Recaps

After the Rose Residential Complex burned down, Xu Ye learned that something beneath it carried the aura of an Ancient Sage. Boss Zhao later told the remaining Spades that the operation’s true purpose had been to bring the Ancient Sage back into the world as nourishment for His descent ritual in Night Spirit City.

• Xu Ye and Alice discussed the Ancient Sage aura detected beneath the ruined residential complex, while Lu Mingwang fainted over the loss of his collectibles.
• An Eighth Team Awakened reported that Captain Ye had been ambushed by a Sequence 7 member of the Eternal Church.
• Boss Zhao met with Three of Spades, Ten of Spades, and Four of Spades after the operation, then explained that Xu Ye had disrupted their revenge plan and killed four Spades.
• Boss Zhao revealed that Li Kang had stolen pages from the Eternal Holy Book and attempted a failed ritual in the Forbidden Zone.
• Boss Zhao told the remaining Spades that their operation had succeeded in bringing the Ancient Sage beneath the complex back into the world, where the being would serve as fuel for His descent in Night Spirit City.

After the Eternal Church’s attack, Xu Ye returned home and learned that Zhang Feng’s unborn child might be connected to the Church’s coming ritual and Night Spirit City’s impending disaster. Alice suddenly began transforming, as her shed fur enveloped her in glowing layers.

• Boss Zhao told Deng Lin that the Eternal Church would kill Dawn Blade Chief Captain Cheng Tianming next month and use his blood to guide the Lord’s descent.
• Xu Ye returned home, found that Meng Chengfei had kept the place clean, and slept until the following morning.
• Meng Chengfei entered Xu Ye’s dream and heard his account of the attack, then revealed that Zhang Feng’s mother had reported hearing a voice inside her head.
• Xu Ye linked the baby’s expected birth to his simulated visions of Night Spirit City being bombed, but decided to examine Sun Xiufei before drawing conclusions.
• After Xu Ye woke, Alice began shedding clumps of fur, and the glowing hairs wrapped around her as her transformation began.

Xu Ye visited Zhou Ye in the hospital, where Li Yunyao revealed that a Taboo Object fruit had once helped secondary personalities and was taken by Han Xi. The Bandit Lord warned Xu Ye that Li Yunyao’s aura had changed, and Xu Ye left after learning Zhang Feng’s pregnant mother had arrived.

• Alice transformed into an egg, and the Bandit Lord told Xu Ye that she was not his second personality and urged him to absorb her.
• Alice overheard the Bandit Lord’s plan and threatened him, so Xu Ye cut off their contact.
• Xu Ye visited Zhou Ye at the hospital with bananas and found Lu Mingwang mourning his lost figurines.
• The Bandit Lord noticed that Li Yunyao’s aura had changed, while Li Yunyao explained that Han Xi had taken a fruit that could soothe secondary personalities.
• Xu Ye learned that Han Xi was the father of Han Li, then left with Lu Mingwang after hearing that Zhang Feng’s pregnant mother had arrived.

Xu Ye examined Sun Xiufei, whose family had suffered a series of disasters and who had begun hearing her unborn child urge her to kill. His simulation failed but showed that Li Yunyao would fall into a coma and Night Spirit City would be destroyed by the Starry Sky Ship two months later, leaving Xu Ye searching for a connection.

• Xu Ye questioned Sun Xiufei about her family’s deaths, her husband’s disappearance and debts, and the voices she heard from her unborn child.
• Lu Mingwang calmed Sun Xiufei with poetry, while the Bandit Lord sensed no strange aura or problem with the fetus.
• Xu Ye simulated the future and saw a failed simulation predict Li Yunyao’s coma and Night Spirit City’s destruction by the Starry Sky Ship.
• The Bandit Lord suggested Sun Xiufei might be a way to uncover the enemy’s plan, and Xu Ye told her to return weekly to speak with Dr. Lu.
• After Sun Xiufei left, Xu Ye teased Lu Mingwang that he might need his parents’ approval and should prepare to become a father.

