Recaps

An Xiaoran used a Healing Cross to heal the battlefield and pin down a seventh-tier fierce beast, while the Hope Convoy’s fighters helped turn the tide against the beast attack. As the battle continued, invisible Lian Ziqiong followed the Money Rat through the Middle Ring toward the City Lord.

• An Xiaoran’s Healing Cross shattered the giant bird’s stone shell, pinned it to the ground, and healed Sequence Users across the battlefield.
• The guard commander ordered a concentrated assault on the trapped giant bird, while Luo Fan saved Killing Blow in case an eighth-tier fierce beast appeared and returned to fighting lower-tier beasts.
• The fighters’ feats lifted morale, and Ai Si chased a firebird fierce beast while Lin Feifei and Zhao Chunfeng attacked beasts from the city wall.
• Ding Wanning surveyed the Hope Convoy’s contributions as its members fought across the battlefield.
• Invisible Lian Ziqiong followed the Money Rat through the Middle Ring toward the City Lord.

Luo Fan and the Holy City’s defenders faced an eighth-tier fierce beast whose rule power shattered An Xiaoran’s Healing Cross and whose parrot unleashed a sleep-inducing feather rain. Luo Fan resisted the drowsiness with the Godhead Fragment and spotted the hidden enemy above the clouds.

• Luo Fan killed fourth- and fifth-tier fierce beasts while the sequence users and beasts suffered heavy casualties.
• An eighth-tier woman-shaped fierce beast watched the battlefield and recognized An Xiaoran and Luo Fan as dangerous opponents.
• The eighth-tier fierce beast shattered An Xiaoran’s Healing Cross with her rule power, freeing the wounded seventh-tier giant bird.
• The colorful parrot spread feathers across the battlefield, making the sequence users and Luo Fan grow overwhelmingly drowsy.
• Luo Fan used the Godhead Fragment to clear his head, then looked up and spotted a figure above the clouds.

An Xiaoran transformed into an angel and struck the seventh-tier parrot with Holy Judgment, ending its battlefield-wide illusion and awakening the Sequence Users. The adoration she received raised her Sequence Level to Lv46, and she sensed a new skill awakening within her.

• Luo Fan resisted the parrot's illusion while over a hundred low-tier Sequence Users fell asleep, and he identified both the parrot and the giant bird as seventh tier.
• An Xiaoran activated Angel Descending, transformed into a winged angel, and drew the attention of the battlefield.
• An Xiaoran used Divine Art: Holy Judgment to burn the parrot and knock it from the giant bird's head, causing its illusion to fade.
• The sleeping Sequence Users awoke and looked up at An Xiaoran with shock and reverence, while Ding Wanning recognized her affinity for the Angel Sequence.
• An Xiaoran absorbed the love and adoration of the people around her, rose from Lv45 to Lv46, and sensed a new skill awakening.

An Xiaoran gained the divine art Divine Art's Blessing and empowered the defenders, turning the battle against the beast tide in humanity's favor. The Winged Queen descended onto the battlefield, revealing her overwhelming presence and raising the threat of a humanoid fierce beast.

• An Xiaoran awakened Angel's Blessing as a divine art after fusing with Gabriel's Godhead Fragment.
• An Xiaoran cast Divine Art's Blessing, strengthening the sequence users across the battlefield and easing their pain.
• The defenders praised and worshipped An Xiaoran, while Ding Wanning watched with reverence and the wounded seventh-tier beasts feared her.
• The beast tide suffered heavy casualties, and its two seventh-tier beasts remained wounded or pinned down as the battle shifted in humanity's favor.
• The Winged Queen descended from the clouds, releasing a crushing aura that stopped both humans and fierce beasts in their tracks.

Lian Ziqiong followed the Money Rat to a hidden chamber behind a wall in the City Lord's Manor, but she could not find a way inside. On the Beast Tide battlefield, the eighth-tier Winged Queen attacked An Xiaoran, shattering her Holy Light Shield and driving her talons toward An Xiaoran's chest.

