Recaps

Shen Heng and Bedrock City’s defenders fought off a massive beast tide, suffering heavy losses before the Calamity Beasts retreated. As the city prepared for further attacks, the story shifted to a cleared Light Gate and the rules governing its allocation to guilds.

• Shuofeng sent the Calamity Beasts against Bedrock City, and Shen Heng identified hidden Kamaitachi among the attackers.
• Shen Heng and the defenders targeted the Kamaitachi while the beast tide climbed the mountain, and Shen Heng fought Shuofeng and Leiya as the inspectors engaged the S-Class beasts.
• Zhou Zhenguo ordered missile strikes against the battlefield, giving the inspectors an opening as Shen Heng used sound and spiritual power to anticipate attacks.
• Calamity Beasts broke through the wall, Qin Ye died saving Xu Ruiyu, and Wu Hao’s squad pinned a Kamaitachi long enough to strike it.
• Shuofeng ordered a retreat after the defenders drove the tide back, and Shen Heng learned that hundreds of soldiers and inspectors had died.
• After a warning that another tide was approaching Chongshan City, Shen Heng approved Han Ling’s operation against retreating beasts and encouraged grieving soldiers to keep fighting.
• Shen Heng and Zhou Zhenguo planned to attack Calamity Beasts before they gathered, while a separate team cleared a Light Gate outside Linhai.
• Luo Wenshan learned from Lin Xiaoyu and Mei Duo how inspectors secured Light Gates and how guilds bid for access, including Qiming Harbor Guild’s 15.28-million offer.

Shen Shuning and her friends began a dangerous training camp while Shen Heng’s forces prepared an ambush for the Calamity Beasts. The ambush devastated the horde and Shen Heng killed the Molten-Fire Lizard, but the remaining beasts and an unexplained disturbance still needed attention.

• Shen Shuning, Xiao Bai'er, and Su Xingyu joined Chang Lei’s training camp, where he warned them that the Light Gate missions could be deadly.
• Shen Heng and his forces prepared an ambush at Eagle-Sorrow Ravine while he weighed the risks of the Calamity Beasts attacking Bedrock City or other cities.
• The Lion King rejected Shuofeng’s request for another attack, while Leiya proposed gathering more Calamity Beasts to assault a human city.
• A tide of roughly 2,300 Calamity Beasts entered the ravine, and Shen Heng’s forces launched a missile barrage as the Molten-Fire Lizard led the horde.
• Xu Yu ordered explosives triggered to collapse the mountainside, while human forces fought the trapped beasts and Qin Yu targeted the Hook-Tailed Golden Suanni.
• Shen Heng pursued the Molten-Fire Lizard through the mountains and killed it, while Han Ling shot down the One-Horned Tiger.
• Shen Heng returned with the Molten-Fire Lizard’s corpse, learned that about 60 percent of the beasts had been killed, and prepared to draw out the survivors before turning toward another direction.

Shen Heng brought a surviving Stone-Armored Beast back to Bedrock City after the successful ambushes, while the officers debated how to reinforce other cities. Zhou Xuan reached the fifth tier and tested his new abilities before the teams prepared to depart, while another city remained surrounded and unable to contact the outside world.

• Shadow Wolf escaped the bombardment and reported to the Lion King, while Shen Heng recruited the surviving Stone-Armored Beast to study whether Calamity Beasts could be tamed.
• Shen Heng reported that the ambushes had likely killed close to thirty thousand Calamity Beasts and proposed sending support to other cities.
• Zhou Zhenguo and Lu Xunzhou debated dividing Bedrock City's forces, and Shen Heng favored Lu Xunzhou's safer plan.
• Shen Heng refused Lu Xunzhou's recruitment offer on grounds of unity, and Zhou Zhenguo drafted recommendations for integrating the Supervision Bureau and the military.
• Wu Hao recounted his force's casualties and Xu Yu's tactics, then secured Shen Heng's agreement to let Xu Yu lead future split forces.
• Zhou Xuan failed to invoke Lord Tiga but successfully invoked the God of Wealth, and the group tested his new offensive and defensive abilities.
• Lin Zhaoran told Yu Yanhui that the Calamity Beasts surrounding their city had intercepted their signal flares and might be waiting for reinforcements.
• Shen Heng kept Qin Yu and Zhou Xuan on separate teams to help with possible retreats, gave Han Ling an Azure Talisman Jade containing a sixth-tier attack, and allowed her to take the Stone-Armored Beast.

Shen Heng’s force ambushed and routed the Hook-Tailed Golden Suanni’s army, then faced a much larger Calamity Beast horde near Frontier-Pacifying City. As the city debated whether to send support, Shen Heng drew the horde toward his position and prepared a new strike.

• Han Ling told Chongshan City’s commanders that Bedrock City had fought more than a dozen S-Class Sky-Sundering Kamaitachi and two Fifth Tier beasts, and warned that Chongshan could face a force of around thirty thousand.
• Shen Heng chose not to enter besieged Frontier-Pacifying City and instead waited with fewer than two thousand troops to intercept the Hook-Tailed Golden Suanni’s approaching tide.
• Shen Heng’s troops ambushed the beasts with arrows, artillery, and false withdrawal orders, routing them and killing around 2,600 without human casualties.
• Shen Heng refused to pursue the survivors and prepared to face the larger force led by the Mirror Water Beast, while telling Xu Ruiyu he showed promise as a commander.
• The Mirror Water Beast sent its Calamity Beasts up the mountain, where Xu Ruiyu’s soldiers opened fire as Shen Heng held back his strongest fighters until the right moment.
• Frontier-Pacifying City’s inspectors debated whether to reinforce Shen Heng, and Gu Lingxuan, Cao Mingyu, Lin Zhaoran, and Yu Yanhui considered how to divide their forces.
• The Mirror Water Beast learned that Steel Claw had died in a human counterattack, then ordered its horde to advance before reinforcements could arrive.
• Shen Heng revealed that he had stirred the beasts into action and reviewed his plan to avoid unnecessary fights, let most fleeing beasts escape, and kill any that tried to command the others.