Recaps

Luo Fan uncovered the Giant Lizard Weird’s resurrection secret, destroyed its buried heart, and killed it to obtain a Yang Fish Totem for the Qipao Weird. With only Tomeko’s Yang Fish left to find, Luo Fan and his companions hid until dawn, when he planned to hunt near the Tower.

• The Giant Lizard Weird believed it was fighting and dying to a powerful enemy, while Luo Fan used the Fog Weird Mirror’s Illusion Realm to learn that it resurrected at the location of its buried heart.
• Luo Fan sent Black Bird to destroy the heart, and the Giant Lizard Weird convulsed and died for real.
• Luo Fan took the Giant Lizard Weird’s Sixth-Tier Weird Crystal and Yang Fish Totem from its corpse.
• Luo Fan gave the Yang Fish Totem to the Qipao Weird, completing her Yin-Yang Fish set; Tomeko remained the only one without a complete set.
• As dawn approached, Luo Fan led the group to a new hiding place and planned to hunt around the Tower with Tomeko during the final day.

Luo Fan and Tomeko searched the mountain forests for trial participants’ totems, but found only empty caves and Yin Fish before reaching a cave that blocked Luo Fan’s mental scan. Luo Fan entered alone under cover of invisibility, and his expression changed when he saw what lay inside.

• Luo Fan searched several caves, killed a fourth-tier Weird without finding a totem, and then killed a fifth-tier Weird that yielded another Yin Fish totem.
• Tomeko grew anxious over the approaching trial deadline, but Luo Fan reassured her before a fifth-tier Tusk Boar suddenly attacked them.
• Luo Fan shot the Tusk Boar, recycled its corpse for 198,000 check-in funds, and continued the search with Tomeko after lunch.
• At a cave near the Tower, Luo Fan found that something inside blocked his mental scan, suggesting a powerful mental-type Weird.
• Luo Fan told Tomeko to hide outside, then entered the cave invisibly and saw something in the cavern that made his expression change drastically.

Luo Fan encountered two sixth-tier serpent Weirds in a cave and was nearly petrified, but Tomeko pulled him into the sunlight and he used Mimicry to escape the lingering effect. After recovering, Luo Fan prepared to confront the Weirds again because they might carry the Yin-Yang Fish Totems Tomeko needed.

• Luo Fan found two identical level-62 serpent Weirds and tried to retreat, but one detected him and petrified most of his body.
• Tomeko heard Luo Fan's call and used her whip to drag him out of the cave into the sunlight.
• Luo Fan used Mimicry to become the Farmer Weird, removing the petrification, then canceled Mimicry before sunlight could burn him to death.
• Luo Fan recovered in the sunlight and saw the two serpent Weirds still trapped at the cave entrance.
• Luo Fan decided to face the Weirds again, suspecting they carried Yin-Yang Fish Totems, including a possible Yang Fish for Tomeko.

Luo Fan used Petrification Bait to lure a sixth-tier snake Weird into the sunlight, killing it and allowing Tomeko to complete her Taiji Diagram. After the team set out for the Tower at night, they rounded a pile of rocks and stopped at the sight ahead.

• Luo Fan baited one snake Weird out of its cave, and sunlight destroyed it, leaving a weird crystal and the Yang Fish Totem.
• Luo Fan gave the Yang Fish Totem to Tomeko, who completed her Taiji Diagram and thanked him.
• Luo Fan and Tomeko chose not to pursue the remaining snake Weird because its petrification ability made the cave too dangerous.
• Luo Fan returned with Tomeko to the underground hole, where An Xiaoran and the Qipao Weird learned Tomeko had completed her totem.
• After resting until nightfall, Luo Fan led the team and their two pets toward the Tower.
• Luo Fan and the others rounded scattered rocks, stopped, and prepared for danger as the view ahead opened up.