• Lian Ziqiong followed the Money Rat into the City Lord's Manor study, where it passed through a solid wall and revealed a secret chamber behind it.
• Lian Ziqiong confirmed that the chamber lay against a mountain rock face, then waited for the Money Rat to return.
• The Money Rat emerged from the wall and confirmed that what Lian Ziqiong sought was connected to the chamber, so she began searching the study for its entrance mechanism.
• The eighth-tier Winged Queen descended onto the battlefield, and her overwhelming aura halted both the human fighters and the Fierce Beasts.
• The Winged Queen recognized An Xiaoran and lunged at her with her talons.
• An Xiaoran retreated and raised a Holy Light Shield, but the Winged Queen shattered it and continued her strike toward An Xiaoran's chest.

Luo Fan fought the Winged Queen while Han Xiangdong used his Rule Skill to save An Xiaoran from her strike. The Winged Queen’s attack failed to harm Luo Fan, and she realized the fourth-tier human possessed a second Rule-Type Skill.

• The Winged Queen struck at An Xiaoran, but Han Xiangdong encased her in ice and blocked the attack.
• Luo Fan used the Weird Gun to slow the Winged Queen and fired three Crystal-Energy Bullets, which she deflected.
• The Winged Queen turned her attention to Luo Fan and charged at him.
• Luo Fan activated Decapitation on the injured Colorful Parrot and rushed toward it, ignoring the Winged Queen.
• The Winged Queen struck Luo Fan from behind, but his defense held, leading her to recognize that he had another Rule-Type Skill.

Luo Fan charged through the beast tide under the protection of his rule-type skill and caught up to the injured seventh-tier parrot. He stunned it with Sap and triggered Hunting Passive as he stabbed at its vital point.

• Zhi Zhou and the others realized Luo Fan possessed two rule-type skills, while Ding Wanning wondered whether his sniping ability was a third.
• Luo Fan ignored the fierce beasts' attacks and broke through their encirclement without being harmed.
• Luo Fan reached the wounded seventh-tier parrot, which fled after seeing its companion's attacks fail against him.
• Luo Fan caught the parrot, struck it with Sap, and triggered Hunting Passive as he stabbed toward a vital point.

Luo Fan killed the Seventh-Tier Parrot amid the beast tide and broke through to Demon Hunter Sequence, Lv50. The breakthrough revealed that he now understood the conditions for advancing to a fifth-tier Sequence User.

• Luo Fan stabbed the Seventh-Tier Parrot repeatedly with the Wraith Short Sword, burning and poisoning it while his invincibility protected him from the other beasts.
• Luo Fan activated Petrification Bait, causing the giant bird fierce beast to swallow it and turn to stone while the parrot was drawn back toward him.
• Luo Fan stabbed the parrot a final time through the heart, killing it as the Holy City's defenders watched.
• Luo Fan broke through to Demon Hunter Sequence, Lv50 after slaying the Seventh-Tier Parrot.
• Luo Fan realized he now knew the conditions for advancing to a fifth-tier Sequence User.

After reaching Lv50, Luo Fan learned that promotion to fifth-tier required him to slay a being that had mastered rules. When the Winged Queen trapped him in a domain that wounded him continuously, he tried to break through its barrier with the Wraith Short Sword.

• Luo Fan considered which rule-masters might satisfy his promotion mission and how difficult each target would be.
• After the parrot’s death ended the invincibility effect, Luo Fan transformed into Lian Ziqiong and escaped the beasts’ attacks with Shadow Walk.
• The Winged Queen descended and trapped Luo Fan alone inside a gray-and-white domain that caused unexplained wounds to appear on his body.
• Luo Fan raced to the domain’s edge and stabbed the barrier with the Wraith Short Sword.

Trapped inside the Winged Queen’s domain, Luo Fan realized he could not break its barrier or reach her in the air, but he could still target her with rule-type skills. He pulled out a Gatling gun to build the attack stacks needed for Killing Blow and opened fire.

• Luo Fan failed to damage the Winged Queen’s barrier with his Wraith Short Sword and declared that he would kill her instead.
• The Winged Queen mocked Luo Fan and evaded his jump, leaving him unable to reach her while she hovered above the ground.
• Luo Fan considered flying as a golden eagle but rejected the idea because he could not build Killing Blow stacks in that form.
• Luo Fan took a Gatling gun from his storage space and fired at the Winged Queen to build stacks from a distance.

Luo Fan fired a Gatling gun at the Winged Queen to build Killing Blow stacks, but she dodged once she sensed a hidden danger. With the stack count far from its goal and the domain draining his blood, Luo Fan searched for another way to land an unavoidable hit.

