Recaps

Bai Haorui sent the Clear Heart Art through Castiel’s unstable signal to protect Dean and Sam as they wandered through Heaven, where Zachariah hunted them. Dean and Sam set out to find Joshua and God, following the road through memories that revealed what they had longed for and lost; Sam’s memory of Bones left them still traveling.

• Bai Haorui failed to break through Heaven’s barrier, then sent Dean and Sam mind-clearing power through Castiel’s signal while Bobby treated their wounds.
• Dean woke in his childhood memory of setting off fireworks with Sam, learned from Castiel that they were dead, and followed the road until he found Sam in a Thanksgiving memory.
• Castiel warned Dean and Sam that Zachariah was searching for them and urged them to find Joshua, the angel who could take them to God.
• Dean and Sam felt Bai Haorui’s Clear Heart Art settle their anxiety, found their road in Dean’s childhood toy racetrack, and followed it to their old home before Mary’s death.
• Dean and Sam left the memory of Mary comforting young Dean and continued along the track until Sam found Bones, the stray dog from one of his happiest memories.

Dean and Sam traveled through Sam’s Heaven while Zachariah pursued them, confronting the pain their choices had caused each other and meeting old friends along the way. They reached their childhood home, where a cruel version of Mary began tormenting Dean with claims that she had never loved him.

• Dean confronted Sam about the trouble and punishment Sam’s childhood escape had caused him, and Sam apologized.
• At the memory of Sam leaving for Stanford, Dean accused him of abandoning their family, and Sam insisted Dean would always be his brother.
• While fleeing Zachariah, Sam and Dean entered the Roadhouse, where Ash explained Heaven’s private memory spaces and offered them a shortcut to the Magic Kingdom.
• Nancy urged Sam and Dean to stop fighting and accept Michael, but Sam refused because people on Earth still needed help.
• The shortcut brought the brothers to their old home in Lawrence, where Mary’s voice described her death and claimed she had never loved Dean.

Dean and Sam learned from Joshua that God knew about the Apocalypse but would not intervene, then returned to the motel and told the others. After Castiel left in despair, Dean, Sam, Bobby, and Bai Haorui resolved to face the coming struggle together.

• Zachariah tortured Dean with illusions and anger until Joshua arrived and ordered him to release the brothers.
• Joshua told Dean and Sam that God was on Earth, would not stop the Apocalypse, and wanted them to remember his refusal to help.
• Dean and Sam returned to the motel, where Bai Haorui had been protecting them, and recounted what happened in Heaven.
• Castiel rejected the amulet and left after hearing that God would not intervene, while Dean threw the amulet away.
• Bai Haorui, Bobby, Sam, and Dean encouraged one another and agreed to rely on themselves to stop the Apocalypse.

Dean and Sam reached Blue Earth, where a church militia and the townspeople were preparing to fight demons under the guidance of Leah, a prophet protected by angels. Dean remained fatalistic about the Apocalypse as the brothers waited for Castiel and considered why demons were targeting the town.

• Bai Haorui sensed a large group of demons heading toward Blue Earth, left the Impala to intercept them, and told Dean and Sam to handle the demons following the car.
• Rob and the St. Covenant Lutheran Militia rescued Dean and Sam from the demons, then escorted them to the church and invited them to work together.
• Dean and Sam saw the town preparing for battle during a wedding and learned that Pastor Gideon would not explain who had taught the militia Enochian exorcism.
• Leah revealed that angels had identified Dean and Sam and warned her about demon movements, and Pastor Gideon said she was a chosen prophet.
• Sam left Castiel a message at Paul's Bar and suspected the demons were targeting Leah, while Dean said the townspeople's preparations were better than panicking.

After a demon attack killed Dylan, Dean blamed himself and lost faith that fighting could change anything, while Leah promised the town a heavenly paradise. Sam feared Dean was giving up, and the chapter ended with the brothers confronting their despair in the motel.

