Recaps

Luo Fan’s group rescued Lin Xiaowei and David, then let them join the hunt for high-tier Weird on Eastern Japan Island. After a peaceful night of travel, the group reached a village to rest, where Luo Fan found that the scene changed as soon as he entered.

• Lin Xiaowei asked Luo Fan’s group to let her and David accompany them, and Luo Fan agreed after warning them about the dangers of hunting high-tier Weird.
• Luo Fan told Lin Xiaowei about China’s survivors, the Sequence Alliance, and the territory humanity had secured in Heilongjiang Province.
• Lin Xiaowei joked that Niu Dagang’s promise to take her back to China sounded like a death flag, making Luo Fan’s group laugh.
• Luo Fan’s group traveled through the night without encountering any Weird, and An Xiaoran spotted a nearby village where they could rest.
• Luo Fan entered the village and found that the scene before him had suddenly changed.

Luo Fan and his companions entered a hidden village where time and sunlight behaved strangely, and found that they could not escape. The villagers called the place Peach Blossom Village and insisted it was in China, despite Luo Fan’s claim that they were on Eastern Japan Island.

• Luo Fan and his companions discovered that the village’s dusk-lit scenery differed from the outside and that its sunlight did not bother the Weird Bride.
• Minako urged the group to leave, but they found that retreating did not change the scenery, and An Xiaoran flew in a loop back to them.
• Luo Fan led the group into Peach Blossom Village to question its villagers after they realized they could not escape.
• The village chief said Peach Blossom Village was in China, while Mo Yuling confirmed it was the same village they had seen on Eastern Japan Island.
• Luo Fan told the villagers they were on Eastern Japan Island, and the village chief and the other villagers angrily rejected his claim.

Luo Fan and his group entered Peach Blossom Village, where the villagers believed they were Chinese and lived in 1975. After arranging lodging and learning that the villagers had never left, Luo Fan began questioning how the village shop got its supplies.

• Luo Fan apologized for the misunderstanding, claimed he was leading a tour group, and persuaded the village chief to let the group stay overnight.
• The village chief asked whether they had seen someone with wings, but Luo Fan denied seeing anyone and kept An Xiaoran’s angel form secret.
• Luo Fan and An Xiaoran stayed at the chief’s house, where he gave braised eggs to the chief’s grandchildren and noticed An Xiaoran speaking warmly to another girl.
• Luo Fan spotted a calendar marked September 16, 1975, and learned that the villagers accepted the year as normal.
• The village chief said the villagers did not leave Peach Blossom Village and bought supplies at the village shop, prompting Luo Fan to ask how the shop restocked.

Luo Fan learned that Peach Blossom Village’s villagers never leave and that its shop replenishes supplies without restocking. The Weird Bride conjectured that a powerful rule-type Weird was hiding among the villagers and controlling the village, and Luo Fan began absorbing a Weird Crystal before his phone received a private message.

• The village chief and his family told Luo Fan that villagers had no reason to leave, supplies never ran out, and Huzi was expected to inherit the chief’s position.
• Luo Fan added the Weird Bride to a group chat and shared what he had learned about the village’s endless supplies.
• Zhao Chunfeng and Lin Feifei reported that the villagers believed it was 1975 and had never left the village, while Niu Dagang went to sleep.
• The Weird Bride deduced that a rule-type Weird had reversed the village’s day and night and was living among the villagers to strengthen its abilities.
• Luo Fan and the group agreed to search for the hidden Weird, and Luo Fan began absorbing a ninth-tier Weird Crystal.
• Luo Fan’s Doomsday Phone suddenly sounded a private-message notification.

After Niu Dagang reported that Peach Blossom Village’s so-called madman claimed the village was fake and contained Weirds, Luo Fan tried to uncover the truth. The Golden Weird Mirror gave no answer, but his godhead authority said identifying the hidden Weird would cost thirty million faith points, and Luo Fan went to meet Niu Dagang and the madman.

• Niu Dagang told Luo Fan that he had met Peach Blossom Village’s madman, who claimed the village was fake and that Weirds were there.
• Luo Fan asked the Golden Weird Mirror about the village and the Weird hiding there, but it gave no response.
• Luo Fan used his godhead authority and learned that identifying the hidden Weird would cost thirty million faith points.
• Luo Fan left the village chief’s home and followed Niu Dagang’s directions to a dilapidated house at the village’s edge.
• Luo Fan found Niu Dagang waiting beside a disheveled man lounging in a wicker chair, whom he took to be the village’s madman.