• Luo Fan fired his Gatling gun at the Winged Queen while Killing Blow's stack count climbed.
• The Winged Queen let the bullets strike her, then dodged the barrage when Luo Fan's focused stare made her wary.
• Luo Fan tracked her with the Gatling, but her speed kept most bullets from hitting and slowed the stack count's rise.
• The Winged Queen stopped and continued watching Luo Fan cautiously, while the domain's damage caused him to bleed.
• Luo Fan stopped firing and considered his remaining options, concluding that he needed to attack when the Winged Queen could not dodge.

Luo Fan used the Weird Gun's stored Mimicry to become the Young Master Weird, whose rule ability nullified the Winged Queen's domain and healed his wounds. The Winged Queen abandoned her plan to let the domain kill him and charged at him, while Luo Fan waited for her to enter his trap.

• Luo Fan activated the Weird Gun's Energy Storage and Mimicry abilities, transforming into the Young Master Weird.
• The Winged Queen realized Luo Fan's new form had nullified her domain's rule and healed his injuries.
• Luo Fan confirmed that the transformation also left him free of the Innate Yang Steel's suppression inside the domain.
• The Winged Queen declared that she would kill Luo Fan herself and launched a direct attack.
• Luo Fan welcomed her charge, believing the eighth-tier beast was rushing into his trap.

After Luo Fan killed the Seventh-Tier Parrot, the Eighth Tier Winged Queen disappeared with him into an Alternate-Dimension Space and attacked him. Luo Fan lured her into a Sealing Trap, which caught her leg, but the fight remained unresolved.

• Luo Fan killed the Seventh-Tier Parrot, then the Winged Queen vanished along with him as she activated an Alternate-Dimension Space.
• An Xiaoran noticed Luo Fan's disappearance, and Zhao Chunfeng suspected the Winged Queen had isolated him in a space like a Weird Domain.
• The Winged Queen attacked Luo Fan inside the grayish-white space, and her claws carved a canyon hundreds of meters deep when he dodged.
• Luo Fan fled along the canyon's edge, using Spirit Void Step and the Swift Wind Boots while the Winged Queen pursued him.
• Luo Fan abruptly changed direction and triggered a Sealing Trap, which clamped onto the Winged Queen's leg.

Luo Fan trapped the Winged Queen with Sealing Trap, used a Gatling to build Killing Blow to one hundred stacks, and stabbed her through the heart with the Wraith Short Sword. The Winged Queen remained alive and mocked him, leaving Luo Fan baffled by why Killing Blow had failed.

• The Winged Queen discovered that Sealing Trap had immobilized her and sealed her power.
• Luo Fan summoned his Gatling and fired at the Winged Queen while she shielded herself with her wings.
• Luo Fan built Killing Blow to one hundred stacks as bullets struck the Winged Queen’s feathers.
• Luo Fan used the Wraith Short Sword to stab the Winged Queen through her highlighted heart weak point.
• The Winged Queen mocked Luo Fan and showed no pain or fear, leaving him confused that the thrust had not killed her.

Luo Fan overcame the Winged Queen’s immortality by revealing that his Killing Blow was a Control Level rule, killing her and collapsing her domain. Back on the Beast Tide battlefield, he broke through to Fifth Tier and sensed a new skill awakening.

• Luo Fan pulled the Wraith Short Sword from the Winged Queen and asked whether her immortality rule was Control Level.
• Luo Fan explained that Killing Blow was a Control Level skill, and the Winged Queen realized it could suppress her Manipulation Level domain.
• The Winged Queen weakened and died from her heart wound as Luo Fan watched.
• The Alternate-Dimension Space shattered and returned Luo Fan to the Beast Tide battlefield.
• Luo Fan broke through to Fifth Tier, reaching Demon Hunter Sequence, Lv51, and felt a new skill awakening.

An Xiaoran used her Healing Cross to suppress the Seventh-Tier Giant Bird Fierce Beast and rally the city’s Sequence Users. As her Divinity grew amid their cheers, Luo Fan emerged from a collapsing space.

