Recaps

Little Deer recognized that teenage Qin Ze had rescued her four-year-old self, Lu Tongtong, and realized he was the person her ability had foretold could help avert a crisis facing the Human Race. After Qin Ze returned Lu Tongtong to her father, Little Deer’s vision faded and a strand of qi entered Lu Tongtong’s dantian.

• Little Deer watched Qin Ze bond with Little Little Deer, who said her intuition told her he was a good person.
• Little Deer told Qin Ze that her ability had warned of a world-ending crisis and that she had been searching for someone who could stand against it.
• The next morning, Qin Ze and Little Deer followed Lu Tongtong to the Lu Family home, where her father welcomed her back.
• Qin Ze promised Little Little Deer that their team would save the world together when she grew up, and Little Deer recognized him as the person she had been seeking.
• Little Deer’s surroundings blurred away, and a strand of qi flowed into Lu Tongtong’s dantian.

Qin Yu and Xia Huai'an followed Qin Ze through the day he was sent to a psychiatric hospital, and Qin Yu comforted him by taking him home. The Otherworld ended with Qin Ze and the family portrait returning to Qin Yu as energy.

• Qin Yu stitched Qin Ze's cracked body together with her Spirit, while Xia Huai'an warned that continuing to do so could cost her life.
• Qin Yu and Xia Huai'an recalled how Qin Yu had left for Otherworld No. Zero after their parents disappeared, while Qin Ze ended up in a psychiatric hospital.
• Qin Yu and Xia Huai'an followed Qin Ze to the market, where he babbled erratically about dreams, games, and the future empress.
• Qin Yu stepped out of the Shelter Space, and Qin Ze stopped babbling and clung to her, frightened and relieved to see his sister.
• Qin Yu walked Qin Ze home and welcomed him inside, where he finally relaxed before the Otherworld turned white.
• Xia Huai'an announced that the Otherworld was over, and Qin Ze and the family portrait became energy that flew into Qin Yu.

Qin Ze traveled with Yao Yuan across the sea into the true Breakthrough Otherworld, where crushing gravity and whispers tested his mind. As they fought increasingly powerful sea beasts, Yao Yuan urged Qin Ze to discover his first conviction and hinted that he could go no farther with him.

• Qin Ze raced across the sea with Yao Yuan, then endured the growing gravity and mental disturbance of the Breakthrough Otherworld.
• Yao Yuan demonstrated how conviction shaped a person’s power and said his first conviction was to create peace and prosperity for the Human Race.
• Qin Ze admitted he wanted Yao Yuan to live but could not name his own conviction, and Yao Yuan told him he already had one to discover.
• Sea beasts surrounded Qin Ze and Yao Yuan, who fought through them as the creatures grew stronger and kept multiplying.
• Yao Yuan smiled at Qin Ze and said he could accompany him only this far.

Yao Yuan held back the sea beasts so Qin Ze could continue alone, and Qin Ze nearly succumbed to the crushing debuffs before finding strength in his conviction to protect the Human Race. He transformed, flew across the sea, and broke through the shackles of Level Nine, reaching Level Nine Point Five.

• Yao Yuan hurled Qin Ze beyond the first beast tide and stayed behind to face the sea beasts alone.
• Qin Ze struggled through the growing gravity and mental impact as the beast tide overwhelmed him.
• Remembering Yao Yuan's words, Qin Ze realized his conviction was to protect the Human Race's prosperous world.
• Qin Ze assumed his exotic beast form, spread wings of Blazing Sun Fire, and flew over the burning sea.
• Qin Ze shattered the shackles of Level Nine, reached Level Nine Point Five, and landed on the far shore.

The Hunters returned from their Breakthrough Otherworld with nearly all of them at Level Nine, and Qin Ze prepared to open the Hall of Stars to rescue Yao Yuan. Little Deer revealed a meeting across time in the Otherworld, while White Hair’s condition worsened and the president hinted that Qin Ze might be the person he was seeking.

