Recaps

Yang Yong captured a red Eerie with the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace, and Yezi absorbed its blood, enlarging a World Tree leaf. After a search warrant exposed curio material in Bone City and flagged a suspected Eerie in the Survival Convoy, Yang Yong sent the Eerie Shadow Squad and turned away the Buddhist Cultivator Society, assigning Sevian's Seven Emotions Avatars to meet them.

• Yang Yong summoned the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace and burned the red figure inside it, leaving behind a drop of eerie blood.
• Yezi touched and consumed the blood, turning her wings red, and a leaf on the World Tree Sapling grew larger.
• Yang Yong learned that a bone taken from Bone City's wall was curio material, prompting a huge force from Mechanical City to head there for more.
• Yang Yong found the Survival Convoy's middle-aged fisherman listed as a suspected Eerie Symbiosis Sequence and sent the Eerie Shadow Squad after him.
• Yang Yong refused to meet the Buddhist Cultivator Society and ordered Sevian's Seven Emotions Avatars to receive them.

Yang Yong received Buddhist Cultivator Society visitors and confronted Konghai, the Sequence Five monk who had once pursued the Survival Convoy. Their silent clash ended with Yang Yong’s axe power stopping Konghai’s attack, while Konghai claimed he had seen Yang Yong before; the failed pursuit had cost Konghai his assured place to leave through the reopened Seven Emotions Passage.

• Yang Yong agreed to meet the Buddhist Cultivator Society visitors after Grand Elder Liu Yijun mentioned their curio materials.
• Yang Yong recognized Konghai as the Sequence Five monk who had pursued the Survival Convoy and demanded to know who he was.
• Konghai stared at Yang Yong and released a powerful attack, but Yang Yong used the giant axe’s power to split the Buddha’s palm and wound Konghai.
• Konghai told Yang Yong that he had seen him before, while Yang Yong dismissed the remark.
• Konghai’s failure to capture the Survival Convoy left him competing with two others for the chance to leave through the Seven Emotions Passage, and his search for the Mirage Caravan had become his inner demon.

Yang Yong learned that the Buddhist Cultivator Society had come for the City Lord's Seven Emotional Incarnations, but he accepted their prayer beads for free Curio crafting and planned to use their stay to lure Konghai toward Bone City. He continued forging Curios until he picked up a bone pried from Bone City's wall.

• Konghai recognized Yang Yong as a member of the convoy that had ruined his standing, while Yang Yong recognized Konghai as a powerful Sequence Five fighter.
• Yang Yong sent Cao Xianming news of the Buddhist Cultivator Society's arrival, and Cao deduced that the society wanted the City Lord's Seven Emotional Incarnations.
• Yang Yong learned the society's objective and accepted its chest of prayer beads for free crafting, while Monk Mingdeng arranged for the group to stay in Mechanical City.
• Yang Yong told Grand Elder Liu Yijun about the society's target, prompting Liu Yijun to safeguard the City Lord's Seven Emotional Incarnations.
• Yang Yong tried forging a single prayer bead but found that the beads could not be separated from their strings, then resumed crafting Curios.
• Yang Yong picked up the piece of bone pried from Bone City's wall.

Yang Yong smelted a bone from Bone City and discovered it imprisoned countless souls, which warned him that he would awaken something sleeping and eventually become one of them. After three days of forging, the bone became a Curio, while Yang Yong remained intent on growing stronger.

• Yang Yong put the bone from Bone City into the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace, where trapped souls screamed and warned him not to smelt it or awaken the sleeping thing.
• Yang Yong concluded that Bone City's walls were made from the bones of sacrificed people and decided to keep forging despite the souls' pleas.
• The souls' final warning told Yang Yong that he would become one of them, but he dismissed it and continued refining the bone.
• Over the next three days, Grand Elder Liu Yijun kept City Lord Sevian's Seven Emotional Incarnations in the Core Area while Yang Yong watched the bone's resistance and resentment fade.
• Yang Yong watched the last soul, a little girl, vanish as the bone melted and solidified into a Curio.

Yang Yong used the Bone Ring to sense the dead’s emotions, opposed the Buddhist Cultivator Society’s recruitment, and raised the cost of leaving Mechanical City. A report on the Bone City expedition revealed that the bones taken from its wall began calling the scavengers by name.

