Overlord had truly died.
• Xu Ye realized he had not entered Sequence 7 when the Illusion Overlord’s aura burrowed into his arm and raced toward his brain.

Xu Ye completed his blasphemy and advanced to sequence 7, gaining new abilities while a remnant of the Illusion Overlord's aura branded his body in an awkward place. As the first dreamscape collapsed, he prepared to return to the second layer and face the Spirit Mirror Knight.

• The Illusion Overlord's black-snake aura tried to enter Xu Ye's mind, but Alice struck it away, and the Bandit Lord's energy blocked it from reaching his heart.
• Xu Ye drove the weakened aura toward his colon, where it clung to his rectal wall; the Bandit Lord said it had left a brand, while he and Alice laughed at Xu Ye.
• A law washed through Xu Ye, completing his blasphemy and advancing him to sequence 7, where he gained [Block-Building Game] and stronger versions of [Mayfly] and [Shadow Play].
• Xu Ye learned that his Black Blade had become a Grade D Taboo Object, with improved defense, attack reflection, and the ability to store blood to reduce his weakness after using the heart vortex.
• The first dreamscape began shattering as the Awakening Charm expired, and Xu Ye prepared to return to the second dreamscape layer to confront the Spirit Mirror Knight.

Shenchuan Lan and Shenchuan Jiaying planned to use the Holy Grail and Councilman Luo to help the Shenchuan Family seize Night Spirit City from Sky City. Meanwhile, Xu Ye fought the Spirit Mirror Knight, escaped a deadly strike by switching places with Shangguan Tian’s Human Skin, and left as Shen Xinghai’s Heart of the Order Keeper arrived.

• Shenchuan Lan and Shenchuan Jiaying returned from the dreamscape with the Mother Goddess’s picture frame and planned to help Councilman Luo unify the Land of Exiles and attack Sky City for Night Spirit City.
• Xiahou Ze stored the Mechanical Emperor’s picture frame and wondered why his lord’s presence had vanished six months earlier.
• Xu Ye fought the Spirit Mirror Knight outside the District 9 garbage dump, using his strange detached limbs and water-fire tentacles against the knight’s overwhelming strength and regeneration.
• The Polluted Realm’s negative effects drove the Spirit Mirror Knight berserk, and his lance shattered Xu Ye’s heart and lower body.
• Xu Ye survived by swapping places with Shangguan Tian’s Human Skin, then put on the Red Veil and slipped away while the Spirit Mirror Knight malfunctioned.
• Shen Xinghai led the Heart of the Order Keeper to the scene as the Spirit Mirror Knight tried and failed to escape through a mirror.

The Heart of the Order Keeper fought and captured the Spirit Mirror Knight while Xu Ye watched from hiding. Far away, a frail boy emerged from a hibernation pod and revealed that he had confirmed the boy from the fire six years earlier possessed something his lord wanted.

• Mo Feng led her squad in a golden-bullet assault on the Spirit Mirror Knight, and Shen Xinghai joined the fight despite her rebuke.
• Mo Feng attacked the wounded knight with curved blades, while Shen Xinghai's flames destroyed an insect double and helped cripple the real knight.
• Shen Xinghai sealed the Spirit Mirror Knight inside a Bloodthirst Barrier, then succumbed to the Mirror of Defilement's idiocy effect as his team carried him away.
• Xu Ye recovered his eye and ear and slipped away after the battle ended.
• A frail boy emerged from a hibernation pod in an underground chamber and said the boy from the fire six years earlier had something his lord wanted.

Chu You'an uncovered a warning in a Second Era tomb that humanity’s growing knowledge would bring doomsday, while Xu Ye returned home after killing the Spirit Mirror Knight and learned that a greater catastrophe might await in the deepest Dreamscape. His quiet evening with Chen Yu and the children ended when Ivy was found tangled with another woman in the hallway.

• Chu You'an studied a Second Era Bronze Coffin and found depictions of a square Earth and a warning that humanity’s expanding knowledge brought it closer to doomsday.
• Xu Ye restored his eyes and ears after killing the Spirit Mirror Knight, while the Bandit Lord warned that the fourth Dreamscape layer would bring an unavoidable catastrophe.
• Xu Ye returned to the Apartment and joined Chen Yu, Lu Xiaoyu, Zhong Little Hua, and Lü Xiao Dao for fish soup.
• Lu Xiaoyu told Xu Ye that the Federation Bureau of Investigation planned to regulate clubs and require daily activity plans.
• Xu Ye and the others rushed into the hallway after hearing Ivy cry out and found her tangled with another woman.

Xu Ye learned that An Ning had fallen into hardship and agreed to examine her, but she refused treatment and pursued a wealthy future instead. After An Ning revealed she was pregnant with Kang Ao’s child, she went to meet his friends, who told her she had AIDS and threatened her pregnancy.

• An Ning collapsed from low blood sugar and met Xu Ye, while Ivy asked him to examine her because she had abdominal pain.
• Ivy told Xu Ye that An Ning had changed after falling in with bad friends and was selling her body to afford luxury goods, and Xu Ye agreed to help.
• The next evening, Xu Ye followed An Ning after she refused to see a doctor and learned she had undergone extensive plastic surgery and was pregnant with Kang Ao’s child.
• An Ning explained that she wanted wealth and influence, planned to enter high society, and hoped to hire Xu Ye as her private doctor.
• An Ning arrived at a karaoke room, where Kang Ao’s friends welcomed her and then claimed she had AIDS and could not keep the baby.