• Leah received a vision warning that demons would attack before dawn, so Dean, Sam, and the townspeople went to Talmadge Road and cleared the abandoned house.
• After the fight, a demon dragged Dylan beneath the Impala and killed him, leaving Dean consumed by guilt.
• At Dylan's funeral, Leah proclaimed that the dead would rise again for the chosen, then privately told Dean that he was Heaven's vessel.
• Sam drank with Paul, who condemned the believers' sudden devotion, while Sam said he believed God had stopped caring about humanity.
• Sam confronted Dean about the town's isolation and the angels' influence, but Dean said he no longer cared and doubted that continued fighting would help.

Bai Haorui fought through two groups of demons while the Winchester brothers' town descended into violence under Leah's false prophecies. After Paul was shot, Castiel revealed Leah was the Whore of Babylon, and Dean prepared to confront her as Leah threatened Pastor Gideon at the church.

• Bai Haorui destroyed a horde of demons in an abandoned factory, then sensed another group near an abandoned mine and went to fight them.
• Bai Haorui eliminated the demons in the mine, then detected a powerful evil presence erupting in town and raced back.
• Dean found Jane shoot Paul during a confrontation at the bar, and Paul's death broke Dean out of his apathy.
• Dean returned to the motel, where Castiel revealed that Leah was the Whore of Babylon and that only a true servant of Heaven could kill her with a Babylonian cypress stake.
• Leah urged the townspeople to purge sinners before midnight and threatened Pastor Gideon when he tried to stop her.
• Dean, Sam, and Castiel went to Pastor Gideon's home, where they found him sitting alone at his desk.

Dean, Sam, Castiel, and Pastor Gideon confronted Leah, whose deception and attack nearly overwhelmed them before Dean killed her with the cypress stake. Afterward, Dean sought a brief respite with Lisa, while Sam and Bai Haorui decided to let him rest.

• Castiel restrained Pastor Gideon while Dean and Sam revealed that Leah was the Whore of Babylon, and Gideon agreed to kill her with the cypress stake.
• Leah fooled Gideon with her resemblance to his daughter, suppressed Castiel with an Enochian incantation, and turned the townspeople against the group.
• Sam stopped Rob and Jane from burning the storeroom, while Dean fought Leah and drove the cypress stake through her heart, killing her.
• Bai Haorui returned to the church, calmed the distraught townspeople with Clear Heart Talismans, and reassured Dean that he had killed Leah to save people rather than to serve Heaven.
• Exhausted, Dean left the motel to visit Lisa and told her he wanted to try living a normal life; she invited him inside.
• The next morning, Sam found Dean gone and worried, but Bai Haorui told him to let Dean rest because he would return.

Zachariah received a summons from Heaven and eagerly accepted a chance to be reinstated. Meanwhile, Dean prepared to become Michael’s vessel, but Sam, Bai Haorui, and Cass stopped him and took him back to Bobby’s, where the search for another way continued.

• Zachariah complained to Stuart about being fired until a summons from his boss offered him reinstatement in exchange for a new assignment.
• Dean packed his belongings and prepared to find Zachariah and become Michael’s vessel to stop the Apocalypse.
• Sam found Dean at the motel and challenged his decision, and Bai Haorui argued that Dean’s sacrifice would not stop the war or save humanity.
• Sam revealed that Bai Haorui and Cass had come with him, and Cass rebuked Dean for giving up while Sam and Cass insisted they still had time to find another way.
• Dean blamed himself for the deaths and suffering around him, so Cass knocked him unconscious and told Sam and Bai Haorui to take him to Bobby’s.

Dean struggled with despair until an angelic disturbance led Cass and Bai Haorui to rescue Adam Milligan from two angels in the woods. Adam revealed that angels had chosen him as a possible vessel for Michael, but the brothers' warnings about their plan left him questioning whether they were using his mother to control him.

