Recaps

Chi Xiao revealed the Golden Radiance Tree’s failed origins and burned Andy and the tree while confronting Yu Long about her role in Chi Xiao’s family’s destruction. She disclosed that she leads the Reformists of Tianrui Lifeng and planned to free the Red Moon Holy Temple from the Red Moon, while Xu Le continued climbing with a flower growing on his Soul Tree.

• Chi Xiao overwhelmed Andy with her Flame Emperor spell, explained that the Red Moon had abandoned the failed Golden Radiance Tree project, and described how its attempted conversion of the Lightforging Head had led to contamination and Andy’s birth.
• Chi Xiao burned Andy and the Golden Radiance Tree, then confronted Yu Long about foreseeing Chi Xiao’s fate and destroying her family to prevent it.
• Chi Xiao offered Yu Long a chance to defy fate and revealed that she had founded the Reformists of Tianrui Lifeng to lead the world’s transformation and separate the Red Moon Holy Temple from the Red Moon.
• Yu Long warned that Duo Lei could ruin Chi Xiao’s plan, but Chi Xiao said Duo Lei would die because she intended to kill Xu Le, then asked Yu Long to reveal Xu Le’s fate.
• Xu Le continued climbing the ladder and noticed that a flower had grown on his Soul Tree.

Xu Le discovered that Lightforging’s polluted blood was decaying the Golden Radiance Tree as Duo Lei collected evidence and Wang Man embraced the Child of Guyinduo’s light. Wang Man freed Lightforging by severing the branches binding his head, while Duo Lei was gravely wounded.

• Xu Le and Duo Lei climbed to the Golden Radiance Tree’s canopy with Wang Man and Ding Ke as fire spread below and Guyinduo’s light threatened them.
• The group found the Lightforging Head, and Xu Le pierced it with the Guyinduo Branch of Reality, discovering that its blood caused the tree’s decay.
• Xu Le deduced that Lightforging’s blood had polluted the tree and helped bring about Andy, while Duo Lei photographed the head and collected its blood.
• Lightforging warned Duo Lei that she understood none of the schemes around her, then Wang Man attacked and crushed Duo Lei’s lung and spine.
• Wang Man declared herself Lightforging’s offspring and cut through the Golden Radiance Tree’s branches, freeing his head.

Xu Le corrupted Duo Lei with unrestricted darkness, turning her into a Night Demon and testing whether he could control the creature he had created. Night Demon Duo Lei attacked Wang Man instead, while Lightforging remained trapped by Xu Le’s branch and struggled to regain power.

• Xu Le embedded the Guyinduo Branch of Reality in Lightforging’s head and injected darkness into him, but Lightforging ordered Wang Man to seize Xu Le.
• Xu Le fought Wang Man, then attacked Duo Lei to silence her and stop her from escaping with a Red Moon teleportation book.
• Ding Ke knocked the teleportation book away, allowing Xu Le to impale Duo Lei and flood her with darkness until she became Night Demon Duo Lei, a Level 3 Guyinduo Polluter and Child of Darkness.
• Xu Le tried to direct Night Demon Duo Lei, but she focused on Wang Man and Lightforging rather than attacking him.
• Toad helped Xu Le strike Wang Man, while Xu Le used darkness to heal Toad and grew stronger.
• Wang Man asked Lightforging for more power and essence, then questioned whether he could still remove Xu Le’s branches himself.

Xu Le and Toad fought Wang Man after Lightforging possessed her, while Xu Le pieced together Mo Chen’s possible connection to Lightforging. Their combined attack struck Wang Man even in her particle form and released a swarm of souls, leaving Xu Le questioning what the Children of Guyinduo were.

• Wang Man killed Night Demon Duo Lei and stabbed Lightforging, but Lightforging’s concealed tentacles pulled them together as he began absorbing her.
• Xu Le suspected Lightforging had guided Mo Chen’s experiments and choices, possibly explaining Mo Chen’s search for a suitable vessel.
• Lightforging fully possessed Wang Man, and she returned to her original form before dodging Xu Le and Toad’s first attacks.
• Xu Le and Toad used Fate Black Flame and summoned the Black Sword Familiar, but Wang Man defeated and decapitated the familiar.
• Toad and Xu Le launched a combined black-and-red strike that hit Wang Man in her particle state, releasing countless souls from her body.

