Recaps

Xu Ye and Alice discovered that an ancient ritual was meant to bring the Lord of Darkfall to Earth, while Bandit Lord warned that the incomplete ritual would cause disaster. Li Kang then revealed he had survived and killed Meng Chengfei’s duplicate, while the group escaping the apartment building faced a new threat in the fog.

• Alice deciphered the yellow papers and explained that Dark Goblins and Three-Eyed Giants had tried to summon the Lord of Darkfall’s Projection to Planet Earth in the Third Era.
• Xu Ye and Alice recognized Earth as the ritual’s final destination, and Bandit Lord warned that the incomplete formation would bring disaster.
• Li Kang suddenly attacked Meng Chengfei with a spear made from his blood, but Meng Chengfei revealed he was a weak duplicate before both he and Li Kang crumbled away.
• Ye Weiyang led the survivors out of the apartment building, and the building’s owner shut the blood corpses inside.
• Qin Yanhua pointed out that faces made of human skin were drifting through the fog as the survivors prepared to wait for it to clear.

Xu Ye rescued Ye Meng and his companions from the fog around the factory, then escorted them back to the apartment building and urged them to leave Praying Waters Town. He stayed behind to investigate the danger, while a red motorcycle raced into town as the convoy departed.

• Ye Meng and his companions encountered the remains of a Giant Wolf and reunited with Xu Ye outside the factory.
• Xu Ye saw the twisted bodies inside the factory, and Alice suggested the abnormalities were reawakening because of Li Kang's ritual.
• Xu Ye led Ye Meng's group back to the apartment building, where they found the survivors safe and learned that Xiao Yu's Aberration had likely killed the monsters outside.
• Xu Ye told Ye Meng and the others to leave town, but he stayed behind while Ye Weiyang departed with the convoy.
• As the convoy drove away from Praying Waters Town, Qin Yanhua saw a red motorcycle speed past and enter the town.

Xu Ye confronted Shenchuan Xue in the Apartment, where he exploited its blood-corpse anomalies to fight her and drain one corpse’s energy. Shenchuan Xue escaped after being wounded, then bombed the Apartment as Xu Ye shielded himself with blood corpses.

• Xu Ye entered the Apartment and recognized that its blood-based food and reanimated occupants were anomalies governed by rules.
• Shenchuan Xue arrived, identified herself as a Shenchuan Family heir, and gave Xu Ye the choice of dying or joining her family.
• Xu Ye pointed out the waiter's broken neck, triggering the blood corpses, while Shenchuan Xue knelt to avoid provoking them.
• Xu Ye attacked Shenchuan Xue and used his tentacles and the Bandit Lord to drain the waiter, causing the other blood corpses to leave him alone.
• Shenchuan Xue fled the Apartment after its owner wounded her, then threw a bomb through a window.
• Xu Ye grabbed four blood corpses as shields before the bomb exploded.

The Shenchuan Family’s attack devastated Ye Meng’s convoy, and he sacrificed himself to give Ye Weiyang and Ye Shan a chance to survive. Meanwhile, Xu Ye escaped Shenchuan Xue’s explosion but was pursued by Shenchuan Qian, using a Mirror Spirit to get away and flee into an alley.

• Ye Meng returned two gold coins to Wu Lan and Zhang Yiyong, while Qin Yanhua chose to travel to the Large Camp and the groups parted ways.
• Ye Meng spotted the Shenchuan Family’s convoy and ordered the Ye Family to surrender, but the family’s young commander ordered the Wastelanders killed.
• Shenchuan Family drones shot down members of Ye Meng’s group, and Ye Meng drove a truck into the enemy convoy to protect Ye Weiyang and Ye Shan.
• Xu Ye escaped the explosion by using Blood Corpses as cover, then fled from Shenchuan Xue and argued with the Bandit Lord.
• Shenchuan Qian ambushed Xu Ye, but he summoned a Mirror Spirit to restrain her briefly and escaped into an alley.

