Recaps

Yang Yong and Chen Gen returned to the cabins and told the team about the sea monster and the unknown parasite. Cao Xianming identified the parasite’s effect as an irreversible “Molt,” but the team could not determine what triggered it or whether anyone was infected.

• Yang Yong cut his arm to show Chen Gen that he could still feel pain, and Chen Gen concluded that newcomers had not yet been infected.
• Yang Yong and Chen Gen found that the ground had absorbed all the sea monster’s mucus before they could collect it.
• Back at the cabins, Yang Yong and Chen Gen shared what they had seen and learned with the gathered team.
• Cao Xianming used his Data Model and determined that the impurity was an Eerie whose essence was “Molt,” which forcibly transformed its host into something else.
• Cao Xianming said Molt was irreversible and its trigger was unknown, while Wang Ying noted that Yang Yong and Chen Gen could still feel pain.
• Xiao Xuan asked what the team should do, but no one had an answer.

Yang Yong watched the settlement continue its grim routine while investigating the island and noticing that the Inner Core’s light behaved unpredictably. Chen Gen, Cao Xianming, and Zheng Xiaofeng returned from searching the Whale Lord’s body without finding any parasites, leaving the group unsure what had changed.

• A woman discovered her husband Liu was missing, unaware that Yang Yong had seen him transform into a sea monster and leap into the water.
• Chen Gen sent Cao Xianming and Zheng Xiaofeng to clear parasites from the Whale Lord, assigned Yang Yong to work with Old Man Xia, and had the others watch the villagers.
• Yang Yong left the fields and searched the village and island, but the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace found nothing unusual to refine.
• Yang Yong observed that the Inner Core shifted west and dimmed after only about twelve hours, unlike the previous day’s thirty-six-hour light.
• Chen Gen, Cao Xianming, and Zheng Xiaofeng returned early and reported that they had traveled far without seeing a single parasite; Wang Ying asked whether they had taken the wrong route.

After Chen Gen found the route clear of the creatures, Yang Yong feared they had all found human hosts and prepared for the night. As the darkness fell, Auntie Liu transformed into a monster and fled, leaving the villagers wondering who would change next.

• Chen Gen told Yang Yong that the route where he usually saw creatures was completely clear.
• Yang Yong feared the creatures had returned to the Whale Lord or found human hosts, and Chen Gen ordered everyone to stay awake that night.
• Yang Yong, Chen Gen, Cao Xianming, Wang Ying, Mang Dabiao, Hu Xian'er, Huang Xiaojuan, and Zheng Xiaofeng gathered in the largest wooden house and waited in silence.
• Auntie Liu appeared at the doorway with scales, gills, and altered eyes, then split open as a monster emerged from her back and ran into the darkness.
• The villagers watched in terror and wondered whether Brother Liu, Auntie Liu, or they themselves would become monsters.

After seeing Auntie Liu transformed into a man-eating monster, the survivors panicked and rushed to confront the Transcendents, fearing they might be infected too. They found Chen Gen and the other Transcendents armed and waiting inside the central house, while Old Man Xia sent the crowd away without giving them answers.

• The survivors fled their houses and hurried toward the central wooden house, convinced that the Transcendents were hiding the truth about people turning into monsters.
• The first man to enter saw Chen Gen and the other Transcendents gathered with weapons, tense and ready for danger.
• The crowd gathered outside the house and froze when they saw the armed Transcendents.
• Old Man Xia told everyone to go back, saying the Transcendents had noticed the danger and were discussing what to do.
• A young man demanded answers, but another survivor silenced him and apologized to Old Man Xia.
• The crowd dispersed, still frightened and without knowing who might transform next.

After calculating through the night and morning, Cao Xianming could not identify the Eerie that mutated Auntie Liu, but he determined it spread through the air. The survivors were left facing an invisible threat with no way to know who would be infected next.

• Cao Xianming spent the night and morning calculating while the Transcendents waited anxiously for answers.
• Cao Xianming stopped calculating and told Chen Gen, Yang Yong, Wang Ying, and the others that he had found nothing.
• A frightened survivor returned to his family and complained that the Transcendents were hiding what they knew.
• Cao Xianming explained that the Eerie did not match any known Sequence Eerie and defied conventional logic.
• Cao Xianming revealed that the Eerie's transmission route was the air.

Cao Xianming revealed that airborne Corpse Worms could infect nearly everyone, but Xiao Xuan’s power could purge them and Yang Yong had a 0% chance of parasitization. The chapter left Yang Yong suspecting that the deeper force of the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace protected him.