Wang Man reclaimed Lightforging’s power on behalf of the Gundo Mother Tree and revealed that she had long planned to bring Xu Le into its scheme. She stopped Xu Le from escaping and entered his mental world, telling him the Mother Tree was disappointed in his choices.

• Wang Man’s white roots absorbed the Living Corpses’ Guyinduo Spirit Energy and reclaimed Lightforging’s power.
• Wang Man told Xu Le that she planned to reclaim the Sun next and revealed Guyinduo had sent her to complete this mission.
• Wang Man explained that she had once hoped Xu Le would accept the Mother Tree’s offer and become a new embodiment of the world’s rules.
• Xu Le tried to flee through a dark portal, but Wang Man used her power over the rules to stop him and pin him against a wall.
• Wang Man sent Lightforging energy into Xu Le’s body and entered his mental world, where she told him the Mother Tree was disappointed in his choices.

Xu Le resisted the Gundo Mother Tree’s attempt to claim him and survived the depths of the Soul River with help from four powers, though Wang Man sacrificed her light and fell into the abyss. He severed the Spirit Energy Pool’s connection to the Guyinduo lineage, became a Level 4-Soul Reaper, and went with Ding Ke toward the center of the Golden Radiance Tree.

• Xu Le summoned his Soul Tree to resist Wang Man and the Gundo Mother Tree’s roots, but the roots dragged him into the Soul River’s abyss.
• As his body and soul began to dissolve, Xu Le drew on Night Fiend’s darkness, the Sky Ring’s Dragon power, and the Guyinduo Cards’ Fate power to slow his fall.
• Wang Man gave Xu Le her light and pushed him upward, then fell into the Soul River as Xu Le’s four powers helped him withstand the Mother Tree.
• Xu Le devoured Soul River creatures while rising, then transformed the Spirit Energy Pool until its connection to the Gundo Mother Tree broke.
• Xu Le left the Spiritual Space, picked up Ding Ke, and headed toward the center of the Golden Radiance Tree as he advanced to Level 4-Soul Reaper.

Xu Le harvested the souls within the Golden Tree and worked with Chi Xiao to transform it into an enduring Soulfire beacon, then appointed Andy to guard it as the Soul Torch. Lighthouse’s residents watched the tree’s grayish-blue flames and realized it had become a furnace that burned souls.

• Xu Le found the Calamity of Light in the Golden Tree’s rotting wood and fitted it onto Ding Ke’s leg as a collar.
• Xu Le used Soul Harvest on the Golden Tree, drawing out its souls and expanding his Soul Tree and mental world.
• Xu Le asked Chi Xiao to ignite the extracted souls, creating Soulfire that could attract Guyinduo creatures and use them as fuel.
• Xu Le revived the Flower Maiden Andy and named her the Soul Flower Maiden, assigning her to guard the tree, which he renamed the Soul Torch.
• Zhou Bi, Jin Mingzhu, and Lighthouse’s residents saw the grayish-blue flames and realized the Golden Tree had become a furnace that burned souls.

Jin Mingzhu and Zhou Bi took control of a collapsing Lighthouse, hoping to rebuild it through cooperation with Xu Le as the wealthy and the councilors fled. As Xu Le prepared to leave Chi Xiao’s Little Red Building, he kept his knowledge of the Soul Torch to himself, while the tree stirred beneath it and blood spilled in the High Tower.

• Jin Mingzhu convinced Zhou Bi to help stabilize Lighthouse, profit from airship tickets, and seek an energy and weapons deal with Xu Le.
• As the Soul Torch’s blue flames brightened, crowds fled Lighthouse, the three Upper City councilors departed, and Jin Mingzhu and Zhou Bi took over the city’s remaining government and soldiers.
• Xu Le reviewed research materials collected from Lighthouse University, while he and his companions weathered the chaos at Chi Xiao’s Little Red Building.
• Chi Xiao announced that she was returning to the Red Moon Holy Temple, and Xu Le and Ding Ke saw her off.
• Xu Le withheld information about the tree from Chi Xiao and watched the Soul Torch as he crushed a few unseen ants.
• Thugs sneaked into the unguarded High Tower to search for valuables, and the tree’s trunk twisted as blood ran down the stairs.