Xu Ye fled Shenchuan Xue to Green Mountain Cliff, where he began climbing to test his limits and escape her. Shenchuan Xue waited below, confident he would fall.

• Xu Ye evaded Shenchuan Xue while the Bandit Lord explained that Alice was nearing a metamorphosis.
• Xu Ye drained the Mirror Spirit until it crumbled to powder, confirming he could kill supernatural horrors.
• Shenchuan Xue tracked Xu Ye and found his taunt on the ground, then pursued him with renewed killing intent.
• Shenchuan Xue’s strength was suppressed to Sequence 8 as Xu Ye reached Green Mountain Cliff.
• Xu Ye began climbing the cliff despite Shenchuan Xue’s warning that a fall would kill him.

Ye Weiyang awakened the powerful 9-006 [Fireseed] after the Shenchuan Family attacked her family, while Xu Ye continued climbing the Cliff and narrowly evaded Shenchuan Xue’s gunshot. The chapter left an old man entering the flames to claim Ye Weiyang for the Sanctuary and Xu Ye taunting Shenchuan Xue from above.

• The Shenchuan Family’s young man killed Ye Shan and shot Ye Weiyang after their family was wiped out.
• Ye Weiyang awakened 9-006 [Fireseed], unleashing a vast sea of flames that consumed the attackers.
• An old man found Ye Weiyang and decided to rescue her and recruit her as his disciple for the Sanctuary.
• Xu Ye climbed the Cliff past two hundred meters, reading the messages left by Awakened who had given up or died.
• Shenchuan Xue climbed after Xu Ye and shot at his thigh, but he dodged the bullet.
• Xu Ye gave Shenchuan Xue a thumbs-down and told her she was not good enough.

Xu Ye fought Shenchuan Xue while climbing a sheer cliff, then risked a fall to knock her off and reached the summit. His breakthrough granted him Sequence Talent 8-666 [Shadow Play].

• Shenchuan Xue attacked Xu Ye with [Heartless Thread], but he used the cliff and his tentacles to evade her and climb higher.
• Shenchuan Xue revealed [Tongue Spikes], wounded Xu Ye, and kept attacking as they climbed into thicker mist.
• When Xu Ye appeared to fall, he used the drop to slash Shenchuan Xue, knocking her off the cliff before catching himself with his tentacles.
• Xu Ye continued climbing, felt his body and soul undergo a rebirth, and leaped onto the summit.
• Xu Ye received the Sequence Talent 8-666 [Shadow Play].

After advancing to Sequence 8, Xu Ye tested his new abilities and learned that his Shadow Play talent could control the skins of enemies he killed. As he prepared to leave the Cliff, it awakened as a Three-Eyed Giant, whose gaze killed him.

• Xu Ye discovered that his strength and mental focus had improved, allowing him to control four tentacles independently, and examined his new Shadow Play talent.
• Xu Ye reflected on his victory over Shenchuan Xue and resolved to be cautious against stronger Awakened before planning to return to Praying Water Town.
• The Cliff shook, its summit split open, and Xu Ye recognized the enormous scarlet eye as belonging to a Three-Eyed Giant.
• The giant's gaze overwhelmed Xu Ye, and his soul shattered as he realized it was the unknown factor behind Heart Simulation's prediction of his death.

Yang Chang learned that his master Tyrant had been dead for centuries before the power sustaining his consciousness failed, then destroyed the security system at the directors’ chamber to warn the Twin Star Corporation’s leaders. Xu Ye awoke alive again with Alice and Bandit Lord, recognized his surroundings, and began to understand why he had returned.

