Recaps

Qin Ze watched Snow City's Inspection Team harass members of the company's Mobile Team and wondered why the company had deployed them there. After sending a walking stick to Fatty, Qin Ze spotted several suspicious figures he recognized as the Mobile Team.

• Qin Ze learned from Slacking on the Sidelines that the company's Mobile Team had deployed to Snow City and clashed repeatedly with the Inspection Team.
• Two gray-coated officers searched three Mobile Team members and confiscated their Martial Artifacts, while the team's tall member restrained his companions from fighting.
• Qin Ze suspected the company had a purpose for sending its Mobile Team to Snow City, then declined Slacking on the Sidelines's offer of a job so he could prepare for the Trial Otherworld.
• Qin Ze learned a special train would leave for Sea Capital the next day and sent Fatty his walking stick from the freight station.
• Qin Ze left the freight station and spotted several suspicious figures who appeared to belong to the company's Mobile Team.

Qin Ze witnessed the Mobile Team secretly collecting a sealed box from a sickly man, then collapsed from a mysterious illness while fleeing. Scholar examined him and concluded that he was sick, not injured.

• Qin Ze followed the Mobile Team to a freight train, where its captain collected a heavy, sealed box from a sickly man.
• The sickly man spotted Qin Ze and declared him a dead man, while the Mobile Team carried the box away without pursuing him.
• Qin Ze ordered his clones in Snow City to investigate the box, then suddenly grew weak, vomited blood, and began bleeding from his eyes and nose.
• Slacking on the Sidelines and Passerby A took Qin Ze to Scholar, who examined him and said he was sick rather than injured.

Scholar cured Qin Ze's mysterious illness, and Qin Ze agreed to help the Dew Duo find Leo, the strongest of the Twelve Zodiac Signs, in Snow City. As Qin Ze went to sleep, his clones reported that they had lost the people transporting the box.

• Scholar used his ability to cure Qin Ze, confirming that Qin Ze had been sick despite being a martial artist.
• Qin Ze told Scholar, Slacking on the Sidelines, and Passerby A about the sickly man and the suspicious box at the freight depot, and Scholar suggested the man had used a disease vector.
• Scholar urged Qin Ze to accept the Dew Duo's bounty mission, and Slacking on the Sidelines revealed they had been hired to find Leo in Snow City by an executor from the Law Enforcement Team.
• Qin Ze recognized that the executor was Brother Yuanzi and agreed to join the Dew Duo the next morning.
• After the Dew Duo left, Qin Ze's clones reported through the Local Area Network that they had lost track of the box's escorts.

Qin Ze learned that Capricorn’s illness-inducing ability had killed three of his clones and endangered him, while the Mobile Team pursued the Fairness Society’s Leo. The next morning, Qin Ze met the Dew Duo, whose investigation had made no progress, and took them somewhere to continue the search.

• The Mobile Team escaped Qin Ze’s clones by flying into the sky, and three pursuing clones later died suddenly after apparently falling ill.
• A clone found the three bodies and tried to erase the evidence, but the tall Mobile Team captain caught him; the clone self-destructed, and the captain survived and reported that someone else was watching them.
• Qin Ze concluded that Capricorn’s illness ability had killed the clones and that the Mobile Team’s flight had been a hallucination; the group chat identified Capricorn as a Fairness Society Zodiac and discussed his weakness in close combat.
• Yao Yuan told the group that Snow City’s Inspection Team had been alerted, while the Dew Duo reported they were searching for Leo.
• Qin Ze met Slacking on the Sidelines and the Dew Duo at a bar the next morning, learned they had made no progress, and took them somewhere to investigate.

Qin Ze and his companions found Leo's location with help from a retired Inspection Team veteran, then discovered the northern factory belonged to the company. Thousand Faces revealed he was already inside the factory beside the box, leaving Qin Ze ready to coordinate an extraction.

• Qin Ze confronted the old shopkeeper and persuaded him to locate Leo of the Twelve Zodiac Signs.
• The shopkeeper used his Thousand-Mile Eye ability to find Leo at a factory in the north of Snow City.
• Qin Ze explained that the shopkeeper was a retired Inspection Team veteran and that Thousand Faces had once been his apprentice.
• Qin Ze, Slacking on the Sidelines, and Passerby A found the company-operated factory guarded by Mobile Team members.
• Thousand Faces contacted Qin Ze through the Local Area Network and said he was inside the factory beside the box, proposing a joint effort to retrieve it.