Xu Le reflected on how killing had made him colder as Ding Ke explained that powerful beings grew apart from ordinary people. At the Soul Tree’s crown, he met Jin Mingzhu and Zhou Bi, who pleaded with him to save the Lighthouse.

• Xu Le admitted to Ding Ke that killing no longer stirred him, and she explained how advancing in power changed a being’s perspective on ordinary life.
• The Soul Tree lifted Jin Mingzhu and Zhou Bi on a rootstock and carried them toward its crown, where Ding Ke warned them not to touch her.
• Ding Ke led the councilors to Xu Le beside the soul fire, and Jin Mingzhu realized he was connected to the tree.
• Xu Le eased the soul fire’s chill so Jin Mingzhu could keep Zhou Bi warm, then praised Zhou Bi for staying to help the Lighthouse.
• Zhou Bi proposed working with Xu Le to secure affordable energy and weapons, then knelt and begged him to save the Lighthouse.

Xu Le agreed to supply Lighthouse with cheap energy and weapons, then transformed the city with the Soul Tree’s roots as Zhou Bi and Jin Mingzhu organized its people. As Xu Le left for Zion, he revealed the Calamity of the Sky’s power and ordered Lighthouse’s steel, copper, and rare earth minerals sent to Zion.

• Zhou Bi and Jin Mingzhu knelt and asked Xu Le to help Lighthouse, and Xu Le agreed to trade energy and weapons for thirty cents per unit of energy.
• Xu Le told Zhou Bi and Jin Mingzhu to restore order and prepare Lighthouse for the Black Tide, promising further help before it arrived.
• Xu Le made the Soul Tree shake and spread its roots through Lighthouse, while Jin Mingzhu organized the army and Zhou Bi moved residents to the Upper City.
• Xu Le gave Zhou Bi Guyinduo Technological Crystallization and weapons before leaving Lighthouse with his group aboard an airship.
• Jin Mingzhu described the legend of the Primordial Guyinduo Tree to Zhou Bi as they wondered what the growing tree beneath Lighthouse might become.
• Xu Le used the Calamity of the Sky to bring down attacking Bird-Type Oddities, then told Ai Li to demand Lighthouse’s steel, copper, and rare earth minerals for Zion.

Xu Le returned to Zion and told Li Wen he had an urgent plan to discuss: Sky City. Meanwhile, Chi Xiao reported the Lighthouse disaster to Meilis, who learned of Xu Le and ordered someone to contact him.

• Xu Le used his Guyinduo Vision to expand his territory as the airship passed, then admitted he would need a group to go further.
• Ai Li gave Xu Le the resource requisition agreement, and he insisted Zion needed large amounts of steel to build a sturdy city.
• Chi Xiao killed a Warlock who confronted her, then reported Duo Lei’s death and the Lighthouse mission to Meilis.
• Meilis noticed that Chi Xiao’s report omitted Xu Le, reviewed his earlier importance in Duo Lei’s report, and ordered contact with him while offering help to Lighthouse.
• Xu Le returned to a public welcome in Zion and went with Li Wen to discuss an urgent plan instead of attending his reinstatement meeting.
• Xu Le told Li Wen that the plan was Sky City.

Xu Le proposed building a gravity-defying Sky City and persuaded Li Wen to organize its planning and construction. He then turned to his next idea: bringing Ancient God Species into Zion as workers, beginning by asking Toad to help.

• Xu Le revealed that Sky City would be a flying fortress powered by the Guyinduo Core, and Li Wen agreed to gather specialists and materials for the project.
• Xu Le completed his reinstatement ceremony and became a Zion councilor, gaining the right to propose new policies.
• Xu Le planned an Ancient God Species labor initiative, believing Oddities such as Rain Woman could help solve Zion’s food and construction needs.
• Xu Le summoned Toad and pitched a plan for Ancient God Species to live safely among humans in exchange for simple work and a steady food supply.
• Toad questioned why Xu Le expected him to help, and Xu Le tried to persuade him by praising his ambitious, progressive outlook.

