Recaps

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan followed Su Shan underground and discovered a hidden realm where little sprites sheltered rescued souls. As the owner led them toward the town’s greatest treasure, Si Yan saw a huge divine tree hung with human heads, and Su Shan declared that he was the god destined to save the town.

• Su Shan led Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, and Sano Kurotsuki through a secret passage to an underground replica of the town, where little sprites sheltered souls.
• Jiang Nuo forced the owner to tell the truth, and the owner revealed that the souls had been rescued and that he had come to atone.
• Si Yan used a talisman to compel the owner to guide them toward the underground treasure that could deal with the devil.
• As they descended, Si Yan sensed the suppressed Dragon Vein and then saw a huge tree hung with human heads, though Jiang Nuo could not see it.
• The owner and Su Shan recognized the tree as the divine tree, and Su Shan called Si Yan the god who could save the town.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan learned that the town’s hotel stood over buried bones and that Nightwalkers were the demon’s tamed guardians, then encountered a frightening vision of the contestants’ possible future. Si Yan sensed the Dragon Vein nearby, while Sano Kurotsuki accidentally revealed he knew it was part of their mission.

• Su Shan claimed the divine tree fed on the blood of evil humans, while Jiang Nuo forced the hotel owner to reveal that the town’s former cemetery had covered the square, church, and garden.
• The owner said the cemetery’s bones and coffins had been buried beneath the hotel and identified the Nightwalkers as the demon’s tamed guardians.
• Sano Kurotsuki asked the demon’s name, causing the owner to cough up blood and pass out before he could answer.
• Su Shan showed the group an illusion of eight injured contestants suspended over coffins, but Jiang Nuo dispelled it and doubted that it came from the demon.
• Si Yan sensed the Dragon Vein nearby, and Jiang Nuo and Si Yan confronted Sano Kurotsuki after he revealed that he knew about a Dragon Vein mission.

Sano Kurotsuki stole the dragon vein detector and caused Si Yan and Jiang Nuo to fall into a lower level of the passage. Jiang Nuo fought through the shadows and rescued Si Yan, but found no heartbeat, breath, or soul in his body.

• Sano Kurotsuki stole the detector, bombed the passage, and fled toward the dragon vein as Si Yan fell.
• Jiang Nuo jumped after Si Yan, while Zhang Quan followed them and Number One ordered the armed forces to prepare in case they were harmed or the dragon vein was damaged.
• Jiang Nuo landed in a lower level, found Si Yan missing, and fought the red-eyed shadows with his demon blade.
• Jiang Nuo tore through a membrane wall and saw Si Yan hanging from vines above black sludge and sharp teeth.
• Jiang Nuo broke through the membrane, cut Si Yan free, and discovered that Si Yan had no heartbeat, breath, or soul.

After Si Yan died, Jiang Nuo sensed his soul aboveground and carved through the ghosts underground to reach the church. While Sano Kurotsuki failed to enter the Dragon Vein’s domain, Jiang Nuo’s Half-Corpse Soul defeated him and carried him back toward the church.

• Jiang Nuo sensed that Si Yan’s soul was above the vines, stored Si Yan’s body with 0732’s help, and set out toward the church.
• Jiang Nuo killed or frightened off the malicious ghosts blocking his path and returned through the hidden door to the church.
• Sano Kurotsuki found the Dragon Vein beneath the garden but could not get near it because its power repelled him.
• Jiang Nuo’s Half-Corpse Soul defeated Sano Kurotsuki’s consciousness entity and captured the injured Sano Kurotsuki.
• The Half-Corpse Soul carried Sano Kurotsuki toward the church to bring him back to Jiang Nuo.

Jiang Nuo fought the demon god in the church bell tower to force it to reveal where Si Yan’s soul was hidden. After defeating it, he found Si Yan’s soul protected in a burial chamber and retrieved it.

• Jiang Nuo confronted Satan’s emissary, who led him to the bell tower after Jiang Nuo attacked him for refusing to answer.
• Jiang Nuo met the bound Mikazuki Shunsuke, then refused the emissary’s demand to help resurrect the demon god and chose to take Si Yan back himself.
• The emissary summoned the demon god and endless monsters, but Jiang Nuo destroyed the monsters and battered the demon god with curses, magic, and a cannon.
• Jiang Nuo forced the demon god to lift the bell tower’s seal, revealing a burial chamber where Si Yan’s soul rested behind the demon statues.
• Jiang Nuo retrieved Si Yan’s soul, which was protected by purple qi, and told him he had found him.