• Yang Yong put on the Bone Ring, learned it let him sense the emotions of nearby dead, and told Liu Yijun he would handle the Buddhist Cultivator Society.
• Konghai learned the Seven Emotional Incarnations were hidden in the Core Area and said he expected Yang Yong to seek the society’s help entering Bone City, where he would need cannon fodder.
• Yang Yong publicized how the Buddhist Cultivator Society Formation drained people’s emotions and changed the departure fee from a Curio to supplies of equivalent value.
• Only a scattered handful of the Bone City expedition returned, and one survivor said the city ate people before breaking down in terror.
• A report delivered to Yang Yong described how the bones pried from Bone City’s wall began whispering, speaking, and calling their holders by name.

Yang Yong learned that Bone City lured people inside with whispers and absorbed them into its walls, but he was tempted by the bones’ value and arranged an expedition with Konghai Monk. Konghai agreed only if Mingdeng came too, leaving Yang Yong puzzled and Cao Xianming to handle the negotiations.

• Yang Yong read that Bone City’s walls pursued the fleeing convoy, and learned that only ninety-seven of the three hundred and twenty people who entered the city returned.
• Yang Yong concluded that the city’s bones were living souls seeking replacements, while the convoy’s survivors demanded an attack to rescue their companions.
• Tempted by the Curio Materials in Bone City, Yang Yong asked Konghai Monk to explore it with the Buddhist Cultivator Society.
• Yang Yong reflected on the Bone Ring’s strange summons and his sense that the ring would help him in the future.
• Konghai agreed to go but insisted that Mingdeng accompany him, so Yang Yong handed the negotiations to Cao Xianming and wondered whether Cao planned to flee Mechanical City.

Yang Yong learned that several of his companions had left Mechanical City after finding leads on missing relatives, while Cao Xianming suspected they were also sensing an approaching danger. Cao Xianming revealed that Hu Xian'er and other animal immortals were leaving too, suggesting a disaster might threaten the city.

• Yang Yong received farewell messages from Wang Ying, Zhang Bihuang and Xiao Yuxia, the Monk, and Ma Xiaotong, who had all decided to leave Mechanical City.
• Yang Yong contacted Cao Xianming, who confirmed they had departed and said he planned to take the convoy away as well.
• Cao Xianming explained that Wan Qi had helped Wang Ying find people who had fled with Wang Che, while Zhang Bihuang and Xiao Yuxia had found leads on Shang Kai and Zhang Wenyuan.
• Cao Xianming said the Monk and Ma Xiaotong might be leaving because they sensed danger, despite giving personal reasons for their departures.
• Cao Xianming told Yang Yong that Hu Xian'er and other animal immortals had also been trying to leave Mechanical City, recalling that animals were the first to sense disaster.

Cao Xianming warned Yang Yong that Mechanical City would eventually strip him of his Deputy City Lord position, then explained the plan to investigate Bone City with Konghai’s Buddhist Cultivator Society. He revealed that nearly the entire group was likely to die and that Konghai had been removed from contention to ascend after making grave mistakes.

• Cao Xianming told Yang Yong that his position as Deputy City Lord followed a headless curve and would be erased when a certain event occurred.
• Cao Xianming explained that Yang Yong would stay in Mechanical City during the Bone City expedition and would supposedly use the city’s Heaven-Opening Giant Axe form to rescue anyone trapped there.
• Cao Xianming said the expedition would leave at noon the next day, with Mechanical City flying over Bone City and every member of Konghai’s Buddhist Cultivator Society contingent joining.
• Yang Yong learned that Konghai wanted the curios intended for the Buddhist Cultivator Society to go to him instead of Mingdeng.
• Cao Xianming revealed that everyone in Konghai’s party except Konghai had a ninety percent chance of dying, and that Konghai had been removed from contention to ascend after making grave mistakes.

Yang Yong and Cao Xianming prepared Mechanical City for a journey to Bone City, while Yang Yong planned to collect the bones covering its walls as new Curio materials. As the expedition began, Yang Yong noticed the Bone Ring’s inscription twisting and felt the distant city watching him.

• Yang Yong and Cao Xianming discussed leaving the collapsing Apocalypse and seeking forbidden powers capable of breaking through the world’s boundary.
• Mechanical City entered lockdown and combat readiness, and Cao Xianming deployed robots as the city moved toward Bone City.
• Yang Yong surveyed Bone City and decided to target its bone-covered walls rather than enter the city, hoping to refine each person’s bones into new Curios.
• Cao Xianming deployed the six-member Eerie Shadow Squad, while Monk Mingdeng’s faction prepared to support the expedition against any Eeries.
• Yang Yong examined his Bone Ring, saw the words “Bone City” twist beneath the light, and looked back at the city as its bones seemed to stare at him.