• The Hunters returned to the Ring Mountains after breaking through, and Fairy revealed that the president had ordered her to rescue Leo and Cancer when the Hall of Stars opened.
• Qin Ze said he would open the Hall of Stars after speaking with Tree Keeper, and the Hunters agreed to remain in Snow City.
• Little Deer told Qin Ze that she had met him as a child when he was a teenager in the Otherworld, leaving him stunned.
• The bronze coffin shook in the cave and White Hair began losing control, but Fairy soothed her and stopped the coffin from shaking.
• The president congratulated Qin Ze on reaching Level Nine and said he would wait to see whether Qin Ze was the person he was looking for.

After hearing Little Deer's account of how his teenage self saved her as a child, Qin Ze returned to the Circus's base and set his sights on opening the Hall of Stars. Tree Keeper explained that Qin Ze must use the World Will to find the Hall and gather the World Hunt Participants to force it open, while Little Deer discovered a disturbing vision of Qin Ze's wounded, stitched-up soul.

• Little Deer told Qin Ze that his teenage self had saved her when she was a child, though neither could explain how their timelines could have crossed.
• Qin Ze took Little Deer back to Snow City and exchanged contact details with her; after he left, she used her ability and saw his soul covered in wounds and stitches.
• On his way to the Circus's base, Qin Ze considered his plans to rescue Brother Yuanzi, reach Otherworld No. Zero, and prepare for the approaching Abyss beast tide.
• Qin Ze returned to the base, where Miss Sword Case woke and learned they had left the Breakthrough Otherworld; he then felt a brief resonance with an unknown presence outside the city.
• Qin Ze used the key to contact Tree Keeper and asked how to open the Hall of Stars.
• Tree Keeper told Qin Ze to pour Source of the World into the key to locate the Hall, then join forces with all World Hunt Participants and the World Will to force the divine artifact open from outside.

Qin Ze learned that the Fairness Society's president had pursued Otherworld No. Zero for over a century and organized the Hunters to prepare to open the Hall of Stars. A strange coffin had resonated with Scorpio, leaving the group wary of the president's hidden plans as Qin Ze prioritized freeing Brother Yuanzi.

• The Tree Keeper told Qin Ze that the Fairness Society's president was from another race, had once sought access to Otherworld No. Zero, and possessed power beyond Level Nine a century earlier.
• Qin Ze summoned the Hunters to gather and agreed to wait three days while they stabilized their cultivation before attacking the Hall of Stars.
• Fairy told the group that Scorpio and Taurus had found a coffin on their way to support her, and that Scorpio had resonated with it and nearly gone berserk.
• Qin Ze recognized the coffin as the one found by the treasure-hunting duo and wondered whether it was connected to his own recent resonance and the other divine artifacts in the Northern Territory.
• Fairy warned that the president likely had a hidden objective involving Scorpio and the coffin, but Qin Ze insisted that opening the Hall of Stars came first.
• Qin Ze asked Fairy whether she thought the president suspected her.

Qin Ze used the World Tree’s power to locate and reveal the Hall of Stars, then led the Hunters to its doors. As they prepared to force them open, the doors opened on their own, revealing an endless void.

• Qin Ze used the key and the Source of the World to survey the Human Race’s world, spotted Otherworld No. Zero, and found the Hall of Stars.
• Qin Ze used the World Will to pull the Hall of Stars out of the void in the Northern Territory.
• The Saber King watched the Hall of Stars from afar, while A Niu and White Hair set out with the coffin to carry out the president’s task.
• Qin Ze and the Hunters reached the Hall of Stars and formed Taoist’s array to pool their strength.
• As Qin Ze prepared to punch the doors, the Hall of Stars lit up and opened by itself, exposing an endless void.

Qin Ze was pulled into the Hall of Stars, only to discover it had become the Demon Suppression Hall. Trapped in a cell, he encountered a woman who mistook him for Jiuyou and attacked him for supposedly killing him.

