Recaps

Qin Ze, the God of the Underworld, and the chairman located Mingzhi in the Sea Capital and learned that the infection also depended on an original host. Qin Ze rejected destroying infected cities and urged them to kill Mingzhi before the infection spread further, then headed for the Sea Capital with the Star God's support.

• Qin Ze proposed using himself as bait to lure Mingzhi out, and the chairman joined Qin Ze and the God of the Underworld in a search using the Twelve Zodiac Signs.
• The three traced Mingzhi to the roof of the Law Enforcement Department in the Sea Capital, but Mingzhi sensed them and struck back before the God of the Underworld ended the search.
• The chairman explained that the infection relied on an original host and suggested wiping out the Sea Capital and Snow City to find it.
• Qin Ze argued that Mingzhi had anticipated their discovery and urged them to kill Mingzhi first, then use the chairman's ability to locate the original host.
• The God of the Underworld said Mingzhi could not enter his restricted domain, and Qin Ze concluded that Mingzhi was trying to take over Otherworld No. Zero.
• Qin Ze set off for the Sea Capital, calling on the Star God, while a surviving clone warned that the city was doomed.

As infection spread through Sea Capital, Fairy and Passerby A rushed to stop Mingzhi from escaping the Law Enforcement Department building. They arrived too late to prevent his escape and discovered that the Grand Consul was the original host, leaving Qin Ze holding the infected, dying man.

• Fairy put Slacking on the Sidelines to sleep and told Passerby A that Mingzhi was at the Law Enforcement Department building while Qin Ze was on his way.
• Mingzhi taunted the captive Grand Consul, shattered Xiezhi's sealing spirit, and escaped after the Grand Consul struck him with a blood arrow.
• Fairy and Passerby A arrived and discovered that a nearly materialized ghost face had emerged from the Grand Consul, revealing him as the original host.
• Qin Ze, Bu Qingyao, and the president arrived, and Qin Ze broke the Grand Consul's shackles and caught him as he trembled and tried to reassure him.

The Grand Consul died after Bu Qingyao killed him to stop Mingzhi’s power, urging Qin Ze to take responsibility for the Human Race and pass the torch. As Qin Ze prepared for the final showdown at the Yin-Yang Temple, Dharma King reported trouble in Penglai City.

• The Grand Consul told Qin Ze that his mission was complete and that the future of the Human Race rested on Qin Ze’s shoulders.
• Bu Qingyao killed the Grand Consul at his request, and she urged Qin Ze to remember to pass the torch.
• Qin Ze rallied himself and concluded that Mingzhi would try to awaken the Dominator after losing His original body.
• Qin Ze learned that Slacking on the Sidelines could recover from Corruption, then asked Passerby A and Fairy to keep the Grand Consul’s death secret until Mingzhi was slain.
• Qin Ze questioned Fairy about her declining cultivation, and she avoided explaining her unusual cultivation method.
• As Qin Ze and his companions prepared to go to the Yin-Yang Temple, Dharma King urgently reported that something had happened in Penglai City.

Qin Ze learned that a second original host had caused outbreaks in Snow City and Penglai City, then discovered Number Three had sacrificed himself to end the infection. After warning Lao Dao against weakening other cities’ defenses and urging him to expose a traitor in Penglai City, Qin Ze set out to slay a god.

• The Dharma King reported outbreaks in Snow City and Penglai City, and Qin Ze concluded that another original host was responsible.
• Qin Ze returned to Snow City and found Number Three dead, with an Image Recording Stone showing how he had resisted the original host and killed the corruption within himself.
• Qin Ze recorded his own vow to uphold justice and protect the Human Race.
• Lao Dao told Qin Ze that Penglai City’s soldiers had been heavily infected and proposed redeploying city defense troops.
• Qin Ze warned Lao Dao not to weaken other cities’ defenses and advised him to make Penglai City appear chaotic so a suspected traitor would reveal themself.
• Qin Ze left to slay a god.

