Recaps

Jiang Chen proposed that Sevian help him break the Four Spirits Seal Suppression in exchange for helping repel the Eerie attack, and the two reached an agreement. Jiang Chen's second-generation zombies charged the spatial rift, where the Mechanical City's Four Spirits Seal repelled Xiao Ying and then struck the next attacker.

• Xiao Ying was expelled from the Mechanical City and returned to Jiang Chen, who said her presence there had served its purpose.
• Sevian asked when Jiang Chen had laid plans in her city, and Jiang Chen offered to help drive back the giant coffin if she helped him cleave open the Four Spirits Seal Suppression.
• After Jiang Chen and Sevian spoke cryptically, Sevian agreed to cooperate with him.
• Jiang Chen's second-generation zombies charged toward the spatial rift, led by Xiao Ying carrying her forty-meter-long Evil-Slaying Blade.
• The Four Spirits Seal formed a vast net before the rift, burned through Xiao Ying's defense, and blasted her backward.
• The middle-aged man in a long gown charged the net bare-handed, and an azure claw appeared in response.

Jiang Chen’s second-generation zombies repeatedly struck the Four Spirits Seal Suppression to keep it visible while the Mechanical City transformed into a massive axe. Sevian commanded the axe to split the heavens, and it began a devastating strike toward the Space Channel.

• A zombie, a winged girl, and a hunched old man each attacked the net and were violently repelled.
• The Shelter survivors realized the zombies were triggering the Four Spirits Seal Suppression to keep it visible.
• The Mechanical City contracted and reshaped itself into a gigantic axe as lightning covered its surface.
• Sevian commanded the axe to split the heavens, unleashing an aura that cut into Yang Yong’s consciousness.
• The Mechanical City spun at tremendous speed, formed the image of a giant wielding it, and swung toward the Space Channel.

The Mechanical City’s axe strike tore through the Four Spirits Seal Suppression and devastated the phantom vessel and its coffins. The blood-red coffin escaped into the depths of the Eerie World with one corner shattered, while Yang Yong witnessed the Mechanical City’s overwhelming power.

• The Mechanical City’s axe light cleaved through the blue-green claw and split apart the Four Spirits Seal Suppression net.
• The axe light tore through the phantom vessel, vaporizing thousands of coffins and filling the area with blood mist.
• The blood-red coffin piled other coffins in front of itself, then fled when the axe light broke through its barricade.
• The axe light grazed the fleeing blood-red coffin, shattering one corner before the coffin vanished into the Eerie World.
• Yang Yong watched from the Core Control Room and marveled at the Mechanical City’s power.

Jiang Chen absorbed the second-generation zombies, including Xiaoying and Mang Dabiao’s Evil-Slaying Blade, and transformed into his true form. As the Four Spirits empowered the great net and its tear began to close, Jiang Chen stood revealed as the ancient beast Hou.

• Jiang Chen wedged himself into the tear in the great net and shouted for the second-generation zombies to return.
• The zombies turned into blood beads and flew into Jiang Chen, while Xiaoying’s blade merged with her bead; Mang Dabiao cried over losing his Evil-Slaying Blade.
• The Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise appeared and strengthened the great net as it began to repair itself.
• Jiang Chen transformed into a colossal, scaled beast with horns, fangs, and a long tail, revealing his true form as Hou.

Jiang Chen struggled against the Four Spirits’ sealing net, but Xiao Ying’s phantom gave him the Evil-Slaying Blade, allowing him to cut one of its strands. The blade began absorbing the net’s power and Jiang Chen’s energy as its pulse grew stronger.

• Jiang Chen revealed his true form and struggled to hold open the net, but the Four Spirits strengthened it and trapped part of his body.
• Xiao Ying’s phantom appeared and urged Jiang Chen to use the Evil-Slaying Blade.
• Jiang Chen grasped the blade, which transformed to suit his form, and struck the net without breaking it.
• Jiang Chen analyzed the net and precisely severed one strand of light with a second strike.
• The Evil-Slaying Blade absorbed power from the severed strand and from Jiang Chen, growing brighter as a heartbeat-like pulse strengthened.

Jiang Chen escaped the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Quelling Four Spirits Formation by cutting off his trapped left foot and fled into the Eerie World. On his way into the darkness, he encountered the Eerie inside a damaged blood-red coffin and seized the female corpse within it.