• Qin Ze let the Hall of Stars pull him inside, and Slacking on the Sidelines was thrown back when he tried to follow.
• The doors closed behind Qin Ze, leaving the Hunters outside to worry and wait.
• Qin Ze found himself alone in a cramped, doorless room that Miss Sword Case identified as the Demon Suppression Hall.
• A cold presence crept around Qin Ze's leg, and a woman called him Jiuyou.
• Qin Ze's Blazing Sun Fire drove away the chill, but the woman accused him of killing Jiuyou and vowed to make him pay.

Qin Ze encountered a fox spirit imprisoned in the Demon Suppression Hall, who mistook him for her husband Jiuyou’s killer and tried to trigger the hall’s killing array. After the array shut down, she began to doubt her accusation, and Qin Ze asked her to explain the hall and Jiuyou.

• The fox spirit attacked Qin Ze with powerful mental strikes, but Qin Ze used the Tree of Mind to locate her and bind her with vines.
• The woman accused Qin Ze of killing Jiuyou because she sensed Jiuyou’s Source of God in him, while Qin Ze asked whether Jiuyou was the Desolate God.
• The fox spirit turned her tails red and struck the walls to activate the killing array, intending to die alongside Qin Ze.
• The golden runes went dark and the room stopped shaking, prompting the fox spirit to accuse Qin Ze of gaining control of the Demon Suppression Hall.
• Qin Ze swore he had not killed Jiuyou, released the fox spirit, and asked her about the hall and her husband.

Qin Ze met Qiong, the eldest princess of the Barbarian Tribe, and asked the Demon Suppression Hall to reveal the tribe’s past. Its replay showed the Barbarian Tribe debating how to survive the war and deciding that Jiuyou could become their own god.

• Qiong introduced herself as the eldest princess of the Barbarian Tribe and said that she and the others had entered the Demon Suppression Hall willingly.
• Qiong told Qin Ze to ask the Demon Suppression Hall about the past, and it recreated a meeting of the Barbarian Tribe’s leaders.
• The elderly fox chief and the other leaders debated whether the Barbarian Tribe should seek a Pillar God’s protection or control its own fate.
• The chief declared that the Barbarian Tribe could create a god of its own, and the snake woman realized he meant Jiuyou.

Qin Ze and Qiong witnessed the Barbarian Tribe elders approve a plan to use the Demon Suppression Hall and the sacrifice of one hundred million warriors to make Jiuyou powerful enough to protect their people. Qiong said the plan had gone smoothly despite fate intervening, and they appeared in a bustling square before the Demon Suppression Hall.

• The fox elder revealed that Jiuyou had a divine body and Partial Divinity, and that a Star Gate was needed to complete his Divinity.
• The fox elder explained that the Demon Suppression Hall could refine those it suppressed into energy stones that might pass on their abilities and power.
• The fox elder proposed using the Hall to extract the power of one hundred million Barbarian Tribe warriors and fuse it into Jiuyou so he could defend the tribe.
• The elders unanimously approved the plan and signed Divine Contracts to keep it secret from everyone outside their meeting.
• Qin Ze asked Qiong whether a traitor had disrupted the plan, but Qiong said the elders had acted for the tribe and that the plan had gone smoothly.
• Qiong said the best-laid plans could not match the plans of heaven, and Qin Ze and Qiong appeared in a bustling square before the Demon Suppression Hall.

The chieftain deceived the Barbarian Tribe’s martial artists by calling their mass gathering a collective ascension, then revealed they would be sacrificed to make Jiuyou a god. As the Demon Suppression Hall reduced more than a hundred million martial artists to ash, the chieftain began fusing their power into Jiuyou.

