Recaps

Ruiqi accepted Amilia’s explanation and went south to find Lu Xiao, while Doctor examined a space-containing object and discussed Nini’s condition with Little Black. Doctor revealed a possible shortcut to Prison Doctor’s godhood that required Little Black’s cooperation, but had not yet explained what it was.

• Ruiqi decided to trust Antie’s arrangements, thanked Amilia, and set out south to find Lu Xiao.
• Amilia wondered whether to tell his Master about a slot for a god.
• Doctor told Shuns that the object taken from the leather bag contained a complete space and that he would study it in the Dreamscape.
• Doctor explained to Little Black that Nini needed another trait and a deification ritual to escape her condition, but he could not work out how she could undergo the ritual.
• Doctor said he had a shortcut to help Prison Doctor attain godhood, and Little Black asked how it could cooperate.

The Doctor suggested that Little Black complete its own Deification Ritual by weaving a realistic Dreamscape, and Little Black chose that over being eaten for its Trait. Shuns then invited Ivan to join his research team, but Ivan hesitated because he needed to cook for Lu Qian, leaving Shuns to inspect his strange green fried egg.

• The Doctor told Little Black to weave a realistic Dreamscape to complete its Deification Ritual and offered eating it as an alternative, which Little Black rejected.
• Shuns visited Ivan in his Containment Room and discussed alchemy before inviting him to join his research team.
• Ivan said he needed to cook for Lu Qian and would consider Shuns's invitation, while Shuns insisted on waiting for an answer.
• Ivan cooked a huge egg in a bone pan over emerald-green flames, and Shuns frowned at the resulting green fried egg.

Shuns tried to steer Ivan away from cooking and toward the laboratory, but Ivan decided to turn Chef into a stove. Xiao Yu and Lu Qian appealed to Ivan by reminding him that Lu Qian depended on Chef’s meals, leaving Ivan facing her plea.

• Shuns criticized Ivan’s cooking methods while they waited for Lu Qian to return from school.
• Lu Qian arrived with Xiao Yu and explained that they had eaten at Uncle Chef’s cafeteria, so she had already had dinner.
• Shuns encouraged Ivan to work in the laboratory, and Ivan agreed to go there the next morning.
• Ivan revealed that he planned to pull out Chef’s bones and make them into a stove.
• Xiao Yu and Shuns warned that Lu Qian needed Chef’s nutritious meals, and Lu Qian hugged Ivan’s leg bones and pleaded for his cooking.

Ivan visited Shuns's biological laboratory and became fascinated by an experiment that transformed a lump of flesh into a weapon. Shuns invited him to become the first test subject for flesh-and-blood armor, but the project stalled over the problem of attaching the flesh, leading Shuns to bring up life alchemy and Ivan to warn that it was forbidden.

• Ivan arrived at Shuns's laboratory and met its unusual staff.
• Shuns showed Ivan a lump of flesh that transformed into a grotesque pistol and spread blood vessels and nerve tissue over his arm bones.
• Shuns invited Ivan to be the first test subject for biomechanical armor powered by bioenergy.
• Shuns explained that he could not make the experimental flesh adhere firmly to Ivan's body.
• Shuns mentioned life alchemy, and Ivan warned him that it was a forbidden art.

Shuns asked Ivan to use alchemy to solve the project’s problem of giving biomechanical flesh life, and Ivan demonstrated flesh alchemy instead. The experiment transformed a glass beaker into a living-looking cup of pink flesh, leaving Shuns amazed by alchemy’s potential.

• Shuns urged Ivan to attempt life alchemy, but Ivan explained its low success rate and proposed flesh alchemy as a safer alternative.
• Shuns ordered Zhou Hao to bring fresh ingredients, and Zhou Hao returned with a wheelbarrow full of flesh, including a malformed beating heart.
• Ivan arranged the flesh and drew two alchemical circles, then instructed Shuns to place the experimental core in the flower-shaped circle.
• Ivan activated the circles, and the flesh in one array was consumed as a tender pink shoot grew around the beaker in the other.
• Shuns picked up the finished flesh cup, praised the result, and apologized to Ivan for his earlier prejudice.

Shuns tested the durability of the flesh-and-blood construct Ivan had made, while in Hell, the allied forces converged on the seemingly wounded Ding Dan and more than a hundred deities surrounded Yi Hao. Ding Dan revealed himself on the Throne, subdued one deity, and Pain killed another for speaking disrespectfully to His Majesty.