• Jiang Chen severed the light strands binding his left arm, but the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise attacked him as he tried to escape.
• Jiang Chen cut off his left foot to break free of the net and passed through the spatial rift, escaping the formation and entering the Eerie World.
• Jiang Chen hurried deeper into the Eerie World rather than fight the four spirits, fearing that other titans would join the battle.
• A half-destroyed blood-red coffin fled into Jiang Chen's path, and he split it open with the Evil-Slaying Blade.
• Jiang Chen reached into the coffin and grabbed the female corpse by the neck, unaffected by her piercing shriek.

Jiang Chen devoured the female corpse, restored his Second-Generation Zombies, and led them deeper into the Eerie World. Back in the Core Control Room, Yang Yong and Cao Xianming watched the Eerie flee and realized the world’s hidden truth was far more terrifying than they had imagined.

• Jiang Chen chewed up the female corpse as the surrounding Eerie and coffins fled toward the depths of the Eerie World.
• Jiang Chen’s severed left foot regenerated, and his Second-Generation Zombies re-formed from beads of blood and bowed to him.
• Jiang Chen transformed into a Hou and merged the thirteen Second-Generation Zombies’ power into a phantom beast as they rampaged deeper into the Eerie World.
• Yang Yong and Cao Xianming watched the spatial rift empty and the Four Spirits Seal Suppression repair itself.
• Yang Yong questioned Cao Xianming about what they had witnessed, and Cao Xianming said the truth of their world was far more terrifying than they had thought.

Yang Yong realized Mechanical City could not strike the reopened Eerie Passage because Sevian was incapacitated in her new body. He broke through the platform’s defenses to wake her as Eerie poured toward the world, and Sevian refocused on the crisis.

• Yang Yong watched blood-red Eerie swarm through the reopened passage while Sevian sat motionless on the platform.
• Yang Yong realized Sevian could not wield the axe because she was still adjusting to her new body.
• Yang Yong climbed the platform stairs, then used his Nine Nether Bone Armor, flying daggers, and a fire-powered punch to shatter its invisible barrier.
• Yang Yong’s daggers struck Sevian and jolted her awake.
• Sevian swatted the daggers aside and looked toward the Light Screen, taking in the approaching Eerie.

As the Eerie breached Mechanical City’s final barrier, Sevian appointed Yang Yong Deputy City Lord and sent him to wield the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe. After Sevian entered hibernation, Yang Yong gained access to the city’s hidden information, including a threat imprisoned beneath it and dangers in the surrounding black mist.

• Sevian ordered the elders to control the mechanical claw and attack the passage, but Liu Yijun and the other elders refused because they could not withstand the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe.
• As an Eerie hand reached through the passage entrance, Sevian told Yang Yong to act, and he demanded a reward before agreeing to help.
• Sevian appointed Yang Yong Deputy City Lord, then transformed into a metal sphere and entered a deep sleep.
• Liu Yijun pushed Yang Yong into the City Lord’s seat, flooding his mind with information about Mechanical City.
• Yang Yong discovered that at least one Zombie King was imprisoned beneath Mechanical City and saw enormous shapes moving in the black mist beyond its outer districts.

Yang Yong failed to find a way to turn Mechanical City into a giant axe, so he combined it with his magical artifacts to form a growing War Barge. As blood-red eerie entities poured through the space channel, he sent the vessel to destroy their route into his world.

• Yang Yong saw blood-red entities squeezing through the space channel and realized the invasion was imminent.
• Yang Yong combined the Nine Nether Bone Armor, the Four Yang God-Sealing Banner, the Nine Nether Yuanchen White Bone Ring, and Mechanical City into a Great Chaos Warship.
• The vessel developed new artifacts, including the Six-Yang God-Sealing Banner, the White Bone Sarira, and the White Bone Dao Body.
• Blood-red eerie entities rushed into Mechanical City, and Yang Yong recognized their resemblance to Blood God Children.
• Yang Yong ordered the Great Chaos Warship to ram the space channel, and the eerie entities charged forward to block it.

Yang Yong used the Great Chaos Warship to destroy the spatial channel and repel the blood-red eerie entities, but the strain injured his soul and forced him to dismantle the warship. The surviving entities vanished, and Grand Elder Liu Yijun explained that they had left to hunt survivors in the Apocalypse.