• The old fox announced a collective ascension, and the World Will transported more than a hundred million Barbarian Tribe martial artists into the Demon Suppression Hall.
• Qin Ze and Qiong witnessed the old fox tell Jiuyou that the ascension was meant for him alone and urge him to protect the Barbarian Tribe.
• The old fox revealed to the gathered martial artists that they would be sacrificed to help Jiuyou become a god, prompting anger and grief among the crowd.
• Jiuyou was stunned by the truth, while the old fox admitted his guilt and called the martial artists heroes who would secure the tribe’s future.
• The Demon Suppression Hall’s smelting mode reduced the martial artists to ash, and the old fox fused their power into Jiuyou.

Qin Ze watched Jiuyou become a god through the Demon Suppression Hall’s mass refining, only for resentment and a strange byproduct to emerge. Qiong revealed that she too was a byproduct of the Hall, while the real Qiong had died long ago.

• Qin Ze and his clones discussed the Demon Suppression Hall as Jiuyou absorbed the vitality, spiritual power, and innate abilities of over a hundred million Barbarian Tribe martial artists.
• Black qi formed around Jiuyou, carrying the resentment of the martial artists refined by the Hall, before the fusion ended and Jiuyou manifested divine power and white Divine Markings like White Hair’s.
• Qin Ze suspected White Hair’s secret mission and the person atop the bronze coffin were connected to Jiuyou, possibly through the president.
• Jiuyou’s divine transformation triggered another accident as resentful figures appeared in a matchbox space and cursed him.
• Qiong explained that the figures were a byproduct of the Hall’s refining and revealed that she was also a byproduct, while the real Qiong had died long ago.

Qin Ze learned how Jiuyou became the Barbarian Tribe’s guardian god and why he brought the Demon Suppression Hall to the Northern Territory. After refusing to release its imprisoned shadows, Qin Ze found the white-robed sword cultivator and prepared to take him home.

• Qiong told Qin Ze that Jiuyou had been her fiancé and described how the grudges in the Demon Suppression Hall changed him.
• Jiuyou protected the Barbarian Tribe, imprisoned more and more people in the hall, and eventually left for the Land of the Gods to seek greater power.
• The Demon Suppression Hall showed Qin Ze Jiuyou’s battle against a black-robed coffin rider in the Northern Territory, but the vision ended before revealing its outcome.
• Qiong chose to remain in the hall and wait for Jiuyou, while Qin Ze left and found countless shadows swarming toward him.
• The Demon Suppression Hall told Qin Ze its barrier was close to collapsing, but Qin Ze refused to release the shadows and asked where the white-clad sword cultivator was.
• Qin Ze followed the hall’s directions to a white-robed figure sitting in another void and told him he had come to take him home.

Qin Ze reunited with Yao Yuan in the Demon Suppression Hall and learned that Yao Yuan had bound himself to the hall to keep its ninety-eight million demons sealed. Qin Ze could not find a way to free him without risking the Human Race, leaving Yao Yuan to continue sacrificing himself as Qin Ze searched for another solution.

• Qin Ze found Yao Yuan, whose life was fading as shadowy strands connected him to the void.
• Qin Ze told Yao Yuan how the Human Race had grown stronger over the past three years and introduced him to Miss Sword Case.
• Yao Yuan explained that the Demon Suppression Hall had used him as an anchor to bind itself to the Human Race's world and suppress ninety-eight million demons.
• Qin Ze ordered the Demon Suppression Hall to unbind Yao Yuan, but the hall warned that unbinding would release all the demons, and Yao Yuan stopped him.
• Qin Ze and his clones considered ways to replace Yao Yuan, but they concluded that freeing him would let the demons escape during the transition.

Qin Ze left the Demon Suppression Hall determined to become a god and save Yao Yuan, while A Niu tried to kill White Hair to open a sealed coffin. White Hair’s white Divine Markings took control of her, and she opened the coffin, releasing a powerful presence.

• Qin Ze gave Yao Yuan his remaining Life Essence and promised to bring him out before he lost himself.
• The Demon Suppression Hall shook, and Qin Ze felt a familiar resonance in his chest.
• A Niu revealed that his real task was to open the coffin by killing White Hair and stabbed her with a black dagger.
• White Hair let the dagger pierce her chest, and the white Divine Markings spread across her face and eyes.
• White Hair approached the coffin and shattered its seal formations, sending the lid flying and releasing a vast aura.