Xu Ye and Li Yunyao found no new leads on the Eternal Church’s ritual, then learned the Awakening Potion allocated to the Eighth Team had disappeared. Meanwhile, Gu Muhan tortured a Heart Lineage agent for information and suspected Bishop Ace of Hearts was preparing to coordinate with the Spades Lineage.

• Xu Ye, Lu Mingwang, and Li Yunyao reviewed the Rose Residential Complex discovery and newspaper stories but found no clear lead on the Eternal Church’s plans.
• Li Yunyao told Xu Ye that Zheng’s wife and daughter had been killed during the incident ten years earlier, and that he imagined them as a way to cope with his grief.
• A Ninth Team staff member reported that the Awakening Potion delivered from headquarters and allocated to the Eighth Team had gone missing.
• Gu Muhan tortured a captured Heart Lineage woman by inflicting injuries through his painting, then learned that the Bishop had ordered her to approach him as an inside agent.
• Gu Muhan considered whether Bishop Ace of Hearts was coming to coordinate with the Spades Lineage.

Xu Ye wondered whether the Eternal Church’s ritual had drawn him into its incidents as a witness, while he accompanied Anderson through the Refugee District to deliver money. He learned that the boy he had intended to help had died under crushing debt and reflected on how poverty and lost hope trapped the district’s residents.

• Xu Ye met Anderson in the Refugee District, and Anderson joked that Xu Ye might be an Eternal Church follower, prompting Xu Ye to consider whether someone had been arranging events around him as part of a ritual.
• The Bandit Lord speculated that Xu Ye might be either part of the ritual or a witness selected because of his unusual identity, while Xu Ye joked inwardly that disaster followed him everywhere.
• Anderson told Xu Ye that Senior Red Dragon might have been corrupted and that Gu Muhan had returned from the Front Lines.
• Xu Ye went to deliver money to the blond boy but learned from the landlord that the boy had died after borrowing heavily, falling into debt, and selling his blood.
• Xu Ye told Anderson that the district’s residents had been stripped of hope by poverty, rigid class divisions, and consumer debt.

Xu Ye and Anderson visited the Refugee District, where they found Zhong Little Hua struggling to care for her mother, Chen Yu, who had kidney cancer. Chen Yu blamed contaminated water from the Victory Sewage Treatment Plant, a property belonging to Anderson’s mother, and Xu Ye connected the plant to a disturbing earlier mystery.

• Xu Ye challenged Anderson’s assumptions about the poor and explained how poverty and circumstance trapped people at the bottom of society.
• Xu Ye and Anderson found that a nursing home had closed because it could no longer afford its rent, then continued into the Refugee District.
• They encountered Zhong Little Hua scavenging for food, and she told them that her mother had kidney cancer and their family had lost their home to pay for treatment.
• Zhong Little Hua led Xu Ye and Anderson to Chen Yu, who explained that pollution from the Victory Sewage Treatment Plant had caused heavy metal poisoning and kidney cancer among local residents.
• Anderson recognized the plant as one of his mother’s properties, while Xu Ye connected it to Zhang Jian, the man sealed inside a wall, and a terrifying message.

Xu Ye used Soul-Seizing to uncover that Xiao Meng had died after meeting a suspicious man, then pursued him with Anderson. The man revealed himself as Lu E, who had come to Night Spirit City searching for treasure and sensed an impending disaster.

• Chen Yu told Xu Ye and Anderson that pollution had killed many refugees and that she planned to take Zhong Little Hua to the Land of Exiles.
• Zhong Little Hua learned that Xiao Meng had died, and Xu Ye joined Chen Yu, Anderson, and Zhong Little Hua at the grieving family’s home.
• Xu Ye used Soul-Seizing to see Xiao Meng’s final memories and discovered that she had suffered severe abdominal pain after visiting a rough-looking man.
• Xu Ye signaled Anderson to pursue the suspicious man, who slipped away from the crowd with unusually skilled movements.
• At 234 Daffodil Street, the man peeled off his skin and revealed herself as Lu E, who said she had come to search for treasure and sensed disaster in Night Spirit City.
• Lu E saw Xu Ye and Anderson appear in her mirror.