• Bobby urged Dean not to give up, sharing the bullet he had once considered using to kill himself, and Bai Haorui encouraged Dean to resist fate and face his responsibilities.
• Cass sensed a weak living soul surrounded by powerful angelic energy, then he and Bai Haorui went to the woods and killed two angels who were digging up Adam Milligan.
• Bai Haorui checked Adam's condition, and Adam woke at Bobby's house, where Sam and Dean learned that angels had warned him about them and recruited him to help Michael fight Lucifer.
• Bai Haorui and Cass explained that Adam could serve as a substitute vessel for Michael, and Sam and Dean tried to convince Adam that the angels intended to start a devastating war.
• Adam said he cared about seeing his mother again more than he cared about his brothers, but Bai Haorui warned that the angels could use his mother to control him, making Adam hesitate.

Dean tried to surrender himself to Michael to keep Sam and Adam safe, but his escape from Bobby's house ended with Cass beating him after Dean admitted he did not trust Sam to resist Lucifer. Meanwhile, Zachariah lured Adam into a dream by promising he could see his mother again, and the others regrouped to rescue him.

• Adam told Sam and Dean that he had longed for more time with John, while Dean promised that the brothers would have welcomed him if they had known about him.
• Dean admitted that he intended to accept Michael as his vessel because he feared Sam would fall to Lucifer, and Sam and Bai Haorui locked him in the basement.
• Dean used an Angel Banishing Sigil to banish Cass, escaped the house, and Sam pursued him while Bobby and Bai Haorui watched Adam.
• Zachariah entered Adam's dream, sowed distrust of Sam and Dean, and persuaded Adam to accept his role as a vessel by promising he could be with his mother.
• Dean met Cass in town, where Cass beat him until he passed out; Cass then joined Sam and Bai Haorui in planning to return to Bobby's house and rescue Adam.

After the angels took Adam, Sam, Dean, Castiel, and Bai Haorui planned a rescue at the Green Room in an abandoned Van Nuys factory. There, Zachariah revealed that he had used Adam as bait to draw Dean into becoming Michael’s vessel.

• Sam told Dean that the angels had taken Adam to the Green Room, which was guarded by dozens of high-ranking angels.
• Sam said he trusted Dean to make the right choice, and Dean agreed to join the rescue rather than be left behind.
• Bai Haorui planned to weaken the angels with a Five Elements Heaven-Burning Formation, while Bobby identified a side loading passage into the factory.
• Dean, Sam, Castiel, and Bai Haorui agreed that Castiel would draw the guards to the front while Bai Haorui attacked from the side and the brothers rescued Adam.
• Zachariah told Adam that he was only bait and a backup option, then immobilized him when Adam attacked.
• Zachariah revealed that he expected Sam and Dean to come for Adam so Dean would agree to become Michael’s vessel.

Zachariah held Adam captive as bait while Dean, Castiel, and Bai Haorui attacked the abandoned factory in Van Nuys to rescue him. The assault began with Bai Haorui’s fire formation, and Castiel and Bai Haorui fought the angels guarding the factory.

• Zachariah choked Adam into submission and planned to use him as bait and a backup vessel while awaiting Dean.
• Dean and Castiel arrived in Van Nuys, where Bai Haorui explained that fifty-two angels guarded the factory and described his plan to set the perimeter ablaze.
• Castiel carved an Angel Banishing Sigil into his chest, and Bai Haorui empowered his peachwood sword with a Daoist Pure Yang Evil-Breaking Talisman.
• Bai Haorui ignited the Five Elements Heaven-Burning Formation, trapping and burning the angels as he charged into their ranks.
• Bai Haorui felled and trapped several angels with his sword and Five Emperor Coins while Castiel attacked the main entrance and killed an angel with his blade.

Bai Haorui and Cass defeated the angels outside the factory while Dean and Sam reached Adam, where Zachariah forced Dean to agree to Michael’s possession. Dean killed Zachariah and tried to free Adam, but Michael arrived before they could escape.