Luo Fan questioned Ren Ke, a villager dismissed as a madman, and heard that he claimed outsiders would soon become one of the villagers. As gossip raised a possible connection between Ren Ke and Chunxia, Minako arrived with important information she had uncovered.

• Niu Dagang introduced Luo Fan to Ren Ke, who warned that Luo Fan and the other outsiders would soon become one of the people of Peach Blossom Village.
• An old villager interrupted Ren Ke and said he had acted this way for a long time, while warning Luo Fan and Niu Dagang that Ren Ke had hurt someone before.
• Village women said Ren Ke had injured Chunxia because she did not believe him, though Chunxia reportedly did not remember knowing him.
• Luo Fan recalled that Chunxia had seemed interested in leaving the village before her husband stopped her.
• Minako told Luo Fan she had uncovered important information and had come early to share it with him.

Minako told Luo Fan that Peach Blossom Village residents feared leaving rather than simply having no desire to go, and Luo Fan concluded that this fear might be enforced by the rule-type weird. He decided to investigate the source of the villagers’ fear.

• Minako reported that a young villager’s mother had married into Peach Blossom Village and never returned to visit her family.
• The young woman told Minako that her mother wanted to go home but did not dare, then refused to explain and warned Minako not to ask such questions.
• Luo Fan realized that the villagers’ fear of leaving was a village taboo and reconsidered Ren Ke’s claims that the village was fake and contained a weird.
• Minako explained that the young woman seemed terrified after letting the secret slip, and Luo Fan praised Minako for the useful information.
• Luo Fan suspected the rule-type weird was keeping the villagers obedient through fear and decided to investigate that possibility.

Luo Fan learned that villagers often forgot their pasts, then discovered that David had begun forgetting people in their group. The chapter ended with Luo Fan and the others confronting David as he failed to recognize Luo Fan.

• Luo Fan returned to the village chief's house, where An Xiaoran played happily with the chief's grandchildren.
• After breakfast, Luo Fan questioned Chunxia while she washed clothes, and she said many villagers often forgot things, including where they came from.
• Niu Dagang summoned Luo Fan, reporting that David barely recognized their group.
• Luo Fan and Niu Dagang hurried to David's lodging, where Zhao Chunfeng explained that David had struggled to remember Lin Xiaowei.
• David looked at Luo Fan and said he had no recollection of him.

After David forgot the Hope Convoy members overnight, Luo Fan and the others worried that an unseen Weird was erasing their memories. The Weird Bride revealed that she was immune, and Luo Fan realized he and An Xiaoran might be protected as well.

• David's memory loss alarmed Luo Fan, Zhao Chunfeng, and the Hope Convoy, who feared they might also be forgetting things without noticing.
• Zhao Chunfeng asked Luo Fan to figure out what was happening, and their familiar banter briefly eased the group's tense mood.
• Lin Xiaowei urged everyone to focus on a solution, and Luo Fan said they needed to find the hidden Weird as soon as possible.
• Zhao Chunfeng suggested investigating Ren Ke, while Lin Feifei pointed to Chunxia as another lead.
• The Weird Bride said that no one could make her lose her memories, and Luo Fan realized that he and An Xiaoran might also be immune because of their Godhead Authority.

Luo Fan and the Hope Convoy discussed how Godhead Fragments seemed to protect him and An Xiaoran from memory loss, then split up to investigate the rule-type Weird. While questioning Chunxia, Luo Fan learned that people from other villages sometimes came to the village.

• Niu Dagang spoke up about how urgent the threat of memory loss felt to the Hope Convoy.
• Luo Fan revealed that he and An Xiaoran were also safe from losing their memories, and Lin Feifei suggested their Godhead Fragments were the reason.
• Niu Dagang said that Luo Fan, An Xiaoran, and the Weird Bride could help the group fight back against the Weird.
• The Hope Convoy members separated to seek information, with the Weird Bride going to find Ren Ke and Luo Fan continuing to investigate Chunxia.
• Luo Fan met Chunxia by the river and learned that outsiders from other villages sometimes visited the village.