Luo Fan faced the Young Master Weird and three sixth-tier Weirds, then drew the Young Master Weird away so An Xiaoran, the Qipao Weird, and Tomeko could escape. Cornered in an open field, he warned his pursuer that he still had Sunlight, leaving the one-on-one confrontation unresolved.

• The Young Master Weird confronted Luo Fan with three sixth-tier Weirds and declared that he wanted revenge for being forced to retreat the night before.
• Luo Fan realized the Weirds had left gaps in their encirclement and told An Xiaoran, the Qipao Weird, and Tomeko to flee toward the Tower while he drew their pursuers away.
• Luo Fan used Nightmare Nekomata's Possession and Spirit Void Step to flee, but the Young Master Weird rapidly caught up with him.
• Luo Fan stopped in an open field and reminded the Young Master Weird that they were now alone together and that he could still use Sunlight.

Luo Fan isolated the nobleman Weird from its three helpers and tried to persuade it to retreat, but it insisted on fighting. He used Rose’s deceptive self-preservation abilities to survive its attacks, leaving the Weird determined to kill him.

• Luo Fan lured the nobleman Weird away from its three helpers, leaving them alone under the moonlight.
• Luo Fan appealed to the Weird’s pride and status, but it refused to leave without testing his strength.
• Luo Fan transformed into Rose and used a Deceptive Doppelgänger to make the Weird believe it had crushed him.
• The nobleman Weird unleashed Weird Qi to expose Luo Fan’s real body after realizing the corpse was a decoy.
• The Weird struck Luo Fan, but Substitute Puppet transferred the lethal blow to a rag doll, intensifying its resolve to kill him.

Luo Fan used Rose’s self-targeting skills to evade the Young Master Weird and lure it into a fight with a seventh-tier giant ape. He reached the Trial Tower and opened its stone door with the Taiji Diagram.

• Luo Fan used Deceptive Doppelgänger, Deceptive Transformation, Substitute Puppet, and Exchange to evade the Young Master Weird while drawing the chase toward the Tower.
• At the mountainside, Luo Fan spotted a seventh-tier giant ape, ended Nightmare Nekomata’s Possession, and provoked it into pursuing him.
• Luo Fan disguised himself as the Young Master Weird and used his tricks to make the giant ape mistake the real Young Master Weird for the one who insulted it.
• The giant ape attacked the Young Master Weird, allowing Luo Fan to turn invisible and continue toward the summit while the two fought.
• Luo Fan reached the Trial Tower, where his Mimicry wore off and Nightmare Nekomata returned to his shoulder.
• Luo Fan pressed the Taiji Diagram against the Tower’s stone door, causing it to open.

Qipao Weird, An Xiaoran, and Tomeko defeated one of the three sixth-tier Weirds and drove the other two away as they made their way toward the Tower. They saw Young Master Weird battling a seventh-tier giant ape on the mountainside, and Qipao Weird suspected Luo Fan had arranged the fight.

• Qipao Weird used the Time Rule to weaken the dragon-headed Weird from the sixth tier to the third, then killed it and took its Weird crystal.
• An Xiaoran transformed, protected Tomeko with an invulnerable shield, and attacked the black-robed Weird with Holy Judgment.
• The black-robed Weird and the stone-skinned Weird fled, leaving Qipao Weird, An Xiaoran, and Tomeko to continue toward the Tower.
• The group saw Young Master Weird locked in a fierce battle with a seventh-tier giant ape, and Qipao Weird guessed Luo Fan had set it up.

As dawn approached, the Qipao Weird fought to lead An Xiaoran and Tomeko to safety inside the Tower, battling powerful Weirds along the way. A snake Weird petrified Tomeko just before they reached the doors, and although the Qipao Weird pulled An Xiaoran inside, Tomeko was erased by the morning’s rules.