• Shuns questioned how little flesh and blood Ivan had produced, then tested the beaker-based construct by putting a fragmentation grenade inside it.
• Lu Xiao and the others approached the battlefield Ding Dan had prepared, where Ding Dan sat gravely wounded near the mysterious thicket.
• Hell creatures rushed toward Ding Dan, tempted by the divinity in his flesh and blood, while more than a hundred deities surrounded Yi Hao's Throne.
• A deity tried to attack Yi Hao, but Yi Hao revealed himself as Ding Dan and forced the deity to kneel beneath his foot.
• When another deity challenged the assembled deities to kill Ding Dan, Pain stabbed him and declared that they must watch their tone when speaking to His Majesty.

Ding Dan fought dozens of deities while Lu Xiao revealed himself among the Hell creatures and unleashed a monstrous transformation. Lu Xiao grew into a giant and formed a towering mass of fat covered in malicious eyes, driving the surrounding creatures toward madness.

• A Near-God Level Hell Worm swallowed Pain, and Ding Dan crushed another deity before rising into the air to battle dozens of deities.
• Ding Dan used Confusion to disorient a deity, allowing the others’ attacks to destroy him and his authority.
• Lu Xiao revealed himself among the Hell creatures, summoned countless ravens, and killed a creature with a casual slap.
• Lu Xiao ripped out and ate his heart, then grew into a giant as yellowish-brown fat poured from his splitting skin.
• The fat gathered into a huge mass covered in malicious eyes, and its stench and negative emotions began driving the Hell creatures mad.

Lu Xiao lost control and became a colossal, contaminating mass that drove Hell’s beings to madness, while Calamity and Morati fled its influence. As deities tried to escape the battlefield, Yi Hao rallied the encircling Wilderness Wanderers to stop them and fight for a better future.

• The fat mass contaminated Hell’s beings, making some vomit fat until they shriveled and others slaughter one another.
• Lu Xiao’s mind went blank as the fat mass grew, and Calamity and Morati flew out of its reach.
• Lu Xiao covered himself in the fat, which formed armor and a vast eyeball as he began to move.
• Ding Dan withdrew from the battle, and the deities fled when they saw the giant approaching.
• Yi Hao ordered the Wilderness Wanderers surrounding the battlefield to prevent any deity from escaping and urged them to fight for their peoples and descendants.

Yi Hao’s forces trapped the fleeing Deities on the ground and in the air, while the remaining Deities searched for a way out. They believed the Royal Family would send help, but Ding Dan and Mitchell had deceived them.

• Yi Hao’s Wanderers blocked a Deity’s advance, while King-level leaders attacked him and forced him to retreat.
• Ding Dan intercepted flying Deities and killed two of them, making the skies unsafe for escape.
• The remaining Deities discovered that their numbers had fallen to a little over fifty and learned that Hell Worms would take four days to arrive.
• A Deity with ties to the Royal Family said its forces were attacking the Royal City, but claimed a lord had promised to send reinforcements.
• Ding Dan told Mitchell that the Deities had believed his false message about Royal Family aid.

Ding Dan and Yi Hao discussed the arriving supplies, Lu Xiao’s loss of control, and their plan to draw out the being hidden in the bushes. As ravens harvested corpses’ eyes, Calamity suspected that “Death” was protecting him and Morati as part of a larger game, while Morati mistook Ding Dan’s battlefield plan for a sacrifice made to free him.

• Yi Hao told Ding Dan that their supplies and focusing lenses had arrived and would help them punish their opponents.
• Ding Dan revealed that Lu Xiao was Shadow and that the real Shadow had fallen, then said he believed Lu Xiao had chosen to lose control.
• Yi Hao and Ding Dan agreed to stick to their plan, though Ding Dan pointed out that he could not reach Lu Xiao.
• Calamity watched ravens harvest the corpses’ eyes and suspected the quota and “Death’s” protection were pieces in a larger game.
• Morati saw Ding Dan on the battlefield but stayed away, believing his sovereign had arranged the slaughter to buy back his freedom.

Liangren investigated the Hell Post Office and learned that its letter-delivery tasks supplied locals with water and let carriers return to Hell even if they died. Suspecting the Post Office belonged to an unknown civilization that could translate forms, he decided to test it by mailing a letter to a vague cosmic address.