Leo prepared to return to the Abyss while Capricorn monitored the Void Beast, and a rapidly spreading disease began devastating Snow City. Qin Ze learned that Leo was hiding in a factory and suspected the Void Beast was inside the box Capricorn had been checking, then went to alert Brother Yuanzi.

• Capricorn told Leo that his return to the Abyss would be possible in a few days and warned him that the president was disappointed in his performance.
• Capricorn said he had been checking on the Void Beast, while a disguised man watched him and approached Leo's room after Capricorn left.
• Soldiers returning to Snow City discovered that a disease causing blisters and pustules was spreading through a tavern and had already infected much of the city.
• The Inspection Team's captain learned that a third of Snow City's population was infected and hurried to investigate.
• Qin Ze learned from Son of the Version that Leo was in the basement of the factory and that Capricorn had been checking a box, leading him to suspect it contained the Void Beast.
• Qin Ze left to tell Brother Yuanzi what he had learned before a possible beast tide threatened Snow City.

Qin Ze realized Capricorn had unleashed a disease to help Black Mountain Biotechnology gain influence in Snow City, while a Void Beast threatened to trigger a beast tide. Yao Yuan planned to bring in the Inspection Team that night, and the group prepared to intervene as Fairy revealed Capricorn was the plague’s source.

• Qin Ze abandoned his plan to steal Capricorn’s sealed box after suspecting it contained a Void Beast.
• A news bulletin reported a deadly airborne disease in Snow City, and Qin Ze suspected Capricorn had caused it.
• Qin Ze deduced that Capricorn was paving the way for Black Mountain Biotechnology to gain support for Mobile Team deployments.
• Black Mountain Biotechnology announced it had developed a treatment, and Qin Ze and the others recognized the company’s public-relations move as an open plot.
• Yao Yuan told the group Capricorn had brought a Void Beast and said he would bring in the Inspection Team that night.
• Fairies Don't Poop said killing Capricorn would stop the disease and warned that he was level 8.5, with other Zodiac Signs possibly coming to help.

Qin Ze joined Yao Yuan’s Inspection Team for an assault on the factory, where Capricorn was spreading disease and Leo was being held. The team entered under the Cage Formation, and Captain Fang killed a Mobile Team deputy after the factory tried to obstruct the arrest.

• Slacking on the Sidelines invited Qin Ze to join the raid, and Qin Ze agreed so he could retrieve the Star Gate Fragment and deal with a possible Void Beast passage.
• Capricorn spread disease spores across Snow City and plotted to earn a promotion, while a Mobile Team captain assured him the company would cooperate and guard his box.
• Captain Fang raised the Cage Formation around the factory, alerting Capricorn that the Inspection Team had arrived; Capricorn headed toward the basement where Leo was held.
• Yao Yuan assigned Captain Fang to capture Capricorn, himself to handle Leo, and Qin Ze to find and retrieve the box containing the sealed Void Beast.
• The Inspection Team entered the factory and confronted the Mobile Team, whose deputy challenged them; Captain Fang killed him with a sword strike.

The Inspection Team attacked the company’s warehouse, forcing Capricorn to awaken Leo’s strength and bring forward the Void Beast’s awakening. Yao Yuan and Captain Fang confronted Leo and Capricorn while Qin Ze’s group searched Zone B for the box.

• Yao Yuan killed the deputy and ordered the Inspection Team to kill anyone who resisted, while the tall captain and his team surrendered.
• Capricorn gave Leo a disease spore that restored most of his strength, then set out to awaken the Void Beast early.
• Yao Yuan attacked Capricorn and Leo, and Leo fought him in the air while Capricorn slipped away toward Zone B.
• Captain Fang intercepted Capricorn, delaying the Void Beast’s awakening.
• Qin Ze and his group reached the Zone B warehouse, where Thousand Faces beckoned them inside.

Qin Ze and his companions stole the sealed black box from the warehouse and fled while Captain Fang fought Capricorn and Yao Yuan fought Leo. Just as Qin Ze reached the factory gates, Aries took the box, and Leo ordered Aries and Ma Yan to kill them.

• Thousand Faces led Qin Ze, Slacking on the Sidelines, the Dew Duo, and Scholar to the warehouse and revealed the black box.
• Scholar made the box weigh as little as cotton, allowing Qin Ze to carry it as the group escaped.
• Leo spotted Qin Ze with the box and attacked, while Capricorn sent disease spores toward them; Scholar protected the group with his ability.
• Captain Fang wounded Capricorn and kept him occupied, giving Qin Ze and the others a chance to reach the factory gates.
• Aries took the box from Qin Ze, and Leo ordered Aries and Ma Yan to kill them.