• Yang Yong used the Six-Yang God-Sealing Banner to absorb the blood-red eerie entities blocking the Great Chaos Warship.
• A giant blood-red hand reached through the channel and tried to influence Yang Yong, but he devoured it with the Nine Nether Yuanchen White Bone Rings.
• Yang Yong drove the Great Chaos Warship into the spatial rift, shattering the channel and creating a black hole that pulled in nearby eerie entities.
• Yang Yong suffered severe soul pain from the warship's backlash and dismantled the Great Chaos Warship.
• The remaining blood-red eerie entities disappeared, and Grand Elder Liu Yijun told Yang Yong they had gone to hunt survivors in the Apocalypse.

Yang Yong kept Mechanical City running after the crisis while memorizing the Great Chaos Warship’s structure, knowing the Eerie threat remained. Later, he suffered the backlash from using its power: his bonded magical artifacts began consuming his living body.

• Yang Yong told Grand Elder Liu Yijun to follow the old plan of gathering reserves and keeping Mechanical City running while Sevian slept.
• Yang Yong watched the spatial rift and the Blood-colored Eerie, then vowed to face whatever attacked next as the elders listened.
• Under the Blood Moon, Yang Yong discovered the Nine Nether Bone Armor was draining his body and spreading toward his heart.
• Yang Yong realized the Nine Nether Bone Armor, Four Yang God-Sealing Banner, and Nine Nether Yuanchen White Bone Ring were all turning against him after the battle.
• Yang Yong summoned his team for help rather than trying to withstand the magical artifacts’ backlash alone.

Yang Yong learned that the true Great Chaos Warship might be punishing him for cultivating too slowly, so he launched a massive forging campaign to speed up his progress. After forging his hundredth Curio, he discovered that doing so doubled the rate at which he opened Apertures, but he soon faced a shortage of materials.

• Cao Xianming failed to analyze Yang Yong’s magical artifacts and sensed they might attack him.
• The monk concluded that the true Great Chaos Warship had lent Yang Yong power but considered him unqualified to use the cultivation technique.
• Ma Xiaotong suggested the artifacts were spurring Yang Yong to cultivate faster and might devour him if he did not improve his progress.
• Yang Yong ordered Mechanical City’s Curio Materials and unfinished items requisitioned and began forging Curios in the Core Area.
• After Yang Yong forged his hundredth Curio, the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace doubled his Aperture-opening speed.
• Yang Yong resolved to keep forging, but he ran short of materials.

Yang Yong announced thirty days of free artifact refining to draw materials from Mechanical City's residents, then demonstrated the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace in a citywide livestream. He quickly forged a short spear from Mystic Crystal Iron, leaving the watching citizens stunned and their doubts shaken.

• Yang Yong posted an edict offering free artifact refining for thirty days, but residents suspected it was a trap and brought no materials.
• Yang Yong arranged a livestream and had Cao Xianming bring Li Haijian from the Survival Convoy as the first challenger.
• Li Haijian was stunned by the enormous Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace before presenting Yang Yong with dark gray Mystic Crystal Iron.
• Yang Yong identified the ore, tossed it into the furnace, and completed the refining ritual in under five minutes.
• The furnace produced a dark purple-patterned short spear, astonishing viewers who had doubted the demonstration.

Yang Yong forged Wang Qunli’s late sister’s wolf fang into the Wolf-Shadow Hunting Pendant, demonstrating that the furnace could turn her keepsake into a Curio. The successful forging strengthened an Aperture on the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace and brought Yang Yong closer to opening the next one.

• Yang Yong displayed the short spear he had forged, and viewers argued over whether the furnace or Yang Yong deserved credit.
• The convoy captain urged Wang Qunli to test her wolf fang, which her sister had left her before disappearing through a Blood Gate.
• Wang Qunli brought the fang to Yang Yong and asked him to forge it into a Curio.
• Yang Yong identified the fang’s lingering ferocity and forged it into the Wolf-Shadow Hunting Pendant.
• Yang Yong revealed the pendant’s abilities and risks, then felt the furnace’s Aperture brighten and a warm current enter his meridians.

Yang Yong forged curios nonstop for Mechanical City’s residents, opening more apertures while the magical artifacts inside him grew stronger. After ten days and 1,037 forged curios, he ordered the Nine Great Elders to convene.

• Wang Qunli accepted the wolf-fang pendant Yang Yong had forged for her sister and thanked him, while the livestream drew crowds rushing to the Core Area with materials.
• Yang Yong forged through the night as the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace blazed and the Nine Nether Bone Armor, Four Yang God-Sealing Banner, and White Bone Ring grew stronger inside him.
• Residents whispered that a shadow circled the platform and that the furnace flames sometimes turned green, while Yang Yong recalled the female ghosts into his body.
• Yang Yong spent ten days forging 1,037 curios from Mechanical City's supplies and opened his cultivation to 180 apertures.
• Yang Yong activated his Deputy City Lord authority and ordered the Nine Great Elders to convene.