Cao Xianming sent Mechanical City's logistics robots to harvest bones from Bone City's wall while Konghai blasted open a breach and led the Buddhist Cultivator Society inside. As the robots rushed to collect the fallen bones, Yang Yong deployed the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost with a Curio.

• Konghai approached Bone City's bone wall as the Buddhist Cultivator Society advanced behind him, while Mechanical City's logistics robots began prying bones loose.
• Cao Xianming ordered the robots to ignore the murmurs, collect the bones, and cut off the audio feed after the voices overwhelmed him.
• Konghai struck the wall with a golden palm, blasted open a breach, and stepped inside as a black-mist face welcomed him.
• The Buddhist Cultivator Society surged toward the breach, and Cao Xianming sent more robots to collect the shattered bones before the opening closed.
• Yang Yong released the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost as his battlefield recorder and gave her a Curio, which became a Weird Artifact in her hands.

Yang Yong rapidly forged Curios from Bone City’s bones while the Buddhist Cultivator Society’s reinforcements approached the city wall. Watching through a detection sphere, he discovered that the seemingly ordinary monk Mingdeng possessed mental power, though Konghai remained his main concern.

• Yang Yong implanted a protective spherical Weird Artifact in the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost and sent her to record everything inside Bone City.
• Yang Yong used the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace to rapidly turn piles of Bone City bones into Curios, burning away their hidden imprints and lingering wills.
• The Grand Elders of Mechanical City concluded that Yang Yong had no intention of helping the Buddhist Cultivator Society and chose not to intervene.
• The Buddhist Cultivator Society’s follow-up troops reached Bone City, led by a Sequence 4 monk who asked Mingdeng whether they should enter.
• Yang Yong saw Mingdeng send pale-gold ripples toward Bone City and realized that the old monk possessed mental power focused on perception and detection.

Yang Yong watched as Monk Mingdeng sensed the presence of Buddha and led the Buddhist Cultivator Society into Bone City, while the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost followed Konghai through the bone-built alleys. Konghai heard the voice of a man he had once abandoned, and the city’s purpose remained unclear.

• Yang Yong judged that he could not fight Konghai and sent a probe orb to follow the Buddhist Cultivator Society into Bone City.
• Monk Mingdeng announced that he sensed the presence of Buddha, then entered Bone City while making three prostrations with every step.
• Kongxin let Mechanical City's probe orb follow the group and told the monks not to disturb Mingdeng.
• The White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost passed the group and pursued Konghai through Bone City's alleys.
• Konghai moved purposefully through the city and heard the voice of an old man he had abandoned when the man begged him for his life.

Konghai followed the voices of the dead through Bone City and destroyed a bone house, finding a crystal bone that contained pure Buddha nature. Its power loosened his cultivation bottleneck and helped him understand Kongwen’s cryptic advice about seeking an opportunity in the city.

• Konghai repelled the voices of the dead with a golden bell and followed their source to a white-bone house.
• Konghai shattered the house with a palm strike and found an unbroken crystal bone among the dust.
• Konghai drew pure Buddha nature from the bone and felt his Sequence 5 to Sequence 6 bottleneck loosen.
• Konghai recalled Kongwen telling him to seek an opportunity in the city, remember “golden skin and a foundation of bone,” and never return to the Buddhist Cultivator Society.
• Konghai remembered that Kongwen had left the Buddhist Cultivator Society and that his Seeing-Nature Dharma could glimpse the future.

Konghai realized Bone City was the opportunity foretold by his senior brother and began harvesting Buddha-nature from crystal bones to break through his bottleneck. As the power drew him deeper into the city and consumed his caution, a colossal bone monstrosity smiled in the mist.

• Konghai understood that his senior brother’s verse pointed him toward Bone City and believed the city’s hidden opportunity was meant for him.
• Konghai extracted Buddha-nature from a crystal bone, merged it into his body, and advanced alone into Bone City.
• Konghai destroyed bone houses and gathered crystal bones, absorbing their Buddha-nature as his Sequence 6 bottleneck began to loosen.
• Konghai grew increasingly hungry for more Buddha-nature and stopped checking whether the crystal bones were safe.
• A colossal creature made of white bones smiled deep within Bone City as Konghai continued absorbing its power.

The White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost fled Bone City after a vast bone entity noticed her, then showed Yang Yong what Konghai had been doing. Yang Yong saw Konghai growing addicted to extracting Buddha nature and glimpsed the entity watching him, but could not identify what it resembled.

