Recaps

The demon mercenary overwhelmed Brother Devour and Dharma King, forcing Qin Ze and the clones to retreat into the institute. Fairy arrived and effortlessly killed the mercenary, then asked for directions to the central laboratory.

• The demon mercenary released Demon Eye, transformed, and drove Brother Devour and Dharma King back with his enhanced strength.
• Qin Ze led the clones into the institute, where the mercenary found them through a secret passage and forced them to retreat toward the central laboratory.
• Fairy crashed the elevator platform into the shaft and entered the institute in a red dress and white fox mask.
• Fairy bound the demon mercenary with vines, crushed his body, and continued through the corridor as flowers and greenery spread around her.
• Fairy asked Dharma King to show her the way to the central laboratory.

Taoist and his puppet fought the level seven middle-aged man in the central laboratory until Qin Ze filled it with fog and used his abilities to support the fighters. The middle-aged man discovered the source of their advantage, destroyed the puppet, and then turned his attention toward the Spirit enclosure.

• Taoist summoned his wooden puppet and attacked the middle-aged man, but they struggled to overcome his superior strength as research institute guards joined the battle.
• Qin Ze filled the central laboratory with fog, connected Taoist and Lu Tongtong, and used Fog of War to boost their combat power and let them see through the fog.
• The professional team used the fog to defeat guards while Taoist and his puppet repeatedly dodged the middle-aged man's attacks.
• The middle-aged man realized Lu Tongtong's ability was helping Taoist and charged her, but the puppet intercepted his ultimate attack and was smashed apart.
• Nanobots reassembled the puppet, and the middle-aged man turned toward the enclosure containing the Spirit.

Qin Ze survived the Spirit’s disappearance by transferring its copied data into his brain, but the middle-aged advanced martial artist overwhelmed the defenders. Fairy arrived at the central laboratory and defeated the attacker, leaving Qin Ze to claim credit for the kill.

• The middle-aged man destroyed the dome and fought Taoist and the puppet, while Qin Ze transformed into a six-armed giant and was hurled through a wall.
• Qin Ze told the fading Spirit clone that its data had been copied into his brain, and the clone disappeared.
• The middle-aged man summoned his martial soul true body, prompting Qin Ze to activate his Shelter Space as Taoist and Lu Tongtong tried to retreat.
• Fairy arrived with the beasts and bound the middle-aged man in vines and roses, then weakened him with a rose that pierced his chest.
• Qin Ze appeared behind the middle-aged man and cut off his head with the bone sword, declaring that he had solo killed an advanced martial artist.

Qin Ze survived the battle at the research institute, where Fairy and Taoist helped defeat the Level Seven Martial Artist. After the Sea Capital Law Enforcement team took over the scene, Qin Ze received a call from Qin Yu.

• Qin Ze used Fog of War to evade Fairy's vines, then returned to his body and pretended to be unconscious while his clones complained about his kill.
• Fatty and the others mourned Qin Ze until Taoist's talisman revived him, and Taoist explained that Qin Ze's Spirit had been outside his body.
• Fairy introduced herself to Qin Ze and the professional team, hugged Lu Tongtong, and said she had graduated from Haidu Academy.
• The Sea Capital Law Enforcement team arrived, confirmed the middle-aged man's death, and took charge of the research institute.
• Qin Ze and his group left the institute with the surviving beasts, and Qin Yu called Qin Ze once his phone regained signal.

After Qin Ze and the others returned safely from the mountain, the training camp ended early and everyone prepared to leave at daybreak. As Qin Ze finally drifted toward sleep, Giant Overlord contacted him with news that something had happened.

• Qin Yu scolded Qin Ze for disappearing without warning, then hung up after he promised it would not happen again.
• Fairy questioned Dharma King about the mysterious giant, but Dharma King gave an evasive answer and explained that the Circus had come to punish the company.
• Teacher Song welcomed Qin Ze and the others back, while Teacher Wang decided to leave the investigation to Sea Capital Law Enforcement and postpone the students' departure until morning.
• The camp sent severely injured students to the city for treatment, while Teacher Wang's team and Shi'an Academy reinforcements went into the mountains to clear out the remaining exotic beasts.
• Qin Ze recounted his experiences in the lab to his tentmates, and Nangong Qianrou told everyone to keep the story secret.
• As Qin Ze was falling asleep, Giant Overlord contacted him over the Local Area Network and said something had happened.