• Professor Yu told Yang Chang that Tyrant’s body had been dead for two or three hundred years and that a sustaining power had kept his consciousness alive.
• Yang Chang visited the directors’ chamber, learned the other directors were unavailable, and destroyed its weapons, mirrors, and robot with his spear.
• Yang Chang returned to the elevator, worried about Crimson and Xu Ye while accepting that he would have to handle matters without his master.
• Xu Ye awoke in a familiar place with his strength and possessions intact, and discovered that Alice and Bandit Lord had survived as well.
• Xu Ye recognized where he was and began to understand why he had come back to life.

Xu Ye returned to Doctor Chen’s abandoned laboratory and discovered a recording explaining how he had arrived in this world and why he had come back from the dead. Doctor Chen left many questions unanswered, warning Xu Ye not to die recklessly and telling him that he must uncover his own mission.

• Xu Ye revisited the laboratory where he had first awakened and remembered Doctor Chen predicting that everyone but him would die before the people there shot themselves.
• Alice suggested Xu Ye test whether he could resurrect again, but Xu Ye refused because he did not know the cost or whether it would work.
• Xu Ye reflected on the Three-Eyed Giant, the Eternal Church’s plans in Night Spirit City, and his decision to avoid Praying Water Town until he became much stronger.
• An old projector switched on by itself, and Xu Ye raised his Big Black Umbrella as Doctor Chen’s message appeared on the wall.
• Doctor Chen explained that he had decoded a message from Earth, arranged for the two Xu Yes to merge, and learned that the Xu Ye from Earth had become dominant.
• Doctor Chen said Xu Ye’s unusual heart had not been his work, described deities as likely sequence 1 beings whose projections required costly rituals, and warned Xu Ye that more knowledge could bring danger.

Xu Ye recovered from Doctor Chen’s dangerous information and pieced together clues about the Lord of Darkfall’s planned descent, his own transmigration, and the pollution incident tied to his body. After waiting until the third morning, he returned to Night Spirit City and reunited with Li Yunyao and Meng Chengfei.

• The Bandit Lord warned Xu Ye that Doctor Chen’s information had nearly overwhelmed his mind and might have been delivered through a dangerous Sequence Talent.
• Xu Ye organized what he knew about the Lord of Darkfall’s descent, the Blasphemer’s Diagram, his transmigration, and the fire that had polluted his body.
• The Bandit Lord said Xu Ye had another Future Simulation use and could open two vortices at Sequence 8, while he and Alice argued with Xu Ye about Alice’s growing size and ambitions.
• Xu Ye waited until the morning of the third day, circled back to Night Spirit City, and noticed the crowds seeking treatment at the Sixth Mental Hospital.
• Xu Ye hugged Li Yunyao at the Dawn Blade Ninth Squad’s office, and Meng Chengfei walked in and teased them before Xu Ye greeted his captain.

Xu Ye visited Meng Chengfei and learned that the Three-Eyed Giant was an Ancient Organism with a dangerous grudge, then heard from Bandit Lord that Three-Eyed Giants were the evolved form of Dark Goblins. He headed to Night Spirit City's underground Black Market to sell his loot and buy food for his newly advanced body.

• Xu Ye met Meng Chengfei, who warned him to keep his Sequence Talent secret and explained that Ancient Organisms such as Three-Eyed Giants possessed Sequence Talents.
• Xu Ye told Meng Chengfei about the Three-Eyed Giant at Praying Water Town, and Meng Chengfei said he would report it and warned that it took revenge on those who woke it.
• Meng Chengfei explained that Xu Ye's post-advancement weakness came from hunger and directed him to the underground Black Market on Lin Hua Street.
• Bandit Lord told Xu Ye that Three-Eyed Giants were the ascended form of Dark Goblins, whose racial Sequence Talents could transform them into giants.
• Xu Ye withdrew ten thousand Federation Currency and entered the underground Black Market through a hidden supermarket.

Xu Ye encountered Aldrich, a Silver Noble, in Sky City’s underground Black Market and learned Aldrich suspected he had been contaminated. Aldrich revealed that his contamination caused uncontrollable sexual urges, even toward Xu Ye.

