Recaps

Lu Heng survived the city’s dangers, killed a Bronze-Tier Mutant King Cobra, and recovered under the care of Song Yunzhong’s group. After returning to his Shelter and healing with a Purifying Water Lotus seed, he prepared to modify his damaged blade using the Rat King’s body.

• Lu Heng killed Yun Jing, escaped an Anomalous Supermarket with a Nightmare Chest, and later found Zombie Dogs feeding on her corpse.
• Lu Heng opened the chest, awakened his Temperature Control talent, and crafted a Bone Demon that became his loyal scout and guard.
• Lu Heng explored town, gathered supplies, and discovered a Lurewater Lotus and a Black Iron Chest containing a Base Blueprint and other items.
• Lu Heng challenged the Bronze-Tier Rat King, killed it with his heated blade, then entered its nest and faced a Mutant King Cobra.
• Lu Heng burned the cobra with his Geothermal Talisman, drank its blood to survive the Blood Beast Pill’s backlash, and collapsed as the Bone Demon fought off approaching Zombies.
• Song Yunzhong and another man rescued Lu Heng, who learned about their shelter and gave Song Yunzhong the Corpse-Control Ring before returning to the underpass.
• Lu Heng recovered the damaged Bone Demon, used Star Tear to ripen a Purifying Water Lotus seed, and healed while improving his abilities.
• Lu Heng inspected his damaged Hunting Blade and chose to use the Rat King’s entire corpse for a weapon modification.

Lu Heng cleared the supermarket’s Anomalies and killed its owner, then used his rewards to establish a main base and upgrade his Shelter. He began cultivating the Big Dipper’s power as his new base faced a threat in the lake.

• Lu Heng forged the Rat King’s remains into a Rat King Bone Knife, then brought supplies and warm clothes to Song Yunzhong’s shelter and took him to explore the hospital.
• Lu Heng and Song Yunzhong found a Spiderified Zombie in the hospital, and Song Yunzhong used his Corpse-Control Ring to raise it and bring it back to the shelter.
• Lu Heng scouted the supermarket with his drone, discovered runes binding its Anomalies, and entered to fight the cashier, butcher, shelf stocker, and weighing clerk.
• The supermarket owner revealed that he had enabled the Anomalies’ crimes and planned to absorb their resentment, but Lu Heng killed him when the Geothermal Talisman released its origin energy.
• Lu Heng found the victims’ remains and the owner’s records, burned the supermarket, and returned to his Shelter with the Nightmare Chests and family portrait.
• Lu Heng gained a Companion Pact, hatched the Mutant King Cobra egg as his companion, and built a main base at the Lakeside Stone Pavilion.
• Lu Heng upgraded the Cliffside Shelter into a three-story fortress, then used the cobra to kill fish guarding the new lake-center base.
• Lu Heng cooked a meal and cultivated with the Starlight Meditation Method, sensing the Big Dipper’s power as its first star began to light up.

Lu Heng grew stronger, expanded the Shelter’s food and defenses, and defeated the threats he found in the industrial district and forest. After gaining the Water-Covering Vine Binding talent, he set out with the Bone Demon to check on Song Yunzhong and the spider-like Zombie.

• Lu Heng reached Bronze Tier, tested his strength by killing Cold Stiffs, and defeated a Sludge Mutant before trading its core with the Mudstone Pincer-Mouthed Turtles for treasure chests.
• Lu Heng killed a turtle that went aberrant, opened the chests, and used the Pond and Farmland Modules to expand the Shelter’s food production.
• Lu Heng fought through a factory horde, killed the Gluttonous Aberrant, and crafted a Bronze Tier Gluttonous Bone Demon from its body.
• Lu Heng and the Bone Demon burned down the Blood Banyan Tree, and Lu Heng recovered its materials and a Mutation Treasure Chest.
• Lu Heng purified the mutant loot at the Stellar Altar, then used a Starlight Seed to transform the endangered Purifying Water Lotus into a Silver Tier Star Lotus.
• Lu Heng drove off two leopards attacking the Shelter, traced the attack to a Black-Eyed Bear, and confronted the bear group until their Silver Tier king offered a treasure chest as compensation.
• Lu Heng brought four Black-Eyed Bear bodies home, collected tribute chests from the Wolf Pack, and fed the mangled bears to the Blood-Devouring Vine.
• Lu Heng planted a Water-Covering Vine in the lake, gained the ability to breathe underwater for up to thirty minutes in calm water, and left with the Bone Demon to check on Song Yunzhong and the spider-like Zombie.

Lu Heng investigated the disappearance of the zombies and followed the blood energy through the sewers to a fungal network beneath the sewage treatment plant. He found the Silver Tier Blood Taisui, which marked him and began parasitizing the Bone Demon.

• Lu Heng killed Zhou Cheng’s men and the Bully Dog, buried Zhou Cheng and Afu together, and brought Afu’s photograph back to the Shelter.
• Lu Heng relocated the Blood-Devouring Vines, hunted giant otters and a Giant-Toothed Crocodile, and found Energy Cores and Flesh Cores inside their bodies.
• Lu Heng received warning of the simultaneous Insect Plague and Vegetation Withering, then surveyed the damaged woods and discovered that zombies had vanished from the city.
• Lu Heng watched a military base battle a zombie horde and followed death energy into the sewers, where he found signs that an unknown force controlled the monsters.
• Lu Heng learned that Song Yunzhong planned to move his group to the military district and promised to escort them, then traveled to a sewage treatment plant to find sewer plans.
• Lu Heng discovered invisible fungal threads controlling creatures at the plant and followed them to a central vein, where a regenerating simulacrum attacked him.
• Lu Heng sensed a vast organism beneath the plant and descended while the Bone Demon held off the fungal puppets.
• The Silver Tier Blood Taisui collapsed the ground beneath Lu Heng, marked him with fungal residue and a mental imprint, and sent filaments to parasitize the Bone Demon.