Recaps

The Doctor helped the Prison Doctor complete his path to godhood while humanity weighed how to face the Keepers and the dangers in Hell. Lu Xiao reunited with Antie, learned more about Hell’s conflicts, and Gambler began presenting Hell Creature blood as a new energy source to the Present World.

• The Prison Doctor completed his Deification Ritual after treating Old Humans, and the Doctor asked him to cure Nini and take her to Hell.
• The Doctor proposed that the Keepers might be protecting humanity for their own purposes and urged cooperation, but the Warden and Gambler rejected his plan and turned their attention to Hell.
• The Prison Doctor helped Liu Ni recover from her emotional crisis, while Calamity took Lu Xiao to Liangren, who split Lu Xiao’s soul to separate the inherited authority affecting him.
• Lu Xiao gave Liangren the surname Lu, then traveled with Calamity to the Succubus Settlement and learned about the Minotaur Tribe’s two-authority deity and the coming final showdown.
• Lu Xiao found Antie among the hidden Wanderers, and Antie explained that he was avoiding the Royal Family while pursuing a valuable prize in Hell.
• After Lu Xiao warned Antie that a terrifying Unknowable Being was becoming involved, Antie decided he needed to cooperate directly with the Royal Family and challenged Lu Xiao to stop being bound by Shadow’s death.
• Gambler introduced Hell Creature blood as a possible replacement for petroleum in a televised demonstration, and viewers awaited his promised explanation of its origins.

Gambler manipulated the public and persuaded the Flying Jellyfish to take human form, while Lu Xiao uncovered Hell’s history and the danger of Earth’s transformation. The Ninth Group Army and Doctor entered Hell, and Nico joined Gambler in the Present World.

• The Warden explained how Gambler used awkward performances to lower expectations, and Gambler impressed livestream viewers by starting a V8 engine with a creature’s blood before revealing he had first used colored oil.
• The Doctor assigned Gambler to persuade R058, the Flying Jellyfish, to protect the Southeastern Coastline while the Ninth Group Army went to Hell.
• Lu Xiao fed Isaac and a Hell Worm his flesh, then traveled north with Calamity, sent Ruiqi to lead the Wanderers toward the Holy City, and recruited Old Feis to impersonate Isaac.
• Lu Xiao met Niu Bo, who explained the Royal Family’s history, the First-Generation Demon Great Lord’s lingering soul, and how Hell covered a Great Old One’s corpse.
• Niu Bo outlined ways to protect Earth from transformation, but Lu Xiao concluded that he had to pursue the riskier option and share the information with Doctor and the others.
• The Warden prepared Zhang Weidong and the Ninth Group Army for their journey, safeguarded their farewell letters, and watched them enter the one-way Gate with Doctor and the C03 Containment Facility.
• Gambler wagered his life against R058, taught it Three-Card Poker, and lost enough Authority to become a desiccated corpse after winning the card game.
• R058 transformed into a humanlike girl and revived Gambler, who revealed he had bet on whether she would save him and named her Nico.

Lu Xiao and the Ninth Group Army built their position in Hell, used nuclear weapons against powerful enemies, and formed ties with Niu Bo and Old Feis. As the conflict widened and the Chef became a deity, Doctor obtained Lu Liangren’s book and solved the equations for controlled nuclear fusion, leaving a path toward humanity’s next advance.

• Gambler persuaded Nico that he was Lu Xiao’s Chosen One and turned her against Lu Xiao’s enemies, while Lu Xiao recovered memories of the Dark Prison.
• Lu Xiao introduced Big Good Boy to the Ninth Group Army, and the army launched a nuclear missile that killed seventeen deities and drew Niu Bo into cooperation.
• Lu Xiao consumed nine Holy Relics, and Chef prepared a Deity’s flesh feast that strengthened the diners and helped Doctor build ties with Niu Bo and Old Feis.
• Gambler and Nico killed the Clone Pope, while He Shang ordered the Bodhisattvas to destroy Eden and prepare for Angel’s ascension.
• Zhang Weidong’s forces defeated raiders in a live combat exercise, and Niu Bo agreed to send ten thousand Minotaurs for human training.
• Old Feis fought a tentacled god near a nuclear strike, survived, and returned to the settlement with the enemy’s wriggling tentacles.
• Lu Xiao helped Chef complete his deification ritual by suppressing his ability to make clean food, and Zhang Weidong and the others ate Chef’s revolting nine-turn intestines.
• Doctor retrieved Lu Liangren’s book from the Mysterious Post Office, then solved the equations for controlled nuclear fusion and showed Shuns a page that convinced him consciousness could be extracted.

Lu Xiao prepared for Night’s call by gathering allies, advancing his power, and testing the First Prototype before joining Antie’s plan to kill the tentacle god. After the god fell, Old Feis invoked Night and the Master of the Dead, leaving a blackened tentacle rising from his severed body as Lu Xiao ordered the Cage injected.

• Old Feis explained that separating Ding Dan from the authority could save him but would destroy the Demon Clan’s hope, while Lu Xiao resolved to claim Hell’s ultimate spoils and escape the being calling him.
• Lu Xiao received God-skin gear, helped Ruiqi advance, and arranged for soldiers to study with Lu Qian, but Zhang Weidong enlisted Lu Qian as a Senior Colonel, leaving Lu Xiao proud yet bitter.
• Lu Xiao learned Antie planned to slay Night’s Chosen One and joined preparations after Doctor solved the Biological Armor’s power problem.
• Lu Xiao tested the First Prototype, a near-divine biomechanical armor, and brought it to the rendezvous with Antie’s group, where Ruiqi contracted with a false god and the armor consumed him.
• Antie arrived among the Outsiders with Liv disguised as his wife, while Old Feis drew the enemy army into frenzy and a nuclear strike washed the battlefield in white light.
• Lu Xiao fought the tentacle god in the First Prototype as Calamity restrained it, Ruiqi and Calamity sheltered the wounded Antie, and Old Feis’s green orb withered the god’s tentacles before he swallowed it.
• Old Feis mutated after devouring the god, called on Night and the Master of the Dead, and was split by a towering Phantom as Lu Xiao and his companions escaped the time-stopping strike.
• A tentacle rose from Old Feis’s fallen half as it turned pitch-black, and Lu Xiao ordered everyone to prepare to inject the Cage.