Jiang Nuo revived Si Yan and destroyed a demon god, while the pair learned that the town’s church and statues were part of a plan to resurrect seventy-two demon gods. They reinforced a seal around the statues and left the church, where the Half-Corpse Soul arrived with a half-dead man and asked Jiang Nuo whether to kill him.

• Jiang Nuo returned Si Yan’s soul to his body, and Si Yan woke as the stone statues in the burial chamber began to shake.
• Si Yan told Jiang Nuo he had seen an enormous phantom, while Mikazuki Shunsuke explained that each statue represented a demon god and that emissaries served as their vessels.
• Si Yan identified the vanished demon god as possibly Andromalius and said there were seventy-two demon gods in total.
• Si Yan and Jiang Nuo connected the town’s rules to the days of creation, then reinforced a seal over the statues with spiritual energy and treasures.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan kissed as they left the church, while Mikazuki Shunsuke regretted joining the competition.
• The Half-Corpse Soul arrived dragging a half-dead man and asked Jiang Nuo whether they should kill him.

Jiang Nuo forced Mikazuki Shunsuke to kill Sano Kurotsuki, then learned that Qi Cang had disappeared after being dragged into the underground river with Dantalion. Jiang Nuo helped Qi Lin recover from demonic influence, but Qi Lin remained devastated after losing his soul connection with Qi Cang.

• Jiang Nuo threatened Mikazuki Shunsuke until he killed Sano Kurotsuki, then cut up the corpse to prevent it from becoming a consciousness entity.
• Su Yi told Jiang Nuo and Si Yan that Qi Cang had vanished into the underground river while protecting Qi Lin from Dantalion.
• At the inn, Jiang Nuo found Qi Lin sitting blankly on a swing and used golden light to dispel the demonic qi afflicting him.
• Jiang Nuo asked Qi Lin to explain what happened, and Qi Lin recalled that a monster lured him toward the river and suppressed Qi Cang when he entered it.
• Qi Lin told them that Qi Cang had grabbed the monster and fallen into the river, after which Qi Lin lost their soul connection.

The group reached the underground river, where its miasma suppressed Jiang Nuo’s demonic power, and confronted the disguised owner, who was actually Dantalion. As Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, and Mikazuki Shunsuke fought it, the riverbank began to quake.

• The little girl gave Qi Lin a doll with eyes like Qi Cang’s and secretly told Jiang Nuo, “I have no father.”
• The weeder warned the group that it would rain and gave Qi Lin a strange piece of clothing that Si Yan thought resembled skin.
• The six followed the route to the underground river, where Jiang Nuo sensed the Dragon Vein and found his demonic power suppressed.
• Jiang Nuo confronted the owner and exposed him as Dantalion, who admitted that entering the underground river meant death.
• Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, and Mikazuki Shunsuke fought Dantalion while Su Yi watched over Qi Lin, and the riverbank began to quake.

Qi Lin jumped into the underground river after Dantalion said Qi Cang could only be found in death, and Jiang Nuo later disappeared into the river after hearing the Dragon Vein’s summons. Si Yan and the others were left on the riverbank, with Si Yan holding onto hope that Jiang Nuo was still alive.

• Qi Lin beat Dantalion for answers about Qi Cang, then jumped into the underground river after the demon said Qi Cang could only be found in death.
• Jiang Nuo sensed that the Dragon Vein and demonic creature were beneath the river, but a strange barrier separated him from Si Yan and the others.
• Jiang Nuo walked into the river despite Si Yan’s calls, and Si Yan failed to catch him.
• Si Mingde and Number One assured the panicked association members that Jiang Nuo would be fine, while Cui Ming urged them to explain whether Jiang Nuo would survive.
• Mikazuki Shunsuke and Su Yi stopped Si Yan from jumping after Jiang Nuo, telling him that he was the only one who could find him.

Si Yan and the others searched for Jiang Nuo and the monster beneath the town, but found only a displaced Dragon Vein and no way to reach the underground river’s depths. Tang Mu said the dead would be reborn the next day, while townspeople killed themselves in the streets, and Si Yan returned to the inn to wait for the ritual.

