Recaps

Xu Ye told Meng Chengfei that he may have encountered the Eternal Church's Bishop, prompting a discussion of the Church, cultivation, and the Five Great Powers' strongest Awakened. Meng Chengfei sent Xu Ye to Crimson Training Camp and gave him an E-Rank Taboo Object: a black umbrella.

• Xu Ye chased off He Li's two suitors by telling them her second personality was a ladyboy, and He Li kissed him in thanks.
• Xu Ye told Meng Chengfei that he may have encountered the Eternal Church's Bishop during his last mission.
• Meng Chengfei explained that the Bishop was likely a successor to the one killed ten years earlier and that the Eternal Church was searching for its holy book, which might contain information, power, and a complete cultivation method.
• Meng Chengfei described the recent cultivation breakthrough, the Crimson Training Camp, and the five publicly known Sequence 6 powerhouses, including Dawn Blade's Chief Captain, Red Dragon.
• Meng Chengfei told Xu Ye to focus on training at Crimson and gave him an E-Rank Taboo Object, deducting the cost from his recent mission bonuses.

Xu Ye received the dangerous Taboo Object Reasonable Persuasion and learned that he and two teammates would attend the Crimson Training Camp. After Xu Ye left, Ye Qingnuo confronted Meng Chengfei about his plans to pursue the Eternal Church, and their conversation ended in a fight.

• Meng Chengfei gave Xu Ye Reasonable Persuasion, explaining its forms, power, and monthly need to kill an Aberrant or a person.
• Xu Ye bonded with the umbrella, transformed it into a blade, and discovered its sharpness when it cut a trash can in half.
• Meng Chengfei told Xu Ye that Xiao Yun and Zhou Ye would also attend the Crimson Training Camp and asked him to deliver supplies to Lu Mingwang.
• After Xu Ye left, Meng Chengfei prepared to claim expenses for the supplies, then called out Ye Qingnuo, who had arrived in a paper airplane.
• Ye Qingnuo warned Meng Chengfei not to pursue the Eternal Church with the Crimson Eye and asked him to take her along; after he recalled their childhood and called them pathetic, she attacked him.

Shen Xinghai and Jian Fang discussed the Crimson Training Camp’s recruits, the worsening dangers at the front, and chief instructor Yang Chang before Shen learned a Fallen Knights member had entered Night Spirit City. Xu Ye sensed that the rules in his building had changed and stayed outside, imagining a blood-red Book of Treasures and a rise in Heavenly Dao Distortion to 3%.

• Shen Xinghai and Jian Fang discussed worsening threats from Aberrants and Great Fiends, scarce spirit energy blocks, and the thousand trainees arriving at camp.
• Jian Fang told Shen Xinghai that Yang Chang, the Tyrant’s only disciple, would be chief instructor.
• Shen Xinghai learned that a member of the Fallen Knights had slipped into Night Spirit City and left to investigate.
• Xu Ye noticed the rules in his building had changed, checked that the distortion zone had not expanded, and chose not to enter.
• Xu Ye imagined finding a blood-red Book of Treasures filled with the words “eat people” and measuring Heavenly Dao Distortion at 3%.

Xu Ye tested the Book of Treasures, whose pages made a female ghost emerge from the television, and discovered he could drive her back by rapidly flipping the pages. He reached the final page, claimed a black crystal that strengthened his talent, and noticed another tentacle growing from his calf.

• Xu Ye opened the Book of Treasures and found that turning its pages caused the television to show increasingly disturbing images.
• As Xu Ye continued turning pages, a female ghost crawled out of the television, and his tentacle melted when he tried to attack her.
• Xu Ye rapidly flipped the pages back and forth until the ghost retreated into the television.
• Xu Ye turned to the final page and took a black crystal, which his tentacle absorbed as a source of concentrated energy.
• Xu Ye reflected on the flaws in current cultivation and talent-development methods, then discovered a third tentacle growing from his calf.

Xu Ye left his apartment and traveled through Night Spirit City’s refugee district to a residential complex, where gunfire followed a disturbance inside. The chapter ended with the complex falling silent, leaving Xu Ye approaching an unknown danger.

• Xu Ye reflected on the rules governing the Mirror Spirit and the television ghost, then left them at home under Alice’s surveillance.
• Xu Ye took money and concealed Taboo Objects and other supplies before leaving his apartment.
• Xu Ye rode the light rail toward the refugee district and observed the worsening poverty and conditions along the way.
• Xu Ye arrived at the residential complex and found its gate open, rubbish scattered, and the elderly security guard missing.
• Xu Ye heard an uproar inside the complex, followed by gunfire, screams, and sudden silence.

