Recaps

The Two-Horned Lizard reconsidered its escape plan and decided it might wait until after the uprising, while Shen Heng, Qin Yu, and Stone prepared to leave after the Black Rats lowered their guard. At the mine, Gray Spot and Scar Tail discovered a gathering of Calamity Beasts eating amid the blood, realizing the beasts had rebelled.

• The Two-Horned Lizard decided to wait at the valley entrance for the fifth-tier Black Rat, then escape during the riot or wait until afterward and climb the mountains at night.
• Shen Heng told Stone that the humans planned to leave after the riot and said they would not change course if the Two-Horned Lizard reached the same idea.
• Qin Yu warned Shen Heng that the Two-Horned Lizard might suspect their route through the Origin Ore mine, and Shen Heng said they would take precautions while carving Han Ling's Blast Inscription there.
• Gray Spot and Scar Tail spent the next day whipping and mocking the Calamity Beasts working in the mine.
• Gray Spot and Scar Tail followed a strong smell of blood and found Calamity Beasts gathered in the dark, eating and staring at them.

One Ear the Black Rat and Red Eye were caught in an ambush as oppressed Calamity Beasts rebelled against the Black Rats. Red Eye remained trapped in a vine net while the Black Rats’ resistance collapsed, and the rebels countered his attempt to persuade them to fight on his side.

• One Ear and the Black Rats fled through Black Stone Valley, but Calamity Beasts ambushed them with a vine net and attacked from both sides.
• Red Eye tore through the net and tried to fly away, but another vine net caught him while the Calamity Beasts overwhelmed the Black Rats.
• Red Eye ordered One Ear and the other Black Rats to attack, but some hesitated until reinforcements arrived and the rebels forced them into a losing fight.
• One Ear saw Red Eye still trapped and bleeding as only three Black Rats remained on the battlefield.
• Red Eye threatened and offered the Calamity Beasts a chance to serve the Black Rat Clan, but another beast urged them not to trust the Black Rats.

A group of Calamity Beasts rebelled against the Black Rats, killing one and chasing another back to the plains. Broken Tooth recognized the signs of an uprising and led the Black Rats to confront the returned beasts and warn the clan chief.

• The Calamity Beasts attacked the Black Rats again, and a wounded Black Rat tore through five vine nets before being caught and killed.
• Thin Tail and Broken Tooth noticed that far fewer Calamity Beasts had returned from the mines than usual.
• Iron Guard emerged from the trees pursued by Calamity Beasts, who caught up and killed it in front of the Black Rats.
• Broken Tooth told Thin Tail and the others that the Calamity Beasts had rebelled and said they should report it to the clan chief.
• Broken Tooth led the Black Rats toward the returned Calamity Beasts, and one frightened beast begged them to spare it.

Broken Tooth the Black Rat decided to leave Thin Tail and Lame Claw watching the Calamity Beasts while he returned to report the rebellion to the clan leader. After the Black Rats gathered the Calamity Beasts together, one beast cried out and the others turned to look toward the distant forest.

• A Calamity Beast insisted that it and the others had not joined the rebellion, while Lame Claw accused them of knowing about it.
• Broken Tooth stopped the argument and decided that reporting the rebellion to the clan leader mattered more than dealing with the Calamity Beasts immediately.
• Broken Tooth ordered Thin Tail and Lame Claw to watch the herd, then warned the Calamity Beasts to stay and behave before leaving to gather help.
• The remaining Black Rats spread out around the Calamity Beasts and ordered them to gather in the middle.
• As the herd waited and watched the distant forest, one Calamity Beast cried out, prompting the nearby beasts to look in the same direction.

The enslaved Calamity Beasts rebelled after witnessing escape attempts and fearing that the Black Rats would kill them regardless. Lame Claw ordered their slaughter as Broken Tooth noticed the chaos behind him and continued forward.

• The enslaved Calamity Beasts saw disturbances heading toward the mountains around Black Stone Valley and realized that other Calamity Beasts were trying to escape.
• Several Calamity Beasts voiced fears that the Black Rats would kill those who remained, but a Black Rat ordered them to disperse.
• Lame Claw seized a defiant Calamity Beast, demanded that it identify accomplices, and tore it apart after it spat at him.
• Calamity Beasts throughout the herd rose amid calls to fight, and Lame Claw ordered the Black Rats to kill them all.
• The Calamity Beasts charged at the attacking Black Rats as calls for resistance spread.
• Broken Tooth looked back at the chaos in the resting area, then accelerated forward.