Captain Hook's ship sank after a sea beast attacked it, while signs of unusual sea-beast activity spread near Sea Capital. Back in Shi'an, Qin Ze learned how the institute's Spirit experiments caused the hauntings and realized he could reproduce his own Spirit separation.

• Captain Hook took the Flying Circus Man out despite a typhoon warning, and a giant humpback whale sea beast split the ship in two before Giant Overlord drove it away.
• A typhoon hit the survivors, but a passing cruise ship rescued them; Captain Hook asked Qin Ze for money to rebuild, and Qin Ze refused.
• Giant Overlord warned Qin Ze that advanced sea beasts were gathering in nearshore waters and attacking ships.
• The students left the training camp after the released exotic beasts had been hunted, while Law Enforcement continued investigating and told everyone they could not leave Shi'an.
• Qin Ze reviewed the institute's records, learned that Project Zero's failed Spirit-transplant experiments had caused the hauntings, and concluded that he could replicate the process that separated his Spirit from his body.

Qin Ze considered how to reproduce Spirit separation while traveling back to Sea Capital after the wilderness training camp ended early. As the group headed home, he absorbed a Soul Orb in front of Huai Xu, who reacted with disbelief.

• Qin Ze concluded that reproducing Spirit separation would require a high-energy impact, a controlled fusion device, and the right time, place, and people.
• Lin Siyao learned that Project Zero had been shut down after Sea Capital Law Enforcement discovered the research institute, and Professor Chen entrusted her with an important responsibility for the humanoid combat weapon project.
• Teacher Wang ended the wilderness training camp, apologized to the students, and gave each participant two F-rank Soul Orbs as compensation.
• Qin Ze and his group chose to return to Sea Capital, said goodbye to the class monitor and Fang Songhua, and learned from Yao Yuan that Spirit experiments were banned and Qin Ze's records had been sealed.
• Qin Ze decided to move his trip to the Northern Territory forward, then swallowed an F-rank Soul Orb as Huai Xu asked who had taught him to absorb Soul Orbs that way.

Qin Ze and his companions discussed how to absorb Soul Orbs before he visited Captain Hook’s camp, where the crew repaired a fishing boat for an expedition. Later, Number Three told Qin Ze that Project Zero had been erased and revealed that Smoke Ghost’s missing S-grade Soul Orb had not been investigated.

• Qin Ze admitted that he had learned to absorb Soul Orbs by swallowing them whole, and Nangong Qianrou explained the usual method while warning him about the risks.
• Qin Ze visited Captain Hook at the wharf and found the Circus crew modifying a fishing boat for their voyage despite the typhoon and sea beasts.
• Captain Hook prepared the boat for sea trials, while Giant Overlord stayed at the camp and planned to join the expedition.
• Number Three told Qin Ze that the Cold Mountain case had ended, the records of Qin Ze’s Spirit leaving his body had been sealed, and Project Zero’s person in charge had received a life sentence.
• Number Three said Smoke Ghost had survived and been used to conceal the research institute, then told Qin Ze that Smoke Ghost’s missing S-grade Soul Orb had been sealed without investigation.

Qin Ze and the professional team tried to resume earning merit points after the typhoon eased, but their chosen mission to Thousand Streams Island stalled when they found no ships at Fisherman's Wharf. The team was left without a way to travel until Xia Huai'an appeared.

• Number Three warned Qin Ze to avoid the sea because sea beasts had been attacking ships and people near the coast, then revealed he planned to take the adjudicator assessment under Yao Yuan.
• After the rain stopped, Qin Ze and the professional team chose a mission to retrieve an item from Thousand Streams Island for ten merit points each.
• The team went to Fisherman's Wharf to depart, but discovered that no ships had put to sea during the typhoon and recent sea-beast attacks.
• Captain Hook offered to return for them, but Qin Ze refused to ride the Flying Circus Man's ship and mocked the shipbuilding crew.
• Xia Huai'an appeared at the wharf and asked Qin Ze what he was doing there.

Qin Ze and his classmates met Xia Huai'an at the pier, where she agreed to take them to Thousand Streams Island aboard her freight ship. They reached the Zone A berths and saw a cruise ship and two armed frigates waiting there.

• Qin Ze encountered Xia Huai'an at the pier and learned she had returned from intensive training.
• Xia Huai'an explained that she was taking essential supplies to Thousand Streams Island despite the typhoons and sea beasts.
• Qin Ze asked Xia Huai'an to take his team along, and she agreed.
• Xia Huai'an led Qin Ze and the others through the gate to the Zone A berths.
• Qin Ze saw a ten-thousand-ton cruise ship and two armed frigates at the docks.