• The Qipao Weird used Time Reversal to drive off three jackal Weirds, then fought a rule-type seventh-tier Weird until it retreated.
• The group faced a symbiotic tiger Weird and python Weird near the summit, and the Qipao Weird suppressed the tiger before ordering a retreat toward the Tower.
• As dawn neared, a snake Weird petrified Tomeko with a gray-white beam and entered the Tower.
• The Qipao Weird used a whip to pull An Xiaoran through the Tower doors as the tiger and python pursued.
• The Tower doors closed, and Tomeko’s petrified statue crumbled under the morning’s erasure rules.

Luo Fan reunited with An Xiaoran and the Qipao Weird inside the Tower, learned that Tomeko had died before entering, and discovered that the second-round trial was a battle royale. With more than thirty powerful participants forced to fight until only nine remained, the three prepared to survive together.

• Luo Fan found the Young Master Weird, the Giant Ape Weird, An Xiaoran, and the Qipao Weird in the Tower plaza, and realized they had arrived together because time inside might differ from time outside.
• An Xiaoran proved her identity with the Taiji Diagram, and the Qipao Weird told Luo Fan that Tomeko had been petrified by the snake Weird and erased before reaching the Tower.
• Luo Fan saw that more than thirty participants had survived to the plaza, including numerous fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-tier Weirds.
• The trial rules appeared, requiring every participant to fight to the death until only nine survivors remained.
• A Mantis Weird approached Luo Fan as an easy target, but the Qipao Weird blocked it and An Xiaoran stayed beside him.
• Luo Fan gripped his Wraith Short Sword as the three prepared for the battle royale to begin.

Luo Fan survived the melee with help from An Xiaoran and the Qipao Weird, while the Young Master Weird kept pursuing him. With twelve Trial Participants left, the Young Master Weird urged the other Weirds to join forces against Luo Fan, An Xiaoran, and the Qipao Weird.

• The Young Master Weird attacked Luo Fan, and the Snake-Type Weird petrified him until An Xiaoran dispelled the effect with holy light.
• The Qipao Weird protected An Xiaoran from the Beetle Weird, reversed its level with her time rule, and killed it.
• Luo Fan evaded the Young Master Weird with Rose's skills while the number of Trial Participants fell to twelve.
• Luo Fan's Mimicry time limit expired, revealing his own appearance as the Young Master Weird prepared to attack again.
• The Young Master Weird identified Luo Fan, An Xiaoran, and the Qipao Weird to the other Weirds and called for them to eliminate the trio before the trial ended.

Luo Fan used his attack-immunity ability and An Xiaoran’s support to kill the Snake-Type Weird with sunlight, making the gathered Weirds fear him. He then declared his personal grudge with the Young Master Weird and warned the others not to interfere, leaving them hesitant and the Young Master Weird isolated.

• Luo Fan charged at the Snake-Type Weird while the Young Master Weird and Giant Ape Weird attacked him without effect.
• An Xiaoran dispelled the Snake-Type Weird’s Petrification and pinned it with a Healing Cross while Luo Fan stunned it with Sap.
• Luo Fan poured Mo Yuling’s sunlight over the Snake-Type Weird, killing it and causing its Sixth-Tier Weird Crystal to drop.
• Luo Fan showed the Weirds the sunlight remaining in his bottle and warned them that he would fight anyone who interfered in his grudge with the Young Master Weird.
• The Weirds held back, and the Young Master Weird realized Luo Fan had turned them against joining the fight.

Luo Fan manipulated the Giant Ape Weird into killing the Young Master Weird, then waited for an opening as the remaining contestants sized one another up. The Giant Eagle Weird killed an injured humanoid Weird, leaving nine participants and apparently ending the second trial, but Luo Fan sensed something was wrong.

• Luo Fan accused the Young Master Weird of insulting the Giant Ape Weird and persuaded the Giant Ape to attack it.
• The other Weirds refused to help the Young Master Weird, and the Giant Ape beat it to death.
• Luo Fan assessed the ten remaining contestants and chose an injured humanoid Weird as a possible target.
• The Giant Eagle Weird swooped down and killed the wounded humanoid Weird while Luo Fan watched.
• Luo Fan counted nine survivors and thought the second trial had ended, then suddenly realized something was wrong.

