Recaps

Qin Ze received a Soul Orb from Big Handsome Guy and learned that the executive had noticed his hidden martial arts progress. After a clone absorbed the orb and gained the Thousand Faces ability, Qin Ze thought of a way to deal with the beggar.

• Big Handsome Guy gave Qin Ze a purified Soul Orb as an advance payment for making him an electronic watch, then told him that placing first in the martial exam could open up a broader world.
• In his Lincoln, Big Handsome Guy told his sister that Qin Ze had reached Level One Martial Artist while concealing his qi and blood value, and learned that Qin Ze had completed his first bone tempering in less than a month.
• Big Handsome Guy decided Qin Ze would need to place in the top three to meet his standards, while his sister headed to a mission area for her upcoming adjudicator assessment.
• At home, Qin Ze had a clone swallow the Soul Orb, and the clone gained the ability to change his face into that of anyone he had seen.
• Qin Ze tested the ability and realized it could not change a person's bearing, then came up with an idea for dealing with the beggar.

Qin Ze learned that Ma Yan had recovered enough to leave the hospital with people from the mysterious company, and her note said she planned to start a new life. The chapter ended with Qin Yu calling Qin Ze after a long period of silence and announcing his return.

• Qin Ze met Fatty for food, where Enforcer Number Three warned them that an Advanced Martial Artist from a terrorist organization was in the city and that the Maka Race delegation would arrive in ten days.
• Qin Ze saw the delegation’s visit as an opportunity while he and the cobblers finalized their performance.
• Qin Ze continued visiting Ma Yan in the hospital as her body improved, though her spirits remained low and she still could not see.
• Qin Ze found Ma Yan’s hospital room empty and learned she had been discharged that morning by three men and two women from the company’s medical examination team.
• Qin Ze read Ma Yan’s note, which said she had left willingly, wanted to embrace a new life, and would find him after he became a martial artist.
• Qin Yu called Qin Ze and announced that he had returned.

Qin Ze welcomed his sister Qin Yu home, told her about Ma Yan, and revealed that he had become a Level One Martial Artist. After Qin Ze left for the evening, an invitation from the Hater Circus reached Big Handsome Guy at the Law Enforcement Department.

• Qin Yu arrived late after exotic beasts appeared outside the city, and Qin Ze took her luggage home.
• Qin Yu noticed the smell of blood, and Qin Ze told her about the arson case and Ma Yan leaving the hospital without saying goodbye.
• Qin Ze revealed that he was a Level One Martial Artist, impressing Qin Yu, who then cooked fish for them.
• Qin Ze watched news about the Maka Race delegation and told Qin Yu he had plans that evening.
• A child delivered an invitation signed by the Hater Circus to Big Handsome Guy at the Law Enforcement Department.

Big Handsome Guy received a taunting invitation from the Hater Circus and decided to attend the Maka Race welcome banquet. The Circus prepared to make its move, while Pisces infiltrated the group and followed Lion to the banquet, where the hall suddenly went dark.

• Big Handsome Guy read the Circus's invitation to meet at the Jiang City Grand Hotel and, after considering its purpose, decided to attend the banquet.
• Qin Ze learned that Dharma King had delivered the invitation and sent Brother Devour to invite the night's second main character while the clones prepared to perform.
• Lion found Pisces disguised as a beggar, praised his loyalty, and invited him to the banquet to confront Wang Biao.
• Pisces realized Wang Biao had escaped and followed Lion, hoping to reach the venue and recover the key.
• Big Handsome Guy sat beside the city lord of Jiang City at the welcome banquet, and the lights suddenly went out.

During the blackout at a banquet for the Maka Race, Big Handsome Guy clashed with the alien leader before masked attackers turned their stage performance into a violent assault. As guards reeled from the first explosions, another group of masked figures rushed out in the smoke.

• Big Handsome Guy and the Maka Race leader exchanged threats about Big Handsome Guy’s sister, then clashed with their auras until the leader’s chair shattered.
• The host announced a performance by the Hater Circus, and Big Handsome Guy ordered his team to follow their plan when the targets appeared.
• Thirteen animal-masked figures descended onto the stage and blew themselves up, blasting the guards who charged in to seize them.
• The Maka Race representatives applauded the explosions as art while the city lord struggled to understand the attack.
• Another group of animal-masked figures charged out from backstage, shouting slogans and calling for Wang Debiao.

Pisces infiltrated the Circus to capture Wang Biao and obtain his key, but he discovered that the alien leader also carried one. As Pisces revealed his Advanced Martial Artist strength, law enforcement officers burst into the venue and surrounded everyone.