Toad opened a snack shop in Zion as Xu Le began his plan to integrate the Ancient God Species into society. Xu Le forced his recruitment policy through the council despite opposition, and Li Wen ordered Wang Anna disposed of after she walked out.

• Toad sold a lollipop to a little girl and began promoting Golden Toad Wonder House, reflecting on whether the Ancient God Species could live alongside humans.
• Zion residents flocked to Toad’s shop, beginning the Ancient God Species’ integration into society.
• Xu Le submitted his Ancient God Species recruitment proposal and faced opposition from the councilors.
• Xu Le invoked his authority to implement the policy, argued that Zion needed strength to face the Red Moon Holy Temple, and drove Wang Anna from the council chamber.
• Li Wen watched Wang Anna leave and ordered Secretary Liu to dispose of her.

After Wang Anna died, Xu Le faced suspicion at the council meeting and pushed ahead with recruiting Ancient God Species. Li Wen admitted he had killed Wang Anna to deter obstruction, while Xu Le later visited Golden Toad and noticed two strangers who seemed to be looking for him.

• News framed Wang Anna's bathtub death as a drinking accident, and the Zion Councilors suspected Xu Le when he arrived at their next meeting.
• Xu Le dismissed the accusations, pressured the councilors, and secured the Ancient God Species recruitment plan for the following Monday.
• Li Wen admitted to Xu Le that he had killed Wang Anna, explaining that her death would discourage others from obstructing Xu Le's policies.
• Xu Le watched Golden Toad interact with children at Zion Tourist Plaza, then promised to bring him fruit that night.
• A striking man and woman spotted Xu Le at the plaza and identified him as the person their mother had mentioned.

Xu Le discovered that Red Moon Holy Temple agents had marked him while he discussed human and Ancient God Species coexistence in an interview. The chapter ended with Duo Min receiving intelligence from Gu Beichen as Mei Li'en was knocked unconscious at Nevernight City.

• Xu Le let reporter Mindo interview him about the possibility of humans and Ancient God Species Oddities coexisting, then found Red Moon Spirit Energy on a mark Mindo had left on his hand.
• Ai Li returned with a severed finger from the person who had been watching Xu Le, and Xu Le decided to send Gu Beichen instructions at the Furnace.
• Duo Min and Mei Li'en discussed their contact with Xu Le and waited for Gu Beichen at the Red Moon Holy Temple's informant outpost.
• Gu Beichen arrived late, disguised as a drunken reveler, and Duo Min asked him to share what he knew about Xu Le.
• Mei Li'en went to Nevernight City, where a bald man called him Strong Fool and struck him unconscious with an ashtray.

Xu Le interrogated and killed Mei Li'en, a Red Moon Holy Temple spy investigating the Lighthouse incident, while choosing to keep Duo Min alive as a source of misinformation. He later explained his rift with the Gundo Mother Tree to Yan Luo, who stayed loyal to him, and let Duo Min witness the Furnace processing Oddities.

• Wang Shu and the security guards took Mei Li'en to an underground warehouse, where Xu Le questioned him about the Red Moon Holy Temple's investigation into the Lighthouse incident and Duo Lei's disappearance.
• After Mei Li'en revealed that Mother of Life Meilis had sent him, Xu Le ordered Wang Shu to kill him and decided to keep the other spy, Duo Min, alive to send information back.
• At the Red Moon Holy Temple's border, Gu Beichen shared information with Duo Min, who praised his work as an informant and invited him to consider further training.
• Xu Le told Yan Luo that he had grown estranged from the Gundo Mother Tree, and Yan Luo chose to remain with him and protect the Soul Tree.
• Duo Min arrived at the Furnace, where Xu Le deliberately let her watch Oddities being broken down into blue Guyinduo light.

Xu Le let Duo Min photograph the Furnace while guarding its true secret, then told Li Wen that Sky City should eventually be large enough to hold all of Zion. He entered the Mother Tree Realm to ask Chi Xiao for help building it, but Death’s Nail attacked him before she heard his request.

