Recaps

Lu Xiao returned from his memories and traveled with Shadow to the Highest Office, where Shadow revealed the history behind the Prison Keeper Organization, the Dark Prison, and the system. The arc ended with Shadow preparing to return home with Lu Xi’s true body and Lu Xiao piloting the plane.

• Niclade led Chen Fei’s group to a corpse guarding a Magic Circle, then vanished as the corpse rose and attacked, and the team subdued it and returned to base injured.
• Bai Xuedong and Doctor Li showed the Driver his wife’s recovered corpse, persuaded him to join them, and learned he could manifest a version of her.
• Lu Xiao woke from his memories and learned that his Deification Ritual required him to kill and eat a deity alone, and Shadow then took him to the Highest Office to help restore his memories.
• Lu Xiao and Shadow fought a soldier empowered by Protagonist and True Eye, and Lu Xiao killed him and took the anomalies from his body.
• Shadow revealed that Protagonist and True Eye had belonged to Chen Fei and Doctor Li, then had Lu Xiao replace his heart and eye with them before leading him to the system, Lu Xi.
• Shadow showed Lu Xiao the failed Apotheosis project and explained the origins of the Salvation Society, the Anomaly Supervision Bureau, the Dark Prison, and the war against the deities.
• Shadow awakened He Shang, who recognized Shadow as his teacher and called Lu Xiao his uncle, then agreed to take on a mission.
• Lu Xi completed her backup, and Shadow recovered her true body, which contained Doctor Li’s complete brain, and Shadow gave Lu Xiao the Omniscient Mirror before taking it back, and Lu Xiao began piloting their plane.

Shadow brought Lu Xiao to the Initial Base, where Lu Xiao relived the Apotheosis Project and climbed the Apotheosis Path at the cost of his humanity and memories. Shuns organized a plan to rebuild Lu Xiao’s humanity by reenacting his past, but Lu Xiao awoke in the Dark Prison without memories and fought the group trying to subdue him.

• Shadow, Lu Xiao, and He Shang escaped their crashing plane, then Shadow arranged for He Shang to join the Saints as the Tenth Seat.
• Shadow took Lu Xiao and He Shang through the Dark Prison to the Initial Base, where they found Dr. Shuns and returned with him to C03.
• Shadow and Lu Xiao entered Shuns’s dream, where Lu Xiao volunteered for the Apotheosis Project and survived the experiment as the Kin attacked the base.
• Lu Xiao climbed the Apotheosis Path, giving Doctor Li his eye and heart and making a mask for Zhang Chu, while the people around him forgot him.
• Lu Xiao’s manifestation explained that his ascent had changed history and cost him his humanity and memories, and the Omniscient Mirror revealed he had traded them for Shuns’s lucidity.
• Shuns organized the plan “Finding the Lost One,” sending Lu Xiao to the Dark Prison while Shadow and the others reenacted his past to restore his humanity.
• Lu Xiao awoke without memories, attacked Chainsaw Man and Bai Suoyi, and resisted Shadow’s attempts to control him.
• Shadow empowered Bai Suoyi with a severed arm, and Bai Suoyi struck Lu Xiao down, but Lu Xiao drove his other arm into Bai Suoyi’s abdomen.

Shadow and his companions took Lu Xiao into the Depths, where Zhang Chu’s attempt at immortality led him to defeat and devour a Creator. The Flesh High Wall collapsed, revealing that the Prison had fallen, and Zhang Chu gave Lu Xiao a second Eye of Truth.

• Bai Suoyi and Shadow tried to restrain the maddened Lu Xiao until Dart intervened, and the Omniscient Mirror told Dart to put the Source of Pollution’s mask on Lu Xiao.
• Dart separated the mask from himself, and Shadow’s group traveled toward the Depths as Lu Xiao’s curse continued to rot his body.
• Shadow and Bai Suoyi abandoned Shuns’s script and introduced themselves to the amnesiac Lu Xiao as his teammates, while Lu Xiao and Chainsaw Man formed a friendship.
• The group reached the Flesh High Wall, where Zhang Chu appeared, gave Lu Xiao the mask, and led them into the cave.
• Zhang Chu ate two incomplete Creators and began an ascension ritual, but Lu Xiao used Shadow’s heart to help Zhang Chu see and defeat the Creator waiting at the Red-Lacquered Gate.
• Zhang Chu recognized Lu Xiao after he gave his name and revealed that Lu Xiao’s arrival meant the Prison had fallen, as the Flesh High Wall collapsed and creatures fled.
• Shadow reported the Prison’s fall to Gambler, while Zhang Chu gave Lu Xiao a second Eye of Truth left by his fellow Daoist.
• Lu Xiao replaced his right eye with the new Eye of Truth, but Shadow told him he had inserted it backward.

Shadow and his companions dealt with Bai Suoyi’s madness and returned to the Present World, while Shuns and Antie set the Spark Plan aside in favor of building C04. In the Doctor’s Dreamscape, Shadow recounted the origins of the new world, and Zhang Chu was sent for treatment after Doctor found evidence of damage or a curse in his brain.

• Shadow returned to the Present World with Lu Xiao and Zhang Chu, while Bai Suoyi’s madness led Shadow to restrain him and use the Omniscient Mirror to uncover the voice that had shaken his conviction.
• Shadow realized the Creator had planted and then triggered Bai Suoyi’s madness, but cast aside his fears that their actions were being orchestrated.
• Antie and Shuns agreed to keep the Spark Plan as a fallback and proposed C04 as a public Containment Facility in Huaxia, with the Director wagering that the C-prefixed side could build it within ten days.
• Antie forced the Highest Office to issue an order sending researchers and anomalies to Huaxia, and the Director presented Shuns with completed facility designs.
• Shadow brought Lu Xiao back to defend C01, then returned with the group through a hole between the Dark Prison and the Present World, and the clay statue twisted Lu Xiao’s head around when they arrived.
• Shadow, Lu Xiao, Zhang Chu, and the Director entered the Doctor’s Dreamscape, where Doctor revealed a factory producing living copies and demonstrated how shared emotions and contamination could drive people mad.
• Doctor sedated Shadow when he began to lose control, and Shadow recounted how Doctor Li divided the Creators’ authority, how the Spark and Prison Plans shaped the new world, and how its history concealed the Calamity Era.
• Doctor modeled the Dreamscape and found signs of damage or a curse in Zhang Chu’s brain, then sent him out to the Prison Doctor, who gave him anesthetic before preparing to operate.