Luo Fan learned that outsiders who came to Peach Blossom Village lost their memories, believed they were villagers, and were accepted into local families. Chunxia explained that she wanted him to support her wish for her children to see the outside world, but their conversation ended before he could ask why villagers feared leaving.

• Luo Fan questioned Chunxia and learned that outsiders lost their memories, came to think of themselves as villagers, and were accepted by village families.
• Chunxia confirmed that if Luo Fan lost his memories while staying with her family, he would become part of it, and she revealed she wanted him to feel affection for her.
• Luo Fan misunderstood Chunxia's motive, but she clarified that she hoped he would support her wish for her two children to leave the village and see the world.
• Chunxia took the laundry buckets and ignored Luo Fan's further questions as they arrived home, where her mother-in-law was sorting vegetables.

Luo Fan realized that the memory loss and assimilation affecting outsiders had reached Niu Dagang and Ai Si. He found Ai Si and Ximen Chuixue fighting because they had forgotten each other and could not stand one another.

• Niu Dagang rushed to Luo Fan but forgot what he had intended to tell him, then said he had come from home.
• Luo Fan recognized that Niu Dagang was losing memories and beginning to believe he belonged in Peach Blossom Village.
• Luo Fan and Niu Dagang reached the village road, where villagers were watching Ai Si and Ximen Chuixue fight.
• Ai Si failed to recognize Luo Fan and insulted Ximen Chuixue, while Ximen Chuixue still remembered Luo Fan but had forgotten Ai Si.
• Luo Fan realized the two show-offs had forgotten each other and fought over their clashing attitudes.

In Peach Blossom Village, Luo Fan learned that the hidden Rule-Type Weird continually erased the villagers’ memories and changed the identity it lived under to better understand human life. After gaining 36 million faith points from the Weird Bride, he resolved to find it himself.

• Lin Xiaowei, Niu Dagang, and the others mocked Ai Si and Ximen Chuixue, while Luo Fan realized the Hope Convoy members had forgotten one another and their abilities.
• An Xiaoran asked Luo Fan whether everyone had forgotten each other, and he reassured her that it was temporary.
• The Weird Bride explained that Ren Ke could seal and restore his memories, and that he had once seen the hidden Rule-Type Weird, which took on different villagers’ identities.
• The Weird Bride explained that the Weird changed roles to immerse itself in varied human lives and strengthen its rule ability.
• Luo Fan told the Weird Bride he would find the hidden Weird, and his full-grade divinity granted him 36 million faith points.
• Luo Fan considered how to locate the Weird and recognized that he would still have to investigate rather than wait for it to reveal itself.

Luo Fan asked the Weird Bride about the villagers’ fear of leaving Peach Blossom Village and decided to question Chunxia. He caught up with Chunxia while bringing water to the fields and asked why she wanted Huzi and the others to see the outside world, leaving her answer pending.

• Luo Fan concluded that he needed to learn why villagers feared leaving Peach Blossom Village and why Chunxia wanted her children to go outside.
• The Weird Bride teased Luo Fan about Chunxia, and the couple joked about jealousy and a promised spanking.
• After Ai Si and Ximen Chuixue stopped fighting, Luo Fan returned to the village chief’s house for lunch.
• Luo Fan took water to the fields and caught up with Chunxia, who had forgotten to bring it.
• Luo Fan asked Chunxia why villagers feared leaving the village and whether she was afraid, but she had not yet answered.

Luo Fan learned why Peach Blossom Village’s residents feared leaving and questioned Chunxia and Ren Ke about how to get out. Ren Ke revealed that villagers could leave at midnight, giving Luo Fan the final clue he needed to understand how to find the hidden Rule-Type Weird.

• Chunxia told Luo Fan that no villager who had left Peach Blossom Village had ever returned, but said her intuition told her leaving was not bad.
• Luo Fan realized Chunxia hesitated to explain how to leave because she wanted him to stay and join her family.
• Luo Fan delivered water to Chunxia and the village chief in the fields, then left and found Ren Ke watching ants trapped inside a water-filled circle.
• Luo Fan confirmed that he remembered his origins, name, and Hunter Sequence, and Ren Ke said his own lucidity might not last much longer.
• Ren Ke told Luo Fan that villagers could leave the village at midnight, and Luo Fan recognized it as the final clue to finding the hidden Rule-Type Weird.