Lu E, an Awakened from the Mature Women's Society, escaped Xu Ye and Anderson after inflicting [Labor Pains] on them. Xu Ye later gave money to Chen Yu and her mother, while Zhou Ye watched his master enter the Grand Bell Tower with an alluring woman and spotted Xu Ye and Anderson nearby.

• Lu E recognized that Awakened were tracking her and left her shared rental in disguise.
• Xu Ye recognized Lu E's suitcase, and she used [Labor Pains] on him and Anderson before escaping atop a truck.
• Anderson identified Lu E as a member of the Mature Women's Society and explained the group's beliefs and talents to Xu Ye.
• Xu Ye gave Chen Yu and her mother all ten thousand he had before leaving.
• Zhou Ye followed Zheng Chengdong to the Grand Bell Tower, saw him enter with an alluring woman, and spotted Xu Ye and Anderson nearby.

Zheng Chengdong confronted Belin in the Grand Bell Tower over the betrayal of his squad, but she overpowered him after revealing her role in his family’s tragedy. Xu Ye and his companions searched for Zheng, while the Bandit Lord warned Xu Ye that danger waited on the sixth floor.

• Zheng Chengdong knocked out a noblewoman and entered Belin’s suite to question her about the Ninth Squad’s operation being leaked ten years earlier.
• Belin revealed she was a Sequence 8 Awakened who could spread viruses through her blood, then claimed she had dissected Zheng Chengdong’s unborn child and aimed his gun at him.
• Xu Ye, Zhou Ye, and Anderson entered the Grand Bell Tower looking for Zheng Chengdong, and the Bandit Lord warned Xu Ye not to enter room 403 after sensing danger.
• Xu Ye realized Lu E, a Sequence 7 Awakened from the Young Wives’ Club, had infiltrated the tower using another woman’s skin, and he stopped before reaching her room.
• The Bandit Lord sensed traces of Xu Ye’s Dawn Blade [Silent Forest] on the sixth floor, while Lu E reflected that someone nearby was about to die.

Zheng Chengdong confronted Belin over his wife and unborn child’s deaths, but after taking an Awakening Potion he underwent aberration and broke free of her Taboo Object. Xu Ye and his companions reached Room 606 and found the aftermath of the transformation.

• Zheng Chengdong drank the Eighth Team’s stolen Awakening Potion and used his newly awakened mechanical armament to block Belin’s attack.
• Zheng Chengdong used a Sleeping Curse potion to weaken Belin and demanded answers about the Eternal Church, the Dawn Blade’s betrayal, and his family’s murder.
• Belin activated the Taboo Object [Swamp Space], trapped Zheng Chengdong, and tortured him while refusing to reveal the truth.
• Zheng Chengdong underwent aberration, shattered [Swamp Space], and grabbed Belin by the neck.
• Xu Ye, Zhou Ye, and Anderson sensed a powerful aberrant aura on the sixth floor and forced open the door to Room 606.

Xu Ye confronted Zheng Chengdong after he transformed into an Aberrant and forced Belin to confess to crimes tied to Zheng’s wife and the Ninth Squad’s destruction. Xu Ye tried to sever the causal chain by killing Belin, leaving everyone horrified.

• Zheng Chengdong transformed into an Aberrant, seized Belin, and threatened those in the Grand Bell Tower.
• Belin confessed that she had killed Zheng’s wife, removed her unborn child for experiments, and helped leak information about the Dawn Blade Ninth Squad.
• Xu Ye realized Zheng’s aberration had to be stopped by severing its causal chain, while the nobles’ involvement threatened to ignite conflict in Sky City.
• Xu Ye threw Anderson toward Zheng to distract him, then leaped into the air and stabbed Belin between the brows.
• Xu Ye claimed he had severed the causal chain, but everyone stared at him in horror for killing the hostage.

Old Zheng sacrificed himself by forcing Xu Ye to kill him after he succumbed to contamination, and his eyes became a Class C Taboo Object. When Lu E stole the eyes, Xu Ye chased after her to reclaim Old Zheng’s remains.