Mingzhi attacked Yin-Yang Temple, overwhelming the defenders’ combined assault before they trapped it with the Desolation-Imprisoning Formation. Mingzhi exposed the formation’s weakness and blasted the osmanthus tree that powered it.

• Mingzhi entered Yin-Yang Temple and destroyed its courtyard traps and opening attacks with a single shockwave.
• Passerby A, Scholar, Fairy, Sagittarius, Cancer, and Aquarius launched a combined assault that buried Mingzhi beneath ink, flowers, arrows, and ice.
• Mingzhi emerged and unleashed scarlet death rays, injuring Aquarius and nearly killing Scholar before Little Deer warned the defenders.
• Taoist, the president, and Bu Qingyao activated the Desolation-Imprisoning Formation, which drained Mingzhi’s power by sealing the courtyard around the osmanthus tree.
• Mingzhi declared that the formation lacked a World Stone and blasted the osmanthus tree in two.

Qin Ze and his allies confronted Mingzhi at the Yin-Yang Temple while the First Legion turned the battle at Penglai City by passing through a space gate. After Qin Ze and a Star God struck Mingzhi down, Mingzhi began revealing his true authority.

• Mingzhi used the Desolation-Imprisoning Formation and his powers against Lu Tongtong, but Qin Ze arrived and protected her with golden light.
• Qin Ze showed Mingzhi Dharma King's recording of the Magic Conch activating the space gate, through which Brother Devour and the First Legion had reinforced Penglai City.
• The First Legion joined the Human Race soldiers and pushed back the exotic beasts, foiling Mingzhi's plan to seize the Abyss Gate and awaken the Dominator.
• Qin Ze summoned Old Xing, whose divine might paused time, then struck Mingzhi repeatedly in the name of the Grand Consul, Old Xiao, and the innocent victims.
• Mingzhi survived in the crater, claimed parasitic spread was not his authority, and caused dark clouds to gather again as he unveiled his true authority.

Mingzhi’s authority warped the world, severed Qin Ze from the World Will, and turned Sea Capital’s defenders against him by declaring him a Strange God. As Qin Ze endured their attacks, an old man struggled to protect the World Will’s ice tree and insisted that Qin Ze would win.

• Mingzhi vanished after asking Qin Ze whether he could stand against the faith of the world’s living beings, and the warped world scattered Qin Ze and his companions.
• Qin Ze found himself outside Sea Capital, unable to contact the key or sense the World Will, and concluded that it had been blocked rather than erased.
• Sea Capital’s soldiers mistook Qin Ze’s monstrous form for an exotic beast and fired on him, then stopped when he showed the Grand Consul’s Law Token.
• After the black clouds covered Sea Capital, the World Will declared Qin Ze a Strange God, and the soldiers resumed their attack while Qin Ze’s companions prepared to fight him.
• An old man beneath a gray ice tree channeled his energy into a shield against Mingzhi’s invading authority and repeatedly declared that Qin Ze and the Human Race would win.

Qin Ze fought through the controlled people of Sea Capital and reached Yin-Yang Mountain, where Mingzhi revealed his authority and began breaking the World Overlord's seal. The World Overlord awakened beneath the shaking mountain as Mingzhi set the Sealed Land ablaze.

• Qin Ze headed for Yin-Yang Mountain while controlled soldiers and civilians attacked him and blew themselves up.
• Cancer launched Qin Ze toward the mountain, and Hunters and Constellations helped him push through the strange Space Rule.
• Star Eyes explained that Mingzhi had replaced the World Will to gather the world's faith and said Qin Ze was the only one able to reach the summit.
• Qin Ze reached the summit and found Mingzhi at the Dominator's Sealed Land, where Mingzhi revealed his true authority and gathered Power of Faith.
• Qin Ze attacked Mingzhi with his bone sword, but Mingzhi shattered the sword qi and burned the Sealed Land with Fire of Faith, causing the World Overlord to awaken.

Qin Ze fought Mingzhi on the collapsing Yin-Yang Mountain, but his Overload Mode faded and Mingzhi pierced his chest. The Xiezhi Heroic Spirit then awakened within Qin Ze, letting him claim the world's faith and turn the battle against Mingzhi.

