Recaps

Lu Heng subdued the Blood Taisui, discovered the organized insect threat, and turned the fungal network against the growing swarms. After defeating the Insect Queen’s defenders and killing the first Queen, he faced a faster dark-gold Queen whose movements slowed after Blood Taisui struck its mind.

• Lu Heng burned the Blood Taisui’s infestation out of the Bone Demon, interrupted the creature’s advancement, and survived its furious counterattack with help from the awakened Greedy Wolf Star.
• Lu Heng defeated the Blood Taisui’s corpse puppet, made the weakened fungus acknowledge him as its master, and gained self-repairing Blood Armor before leaving the nest.
• Lu Heng returned to the Shelter, unlocked Wolf’s Kiss, and found the forest overrun by coordinated insects, then tracked their movement toward the river and destroyed the Insect Mother.
• Lu Heng cleared parasite-ridden wolves and nearby insect nests, while the displaced Wolf King and other beasts gathered at the Shelter and brought him evidence of the spreading infestation.
• Lu Heng fed a Lotus Seed to the Blood Taisui, which reached Bronze Tier, then released its mycelium to drain insects and defend the woodland against a massive insect tide.
• Lu Heng killed five Insect Armor Warriors threatening the Fortress, followed their trail to Geothermal Valley, and defeated the guardians protecting the Insect Queen’s breeding cave.
• Lu Heng killed the first Insect Queen and discovered that its hard-shelled egg contained a fully grown Queen, which emerged and attacked him.
• Lu Heng wounded the dark-gold Insect Queen with the Kiss of Nightmare as Blood Taisui disrupted its attacks, then climbed toward his gun after its mental blast left the Queen moving more slowly.

Lu Heng ended the insect calamity, claimed Moonview Valley, and fought to control the dangers in the expanded Frost Forest. He then entered the besieged military district, rescued Song Yunjing, and found Song Yunzhong tortured and stripped of his ability, leaving with plans to get them both out.

• Lu Heng defeated the Insect Queen, made its corpse into a Bone Demon, and returned to the Cliffside Shelter with the Black Spirit Ginseng and Frost Forest’s rewards.
• Lu Heng chose Moonview Valley for his territory, relocated his Shelter there, and helped the forest’s beasts destroy the remaining Insect Mothers, ending the insect calamity.
• Lu Heng planted new seeds in Moonview Valley as Frost Forest expanded, then scouted the unfamiliar woodland and fought the Bronze Tier raven and its flock when they threatened the local beasts.
• The Forest Will warned Lu Heng about disrupting the forest’s succession, then revealed a hidden chest beneath Moonview Valley’s waterfall, where Lu Heng found the Frost Talisman.
• Lu Heng returned to the Lakeside Base and entered the military camp, which was surrounded by zombies, to find Song Yunjing.
• Song Yunjing told Lu Heng that soldiers had taken her brother Song Yunzhong for experiments, and Lu Heng killed the men who had abused and threatened her.
• Lu Heng broke into the laboratory and found Song Yunzhong chained in a hidden basement, where Song Yunjing reunited with her brother.
• Song Yunzhong explained that a local higher-up had tortured him and stolen his Corpse-Control Ring and ability, and Lu Heng promised to get him and Song Yunjing out.

Lu Heng killed the Silver Zombie and Nightmare Eater, then returned to Moonview Valley as a planar replacement brought new survivors into the region. After machines defending his valley killed intruders, Lu Heng prepared for the coming invasion of the Green Demon Plane.

• Lu Heng confronted Song Zhi over Song Yunzhong’s torture and mutilation, killed Song Zhi and the officer, then left the Fortress after Song Yunzhong intervened to spare the soldiers.
• Lu Heng tracked a Silver Tier Zombie near the Military District camp and discovered it was feeding on captives while secretly building strength.
• Lu Heng killed the Silver Zombie and the Nightmare Eater, then gave the Dream Seed to Blood Taisui to replenish its origin.
• The Forest Will returned Lu Heng to Moonview Valley, where he claimed machines and a turret from the Nightmare Eater’s treasure chest.
• Lu Heng explored the Frost Forest, gathered ore with help from an Armored Crocodile Turtle, and learned that a planar replacement would bring survivors from dying World Fragments into the region.
• Newcomers began exploring the Frost Forest, and Lu Heng’s machines killed intruders who tried to enter Moonview Valley.
• The Forest Will warned Lu Heng that regional fusion and energy tides would worsen before a disaster, and Lu Heng began planning stronger defenses and larger supplies.
• A vast will announced an invasion from the Green Demon Plane and a defense contribution ranking, prompting Lu Heng to prepare to defend his territory.

Lu Heng fought Green Demon squads across Moonview Valley and Frost Forest, advanced to Silver Tier, and destroyed a teleportation array. After recovering and claiming the Forest Will’s rewards, he entered Withered Reed Plain and built a fungal-controlled legion to lead deeper into the region.

• Lu Heng investigated an extraplanar site near Moonview Valley, tested his strength against the Green Demons, and returned as a larger invasion breached the valley’s boundary.
• Lu Heng and Moonview Valley’s defenses eliminated a Green Demon squad led by a Silver Tier Big Goblin, and the Big Goblin’s energy advanced Lu Heng to Silver Tier.
• Lu Heng helped the Wolf King defeat eight Green Demons, then used his new warning-call knowledge to hunt Green Demon patrols in Frost Forest.
• Lu Heng discovered a Goblin Mage and a teleportation array spawning Green Demons, killed the mage, and used the Frost Talisman to destroy the array and gain the Frost Talent.
• Lu Heng escaped and killed survivors who tried to rob him, then opened three treasure chests and recovered at Moonview Valley while the Blood-Devouring Vine and Purifying Water Lotus advanced.
• Lu Heng traveled to Withered Reed Plain, killed an elite Green Demon squad, and paid a local survivor one Black Iron Tier Energy Core for shelter from the approaching horde.
• Lu Heng used Blood Taisui’s filaments to subdue successive waves of Green Demons, forming a puppet legion that he led toward the heart of Withered Reed Plain.