• Duo Min visited the Furnace, questioned Xu Le about his research, and took photographs after he allowed her to look around.
• Xu Le and Li Wen discussed Zion’s Red Moon Holy Temple guardians and Sky City’s design, and Xu Le proposed leaving its framework expandable until it could hold Zion’s entire population.
• Xu Le instructed Ai Li to follow Duo Min, then entered the Mother Tree Realm with a Black Card-Black Sheep Girl and the Black Staff prepared for emergencies.
• Xu Le found Chi Xiao in the Mother Tree Realm, where Death’s Nail emerged and attacked him before Chi Xiao ordered it away.
• Xu Le asked Chi Xiao to help him build houses.

Xu Le persuaded Chi Xiao to build Sky City’s metal framework, then used the Calamity of the Sky to make it float. The framework rose slightly as Xu Le drained his Spirit Energy Pool to power it, leaving him badly strained.

• Xu Le asked Chi Xiao to build Sky City, and she agreed after he accepted her request to take care of Ding Ke and she called him a friend.
• Li Wen gathered resources while Ai Li, Wang Shu, and Toad carried out Xu Le’s Ancient God Species policy, and Xu Le and Gu Beichen fed Duo Min misleading intelligence.
• With only days remaining before the Black Tide, Chi Xiao used Forbidden Art-Tyranny and Draw to shape metal into Sky City’s framework.
• Xu Le activated the Calamity of the Sky and poured Spirit Energy into the framework, causing it to rise while leaving him exhausted and bleeding from the nose.

Xu Le made Sky City's metal framework float, and Li Wen mobilized Zion to turn it into a usable platform before the Black Tide. As the construction and weapons transfers continued, the chapter ended with Xu Le watching the Sun on the thirtieth, less than twelve hours before the Red Moon Calamity.

• Xu Le took control of Chi Xiao's metal framework and made it rise into the sky, impressing Xia Libo and Li Wen.
• Li Wen supported Xu Le's plan to build on the framework, and they decided to use concrete and repurpose cannons because Zion lacked enough steel.
• Li Wen ordered engineers and workers to build a platform and transfer weapons to Sky City, while Zion prepared for the Black Tide in six days.
• Zion's Progressives, engineers, migrant workers, Guards, and Law Enforcers worked outside the city as the Black Tide drew near.
• On the thirtieth, Xu Le watched the Sun as the Red Moon Calamity countdown showed less than twelve hours remaining.

Gu Beichen ambushed Duo Min to stop her from carrying Zion’s secrets back to the Red Moon Holy Temple, but she proved difficult to defeat and nearly escaped. Xu Le joined the fight with a dark-powered shot, leaving Duo Min wounded as the battle continued.

• Xu Le decided to help Gu Beichen deal with Duo Min before the Black Tide exposed Zion’s secrets.
• Gu Beichen stabbed Duo Min with a poisoned fruit knife, then used Chi Xiao’s Forbidden Art-Dragon’s Wrath to attack her and destroy the basement containing her gathered information.
• Duo Min tried to escape with her Teleportation Book, but spatial interference blocked it; she realized Xu Le might have taken Duo Lei’s book and prepared a countermeasure.
• Duo Min used Surging Waves to trap Gu Beichen in water and ice, but Xu Le shot her through the ribs with a bullet that unleashed dark power.
• Gu Beichen taunted the wounded Duo Min, and Xu Le fired a second shot.

Gu Beichen killed Duo Min and explained why he trusted Xu Le rather than the Red Moon Holy Temple or Zion. As the Black Tide approached, Sky City rose above Zion with ninety-six Orbital Cannons, and Xu Lei and Xu Ting joined the battle as the first Oddities appeared.

• Gu Beichen shot Duo Min until she could no longer move, then burned her body after explaining that he believed Xu Le could lead them toward the light.
• Xu Le gathered Zion's elite Enforcers on Sky City's platform and ordered them to provide armed support for the ground during the Black Tide.
• Sky City took flight and traveled above Zion as Ai Li briefed the Enforcers on their artillery sectors and plans to target large Oddities and herd smaller ones.
• Xu Lei became a spotter for Xu Ting at an Orbital Cannon, but several cannons fired at the first Level 5 Giant in their sector before he finished aiming.
• Xu Ting urged Xu Lei to hurry, and he rallied himself to help kill the approaching Oddities.