Xu Ye witnessed Lin Lang’s gang extorting refugees and abducting Zhao Qianhan’s granddaughter, then saw Zhao Qianhan kill himself. When Lin Lang threatened him, Xu Ye’s heart warned him of danger, and he dodged a sniper’s shot that killed Lin Lang instead.

• Xu Ye met Chen Yu and Little Hua at the residential compound and learned Lin Lang’s gang demanded a monthly management fee from residents.
• Lin Lang shot Zhao Qianhan in the thigh and ordered his men to take the old man’s granddaughter.
• Lin Lang claimed Zhao Qianhan’s house as the girl’s dowry and ordered him to leave; Zhao Qianhan stabbed himself in the heart as Xu Ye tried to help him.
• Lin Lang threatened Xu Ye and aimed his gun at him, while Xu Ye’s heart warned him that a bullet would hit him ten seconds later.
• Xu Ye dodged just before a sniper’s shot killed Lin Lang, and Alice told him the shot had come from the southeast.

Rock’s attempt to kill Xu Ye led to a battle with Shen Xinghai on the clock tower, while a hidden fourth attacker targeted them both. Xu Ye learned of the danger through his heart and pulled Shen Xinghai away just as the tower erupted in explosions.

• Rock failed to shoot Xu Ye, then tried to escape after Shen Xinghai confronted him on the clock tower.
• Shen Xinghai used 9-041 [Watcher in the Wheatfield] to foil Rock’s ambush and attacked him, but a shadow seized Shen Xinghai’s ankle.
• Xu Ye discovered through his heart that a hidden fourth person was attacking and decided he needed Rock to fight that enemy.
• Xu Ye’s tentacle pulled Shen Xinghai away as a bullet struck the clock tower and triggered a series of massive explosions.

Xu Ye and Shen Xinghai were ambushed by the Spirit Mirror Knight, a Sequence 6 warrior sent by the Fallen Knights to kill Xu Ye. Shen Xinghai fled to seek help, leaving Xu Ye facing the attacker alone.

• Xu Ye used the Big Black Umbrella to shield himself and Shen Xinghai from the explosion as they crashed into the Clock Tower restaurant.
• A Spirit Mirror Knight emerged from a mirror, and Shen Xinghai identified him as an enemy from the Fallen Knights.
• Xu Ye's simulations showed that both fighting and fleeing would end in his death.
• Shen Xinghai attacked with a fire dragon, then grabbed Xu Ye and ran when the Spirit Mirror Knight survived.
• The Spirit Mirror Knight appeared from a blood-patterned mirror and struck down Shen Xinghai's illusion, while the real Shen Xinghai left Xu Ye to get help.

Xu Ye unleashed his God-Slaying Soulbeam against the Spirit Mirror Knight, who had cornered him in the clock tower. The attack destroyed one of the knight’s souls, but the knight survived and regenerated a new head, leaving Xu Ye and Alice in greater danger.

• The Spirit Mirror Knight attacked Xu Ye with [Secret-Peering], and Xu Ye used pain to break free before striking the knight with his black saber, which failed to harm him.
• Xu Ye and Alice prepared Alice’s [Soul-Seizing] ability and fired the God-Slaying Soulbeam at the Spirit Mirror Knight.
• Outside the clock tower, Shen Xinghai lost his phone signal, then saw the soulbeam darken the sky and rushed back to help Xu Ye.
• Xu Ye’s soulbeam drained his power and damaged the knight’s helmet and the wall, but the knight survived the attack.
• Alice realized the knight had more than one soul after his destroyed head regenerated, and Xu Ye feared they were finished.

After Xu Ye sent an emergency distress signal from the Grand Bell Tower, Meng Chengfei used Sky City’s Crimson Eye to find him fighting a Spirit Mirror Knight. The Crimson Eye destroyed the knight’s arm, and the knight escaped through a mirror, leaving Xu Ye alive beneath the watching eye.

• Li Yunyao told Meng Chengfei that Xu Ye had sent a distress signal and an explosion had occurred at the Grand Bell Tower.
• Meng Chengfei activated the Crimson Eye despite the severe cost of using the Grade A taboo object.
• Meng Chengfei discovered that Xu Ye was fighting a Spirit Mirror Knight and suspected the Fallen Knights were connected to Xu Ye’s past.
• The Crimson Eye fired a thin beam that erased the Spirit Mirror Knight’s arm and spear.
• The Spirit Mirror Knight looked up at the Crimson Eye, then escaped through a mirror while Xu Ye watched from the stairs.

