Recaps

Taoist, Qin Ze, and the Dew Duo became entangled in a fight with a wanted Maka Race criminal and a Cloud Clan Hunter over Mrs. Jingke. The cloaked man escaped into Shelter Space with her, but the group destroyed it and forced him to throw her back to them.

• The Cloud Clan man arrived and attacked the cloaked man, while Taoist tried to carry off the sleeping Mrs. Jingke.
• The Cloud Clan man pinned Taoist and the wooden puppet to the wall and demanded their Source of the World.
• Qin Ze and the Dew Duo appeared, stabbed the Cloud Clan man, and began fighting him as Qin Ze freed Taoist.
• The Cloud Clan man's song woke Mrs. Jingke, whose shadow attacked Taoist and forced him to drop her.
• The cloaked man seized Mrs. Jingke and entered Shelter Space, but the group combined their attacks and burst it.
• The cloaked man threw Mrs. Jingke back to Qin Ze and the others as the Dew Duo prepared another attack.

Qin Ze and his companions fought a Cloud Clan member from Myriad Races Law Enforcement after he demanded Mrs. Jingke, and the battle ended with him destroying their hotel with a powerful scroll. Qin Ze and the others survived inside a defensive Martial Artifact, and Slacking on the Sidelines asked Taoist to explain what he had been hiding.

• Qin Ze passed Mrs. Jingke to Slacking on the Sidelines, who handed her to Taoist, while the cloaked man escaped into a Shelter Space.
• The Cloud Clan member demanded Mrs. Jingke and attacked Qin Ze and his companions, but Qin Ze’s mental-power dragon disrupted the member’s singing and let the group strike back.
• The Cloud Clan member recovered, escaped their attacks, and sentenced them to death before unleashing a scroll that destroyed the hotel.
• Qin Ze and the others emerged unharmed from a defensive Martial Artifact, and Slacking on the Sidelines demanded that Taoist tell them the truth.

After the battle over Mrs. Jingke, Qin Ze agreed to meet Taoist and the others at a waystation the next evening. Outside Snow City, Dharma King and Giant Overlord cornered the cloaked Hunter of the Maka Race with Big Black, leaving him facing a towering giant.

• Taoist invited Qin Ze to meet the group at the waystation south of Snow City the next evening, and Qin Ze agreed.
• Taoist warned that the Inspection Team would soon arrive, so Qin Ze and the others went home; afterward, a forearm emerged from the rubble.
• The cloaked man left his Shelter Space outside Snow City and tried to evade Dharma King, who ordered him to meet their boss.
• The cloaked man fled into his Shelter Space, but Big Black attacked it as a Hunting Beast and forced him to deactivate it.
• Dharma King struck the cloaked man with lightning while Big Black retreated, and Giant Overlord confronted him with a massive bone club.

Qin Ze questioned the captured Maka Race Hunter Zhan Li about Jing Ke and the World Overlord. Zhan Li explained that infected followers could help the Overlord awaken and revealed that the Ancient Clan Alliance might know how to use the relics followers left behind.

• The Circus gathered around the captured Zhan Li, who abandoned any plan to escape and introduced himself as a Maka Race Hunter.
• Zhan Li readily let Qin Ze recover his 123 points of Source of the World, and the beasts searched him and took his belongings.
• Qin Ze demanded to know why Zhan Li wanted Jing Ke, and Zhan Li said she had become a follower of the World Overlord and could help spread its power.
• Zhan Li explained that mass casualties could awaken an Overlord and that killing all infected followers could stop the current awakening.
• Zhan Li admitted that followers' relics sold for high prices but said the Ancient Clan Alliance might know how to use them; Qin Ze asked what that alliance was.

Qin Ze learned that the Ancient Clan Alliance used believers to awaken World Overlords, then discovered that Zhan Li was the fifth prince of the Maka Empire. Zhan Li claimed he had been framed and on the run for nearly two months, but Qin Ze realized the letter he had received half a month ago could not have come from him.

• Zhan Li explained that the Ancient Clan Alliance hunted World Overlords by capturing believers and using them to awaken the Overlords, and Qin Ze connected this to the Fairness Society.
• Zhan Li said he had become a wanted criminal after returning from a long trip, and Qin Ze ordered Dharma King to take him to the embassy for the bounty.
• Zhan Li offered to pay his own ransom, then revealed that he was the fifth prince of the Maka Empire and showed Qin Ze his identity badge.
• Qin Ze decided not to hand Zhan Li over and returned his clothes after learning that he had been on the run for nearly two months.
• Qin Ze realized the letter he had received half a month earlier had not been written by the Zhan Li standing before him.