• Cao Xianming explained that Corpse Worms spread through the air, infect people, and had already infiltrated the Wooden House.
• Cao Xianming identified Xiao Xuan as having the lowest risk because her Fierce-Eyed Guanyin power countered the Corpse Worms.
• Xiao Xuan released golden light and circled the room, burning away the Corpse Worms and clearing the air.
• Cao Xianming announced that Yang Yong had a 0% chance of being parasitized because something inside him would devour the worms.
• Yang Yong considered whether the Evil Eye or the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace within him was responsible for his immunity.

Yang Yong considered using an Evil Eye to suppress the Corpse Worms, while Cao Xianming warned him of the danger and then judged the plan might work inside the Whale Lord’s small space. Chen Gen told the Wooden House district about the infection and organized an investigation, but on returning to the main house he saw the terrifying Evil Eyes covering Yang Yong’s left hand.

• Yang Yong considered removing an Evil Eye and using it to cleanse the Corpse Worms, but Cao Xianming warned that unleashing one could cause catastrophe.
• Yang Yong reminded Cao Xianming that they were inside the Whale Lord, and Cao Xianming concluded that the space could help suppress the Evil Eye, though anyone treated would have to remain there.
• Chen Gen told the Wooden House district that invisible Corpse Worms caused Auntie Liu’s transformation and asked everyone to investigate where they first appeared.
• Chen Gen assigned Old Man Xia to lead groups searching the routes and haunts of the man surnamed Liu, while ruling out Auntie Liu’s limited movements.
• Chen Gen returned to the main house and saw the Evil Eyes beneath Yang Yong’s sleeve, which nearly overwhelmed him with terror.

Xiaoju began mutating from the Corpse Worms, and Yang Yong hesitated over whether to use an unverified method to save her. As her transformation advanced, Chen Gen urged Yang Yong to try the plan before it was too late.

• Chen Gen slapped himself to break free of the Evil Eye's mental enthrallment and moved away from Yang Yong.
• The Transcendents waited through the night for another mutation to begin.
• Xiaoju entered the Wooden House with food, then discovered Corpse Worms spreading through her hands and cried for help.
• Yang Yong hesitated over using the unverified method while Cao Xianming continued his calculations.
• Chen Gen saw Xiaoju's mutation advancing and urged Yang Yong to try the method.

Yang Yong grafted an Evil Eye onto Xiaoju to try to suppress her Corpse Worm mutation. The gray membrane on her palm began growing much more slowly, and Yang Yong started documenting the changes as the survivors saw hope that the method could save them.

• Chen Gen urged Yang Yong to try the risky Evil Eye graft, and Xiaoju begged them to save her.
• Yang Yong removed an Evil Eye from his arm and warned Xiaoju that the procedure could not be undone; she agreed.
• Yang Yong cut between Xiaoju’s eyebrows and pressed the Evil Eye into the wound, where tendrils burrowed into her flesh.
• The gray membrane spreading across Xiaoju’s palm slowed, prompting Chen Gen, Wang Ying, Zheng Xiaofeng, Xiao Xuan, and the others to realize the graft could suppress the mutation.
• Yang Yong recorded Xiaoju’s symptoms in a notebook and ordered the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost to capture every change.

Xiao Xuan used golden light to purge the Corpse Worms from Xiaoju, leaving permanent marks but saving her life. Cao Xianming finished his calculations and confirmed that grafting Evil Eyes to expel the worms was viable.

• Xiaoju’s body expelled countless Corpse Worms, and Xiao Xuan burned them away with golden light while Yang Yong watched.
• Xiaoju endured hours of pain as the worms left her body, then collapsed and wept when Xiao Xuan confirmed they were gone.
• Yang Yong observed the Evil Eye between Xiaoju’s brows and concluded that the grafting method could work inside the Whale Lord’s protected space.
• Cao Xianming finished his calculations, and Chen Gen and the other survivors waited for his assessment.
• Cao Xianming declared the method viable, filling Chen Gen with joy.

Cao Xianming confirmed that grafting an Evil Eye could eliminate Corpse Worms and make a person immune, but warned Xiaoju that keeping hers would bind her to its owner and trap her in the Whale Lord’s space. Xiaoju chose to keep the Evil Eye, and Chen Gen gathered the survivors to reveal that they might have a way to survive infection.

• Cao Xianming reviewed the grafting process and confirmed that Xiaoju was free of Corpse Worms and immune to future infection.
• Cao Xianming told Xiaoju she could keep the Evil Eye and remain in the Whale Lord’s space or remove it and return to being an ordinary person.
• Xiaoju chose to keep the Evil Eye, accepting the risks in exchange for supernatural power and the ability to protect herself.
• Cao Xianming warned that the Evil Eye’s owner could control her unless she surpassed its strength, though the Whale Lord’s space temporarily blocked that control.
• Chen Gen and Cao Xianming gathered the survivors outside the Wooden House, where Chen Gen spoke about their fear of becoming monsters and the crowd demanded a way to be saved.