• Pisces went onstage during the Circus attack to find Wang Biao and report his location to Brother Devour.
• Qin Ze ordered Thousand Faces to begin the next act, prompting Big Handsome Guy to realize the Circus was targeting Wang Biao.
• A little black figure struck the alien leader with a bat, and City Lord Zhao fought back while attendees and security guards crowded the venue entrance.
• Pisces spotted Wang Biao, who demanded the keys from the alien delegation and declared that he had come for fairness.
• Pisces realized the alien leader carried a key too and unleashed his Advanced Martial Artist aura as law enforcement officers entered through the second-floor windows.

Qin Ze’s plan plunged the venue into darkness and threw the enforcers into chaos, while Pisces revealed himself as a Fairness Society zodiac and fought Big Handsome Guy and the Maka delegation leader. As Pisces called in another ally, a woman in a fox mask appeared, and Qin Ze recognized her as Qin Yu.

• Qin Ze used a night vision device to guide the little haters as they attacked the enforcers in the darkened venue.
• The Maka delegation leader accused Big Handsome Guy of plotting to steal their key and tried to force his way out, but Big Handsome Guy stopped him.
• Pisces stepped through a mirror in his Fairness Society robes and demanded the key from the Maka delegation.
• The Maka delegation leader and Big Handsome Guy fought Pisces, who used mirror doubles until Big Handsome Guy destroyed them with Parting Clouds.
• Pisces revealed he was not alone when a woman in a red dress and white fox mask emerged from a giant rose, and Qin Ze recognized her as Qin Yu.

Thousand Faces escaped the banquet hall by using a clone to draw the law enforcers away, while the woman in the red dress and Pisces subdued Big Handsome Guy and the foreign-race leader. As the woman prepared to leave, powerful sword qi surged from one of the vine balls.

• The woman in the red dress revealed herself as an ally of Pisces, and black-robed figures emerged from pea pods she had grown.
• Qin Ze realized the woman was not Qin Yu and left the director's room after ordering a withdrawal.
• Thousand Faces fled through a window, prompting law enforcers and Fairness Society members to chase him and fight among themselves.
• Thousand Faces shed his clothes, slipped into tall grass, and sent a mouse-masked clone in the opposite direction to draw the pursuers away.
• At a cliff, the clone claimed to be Wang Biao and self-destructed, leaving the seven law enforcers confused as they returned to report.
• The woman in the red dress and Pisces subdued Big Handsome Guy and the foreign-race leader, but sword qi began surging from one of the vine balls.

Qin Ze’s plan to conceal the key succeeded after Big Handsome Guy drove off the attackers, but a sudden beast outbreak in the Otherworld created a new crisis. Big Handsome Guy was left wondering who had orchestrated the night’s events as his Judicator reported heavy casualties.

• Big Handsome Guy broke free of the poison vines with a sword strike that destroyed the hotel’s upper floors, while Pisces and the red-dressed woman escaped.
• Big Handsome Guy told the Maka Race delegation leader that the Fairness Society’s involvement had been unpredictable, then left the hall after the vines released the leader.
• Qin Ze decided to strengthen his clones and investigate the Otherworld soon, then checked that Qin Yu was not the red-dressed woman.
• Big Handsome Guy reviewed the night’s events and wondered whether the Fairness Society, the Circus, or someone else had secretly manipulated them.
• A Judicator told Big Handsome Guy that a huge swarm of S-rank exotic beasts had emerged in the Otherworld, causing heavy casualties and forcing everyone to withdraw.

In Snow City, Wang Biao learned that people believed he had died, while Qin Ze watched advanced aberrants overrun the Otherworld. The City Defense Bureau's call for independent martial artists gave Qin Ze a chance to enter it.

• Wang Biao heard a merchant claim that he had blown himself up and died, then wondered who was spreading the story.
• Qin Ze found that the Otherworld was sealed to anyone without a Law Enforcement Department permit.
• Qin Ze observed advanced aberrants searching the shelter and driving the deployed martial artists out of the Otherworld.
• Qin Ze saw the City Defense Bureau announce that independent martial artists could enter the Otherworld to exterminate exotic beasts for compensation.

Yao Yuan agreed to enter the Otherworld with the Maka Race despite their demand for most of the Source of the World, while Leo’s group planned to steal the keys afterward. Qin Ze stole a martial artist’s registration documents and disguised himself to join the expedition as it prepared to enter the Otherworld.