• The Seventh-Tier Giant Bird Fierce Beast unleashed a barrage of Wind Blades, devastating the battlefield and killing Sequence Users.
• An Xiaoran summoned the Healing Cross, then transformed it into a sword and launched it at the Giant Bird.
• The Cross Sword struck the Giant Bird and pinned it to the ground with its Rule Power.
• The Sequence Users cheered An Xiaoran as her Divinity increased, while Ding Wanning and Ding Yuening watched.
• A crack opened in the void, and Luo Fan walked out of the collapsing space.

Luo Fan returned from the Alternate-Dimension Space after killing the eighth-tier Fierce Beast and discovered that his new level 56 skill, Ode to Courage, could temporarily raise him to match a stronger opponent at a severe cost. After An Xiaoran healed his wounds, he announced the beast’s death, leaving the battlefield stunned and celebrating their victory.

• Luo Fan learned that Ode to Courage could raise his level to match a higher-level target for a limited time, after which he would lose access to his powers for twenty-four hours.
• An Xiaoran healed Luo Fan’s wounds with her golden light while the battlefield’s fighters and beasts watched him return.
• Ding Wanning asked Luo Fan where the eighth-tier Fierce Beast had gone, and he said he had slain it.
• The Sequence Users reacted in disbelief as they realized Luo Fan had broken through to the fifth tier and killed an eighth-tier Fierce Beast.
• The battlefield erupted in cheers as the fighters celebrated their victory.

After Luo Fan killed the eighth-tier Winged Queen, the Fierce Beast tide scattered, and Holy City’s defenders finished off the pinned seventh-tier Giant Bird. A message from Lian Ziqiong led Luo Fan away from the battlefield as she opened the secret chamber in the City Lord’s Manor and entered it.

• The Fierce Beasts fled after the Winged Queen’s death, and the Sequence Users cheered as Ding Wanning realized Luo Fan had turned the battle around.
• Luo Fan called for ranged attacks on the pinned seventh-tier Giant Bird, and the Sequence Users killed it with a barrage of attacks.
• Luo Fan received Lian Ziqiong’s message that she had found the passage to the secret chamber, then left An Xiaoran to rest and departed for the City Lord’s Manor.
• Lian Ziqiong found and pressed a hidden button in the study, opening a concealed passage in the wall.
• Lian Ziqiong checked the passage for danger, pushed open the stone door at its end, and entered the secret chamber.

Lian Ziqiong entered a hidden chamber and stole the milky-white metal Luo Fan wanted, while discovering a strange, dangerous black heart inside. After she left, the heart began beating faster and more strongly in the sealed darkness.

• Lian Ziqiong entered the hidden chamber and spotted a milky-white metal piece glowing like sunlight.
• Lian Ziqiong noticed a suspended black liquid heart beating faintly and sensed that it was extremely dangerous.
• At the Money Rat's urging, Lian Ziqiong took the metal and placed it in her Mustard Seed Bag, plunging the chamber into darkness.
• Lian Ziqiong left through the study window using Shadow Walk, and the hidden chamber sealed itself again.
• The black heart's beats grew stronger and their intervals shortened from over ten seconds to eight seconds.

After the Holy City survived the beast tide, Ding Wanning thanked Luo Fan and the Hope Convoy for helping defend it. Luo Fan returned to his residence to find Lian Ziqiong waiting with the Innate Yang Steel.

• The surviving Sequence Users cleared the battlefield and counted the fierce beast corpses as members of the Hope Convoy returned from the fight, exhausted and injured.
• Ding Wanning watched Luo Fan and his companions leave the battlefield, then bowed and thanked them for saving the Holy City.
• Luo Fan told Ding Wanning that he had fought because he considered himself part of the Holy City and believed humanity shared a common enemy in the Weird and fierce beasts.
• Luo Fan and Ding Wanning discussed the distribution of corpses, treatment of the wounded, and repairs before she urged the convoy to rest.
• Luo Fan returned to his residence and found Lian Ziqiong sitting in the courtyard, handling the Innate Yang Steel.

After Lian Ziqiong delivered the Innate Yang Steel, Luo Fan explained that it suppressed Weird and admitted he had concealed its value from her. As Ding Wanning finally fell asleep after the beast tide, a black aura appeared and a version of herself in her consciousness accused her of losing authority to Luo Fan and his companions.