Chen Gen revealed that Evil Eye Grafting could expel Corpse Worms and offered survivors the choice to become Transcendents or have the graft removed. As treatment spread through the wooden house area, Yang Yong examined Chen Gen’s Curios and discovered the Fantasy Sniper Rifle’s steep cost: permanent blindness in the left eye.

• Chen Gen explained the two outcomes of Evil Eye Grafting, and many locals eagerly chose to join the Eerie Symbiosis Sequence while the Survival Convoy survivors remained wary because of the Sky Base’s God's Eye Plan.
• The Survival Convoy members received grafts to expel their Corpse Worms, then had the Evil Eyes removed; the treatment revealed that several had already been infected, including Convoy Supervisor Lao Zhang.
• Frightened that they might mutate overnight, Chen Gen’s subordinates begged for immediate treatment, and Chen Gen offered Cao Xianming his three Curios to save them.
• Cao Xianming accepted the Curios, and Yang Yong inspected the Fantasy Sniper Rifle, learning that it could blast a target’s soul out for three seconds but permanently blinded its user’s left eye.
• Yang Yong decided the Fantasy Sniper Rifle’s cost was not worthwhile and considered the Flesh-and-Blood Submachine Gun’s deadly toll on his body.

Yang Yong completed a trade with Chen Gen for two Curios and joined the effort to expel Corpse Worms from the survivors. As Xiao Xuan began to tire from killing them with her Buddha Light, Chen Gen asked Yang Yong to create a Curio that could strengthen and expand it, and Yang Yong called Mang Dabiao and Hu Xian'er for help.

• Cao Xianming convinced Yang Yong that he could modify the Fantasy Sniper Rifle and Flesh-and-Blood Submachine Gun, and Yang Yong exchanged them with Chen Gen for his work.
• Yang Yong gave Xiao Xuan Brown Blood Beads and helped organize the removal of Corpse Worms from Chen Gen's survivors.
• Yang Yong ordered Zheng Xiaofeng to knock out the survivors who screamed as their Corpse Worms were expelled.
• Xiao Xuan's Buddha Light weakened as more survivors arrived, so Chen Gen showed Yang Yong a cache of materials from Eerie and asked him to make a Curio to boost her Buddha Light.
• Yang Yong called Mang Dabiao and Hu Xian'er to inspect the materials and advise him on strengthening Xiao Xuan's Buddha Light.

Yang Yong forged a Buddha-Light Jewel for Xiao Xuan, greatly increasing her ability to kill the Corpse Worms and helping the survivors recover. The operation was running smoothly when someone arrived with news that they had found the source of the Corpse Worms.

• Hu Xian'er explained how to refine a Buddha-Light Jewel, and Mang Dabiao proposed using Eerie materials to make a false sacred relic.
• Mang Dabiao chose Eerie remains, and Yang Yong used the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace to forge the jewel with Xiao Xuan's Buddha Light and blood.
• The Buddha-Light Jewel amplified Xiao Xuan's light, destroying the Corpse Worms and easing the survivors' convulsions.
• Yang Yong took the remaining Eerie materials, and Chen Gen allowed him to keep them as payment for the useful Curio.
• A runner reached the Wooden House and told Chief Chen that they had found the source of the Corpse Worms.

A messenger reported finding the corpse that spawned the Corpse Worms, and Cao Xianming warned that the Sea Demons would protect it and that the search party was probably already dead. Yang Yong and the others set out to help while Zheng Xiaofeng stayed behind to protect Xiao Xuan.

• A messenger told Chen Gen and the others that a corpse on a nearby island was the source of the Corpse Worms.
• Cao Xianming concluded that the Sea Demons would defend the corpse and warned that the people who found it were likely dead.
• Wang Ying rallied the group, and Yang Yong summoned a red pickup truck so they could rush to the island.
• Yang Yong told Zheng Xiaofeng to stay behind and guard Xiao Xuan in case the Sea Demons attacked the Wooden House.
• Zheng Xiaofeng accepted the order, planted his shield at the entrance, and stood guard.

Yang Yong and his companions raced across the sea toward the island where Chen Gen’s men had been captured, while Wang Ying’s space-crossing slash killed three Sea Demons. The Sea Demons quickly recovered and swarmed beneath the truck, leaving Yang Yong to press onward toward the source of the Corpse Worms.