Qin Ze and the others sailed out with Xia Huai'an as the Flying Circus Man searched for the humpback whale sea beast. A strange golden light drew sea beasts across the stormy water, and the humpback whale's call suddenly sounded near the cruise ship.

• Xia Huai'an led Qin Ze and the others aboard the cruise ship, which sailed into worsening rain alongside two armed escort ships.
• Giant Overlord widened the Flying Circus Man's search for the humpback whale sea beast after the crew found no trace of it.
• Something struck the Flying Circus Man, and Captain Hook and Giant Overlord spotted a brilliant light moving beneath the sea as sea beasts pursued it.
• Giant Overlord sent a clone into the water to inspect the light, then had the Flying Circus Man turn and chase it.
• Qin Ze watched the strange light through his clones' eyes while Huai Xu and the others discussed how to spend their merit points.
• A distant, ethereal call sounded over the storm, and Qin Ze recognized the humpback whale sea beast.

A high-level humpback sea beast attacked the Ocean-going near Thousand Streams Island, destroying its escort frigates and splitting the supply ship in two. Qin Ze escaped with Xia Huai'an and the professional team in a lifeboat, but the beast began hunting the survivors as they headed toward the island.

• After the whale appeared in the storm, Qin Ze warned that it was a sea beast, and Xia Huai'an ordered the frigates to attack it.
• The frigates dropped depth charges and fired their main guns, but the high-level sea beast shrugged off the attacks and destroyed both frigates.
• The sea beast rammed the Ocean-going, tore open its hull, and forced the crew to abandon ship.
• Qin Ze helped Xia Huai'an escape in a lifeboat with the professional team as the sea beast broke the Ocean-going in two and began hunting the survivors.
• Qin Ze draped his coat over the trembling Xia Huai'an, told her help was coming, and then said she smelled good.

Qin Ze and the others fought to escape a humpback whale, but the beast destroyed their boat and nearly swallowed them. Captain Hook’s Flying Circus Man arrived to save them, only for its old cannon to explode on its first shot.

• Lu Tongtong used her ability to steer the boat through the whale’s attacks, while Qin Ze blocked its water arrows with the Black Tortoise Shield.
• Qin Ze and Fatty made a fog of steam to confuse the whale, then Qin Ze used talismans to lift the boat above the water.
• The whale struck the airborne boat with its tail, forcing Qin Ze and the others to jump into the sea as it charged to swallow them.
• Giant Overlord shot the whale with a red beam, and Captain Hook’s Flying Circus Man arrived to rescue the group.
• Captain Hook ordered the main cannon fired, but the old cannon exploded when a clone loaded and fired it.

After the Flying Circus Man rescued Qin Ze and the others from the sea, it brought them to Thousand Streams Island. The group settled into a hotel, recovered from the shipwreck, and prepared to continue their mission.

• The old granny cannon burst, throwing the gunner clone into the sea, while Giant Overlord saved Captain Hook from falling overboard.
• The humpback whale escaped underwater, and the Flying Circus Man rescued Qin Ze, Xia Huai'an, and the others.
• Captain Hook brought the group to a musty cabin and told Lu Tongtong that her cultivation was not strong enough to join the Circus.
• Qin Ze steamed Xia Huai'an's and Lu Tongtong's wet clothes dry, and the group rested during the voyage.
• The Flying Circus Man reached Thousand Streams Island, where Xia Huai'an arranged lodging and learned that a freighter would arrive the next day.
• After recovering at the hotel, Qin Ze and the professional team left in the drizzle to complete their mission.

Qin Ze and his team delivered Professor Xu’s request to collect his sea beast samples, but the island’s sea closure left them waiting for a ship back to Sea Capital. Professor Xu discussed his research into sea beasts and their link to the vanished otherworld, unaware that no new sea beasts would be born.

• Qin Ze and the professional team verified their identities with Professor Xu and accepted his black package of samples for delivery to Sea Capital.
• Qin Ze told Professor Xu that a sea beast had sunk all three of their ships and that they had to wait for a supply ship to return.
• Professor Xu asked about the attacker and identified the giant humpback whale as Little White, a normally gentle level-seven sea beast that had recently grown aggressive.
• Professor Xu explained that sea beasts mutated because of an energy field linked to the otherworld, and that its fluctuations had vanished when the otherworld entrance disappeared.
• Professor Xu said he hoped to apply the sea beast mutation process to humans, while Qin Ze privately believed the idea could not be realized.