• Liangren arrived at the Settlement around the Post Office, learned Hell’s language during the journey, and examined the building’s strange construction.
• Liangren questioned a local and learned that delivery tasks had stopped for a long time, leaving residents without water.
• The local explained that letter carriers attacked recipients for resources, then returned to Hell after ten minutes, where injuries healed and the dead were resurrected.
• Liangren inspected the Post Office’s Chinese forms and suspected it translated text into each form-filler’s language and had been established by an unknown civilization.
• Liangren left his notebook with a guard, filled out a form, and addressed his letter to the Laniakea Supercluster, Virgo Cluster, and Andromeda Galaxy.

Liangren questioned the Postman about the Post Office after learning he needed an exact planet number to mail his letter. He agreed to join the Postman, who led him through a wormhole toward a dazzling white light.

• Liangren addressed his letter to Random, but the Postman told him the address needed an exact planet number and explained that an unspecified recipient's letter would go to a mailbox.
• Liangren asked who established the Post Office and why, and the Postman invited him to join to learn the answers.
• Liangren followed the Postman into a desolate void and deduced they were traveling through a wormhole where sound could not travel.
• Liangren considered the risks of joining, reasoning that he was a Clone and that his notebook remained in Hell.
• The Postman led Liangren onward until a dazzling white light appeared ahead.

Liangren passed through the gate and joined Universe Logistics, then learned he had been assigned to Hell. He sent the Doctor a warning-filled letter, but its carrier attacked the Doctor, and Little Black showed the Doctor what happened.

• Liangren crossed the gate, became a member of Universe Logistics, and learned that Space might have chosen him, though the Postman lacked clearance to confirm it.
• The Postman assigned Liangren to Hell, and Liangren filled out a delivery form addressed to the Doctor.
• Liangren wrote the Doctor a letter warning about the Outsiders, Hell, and the coming rise of the New Gods, then sent it with a Hell creature.
• The letter carrier reached the Doctor's room, discarded the letter, and appeared poised to attack the sleeping Doctor.
• Little Black told the Doctor that the carrier had sucked him dry and displayed the scene on a Light Curtain.

Doctor received Liangren’s warning about Space, the conflict between the Rules, and Earth being a pasture, but decided to continue investigating. In Hell, Ding Dan’s forces used a deadly focusing mirror to devastate the battlefield, and he outlined a strategy for consolidating support without forcing the major factions into a desperate fight.

• Doctor criticized Black Cat’s Dreamscape for making his body unrealistic, then read Liangren’s letter and chose to keep studying space despite its warning to end the experiment.
• Holy City’s demons used a giant focusing mirror to concentrate sunlight on the battlefield, drying out and killing those caught in its beam.
• Yi Hao warned Ding Dan that the deities would soon rally their armies, and Ding Dan said the goal was to weaken the major races rather than eliminate their leaders.
• Ding Dan told Yi Hao to distribute the promised benefits to the Wanderers and rely on diplomacy to secure Hell after the battle.
• Ding Dan proposed elevating selected minor races as examples of victory, expecting their rise to attract more Wanderers and deepen divisions among the oppressed.

Ding Dan explained that the Holy City planned to divide the tribes it would rule, while the battle continued with the Sky Curtain devastating enemy armies. After hearing Amilia’s battlefield report, Antie concluded that the Holy City had chosen not to kill the enemy deities because it did not serve its interests, but its victory was assured.

• Ding Dan told Yi Hao that elevating certain tribes would make the others oppose them and help the Holy City rule later, prompting Yi Hao to worry that Ding Dan’s emotions were fading.
• The Holy City let the allied armies charge the Wanderers’ defensive line while the enemy deities avoided fighting and watched the Sky Curtain; Lu Xiao remained curled up as his contamination continued killing Hell creatures.
• The enemy deities argued over whether to break through, then continued ordering their forces to charge as the Wanderers fought back and suffered extreme casualties.
• Amilia reported to Antie that more than twenty deities had fallen or disappeared, though none had been seen dying, and asked whether they might be hiding.
• Antie said the Holy City had no reason to kill all the enemy leaders and that its victory in the war was already assured.

Antie explained to Amilia how the Holy City could use its superior water logistics to outlast the United Forces while letting the Wanderers and major clans devastate each other. Amilia realized the Holy City intended to bind the Wanderers to itself and shape them into a weapon, leaving him unable to see a way for the United Forces to escape their predicament.