• Yang Yong gave Zheng Xiaofeng the Flesh-and-Blood Submachine Gun, whose draining cost Zheng Xiaofeng could endure with his defense and recovery.
• Mang Dabiao drove the pickup across land and sea, and Chen Gen hauled the messenger aboard to guide them to the island.
• Wang Ying struck three Sea Demons beneath the water with a slash that crossed space, killing them before they could attack.
• Mang Dabiao spotted a dense swarm of Sea Demons circling beneath the pickup, and Yang Yong planted the Three-Yang God-Sealing Banner and ordered Mang Dabiao to speed up.
• The truck jolted as it struck Sea Demons, but the three Wang Ying had cut down healed and returned to the water.
• Yang Yong realized the Sea Demons’ recovery made them difficult to kill and focused on reaching the source of the Corpse Worms.

Yang Yong and his companions climbed a sea demon-infested mountain to find a corpse inside a living, blood-red cave. They discovered that the corpse was alive, though it lay motionless at the center of the cave.

• Yang Yong drove the group to the island, where Mang Dabiao sensed many eerie beings gathered near the cave containing the corpse.
• The messenger explained that Corpse Worms had covered the cave walls and surrounded the corpse when his group found it.
• Yang Yong dismissed Mang Dabiao's suspicion that the absent guards were dead and led everyone up the slime-covered mountain.
• Yang Yong used the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace to burn the Corpse Worms in the sea demons' slime as the group climbed.
• Yang Yong and his companions reached a living, blood-red cave and saw the corpse lying motionless inside.

Yang Yong and the others discovered that a fragment of finger bone had created the corpse calling for help, and learned that the Sea Demons wanted them to free it. With Chen Gen unable to ask the Whale Lord for help, they left the trapped fragment behind and headed back to reconsider their options.

• A voice inside everyone's minds repeatedly begged them to pull the corpse out, and Yang Yong realized the Sea Demons had been waiting for people to rescue it.
• Chen Gen revealed that Xiao Mo and Xiao Wei had been forced into the cave and digested by Whale.
• Yang Yong used Night Eye and discovered that the corpse was an illusion created by a small fragment of finger bone, then decided the fragment was too dangerous to approach.
• Chen Gen explained that his relationship with the Whale Lord was only symbiotic and that he could not ask Whale to seal the cave or intervene.
• Yang Yong and the others abandoned the attempt to deal with the finger bone and began walking back.

Yang Yong and his group were surrounded by more than a thousand Sea Demons, whose psychic call urged them to enter the blood-red cave. Wang Ying resisted the call and fought the creatures, but they kept reviving until Chen Gen fired a revolver, leaving the group facing an even more dangerous confrontation.

• More than a thousand Sea Demons emerged and surrounded Yang Yong's group, while the voice in their minds urged them to pull a bone fragment from the cave.
• The Sea Demons worshipped the cave and their voice began compelling Yang Yong and Chen Gen to approach, but Wang Ying broke Yang Yong's trance with a blow and declared she would clear a path.
• Yang Yong's flying daggers tore holes in the Sea Demons' chests, but the creatures recovered and continued advancing.
• Wang Ying decapitated more than twenty Sea Demons, but they found their heads, reattached them, and stood back up.
• Chen Gen drew a revolver and fired at the nearest Sea Demon, while Mang Dabiao pulled the guide away from the blast and the cave.

Yang Yong and the others were trapped between the Sea Demons’ parasitic blue lights and the Blood Hole, where a seductive voice from a finger bone nearly lured them to their deaths. After the guide was swallowed, Chen Gen escaped the Blood Hole, leaving Yang Yong to ask why he had not been digested.

• Yang Yong realized the blue lights released from the shattered Sea Demon were parasitic flesh individuals and warned everyone not to let them touch them.
• With the group backed toward the Blood Hole, Yang Yong cursed at the finger bone until the corpse conjured by it flickered out of sight.
• A seductive voice from the finger bone drew Yang Yong toward the Blood Hole, but a bell chime inside him broke its influence; Wang Ying was also saved by her blade spirit.
• Chen Gen and the guide stepped into the Blood Hole, and the guide was swallowed and digested within seconds.
• Chen Gen pulled himself free and collapsed on the ground, and Yang Yong rushed over to ask why he had not been digested.

Yang Yong discovered that the Sea Demons feared the Blood Hole and used it to dispose of them. After the Sea Demons were nearly eliminated, the agitated finger bone unleashed a tide of Corpse Worms, which Yang Yong burned away before turning his attention back to the remaining Sea Demons.