A fleeing herd of Calamity Beasts tried to reach the mountains, while the Black Rat chief ordered a response to their escape attempt. The chief expected the Black Rats to contain the herd, as the fleeing beasts hurried to meet Lord Rock-Backed Beast.

• A Tier 3 Calamity Beast diverted the fleeing herd to attack a Black Rat, and the stampede killed it.
• Broken Tooth reported the incident to the Black Rat chief, who sent Gray Whiskers and Curly Fur to question captives and search for the organizers.
• The chief ordered Black Spine and Moya to lead half the fourth-tier Black Rats in patrol teams along the mountain walls and kill any escaping Calamity Beasts.
• The chief told the Black Rats that the herd would likely try climbing the cliffs, but insisted they could stop it.
• A Tier 3 terror beast urged its herd to hurry and meet Lord Rock-Backed Beast, imagining freedom and a future ahead.

Fear Beast realized the Black Rats were calling reinforcements and warned the Calamity Beasts to scatter as the Black Rats poured from the forest. Meanwhile, Black Jade Lion’s hidden group watched Black Rats leave a fenced settlement, and he ordered the Calamity Beasts to move.

• Fear Beast noticed a fleeing Black Rat calling to others and realized Black Rat reinforcements were approaching.
• Fear Beast shouted for the Calamity Beasts to stop and scatter, and the herd dispersed in different directions.
• Black Rats emerged from the forest and charged toward the few Calamity Beasts that remained behind.
• Black Jade Lion and the other Calamity Beasts hid near a fenced settlement and watched a bloodied Black Rat warn the residents.
• Black Rats ran out of the settlement in the direction the bloodied rat had come from, and Black Jade Lion told his group to move.

Curly Fur and Gray Whiskers questioned a Thick Armor Beast during the Black Rats’ pursuit of the fleeing Calamity Beasts, trying to learn about the rebellion’s leaders and plans. The beast pointed them toward a source mine before Curly Fur sensed something strange about the direction they had been heading.

• Black Rats chased and captured fleeing Calamity Beasts throughout the woods as the panic shifted to the rebels.
• Curly Fur questioned the Thick Armor Beast, which said a Tier 2 Rock-Backed Beast had organized the uprising through orders passed by group leaders such as Azure Scale Beast.
• The Thick Armor Beast said it had not seen which way Azure Scale Beast fled, but pointed out the direction its group had been traveling before the Black Rats arrived.
• Curly Fur suspected the beast might be lying because its group had been heading toward a source mine, but the beast insisted it had told the truth.
• The Thick Armor Beast died under Curly Fur’s pressure, and Gray Whiskers suggested they follow the direction it had indicated.
• Curly Fur agreed to investigate but asked Gray Whiskers whether it also felt that something was strange.

Curly Fur and Gray Whiskers pursued fleeing Calamity Beasts and learned from a captured Fear Beast that Rock-Backed Beast had planned to hide them in the source mine. They realized the plan nearly worked, and Gray Whiskers explained that weak ambushers had exposed the fleeing groups.

• Curly Fur questioned why so few Calamity Beasts were fleeing, and Gray Whiskers suggested they had split into smaller groups to avoid detection.
• The two Black Rats encountered more scattered groups but failed to catch their leaders, then approached a lone Tier 3 Fear Beast.
• When Gray Whiskers moved to kill him, the Fear Beast offered information and said his group had been ordered to go to the source mine.
• Curly Fur deduced that Rock-Backed Beast intended the Calamity Beasts to hide in the mine tunnels until the search passed and they could escape.
• Gray Whiskers said weak ambushers had let Black Rat clansmen escape and alert others, disrupting the plan; the Fear Beast blamed those useless fools.

Curly Fur and Gray Whiskers learned that the fleeing Calamity Beasts planned to gather at the Origin Ore mine, then waited nearby for the scattered groups to arrive. As they prepared to attack, Gray Whiskers realized some of the beasts might have escaped by climbing the cliffs if they had not been exposed.

• Gray Whiskers killed the Fear Beast after it revealed the Calamity Beasts’ destination and rendezvous plans.
• Curly Fur and Gray Whiskers flew to the Origin Ore mine and saw Calamity Beasts entering its tunnel.
• Curly Fur decided to wait for the groups from farther away and summon nearby Black Rat clansmen before attacking.
• More Black Rats gathered while Gray Whiskers considered how the Calamity Beasts might have escaped by climbing the cliffs.
• Gray Whiskers worried that fighting in the mine would destroy Origin Ore, but Curly Fur said stopping the Calamity Beasts was more important.