Qin Ze learned more about Professor Xu’s sea-beast research and realized the professor had described the same glowing mass Captain Hook’s group encountered. After Xia Huai'an ordered the team to stay on the island until she returned to Sea Capital, Qin Ze disguised himself and went to a tavern to gather information.

• Qin Ze and the clones argued over whether to share their Source of the World, while Professor Xu explained his research and recent sea-beast agitation.
• Qin Ze connected Professor Xu’s sighting of a glowing mass pursued by sea beasts to Captain Hook’s group’s encounter.
• Xia Huai'an told Qin Ze’s team to remain on the island and wait to return to Sea Capital with her.
• Qin Ze disguised himself as a burly, bearded man and went to a tavern to listen for information about ships and the glowing mass.
• An intoxicated man sat beside Qin Ze and asked whether he had just arrived on the island.

Qin Ze heard Wang Laoliu’s account of a dragon’s corpse and a strange light supposedly behind the sea beasts’ rampage, but the bartender revealed Wang was a habitual liar. Qin Ze left the tavern after ordering his clones to follow Wang Laoliu.

• Qin Ze bought Wang Laoliu a beer after the man claimed the sea beasts were fighting to become the new Dragon King.
• Wang Laoliu described seeing a thousand-meter dragon’s corpse near Steamed Bun Island, sea beasts feeding on it, and a brilliant light that preceded their attacks on ships.
• A sailor accused Wang Laoliu of changing his story, and Wang stormed out after insisting the dragon had been a level-nine sea beast.
• The bartender told Qin Ze that Wang had been rescued half-dead seven days earlier and came to the tavern nightly to swindle drinks with stories about dragons and lights.
• Qin Ze said the story mixed truth with lies, paid for his drink, and told his clones to follow Wang Laoliu.

Qin Ze’s clones abducted Wang Laoliu and forced him to mark the supposed dragon corpse’s location, confirming Qin Ze’s suspicion that Laoliu was hiding his strength and luring people toward the sea. After Giant Overlord learned that sailors were already heading to Steamed Bun Island over the spreading story, Qin Ze decided the Flying Circus would go out to sea the next day.

• Wang Laoliu was ambushed by masked figures, who beat him and demanded the dragon corpse’s location near Steamed Bun Island.
• Qin Ze learned from his clones that Wang Laoliu had cooperated readily and suspected the man was concealing his strength while drawing people toward a mysterious stretch of sea.
• Giant Overlord reported that sailors from several ships had recently sailed for Steamed Bun Island after hearing stories about a dragon corpse and a ball of light.
• Qin Ze decided the Flying Circus would repair its ship and head out to sea the next day.

Qin Ze took the Flying Circus Man from Thousand Streams Island toward Steamed Bun Island in search of the Dragon King's treasure, while Fairy revealed that she was also hunting at sea. Near their destination, a huge swarm of sea beasts surrounded the ship, and Qin Ze prepared for battle.

• Qin Ze and Captain Hook finished preparing the Flying Circus Man and departed Thousand Streams Island for Steamed Bun Island.
• A weathered sailor told Qin Ze that twenty-two ships had already left for Steamed Bun Island, then gave him a bottle and wished him luck.
• Qin Ze learned in the chat group that Fairy had gone to sea after hearing the Dragon King had died and was searching for treasure.
• Giant Overlord steered the Flying Circus Man as it neared Steamed Bun Island, until the sonar detected more than twenty fast-moving sea beasts approaching.
• Qin Ze saw a dense mass of sea beasts churning the water and prepared the ship's crew for battle.

Qin Ze and the crew of the Flying Circus Man fought off a pack of sea beasts and reached Steamed Bun Island, where they found the enormous corpse of a level-nine Sea Serpent King. As they approached it, the ship suddenly accelerated, though Giant Overlord insisted he had not touched anything.

• Qin Ze used Fog of War to confuse a charging pack of sea beasts, but an intelligent ball of light rallied them to attack the Flying Circus Man.
• Qin Ze ordered a cannon shot, then launched a gunner clone from the cannon when the ammunition proved defective; the clone struck the ball of light and caused a huge explosion.
• After waiting to see whether the ball of light would return, Qin Ze let the sea beasts leave the fog and continued toward Steamed Bun Island.
• Qin Ze chose to search for the rumored dragon corpse, and Giant Overlord steered toward the coordinates Wang Laoliu had provided.
• The crew found a nearly thousand-meter-long level-nine Sea Serpent King floating on the sea, and Qin Ze ordered Giant Overlord to bring the ship closer.
• The Flying Circus Man suddenly accelerated toward the corpse, and Giant Overlord claimed he had not touched anything.