Yao Yuan, Leo, Aries, and Virgo Ma Yan fought around the factory entrance as Qin Ze and his allies tried to reach it. Ma Yan secretly went easy on Qin Ze, who played up his injuries while they maneuvered toward the exit, drawing Aries's attention to their obvious act.

• Leo fought Yao Yuan with his nine-headed lion battle spirit, while Yao Yuan's sword array halted against the lion's elemental attacks.
• Aries assigned Ma Yan to face Qin Ze and attacked Scholar and Slacking on the Sidelines himself.
• Aries caught Slacking on the Sidelines with blue arms, but Scholar redirected his ink attacks and briefly confined Aries with his ability.
• Aries broke free and charged Scholar, while Virgo Ma Yan blocked Qin Ze with shadow attacks.
• Qin Ze realized Ma Yan was holding back, and they secretly edged toward the main entrance as he loudly pretended to be injured.
• Aries glanced over during his fight and recognized that Qin Ze and Ma Yan were not hiding their act.

Qin Ze and Passerby A tried to steal the box during the battle at the factory, while the fighters struggled to hold off the Twelve Zodiac Signs. The box began activating as Passerby A stabbed Capricorn, leaving its fate uncertain.

• Yao Yuan cut down several heads of Leo's nine-headed lion battle soul while Aries remained occupied by Scholar and Slacking on the Sidelines.
• Passerby A broke Aries's bowl with Qin Ze's help, but he could barely move the now-heavy box.
• Qin Ze and Passerby A carried the box away after Brother Devour charged into Ma Yan and smashed through the Zone B warehouses.
• Capricorn poisoned Captain Fang with spores, then pursued Qin Ze and Passerby A as they tried to escape with the box.
• Passerby A stabbed Capricorn, who said he would give them the box as its formation patterns began to move.

Qin Ze and his allies tried to stop Leo from reaching the Abyss after the Void Beast opened a spatial gate and unleashed a beast tide. Yao Yuan’s sword strike devastated the beasts and badly wounded Leo, but as the fog trapped the fighters in the factory, a six-armed giant appeared before him.

• Capricorn opened the box, awakening the Void Beast, and Qin Ze began recovering the Star Gate Fragment as the beast tide poured through the spatial vortex.
• Leo charged toward the gate, but Yao Yuan’s Parting Clouds sword strike destroyed the released beasts and severely wounded him.
• Capricorn and Aries tried to carry Leo to the gate, while Scholar, Slacking on the Sidelines, Passerby A, and Qin Ze’s allies moved to stop them.
• Qin Ze spread the Fog of War through the factory, disorienting the exotic beasts and obscuring everyone’s surroundings.
• Leo tried to use a nearby exotic beast to get up, but it exploded into blood mist, revealing a six-armed giant standing over him.

Qin Ze and the Circus fought Leo, Aries, Capricorn, and Virgo in the fog, keeping Leo from reaching the spatial vortex. The battles continued as Brother Devour revealed that Capricorn’s spores could not weaken him.

• Qin Ze blocked the spatial vortex and stalled Leo with blue flames and bone swords while Void Beasts poured into the factory.
• Dharma King arrived to fight Aries, while Giant Overlord and Brother Devour switched opponents and Brother Devour attacked Capricorn.
• Giant Overlord shattered Virgo’s shadow spikes as Dharma King harassed Aries from a distance.
• Capricorn escaped Brother Devour’s attack by shedding his injured skin, then fought back with metal sleeves and spores.
• After Brother Devour kept attacking without weakening, he revealed that the Circus’s number one shield could defend against more than physical attacks.

Qin Ze fought Leo as the countdown to the spatial vortex’s retrieval ran out, using his abilities and summoned corpses to stall the Level Nine Martial Artist. Leo seemed to win their final clash, but the vortex vanished before he could escape, leaving Qin Ze standing after defeating him by half a move.

• Qin Ze attacked Leo with lightning, flames, and a Divine Markings-covered greatsword, wounding him and forcing him to edge toward the spatial vortex.
• As exotic beasts poured into the area, the Dew Duo and Scholar fought them while Qin Ze used his new Ghost Type ability to raise corpses and slow Leo.
• With one minute left, Qin Ze and Leo clashed in a final exchange; Leo burned his Source of Life, broke through Qin Ze’s defenses, and blasted him away with his battle soul.
• Leo rushed toward the vortex, but the countdown completed and the vortex retrieved the exotic beasts before shrinking and disappearing.
• Bloodied, Qin Ze declared that he had beaten Leo by half a move.