• Qin Ze paused time and battled Mingzhi, but Mingzhi's Fire of Faith healed injuries while the mountain and sky began to collapse.
• Qin Ze activated Overload Mode and drove Mingzhi back, but Mingzhi outlasted him and punched through his chest as the ability ended.
• Qin Ze rejected Miss Sword Case's attempt to take him away and declared that he would become a monument to the Human Race.
• The Xiezhi Heroic Spirit emerged behind Qin Ze, detonated the Law character within Mingzhi, and restored Qin Ze's connection to the World Will.
• Qin Ze asked the World Will for faith to uphold justice, took Mingzhi's Fire of Faith, and struck Mingzhi with Sword Case.

Qin Ze used the world’s faith to defeat Mingzhi and force the Dominator back into its seal. After announcing victory to humanity, he met with the chairman, who seemed to have something important to tell him.

• The World Will redirected Mingzhi’s authority to Qin Ze, and the faith of people worldwide helped Qin Ze break through the Peak of Level Nine.
• Mingzhi attacked Qin Ze, but Qin Ze shattered his arm and cut him in half with Miss Sword Case; scarlet energy swallowed Mingzhi as the Dominator’s aura surged.
• Star Eyes explained that the seal could restore itself, and Qin Ze used the world’s power and Fire of Faith to push the Dominator back into Yin-Yang Mountain.
• Qin Ze announced humanity’s victory through the World Will, and people around the world celebrated the slaying of a Strange God.
• Hunters and Constellations gathered at Yin-Yang Mountain, then Qin Ze approached the chairman, who appeared eager to speak with him.

After the president warned Qin Ze that their next meeting might end in a fight to the death, Qin Ze asked Star Eyes about the Ancestral Land and learned how its Divine Beast Heroic Spirits worked. Qin Ze ended the conversation by preparing for an unavoidable war against an unknown Strange God.

• The president questioned Qin Ze about the Mystery in the Womb, then departed after warning that their next meeting might be a fight to the death.
• Qin Ze asked Star Eyes about the Ancestral Land, and Star Eyes explained that it was the Abyss’s first world and that the Goddess of Life had used it as a template for other worlds.
• Star Eyes told Qin Ze that Divine Beast Heroic Spirits formed from ancient people’s hopes and chose people whose qualities matched them, explaining why the Xiezhi Heroic Spirit had chosen the Grand Consul, Number Three, and Qin Ze.
• Qin Ze realized that the Grand Consul’s Law Character Art and the Xiezhi Heroic Spirit had helped the World Will break Mingzhi’s authority.
• Qin Ze thanked Star Eyes for helping defeat a Higher Strange God and said that war with an unknown Strange God was unavoidable and they could only win.

Qin Ze learned from Star Eyes that Demigod was a state beyond the limits of humanity rather than a true cultivation level, then prepared for the Chaos Egg’s revival and visited Penglai City. After capturing Mingzhi’s Preacher, Qin Ze set out to confront the Human Race’s Level Nine Martial Artists and make clear that he could take back the power the Human Race had granted them.

• Star Eyes explained that reaching Demigod required pushing the body, spirit, or qi and blood beyond human limits, and Qin Ze ordered his clones to train harder.
• Qin Ze visited Penglai City, where the First Legion welcomed him and he told Lao Dao that he led the Myriad Races Alliance.
• Thousand Faces brought Qin Ze Mingzhi’s Preacher, whom he had captured after the man helped bring Penglai City close to falling.
• Qin Ze stopped Lao Dao from killing the Preacher and said he would keep him alive for a purpose.
• Qin Ze told Lao Dao that his connection to the World Will would alert him to threats entering the human world.
• Qin Ze learned that most Level Nine Martial Artists had arrived and went to confront them, warning that the Human Race could reclaim what it had given them.

Qin Ze arrived at the Human Race’s gathering of Level Nine Martial Artists and established his authority by executing Baldy for treason. He then ordered Lao Dao to kill Wang Mingduo, who resisted, and Qin Ze’s black threads cut him into pieces.