Two-Horned Lizard waited with the Calamity Beasts for the Fifth Tier Black Rats to leave the valley entrance, while the Black Rat clan leader dismissed the rebellion as powerless. A huge explosion erupted in the south, and Calamity Beasts throughout Black Stone Valley turned toward the rising mushroom cloud.

• Black Jade Lion and nearly ten Calamity Beasts reported that they had released every beast from the pens and hidden from the Black Rats.
• Two-Horned Lizard told the group to watch the valley entrance for a chance to escape, while keeping the reason for the Fifth Tier Black Rats potentially leaving to himself.
• At the Black Rat clan grounds, the clan leader reassured Broken Tooth that the rioting Calamity Beasts could not escape Black Stone Valley.
• A huge explosion sounded in the south, sending a mushroom cloud into the sky as the Black Rat clan leader, a Coiling Mountain Beast, and Calamity Beasts across the valley looked toward it.

The Black Rat patriarch realized that the Calamity Beasts had detonated the origin ore mine, likely targeting Lord Curly Fur and Lord Gray Whiskers, and ordered his clan to gather information before acting. In the trench, Two-Horned Lizard told the gathered Calamity Beasts that the explosion came from a one-use trump card Lord Feather Owl had given him, though he did not explain how it worked.

• The Black Rat patriarch and Broken Tooth saw the explosion and concluded that the Calamity Beasts had used origin ore to cause it.
• The Black Rat patriarch and Broken Tooth suspected that the explosion had been meant to kill Lord Curly Fur and Lord Gray Whiskers.
• The Black Rat patriarch ordered Broken Tooth to gather information about the Calamity Beasts before deciding what to do next.
• The Calamity Beasts in the trench speculated about the explosion, while Two-Horned Lizard recognized that the origin ore mine had been detonated.
• Two-Horned Lizard said the explosion came from a one-use trump card Lord Feather Owl had given him and reassured the other Calamity Beasts that using it to help everyone was worthwhile.

Two-Horned Lizard and the other Calamity Beasts prepared to exploit a possible transfer of the Black Rats guarding Black Stone Valley’s entrance, while Shen Heng advised Qin Yu and Stone to wait for a safer chance to escape. The Black Rat chief reviewed the uprising and began to suspect that a powerful Calamity Beast was orchestrating it.

• Two-Horned Lizard ordered the Calamity Beasts to watch the valley entrance and assess whether fifth-tier Black Rats left before attempting their escape plan.
• Shen Heng told Qin Yu that the group should wait until the uprising ended and choose their moment based on how the Black Rats patrolled.
• Shen Heng, Qin Yu, and Stone remained hidden as time passed and figures fell from the distant mountains.
• The Black Rat chief heard reports describing the uprising, the attack on the mines, and the deaths of Gray Whiskers and the other Black Rats.
• The Black Rat chief questioned when its clan had captured such a formidable Calamity Beast.

The Black Rat chief organized the search for escaping Calamity Beasts, but Broken Tooth warned that the clan had too few Fourth Tier fighters to stop them. The chief explained that the uprising had been orchestrated from the moment the Black Rats increased the Calamity Beasts’ punishment, and began laying out the signs of the enemy’s plan.

• The Black Rat chief ordered clansmen to search the valley and mountains, returning willing Calamity Beasts and killing those who refused.
• Broken Tooth urged the chief to bring Rotten Claw’s group back from the valley entrance, warning that more than a hundred thousand Calamity Beasts were escaping while only twenty or thirty Fourth Tier Black Rats remained in the valley.
• The chief said transferring Rotten Claw’s group would do little to change the outcome because the Black Rats could no longer meaningfully stop the escape.
• The chief explained that the messengers sent to notify Black Spine, Gray Whiskers, and the others had not reached them in time because the uprising’s leader had anticipated their actions.
• The chief said the plot had begun over ten days earlier, when the Black Rats increased the Calamity Beasts’ daily ore quota, and cited the coordinated revolts across the mines, the deaths of Fourth Tier guards, and the release of the enclosure’s beasts as evidence.

The Black Rat chief deduced that the Rock-Backed Beast had orchestrated the riot and diverted Black Spine and the others, leaving the escaping Calamity Beasts difficult to contain. He dispatched search teams while Broken Tooth and Scar Tail followed separate orders, then flew deeper into the valley himself.