• Chen Gen explained that the Whale Lord would spare him for only three seconds because of a scent on him, prompting Yang Yong to devise a plan.
• Yang Yong threw a Sea Demon into the Blood Hole and saw its fleshy tendrils consume it, confirming the Sea Demons feared the hole.
• Yang Yong had Wang Ying decapitate the Sea Demons, while Mang Dabiao kicked their heads into the Blood Hole and Yang Yong and Chen Gen whipped their headless bodies inside.
• The finger bone grew agitated as the Sea Demons were fed to the Blood Hole, then sent swarms of Corpse Worms toward the entrance.
• Yang Yong summoned the Ten-Thousand-Forging Primordial Furnace and burned the Corpse Worms, then prepared to deal with the remaining Sea Demons.

Yang Yong and his companions drove the headless Sea Demons into the Blood Hole, where the flesh buds devoured them, until the finger bone turned the remaining creatures against Yang Yong. The chapter ended with the Sea Demons still charging after Wang Ying sliced them in half.

• Yang Yong escaped the Sea Demons’ encirclement and directed his flying daggers to herd them toward the Blood Hole, while Chen Gen, Wang Ying, and Mang Dabiao helped drive them inside.
• The finger bone began commanding the Sea Demons, which charged toward Yang Yong despite being headless.
• Yang Yong summoned the Red-Clothed Female Ghost and Little Girl Eerie and attacked with the Heavenly Dragon Slash, but the Sea Demons kept regenerating and crawling after their limbs were severed.
• The Red-Clothed Female Ghost stopped a Sea Demon by tearing out something from its chest, while Little Girl Eerie refused to fight.
• Wang Ying cut the charging Sea Demons in half with an invisible slash, but they continued rushing toward Yang Yong.

Yang Yong and his companions fed the Sea Demons into the Blood Hole, where a surviving finger released the Corpse Worms, and Yang Yong briefly encountered the Whale Lord in a Consciousness Space. They returned safely to the Wooden House Area, where Cao Xianming identified the finger as an Eerie source-level being and predicted they would face no Eerie attack for three days.

• Yang Yong, Wang Ying, and Mang Dabiao defeated the Sea Demons and fed their bodies into the Blood Hole for the Whale Lord to digest.
• Yang Yong was pulled into a Consciousness Space, where the Whale Lord opened an eye before returning him to his body.
• Wang Ying buried the Blood Hole entrance with rubble, and the group hurried back to the Wooden House Area in Mang Dabiao's Pickup Truck.
• Yang Yong and the others found the Wooden House Area unharmed, with Zheng Xiaofeng guarding the entrance and residents receiving treatment for Corpse Worms.
• Cao Xianming watched the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost's recording and deduced that a surviving finger from another Eerie source-level being was creating Corpse Worms.
• Cao Xianming predicted no Eerie attack within three days, then shut himself inside a small wooden house to plan the Survival Convoy's next move.

After Xiao Xuan helped remove the Corpse Worms from the survivors, Zheng Xueju revealed the powers she had gained from her grafted Evil Eye. Yang Yong recognized her gratitude, then encouraged her to challenge Wang Ying for pointers.

• Xiao Xuan used the Buddha-Light Jewel to remove the Corpse Worms from the survivors, and Chen Gen thanked Yang Yong, Wang Ying, Zheng Xiaofeng, and Xiao Xuan.
• The survivors rested overnight, and the next morning Xiao Ma told Yang Yong that Zheng Xueju could extend sharp nails and fire a powerful red beam from her Evil Eye.
• Zheng Xueju knelt before Yang Yong and thanked him for saving her, explaining how alone and vulnerable she had been before gaining her powers.
• When Zheng Xueju showed eagerness to test herself against Wang Ying, Yang Yong told her that Wang Ying was the convoy's strongest fighter and suggested she ask her for pointers.

Wang Ying knocked Xiaoju unconscious with a casual blow, and Yang Yong destroyed the remaining Evil Eyes after realizing the power could make the others a threat. Later, Yang Yong went to the kitchen, where a woman mistook him for a worker and ordered him to wash sweet potatoes before recognizing him as a Transcendent and dropping to her knees.

• Xiaoju attacked Wang Ying after gaining power from an Evil Eye, but Wang Ying knocked her unconscious without drawing her blade.
• Chen Gen checked Xiaoju, apologized to Wang Ying, and watched her return to the Wooden House Area.
• Yang Yong decided not to give the others Evil Eyes and destroyed the nineteen remaining ones in the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace.
• Chen Gen understood why Yang Yong had changed his mind but stayed silent as Yang Yong left for the kitchen.
• A woman ordered Yang Yong to wash sweet potatoes, then recognized him as a Transcendent and fell to her knees in fear.