Qin Ze learned that the Maka Race’s civil war and the World Overlord may be connected to a wider struggle over the path to godhood, and Brother Yuanzi told him to follow Taoist’s plans. Qin Ze freed Zhan Li to stir up trouble and discovered that the relic strengthened his body and helped him control the Desolate God Bloodline.

• Qin Ze questioned Zhan Li and concluded that the man did not match the refined fifth prince described in the invitation, then ordered his clones to tie Zhan Li up.
• Qin Ze told Brother Yuanzi about Zhan Li and the World Overlord, and Brother Yuanzi confirmed that the Fairness Society might be trying to awaken it.
• Brother Yuanzi told Qin Ze that the Maka Race had cut off contact as its dying emperor faced an impending civil war, and advised him to make the situation as chaotic as possible while following Taoist’s arrangements.
• Qin Ze ordered Dharma King to release Zhan Li discreetly so he could stir up trouble among the Maka Race.
• Qin Ze activated the Desolate God Bloodline and held the fake troupe leader’s relic, which strengthened his body and reduced his bloodline’s loss-of-control feeling.

Zhan Li escaped the abandoned factory as part of a setup, while Qin Ze considered the Cloud Clan’s plans and collected a bounty with the Dew Duo. That night, Qin Ze and the pair headed to Snow City's south station for the group’s first offline meetup.

• Zhan Li broke free and entered his Shelter Space, unaware that Big Black and the other beasts had pretended to sleep so he would escape.
• Giant Overlord reported that Zhan Li was in position, and Qin Ze worried that the Cloud Clan might awaken the World Overlord at a terrible cost.
• Taoist arranged an offline meetup for the next night, and the chat group discussed meeting Qin Ze and a new friend.
• Qin Ze joined the Dew Duo to collect the bounty, and Slacking on the Sidelines explained that the Cloud Clan’s authority protected Ding Wenxuan from being reported.
• Slacking on the Sidelines pressured the bartender into adding two hundred thousand in compensation, then kept it as payment for teaching Qin Ze about the adult world.
• Qin Ze spent the day on bounty missions with the Dew Duo before the three left the city for the south station meetup.

Qin Ze and the Dew Duo met Taoist and Scholar at an abandoned waystation near Snow City, where Fairy arrived with a dramatic prank. After greeting Qin Ze, Fairy asked Taoist to explain why they had gathered, and Passerby A pointed out that he was there too.

• Qin Ze and the Dew Duo arrived at the South Waystation and learned Taoist had recently advanced to level six while Qin Ze had reached level four.
• Scholar arrived late after escaping a beast tide in Penglai City and said the city's defensive system had stopped the beasts.
• Fairy appeared amid flowers, bound Slacking on the Sidelines with a vine, and pretended a giant sea beast had swallowed him.
• Taoist shattered the sea beast with a talisman, and Scholar remarked that its flesh was weak before Fairy revealed the beast had been an illusion.
• Fairy ruffled Qin Ze's hair and asked Taoist to explain their gathering, prompting Passerby A to remind them he was present.

Taoist revealed that Yin-Yang Temple guarded the seal containing the World Overlord and explained how part of its power escaped, killed his master, and spread through followers in Snow City. He asked the group for help before the World Overlord could fully awaken.

• Fairy linked her arm through Qin Ze's, and Qin Ze realized the others had mistaken their closeness for romance.
• Taoist explained that Yin-Yang Temple's temple masters guarded a seal on Yin-Yang Mountain and that his master had died after sending him to cultivate there.
• Taoist revealed that the Ancestral Beast was another name for the World Overlord, whom Mu Xinhan and Xu Baichuan had sealed after its attempted awakening.
• Taoist explained that the seal could only be guarded by a few people because the World Overlord's influence drove nearby people mad.
• Taoist said part of the World Overlord's power escaped, killed his master, and infected people in Snow City, whose serial killings helped it reach the Abyss.
• Taoist told the group they were running out of time and asked them for help.

Taoist explained the World Overlord’s awakening and the hunt for its remaining believers, while the group assigned Snow City search areas and prepared to act. Elsewhere, Ma Yan received a three-day assessment to obtain a believer’s relic and headed for Snow City.

• Taoist told the group that mass casualties could awaken the World Overlord and that a surviving fragment of its power was linked to the believers in Snow City.
• Taoist said the Cloud Clan Hunter might be trying to awaken the Overlord, and the group agreed to eliminate the believers and, if necessary, the Hunter.
• Slacking on the Sidelines concluded that at least two believers remained and that one hosted the escaped power; the group divided Snow City into search areas.
• Fairy offered to handle any believer or Overlord fragment they found, and the group planned to begin searching the next day.
• A burly man assigned Ma Yan an assessment to obtain a believer’s relic in Snow City within three days, and Ma Yan set off.