• Bai Haorui joined the wounded Cass in fighting the angels, and the two cleared the attackers before heading deeper into the factory.
• Dean and Sam found Adam in the Green Room, but Zachariah appeared and used his power to hurt Adam and Sam until Dean agreed to summon Michael.
• Dean secretly signaled Sam, then demanded that Zachariah guarantee the safety of Sam, Adam, Bai Haorui, and Cass before he would cooperate.
• Dean tricked Zachariah and stabbed him with an angel blade, killing him as his body turned to ash.
• Dean and Sam tried to escape, but Adam was trapped behind a holy barrier, and Michael’s arrival shook the room as Sam urged Dean to leave.

Bai Haorui held off Michael’s projection so Dean, Sam, and Castiel could escape the factory, then joined them in the Impala. As they drove toward Bobby’s, Dean and Sam reconciled and decided to go on the offensive while planning to rescue Adam.

• Dean reluctantly left Adam behind as Bai Haorui, Sam, and Castiel pulled him out of the green room before Michael’s projection emerged from the ruins.
• Bai Haorui fought Michael with his sword, protective spells, and formations, then unleashed his strongest fire attack and escaped as the factory collapsed.
• Sam picked up Bai Haorui in the Impala, and Bai Haorui explained that Michael likely kept Adam alive as a backup vessel.
• Dean vowed to rescue Adam, and he apologized to Sam for not trusting his judgment; Sam accepted his apology.
• Dean and Sam agreed to stop hiding and go on the offensive, planning to recover at Bobby’s before investigating Lucifer and Heaven.

During a storm, Bai Haorui and the Winchesters entered the Elysian Fields Hotel, where old gods separated Bai Haorui from the others and forced him into a divine wager. He faced a Celtic woodland god in an arena as the other gods watched.

• Dean drove the injured Bai Haorui, Sam, and Castiel toward a motel while they searched for signs of pagan gods.
• The group found the Elysian Fields Hotel, detected the presence of several pantheons, and entered despite recognizing the danger.
• Mercury gave Dean two room keys, and Bai Haorui vanished after the group entered the lobby.
• Castiel sensed that Bai Haorui had been pulled into a separate dimension, so Dean, Sam, and Castiel split up to investigate the hotel.
• Bai Haorui arrived in an arena where Odin and Balder announced a wager, and a Celtic woodland god appeared to fight him.

Bai Haorui secretly refined the divine sparks of defeated gods while pretending to struggle, as Dean, Sam, and Castiel investigated disappearances and strange activity at the hotel. The chapter left Bai Haorui fighting a much stronger elephant-headed god, while the brothers faced evidence that someone was taking their blood.

• Bai Haorui defeated the green-robed god, secretly refined his divine spark, and prepared to face a cat-headed Egyptian guardian god.
• Dean noticed Kali at the hotel buffet, while he and Sam worried about Bai Haorui’s disappearance.
• Dean and Sam found a honeymoon couple’s room empty, and Castiel reported blood in the kitchen and people locked in a freezer.
• Mercury claimed the couple had checked out, so Dean, Sam, and Castiel split up to investigate the hotel.
• Sam was attacked and discovered that someone had taken his blood, while Dean saw an elephant in a guest room and encountered a furious man in a bath towel.
• Bai Haorui won six matches and healed his meridians by refining divine sparks, then faced an elephant-headed god who attacked with a vajra and trunk.

Bai Haorui defeated the elephant-headed god, absorbed its divinity, and advanced to the late stage of refining qi into gang while waiting for a chance to escape the gods’ separate space. Meanwhile, the gods prepared a blood curse and captured Dean, Sam, and Castiel, bringing them before the gathered deities as Baldur began the meeting.

• Bai Haorui used the Five Elements Trapping Formation to bind the elephant-headed god and pierced its divinity core with his peachwood sword.
• Bai Haorui absorbed the god’s divinity and advanced to the late stage of refining qi into gang, then pretended to recover while studying the spatial barrier.
• Baldur and Kali prepared to use Dean and Sam’s blood for a curse, while Mercury reported that ordinary travelers had been locked in the cold room for sacrifice.
• Dean, Sam, and Castiel found human remains in the kitchen soup and went to free the captives, but gods seized and dragged them to the banquet hall.
• Baldur welcomed the captured Winchesters and Castiel before the assembled gods and began the meeting.