• Lian Ziqiong gave Luo Fan the Innate Yang Steel, and the Hope Convoy gathered to examine its glow.
• Luo Fan explained that the Innate Yang Steel repelled Weird and was why none dared approach the Holy City.
• Lian Ziqiong realized Luo Fan had come to the Holy City for the steel, and Luo Fan admitted he feared she might keep it after learning its value.
• Lian Ziqiong accepted his honesty, reminded him to pay her two sixth-tier Weird Crystals, and went to bed.
• Ding Wanning returned to her bedchamber and fell asleep, relieved that the beast tide had been defeated and the Holy City saved.
• A faint black aura seeped from Ding Wanning as a version of her appeared in her consciousness and accused her of letting Luo Fan and his companions eclipse her authority.

After leaving Holy City with the Innate Yang Steel, Luo Fan sensed something in the night sky while Ding Wanning was overtaken by her evil self. The transformed Ding Wanning awakened with a murderous fixation on Luo Fan and An Xiaoran.

• Luo Fan decided the convoy would return to Lin City before planning how to use the Innate Yang Steel, and the Hope Convoy departed Holy City.
• Luo Fan told a guard he was going out to check on the Fierce Beasts, and the convoy traveled east across the Gobi Desert.
• As Luo Fan considered the Innate Yang Steel, the Nightmare Nekomata landed on his lap, and he suddenly looked toward the distant night sky.
• In a dream, evil Ding Wanning exploited Ding Wanning's fears about Luo Fan, Ding Yuening, and An Xiaoran to persuade her to accept her desires.
• Evil Ding Wanning merged with Ding Wanning, who awoke surrounded by black smoke and declared that An Xiaoran was hers.

Ding Wanning, now a seventh-tier Sequence User with a Weird-like aura, attacked Luo Fan and the Hope Convoy without warning. Luo Fan’s invulnerability protected him from her strikes, and he tried to learn what had happened while Mo Yuling urged him to let her intervene.

• Luo Fan sensed an approaching figure, and Ding Wanning crashed down before the Hope Convoy with black wings and a corrupted appearance.
• Luo Fan used his Monitoring Glasses to discover Ding Wanning had risen from Lv55 to Lv72 overnight and recognized the aura of a Weird in her.
• Ding Wanning accused Luo Fan of deserving to die and fired black beams at him.
• Luo Fan activated his Decapitation Skill on An Xiaoran, making himself invulnerable as Ding Wanning’s attacks vanished without harming him.
• Ding Wanning continued attacking Luo Fan, who asked her what had happened, while Mo Yuling offered to intervene.
• Luo Fan told Mo Yuling not to act rashly and insisted on handling Ding Wanning himself.

Luo Fan tried the Innate Yang Steel and Petrification Bait on the transformed Ding Wanning, but neither affected her. After Niu Dagang blocked her attack and broke his arm, Luo Fan abandoned his reluctance to fight and aimed a Pear Blossom Needle Storm at her.

• Luo Fan brought out the Innate Yang Steel, but Ding Wanning ignored it while the Nightmare Nekomata was weakened by its radiance.
• Luo Fan used Petrification Bait, but Ding Wanning did not look at it or obey its rule power.
• The Decapitation Skill's invincibility ended, and Niu Dagang blocked Ding Wanning's attack, breaking his already injured left arm and losing his shield.
• Luo Fan's doubts and reluctance to kill Ding Wanning gave way after Niu Dagang was injured.
• Luo Fan drew a Pear Blossom Needle Storm and aimed its forty-nine poisoned Steel Needles at Ding Wanning.

Luo Fan tried to build Killing Blow stacks against Ding Wanning with the Pear Blossom Needle Storm and a Gatling, but her speed and black barrier stopped him at fifty-two stacks. With his other options exhausted, he drew the Wraith Short Sword and activated Ode to Courage, preparing to confront her directly.

• Luo Fan fired the Pear Blossom Needle Storm at Ding Wanning, whose Seventh-Tier body shrugged off the needles as Burning and Poisoning effects activated.
• Ding Wanning extinguished the effects with her black aura, and Luo Fan fired a second Pear Blossom Needle Storm as she dodged most of its needles.
• Luo Fan used a Gatling against Ding Wanning, who formed a black barrier to block the bullets and kept his Killing Blow count at fifty-two.
• Luo Fan decided he could no longer delay, drew the Wraith Short Sword, and activated Ode to Courage.