• Yao Yuan learned that the Maka Race would take eight shares of the Source of the World because the Abyss Tide was approaching, and he agreed to the expedition’s schedule after confirming the threat.
• Leo ordered Ram and Fishes to steal the keys from Yao Yuan and the Maka Race captain after the Source of the World was divided.
• Qin Ze discovered that the hiring mission required a martial artist certificate, so he knocked out a Level One Martial Artist and stole his registration documents.
• Qin Ze knocked out a yellow-haired witness, used Thousand Faces to disguise himself as the Level One Martial Artist, and joined the crowd preparing to enter the Otherworld.

Qin Ze slipped into the administrator’s office and learned that Yao Yuan’s team was heading toward the east district gate, where they could uncover the shelter’s hidden entrance. After exchanging messages with Sky Island’s Operations General Command Center, Qin Ze sent a clone to meet its aircraft and was startled by the person who emerged.

• Qin Ze’s team encountered an advanced aberrant, and he used the chaos to leave them and reach the poison-gas-sealed gate.
• Qin Ze opened the gate with the administrator terminal, entered the office, and learned that only nine percent of his authority over the east district remained.
• The shelter AI told Qin Ze that Yao Yuan’s group was heading toward the east district gate, where aberrants had established a nest.
• Qin Ze found three emails from Sky Island’s Operations General Command Center and arranged to meet them at the shelter gate.
• Qin Ze sent an ordinary clone to board the arriving aircraft, then exclaimed in surprise when he saw who stepped out.

Qin Ze followed the key’s direction into ruined Jiang City, where he and his companions encountered a community of intelligent aberrants. Their chief revealed that they were human too and led Qin Ze, Brother Devour, and Dharma King into an underground subway station.

• Qin Ze brought Brother Devour and Dharma King to the crashed bomber, where the glowing tree in his shirt guided him toward Jiang City.
• The three entered the deserted city and caught a timid aberrant who warned them they should not have come outside.
• The aberrant led Qin Ze, Brother Devour, and Dharma King to a concealed settlement where hundreds of intelligent aberrants lived.
• Qin Ze met the settlement’s elderly chief, who told him that the aberrants were human too.
• The chief led the group through a dark passage to a subway station.

Qin Ze, Dharma King, and Brother Devour entered a hidden base beneath North Street Station and were welcomed by the Resistance Army Headquarters. Meanwhile, Qin Ze's clone arrived at the headquarters with BT and recognized the person who came to greet him in a wheelchair.

• Qin Ze, Dharma King, and Brother Devour explored the ruined subway station and opened a sealed gate after its system identified them as humans.
• A heavily armed squad confronted Qin Ze and his companions before a square-faced military officer welcomed them to the Resistance Army Headquarters.
• BT picked up Qin Ze's clone at Shelter No. 10, but she did not recognize him and said her database showed they had never met.
• BT flew the clone to the Resistance Army Headquarters in a ring-shaped space station.
• A person in a wheelchair welcomed the clone, who reacted with shock at their identity.

Qin Ze discovered that the elderly commander of Sky Island was his childhood friend, and the fatty explained how the Mutated Ones originated from humans who used the Reverse Alpha Reagent. The chapter ended with Qin Ze learning that the reagent’s users eventually transformed into violent, mindless exotic beasts.

• Qin Ze recognized Sky Island's commander as his old friend, the fatty, and revealed his face to him.
• The fatty introduced Galaxy, the station's main control AI, and explained that the station's other residents were in hibernation.
• The fatty told Qin Ze that the Alpha Reagent was developed to fight exotic beasts but only worked on low-ranked ones.
• Professor Lin Siyao proposed the Reverse Alpha Reagent, which strengthened ordinary people and enabled martial artists to fight back against the Abyss.
• The martial arts factions and families monopolized the reagent and ended the public inheritance of martial arts.
• The fatty revealed that Reverse Alpha Reagent users eventually became violent exotic beasts known as the Mutated Ones.

The fatty explained how the aberrant disaster followed humanity’s defeat of the exotic beasts and how the Shelter and Sky Island projects failed to unite. At a Resistance Army station, Qin Ze learned that the factions accused each other of betrayal, and Nangong Xingye claimed Lin Zhiyuan served the aberrant queen.