• The Black Rat chief explained that Calamity Beasts had lured Black Spine and the others away, preventing them from receiving orders to stop the escapees.
• The Black Rat chief warned that the Calamity Beasts had spread toward the valley’s edges and ordered the Black Rats to search for the Tier 2 Rock-Backed Beast who organized the riot.
• The Black Rat chief praised Broken Tooth’s suggestion and sent him to ask Rotten Claw to spare thirty percent of his clansmen for the search.
• The Black Rat chief ordered Scar Tail to search along the mountain walls and kill most Calamity Beasts he found, while sparing the Rock-Backed Beast.
• Scar Tail judged that climbing out of the valley offered the Rock-Backed Beast the best escape route and flew toward the mountains.
• The Black Rat chief flew deeper into the valley instead of following Scar Tail.

A Black Rat killed a horned rabbit that had tried to hide among the escaping Calamity Beasts, then Black Rat Scar Tail questioned another captive about the Rock-Backed Beast’s escape route. He learned nothing and remained angered by the captives’ defiance.

• A horned rabbit hid in the grass while Black Rats searched the woods, then emerged after the sounds faded.
• A Black Rat confronted the horned rabbit, who claimed it had only stayed behind to persuade the escaped beasts to return.
• The Black Rat mocked the horned rabbit’s excuses and killed it, then noticed that many escapees had already reached the area.
• Black Rat Scar Tail questioned a Calamity Beast about which way the Rock-Backed Beast planned to escape.
• The Calamity Beast refused to answer and died, leaving Scar Tail frustrated by its defiant attitude.

Scar Tail and Black Spine tried to stop the scattered Calamity Beasts from climbing out of Black Stone Valley, but the beasts kept reaching the summit and escaping. The Black Rat clan chief watched the uprising worsen and considered the damage to the clan’s mines and reputation.

• Scar Tail killed Calamity Beasts across the cliff face but struggled to control their scattered climb.
• A Tier 3 Molten Fire Ape reached the summit and celebrated its freedom before Black Spine knocked it down and threatened the climbers.
• Black Spine intercepted Calamity Beasts that continued upward, while others retreated under its threat.
• Black Spine realized that escaping beasts were inspiring the rest to climb faster and that it could not stop the uprising.
• The Black Rat clan chief watched Calamity Beasts leap from the mountain and judged that the uprising threatened the clan’s mineral output and reputation.
• The Black Rat clan chief turned its attention to the Steel-Mane Bear at its feet.

The Black Rat Chief tried to make the Steel-Mane Bear reveal where the Rock-Backed Beast had gone by offering him a chance to escape. After agreeing to the deal, the bear reached a mountain summit and saw a dense fog marking the world's boundary.

• The Black Rat Chief pinned the Steel-Mane Bear and demanded the Rock-Backed Beast's location and the group's plan.
• The Chief offered to carry the bear to a summit and let him escape if he wrote down where the Rock-Backed Beast had fled.
• The Steel-Mane Bear hesitated because he hoped Lord Two-Horned Lizard would survive, then agreed to indicate the direction the leaders had gone.
• The Black Rat Chief warned the bear not to lie, carried him to a mountain summit, and released him.
• The Steel-Mane Bear stared across the grassland at the dense fog that shrouded the world's boundary.

The Steel-Mane Bear questioned the Black Rat chief about an exit from the fog-enclosed world, prompting the chief to realize it could no longer remember the places beyond its surroundings. After the bear gave contradictory answers about when it had been captured, the Black Rat chief concluded that it was not from this world.

• The Steel-Mane Bear asked the Black Rat chief where the portal out of the world was, but the chief did not understand what it meant.
• The bear asked where the Black Rat Clan went to capture Calamity Beasts, and the chief found that it could no longer remember the places or routes beyond the fog.
• The Black Rat chief asked when the bear had been captured, and the bear gave several inconsistent estimates.
• The Black Rat chief challenged the bear’s confused answers, then declared that it was not from this world.

Two-Horned Lizard organized the Calamity Beasts’ escape from Black Stone Valley while Black Rats guarded the entrance and might search the valley. As daylight arrived, Steel-Mane Bear had still not returned, and Two-Horned Lizard faced the possibility that he had been captured.

• Black Jade Lion told Two-Horned Lizard that he had warned the other Calamity Beasts to climb the cliffs and escape while the Black Rats remained at the entrance.
• Two-Horned Lizard explained that the Black Rats might search the valley and that the escaping Calamity Beasts could draw their attention away from those still hiding.
• Two-Horned Lizard and Black Jade Lion waited for Steel-Mane Bear, who had gone to scout from a high place.
• As the sky grew fully light, Black Jade Lion urged Two-Horned Lizard to leave, and Two-Horned Lizard concluded that Steel-Mane Bear might have been caught by the Black Rats.