Luo Fan realized that Peach Blossom Village’s reversed day and night let its hidden Weird’s control weaken at midnight, so he planned to expose it by destroying the village buildings. After waiting until midnight, he copied Ai Si’s appearance and used the Path of Flames to set the entire village ablaze.

• Luo Fan deduced that villagers could leave at midnight because the outside sunlight was strongest then and weakened the Weird sealing Peach Blossom Village.
• Luo Fan told Ren Ke he had found a way to locate the hidden Weird, then explained his plan to the Weird Bride, who agreed that destroying the buildings could expose it.
• Luo Fan waited through dinner and nightfall, reflecting that his Godhead Fragment had spared him from the memory loss affecting the others.
• After his check-in notification appeared at midnight, Luo Fan used Mimicry to take Ai Si’s appearance and activated the Path of Flames.
• Luo Fan raced through Peach Blossom Village and set all its buildings ablaze.

Luo Fan set Peach Blossom Village ablaze to force the hidden Weird into the open, while the villagers fled and the Weird Bride stayed by his side. Chunxia emerged from the flames as the Weird behind the village’s strange events, accepting that her death could free her children to leave.

• Luo Fan used Mimicry to look like Ai Si and set the village houses on fire, then revealed his true appearance as the villagers confronted him.
• Luo Fan ordered the villagers to leave and used Black Bird’s gale and hundreds of gasoline barrels to intensify the fire.
• The villagers escaped the burning village, while the Weird Bride remained beside Luo Fan despite the sunlight hurting her.
• After more than ten minutes, Chunxia screamed from inside the village, and Luo Fan recognized her as the hidden Weird.
• Chunxia told Luo Fan that if she died, her children would be able to leave the village and see the outside world.

After Chunxia died, Peach Blossom Village’s residents regained their memories and Luo Fan collected her rule-type weird crystal. The villagers were revealed to be Eastern Japan Sequence Users, who panicked when they saw the Weird Bride unharmed in sunlight, and Luo Fan demanded to know what they were saying.

• Chunxia dissolved into ash, the village shifted to blazing midday, and its residents recovered their memories.
• Luo Fan collected Chunxia’s weird crystal and reflected on her wish for her children to leave the village; the Weird Bride explained how her family ties had strengthened her Rule Ability.
• Luo Fan discovered that the villagers were from Eastern Japan and that most of them were Sequence Users.
• The villagers, along with Lin Xiaowei, David, and Minako, stared in terror as the Weird Bride stood unharmed in sunlight.
• Luo Fan told Minako that the Weird Bride was his wife, then asked what the villagers were shouting.

Luo Fan offered the Eastern Japan Sequence Users a chance to leave rather than expose the Weird Bride, but some refused and attacked. The Weird Bride killed them instantly by aging them to death, leaving the remaining Sequence Users terrified.

• Minako stayed silent when Luo Fan questioned her, then pleaded that the Eastern Japan Sequence Users had only been frightened by An Xiaoran.
• A little boy offered An Xiaoran a chocolate bar, and she accepted it gratefully.
• Luo Fan told Minako to translate his offer: the Sequence Users could leave unharmed if they went at once.
• Minako warned the group that Luo Fan was China's strongest Sequence User and had slain a ninth-tier Weird, but a stubborn handful accused her of trying to scare them and chose to attack.
• More than twenty Sequence Users advanced with flames, Shikigami, and drawn Tachi, but the Weird Bride immobilized them and aged them to death within moments.
• The surviving Eastern Japan Sequence Users stared at the Weird Bride in terror, and Minako realized she seemed even stronger than Luo Fan.

Luo Fan and the Weird Bride rested with their companions in his spacious uncanny-artifact RV after the survivors fled Peach Blossom Village. The Eastern Japan Sequence Users forgot the Bride and why they had run, but Ren Ke remembered her because his sequence ability restored his memories.

• The Eastern Japan Sequence Users fled after the Weird Bride killed more than twenty of their comrades, and Luo Fan promised Minako he would not attack those who had not provoked him.
• Luo Fan brought out his RV, whose interior was far larger than its exterior, and invited the group inside to rest.
• The fleeing Sequence Users gradually forgot the Weird Bride and could no longer explain why they had run, then continued toward the coast rather than turn back.
• Ren Ke remembered the Weird Bride after his sequence ability reset his memories, and he judged her more terrifying than the Weird behind Peach Blossom Village.