• The White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost watched Konghai extract and absorb Buddha nature from crystal bones as his pace and fervor increased.
• A vast bone entity emerged from the black mist, destroyed the Ghost’s shield, and asked, “You saw?” before withdrawing its pressure.
• The White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost returned to Yang Yong and handed him a love letter that replayed Konghai’s actions in an illusion.
• Yang Yong watched Konghai smash bone houses for more crystal bones, growing agitated and frenzied as he absorbed their Buddha nature.
• Yang Yong saw the bone entity watching Konghai from the black mist and recognized its appearance as strangely familiar, though he could not recall why.

Yang Yong ordered the Eerie Shadow Squad back to Mechanical City after judging Bone City too dangerous. Inside the city, a mysterious force drew the Buddhist Cultivator Society’s strongest monks away in different directions, leaving the weaker disciples to realize they might be lured in turn as one novice ran toward the exit.

• Yang Yong recalled the Eerie Shadow Squad, and Cao Xianming ordered its members to withdraw to Mechanical City.
• Fishing-Bum Uncle looked back toward Bone City before leaving with the squad.
• As Mingdeng’s group slowly advanced, Kongxin sensed a gentle pull from a direction different from Konghai’s path and Mingdeng’s pilgrimage, then left to investigate alone.
• The Sequence 3 monks lost focus and walked in separate directions with expressions of eager anticipation, ignoring the novices who called after them.
• The remaining low-ranking disciples realized the force was luring people from higher Sequence ranks to lower ones, and a young novice ran toward the opening Konghai had made.

Novice monks vanished into Bone City’s black mist, while Yang Yong followed Konghai’s trail of destruction and found him covered in sinister, unnatural Buddha Light. The Detection Sphere revealed that Bone City’s bizarre architecture and moving curse patterns were far stranger than Yang Yong had realized.

• Several novice monks ran into the black mist and disappeared without a sound.
• An older monk entered the mist to pursue them but became isolated from his companions and saw a motionless figure always three meters away.
• Yang Yong watched the monks through the Detection Sphere, then followed Konghai’s destructive trail deeper into Bone City.
• Yang Yong found Konghai searching for crystal bones while an unnaturally bright, sinister golden light coated his body.
• The Detection Sphere revealed Bone City’s twisted bone architecture, half-Buddha and half-demon reliefs, and slowly writhing curse patterns.

Yang Yong followed Konghai through Bone City and discovered that its center lured each visitor with something they personally desired. When the same pull reached Yang Yong through the Detection Sphere, the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace broke its hold, but Yang Yong remained torn between fear and continuing the pursuit.

• Yang Yong used the Evil Eye to see that some figures built into Bone City's walls had willingly become devout worshippers, unlike the terrified souls trapped elsewhere.
• Yang Yong followed Konghai toward the black mist at the city's center and realized it drew different members of the Buddhist Cultivator Society with individualized temptations.
• Konghai smashed bone buildings to extract Buddha nature, while Yang Yong felt tempted by the same power and recognized that Konghai's Buddha Light was dangerous bait.
• The Detection Sphere crossed an invisible boundary, and the city's pull reached Yang Yong through its transmission link, making him want to enter the black mist.
• The Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace dispelled the pull, and Yang Yong watched Konghai continue onward while weighing his fear against his unwillingness to give up.

Yang Yong followed the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace’s cryptic hint and sent a Detection Light Sphere deeper into Bone City, hoping to find the treasure it sensed. The sphere’s signal was cut off just as it reached the city’s center, so Yang Yong requisitioned ten more to investigate.

• The Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace hinted that Yang Yong should follow, and Yang Yong chose to risk entering the depths of the ancient city rather than continue refining Curios.
• Yang Yong sent a Detection Light Sphere through the black mist, past bone towers and faces with hollow eyes, as a mysterious presence seemed to draw him onward.
• The sphere’s image cut out near the center of Bone City, where a golden hand transformed it into a prayer bead and toyed with it.
• Yang Yong replayed the recording repeatedly but could only make out a fleeting, blurry shadow.
• Yang Yong used his authority as Deputy City Lord to requisition ten Detection Light Spheres so he could investigate Bone City’s center.

Yang Yong used ten Detection Light Spheres to reveal the Demon Buddha at the center of Bone City, and the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace ordered him to swallow its origin demonic energy. After learning that doing so would open all his apertures, Yang Yong prepared to lead an emergency response.

• Yang Yong sent ten Detection Light Spheres through Bone City's alleys at maximum speed to capture the figure at its center.
• The spheres each recorded a fragment before the Demon Buddha destroyed them, and Yang Yong pieced the footage together to reveal its bone-built body beneath its Buddha-like appearance.
• The Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace clearly commanded Yang Yong to swallow the Demon Buddha's origin demonic energy.
• Yang Yong asked what he would gain, and the furnace told him that refining the Many-Treasured Demon Buddha's origin demonic energy would open all his apertures directly.
• Yang Yong ordered the elders to assemble in the Core Area conference room for emergency combat preparations.