Luo Fan discovered that an invisible Mantis Weird had been hiding among the trial participants and ambushed the Qipao Weird, leaving her badly injured. With the remaining Weirds poised to attack and the trial still unresolved, Luo Fan used the Red Veil to summon the Weird Bride, Xiaodie.

• Luo Fan realized the trial had not ended because an unseen Mantis Weird was among the participants, and it appeared beside the Qipao Weird and severed her right arm.
• Luo Fan and An Xiaoran shielded the injured Qipao Weird while Luo Fan shot the Mantis Weird and exposed its identity as a level 68 stealth-type Weird.
• The other Weirds eyed the wounded Qipao Weird as a vulnerable target, leaving Luo Fan and An Xiaoran outnumbered and struggling to hold them off.
• Luo Fan decided to summon the Weird Bride despite the dangers, retrieved the Red Veil, and silently called for his wife.
• One of the Red Veil’s Weird Crystals began to glow as the other Weirds grew wary, while the Mantis Weird waited for a chance to attack the Qipao Weird again.

Luo Fan's red veil failed inside the Tower's rule barrier, leaving him and the badly injured Qipao Weird surrounded by seven hostile Weirds. After Qipao Weird summoned her father, the Years Weird, he killed the Giant Eagle from afar, ending the second trial; the final trial then began.

• Luo Fan realized the red veil could not summon help inside Fallen Sea Island's barrier, while the seven Weirds closed in on him and the injured Qipao Weird.
• Qipao Weird urged Luo Fan to escape with An Xiaoran, but he refused and asked her to call out her father's name.
• The Years Weird sensed Xiaohong's danger and tore open a rift, crushing the attacking Giant Eagle with one hand.
• The second trial ended with nine survivors, and Luo Fan, An Xiaoran, and Qipao Weird began recovering as the remaining Weirds kept their distance.
• A voice announced that the final trial had begun.

Years Weird watched anxiously as Xiaohong remained trapped in the trial, while Luo Fan faced the Tower’s final individual test: a perfect copy of himself. After the two matched each other in a gunfight, Luo Fan reloaded, and his copy abandoned its gun and charged.

• Years Weird suffered backlash from intervening in the trial and decided he could only wait for Xiaohong to escape.
• The final trial began, and An Xiaoran, Qipao Weird, and the other participants vanished, leaving Luo Fan alone in the plaza.
• A copy of Luo Fan appeared, claiming to possess his skills, Uncanny Artifacts, and memories, and threatening to replace him if it won.
• Luo Fan and his copy exchanged gunfire while using Spirit Void Step, wounding each other as their ammunition ran low.
• Luo Fan reloaded his Weird Gun with a sixth-tier weird crystal, but his copy threw its gun aside and charged at him.

Luo Fan realized the shadow could not access his system or storage space and used his stored artifacts to gain the advantage. He stayed invisible and waited out the shadow’s Mimicry, leaving the copy exposed while still cautiously anticipating a counterattack.

• Luo Fan deduced that the shadow had no system or storage space because it could not reload its Weird Gun.
• Luo Fan used his Invisibility Cloak to vanish, while the shadow lacked the stored Far-Sensing Wave Hat needed to detect him.
• The shadow used Mimicry to become Zhang Dakai and then a cheetah, turning invisible as well.
• Luo Fan used the Far-Sensing Wave Hat to locate the shadow and waited instead of attacking, keeping his position hidden.
• After an hour, the shadow’s Mimicry expired and it returned to its original form, while Luo Fan remained invisible and warned that the shadow’s remaining use would only delay defeat.