• Amilia told Antie that Royal Family reinforcements led by a powerful old monster were on their way, but Antie argued they would arrive too late.
• Antie explained that soldiers would run out of stored water without battlefield shelter, while the Holy City could keep its Wanderers supplied and let the United Forces grow exhausted.
• Antie described a strategy of holding the Holy City’s own troops back while the Wanderers and United Forces wore each other down, then sending in fresh forces to finish the fight.
• Antie said the Holy City wanted both sides weakened so the major clans would resent the Wanderers, leaving the Wanderers dependent on the Holy City and its promises.
• Amilia concluded that the Holy City’s plan could make the Wanderers a powerful weapon, and he fell into despair as he could find no way for the United Forces to break free.

Antie told Amilia that fear of the Holy City would drive the great races to punish nearby Wanderers, and he planned to capture Wanderers before they joined the Holy City so they could support the Succubus race. After meeting Amilia, Antie reflected on his plans for the Succubi and considered Hell’s potential as a human colony, while suspecting that the previous Hell Great Lords had not truly fallen.

• Antie explained that the great races would blame the Wanderers for their defeat and drive more of them toward the Holy City.
• Antie told Amilia to capture Wanderers before they committed to the Holy City and make them support the Succubus race, despite the bloody consequences.
• Amilia asked whether Antie might treat him as an enemy, and Antie reassured him that he did not threaten the Succubus race.
• Antie left Amilia and reflected that he had already secured his wager with Ruiqi through his plans for the Succubi.
• Antie considered Hell as a possible colony for humanity and suspected that the supposedly fallen Hell Great Lords had hidden themselves away.

Amilia discovered that Antie had been assassinated in the Succubus Settlement, and the Succubus Clan held a funeral as the news spread. Yi Hao and Ruiqi went to investigate while Ding Dan remained at the battlefield, where Lu Xiao awoke after losing control and saw the devastation he had caused.

• Amilia found Antie and his bodyguard succubus dead, with a faint flame of authority flickering above Antie's heart.
• Amilia recognized the flame and later stood with several dozen succubi beside Antie's coffin outside Gentleman's Paradise.
• Yi Hao learned of Antie's death and, after discussing the report with Ding Dan, went to the Succubus Settlement to investigate while Ding Dan stayed behind.
• Yi Hao met Ruiqi on the way, told her about Antie's death, and they decided to return together.
• Lu Xiao awoke on the battlefield in his normal form, realized he had caused the surrounding destruction while out of control, and left.

Lu Xiao disguised himself as a Minotaur and rampaged through the battle to help meet the United Forces’ two-hundred-million quota, drawing the attention of several Deities. After a Royal Family Demon wounded him with a bone greatsword, Lu Xiao seized the weapon and lifted its wielder off the ground.

• Lu Xiao joined a Minotaur legion in disguise, claimed to be their former chief’s brother, and rallied them to charge the Wanderers.
• Lu Xiao fought through the battlefield repeatedly, became separated from the Minotaurs, and accidentally killed a commander from another race.
• Calamity and Morati watched Lu Xiao’s rampage, while Ding Dan and the United Forces’ Deities sent help toward him.
• A Royal Family Demon attacked Lu Xiao with a bone greatsword, shattered his axes, and wounded his shoulder.
• Lu Xiao grabbed the greatsword’s bone spikes and lifted the Royal Family Demon into the air.

Lu Xiao, disguised as a Minotaur, beat a Great Demon and then fought Ding Dan in front of the United Forces. Ding Dan stopped Lu Xiao from stomping him with a command, and the two accused each other of being sore losers.

• Lu Xiao disarmed the Great Demon and beat him with the White Bone Greatsword while two United Forces Deities fled when Ding Dan arrived.
• Ding Dan attacked Lu Xiao, and the two exchanged blows before Lu Xiao used the greatsword to halt his backward flight.
• Lu Xiao tricked Ding Dan into wrenching his lower back, punched him in the nose, and prepared to stomp on his head.
• Ding Dan used the Crown's power to command Lu Xiao to kneel and stopped the stomp.
• Lu Xiao called Ding Dan a sore loser, and Ding Dan retorted that Lu Xiao had been one first.

Ding Dan and Lu Xiao agreed to fight without restrictions, and Ding Dan revealed his power by rallying the Wanderers against Lu Xiao. As the army charged, Hell’s spectators watched to see how Lu Xiao would withstand Ding Dan’s attack.