• Si Yan sensed that Jiang Nuo was alive, then led the group to hunt the monster and fought through soulless Nightwalkers driven by lingering obsession.
• The group found a mark where the Dragon Vein had once been, and Si Yan removed the Dragon Tail Dagger embedded in the wall.
• After reaching the underground river’s boundary without finding the monster, the group went to the library to question Tang Mu.
• Tang Mu told Si Yan that Jiang Nuo did not need saving and would be seen tomorrow, then said the town’s dead would be reborn after the day’s ritual.
• Su Yi saw townspeople killing one another and themselves, found no souls in the corpses, and followed Si Yan back to the inn.

Si Yan learned that the town’s resurrection ritual produced fake people, but Jiang Nuo left him a message directing him to the bottom of the river. As the owner ordered the contestants seized, Si Yan ran to find Jiang Nuo.

• Administrator Tang Mu sent Su Yi a recording telling her to kill the owner during the ritual.
• Si Yan discovered that three demons had replaced the statue in the fountain and suspected they were controlled illusions.
• The owner used a dried heart and the townspeople’s blood to open a coffin, from which apparent versions of the dead emerged.
• Si Yan realized the person posing as Jiang Nuo was an impostor, who revealed Jiang Nuo’s message: “Come find me at the river bottom.”
• The resurrected townspeople were exposed as fakes, the owner ordered the contestants seized, and Si Yan ran toward the river to find Jiang Nuo.

Si Yan fought through the church and town to reach the underground river, where he reunited with Jiang Nuo alive. As Su Yi joined him in the river, Mikazuki Hexi revealed that the mannequins were still following her and turned them on Mikazuki Shunsuke.

• Si Yan killed two demons outside the church, exhausting himself as he hurried toward the underground river.
• Su Yi killed the boss and followed Si Yan into the river, while Mikazuki Hexi stopped Mikazuki Shunsuke and sent the mannequins after him.
• Si Yan lost consciousness in the river and woke to find Jiang Nuo beside him.
• Jiang Nuo explained that Si Yan was injured and his Spiritual Power was in chaos, then held and kissed him.
• The viewers watching the broadcast finally learned that Jiang Nuo was safe.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan reunited in the town, where the little girl revealed that a sorcerer had promised immortality by creating a ghost town inside the underground river. She left Jiang Nuo questioning her claim that he and the others had all been ghosts there.

• Si Yan recovered beside Jiang Nuo and asked why they had returned to the town; Jiang Nuo said the Dragon Vein had called him into the river and he had awakened there.
• Qi Lin told the group that Qi Cang had found his body, though merging with it would take time.
• Mikazuki Shunsuke arrived with one arm missing and asked the others to find a way out.
• The little girl explained that a sorcerer had changed the town, buried the dead beneath the inn, and made its residents follow rules issued by a sprite from a blood-red book.
• The little girl said the sorcerer's promised immortality was a lie and that the underground river carried the dead into a ghostly copy of the town.
• Jiang Nuo challenged the little girl's claim that everyone in that town had been ghosts.

Jiang Nuo distrusted Mikazuki Shunsuke and Su Yi, then left the inn with Si Yan to investigate. Qi Cang awakened and reunited with Qi Lin, revealing that a huge phantom lay beyond the river’s vortexes.

• The little girl claimed she and several others kept order in the town, but Jiang Nuo, Su Yi, and Qi Lin doubted her and asked her to bring them food.
• Jiang Nuo confronted Si Yan about seeming to trust Mikazuki Shunsuke, and Si Yan admitted that Mikazuki Shunsuke and Su Yi both seemed suspicious.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan left through a window, and Su Yi found the room empty before the demonic qi from Qi Cang’s room drove her back.
• Qi Cang awakened and embraced Qi Lin, who explained that he had found Qi Cang’s body beneath the town’s garden.
• Qi Cang told Qi Lin that he had sensed his body sealed deep in the river, beyond whirlpools that opened onto a vast phantom.

Jiang Nuo investigated the town’s strange shared memories while Qi Cang fought a demon possessing Su Yi. The demon escaped, and Qi Cang began losing control as he craved blood, but he rejected Qi Lin’s offer to save him.

• Qi Cang sensed demonic qi outside the room, drove the possessed Su Yi away from the door, and fought her after she appeared behind him.
• Qi Lin escaped and found Jiang Nuo, who had questioned the townspeople and learned that everyone remembered the little girl as the same age.
• Jiang Nuo returned to the inn with Qi Lin and Si Yan, where they found that Su Yi had disappeared and Qi Cang was bleeding from his seven orifices.
• Jiang Nuo tried to get Qi Cang blood, but Qi Cang refused even when it was brought to his lips.
• Qi Lin offered his neck, but Qi Cang shoved him away and told him to leave rather than trade his life for Qi Cang’s.