• Old Zheng charged Xu Ye, and Zhou Ye was thrown aside when he tried to stop him.
• Old Zheng forced Xu Ye’s Black Blade through his heart and explained that he chose Xu Ye so Zhou Ye would not have to kill him.
• Old Zheng urged Xu Ye not to inherit the veterans’ hatred, then dissolved into muddy water as his contamination took hold.
• The Bandit Lord identified Old Zheng’s eyes as a Class C Taboo Object created by his bodily distortion.
• Lu E snatched the eyes and fled, so Xu Ye ordered Anderson to maintain order and pursued her with the Black Blade.

Lu E tried to escape through an alley after Xu Ye pursued her, but he and Wang Han ambushed her. Xu Ye’s counterattacks disrupted her sequence talents, and he charged her with the Black Blade as she fought back with flaming whips.

• Lu E hid by merging with the moss in an alley and waited to shoot Xu Ye, who had followed her.
• Lu E’s bullet struck Xu Ye’s opened Big Black Umbrella, while Wang Han dropped from above and blocked her escape route.
• Xu Ye fired at Lu E and sent Wang Han to attack her, but Lu E’s [Labor Pains] did not affect the human-skin Wang Han.
• Xu Ye activated Wang Han’s [Ugliness], distracting Lu E long enough for Wang Han to attack before she whipped him into rubble.
• Xu Ye surged at Lu E with the Black Blade, and she countered by transforming her hair into fiery whips with Sequence talent 8-088 [Flame Whip].

Xu Ye fought Lu E to reclaim Old Zheng’s belongings, but her Sequence 7 power overwhelmed him until Yun Changeng of the Teachers' Club stopped her [Crying Baby] ability. Xu Ye refused Yun Changeng’s offer of safe passage and charged Lu E again, ending the chapter with Gods' Soul Light shining in his eyes.

• Xu Ye and Wang Han attacked Lu E together, but she pinned Wang Han to a wall and drove Xu Ye back with her flaming whip.
• Lu E used Sequence 7-044 [Crying Baby], killing hundreds of nearby spectators and nearly tearing apart Xu Ye’s soul.
• Yun Changeng of the Teachers' Club halted the infant’s cries with 8-040 [No Talking] and offered to help Xu Ye leave safely.
• Xu Ye refused to abandon Old Zheng’s belongings, then charged Lu E through her lashes and flames despite his severe injuries.
• As Lu E prepared to strike Xu Ye with her flaming tongue, he lifted his face, revealing the golden light of Gods' Soul Light in his eyes.

Xu Ye wounded Lu E and used the Crimson Eye’s threat to force her to flee, then questioned Yun Changeng about the clubs and history of the Land of Exiles. Yun Changeng warned him not to go outside after dark, just as Xu Ye sensed mortal danger.

• Xu Ye struck Lu E with the God-Slaying Soulbeam, breaking her Mirror of Lies and injuring her.
• Yun Changeng explained that the mirror created a false copy of its user and revealed the cost of using it.
• Xu Ye attacked Lu E again to keep her from escaping as the Crimson Eye began opening above them.
• Lu E threw the pair of eyeballs into the air and fled, and Xu Ye caught them before retrieving Wang Han's skin.
• Yun Changeng invited Xu Ye to join the Teachers' Club and explained the clubs' role in the Land of Exiles.
• Yun Changeng warned Xu Ye not to go outside after dark, and Xu Ye's heart writhed with a warning of mortal danger.

Xu Ye survived Yun Changeng’s attempt to make him a student and recovered from severe injuries in the Treatment Device. He learned that the case involving Belin had been suppressed, and the team planned to demand an explanation at the Chief Captain’s granddaughter’s coming-of-age ceremony.

• Xu Ye used his Heart Simulation warning to avoid asking Yun Changeng the questions that would have let him control him.
• Ye Qingnuo arrived, beat Yun Changeng, and warned Xu Ye that the Teachers’ Club was dangerous before he collapsed into her arms.
• Xu Ye woke after seven days in the Treatment Device, and Li Yunyao told him the captain had paid his 657,000 Federation Currency medical bill.
• Li Yunyao reported that Zhou Ye had gone to Wangshan City, Headquarters was examining Old Zheng’s eyeball, Lu E remained missing, and Anderson had been beaten after confronting his mother.
• Li Yunyao told Xu Ye that appeals over the events ten years earlier had been suppressed, but the team expected the Chief Captain to explain himself at his granddaughter’s coming-of-age ceremony.