Xu Ye faced the crippled Rock in the burning Clock Tower until Ye Qingnuo arrived and rescued him. Meanwhile, the wounded Spirit Mirror Knight returned to an underground altar, where his body continued mutating as he worshipped a veiled statue.

• Rock crawled after Xu Ye through the smoke and attacked him despite his catastrophic injuries and the bullets Xu Ye fired.
• Rock launched a powerful Wind Blade at Xu Ye, but Ye Qingnuo emerged from a White Paper Airplane and slammed him into the stairs.
• Ye Qingnuo dispersed the smoke, learned Rock had died with black venom in his mouth, and took the unconscious Xu Ye back toward his team.
• The Spirit Mirror Knight emerged from a mirror in an underground room, and his wounds and lower body mutated after Xu Ye had destroyed one of his souls.
• The Spirit Mirror Knight reached an altar, offered it a drop of blood, and knelt before a veiled statue, calling it his lord.

Shen Xinghai reviewed records to identify the young Awakened who had saved him, while Xu Ye returned home injured and examined the Fallen Knights’ attack and his own past. Xu Ye ended the night determined to grow stronger, but blood in the sink and a misting mirror left his home feeling unsettled.

• Shen Xinghai searched Sequence Talent records and wondered whether Xu Ye possessed a rare soul-related talent, then decided to ask Ye Qingnuo about him later.
• Xu Ye returned home after recovering at headquarters, checked that it was safe to enter, and found A Zhen and A Jing hiding in their usual places.
• Xu Ye put his weapons and supplies by the bedroom door, tended to his injuries, and wrote down questions about why the Fallen Knights had searched his memories.
• Xu Ye considered whether the fire that killed his family was connected to the attack and resolved to investigate it and become stronger.
• Xu Ye burned his notes, brushed his teeth, and spat blood into the sink as the bathroom light flickered and mist clouded the mirror.

Xu Ye trapped and drained the Mirror Spirit to recover from his injuries, then arrived late at Crimson Training Camp as the last recruit. He forced open the camp gates just before they closed, drawing the attention of the instructors and recruits.

• Xu Ye pretended to be badly injured so he could catch the Mirror Spirit and absorb its energy to heal and regain strength.
• Xu Ye considered killing the Mirror Spirit but spared him after absorbing enough energy, then decided to rest and recover for several days.
• At Crimson Training Camp, Shen Xinghai announced that the thousand recruits would face two tests and that anyone who failed would be eliminated.
• Lu Mingwang asked Shen Xinghai to wait because Xu Ye had not arrived, but Shen ordered the gates closed.
• Xu Ye jammed the closing gates with the Big Black Umbrella, forced them open, and entered as the last recruit.

Xu Ye arrived late at the Crimson Training Camp but was allowed to join the recruits after giving Shen Xinghai an absurd excuse. Shen Xinghai began the first assessment, a run that secretly hindered Awakened recruits, while warning them that they had to outrun ordinary soldiers to survive on the battlefield.

• Xu Ye entered the camp and recognized Shen Xinghai, who let him join the ranks after hearing his excuse about mapo tofu and Granny Ma.
• Shen Xinghai announced that recruits would be eliminated every ten minutes if they ran slower than the female soldiers, and started the assessment with a gunshot.
• Xu Ye jogged with the crowd and noticed that an unseen force was weighing down the Awakened recruits’ energy; Alice suspected a Taboo Object in the field.
• Shen Xinghai berated the slower runners and explained that ordinary female soldiers served as cannon fodder, so recruits had to outrun them to survive in battle.
• A female soldier noticed Xu Ye looking at her and playfully urged him to keep running.

Xu Ye and the other recruits endured a grueling first assessment at Crimson Training Camp, where Shen Xinghai eliminated those who fell behind or relied on their Second Personalities. After the run, the instructors disappeared beneath a crimson moon, and a wall of lightning-flashing membranes sealed the camp as the recruits sensed a terrible stench of corpses.

• Shen Xinghai warned Xu Ye that the female soldiers were battle-hardened and told him to excel in the assessment.
• Shen Xinghai eliminated recruits who failed to keep pace, while Xu Ye ran with the leading group and Li Yunyao pushed through the strain.
• A bespectacled Awakened recruit used his Second Personality to surge ahead, so Shen Xinghai knocked him out and declared him eliminated.
• After 200 recruits were eliminated, Shen Xinghai announced that only 36 ordinary people but 164 Awakened had failed the first test, then began the second test without a break.
• The female soldiers and instructors vanished, and a crimson moon appeared as lightning-flashing membranes sealed off the training camp.
• The recruits smelled rotting corpses, Xu Ye estimated that more than a hundred bodies had been left in cold, damp conditions for over seven days, and his heart began to writhe.