Qin Ze and Slacking on the Sidelines met Colonel Ding in a bar and persuaded him to share what he knew about Mrs. Jing and the believers. Ding agreed to pass along clues from the Inspection Team’s investigation.

• After a day of searching for the believers, Qin Ze and the Dew Duo stopped at a bar, where the bartender warned Qin Ze that the Black Dragon Gang boss wanted revenge on Slacking on the Sidelines.
• Qin Ze spotted Colonel Ding drinking alone, and Slacking on the Sidelines confronted him about concealing the truth after they completed his task.
• Ding said a Cloud Clan law enforcer had recruited him to search for a wanted Maka Race criminal, then told him how to recognize believers while investigating the city’s serial murders.
• Ding explained that he suspected Mrs. Jing was a believer, tested her by hiring the group to catch her cheating, and notified the Cloud Clan member after seeing what happened at the hotel.
• Slacking on the Sidelines persuaded Ding to share information, and Ding agreed to contact them if his men found clues linking the believers to the serial murders.

Qin Ze and the Dew Duo investigated a mass killing at Red Maple Mansion after Ding Wenxuan reported new deaths. They found bodies arranged in a bloody ritual, and discovered more corpses upstairs.

• Ding Wenxuan texted Qin Ze and the Dew Duo that more deaths had occurred at Red Maple Mansion.
• Qin Ze secretly ordered the Five Heavenly Kings to surround the mansion without entering.
• Hooknose let the Dew Duo investigate but warned Qin Ze not to enter; Qin Ze ignored him and followed them inside.
• The group found more than a dozen mutilated bodies hanging in the bloodstained hall and a ritual-like pattern made from blood and entrails.
• Passerby A found no further clues on the first floor, and the group went upstairs, where they saw another dozen corpses hanging in the corridor.

Qin Ze and the Dew Duo discovered that the hooked-nose captain was the serial killer, while Mrs. Jingke and two Cloud Clansmen revealed themselves in the corridor. Mrs. Jingke began transforming the bloody scene as Qin Ze felt the Desolate God Bloodline stir within him.

• Qin Ze sensed that an Advanced Martial Artist was still at the murder scene, so he, Slacking on the Sidelines, and Passerby A began retreating to wait for Fairy.
• The hooked-nose captain blocked the stairs and revealed himself as their enemy, while Qin Ze and Slacking on the Sidelines tried to stall for time.
• Mrs. Jingke appeared behind the group, and Qin Ze realized the hidden watcher might have been her.
• Mrs. Jingke summoned Brother Unscathed and a bald Cloud Clansman from Shelter Spaces, and Brother Unscathed demanded that she surrender the relic.
• Mrs. Jingke announced that the party could begin as the corpses melted, blood vessels spread across the corridor walls, and Qin Ze felt his Desolate God Bloodline stir.

Qin Ze and the Dew Duo fought their way through the Red Maple Mansion as Mrs. Jingke and the hawk-nosed captain unleashed blood-based attacks and mental contamination. Qin Ze’s blue flames burned back the flesh, but Slacking on the Sidelines and Passerby A were infected, the exits were sealed, and the mansion’s formation activated.

• Brother Unscathed and the bald Cloud Clan member fought Mrs. Jingke while Qin Ze and the Dew Duo tried to escape downstairs.
• The hawk-nosed captain destroyed Slacking on the Sidelines’s Shelter Space, then sacrificed himself and intensified the mansion’s mental shocks.
• Qin Ze unleashed Blue Flame Release, burning the attacking flesh and weakening Demonic Whisper so the Dew Duo could move toward the entrance.
• Blood vessels sealed the exit, an eye paralyzed the Dew Duo, and blood-red eyes appeared on Slacking on the Sidelines and Passerby A.
• Mrs. Jingke descended the stairs, turned the hanging corpses into blood, and activated the Red Maple Mansion’s formation.

Taoist and Scholar joined Qin Ze and the Dew Duo at the mansion, where they fought Mrs. Jingke’s stitched monster and tried to stop her from channeling the World Overlord’s power. Their combined attack failed to break the monster’s defenses, and Fairy still had not arrived.