Qin Ze and the clones survived Little White destroying their ship and pursued them across the sea to Steamed Bun Island. After reaching shore, they spotted ragged figures emerging from the bushes.

• Little White launched the Flying Circus Man into the air and smashed it apart, leaving Qin Ze to carry the clones toward Steamed Bun Island.
• Qin Ze and the clones evaded attacks from pursuing sea beasts by gliding and riding a wave created with Water Release.
• Qin Ze struck the sea beasts with a pillar of golden lightning, and Giant Overlord's companions blasted several with self-destruct attacks.
• Little White dove into the deep, and Water Release swept Qin Ze and the clones onto Steamed Bun Island.
• Qin Ze noticed bite marks on the dragon corpse before a clone spotted several ragged figures emerging from the bushes.

Qin Ze questioned Scarface and learned that more than sixty sailors had been stranded after seeking a level-nine sea beast’s corpse. While Qin Ze’s clones explored the island, he and the sailors sheltered in a cave and waited for help; late that night, a brilliant light over the sea woke him.

• Scarface told Qin Ze that sea beasts had wrecked their ships while they pursued the level-nine sea beast’s corpse, leaving the survivors stranded on the island.
• Captain Hook grandly introduced himself, but Scarface questioned his claim and advised Qin Ze to replace him, prompting Captain Hook to leave in a huff.
• Scarface explained that electromagnetic interference had disabled their communication devices and that the sailors had found nothing unusual while exploring the island.
• Qin Ze reassured Scarface that help would come, while Brother Devour and the others traveled from Sea Capital toward the island with Mist Lord keeping Fog of War active.
• A brilliant light suddenly shone over the sea late that night and woke Qin Ze.

Qin Ze waited on Steamed Bun Island for his clones to arrive while sea beasts gathered around a mysterious light near Thousand Streams Island. As Fairy got lost trying to reach the island on foot, Captain Hook found a hidden cave entrance, but Qin Ze’s view went dark just as he began to explore.

• Qin Ze watched sea beasts gather around a glowing ball near the dragon corpse, and Scarface said the phenomenon occurred every few nights near Thousand Streams Island.
• Qin Ze told Scarface that his people would arrive the next day, and Giant Overlord later brought back a huge sea beast for the sailors to butcher.
• Qin Ze read the chat group and learned Fairy had lost her phone and was running across the sea without finding Steamed Bun Island.
• Captain Hook claimed he had clipped through a bug into a cave containing man-made objects, and Qin Ze switched to the scout clone’s view to investigate.
• Qin Ze saw the scout clone inside a limestone cave, but the screen suddenly went black.

Qin Ze investigated a fissure where his clones had died and discovered that a blood sacrifice formation was hidden inside the mountain. He destroyed it with lightning, drawing Wang Laoliu out of the forest and confronting him about luring people to the island.

• Qin Ze reviewed a clone’s sudden death inside a cavity and went to investigate with Giant Overlord, Scarface, and their men.
• Captain Hook showed Qin Ze a narrow fissure, and two clones descended the cliff to enter it.
• A clone squeezed through the fissure, losing an arm along the way, and Qin Ze saw that the cavity contained a formation that killed intruders instantly.
• Qin Ze sent a pillar of lightning through the opening, destroying the formation and provoking an angry voice from the forest.
• Wang Laoliu emerged, and Qin Ze accused him of luring people onto the island for a blood sacrifice.

Qin Ze and his clones found Wang Laoliu’s blood sacrifice array and learned that it was meant to convert the orb stolen from a Sea Serpent King. After Wang Laoliu revealed the sacrifice was planned for noon, Qin Ze ordered him to set the array up again.

• Wang Laoliu woke to find Qin Ze and the sailor clones had destroyed his array, then threatened them with his level-four strength.
• Giant Overlord appeared behind Wang Laoliu, who immediately dropped to his knees and begged for mercy.
• Qin Ze questioned Wang Laoliu, who explained that his company’s deputy manager had taken an orb from a Sea Serpent King and ordered a blood sacrifice to convert it.
• Wang Laoliu told Qin Ze that the manager planned to sacrifice a hundred people at noon, with everyone on the island serving as offerings.
• Qin Ze asked Wang Laoliu to rebuild the array.