• The Level Nine Martial Artists argued over who should lead the Human Race, while Elder Wang sought the Tree Keeper’s support and was told Xu Baichuan would not interfere.
• Qin Ze arrived with Lao Dao, Thousand Faces, and Baldy, then warned the gathered Martial Artists to serve the Human Race and threatened traitors with death.
• Thousand Faces brought Baldy forward, and Qin Ze accused him of colluding with a Strange God and causing the Corruption of Snow City and casualties in Penglai City.
• Lao Dao beheaded Baldy, and Qin Ze declared that was the fate of a double-crosser.
• Qin Ze ordered Lao Dao to kill Wang Mingduo, accused him of forming cliques, embezzling military funds, and smuggling, and cut him apart with black threads when he resisted.

Qin Ze reshaped the Company faction and allied forces, then visited the dying Tree Keeper and received broken images from the Desolate God's past through the World Tree. He left Snow City after urging the Tree Keeper to stay alive, looking toward the Hall of Stars and asking someone to wait for him.

• Qin Ze sent eight Level Nine Martial Artists from the Company faction to Penglai City, but ordered Lao Dao to kill one who challenged his authority.
• Qin Ze appointed a new sole consul for the Law Enforcement Department and directed three others to recruit martial artists for the allied forces.
• Qin Ze told the Tree Keeper that he was dying and offered him the few tree fruits he had left.
• Qin Ze touched the World Tree and saw broken memories from the Desolate God's life, including a sorrowful figure atop Underworld Mountain.
• Qin Ze urged the Tree Keeper to stay alive, then left with Lao Dao and saw the Hall of Stars above the Ring Mountains.

At the Ring Mountains, Qin Ze told the Hunters about the Abyss’s awakening Strange Gods and the Myriad Races Alliance, then assigned roles for the coming crisis. He took Little Deer and Yan Miao to the Maka Race to begin a major diplomatic undertaking.

• Qin Ze gathered the Hunters beneath the Hall of Stars and explained the Abyss’s danger and the formation of the Myriad Races Alliance.
• Qin Ze assigned Little Deer, Slacking on the Sidelines, and Passerby A to a mission, while Taoist, Scholar, and Brother Biao received other duties; he told Fairy to stay behind until she reached Level Nine.
• Qin Ze took Little Deer to Penglai City, where Yan Miao boasted about killing a thousand exotic beasts in his first battle.
• Qin Ze brought Little Deer and Yan Miao to the Maka Race, announcing that they would undertake a major diplomatic mission.

Qin Ze arrived in the Maka Race's capital and discovered that its emperor had been replaced by a Preacher who had corrupted the palace. After Qin Ze and Yan Miao killed the impostor and restrained his followers, they learned the real emperor was imprisoned and headed to free him.

• Qin Ze explained that the many outsiders in the Maka Race's cities were wanderers and brought Yan Miao and Little Deer to the royal capital to recruit underlings.
• Qin Ze entered the palace expecting to meet his friend Zhan Li, but a beastman Preacher appeared in his place and tried to corrupt Qin Ze.
• Qin Ze ordered Yan Miao to attack the beastman, and Yan Miao burned away the Preacher's corruption before killing him with help from Qin Ze's shadow.
• Qin Ze revived the beastman briefly by using the Preacher's Cane, then destroyed the cane and killed him permanently.
• Qin Ze restrained the palace fanatics and learned from the cane that Zhan Li was imprisoned, then led Yan Miao and Little Deer to the imperial prison.

Qin Ze rescued Zhan Li, secured the Maka Race’s support for the Myriad Races Alliance, and began coordinating its forces. Back at the Forest Clan, Star Eyes proposed a formation beneath the Chaos Egg to ambush the Strange God, and Qin Ze asked about the Desolation-Imprisoning Formation’s drawbacks.