Yang Yong met with Mechanical City's elders to discuss its lack of Curio Materials and learned about powerful factions beyond the city. Cao Xianming proposed sending Mechanical City's elite squads out to gather supplies, and Yang Yong considered the dangerous strength of the forces at his disposal.

• Yang Yong asked the elders whether Mechanical City had any Curio Materials left, and Grand Elder Liu Yijun admitted that only private reserves remained.
• Cao Xianming described the Sky Base, South Sea Base, Buddhist Cultivator Society, a secretive gu-raising sect, and the mysterious Longevity Society.
• Cao Xianming proposed looking outside Mechanical City for supplies, and Liu Yijun displayed the combat details of three squads.
• Yang Yong studied the Eerie and Curio symbiont squads and recognized that their members could approach Sequence Four strength at great personal risk.
• Yang Yong concluded that it was time to send the squads out and let them show themselves.

Cao Xianming introduced Wan Qi, whose communications officer sequence could connect devices regardless of distance or signal, and Yang Yong decided to craft a curio that projected announcements onto reflective surfaces. Back at the Survival Convoy base, Yang Yong tested Wan Qi’s character and asked him to demonstrate his ability.

• Cao Xianming revealed Wan Qi’s communication ability and proposed crafting a mirror that could broadcast messages onto reflective surfaces.
• Yang Yong approved the plan and summoned Mang Dabiao and Hu Xian'er to design the curio.
• Yang Yong returned with Cao Xianming to the Survival Convoy base and gathered its Sequence Transcendents.
• Yang Yong used the Evil Eye to confirm Wan Qi harbored no malice, then invited him to call him Brother Yong.
• Wan Qi asked who had a phone, and Xiao Yuxia offered her heavily modified semi-curio phone.

Xiao Yuxia and Zhang Bihuang reconnected with Zhang Wenyuan through Wan Qi’s supernatural phone call, then Yang Yong decided to forge a Curio Computer for communication across the apocalypse. He turned to Ma Xiaotong’s Five-Ghost Transport method and asked whether she could use it if he provided five ghosts.

• Xiao Yuxia used Zhang Wenyuan’s phone to call her, and Wan Qi’s power kept the call connected despite the lack of signal.
• Xiao Yuxia, Zhang Bihuang, and Zhang Wenyuan confirmed they were alive and shared their approximate locations before Zhang Wenyuan’s phone ran out of power.
• Yang Yong decided to have the Ten-Thousand-Forged Furnace make Wan Qi a Curio Computer that could project messages onto reflective surfaces.
• After Ma Xiaotong mentioned Five-Ghost Transport, Yang Yong brought out the Four Yang God-Sealing Banner and destroyed several lesser souls inside it.
• Ma Xiaotong explained Five-Ghost Transport, and Yang Yong asked whether she could perform it if he gave her five ghosts.

Yang Yong sent the Three Great Female Ghosts to hunt escaped Eerie while Hu Xian'er offered a way to help the Five Great Immortal Clans in exchange for Curio materials. He agreed to consider the opportunity as Mang Dabiao mourned the blade Jiang Chen had taken.

• Yang Yong summoned the Red-Clothed Female Ghost, the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost, and the Little Girl Ghost to capture escaped Eerie in Mechanical City.
• The White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost paused to look at Yang Yong as the Three Great Female Ghosts departed, drawing Hu Xian'er's attention.
• Hu Xian'er told Yang Yong that members of the Five Great Immortal Clans lived in Mechanical City and could provide resources if he forged Curios for them.
• Hu Xian'er explained that Eerie aura threatened cultivated local creatures, and that most of the Fox Clan's over three hundred members had either lost their minds or sealed their cultivation.
• Mang Dabiao tearfully told Yang Yong that his blade was gone, and Yang Yong remembered Jiang Chen had taken the Evil-Slaying Blade before leaving.
• Yang Yong tossed Mang Dabiao a heavy hammer from his storage space.

Yang Yong recruited immortals to provide Curio Materials, tested Ma Xiaotong’s ghostly transport technique, and forged the Blood Moon Mirror to organize Mechanical City’s logistics. He announced a citywide purchase of Curio Materials, and the message began appearing on reflective surfaces beyond the city.