Qi Cang overcame his blood craving with the doll and clothes Si Yan placed on him, while the little girl appeared and demanded the group drive the wizards’ descendants and the demon out of town. After Qi Cang described his battle with the demon, Jiang Nuo led the others toward the church bell tower, but they found Su Yi’s corpse in Mikazuki Shunsuke’s room.

• Si Yan draped the doll and clothes over Qi Cang, and the items merged into him as his craving and demonic power settled.
• The little girl told the group to drive the wizards’ descendants and the demon out of town, then vanished after Jiang Nuo and Si Yan tried to question her.
• Qi Cang explained that Su Yi had been possessed by a powerful demon, which he fought and wounded before it escaped.
• Jiang Nuo decided to go to the church bell tower, and Si Yan said he and Jiang Nuo had sealed and barred the connected space there.
• The group found Su Yi’s decayed corpse in Mikazuki Shunsuke’s room, and Qi Lin mourned his friend.

Jiang Nuo and the others destroyed the remaining statues in the church, weakening the force imprisoning the Dragon Vein. After a mysterious symbol appeared and they burned the church, they headed to the library to find Tang Mu and take the book.

• Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, Qi Lin, and Qi Cang found the sealing barrier in the church's bell tower close to breaking and destroyed the statues inside.
• Jiang Nuo used his red cord and Spiritual Power to shatter the last eight statues at once, then Si Yan replenished his strength through a kiss.
• Qi Cang kissed Qi Lin after seeing Jiang Nuo and Si Yan embrace.
• Si Yan sensed the Dragon Vein growing stronger, and the group discovered an unfamiliar symbol on the wall.
• Jiang Nuo set the church on fire, and the group left for the library to look for Tang Mu and take the book.

Si Yan and Jiang Nuo uncovered the Divine Tree and awakened the suffering Dragon Vein, while Jiang Nuo realized a system monster BOSS might be behind the town’s rules. At the library, the group forced Tang Mu to reveal that his giant book recorded events, and Jiang Nuo found a familiar face among its earlier pages.

• Si Yan followed the Dragon Tail Dagger to the Divine Tree and went into the pit with Jiang Nuo to investigate it.
• The Dragon Tail Dagger cut down the tree’s top heart, then embedded itself in the trunk and shattered the Divine Tree, revealing the Dragon Vein.
• The Dragon Vein’s roar made everyone feel its pain, and Si Yan said it was asking the people of Hua Country for help.
• Jiang Nuo asked 0732 whether monster BOSSES could enter this world and learned that they could, then led the group to the library.
• Jiang Nuo and the others seized Tang Mu and examined his giant red book, learning that it recorded events rather than prophesying them.
• Jiang Nuo found a somewhat familiar face on one of the book’s first pages.

Jiang Nuo realized the demon had turned the town into a game, trapping its inhabitants as NPCs, and the demon’s book triggered a solo mission that separated him from Si Yan. Inside the shifting library, Jiang Nuo confronted the demon, which believed it could keep returning after death.

• Jiang Nuo pieced together that the demon had made the town into a game and that its inhabitants repeatedly returned as NPCs when the town reset.
• The red book displayed “It is your turn,” and a barrier separated Jiang Nuo from Si Yan as Jiang Nuo entered a solo mission.
• Jiang Nuo reassured Si Yan and explored the library while strange symbols appeared and the bookshelves shifted to trap him.
• Jiang Nuo found a portrait of the demon’s true form and asked 0732 why it had allowed the monster to appear in this world; 0732 refused to explain and awarded him 3,000 points.
• Jiang Nuo burned the bookshelves around the portrait, forcing the demon to emerge, and learned it expected him to complete its mission under the game’s rules.
• The demon claimed it was the eternal demon king and could come back to life, while Jiang Nuo realized it believed the town would reset after the players left.

Jiang Nuo confronted the demon in the library, learned it had made the town’s people immortal, and failed to kill it before it expelled him. After Si Yan decoded the symbols as an incomplete name, Jiang Nuo ordered the group to go to the inn and blow it up.

• Jiang Nuo questioned the demon about the town and learned it had made the people immortal and established the rules.
• Jiang Nuo attacked the demon with a pig-butchering knife, but the demon expelled him from the library.
• Si Yan caught Jiang Nuo, and the group discussed finding the rules and method needed to kill the demon.
• Jiang Nuo explained that the town and the people beneath the church were not real, but part of the mission.
• Jiang Nuo wrote down the symbols, and Si Yan identified them as an incomplete name in a lost ancient Greek wizard language.
• Jiang Nuo told the group to go to the inn and blow it up.