Yang Yong ordered the Mechanical City to attack the Bone City and entered the Core Control Room with the Nine Great Elders. By connecting to the city's energy network, he found a faint pulse and awakened a wisp of the Heaven-Opening Giant Axe's might.

• Yang Yong summoned the Nine Great Elders and announced that the Mechanical City would attack the Bone City.
• The elders questioned Yang Yong's sudden change of plan, but Liu Yijun entered the Core Control Room and took his seat, leading the others to follow.
• Yang Yong unlocked his Deputy City Lord permissions and connected the Mechanical City's curios into an energy network.
• Yang Yong searched the network and caught a faint pulse with the help of the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace.
• A wisp of the Heaven-Opening Giant Axe's might surged beneath the Mechanical City, leaving the elders staring at Yang Yong in awe.

Yang Yong channeled the Heaven-Opening Giant Axe's might through Mechanical City, sending its destructive aura toward Bone City. The aura broke Old Monk Mingdeng's mental illusion, and he realized he had been manipulated into worshipping his way into the city as black mist rushed toward him.

• Yang Yong used the Heaven-Opening Giant Axe's might to establish his authority in Mechanical City and focused on obtaining the demonic Buddha's source demonic energy to reach Sequence 3.
• Mechanical City's axe-like aura spread toward Bone City and alerted the presence at its center.
• Black mist rapidly engulfed Bone City as distorted Buddhist chanting echoed through it.
• The aura shattered the mental illusion controlling Old Monk Mingdeng, who remembered entering Bone City while prostrating himself in devotion.
• Old Monk Mingdeng protected himself with a golden kasaya formed from his Buddhist Prayer Beads and saw black mist surging toward him.

Konghai woke from the White Bone Bodhisattva’s influence just before entering its hunting range and burned the demonic qi from his body with Buddha Fire. As Mechanical City’s attack grew stronger, Mingdeng called him for help, leaving Konghai to choose between answering and pursuing the opportunity within Bone City.

• Mechanical City’s sharp aura jolted Konghai out of his deluded state, and he realized he had nearly stepped into the White Bone Bodhisattva’s hunting range.
• Konghai recognized the golden coating on his skin as demonic qi disguised as Buddha Light and began purifying himself with Buddha Fire.
• Konghai burned away the moving golden patterns, while Mechanical City’s rising metallic aura signaled that its attack had begun.
• Konghai planned to use the clash between Mechanical City and the White Bone Bodhisattva to seek valuable things deep within Bone City.
• Mingdeng sent Konghai a message asking him to come help, and Konghai wondered how his supposedly ordinary martial uncle had located him through the black mist.

Yang Yong drove Mechanical City into Bone City as the black mist awakened into a giant Buddha, while Konghai ignored Mingdeng’s request for help and continued refining demonic energy. The Buddha’s attack failed against Mechanical City’s Electric Arc Shield, leaving Yang Yong dismissive of the mist’s power.

• Konghai erased Mingdeng’s message and continued refining the demonic energy in his body.
• Yang Yong activated most of Mechanical City’s Curio array and saw that black mist had engulfed Bone City.
• Yang Yong ordered Mechanical City to charge Bone City despite warnings from Grand Elder Liu Yijun and the other elders.
• Cao Xianming stayed silent and ate grapes, preventing the elders from stopping Yang Yong’s combat orders.
• The black mist condensed into a giant Buddha and pressed its palms against Mechanical City.
• Mechanical City’s Electric Arc Shield repelled the Buddha’s hands, and Yang Yong mocked the attack.

Yang Yong hesitated to use his Heaven-Opening Giant Axe power against Bone City's Black Mist Buddha, but the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace acted on its own and devoured the Buddha. The elders watching the battle were left stunned by the furnace’s power and reconsidered Yang Yong’s worth.

• Yang Yong ordered Mechanical City’s weapons to fire at the Black Mist Buddha, but it grew dozens of arms and enveloped the city.
• Yang Yong considered saving his trump card for the battle inside Bone City, then realized the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace was moving without his control.
• The Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace drove the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace through Mechanical City’s Electric Arc Shield and opened its lid.
• The furnace swallowed the Black Mist Buddha and all its black mist in less than ten seconds, then returned to the Artifact-Refining Platform.
• The elders stared at Yang Yong in shock and concluded that Servien had made him Deputy City Lord as an investment.