Xu Ye and the other recruits faced a Heartless released during their assessment, while the instructors watched and mocked them. After the Heartless knocked down several challengers, Xu Ye killed it with a single strike, leaving the field and instructors stunned.

• A girl identified the creature as a Heartless and explained its origins and danger to the recruits.
• The instructors revealed that they had released the Heartless to make the recruits confront fear, and offered an F-Class Forbidden Object to anyone who killed it alone.
• Zhou Ye and several other recruits charged the Heartless, but it knocked them aside as the exhausted recruits struggled to use their abilities.
• Xu Ye drew his dagger and beheaded the Heartless with one strike, silencing the recruits and instructors.

Xu Ye killed a Heartless and learned the recruits had to collect iron tags while surviving three hours of attacks, with the lowest three hundred eliminated. As Xu Ye set out to hunt for first place, his heart showed him a vision of the Heartless Mother Tree causing a catastrophe at the training camp, killing Li Yunyao and the others.

• Xu Ye killed a Heartless, absorbed a black stone that strengthened him, and picked up its iron tag worth 100 points.
• The instructors released dozens of Heartless onto the training field and announced the three-hour survival assessment, the iron-tag ranking, and the elimination of the bottom three hundred recruits.
• Li Yunyao and Zhou Ye chose to hunt alone, while Lu Mingwang joined Xu Ye.
• Xu Ye headed away from the field to hunt more Heartless and pursue first place as Alice warned him that Anderson, Andre's older brother, was following him.
• Xu Ye's heart showed him a vision of the Heartless Mother Tree going berserk, nearly seven hundred people dying or transforming, and Li Yunyao and the others dying at the training camp.

Xu Ye and Lu Mingwang hunted Heartless in the camp as Xu Ye made for the mountain where the Heartless Mother Tree was sealed. A black-robed boy ambushed them, and Xu Ye dodged his ice attack as the attacker revealed his sequence talent, [Ice Dirge].

• Anderson, Owen, Dusha, and two other Sky City nobles watched Xu Ye and agreed to wait until he had weakened himself before attacking.
• Xu Ye killed a Heartless and gave its iron tag to Lu Mingwang before heading toward the mountain behind the camp.
• A black-robed boy emerged from a tear in the night and threatened to kill Xu Ye.
• Lu Mingwang fired at the boy, and Xu Ye attacked with his transformed Big Black Umbrella blade.
• Xu Ye inferred that the attacker might be disrupting the Heartless Mother Tree's seal and dodged an ice spike that froze the bridge.
• The boy identified his elemental sequence talent as 9-055 [Ice Dirge].

Xu Ye fought and killed the black-robed boy with help from Lu Mingwang’s song, but the boy threw a ring into the river before he died. Alice examined the corpse and suddenly froze, leaving the reason unclear.

• Xu Ye dodged the black-robed boy’s icy attacks and wounded his ankle with the Black Blade.
• The black-robed boy formed ice armor and pressed Xu Ye with close-range attacks while gradually slowing him with [Ice Dirge].
• Lu Mingwang sang with [Bard], clouding the black-robed boy’s mind and giving Xu Ye an opening.
• Xu Ye bit his tongue to stay alert, struck the boy’s throat, and pierced his Adam’s apple with the Black Blade.
• The dying boy threw a ring into the river, and Alice examined his corpse before abruptly freezing.

Xu Ye discovered that the Black-Robed Boy had survived and learned that four members of the Shenchuan Family planned to place Taboo Objects on the Back Mountain to break the Heartless Mother Tree’s seal. After his simulations revealed the danger and suggested the four young nobles could help him, Xu Ye cautiously headed toward the Back Mountain.

• Xu Ye suspected the Black-Robed Boy had faked his death, sent Lu Mingwang away, and pretended to search the body before leaving the bridge.
• A middle-aged Shenchuan Family woman emerged from frost beneath the bridge and told her accomplice that four people had to place their Taboo Objects at the same time to break the seal.
• Xu Ye returned after hiding nearby, and Alice reported what she had overheard about the Shenchuan Family’s plan.
• Xu Ye used his heart’s simulations and learned that reporting the plot or confronting the woman alone could lead to his death, while the four young nobles might give him a chance to fight back.
• Xu Ye followed the middle-aged woman toward the Back Mountain, where the simulations showed him confronting her near the Heartless Mother Tree as the four nobles watched.

