Recaps

Bai Mo fought Qin Hong’s four regenerating giant spirits while Hinako Akuta, Qin Liangyu, and Ritsuka headed into the enemy stronghold. The battle drew crowds in the capital of the Blue Country, where spectators gathered to watch.

• Bai Mo and Hinako Akuta realized that Qin Hong’s giant spirits could regenerate after being destroyed and would be difficult to eliminate.
• Bai Mo sent Hinako Akuta toward the ground and told her, Ritsuka, and Qin Liangyu to enter the stronghold while he held off the giant spirits.
• The four giant spirits attacked Bai Mo, who cut them apart with Avici Uninterrupted and shattered the defenses beneath Hinako Akuta.
• Bai Mo summoned the Great Blade Martial God and Tiandao to block the giant spirits as Hinako Akuta, Qin Liangyu, and Ritsuka descended toward the stronghold.
• People in the capital of the Blue Country abandoned a robbery and gathered at Zhang Xianzhong’s palace to watch the battle.

Bai Mo held off Qin Hong’s four Giant Spirits while Hinako Akuta and Qin Liangyu fought through the underground passage toward him. Reines activated the Unreturning Formation, revealing weaknesses in the Giant Spirits and giving Bai Mo an opening to attack Qin Hong.

• Bai Mo defended against Qin Hong’s coordinated Giant Spirit attacks and healed a near-fatal neck wound with the Asura Undying Body.
• Hinako Akuta repeatedly blew herself up among the Dream-Creating Beasts while Qin Liangyu and Ritsuka advanced through the passage.
• Qin Hong maintained control of the four Giant Spirits, but his mind Magecraft consumed his processing capacity and left him unable to support them without exposing himself to Bai Mo.
• Bai Mo waited for Reines to act, while Reines used Xu Fu’s gathered information to prepare the Unreturning Formation.
• Reines activated the Unreturning Formation, and Bai Mo drove back the Oga Giant Spirit, shattered the Landao Tianwu Giant Spirit, and charged toward Qin Hong’s Giant Spirit.

Landao Tianwu sent Zhang Xianzhong to capture Hinako Akuta’s group while Bai Mo fought Qin Hong and his Giant Spirits. Bai Mo shattered Qin Hong’s Giant Spirit, but an empowered, invisible fourth Giant Spirit stabbed him from behind.

• Landao Tianwu released Zhang Xianzhong from a sealed container and ordered him to capture Hinako Akuta’s group.
• Bai Mo fought Qin Hong, Oga, and the other Giant Spirits while Zhang Xianzhong headed for the intruders.
• Bai Mo used Sky Explosive Fists to disrupt Qin Hong’s Ultimate Infinity and expose an opening.
• Bai Mo and the Oga War God shattered Qin Hong’s Giant Spirit, and Laevateinn prevented it from recovering.
• As Bai Mo moved to descend, the invisible fourth Giant Spirit pierced him through the body from behind.

After Qin Hong fell unconscious, a white Giant Spirit emerged and forced Bai Mo into a battle against a complete realm beyond his own. Bai Mo identified the opponent’s combined technique as Blue Dream’s Supreme Principles Explosive Stance, while the fight remained unresolved.

• Landao Tianwu hesitated to wake Qin Hong as the white Giant Spirit appeared behind him and attacked Bai Mo.
• The Giant Spirit’s power overwhelmed Bai Mo’s defenses, and Tiandao explained that an ultimate powerhouse’s complete realm could surpass the final realm.
• Olga Marie asked Da Vinci about transferring Bai Mo to safety, but Da Vinci could not analyze the Giant Spirit; Shiki assured her that Bai Mo was safe for now.
• Bai Mo analyzed the Giant Spirit’s origin and abilities, then decided the battle could help him improve despite his injuries.
• The Giant Spirit created hundreds of apparent enemies and attacked Bai Mo, who used God-Severing Thunderbolt and Zen-shaking Samsara to counter it.
• Bai Mo recognized the Giant Spirit’s Jellyfish Fist as part of Blue Dream’s Supreme Principles Explosive Stance.

Qin Hong woke in a hazy mental space, unable to remember Yameng, while a voice called him Uncle Qin Hong and offered to free him from remembering the Blue Dream. Aboveground, Bai Mo fought the white Giant Spirit and unleashed the power of three War Gods, but the Giant Spirit calmly reached out and made the surrounding jellyfish disappear.

• Qin Hong recalled his work on the Blue Dream Plan and his efforts to make himself, Landao Tianwu, and Oga exist as Giant Spirits.
• Qin Hong found that he could not remember Yameng and broke down in tears as he tried to recover the missing memories.
• A voice called Qin Hong Uncle Qin Hong, said their dream may have been wrong, and promised that he would no longer need to remember Blue Dream.
• A spectator entered the battlefield's residual power and vanished as the forces of the Jellyfish Fist and Blade of Hell tore him apart.
• Bai Mo fought the white Giant Spirit, recognized its Jellyfish Fist and Sea Tiger Exploding Fist combination, and judged that he had only minutes of power remaining.
• Bai Mo merged with three figures and charged the white Giant Spirit with the power of three War Gods, but the Giant Spirit reached out and melted away the surrounding jellyfish.