Zion unleashed its weapons against the Black Tide while Xu Le demonstrated his dark powers and won the loyalty of the soldiers and Law Enforcers. Yi Xiaoya stopped Xiao An from moving against him, while Lighthouse waited through a strangely quiet Black Tide as a bloody battle unfolded beyond its perimeter.

• Li Wen watched Zion’s Orbital Cannons devastate the Oddities and joked with Xu Le over the Communicator.
• Xu Le used his dark mist to drain a flock of Night Ravens, and the Law Enforcers accepted his power and pledged to serve him.
• Xu Le ordered Zion to unleash its full firepower and expanded the dark mist across the battlefield.
• Yi Xiaoya struck down Xiao An’s plan to arrest Xu Le, and Xiao An left to continue observing Zion.
• Jin Mingzhu and Zhou Bi waited in Lighthouse because no Black Tide Oddities had appeared, unaware that plants and animals were fighting bloodily beyond the city perimeter.

After the Black Tide, Zhou Bi and Jin Mingzhu investigated the outskirts of Lighthouse and found mountains of dead oddities, a severed plant root, and holes beneath a giant’s corpse. When they returned to Lighthouse, Xu Le emerged from a spatial gateway to meet them.

• Corrupted roots battled the Black Tide oddities outside Lighthouse, feeding the Rotting Tree and Soul Torch until dawn.
• Zhou Bi reassured the laborers that they would be paid, then joined Jin Mingzhu and the Night Watchers in investigating the outskirts.
• Jin Mingzhu and the team discovered a vast field of oddity corpses, including a giant, and found a severed Rotting Tree Branch inside its body.
• The team uncovered large holes beneath the giant’s corpse, and Zhou Bi decided to go to Zion to speak with Xu Le.
• On their return, Jin Mingzhu sensed someone nearby, and Xu Le stepped through a gateway of darkness and soul flames.

Xu Le met with Zhou Bi and Jin Mingzhu to discuss Lighthouse’s new Soul Tree and prepare for the Red Moon Holy Temple’s investigation. He urged them to tell the temple that he had learned the tree’s secret and that it could devour Oddities, while Red Moon Meilis mourned her latest children and sent a masked woman to Lighthouse.

• Xu Le emerged from the spatial gate, and Zhou Bi and Jin Mingzhu raised concerns about the city’s safety and the Soul Tree.
• Jin Mingzhu explained that the old Golden Radiance Tree had corrupted and drained living creatures, while Xu Le said the purified Soul Tree could protect Lighthouse.
• Xu Le advised Zhou Bi and Jin Mingzhu to maintain Lighthouse’s defenses but expect future Black Tides to pose little danger.
• Xu Le told them to answer the Red Moon Holy Temple’s questions honestly and reveal that he had learned the Soul Tree could devour Oddities.
• Red Moon Meilis grieved the deaths of Duo Min and Mei Li'en, said she had 196 children left, and ordered a masked woman to go to Lighthouse.

Zhou Bi told Duo Xi and Duo En what he knew about Xu Le and the Soul Tree, while Duo En and Jin Mingzhu fought in his office. Duo En stopped short of killing Jin Mingzhu after Zhou Bi warned that Lighthouse would revolt, then questioned him about what Xu Le had told him to hide.

• After arranging Lighthouse’s affairs, Zhou Bi met Duo Xi and Duo En, who demanded information about the Soul Tree in exchange for cooperation and protection.
• Zhou Bi recounted Xu Le’s discoveries about the Soul Tree and its role in defending Lighthouse, following Xu Le’s advice to tell the truth the first time.
• Duo Xi stayed behind as Duo En went to investigate the Soul Tree, and Jin Mingzhu burst into the office to attack Duo Xi.
• Duo En overwhelmed Jin Mingzhu, then raised her fist to strike her while Zhou Bi warned that killing them would provoke Lighthouse’s people and ruin the Red Moon Holy Temple’s plans.
• Duo En calmed down and asked Zhou Bi what Xu Le had told him to conceal, and Zhou Bi realized Xu Le had been scheming ahead.