• Taoist broke into the mansion, used talismans and a pill to suppress the contamination, and restored Slacking on the Sidelines and Passerby A to normal.
• Scholar arrived and strengthened the group’s resistance to the Overlord’s mental attacks, while Taoist explained that Mrs. Jingke was using the mansion’s inhabitants to empower the stitched monster.
• Mrs. Jingke fed the monster more puppets, increasing its strength, and dragged Brother Unscathed from his Shelter Space while keeping the bald Cloud Clan member occupied.
• Scholar temporarily sealed the monster with his Martial Artifact, and Qin Ze, Taoist, Slacking on the Sidelines, and Passerby A launched a combined attack.
• The stitched monster broke free and survived their attack, prompting Qin Ze to order the minions to attack through the Local Area Network.

Fairy fought Taurus to reach the new Virgo's assessment, while Qin Ze's team faced the Stitched Monster with help from the Circus's clones and reinforcements. The battle continued as Brother Devour stood between the Stitched Monster and the others, trading heavy blows with it.

• Fairy tried to get past Taurus, but he repeatedly blocked her from going to Virgo's assessment, forcing her to fight him with plants and blood-colored vines.
• Qin Ze sent his clones into the fight after Scholar weakened Demonic Whisper and restored the team's energy, while Slacking on the Sidelines struggled to hold off the Stitched Monster.
• The Circus's clones charged the Stitched Monster, and three members of the Self-Destruct Squad detonated themselves to open the team fight.
• Taoist and the Hunter squad attacked while the surviving clones distracted the Stitched Monster, and Dharma King struck it with lightning.
• Brother Devour charged into the hall and shielded the others by trading powerful blows with the Stitched Monster.

Qin Ze unleashed his strengthened Desolate God Bloodline, overwhelmed the stitched monster, and burned its remains to ash. He then confronted Mrs. Jingke, who shed her disguise and revealed herself as Ding Wenxuan.

• Qin Ze lured the stitched monster toward him, used Black Tortoise Shield to fake being crushed beneath the rubble, and secretly escaped through Shelter Space.
• Qin Ze activated the Desolate God Bloodline and emerged transformed, his divine might forcing Taoist and the others to kneel and making the stitched monster recoil.
• Qin Ze battered the stitched monster through the building and into the night sky, then destroyed its regenerating pieces with Heavenly Fire Judgment.
• Qin Ze turned to Mrs. Jingke, who laughed, tore open her skin, and stepped out of her disguise as a naked man.
• Slacking on the Sidelines recognized the revealed man as Ding Wenxuan.

Qin Ze confronted Ding Wenxuan, who revealed his plot to offer people to his lord and transformed into a towering fusion monster. Qin Ze unveiled his ultimate form and attacked Ding Wenxuan, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Ding Wenxuan blamed Qin Ze and the others for ruining his plans, then killed Brother Unscathed and absorbed the remains of Mrs. Jingke.
• Ding Wenxuan prayed to his lord for power, and a force erupted from underground despite Qin Ze's divine might.
• Ding Wenxuan transformed into a massive fusion monster, while a tentacle struck the bald Cloud Clan member and drove him into the ground.
• Qin Ze grew to the monster's size, revealed his ultimate form, and swung his flaming bone sword at Ding Wenxuan.

Qin Ze and Ding Wenxuan fought to a stalemate, leaving both battered and close to exhaustion. As Qin Ze drew on every clone for one last strike, Fairy arrived on the battlefield.

• Qin Ze used his bone sword, lightning, fire, and the Dragon of Lightning and Fire to attack Ding Wenxuan, but Ding Wenxuan's red force field blocked his strongest strike.
• The battle left Ding Wenxuan's trunk and legs damaged and his force field dimmed, while Qin Ze was badly strained by the Desolate God Bloodline.
• Ding Wenxuan offered Qin Ze one last chance to serve his lord, but Qin Ze refused and used Fog of War to begin another round of attacks with his clones and the Five Heavenly Kings.
• Qin Ze's clones and the Five Heavenly Kings attacked Ding Wenxuan, while several clones urged Qin Ze to retreat.
• Qin Ze activated Sage Time and began drawing on every clone's strength for a final blow, but Fairy arrived through the Fog of War as flowers bloomed across the battlefield.

Fairy and Qin Ze fought Ding Wenxuan’s monstrous form, seeking to destroy the eyeball that fed him power from the World Overlord. Ma Yan shattered the weakened force field at the last moment, letting Qin Ze strike Ding Wenxuan down.

• Fairy tore apart Ding Wenxuan’s concrete-and-flesh body and fed its pieces to man-eating flowers, but he transformed into a huge tumor bristling with regenerating tentacles.
• Fairy told Qin Ze that the eyeball in Ding Wenxuan’s mouth was his source of power and weakness, then attacked from the front while Qin Ze targeted it.
• Fairy repeatedly buried Ding Wenxuan in petals as Qin Ze fought through the tentacles and struck the scarlet force field with his bone sword.
• Ma Yan emerged from the shadows and stabbed the force field with her red blades, shattering it before vanishing.
• Qin Ze landed his final sword strike, engulfing Ding Wenxuan in lightning and fire.