• Xu Ye witnessed a shopkeeper force a young man to swallow a porcelain shard as punishment for breaking a vase in the Black Market.
• Aldrich introduced himself to Xu Ye as a Silver Noble and guided him through the market to his shop.
• Xu Ye questioned why cancer medicine was so expensive, and Aldrich explained that wealthy people made up most of the remaining market for it.
• Aldrich privately told Xu Ye that he suspected contamination because he had developed uncontrollable urges triggered by people, animals, and even geometric shapes.
• Aldrich admitted that he experienced those urges while looking at Xu Ye, prompting Xu Ye to want to leave.

Xu Ye investigated Duke Aldrich’s strange contamination, which made the people who slept with him become obsessed and sexually frenzied. The chapter ended with one victim’s abdomen bursting open and a monster emerging, prompting Xu Ye to congratulate Aldrich on becoming a father.

• Aldrich described how his bed partners went mad with desire after sleeping with him, and Xu Ye suspected contamination connected to a pollution source.
• Aldrich explained that he could not bring himself to kill the people involved, so Xu Ye asked to examine one of them.
• When Xiao Liu opened a cage, the young man lunged at Aldrich, and Xu Ye noticed his abdomen was swollen.
• Xu Ye knocked the young man down and restrained him, but the man’s abdomen ruptured and a monster emerged.
• Xu Ye called the creature Aldrich’s son, leaving the duke stunned.

Xu Ye killed a fox-and-octopus Aberrant that had emerged from Aldrich’s pollution, then traced the outbreak to a jade ring on Aldrich’s thumb. Breaking the ring released a soul-type Aberrant impersonating King Zhou of Shang, which Xu Ye destroyed, though Aldrich was left upset that the women he thought had desired him had only been part of an illusion.

• Xu Ye protected Aldrich from the fox-headed Aberrant, cut through its tentacles, and killed it after it re-formed around Aldrich.
• The Bandit Lord identified Aldrich’s jade ring as the source of the pollution, and Aldrich let Xu Ye remove it.
• Xu Ye shattered the ring, releasing a black figure that claimed to be King Zhou of Shang.
• Xu Ye identified the figure as a soul-type Aberrant and destroyed it, while Alice absorbed its fragments.
• Xu Ye told Aldrich that the Aberrant had caused the pollution and his recent behavior, but Aldrich lamented that he had not actually charmed the women.

Xu Ye left the Black Market with a favor from Aldrich and an invitation to Cheng Ying'er’s coming-of-age banquet, while Aldrich learned that Xu Ye’s past was tied to a highly classified incident. Meanwhile, Wang Han’s group prepared to attack the Dawn Blade, and Alice warned Xu Ye that the soul Aberrant’s identity would shock him.

• Aldrich thanked Xu Ye for helping him, promised him a favor, and invited him to Cheng Ying'er's eighteenth-birthday banquet.
• Xu Ye bought Great Fiend meat, accepted the invitation, and left to meet Lu Mingwang for hot pot.
• Aldrich told Xiao Liu that Xu Ye’s Coastal City pollution records were accessible only to the top four authorities and shared the same classification as a secret incident from a century earlier.
• Wang Han and Boss Zhao planned retaliation against young Awakened from the Ninth and Eighth Squads, saying they would act before Archbishop Ace of Hearts arrived.
• Alice told Xu Ye that the soul-seizing revealed the true identity of the King Zhou of Shang soul Aberrant, leaving him apprehensive.

Xu Ye was ambushed in the sewer by Wang Han, a follower of the Lord of Darkfall who could liquefy his body. After Xu Ye wounded him from a distance, Wang Han unleashed another talent that overwhelmed Xu Ye and Alice with revulsion as he charged.