Yao Yuan and Qin Ze’s allies defeated Leo’s group, suppressing Leo in the Hall of Stars and killing Capricorn. Aries escaped with Ma Yan, and Qin Ze’s side withdrew from the factory under cover of fog.

• Qin Ze interrupted Leo’s self-destruction and pushed him into Yao Yuan’s sword formation, which pinned him down.
• Yao Yuan summoned the Hall of Stars and drew Leo inside, suppressing him as Aries and Capricorn failed to intervene.
• Qin Ze, Brother Devour, and the Dharma King overwhelmed Capricorn, and Yao Yuan’s sword triggered a weakening side effect that let Qin Ze cut him in two.
• Aries tried to teleport away, but Scholar prohibited teleportation and collapsed after using his ability.
• Ma Yan turned into a shadow and teleported away with Aries, while Giant Overlord let them pass.
• Qin Ze spread the Fog of War, and he and the Five Heavenly Kings withdrew from the factory.

After the beast tide ended, Qin Ze gave Yao Yuan the Maka Empire’s King’s Sword and received cultivation supplies ahead of the Otherworld’s opening. In the Inspection Team morgue, Capricorn emerged from a body bag, hinting that his apparent death had come at a price.

• Qin Ze and Slacking on the Sidelines regrouped with the others after the battle, and Scholar explained that the enemy’s high-quality teleportation Martial Artifact had overcome his ability.
• Yao Yuan told Captain Fang to hold a press conference about the spores losing their effect, then thanked Qin Ze and the others for their work.
• Qin Ze visited Yao Yuan and gave him the King’s Sword, which Yao Yuan activated despite its Maka royal bloodline lock.
• Yao Yuan gave Qin Ze a Wall-Breaking Pill and five bottles of advanced bone-tempering liquid, and urged him to reach level six before entering the Otherworld.
• After the Inspection Team staff left the morgue, Capricorn cut open his body bag and said, “To gain something, you have to lose something...”

Capricorn revived and escaped from the Inspection Team morgue after the battle, while the disease spores began disappearing from Snow City. Fairy met with Aries, Ma Yan, and Capricorn at the city's edge and announced a critical new task from the president.

• Capricorn's severed body rejoined, and he walked barefoot out into the snowy night, triggering an alarm at the Inspection Team compound.
• Qin Ze learned in the chat group that Capricorn's body had vanished and that the disease spores were expected to disappear before dawn.
• Fairy met Aries and Ma Yan outside Snow City and learned that Leo had been trapped by Yao Yuan's spatial weapon.
• Capricorn arrived, and Fairy whipped him before reprimanding him and Aries for their failed battle.
• Fairy announced an important task from the president, and Aries saw a chance to earn merit.

Black Mountain Biotechnology sought sole authority over the chamber of commerce by revealing a discovery related to a god, while Qin Ze and the others discussed the companies’ power and infighting. The chapter ended with Little Deer announcing that she had arrived in Snow City.

• Black Mountain Biotechnology’s representative told the other companies that the Inspection Team had blocked their Mobile Team from entering Snow City and demanded sole authority over the chamber of commerce.
• The Military Technology representative revealed that the companies had made a discovery related to a god in Otherworld No. Zero, and the Black Mountain representative set a vote for three days later.
• The Earth Company and Pan-Grain Reserves representatives agreed to discuss joining forces against Black Mountain and Military Technology.
• Qin Ze and the chat group discussed the companies’ Level Nine Martial Artists, their divisions, and the Inspection Team’s press conference.
• Slacking on the Sidelines recounted the previous night’s events, and Little Deer announced that she had arrived in Snow City.

Qin Ze reunited with Lu Tongtong in Snow City and joined her, Slacking on the Sidelines, and Passerby A at Scholar’s residence. After Qin Ze learned that a mysterious stone might be linked to the Desolate God and Otherworld No. Zero, the group welcomed Lu Tongtong and planned to show her the adult world the next day.

• Qin Ze met Lu Tongtong at Snow City Station and learned she had reached level 2.5.
• Slacking on the Sidelines and Passerby A joined Qin Ze and Lu Tongtong, and the four went to Scholar’s residence.
• Qin Ze found a black stone carrying the Desolate God’s aura and learned it supposedly came from Otherworld No. Zero, where rumors claimed a god’s remains had been found.
• The group shared a welcome meal with Lu Tongtong, while Slacking on the Sidelines told her about Qin Ze’s experiences in Snow City.
• Slacking on the Sidelines suggested taking Lu Tongtong to see the adult world the next day.