At a gathering of old gods, Gabriel arrived and tried to keep the Winchesters out of the gods’ fight while helping them escape. Dean and Sam set out to rescue the hostages and Bai Haorui, but Kali turned Gabriel’s attempt to steal their blood into a spell that bound him to her.

• Baldur proposed rules and asked the gathered gods how to use Dean and Sam as leverage, while Odin and Ganesha argued and Kali insisted they must fight the archangels.
• Gabriel appeared, sent Dean, Sam, and Castiel to a guest room, and warned them that Kali’s blood spell prevented them from leaving.
• Dean forced Gabriel to agree to help rescue the hostages and Bai Haorui before escaping, and then the Winchesters and Castiel headed toward the kitchen and basement.
• Gabriel went to Kali’s suite and urged her to abandon Earth, but she refused and they argued about their past and the coming battle.
• Gabriel tried to steal the Winchesters’ blood during a kiss, but Kali cut his palm and used his angel blood to bind him to her.

Dean, Sam, and Castiel were captured by old gods while trying to reach the cold room, where a growing blood curse suggested something had happened to Gabriel. Trapped in another dimension, Bai Haorui defeated Bjorn and began his next fight against Manibhadra.

• Dean knocked out the food god with a cast-iron frying pan, but Sam found the cold-room door sealed by stronger blood markings and suspected Gabriel was in trouble.
• Old gods seized Dean and Sam, while Moloch and Arawn drained Castiel's holy power and captured him; all three were dragged toward the banquet hall.
• In the other dimension, Bai Haorui faced Bjorn, burned the war spirit with Three Altars Pure Yang True Fire, bound him with Five Emperor Coins, and destroyed him.
• Bai Haorui caught Bjorn's godhood and secretly drew it into his dantian to refine it as the next match began.
• Manibhadra appeared and cast an illusion that transformed the arena into a sea of blood filled with reaching dead souls.

Bai Haorui defeated Manibhadra and Wepwawet, refined their divine cores, and broke out of the weakened separate space as Lucifer approached. In the banquet hall, Kali exposed Gabriel as an archangel, then stabbed him while Dean and Sam watched.

• Bai Haorui dispelled Manibhadra's illusion, defeated him with his peachwood sword and Five Emperor Coins, and took his divine core despite a severe waist wound.
• Bai Haorui burned through Wepwawet's underworld ice and destroyed him with a strike of pure yang true fire, claiming his divine core.
• Bai Haorui refined the three divine cores, reached the peak of Refining Qi into Gang, and used three sword strikes to shatter the separate space as Lucifer neared the hotel.
• Dean, Sam, and Castiel were brought into the banquet hall, where Kali revealed that Loki was actually the archangel Gabriel.
• Kali accused the Western gods of threatening the world and stabbed Gabriel in the chest as Dean and Sam watched.

Dean persuaded Kali to free the human captives and tried to convince Gabriel to stand against Lucifer, while Bai Haorui shattered the gods’ alternate space and arrived as Lucifer entered the hotel. Gabriel joined the fight, and Bai Haorui and Gabriel began attacking Lucifer together.

• Dean offered to help Kali summon Lucifer in exchange for releasing the captives, and Kali agreed to the deal.
• Gabriel revealed that Kali had stabbed him with a fake sword, then told Dean that Bai Haorui had killed over a dozen gods but could not escape the alternate space.
• Dean challenged Gabriel to face his family and help fight Lucifer, but Gabriel initially refused.
• Bai Haorui broke out of the alternate space, reached the banquet hall, and found Lucifer killing Baldur with a single attack.
• Gabriel gave Dean a DVD, stood against Lucifer, and urged Dean and Sam to get Kali to safety.
• Bai Haorui attacked Lucifer with pure yang fire, and Gabriel moved to exploit an opening beneath Lucifer’s ribs.