• Mang Dabiao caught the heavy hammer after it struck the ground, swallowed it, and went to work for Yang Yong.
• Hu Xian'er agreed to contact the immortals, and Yang Yong offered to forge them Curios for free in exchange for their materials.
• Ma Xiaotong used a Small Banner to transport a cup across the room with the Five Ghost Transport Art, though Yang Yong learned the technique could not safely target people with powerful anti-Eerie Sequences.
• Yang Yong assigned the convoy to gather Curio Materials and establish an Apocalypse broadcast and logistics system.
• Yang Yong forged the Blood Moon Mirror and had Wan Qi put it on the Mission List, announcing free Curios in return for materials.
• The announcement spread to nearby survivor camps, where a blood-red line of text appeared on a man's blade.

Yang Yong waited in Mechanical City for Curio Materials, then welcomed Fox Clan and Gray Immortal delegations and began refining the items they brought. The animal immortals reacted fearfully to the furnace as Yang Yong fed it a Void Crystal.

• Survivors across the apocalypse saw blood-red words appear on mirrors and other objects, panicked, and fled before reading the announcement.
• Yang Yong waited a day without receiving any Curio Materials, while Ma Xiaotong and the five ghosts got no results from the Transport Technique.
• Yang Yong learned that Hu Xian'er had received animal immortal visitors, including Fox Clan leader Hu Qianqian and Gray Fourth Master of the Gray Immortals.
• Gray Fourth Master presented Yang Yong with a Void Crystal and a heap of discarded objects as a first-meeting gift.
• Yang Yong brought the visitors to the artifact-refining platform, where the towering furnace frightened Hu Qianqian and Gray Fourth Master.
• Yang Yong sent the Void Crystal into the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace, which produced sounds like bones being crushed and cries like a baby's.

Yang Yong forged several Curios for the Gray Immortals, whose gratitude and excitement promised him more materials. The Fox Clan then brought six tails severed by their Blood Moon-corrupted ancestor, and Yang Yong began forging them without charging a fee.

• Yang Yong gave Gray Fourth Master the Half-Pouch Ruin Ring, and the Gray Immortals left eager to bring him more materials.
• Yang Yong forged Curios from the little rats' materials, each with a dangerous cost, and Gray Fourth pledged to remember his kindness.
• Hu Xian'er introduced Hu Qianqian, who brought six tails her ancestor had severed to seal away Blood Moon Energy and protect her clan.
• Yang Yong agreed to refine the tails into protective Curios and waived the forging fee.
• The Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace burst open, sending five streaks of white light into the sky to form a giant fox phantom.

After the Nine-Tailed Fragmentary Records passed to Hu Qianqian, Yang Yong opened the Mechanical City to survivors seeking free Curio forging in exchange for materials or intelligence. News of Bone City prompted him to post an exploration mission, sending eager survivors out to seek materials and a chance to get rich.

• Hu Qianqian received the Nine-Tailed Fragmentary Records and recited a prayer for the Fox Clan as she mourned its ancestor.
• Yang Yong accelerated his forging, and three days later the Apocalypse Broadcast System began announcing the Mechanical City's offer to survivors.
• A seven-person convoy traded meteoric iron for a warning compass, then returned with thirty people and news of Bone City to the north.
• Yang Yong used his Deputy City Lord privileges to investigate Bone City and found it was a newly appeared, high-risk city built from bones where prolonged stays caused soul corrosion.
• Yang Yong posted a Bone City exploration mission offering points, battle merits, or free Curio forging, and survivors rushed out through the Light Gate.
• More convoys brought Curio Materials to Yang Yong, while he continued forging artifacts.

A red-clad figure infiltrated Yang Yong’s quarters and tried to persuade him that Mechanical City was restricting his growth. She offered Eerie Bone City as a path to forge freely, leaving Yang Yong silent and wary as she waited for his answer.

• Yang Yong returned to his quarters exhausted and found a red-clad figure inside, then surrounded himself with flying daggers and summoned his weapons and bone armor.
• The red-clad figure claimed she understood Yang Yong and argued that Mechanical City used and feared him despite relying on his Curios.
• She said Eerie Bone City held rare materials that could transform his Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace, but Mechanical City prevented him from reaching them.
• The red-clad figure invited Yang Yong to settle in Eerie Bone City, develop his forging Dao without oversight, and secure territory and influence of his own.
• She said she only felt it was a shame to see his abilities confined to one city, then waited for Yang Yong to respond.