Luo Fan outmaneuvered his shadow by forcing it to exhaust Mimicry, then used patience and Petrification Bait to create an opening and kill it. After the shadow vanished, Luo Fan wondered whether the Qipao Weird and An Xiaoran had passed their final tests or been replaced by their shadows.

• Luo Fan used his Banquet Weird form to force his shadow to spend its final Mimicry use, then turned invisible and waited for the transformation to expire.
• After the shadow's Young Master Weird form ended, it activated Petrification Bait, but Luo Fan closed his eyes to avoid its effect and used a bait of his own.
• Luo Fan used the Mimicry stored in his Weird Gun to become the Young Master Weird and aimed at the shadow, who stood with his eyes closed.
• The shadow admitted defeat and said Luo Fan's system had made victory impossible, then Luo Fan shot it three times and killed it.
• The shadow's corpse dissolved into motes of light, and Luo Fan wondered whether the Qipao Weird and An Xiaoran had passed their final tests or become shadows.

Luo Fan, An Xiaoran, and the Qipao Weird chose to continue to a mysterious Hidden Assessment, while the Giant Ape Weird took the ten-level reward and left. The Mantis Weird also chose to leave, but a second voice erupted from within it, revealing a struggle between two consciousnesses.

• Luo Fan found himself on the Tower's altar with An Xiaoran, the wounded Qipao Weird, the Giant Ape Weird, and the Mantis Weird, and concluded that the shadow's claim about replacing him had likely been a lie.
• The trial offered the five survivors a choice between leaving with ten levels and continuing to an assessment with unknown risks and rewards.
• Luo Fan chose to continue, and An Xiaoran and the Qipao Weird chose to accompany him despite her injuries.
• The Giant Ape Weird chose to leave and rose from Level 71 to Level 81 before being teleported away.
• The Mantis Weird chose to leave, but after Luo Fan, An Xiaoran, and the Qipao Weird vanished, two distinct voices argued from inside its body.

The Years Weird watched anxiously as Luo Fan and Xiaohong entered Fallen Sea Island’s hidden assessment, then began to suspect Luo Fan might be more than he seemed. At the assessment site, Luo Fan, the Qipao Weird, and An Xiaoran found dozens of other climbers, recovered the Qipao Weird’s arm, and started up a staircase that suppressed their powers; they met a human climber who asked Luo Fan who he was.

• The Years Weird saw Luo Fan leave for the hidden assessment with Xiaohong and grew fearful for his daughter, then wondered whether Luo Fan was unusual.
• Luo Fan arrived with the Qipao Weird and An Xiaoran at a gray space beneath a vast mountain, where they found a staircase with 9,999 steps and dozens of climbers.
• Luo Fan asked An Xiaoran to heal the Qipao Weird, and An Xiaoran used her transformed form and Regeneration to regrow the woman’s severed arm.
• Luo Fan, the Qipao Weird, and An Xiaoran began climbing and discovered that the staircase imposed increasingly strong suppression on their powers.
• Luo Fan caught up with a young human climber and asked who he was, but the young man asked Luo Fan the same questions.

Luo Fan learned that Zhao Xuan had arrived from 2023, before the Weird Apocalypse, and told him what would happen in 2024. He continued climbing the Void Temple’s staircase and caught up with a battle-worn man, whom he asked about his name and the year he came from.

• Luo Fan introduced himself to Zhao Xuan and learned that Zhao had been transported from a 2023 hiking trip on Mount Huang.
• Luo Fan realized that the Void Temple had gathered Trial Participants from different times and told Zhao Xuan about the coming Weird Apocalypse.
• Luo Fan spotted five humans ahead of him and decided to catch up with them to learn about the future beyond 2026.
• Luo Fan left Zhao Xuan behind and continued climbing the staircase with the Qipao Weird.
• Luo Fan caught up with a burly man in a tattered tactical uniform and asked his name and what year he came from.