Taurus released the power sealed inside Scorpio, and the possessed White Hair attacked the Demon Suppression Hall. The Hunters held him off with Little Deer's predictions until she reached her limit, and White Hair struck the hall's doors.

• Fairy warned the Hunters that Scorpio had become a vessel for a power targeting the Hall of Stars, and the Hunters took positions around the hall.
• White Hair absorbed the black gas and charged the Demon Suppression Hall, while Slacking on the Sidelines attacked him and was slammed into the ground.
• Fairy, Brother Biao, and the other Hunters fought White Hair, but he focused on Little Deer after she used Deduction to predict his moves.
• Little Deer exhausted herself predicting White Hair, and Taoist told her to retreat as White Hair unleashed a wide barrage of light swords.
• White Hair used Void Traversal to reach the entrance, broke through Taoist's talisman seal, and struck the closed doors while saying, "Open sesame."

White Hair entered the Demon Suppression Hall and revealed that Jiuyou’s resentment had merged with his origin, while Qin Ze discovered he could command the hall as its master. Jiuyou’s resentments opened the Demon Imprisonment Space, but Qin Ze stopped the demons from escaping and began fighting Jiuyou.

• White Hair entered the Demon Suppression Hall as the Hunters outside were barred from following.
• Qin Ze recognized the voices in White Hair’s black qi as Jiuyou’s resentments, which had merged with Jiuyou’s origin power from Scorpio.
• Qin Ze told the Demon Suppression Hall to bind Jiuyou, but Jiuyou claimed authority as a Barbarian Tribe member and confused the hall.
• Jiuyou’s resentments opened the Demon Imprisonment Space, and the trapped demons rushed for the doors.
• Qin Ze ordered the hall to close the doors, then struck Jiuyou with Miss Sword Case as Jiuyou unleashed blades of light and Qin Ze countered with Blazing Sun Fire.

Qin Ze struggled through the Demon Suppression Hall after Jiuyou disrupted its spatial rules and severed contact with its artifact spirit. With the resentful spirits also racing to claim the Hall, Qin Ze sent his clones to search for the artifact spirit and Brother Yuanzi, then charged into a space full of demons.

• Jiuyou endured Qin Ze's Blazing Sun Fire, then used hand seals to warp the Demon Suppression Hall and rise out of Qin Ze's reach.
• Qin Ze fell into the Hall's chaotic spaces as the demons escaped their confined areas, and Brother Devour reported that they had lost contact with the artifact spirit.
• Miss Sword Case explained that whoever released the artifact spirit first would become the Hall's master, while the resentful spirits could claim it independently of Jiuyou.
• Miss Sword Case used Fire Child and Water Child to steady Qin Ze and guided him toward the artifact spirit, while Qin Ze sent the Heavenly Kings to search for it and Brother Yuanzi.
• Qin Ze warned his allies outside the Hall to guard its open doors, then charged through a spatial barrier with Miss Sword Case.
• Several demons spotted Qin Ze and mistook him for Jiuyou, shouting that they should attack.

After the Hall of Stars released Leo and Cancer from their confinement, Leo followed the president’s order to find its artifact spirit, but he and Cancer encountered Dark Night Lion King instead. Leo and Cancer fought the powerful intruder, whose strength left Leo struggling to hold his own.

• Cancer grew desperate with hunger while she and Leo remained trapped in the matchbox.
• The matchbox vanished, and Leo said the president had ordered him to find the artifact spirit and seize the Hall of Stars.
• Leo and Cancer were teleported elsewhere, where Brother Devour appeared and introduced himself as the Circus’s chief Heavenly King, Dark Night Lion King.
• Leo struck Brother Devour’s head, but Brother Devour transformed and caught Leo; Cancer’s punch failed to move him.
• Leo escaped with a lion’s roar and fought Brother Devour using the Nine-Headed Lion’s power, but Brother Devour broke through the spatial lock and overpowered him in close combat.