Xu Ye discovered that an unknown power had been making them overlook Bishop Ace of Hearts’s arrival, then used a simulation of Cheng Ying’er’s birthday banquet that revealed He Li might be impersonating her. Anderson decided to attend the banquet, while Xu Ye arrived at the team base and found Meng Chengfei in a horrifying state.

• Xu Ye and the Bandit Lord realized someone had been subtly guiding them to overlook Bishop Ace of Hearts, and suspected the mysterious Bishop Ace of Spades.
• Xu Ye’s simulation of the birthday banquet showed him striking the supposed Cheng Ying’er and discovering that she was He Li before interference interrupted it.
• Li Yunyao helped Xu Ye recover, and he hurried to the bathroom when she offered to assist him.
• Anderson reflected on his parents’ worsening relationship and his newfound awareness of life among the poor, then decided to attend Cheng Ying’er’s birthday banquet.
• Xu Ye went to the team base early the next morning and found Meng Chengfei in a dark office, chewing something as red liquid seeped from his mouth.

Xu Ye learned that Meng Chengfei had secretly helped Old Zheng investigate the events of ten years ago, while the higher-ups had let the matter end with Belin’s death. After leaving headquarters, Xu Ye encountered Lu Mingwang at Qin Yanhua’s fan gathering and was exposed to the whole plaza.

• Xu Ye mistook Meng Chengfei’s horror movie for a sign of danger, but Meng explained that he was calm and knew how deeply Old Zheng had been affected by the past.
• Meng Chengfei revealed that he had arranged for Old Zheng to leave Sky City and had worked with Ye Qingnuo to conceal the theft of Awakening Potions while Old Zheng pursued the truth.
• Meng Chengfei said the nobles would protect him because the Crimson Eye helped prevent another period of turmoil, and Xu Ye privately resolved to assist him without getting involved in his plans.
• The Bandit Lord reported that Meng Chengfei showed no signs of pollution, while Li Yunyao’s unusual aura remained difficult to explain.
• Xu Ye came across a crowd of Qin Yanhua fans and was horrified when Lu Mingwang shouted to him, drawing the attention of the plaza and Qin Yanhua.

Xu Ye suspected that Sun Xiufei’s fetus was connected to the coming destruction of Night Spirit City, but a simulation showed killing it would not prevent the disaster. In Sky City, Han Xi received word that the nobles had bought the fetus and invited Sun Xiufei to Cheng Ying’er’s birthday party.

• Qin Yanhua greeted Xu Ye, gave him a VIP movie ticket, and left Lu Mingwang devastated.
• Sun Xiufei told Xu Ye that a powerful person had helped her and invited her to a banquet for Cheng Ying’er’s birthday.
• Xu Ye simulated killing Sun Xiufei’s fetus and learned that Night Spirit City would still explode three months later, so he abandoned the idea.
• Xu Ye gave his movie ticket to Lu Mingwang, who had asked to trade for it.
• Han Xi learned that someone had paid Sun Xiufei five million and given her an invitation to Cheng Ying’er’s birthday party in exchange for the fetus.

Xu Ye received Old Zheng’s Class C Taboo Object, [Gaze], from He Li and went to spy on a gathering at Azure Sea Villa. Hidden behind the curtains, he overheard Han Li name two men whose identities horrified him, before a scream rang out from the bedroom.

• He Li gave Xu Ye Old Zheng’s remains, the support-type Taboo Object [Gaze], and explained its abilities.
• Xu Ye prepared his equipment and traveled to Lu Mingwang’s Azure Sea Villa using the invitation Aldrich had given him.
• Xu Ye sneaked into Villa No. 1 and hid behind the curtains to observe what happened inside.
• Xu Ye overheard Han Li boast about past lovers, including Zhang Jian and Zhang Ping, and recognized them as the Sewage Treatment Plant owner and Sun Xiufei’s husband.
• Someone screamed, “It snapped!!!” from the bedroom.