Bai Haorui and Gabriel fought Lucifer together, using their coordinated attacks to wound and restrain him, but Lucifer eventually overwhelmed them both. Just as Lucifer approached the injured Bai Haorui, Bai Haorui rose from the rubble with his True Gang flowing more smoothly.

• Gabriel and Bai Haorui opened with a coordinated assault, then worked together to exploit Lucifer's defenses and force him back.
• Lucifer unleashed a shock wave that injured both attackers, but Bai Haorui used his Five Emperor Coins to delay Lucifer and save Gabriel from a fatal strike.
• Lucifer created a corrosive black sword and drove the wounded pair into a desperate defense.
• Bai Haorui trapped Lucifer in a talisman net, allowing Gabriel to strike at his heart, but Lucifer broke free and dislocated Gabriel's wrist.
• Bai Haorui blocked Lucifer's attack on Gabriel and burned Lucifer's wound with Pure Yang True Fire before being kicked into a broken wall.
• Lucifer restrained Gabriel and approached Bai Haorui, who rose from the rubble after the impact had dispersed the remaining divine power within him.

Bai Haorui and Gabriel wounded Lucifer with their combined attacks, but Lucifer escaped before his borrowed body disintegrated. Gabriel then revealed that the Four Horsemen’s rings could return Lucifer to Hell, and Dean, Sam, Bai Haorui, and Kali set out to find the remaining two while Pestilence appeared in a remote town.

• Bai Haorui and Gabriel unleashed their strongest attacks together, badly damaging Lucifer’s borrowed body, and Lucifer fled before they could finish him.
• Gabriel exhausted his holy power, went to sleep beneath the earth, and told Dean to protect a DVD containing a way to deal with Lucifer.
• Kali left the ruined hotel with Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui, grieving the deaths and dispersal of the gods who had joined her alliance.
• Dean played Gabriel’s DVD, which explained that the rings of War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death could open Lucifer’s cage in Hell.
• Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui agreed to seek Pestilence and Death, while Kali rode with them in silence.
• Pestilence entered a general store, sneezed on its owner, and drove away in a fly-infested green car.

Bai Haorui traveled to Nevada to join Dean and Sam, who discovered that Pestilence was behind a rapidly spreading swine flu outbreak. As the brothers searched for Pestilence’s route, Crowley appeared with an idea.

• Bai Haorui examined the aftermath of War’s attack, then sent Bobby home to research the Four Horsemen while he headed for Nevada.
• Dean and Sam investigated a Nevada hospital and found that the flu spread unnaturally fast, while Sam sensed sinister energy around the patients.
• Dean and Sam linked the outbreak to a statue crying at a nearby church and concluded that Pestilence had arrived.
• Bobby warned the brothers to watch for signs such as crying statues and foul well water as they traced the outbreak’s eastward spread.
• Crowley appeared in the Impala, startled Dean and Sam, and offered an idea for finding Pestilence.

Dean and Sam accepted Crowley’s offer to help them find Pestilence, while Brady prepared a nationwide vaccine rollout for the Horseman and revealed his past connection to Sam and Bai Haorui. Bai Haorui discovered Crowley’s surveillance and traps at the abandoned cottage and silently disabled them before Dean and Sam arrived.

• Crowley told Dean and Sam that Brady could lead them to Pestilence, and Dean agreed to consider Crowley’s plan to capture him.
• Sam recognized Brady’s name as that of his former college roommate and grew uneasy about meeting him.
• At Niveus Pharmaceuticals, Brady killed Mitchell and reported to Pestilence that the vaccine rollout would begin nationwide in three days.
• Brady examined an old photograph of himself, Sam, and Bai Haorui, recalling that he had orchestrated Sam’s path into the Yellow-Eyed Demon’s trap.
• Bai Haorui detected and destroyed Crowley’s listening runes, tracking formation, and summoning formation at the abandoned cottage before Dean and Sam arrived.