Leo fought Brother Devour with the lion soul’s power, but Brother Devour overwhelmed him and survived the lion soul’s self-destruction. Cancer revealed that the president had ordered Leo to find an artifact Spirit, while Brother Devour left her with food and continued through the spatial barrier.

• Leo merged with the lion soul and fought Brother Devour, but Brother Devour’s attacks badly wounded him.
• Cancer said she was too hungry to help, and Brother Devour used his extra arms to smash the space around them into a Domain.
• Leo sent the lion soul to self-destruct in front of Brother Devour, then escaped through a spatial barrier as his hair turned white and he aged.
• Brother Devour emerged unharmed, and Cancer offered information about the president in exchange for her life.
• Cancer told Brother Devour that the president had told Leo to find an artifact Spirit, and Qin Ze concluded over the Local Area Network that the president wanted the Hall of Stars.
• Brother Devour gave Cancer the food in his storage ring and passed through the spatial barrier.

Qin Ze searched the Demon Suppression Hall for its artifact spirit while purifying waves of demons who mistook him for Jiuyou. He finally found the spirit, but gray energy spread from it over his arm as soon as he touched it.

• Qin Ze and his clones defeated and purified a seventh wave of demons, while Magician accidentally turned another group into chickens.
• Brother Devour reported that Leo had blown up his soul ring and been displaced, and the group continued searching for Brother Yuanzi and the artifact spirit.
• The president ordered Leo to stay put and survive until he reached the artifact spirit, promising him an SSS-rank exotic beast; Leo rested and accepted the orders.
• Miss Sword Case guided Qin Ze close to the artifact spirit, but a spatial shift occurred just as he was about to cross the barrier.
• The artifact spirit appeared before Qin Ze, and when he touched it, a gray layer spread from it up his arm.

Resentment marked Qin Ze and tried to fuse him with White Hair Jiuyou to complete the Barbarian Tribe True God. As the resentment engulfed them, Qin Ze unexpectedly accepted the connection and entered a strange state where he saw a figure covered in white Divine Markings approaching.

• Qin Ze severed his infected arm and burned it, but the resentment remained and reappeared on his shoulder.
• White Hair Jiuyou revealed that the resentment had targeted Qin Ze and planned to use him and Jiuyou's Source to complete the Barbarian Tribe True God.
• Brother Devour explained that the resentment had hidden on the artifact spirit and marked Qin Ze when he touched it, while the gray prevented others from reaching the spirit.
• The resentment wrapped Qin Ze in a gray film and linked him to Jiuyou, while Qin Ze felt an instinctive urge to let the fusion happen.
• Miss Sword Case attacked the resentment to save Qin Ze, but it ignored her as Qin Ze and Jiuyou's Divine Markings spread across them.
• The resentment tornado filled the space, and Qin Ze entered a dazed state in which he saw a figure covered in white Divine Markings walking toward him.

Qin Ze met Jiuyou’s remnant thought, learned that they were connected through the Mystery in the Womb, and was warned to beware of the God of the Underworld. After Jiuyou merged with Qin Ze, the resentful spirits tried to seize his body, but they discovered they could not control him.

• Qin Ze met Jiuyou, who said they were both one another and more than themselves, and that he had come to find people capable of resonance.
• Jiuyou told Qin Ze that seeing his remnant thought meant Qin Ze had been exposed, warned him not to follow in his footsteps, and cautioned that the God of the Underworld could not be trusted.
• Jiuyou merged with Qin Ze, whose divine power surged as a clover pattern briefly appeared on his forehead.
• The resentful spirits poured into Qin Ze, believing they could use Jiuyou’s original Source to make him the Barbarian Tribe’s true god.
• Qin Ze remained in control of his body and sneered at the resentful spirits, telling them they had mistaken him for Jiuyou.