Xu Ye witnessed Han Li mutate into a snake-like Aberrant during a gathering at her villa and warned the guests that her pollution was making her former partners pregnant. The hall descended into panic as multiple people’s bellies began swelling, including those of Anderson’s companions and a waiter.

• Xu Ye heard Han Li’s screams and learned from the radio that her husband had left the villa, then entered her bedroom after she departed.
• Han Li transformed into a human-headed snake and attacked Xu Ye, who escaped into the corridor and shouted for help.
• Xu Ye alerted the guests that Lady Han Li had mutated, and Anderson recognized the Aberrant as his mother while Count An Lu showed disgust.
• The villa guests panicked when they found the doors sealed, and Cheng Ying’er tried to restore order.
• After the Bandit Lord warned him, Xu Ye announced that Han Li’s former partners would become pregnant with her child, and several guests’ bellies began swelling.

An Aberrant exposed a scandal among Night Spirit City’s nobles before the Chief Captain arrived and erased her with Spatial Displacement. He Li and Meng Chengfei then revealed their reasons for confronting Cheng Tianming, including the claim that Duke Han Xi had betrayed the Ninth Team ten years earlier.

• The Aberrant’s attack caused the nobles and their guests to see lurid visions, while Xu Ye noticed that Count An Lu’s anger was feigned.
• The Chief Captain entered the villa and used Sequence 8-022 [Spatial Displacement] to make the Aberrant vanish; the Bandit Lord identified him as a Sequence 5 Awakened.
• Cheng Tianming asked why his granddaughter had done this, and He Li dropped her disguise as Cheng Ying'er.
• He Li said her friend had died in the disaster ten years earlier because of the Eternal Church and their own people, and that Old Zheng had found evidence against Belin.
• Meng Chengfei revealed himself as the waiter and said he had kidnapped Cheng Tianming’s granddaughter to demand answers about the disaster.
• Meng Chengfei accused Duke Han Xi of leaking the Ninth Team’s ambush after his parents refused to sell him a fruit that could soothe secondary personalities; Cheng Tianming asked for evidence.

Meng Chengfei confronted Duke Han Xi and appealed to Cheng Tianming, but the Chief Captain refused to support him and ordered the matter to end. As the group learned the Eternal Church’s Ritual had continued, a Dark Skyship appeared outside the villa and fired on it.

• Cheng Tianming told Meng Chengfei to let the dispute with Duke Han Xi end, and Meng Chengfei challenged his decision.
• Duke Han Xi accused Meng Chengfei of killing Darren with a Doppelganger, while Meng Chengfei accused the duke of leaking information to the Eternal Church.
• Cheng Tianming sided with Duke Han Xi, and Meng Chengfei said Ying'er was safe and would be returned.
• Cheng Tianming revealed that the Eternal Church had come to kill him, and Meng Chengfei warned that its Ritual had continued since the Night Spirit City deaths.
• Gu Muhan spotted a Dark Skyship above the villa, and it fired a cannon at the building.

The Eternal Church attacked Gu Muhan’s villa while preparing a ritual that required Cheng Tianming’s death, and Bishop Ace of Hearts set out to deal with him. Xu Ye learned that Night Spirit City would be destroyed in a week, realized his thoughts were being manipulated, and saw an eerie flame appear as Cheng Tianming reacted.

• Gu Muhan used his Painter talent to replace his villa with a painting, thwarting the Dark Skyship’s bombardment.
• Bishop Ace of Hearts and Boss Zhao discussed the Church’s ritual, which depended on killing Cheng Tianming and using Sun Xiufei’s fetus, blood, and the Ancient Sage’s corpse.
• Ace of Hearts announced he would deal with Cheng Tianming and ordered people to pursue the Young Wives’ Club and the Teachers’ Club for clues to the Glorious Holy Grail.
• Xu Ye read a Heart Simulation warning that Night Spirit City would explode in one week and that the fetus was part of the ritual but not the true vessel.
• Bandit Lord warned Xu Ye that someone nearby was interfering with his thoughts, and Xu Ye suspected the Ace of Spades.
• The hall’s lights flickered, an eerie flame appeared on the chandelier, and Cheng Tianming raised his eyes gravely.