• The fatty recounted how the first aberrant queen escaped, the aberrants overran humanity, and the Shelter Project collapsed while Sky Island endured.
• The fatty explained that the first humanoid combat weapons were modified female martial artists, that Professor Chen copied his teleportation ability into them, and that Professor Lin Siyao opposed the project.
• Qin Ze asked about the Maka Race and the Resistance Army’s ground forces, then said two soldiers had tried to take him to their headquarters.
• The fatty insisted those soldiers were traitors and denied that Sky Island was the Resistance Army’s headquarters.
• At a crowded Resistance Army station, Qin Ze met commander-in-chief Nangong Xingye, who accused Lin Zhiyuan of conspiring with the aberrant queen.

Nangong Xingye explained how Lin Zhiyuan betrayed Sky Island and drove the survivors into hiding in Subway Line Number Three. Qin Ze offered enough clones to help seize a nuclear missile silo, then asked about the alienators outside the station.

• Nangong Xingye recounted how conflict over martial arts and humanoid weapons ended when Lin Zhiyuan brought alienators to Sky Island and slaughtered its civilians and command center.
• Nangong Xingye revealed his plan to train martial artists to capture a guarded nuclear missile silo and launch a strike at the alienators’ nest.
• Qin Ze told Nangong Xingye that Shelter No. 10’s residents had died, then asked how many martial artists remained; Nangong Xingye said his force was still far too small.
• Qin Ze summoned nearly a hundred masked clones, and Nangong Xingye agreed they provided enough people for the plan.
• Qin Ze asked about the alienators outside the subway station, and Nangong Xingye called them a group of unfortunate souls.

Qin Ze learned how the Alienation crisis split the survivors between Sky Island and the surface, then uncovered Nangong Xingye’s plan to use him and his companions to retake Sky Island. He agreed to go along while planning to turn the tables, but a shadow appeared beside his bed as he slept.

• The fat man told Qin Ze that the Alienation Queen had infected survivors with Reverse Alpha Reagent, and explained the fight over Sky Island, the shelters, and the humanoid combat weapons.
• Qin Ze searched the space station’s records, then heard Nangong Xingye explain that he sheltered partly alienated survivors and planned to retake Sky Island after preparing for a day.
• Nangong Xingye ordered a young man in glasses to gather two hundred young people for the expedition, while Qin Ze and his companions were shown to their quarters.
• Dharma King captured the man in glasses, and Brother Devour swallowed him, gaining access to his memories of Nangong Xingye’s plan to retake Sky Island.
• Qin Ze decided to join the expedition and show Nangong Xingye their own chess skills; late that night, a dark figure entered his room and lifted his hand as he slept.

Qin Ze confronted the fat man, who revealed his plan to eliminate martial artists and build a new human society, while demanding Qin Ze’s access to Shelter No. 10. The next morning, Nangong Xingye found Qin Ze’s dozens of clones making a racket instead of preparing for battle.

• Qin Ze accused the fat man of betraying the safe house and causing the danger at Shelter No. 10, but the fat man denied responsibility and blamed the Mutated Queen for exposing the safe house.
• The fat man revealed that martial artists had destroyed his family and crippled him, and he planned to eradicate them and create a world protected by humanoid combat weapons.
• The fat man demanded Qin Ze’s administrative privileges for Shelter No. 10 so he could use its reactor and fusion core, and threatened him with BT when Qin Ze refused.
• Qin Ze told the fat man that Nangong Xingye’s group planned to seize a launch silo south of Jiang City at nine that morning, then exploded; BT shielded the fat man from the blast.
• The next morning, Nangong Xingye opened the door and found dozens of Qin Ze’s clones playing, sleeping, and arguing instead of preparing to set out.

Qin Ze and Nangong Xingye led a force of martial artists and clones toward a military base housing a nuclear launch silo, while Yao Yuan, the Maka Race leader, Ram, and Fishes converged on the area. The chapter ended as a group of half-Mutated Ones charged into the base ahead of the main attack.

• Nangong Xingye gathered Qin Ze and the clones for the expedition, then rallied the martial artists before they boarded the train.
• Qin Ze and Nangong Xingye led the group from the subway toward the launch silo, where Nangong planned to fight two high-level Mutated Ones and launch a nuclear missile.
• Yao Yuan and the Maka Race leader followed the guidance of their keys toward Shelter No. 10, while Ram and Fishes secretly pursued them using the Source of the World.
• Qin Ze sensed two other keys near the military base and learned that the clan leader had sent half-Mutated Ones to support the attack.
• The half-Mutated Ones charged into the base as Qin Ze and Nangong Xingye watched from a hillside.