Luo Fan learned that the Void Temple’s steps suppressed the levels of those who climbed them, then met a bird-headed rule-type Weird that claimed to come from beyond the mountain, from a timeless void. The chapter ended with Luo Fan preparing to ask it about the origin of Weirds.

• Luo Fan told the middle-aged man that he came from 2026 and described the Weird apocalypse, which the man said he had suspected from a premonition.
• As Luo Fan climbed with An Xiaoran and the Qipao Weird, An Xiaoran noticed her level was dropping, and Luo Fan used the Monitoring Glasses to discover the steps suppressed climbers’ levels.
• Luo Fan caught up with a young woman from early 2025, listened to her account of surviving the apocalypse, and assured her that humanity still existed two years later.
• A bird-headed rule-type Weird asked Luo Fan about the apocalypse and said it came from a timeless, empty void above the mountain.
• Luo Fan connected the Weird’s account to the mystery of where Weirds came from and prepared to question it.

Luo Fan asked the bird-headed Weird about its world and how rule-type Weird came to be, learning that Weird lived in separate Weird Domains and grew stronger by devouring others or comprehending rules. The bird-headed Weird redirected him to the Qipao Weird, who agreed to explain after Luo Fan asked her directly.

• Luo Fan bargained with the bird-headed Weird and described Blue Star and human society in exchange for an account of the Weird world.
• The bird-headed Weird explained that Weird lived in endless Weird Domains, followed the rule that the strong devoured the weak, and grew through eating or comprehending rules.
• The bird-headed Weird said that Weird who comprehended rules became rule-type Weird with power beyond their level.
• The bird-headed Weird pointed out that the Qipao Weird was herself a rule-type Weird, prompting Luo Fan to ask her how rules were comprehended.
• The Qipao Weird watched Luo Fan in silence, then agreed to tell him.

Luo Fan stopped the Qipao Weird from revealing the origins of Rule-Type Weirds after realizing the answer could put her at risk, and resolved to become strong enough to protect those he cared about. He continued climbing with An Xiaoran and the Qipao Weird, eventually reaching a woman from a later timeline who recognized him.

• Luo Fan asked whether answering his question would bring trouble to the Qipao Weird, then refused to let her risk revealing the secrets of Rule-Type Weirds.
• The Bird-Headed Weird watched Luo Fan and the Qipao Weird's exchange and wondered whether humans and Weirds could coexist despite the coming apocalypse.
• Luo Fan, An Xiaoran, and the Qipao Weird continued up the increasingly oppressive stairs, passing a middle-aged woman and an excited young man who called Luo Fan a hero and the pinnacle of Sequence Users.
• At around the seven-thousandth step, Luo Fan caught up with a woman whose suppressed level was 22 and asked her name and what year she came from.
• The woman recognized Luo Fan and excitedly said she had never expected to encounter him there.

Zhu Lanjun, a woman from December 2026, told Luo Fan about the future and warned him that rumors linked him to the Weird, including claims that he had married one. At the final stretch of the staircase, the Qipao Weird collapsed after climbing 87 steps, and Luo Fan began his own attempt under crushing pressure.

• Zhu Lanjun revealed that she knew Luo Fan from the future, where they had traded goods and kept in contact, and she shared news about the coming six months.
• Zhu Lanjun told Luo Fan that people on the Forum rumored he had connections to powerful Weird and had married a Weird, but she trusted him because his produce had saved lives in her Convoy.
• Luo Fan continued climbing with An Xiaoran and the Qipao Weird until they reached the nine-thousandth step, where everyone was suppressed to level 0.
• Luo Fan saw three Weird still climbing the final 999 steps, and the Giant Ape-shaped Weird collapsed and rolled back down.
• The Qipao Weird climbed 87 steps before exhaustion made her fall, and Luo Fan caught her as she rolled toward him.
• Luo Fan stepped onto the nine-thousand-and-first step and felt pressure like the entire mountain was pressing down on him.