After a lavish hot pot dinner, Luo Fan’s group continued through Eastern Japan on foot while over a hundred survivors fled Weirds toward the coast. Most of the survivors escaped by sea, but Ren Ke was caught by a Rule-Type Weird, which swallowed his soul and discovered an inexplicable memory.

• Luo Fan served a lavish hot pot meal, and Niu Dagang explained to Lin Xiaowei how agriculture and online shopping had improved food supplies in China.
• Luo Fan’s group left the RV and continued toward their destination under the Weird Bride’s guidance because the roads were impassable.
• More than a hundred survivors ran toward the coast as Weirds pursued them, but only a little over twenty reached the shore.
• A Sequence User formed a wooden boat from vines, allowing the survivors to escape into the sea, though several more died during the pursuit.
• Ren Ke was immobilized by a Humanoid Rule-Type Weird, which extracted and swallowed his soul before reacting in disbelief to a memory it found.

An Xiaoran broke through to LV56 and awakened the Resurrection Technique, which could revive the dead without a price but had strict limits. Luo Fan recognized the skill as a major safeguard for himself and the Hope Convoy.

• Luo Fan sensed an aura fluctuation from An Xiaoran's room and discovered she had reached LV56.
• An Xiaoran told Luo Fan that she had awakened the Resurrection Technique, which could bring the dead back to life.
• An Xiaoran explained that resurrection removed all negative conditions, but the target had to have been dead for less than an hour and the skill had a twenty-four-hour cooldown.
• Luo Fan judged the Resurrection Technique a divine skill despite its restrictions and felt that it greatly improved the Hope Convoy's safety.
• Luo Fan wondered when Brother Niu, Brother Zhao, and the others would awaken new rule-type skills from their crystals.

Soul Devourer reported that Die Your Highness had appeared on Eastern Japan Island and seemingly survived sunlight, prompting an uncanny young Weird to order a search for the human he believed had impersonated her. Meanwhile, Luo Fan and his companions ate a lavish dinner before their next journey, and he hinted that they had something to celebrate.

• Soul Devourer told the uncanny young Weird that Zi Yi was dead, Peach Blossom Village had been destroyed, and its villagers had escaped.
• Soul Devourer reported seeing Die Your Highness in a revenant's memories and said she had stood in sunlight without harm.
• The uncanny young Weird decided a human Sequence User had impersonated Die Your Highness using a Rule-Type Skill.
• The uncanny young Weird ordered every Weird to find the suspected impersonator so he could learn where Die Your Highness was.
• Luo Fan cooked a large dinner for his companions before they continued traveling after dark.
• Niu Dagang asked what they were celebrating, and Luo Fan confirmed there was something to celebrate without explaining what it was.

Luo Fan announced that An Xiaoran had awakened the Resurrection Technique, drawing excitement from the Hope Convoy and its guests. He explained its limits, then proposed testing whether it could resurrect Weirds.

• Luo Fan revealed that An Xiaoran had awakened the Resurrection Technique, astonishing everyone present.
• Luo Fan warned that the skill could only be used once every twenty-four hours and only on someone dead for less than an hour.
• Han Shanzhong and Ai Si noted the restrictions but recognized the skill’s practical value.
• The Weird Bride asked whether An Xiaoran could use the skill on Weirds, and Luo Fan suggested finding one to test it.

Luo Fan’s group used the Weird Bride’s Innate Yin Jade to draw a horde of Weird, then An Xiaoran pinned down one with her Healing Cross so Luo Fan could test his Weird Gun. After the gun killed the captured Weird, An Xiaoran attempted to use Resurrection Technique on it.

• Niu Dagang pointed out that the group had struggled to encounter any Weird, and the Weird Bride proposed using her Innate Yin Jade as bait.
• After resting until nightfall, the Weird Bride revealed the Innate Yin Jade and attracted thousands of Weird to the town.
• An Xiaoran used Healing Cross to pin down a third-tier Weird, and the Weird Bride put away the jade as Luo Fan drew his Weird Gun.
• The Innate Yang Steel aura from Luo Fan’s gun drove the approaching Weird away, leaving Lin Xiaowei and Minako astonished.
• Luo Fan shot the pinned Weird in the head, killing it instantly, and An Xiaoran cast Resurrection Technique on its body.