• Qin Ze and Yan Miao freed Zhan Li from prison after Qin Ze revealed that he had killed the beastman Preacher.
• Zhan Li explained that the ancestral temple’s power had protected him from infection, then agreed to join the Myriad Races Alliance.
• Qin Ze assigned Scholar and Thousand Faces to help organize the Maka Race and sent Yan Miao and Little Deer to their new duties.
• Qin Ze transported a spatial portal to Torch City, where Thousand Faces and Scholar arrived to begin work with the Maka Race.
• Star Eyes told Qin Ze that he planned to place a formation beneath the Chaos Egg to catch the Strange God off guard, and Qin Ze asked about using the Desolation-Imprisoning Formation.

Qin Ze learned that the Desolation-Imprisoning Formation depended on a target willingly submitting to suppression, then had Star Eyes prepare a similar formation for the awakening Strange God. Magician awakened in a strange place beyond the Red Shell’s reach as the surrounding world distorted and Captain reported that the Chaos Egg was beginning its deployment.

• Star Eyes explained that the Desolation-Imprisoning Formation required a target to enter willingly, and Qin Ze suspected it had been created to imprison impurities.
• Qin Ze asked Star Eyes to devise a similar formation, then ordered Scholar and Brother Biao to assemble a Second Legion under Yan Miao.
• Magician awakened in a desolate place, and Qin Ze failed to reach him with the Red Shell.
• Magician began exploring, but the sky and earth distorted around him and he saw four colossal figures in the distance.
• A white rift split the sky as the space shook, and Captain warned that the Chaos Egg was about to begin its deployment.

Qin Ze mobilized the Myriad Races Alliance after the Chaos Egg began cracking, preparing to meet the Strange Gods with Star Eyes’s newly completed formation. As a huge beast tide advanced toward them, the First Legion stood ready outside Outpost City for the coming battle.

• Qin Ze ordered Brother Devour to assemble the First Legion and sent Lao Dao to take charge of the Forest Clan’s defenses.
• Qin Ze told Second Sister and Little Deer that the war had begun, then brought Little Deer to the battlefield to livestream the Alliance’s preparations.
• Dharma King hosted the livestream as Brother Devour rallied the First Legion and Star Eyes explained that his Time Domain and sealing formations could hold a newly deployed Strange God for about half a minute.
• Qin Ze’s scout reported that two hundred thousand to two hundred and fifty thousand beasts were gathering a hundred li away and heading toward the Alliance.

The First Legion fought the Strange God's opening beast tide while Qin Ze recognized the giant octopus as a returning enemy. Brother Devour lured the octopus into a trap and battered it, just as the Chaos Egg's deployment began over Outpost City.

• The First Legion charged into the beast tide and halted its advance with coordinated attacks.
• The giant octopus's tentacles erupted from the ground and killed allied soldiers, prompting Qin Ze to recognize it as the enemy he had fought before.
• Star Eyes warned Qin Ze that the octopus might be bait, so Qin Ze ordered Brother Devour to deal with it instead.
• Brother Devour endured the little octopuses' explosions, trapped the giant octopus, and blasted a huge wound through its body.
• Brother Devour pulled the octopus out of the ground and slammed it repeatedly as the Chaos Egg's purple patterns spread across the sky above Outpost City.

A spatial vortex unleashed exotic beasts behind the allied forces, but Yan Miao and the Second Legion helped stabilize the battlefield as the Chaos Egg began to hatch. Qin Ze and nearly two hundred Level Nine Martial Artists attacked the emerging purple light, but Star Eyes sensed something wrong and shouted for them to stop.

• A spatial vortex appeared near the Chaos Egg and poured out exotic beasts that attacked the allied forces from behind while others targeted the array.
• Yan Miao led the Second Legion through Outpost City's portal, used Blazing Sun Fire to clear a path, and helped the soldiers counterattack.
• Dharma King introduced Yan Miao as General Blazing Sun and Qin Ze as the Alliance's first god, while the livestream Hunters began to believe the Strange God might be defeated.
• The Chaos Egg cracked open, and Qin Ze transformed as Star Eyes activated the Time Domain to trap the purple light while two sealing arrays formed around it.
• Qin Ze ordered the Level Nine Martial Artists to attack the purple light, but Star Eyes sensed something unusual and shouted for everyone to stop.

