Recaps

Lu Xiao uncovered more about the Doctor’s plans and brought Liangren and Antie into Hell, where Antie took control of the Succubus Clan and prepared it for war. As the Holy City’s alliance and a coming slaughter threatened Hell, Amilia revealed that Antie’s harsh orders also aimed to protect Ruiqi’s people.

• Lu Xiao confronted Dan Guofeng about the parallel timelines and the false world around him, then escaped as the world collapsed while Dan Guofeng chose to defy Heaven.
• Lu Xiao reunited with Doctor, Antie, Li Changqing, Ruiqi, Amilia, and Calamity, and learned about the plans to investigate Hell and develop new ways to use Traits.
• The Doctor explained his theories about Traits and Deification, while Lu Xiao visited Shuns’s laboratories, saw the Flesh Machinery prototype, and gave the Doctor a gravity-bearing bone spur for the mecha project.
• Lu Xiao traveled to Paradise Lost with Antie and Liangren, and the group sought Assistant before Liangren went to investigate the Mysterious Post Office.
• Antie warned Lu Xiao that the Doctor and Liangren could become threats, then took over Ruiqi’s authority and ordered the Succubi to change how they pursued resources.
• Lu Xiao learned that the Holy City planned to ally with the Wilderness Wanderers and target other races, while Calamity and Morati had been transformed into ravens after trying to divert the Holy City’s forces.
• Yi Hao and Lu Xiao prepared for the coming conflict as Antie spent the Succubus Clan’s resources on male slaves, intelligence gathering, and strengthening the clan’s fighters.
• Amilia explained that Antie had dispersed the ordinary Succubi to protect them from the Holy City’s upheaval and had used Ruiqi’s stockpiles to raise capable Succubi into King-level fighters, before beginning to reveal another reason.

While Shuns recruited Ivan to help develop flesh alchemy, the war in Hell escalated as Ding Dan and Lu Xiao fought amid a Holy City strategy that weakened both sides. Lu Xiao escaped with the Minotaurs, while Liangren joined Universe Logistics and Antie died.

• Ivan joined Shuns’s laboratory, used flesh alchemy to create a living container, and warned Shuns against forbidden life alchemy.
• Ding Dan revealed himself on the battlefield and fought the assembled deities as Lu Xiao lost control, spreading deadly contamination through Hell.
• Liangren joined Universe Logistics and sent the Doctor a warning about Hell, the Outsiders, and the coming New Gods, but the delivery carrier attacked the Doctor.
• Ding Dan and Antie’s plans aimed to exhaust the United Forces and make the Wanderers dependent on the Holy City, while Amilia struggled to find a way to break the strategy.
• Amilia found Antie dead, and Lu Xiao awoke from his rampage before disguising himself as a Minotaur and returning to battle.
• Lu Xiao fought Ding Dan, who used the Crown to command the Wanderers, and the two eventually stopped fighting after an hour of trading blows.
• Niu Ben led the Minotaurs to rescue Lu Xiao, and Ding Dan let them leave as he ordered the remaining United Forces to retreat.
• Lu Xiao reached the Minotaur settlement and saw its cattle sheds and unequal labor, while his own horns rapidly grew thicker.

Lu Xiao helped Niu Ben become chief of the Minotaur Tribe, where Niu Bo revealed the truth about Hell’s final battle and asked Lu Xiao to ally with the tribe. Meanwhile, Yi Hao used Antie’s staged death and public accusations to draw Slian and Sestie toward the Holy City’s intelligence organization.

• Lu Xiao freed Calamity, recovered the Raven feathers, and learned that Death’s devotees had protected Calamity from a devotee of Time.
• Lu Xiao sent the Raven feathers to Prison Doctor, then returned to the Minotaur Tribe with Calamity, whom he introduced as Niu San.
• Lu Xiao and Calamity manipulated the chief-selection exam so Niu Ben became the new chief, while the elders dismissed the other candidates without hearing their explanations.
• Yi Hao held a press conference about Antie’s assassination, accused the Nightmare Demon and Wind Elf factions of involvement, and drew Slian and Sestie into the controversy.
• Niu Bo revealed that the Minotaurs hid their intelligence, explained that Hell’s victor would inherit the fallen being’s power, and asked Lu Xiao to help the tribe reach the final battle.
• Lu Xiao agreed to work with Niu Bo without promising victory, and he and Calamity left for the Holy City to see Ding Dan.
• Yi Hao invited Slian and Sestie to join the Holy City and lead its new intelligence organization, offering to discuss their compensation with His Majesty.

Lu Xiao’s allies tracked Kyoto’s plague to Liuguang, whose theft of a mad Deity’s Authority had made him lose control. After Doctor subdued Liuguang and promised to protect Nini, he set up a world without disease to push the Prison Doctor toward godhood, leaving the Prison Doctor isolated and with his memories missing.

• Antie completed the fusion of the water and fire authorities, froze Ge'en into a statue, and rewarded Futiya by restoring her youthful skin.
• Lu Xiao confronted Ding Dan in the Holy City, but Ding Dan declared that he had become a Tyrant to understand the Chess Players, and Lu Xiao fled the collapsing palace with Calamity.
• Gambler and the Prison Doctor traced Kyoto’s epidemic through the sewers to Liuguang, who had become a Deity after stealing the plague creature’s ability and madness.
• Gambler and the Prison Doctor incapacitated Liuguang, then Doctor and the Warden learned that Liuguang was a gene replica connected to Shadow and discovered that Nini was suffering genetic collapse.
• Liuguang explained how he had entered the Dark Prison, grown stronger with Dart’s help, and stolen the plague Deity’s thoughts and Authority.
• Doctor offered Liuguang imprisonment or death, and Liuguang chose death in exchange for Doctor protecting Nini and keeping her from research.
• Doctor made Liuguang vacant and motionless, then arranged a disease-free world where the Prison Doctor could treat terminally ill patients and pursue his Deification Ritual.
• The Prison Doctor awoke in Luofu District surrounded by police, remembered neither the world nor his companions, and told a negotiator he had once been human.