• Ding Dan and Lu Xiao agreed to stop holding back and fight seriously.
• Ding Dan stabbed Positivity into his own chest, transformed into a powerful, muscular form, and used his ability to bring the Wanderers under his command.
• Ding Dan ordered the Wanderers to burn their life force and surround Lu Xiao, who recognized the threat of facing both the army and Ding Dan.
• The other fighters paused their battle as spectators, while airborne beings took to the sky to watch Lu Xiao face the charging Wanderers.
• The onlookers debated Lu Xiao’s strength and compared his horns and body hair to Ding Dan’s.

Lu Xiao fought Ding Dan and the enhanced Wanderers, using his synchronized heartbeat to kill many of them before Ding Dan shattered his head. Lu Xiao survived long enough to tear off Ding Dan’s wings and crush his neck, leaving the watching Hell creatures stunned.

• Lu Xiao’s intimidation briefly made the Wanderers hesitate, but Ding Dan urged them forward with promises of rewards.
• Lu Xiao charged into the enhanced Wanderers, then took a hammer from a King-level Hell creature and used it to smash through his attackers.
• Lu Xiao healed and intensified his heartbeat, causing the hearts of the surrounding Wanderers to burst and forcing Ding Dan to attack.
• Ding Dan struck Lu Xiao’s head until it shattered, but Lu Xiao grabbed his wings, tore them off, and crushed his neck.
• The Hell creatures watching debated Lu Xiao’s Authority and whether Ding Dan had been forced to attack up close.

Lu Xiao and Ding Dan ended their battle without a clear victor, and Lu Xiao was carried away by the Minotaur Tribe as its new chief. Ding Dan let the Minotaurs escape, while Mitchell warned that their strength might make them a future obstacle.

• Lu Xiao and Ding Dan stopped fighting after an hour of exchanging blows, and Ding Dan kicked Lu Xiao into the Minotaur army.
• A Minotaur commander named Niu Ben rallied his tribe to protect Lu Xiao, who praised him as the tribe’s bravest warrior.
• Niu Ben carried Lu Xiao on his back and led the Minotaurs through the Wanderers’ defensive line, resisting even a deity sent to stop him.
• Ding Dan retrieved the Crown and let the Minotaur army leave, while Mitchell warned him that the tribe could become an obstacle.
• Ding Dan told Mitchell not to pursue a cornered foe, then asked him to stop flattering him.

Ding Dan withdrew the surviving Wanderers rather than sacrifice them to eliminate the last United Forces troops. Meanwhile, Lu Xiao tried to persuade Niu Ben to abandon him on the way back to the Minotaur tribe, but learned the Minotaurs were willing to flee when they could not win and quickly invented a story about his late brother, Niu Da.

• Ding Dan estimated that finishing off the remaining United Forces would cost nearly all the surviving Wanderers, so he ordered a retreat.
• The United Forces grew suspicious when the Wanderers opened a gap in their defensive line, and both sides remained at a distance.
• Niu Ben gave Lu Xiao water and promised to get him safely back to the tribe despite the Minotaurs' exhaustion.
• Lu Xiao claimed his injuries and his brother's death would bring danger to those who returned with him, and urged Niu Ben to leave him behind.
• Niu Ben questioned Lu Xiao's claim that Minotaurs never fled, explaining that their rule was to fight when they could and run when they could not.
• Lu Xiao reacted to his mistaken assumptions by claiming Niu Da had raised him to be a proud warrior who fought the fiercest battles.

Lu Xiao reached the Minotaur tribe with Niu Ben and learned that the former chief had fathered a tenth of the tribe’s population. As Lu Xiao took in the tribe’s customs and social hierarchy, the horns on his head grew thicker than before.

• Niu Ben explained that the former chief had contributed a tenth of the tribe’s population and promised to defend Lu Xiao.
• Niu Ben offered Lu Xiao more than a thousand cows to mate with, but Lu Xiao resolved to change the tribe’s breeding customs.
• After traveling for a little over a day, the exhausted Minotaurs arrived at their settlement, where Lu Xiao saw that female Minotaurs had human heads and bovine bodies.
• Lu Xiao observed the settlement’s cattle sheds and noticed that Minotaurs with thicker horns whipped those carrying bricks.
• As Lu Xiao compared Niu Ben’s thick horns with the others’, the horns on Lu Xiao’s own head grew rapidly thicker.