Star Eyes stopped time to reveal Yue Sheng, a battle Star God who erased the invading beast tide with his music. After the Alliance celebrated and ended its livestream, Yue Sheng introduced himself to Qin Ze as Higher Star God, Positive Sequence Twenty-Seven.

• Star Eyes expanded the Time Domain to freeze the Level Nine Martial Artists’ attacks, and Qin Ze nearly struck the dark purple light before Star Eyes told him its occupant was an ally.
• Yue Sheng emerged from the light, and Star Eyes identified him to Qin Ze as a powerful battle Star God.
• Yue Sheng played his multi-piped instrument and dissolved hundreds of thousands of exotic beasts, ending the invasion without leaving any Soul Orbs.
• The allied soldiers celebrated, Dharma King ended the livestream, and Little Deer reported that viewers were eager to join the Alliance.
• Yue Sheng came back to his senses and introduced himself to Qin Ze as Higher Star God, Positive Sequence Twenty-Seven.

Qin Ze recruited Yue Sheng into the Myriad Races Alliance and learned that the god used scientific principles to annihilate exotic beasts. Yue Sheng could not preserve their Soul Orbs, but agreed to think about a solution.

• Qin Ze invited Yue Sheng to join the Myriad Races Alliance, and Yue Sheng agreed.
• Yue Sheng demonstrated his Elemental Control authority and explained that his Chain Water Molecule Hydrogen Bond Ablation Technique had erased the exotic beasts.
• Qin Ze asked Yue Sheng to leave Soul Orbs intact in future battles, but Yue Sheng explained that his technique destroyed them too.
• Yue Sheng agreed to consider how he might preserve Soul Orbs.

After Yue Sheng’s attack helped the Alliance win a battle, Qin Ze welcomed him as its chief scientist and rallied the soldiers. Back at the Forest Clan, Qin Ze considered Magician’s mysterious disappearance and prepared to turn more pages in the Chronicle of Time.

• Yue Sheng and Star Eyes warned Qin Ze that exotic beasts could counter the Chain Water Molecule Hydrogen Bond Ablation Technique, and Qin Ze named Yue Sheng the Alliance’s battle mage and chief scientist.
• Qin Ze announced Yue Sheng’s arrival to the Alliance soldiers and declared that more Star Gods would join their fight.
• Qin Ze, Yue Sheng, and Star Eyes left the battlefield while the Alliance carried its wounded and fallen back to Outpost City; Yan Miao returned to the Forest Clan with the Second Legion.
• Magician chased four fading figures but was swallowed by gray fog, and Thousand Faces remarked that young people slept well.
• At the Forest Clan, Qin Ze told Second Sister that Yue Sheng would oversee the library project, wrote Miss Sword Case’s name in the Chronicle of the Myriad Races, and pulled out the Chronicle of Time.

Qin Ze learned more about Master Desolate’s discovery of Heaven and the strange bird Bai Bai, then received an urgent call from Honest Man and Giant Overlord, who were trapped in an impossible world beyond a vanished Abyss Gate. He delayed rescuing them to inspect Yan Miao’s Second Legion, while the stranded group set out to explore their upside-down surroundings.

• Qin Ze reviewed Master Desolate’s diary and connected Bai Bai to the Northern Heaven Gate, while wondering whether Master Desolate had hidden something in the bird.
• The Alliance continued developing peacefully as the Forest Clan and Sea of Glaze waited for the strange beasts’ next move, Star Eyes searched for Meng Die, and Yue Sheng gathered histories for a library.
• Honest Man contacted Qin Ze and explained that he, Giant Overlord, and their companions were trapped in a living world after its Abyss Gate vanished behind them.
• Sophist warned Qin Ze that the world was dangerously abnormal, but Qin Ze postponed the rescue until after his scheduled inspection of Yan Miao’s Second Legion.
• In the inverted world, Giant Overlord and the others explored the solid sky while Sophist ordered two ordinary clones to lead the way and check for danger.