After the battle, Taoist and the others discovered the relic had been stolen, while Qin Ze survived but suffered catastrophic physical damage from his power. Elsewhere, Ma Yan completed his assessment and Taurus led him to the president, while Zhan Li found a wounded bald man with bloodstained wings outside his hideout.

• Fairy confirmed that a woman had stolen the relic, and Scholar reported that the Cloud Clan member had vanished.
• Taoist told Fairy that Qin Ze had died, but Qin Ze called out from the rubble and was pulled to safety by Scholar.
• After the others left, the real Qin Ze emerged from hiding, aged and bleeding; Thousand Faces gave him a Source Crystal and carried him away.
• Ma Yan showed Taurus the object he had obtained for his assessment, and Taurus returned to human form after Ma Yan watered him before offering to take him to the president.
• Zhan Li heard a crash outside his abandoned house and found a bald man with bloodstained wings lying in the snow.

Zhan Li killed Baldy after learning that the Shadow, a special operations team under the Ancient Clan Alliance, had issued the mission to capture him, then accepted an offer to help find whoever placed the wanted order. Two days later, Qin Ze recovered enough to review the battle, absorb the power of Ding Wenxuan’s relic, and send his clones to cultivate as he continued healing.

• Zhan Li questioned Baldy about the capture mission, learned that the Shadow from Maka World had issued it, and killed him.
• Zhan Li agreed to the black card’s offer on the condition that they help him find the person behind the wanted order.
• Qin Ze recovered from overusing his Source of Life and reflected on the strength and cost of activating the Desolate God Bloodline.
• Qin Ze realized that Ma Yan had passed Ding Wenxuan’s relic to Thousand Faces, who later switched it with the relic Qin Ze had already absorbed.
• Qin Ze absorbed the power of the relic, strengthening the Desolate God Bloodline, and urged his clones to cultivate while he rested.

Qin Ze refused Zhan Li’s request to accompany him back to the empire, then decided to lead his group into the Abyss. At their farewell dinner, the group noticed a dark aura around Taoist, while an old man named a new Virgo and discovered that something inside a relic had disappeared.

• Dharma King and his clones made Zhan Li sign an IOU for three hundred million before Qin Ze heard his request for help returning to the empire.
• Qin Ze refused to serve as Zhan Li’s bodyguard, citing the risk, and predicted they would meet again soon.
• Qin Ze decided to leave the Northern Territory for the Abyss with his clones the next day.
• At the group’s dinner, Taoist said goodbye, and Qin Ze and the others noticed a black aura around him that Scholar identified as accumulated negative energy.
• Qin Ze told the group he had reached level four and would descend into the Abyss, and they advised him on what to expect.
• An old man declared the woman who passed a test the new Virgo, then discovered that something inside a black relic had vanished and called out, “Apostle...”

Qin Ze entered Penglai City, crossed the heavily guarded Gate of the Abyss, and arranged safe passage to the Maka Race’s world through the embassy. He left the embassy with a travel document for the next morning and released his excited clones in a quiet corner.

• Qin Ze entered Penglai City using the diplomatic identification arranged by Brother Yuanzi.
• Qin Ze passed the strict checks at the Gate of the Abyss and arrived in the Abyss.
• Qin Ze visited the Maka Race’s embassy and presented his diplomatic identification and the Fifth Prince’s token.
• The ambassador arranged for Qin Ze to travel with a unit returning to the Empire at eight the next morning and gave him a stamped document.
• Qin Ze declined the embassy’s offer of a room, then found a secluded corner and let out the Five Heavenly Kings and his clones.

Qin Ze left Penglai City aboard the Maka Race's departing vessel, where he recognized the disguised fifth prince, Zhan Li. The journey was interrupted when a huge flock of flying exotic beasts attacked the vessel.

• Qin Ze left Penglai City with the Five Heavenly Kings and passed through the city's inspection under his diplomatic status.
• Outside the city, Qin Ze's World Imprint shielded him from the Abyss's contamination, and he traveled to the Maka Race outpost.
• A Maka Race soldier tried to stop Qin Ze from entering the outpost, but the captain admitted him after seeing the embassy's letter of introduction.
• Qin Ze boarded the vessel bound for the Maka Race's world and recognized the disguised Zhan Li among the soldiers on deck.
• An explosion woke Qin Ze during the night, and he saw a huge flock of flying exotic beasts charging toward the vessel.