Recaps

Lu Xiao saved Dart from his despairing authority and then fell unconscious as Night’s corruption spread through his Consciousness World. The group prepared to restore Lu Xiao by feeding him deities, while Liv was taken from Daimon’s house by Ding Dan.

• Lu Xiao and Antie stopped the tentacled God from reviving, and Old Feis revealed that Death’s power had killed the First Prototype.
• Gambler brought Nico to the Dam to retrieve Dart, and Lu Xiao entered Dart’s vision, learned his real name was Chen Jingting, and agreed to eat him.
• Lu Xiao gave Dart his heart, restoring Dart’s body but losing consciousness as his ontological rank fell.
• Gambler, Dart, and Nico reached the Ninth Group Army’s encampment, while the Prison Doctor found no way to treat Lu Xiao’s damaged soul.
• Old Feis revealed that Night was taking over Lu Xiao’s Consciousness World and proposed a succubus contract with Ruiqi to restore his rank.
• After Niu Bo warned that the contract could expose Ruiqi to corruption, Doctor assigned Dart and Ruiqi and Nico and Niu Bo to hunt deities for Lu Xiao.
• Amilia located Liv under house arrest in Daimon’s residence, where Daimon offered her to Ding Dan, who took her away despite her plea to be spared.

Lu Xiao helped Ding Dan reclaim the Holy City, then returned to the Base as the Doctor prepared for deification and Shuns tested a way to extract consciousness. The arc ended with a Minotaur’s dream being used to stabilize the experiment.

• Dart and Ruiqi lured a Deity from a Wanderer Settlement, and Dart frightened it to death with a spider-filled nightmare.
• Lu Xiao helped stop the Zerg advance by killing the Brain Worm, though the Ninth Group Army mourned the loss of 8,792 soldiers.
• Ivan completed his alchemy ritual and gained the Authority of Exchange, while Niu Bo revealed his immense God form and asked to become Ivan’s Chosen One.
• Lu Xiao learned Kaitlin had taken the Holy City, then joined Ding Dan, Morati, Dart, and Nico to confront him.
• Daimon crippled Kaitlin and carried him away, while Ding Dan asked Lu Xiao to sit on the Throne and showed him how its power could intoxicate him.
• Daimon brought Kaitlin to the Royal City, where the Great Two-Horned Demons prepared for the Progenitor’s Advent, while Old Feis and Calamity departed on a dangerous mission.
• Lu Xiao tried to help Xiao Yu with her mental contamination, but Shuns warned that consciousness extraction could damage her and proposed testing a dream-stabilizing method instead.
• Lu Xiao supplied Minotaur test subjects, and Shuns used Little Black to place one in a dream while he implanted a chip and began the experiment.

Lu Xiao's group tested consciousness extraction on Xiao Yu before traveling into Hell, where Ding Dan's bargain with Daimon drew them into a battle against a god. They secured divine flesh for advancement, discovered Chef was a fallen angel, and obtained dangerous Old One flesh from the Postman.

• Shuns successfully copied a test subject's consciousness, but Xiao Yu's extraction stalled just before completion and she awoke with her mental contamination seemingly resolved.
• Lu Xiao arranged for Liu Ni to study Life Alchemy with Ivan, then took Ding Dan and Gambler to Hell to seek Lu Liangren's help.
• Ding Dan returned from the Post Office with the Flesh Crown and revealed that he had pledged his Authority to help Daimon ascend to an Old One in exchange for help with their homeland.
• Ding Dan helped Daimon restrain a green-skinned god, while the Postman killed the maddened Hell beings inside the Settlement and Lu Xiao limited relocation plans to production-related resources.
• Lu Xiao summoned Dart and Chef to Hell, where Dart overwhelmed the god and Chef prepared its divine flesh for the group.
• Lu Xiao and Gambler encouraged Daimon's belief that they had powerful connections, and Daimon left with Dart to hunt another god.
• The Postman identified Chef as a fallen angel and traded Ding Dan dangerous Old One flesh for tobacco, which Chef used to make Dark Cuisine.
• Zhang Chu prepared to enter Hell with his sect elders and a supply convoy through a repaired Gate.

Lu Xiao secured protection for humanity's factories in Hell while the Doctor began creating a digital world and Gambler took control of Zerg swarms through converted followers. After hunting and spending time with Lu Qian, Lu Xiao uncovered a possessed Consumable directing others to abduct Liu Ni.

• Lu Xiao gave the Postman tobacco and a cigarette production line in exchange for protecting humanity's factories in the Settlement.
• Lu Xiao took Zhang Chu's elders to the Succubus Settlement, forced them to apologize to Ruiqi, and arranged for her vulnerable clan members to move to Universe Logistics.
• The Doctor transferred his consciousness into a computer system with Antie's help and began constructing a digital world's rules for his Deification Ritual.
• Lu Xiao set out to hunt for flesh and blood, and Gambler infiltrated the Zerg by recruiting followers who believed he was the King of the Heavenly Worms.
• Gambler made Drak and thirteen other followers devour Brain Worms, seize their swarms, and defeat the god-level Zerg before making the survivors his kin.
• Zhang Chu destroyed two Gods' Authorities during Dart's battle, and Lu Xiao brought the harvested corpses back to the Base.
• Lu Xiao spent time with Lu Qian after realizing he had neglected her and gathered his companions for a volleyball match.
• Lu Xiao discovered Consumables seeking to abduct Liu Ni, killed their leader, and learned from his memories that a powerful being possessed one of them.