• Xu Ye connected the aberrations affecting Zhang Feng and his family to the Eternal Church and considered whether Zhang Feng's unborn sibling could serve as a ritual vessel.
• Xu Ye's heart warned him of an imminent attack, and he used the warning to evade Wang Han's attempted throat-slitting ambush.
• Xu Ye attacked Wang Han with blades from a distance, forcing the assassin to dodge and wounding him near the waist.
• The Bandit Lord identified Wang Han's talents as Liquefaction and Mayfly and warned Xu Ye that Wang Han had a second ability.
• Wang Han changed into a hideous form and charged, provoking nausea and revulsion in Xu Ye and Alice.

Xu Ye defeated Wang Han despite his [Ugliness] talent and captured memories revealing the Eternal Church’s plans for revenge. In those memories, the Lord of Darkfall’s painting seemed to notice Xu Ye, leaving him worried that he had attracted the deity’s attention.

• Wang Han used [Ugliness] and attacked Xu Ye, but Alice provided Xu Ye with sight and he matched Wang Han’s strength.
• Xu Ye plunged the sewer into darkness, saw Wang Han’s soul with [Soul-Seizing], and killed him with the Black Blade.
• Xu Ye captured Wang Han’s memories and learned that the Eternal Church planned to retaliate against Li Yunyao, Zhou Ye, and Lu Mingwang that night.
• Wang Han’s memories showed the Eternal Church worshipping a painting of the Lord of Darkfall, whose mummy opened its eyes and seemed to look directly at Xu Ye.
• The Bandit Lord warned Xu Ye that the painting may have carried the Lord of Darkfall’s presence and that Xu Ye had caught his attention.

Xu Ye used [Shadow Play] to turn Wang Han’s corpse into a controllable puppet and discovered its limits, while Alice eagerly tested the puppet’s movements. The story left off when Wang Han’s phone rang with a call from Six of Spades.

• Xu Ye reviewed the Eternal Church’s planned attack and suspected a mole in the squads, then hid Wang Han’s corpse.
• Xu Ye performed the [Shadow Play] ritual, restoring Wang Han’s appearance and gaining control of his puppet body and preserved Sequence Talent.
• Xu Ye tested the puppet’s limits and learned that controlling it drained his mental energy, required Spiritual Qi threads, and only worked within fifty meters.
• Xu Ye let Alice control Wang Han, and Alice made the puppet dance, use [Liquefaction], and behave provocatively.
• Wang Han’s phone rang, and Xu Ye saw that Six of Spades was calling.

Xu Ye uncovered an Eternal Church plot against Lu Mingwang and warned him to protect his parents. Lu Mingwang escaped his apartment just before explosive sparrows attacked, while Boss Zhao watched the blast from nearby.

• Xu Ye decoded Wang Han's message, replied using their secret code, and warned Lu Mingwang, Zhou Ye, and Li Yunyao before failing to reach the captain.
• Lu Mingwang received Xu Ye's warning and tried to take his parents to safety, but they initially resisted.
• A flock of sparrows carrying explosives smashed into Lu Mingwang's apartment, and he pulled his parents into the corridor before the bombs detonated.
• Boss Zhao listened to the news in an alley near the Rose Residential Complex and held a sparrow as the storm clouds gathered.
• Boss Zhao said it was time, and an explosion erupted on the building's twenty-third floor.

Boss Zhao and the Eternal Church’s followers prepared to exploit the explosion and storm in Night Spirit City, while Xu Ye hunted them down. The chapter ended as Zhou Ye and Li Yunyao narrowly avoided an exploding piece of flesh on their way to Lu Mingwang’s home.

• Boss Zhao learned that Lu Mingwang had survived the explosion and sent Two of Spades toward the Rose Residential Complex while ordering his accomplices to kill Li Yunyao if she appeared.
• Two of Spades headed through the burning complex, but Xu Ye confronted and killed him, then moved toward another van used by the Eternal Church.
• Zhou Ye encountered Li Yunyao on the way to Lu Mingwang’s home, and she told him that Xu Ye had warned her about the situation.
• Zhou Ye and Li Yunyao saw the burning building and leaped aside as a piece of flesh landed between them and exploded.