Jiang Nuo and the others blew up the inn to uncover the coffins buried beneath it, then found a black coffin belonging to the wizard. The little girl tried to stop them and sent a message toward the church, but Jiang Nuo prepared to pry the coffin open.

• The gardener, Tang Mu, and the little girl discussed completing a sacrifice, but the little girl said she had changed her mind.
• The Half-Corpse Soul distracted the ghosts inside the inn while Jiang Nuo and his companions planted bombs around it and blew it apart.
• Jiang Nuo ordered the group to dig up the coffins, and they restrained the little girl, the gardener, and Tang Mu.
• Jiang Nuo found a black coffin buried deep beneath the inn, and the little girl identified it as the wizard's coffin and begged him not to expose it.
• The little girl shouted toward the church, and Jiang Nuo picked up a wooden stick to pry open the coffin.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan opened the coffin and awakened the wizard, who destroyed the doll girl and the Reapers. The demon emerged from the library, and the four began fighting it, with Jiang Nuo disappearing from its sight.

• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan opened the coffin despite the little girl's protests and found the intact wizard inside.
• The little girl tried to complete a sacrifice with dolls resembling Jiang Nuo and the others, but Qi Cang destroyed the plank and exposed her plan.
• Jiang Nuo awakened the wizard, who raised his wand and made the little girl and the Reapers vanish, leaving puppet dolls behind.
• The wizard began to dissipate, and the demon emerged from the collapsing library and threatened to make the next reset harder.
• Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, Qi Cang, and Qi Lin attacked the demon together, while Jiang Nuo vanished from its sight.

Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, Qi Lin, and Qi Cang defeated the demon and restored the Dragon Vein, allowing the town’s trapped souls to return. Si Yan separated Jiang Nuo’s Love Soul from himself and returned it to Jiang Nuo, and the group left the revived town after learning that An Yin and the remaining demonic monsters had been eliminated.

• Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, and Qi Cang killed the demon, freeing the Dragon Vein and bringing the town back to life.
• Si Yan followed the golden dragon’s phantom to the underground cage and opened the spiritual source, releasing the townspeople’s protected souls.
• Si Yan entered the spiritual source to separate Jiang Nuo’s Love Soul, and Jiang Nuo was summoned inside as the separation succeeded.
• Si Yan and Jiang Nuo woke and returned outside the spiritual source, where Si Yan reassured Jiang Nuo that he still loved him without his Love Soul.
• Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, Qi Lin, and Qi Cang returned to the restored town as its townspeople awakened.
• Jiang Nuo learned from 0732 that the world’s breaches had been repaired and An Yin and the remaining demonic monsters had been eliminated.

After the Love Soul returned, Jiang Nuo began crying uncontrollably despite not knowing why he felt sad. Si Yan comforted him at home, and as Jiang Nuo finally fell asleep in his arms, Si Yan worried about the effect on his health and planned to ask Grandpa for help.

• Cui Ming scolded Jiang Nuo for risking his life, then panicked when Jiang Nuo started crying and made him crispy pork bites.
• Jiang Nuo asked 0732 whether his sudden tears were caused by the Love Soul's return, and 0732 confirmed it.
• On the seventh day after returning from the town, Jiang Nuo cried while watching Si Yan's tragic film and told Si Yan he had come home late.
• Si Yan comforted Jiang Nuo, ordered fried chicken, and held him while they watched a happier film.
• Jiang Nuo's emotions settled as he rested in Si Yan's arms, and Si Yan decided to ask Grandpa whether anything could be done about the symptoms.

Si Yan considered turning down a Hollywood role and retiring from acting so he could stay with the emotionally clingy Jiang Nuo. After Yang Hong left in anger, Si Yan reassured Jiang Nuo and joked that he would rely on his wife for support.

• Yang Hong told Si Yan that his Hollywood film role was confirmed and that he needed to leave the country that day.
• Jiang Nuo woke up crying and pleaded with Si Yan not to leave or go abroad without him.
• Si Yan decided to stay with Jiang Nuo and told Yang Hong he had been considering retiring from acting.
• Jiang Nuo asked 0732 how to control his emotional swings, and 0732 suggested staying with someone close to him.
• Yang Hong left after speaking privately with Si Yan, who told Jiang Nuo that her anger had nothing to do with him and joked about relying on him for support.