Qin Ze agreed to help Slacking on the Sidelines investigate a missing merchant’s daughter who had shown impossible strength and fled into the Ring Mountains. Wang Biao recognized her from a photograph and said she was already dead.

• Qin Ze encouraged Lu Tongtong to take commissions with Slacking on the Sidelines, and she spent several exhausting days working while gaining control of her Level Two power.
• Qin Ze heard that the missing merchant’s daughter had attacked Slacking on the Sidelines and his companions before escaping into a blizzard with extraordinary strength.
• Qin Ze agreed to join Slacking on the Sidelines in searching for the girl, suspecting she might be connected to Ghost Types.
• Wang Biao entered the bar after returning from the Ring Mountains, recognized the girl in the photograph, and told Slacking on the Sidelines she was dead.

Qin Ze and his companions agreed to help Wang Biao search the Ring Mountains for his missing Circus members after learning that a girl had been found dead there with her head crushed. The group reached the mountains in a blizzard, where Wang Biao pointed out where the girl's body lay.

• Wang Biao told Slacking on the Sidelines and Qin Ze that he had found the missing girl dead near the Ring Mountains, her head caved in.
• Wang Biao explained that twenty-seven Circus members and a wanted criminal had vanished two days earlier, and that he had gone to the Ring Mountains to find them.
• Qin Ze offered to help Wang Biao search, and Slacking on the Sidelines agreed to take the job for a token payment.
• Qin Ze sent his clones to scout the Ring Mountains while the group prepared to leave the next morning.
• Qin Ze, Slacking on the Sidelines, and Wang Biao traveled through the blizzard to the Ring Mountains, where Wang Biao showed them where the girl's body lay.

Qin Ze and the others searched the Ring Mountains after finding a murdered girl and learning that hundreds of people had recently vanished in Snow City. Qin Ze and Lu Tongtong headed toward the central lake, where Qin Ze stumbled upon a severed leg.

• Qin Ze examined the girl's body and determined that her skull and brain had melted, though she had no fatal external wounds.
• Wang Biao led the group into the Ring Mountains, where Qin Ze learned that 321 people had been reported missing in Snow City over the past three days.
• The group split up to search the mountains, and Qin Ze teamed up with Lu Tongtong to head for the central lake.
• Fairy stopped Capricorn from pursuing Qin Ze, then led Aries, Capricorn, and Ma Yan toward the central lake.
• Qin Ze warmed Lu Tongtong with his blue flame as they searched, then kicked a severed leg after crossing a mountain.

Qin Ze and Lu Tongtong followed a trail of corpses through the Ring Mountains, discovering that missing people had been drawn toward the central lake by an unknown force. As they neared the lake, hidden observers watched them, and Lu Tongtong spotted someone ahead.

• Qin Ze melted the snow in a valley and found dozens of ordinary people whose brains had been destroyed.
• Qin Ze examined more bodies and found that farther along the path, the corpses belonged to increasingly powerful martial artists with less brain damage and traces of spiritual power.
• Thousand Faces reported that missing people had been seen near the Ring Mountains, and Qin Ze inferred that a guide had drawn them toward the central lake by overwhelming their spiritual seas.
• Fairy, Capricorn, and Aries watched Qin Ze and Lu Tongtong from a nearby mountain, but Fairy told them to leave the pair alone for now.
• Qin Ze and Lu Tongtong continued toward the central lake, where the air grew warmer and mist appeared; Lu Tongtong then spotted someone ahead.

Qin Ze discovered that parasitic Spirits were driving martial artists toward the central lake, where a wounded Ghost Type parent body was sending them out to hunt. After destroying the swarm bound for Snow City, he and Lu Tongtong reached the valley exit and infiltrated the mercenaries’ camp, where Qin Ze hinted that Ghost Captain was getting a new partner.

• Qin Ze tested a possessed martial artist’s strength, pulled the parasitic Spirit from his head, and destroyed it.
• Qin Ze saw a swarm of Spirits fly from the central lake toward Snow City and concluded that a wounded Ghost Type parent body was sending them to hunt for prey.
• Qin Ze annihilated the Spirits that swooped toward him and Lu Tongtong, then led her onward through the mist.
• Qin Ze and Lu Tongtong overheard mercenaries say the parent body would wake after recovering for two more days.
• Qin Ze and Lu Tongtong pretended to be brain-damaged prey and walked past the mercenaries toward their camp.
• Qin Ze told Ghost Captain over the local network that he was getting a new little partner.