Two-Horned Lizard led the Calamity Beasts out of their trench to flee, but they saw a scarlet spread across the horizon. In the Sacred Temple’s false human world, Feather Owl watched another group of transformed beasts attack their teacher while a short-haired boy asked whether he had found any leads.

• Black Jade Lion urged Two-Horned Lizard to leave before the captured Steel-Mane Bear could endanger them, and Two-Horned Lizard agreed.
• Two-Horned Lizard led the Calamity Beasts out quietly, planning to find high ground and choose a route as they went.
• Two-Horned Lizard and the others looked up as scarlet rapidly spread from the distant horizon.
• Feather Owl awoke in the false human world and recognized that he had experienced the classroom scene several times before.
• Zhao Pengsheng and other transformed beasts identified themselves and decided to seize the teacher for questioning.
• Zhao Pengsheng attacked the teacher while Feather Owl watched, and a short-haired boy asked Feather Owl whether he had found any leads.

Feather Owl and Profound Crystal Griffin planned to lure the school staff out by staging a student’s death, hoping to find a way to escape before repeated dorm inspections left them trapped in the world. As they discussed recruiting two surviving Calamity Beasts, Zhao Pengsheng turned to confront an elderly security guard who had rushed into the classroom.

• Profound Crystal Griffin explained that the school reset every midnight and that being caught by the staff would mean the outsiders could not return after a reset.
• Feather Owl proposed pushing a student from a building to draw the teachers out of the administration building.
• Feather Owl planned to target a lone student on the seventh floor of Building Three during the break after second period, then report the incident.
• Profound Crystal Griffin agreed to recruit two other surviving Calamity Beasts and warned that the operation would leave them only two daytime breaks for free movement.
• An elderly security guard entered the classroom and ordered Zhao Pengsheng to stop attacking a teacher, so Zhao Pengsheng put the teacher down and approached him.

An old man in a blue uniform stopped Zhao Pengsheng and the other Calamity Beasts from attacking Teacher Lin, allowing class to resume. Elsewhere, Wang Hu chose to eat a slain Calamity Beast to survive, asking Han Ling to kill him if he began to undergo Distortion.

• The old man struck Zhao Pengsheng down, then beat three more Calamity Beasts and chased two fleeing ones from the classroom.
• Teacher Lin stood up despite her injuries and continued the lesson while the students returned to their seats.
• Han Ling questioned Wang Hu about eating the Calamity Beast, and he explained that they needed to survive and find a way out of the palace.
• Wang Hu asked Han Ling to kill him if he showed signs of Distortion, and she agreed.
• Wang Hu transformed into his tiger-man form and ate a piece of the Calamity Beast despite his missing left arm.

Shen Heng and Two-Horned Lizard suddenly found themselves back in the mine, where Calamity Beasts had returned to numb, obedient mining. Two-Horned Lizard witnessed a Scalearmor Lizard accused of trying to escape and killed by a Lord Black Rat, leaving it fearful and unsure what had happened.

• Shen Heng realized he had returned to the mine and considered possible causes, then saw an unfamiliar Sickle-Claw Beast becoming numb after he questioned it.
• Two-Horned Lizard also returned to the mine and worried that escaping would now be even harder.
• A Calamity Beast accused a Scalearmor Lizard of trying to escape after it had only asked the time.
• The Lord Black Rat accepted the accusation and killed the Scalearmor Lizard despite its protests.
• Two-Horned Lizard watched the accuser display the same numbness as the miners, then resumed mining while fearing what was happening.

After a strange disruption in the mine, Shen Heng found that the Calamity Beasts were mining less and could not talk inside the tunnels, then had to return in a group under Black Rat supervision. At the resting place, he discussed the changes with Stone and Qin Yu and suspected the Two-Horned Lizard’s side was involved.

• The Sickle-Claw Beast heard the repeated word “mine” in its mind, then resumed mining beside the Coiling Mountain Beast while Shen Heng wondered why they could not talk.
• Shen Heng noticed that the Calamity Beasts had mined far below their previous quotas, but they handed in their ore as usual and Feixu approved it.
• Shen Heng spotted a Tier 3 Shadow Wolf searching the line, then collected his food and waited with the other Calamity Beasts to leave together.
• Stone followed Shen Heng back to the resting place, where they found Qin Yu and discussed the mine’s reduced quota, stricter supervision, and ban on talking.
• Shen Heng said the disruption was likely connected to the Two-Horned Lizard, and Stone revealed that he had not realized talking in the mine was forbidden.