Nangong Xingye's Half-Mutated Ones and the subway martial artists attacked the military base while Qin Ze and Brother Devour slipped away to the launch silo. Qin Ze opened its control room with administrator authorization, then confronted Nangong Xingye's attempt to hide the plan.

• Nangong Xingye sent more than two hundred Half-Mutated Ones against the Mutated Ones, but they were quickly slaughtered.
• Qin Ze's clones charged into battle, and the subway martial artists followed them into the base.
• The clones blew open a section of the wall, allowing the attackers to spread through the base, where two high-level Mutated Ones swooped down on them.
• Nangong Xingye fought the two high-level Mutated Ones while Dharma King joined the battle on the ground.
• Qin Ze and Brother Devour reached the launch silo's control room, and Qin Ze used administrator authorization to open its gear-shaped door.
• Qin Ze met Nangong Xingye's gaze and asked whether he had really thought Qin Ze was in the dark.

Qin Ze activated a nuclear missile as part of a World Hunt mission and entered the Black Mountain Research Institute as the contamination target. While Yao Yuan and the Maka Race leader fought their way up Black Mountain, a missile streaked toward them.

• Qin Ze used the control console to acquire World Hunt capability and received a twenty-four-hour mission countdown.
• The key guided Qin Ze to target the Black Mountain Research Institute, and he entered its coordinates into the missile console.
• Fatty arrived and recognized Qin Ze by his scent, then identified Brother Devour as carrying the scent of the Abyss.
• Yao Yuan and the Maka Race leader attacked the Mutated Ones at Black Mountain and fought toward the summit.
• Fishes and Ram watched the battle until they spotted a missile descending toward Black Mountain.

Qin Ze launched a nuclear missile at the Black Mountain Research Institute to prove he was on Nangong Xingye’s side, forcing Nangong to fight the Alienation Queen while the fatty revealed BT. The missile struck the institute and destroyed countless Mutated Ones, ending the battle in nuclear devastation.

• Ma Yan revealed her traumatic past and declared that humanity should be wiped out, while Qin Ze and the fatty realized her plan was even more extreme than theirs.
• Nangong Xingye arrived and accused Qin Ze of working with Lin Zhiyuan, but Qin Ze launched the missile at the Black Mountain Research Institute to prove his allegiance.
• The Alienation Queen attacked Qin Ze, and Nangong fought her while burning his lifespan; the fatty then revealed BT, whom Nangong recognized as Qianrou.
• Yao Yuan and the Maka Race captain fought through a seemingly endless horde of Mutated Ones until they saw the missile descend toward the mountain.
• The missile struck the institute, raising a mushroom cloud and destroying countless Mutated Ones.

After Qin Ze’s nuclear strike ended the main hunt, the key marked the queen as a secondary target, and Yao Yuan and the Maka Race leader arrived at the military base. The battle turned against Yao Yuan until Dharma King’s lightning disrupted BT-21 and briefly brought her humanity to the surface.

• Yao Yuan and the Maka Race leader emerged after the nuclear blast and headed for the military base, while Ram, Twins, and Fishes decided to pursue them.
• The key announced that the main hunting mission had ended and marked the queen as a secondary target, leaving Qin Ze alarmed by her strength.
• Nangong Xingye tried to reach BT-21, whom he believed was his daughter Nangong Qianrou, but she rejected his claim and attacked according to her programming.
• Yao Yuan and the Maka Race leader confronted the queen and the fatty, while Qin Ze slipped away and Nangong Xingye joined the fight against them.
• BT-21 struck Brother Devour and moved to attack Qin Ze, but Dharma King arrived and his lightning disrupted her, making her lower her hands in confusion.

BT's fragmented memories revealed her life as Nangong Qianrou and her transformation into the humanoid combat weapon BT-21. After Qin Ze and the others worried over her, she raised her head and declared that she was Nangong Qianrou.

• BT recalled Nangong Qianrou's childhood training, martial arts achievements, and defense of Chuanyang City.
• Nangong Qianrou remembered boarding a spaceship to Sky Island while ordinary people were left behind, then being pressured into the Weapon Project and renamed BT-21.
• BT recalled fighting Mutated Ones, meeting a boy, and dying after protecting him; she later remembered being repaired and ordered to obey the commander-in-chief.
• Nangong Xingye shouted that BT was his daughter, Nangong Qianrou, leaving her confused about her identity.
• Dharma King and Brother Devour argued after Brother Devour survived having his head blown off, while Qin Ze checked on BT.
• BT raised her head and firmly said that she was Nangong Qianrou.