Li Yunyao and Zhou Ye fought Ten of Spades until He Li intervened and revealed his identity and abilities, but he escaped using a Taboo Object. Elsewhere, Wang Han ambushed two people in a car, killing the woman and confronting the man beneath a Big Black Umbrella.

• Ten of Spades attacked Li Yunyao and Zhou Ye, but Li Yunyao pierced his spleen with her sword.
• Ten of Spades transferred the wound to his hand and bombarded them with Flesh Bombs, injuring Zhou Ye and forcing Li Yunyao to defend them both.
• Zhou Ye charged Ten of Spades, but a sniper's bullet interrupted the attack and gave them a reprieve.
• He Li identified Ten of Spades as Deng Lin, described his crimes and abilities, and watched as he escaped with a Taboo Object.
• Wang Han climbed into a car, killed the woman in the back seat, and confronted the man who had fled beneath a Big Black Umbrella.

Xu Ye defeated Qiu Fangqiang and confronted Boss Zhao, who defended the Lord of Darkfall’s cause as a path to rebirth. After Boss Zhao threatened Xu Ye’s friend and escaped, Xu Ye rushed toward the Rose Residential Complex.

• Xu Ye severed Qiu Fangqiang’s hand, learned his name, and killed him while Alice controlled Wang Han as a puppet.
• Boss Zhao realized his operation had been disrupted, spotted Xu Ye on the sedan’s roof, and tried to recruit him by revealing that Sky City’s nobles wanted him dead.
• Bandit Lord identified a sparrow as the source of Boss Zhao’s animal-control ability, and Xu Ye shot it down.
• Xu Ye questioned how the Lord of Darkfall’s ideals of darkness and corruption could align with hatred of the world’s decay, and Boss Zhao called mass death a necessary sacrifice for rebirth.
• Boss Zhao threatened that Xu Ye’s friend was still alive but might soon die, fired at Xu Ye, and escaped; Xu Ye headed for the Rose Residential Complex.

Lu Mingwang rushed through the burning Rose Residential Complex to rescue an elderly resident, then confronted four killers waiting in the stairwell. Xu Ye intervened, but the last Follower detonated the explosives strapped to his body, leaving the rescue in immediate danger.

• Lu Mingwang escaped the first explosions with his parents, then returned upstairs to rescue an elderly neighbor while Lu Kun and Liu Xiang hurried downstairs.
• Lu Mingwang carried the old lady through the burning floors and sensed four people waiting for him near the second-floor landing.
• Lu Mingwang tried to catch the killers off guard, but one dodged his kick and struck him, while the others raised their guns.
• Xu Ye attacked the killers, killed one Follower, and slammed their leader into the wall.
• The wounded leader recited a prayer to Darkfall, ignited his explosives, and prepared to blow himself up.

Xu Ye rescued Lu Mingwang from the burning Rose Residential Complex, but discovered that all three buildings were engulfed in flames that could not be extinguished. Investigations revealed a terrifying presence underground, and the chapter ended with Dawn Blade detecting a massive coffin beneath the complex.

• Xu Ye shielded himself and Lu Mingwang from a suicide bomber’s blast, then escaped the burning building with Lu Mingwang and an elderly woman.
• Xu Ye learned that explosions had started fires in all three buildings, while patrol officers struggled to contain the flames and evacuate residents.
• The Bandit Lord revealed that the Eternal Church’s true target might be something underground, and Alice sensed a presence more terrifying than the Three-Eyed Giants.
• Xu Ye ordered Liang Liang to withdraw the patrol officers and shared information about the disaster with Li Yunyao and He Li as Dawn Blade personnel arrived.
• Dawn Blade researchers measured the underground presence at over ten thousand energy units and detected a coffin roughly three hundred meters long and two hundred meters wide.