Four noble scions watched Xu Ye fight and decided to wait before attacking, while the Crimson Training Camp erupted into a battle with the Heartless. Chu You'an exposed and defeated a Heartless, but Zhou Ye turned down her attempt to charm him and left with neither her iron tag nor a reward.

• Anderson, Owen, Simon, and Dusha assessed Xu Ye's strength, and Anderson decided they should wait before attacking.
• As the camp descended into chaos, Chu You'an coaxed Zhu Dalong toward a Heartless, but he ran away and tried to steal from her.
• Zhu Dalong opened a box containing a Thunderblast Pearl, which Chu You'an had planted, and the explosion revealed his deception.
• Chu You'an killed a Heartless with her pink whip and took its iron tag.
• Chu You'an pretended to have twisted her ankle and asked Zhou Ye for help, but he carried her back to where she had been and left without taking the tag.

Li Yunyao killed a Heartless and encountered Chen Qiansui, a boastful boy from the Lost Abyss, while the instructors discussed promising recruits in the surveillance room. Shen Xinghai then realized Xu Ye had disappeared from the monitors.

• Li Yunyao killed a Heartless with a sword strike, removed her damaged fingernail after its saliva touched it, and took its Iron Token.
• Chen Qiansui introduced himself as a genius of the Lost Abyss and tried to recruit Li Yunyao, but she switched on the ceiling fan and sent him spinning to the floor.
• Chen Qiansui’s cloak fell away, revealing his small purple-haired form seated on a damaged skeleton.
• Jian Fang returned to the surveillance room after rescuing a girl, and Shen Xinghai pointed out promising recruits including Li Yunyao, Chen Qiansui, Chu You'an, and Zhu Dalong.
• Jian Fang asked whether the Dawn Blade had any Awakened recruits, and Shen Xinghai realized Xu Ye was missing from the monitors.

Xu Ye found a dead soldier near the Heartless Mother Tree and learned from Alice that his Heart Simulation showed only one possible future. He launched a surprise attack on the Shenchuan Family's Middle-Aged Woman to stop her from breaking the seal, but she escaped her apparent death and struck back with ice.

• Xu Ye found the body of the female soldier he had met earlier and struggled with guilt over failing to raise the alarm.
• Alice reassured Xu Ye that the Heart Simulation was limited and its future could change, then avoided his questions about what she knew.
• Xu Ye reached the Heartless Mother Tree, saw its white energy-block fruits and the corpses beneath it, and watched the Middle-Aged Woman prepare to break the seal.
• Xu Ye hurled himself at the Middle-Aged Woman, cut her neck, stabbed her abdomen, and shattered the energy gathering in the sculpture's palm.
• The Middle-Aged Woman emerged from the frozen body and attacked Xu Ye, who blocked her freezing air with the Black Blade.

Xu Ye ambushed Kikuko Shenchuan and fought to keep her from using her abilities, but she trapped him in a puppet state with a Taboo Object. As she prepared to kill him, Xu Ye unexpectedly moved and struck back.

• Alice identified Kikuko Shenchuan’s second Sequence Talent as 8-649 [Corpse Ghoul], which let her control and merge with a corpse.
• Xu Ye attacked Kikuko Shenchuan with the Black Blade and used its umbrella form to block her ice-infused strikes.
• Kikuko Shenchuan opened a pouch and activated a puppet Taboo Object, freezing Xu Ye in place.
• Anderson, Dusha, Owen, and Simon spotted the fight from a distance and decided to wait until they had recovered before confronting Xu Ye.
• Kikuko Shenchuan approached Xu Ye and explained that the puppet state would collapse only if more than five spiritually aware observers saw him, but Xu Ye moved and slashed at her.

Xu Ye killed Kikuko Shenchuan and concealed the evidence, then confronted Anderson and the other nobles. Anderson abandoned revenge by severing his bond with his brother and declaring he would settle the score in another life.

• Xu Ye blinded Kikuko Shenchuan with chili powder and razor blades, blocked her ice-spike counterattack, and killed her with a blow to the head.
• Xu Ye had Alice use [Soul-Seizing] on Kikuko Shenchuan and cleaned the scene to hide his involvement from the Shenchuan Family.
• Xu Ye left before the ten-minute mark, having ensured that Kikuko’s absence would prevent the group from combining their Taboo Objects to break the seal.
• Dusha, Simon, and Owen watched Xu Ye’s fight and considered reporting it to the instructors before he appeared in front of them.
• Anderson knelt before Xu Ye, pleaded for his life, cut off a lock of hair to sever his bond with his brother, and postponed his revenge until their next lives.