Bai Mo overcame the white Giant Spirit’s power that had disabled his arms by turning his organs into an iron arm and unleashing a devastating final strike. He drained the Giant Spirit’s attempts to recover, and the three remaining Giant Spirits dissipated after their opponent sacrificed itself to prevent Bai Mo from quickly returning to full strength.

• The white Giant Spirit’s Jellyfish Fist power rendered Bai Mo’s arms unusable while spectators and Olga Marie feared he had lost.
• Bai Mo allowed the Giant Spirit to destroy his arms, then revealed his hollow body and formed an iron arm from his organs.
• Bai Mo and the Giant Spirit collided with the Supreme Principles Whale-Slaying Fist and Sea Tiger Exploding Fist, sending the resulting antimatter blast into space and damaging the Great Wall.
• Bai Mo’s iron fist pierced the Giant Spirit and stayed embedded, allowing Bai Mo to absorb most of the life force it gathered to recover.
• The Giant Spirit struck its own body, releasing a burst of rainbow light, and the three remaining Giant Spirits dissipated.

Qin Hong woke from a dreamlike projection of Landao Tianwu as Bai Mo recovered and the group moved to find Ritsuka. Qin Liangyu stayed behind to fight Zhang Xianzhong, but Bai Mo arrived in time to knock him away and rushed toward Landao Tianwu's room.

• Qin Hong woke after Landao Tianwu told him they had found their destination through the Kuaiji Type Zero, but Qin Hong remembered that Tianwu had disappeared in Northern Europe and recognized the projection as a denial of reality.
• Xu Fu healed Bai Mo after his fight with the white Giant Spirit, and Bai Mo reflected on the creature's ability to transform power and sever magnetic field control.
• Ritsuka, Hinako Akuta, and Qin Liangyu encountered Zhang Xianzhong on their way to Landao Tianwu's room, and Qin Liangyu stayed behind while Hinako Akuta took Ritsuka ahead.
• Ritsuka's Gandr triggered Hinako Akuta's curse and brought Zhang Xianzhong down, while Qin Liangyu continued fighting him and prepared to risk her life.
• Bai Mo arrived as Zhang Xianzhong attacked Qin Liangyu, crushed his skull with a punch, gave Qin Liangyu Asura Way power to heal, and charged toward the room.

Ritsuka and Hinako Akuta fought Qin Hong and the Dream-Creating Beast Group, but Bai Mo arrived before Qin Hong could kill Ritsuka. Qin Hong revealed that Landao Tianwu was dead and sacrificed himself so the artificial intelligence modeled on Tianwu could carry on the blue dream.

• Ritsuka unleashed lightning that disrupted the Dream Creators, and Hinako Akuta destroyed the last Dream-Creating Beast Group member before Qin Hong struck her down.
• Qin Hong attacked Ritsuka, but Bai Mo intercepted the blow and confronted him about his past and the blue dream.
• Landao Tianwu's projection urged Qin Hong to escape with the Kuaiji Type Zero, but Qin Hong revealed that the projection was an artificial intelligence he had created after Tianwu died.
• Qin Hong said he would hold Bai Mo off, transferred his Dream Creator to the mechanical giant, and told the intelligence to pursue the blue dream.
• Qin Hong removed the Dream Creator from his head, and a faint white figure emerged from his body before dissipating.

Bai Mo defeated Qin Hong’s mechanical guardian while Qin Hong escaped with Kuaiji Type Zero, and the Dream Creator vowed to carry on Lan’s dream under Qin Hong’s name. Bai Mo pursued them to a golden rift, where Kuaiji Type Zero pushed Hinako Akuta away and vanished with Qin Hong, leaving her devastated.

• Landao Tianwu cursed Qin Hong for giving the position of god to an artificial intelligence, while Bai Mo attacked the mechanical giant guarding Qin Hong.
• Qin Hong grabbed Kuaiji Type Zero and fled as Hinako Akuta tried and failed to catch him.
• Bai Mo destroyed the mechanical giant and took its Dream Creator, while the AI promised to complete the Blue Dream Plan using the name Qin Hong.
• Bai Mo caught up with Hinako Akuta and found Qin Hong near a golden rift that looked like the Inner Sea of the Planet.
• Kuaiji Type Zero knocked Hinako Akuta away and crashed into Qin Hong, and both disappeared into the golden light.
• Bai Mo realized Landao Tianwu had likely altered Kuaiji Type Zero’s programming, but Hinako Akuta refused to believe Lord Xiang Yu had rejected her freely.

Bai Mo and Ritsuka found Lanling Wang alive but gravely damaged after his Spirit Core was removed, while Hinako Akuta resolved to help him. Meanwhile, Zhang Xianzhong survived Bai Mo’s attack and secretly began rebuilding his power in Blue Country as Bai Mo and Qin Liangyu pursued him.

• Bai Mo returned to the underground facility with Hinako Akuta and found Lanling Wang in a prison-like ward, his Spirit Core missing but his Command Spells still present.
• Ritsuka reassured Hinako Akuta that they could help Lanling Wang recover and avenge him, and the two went to assist with the investigation.
• Zhang Xianzhong climbed out of a Blue Country sewer, killed a passerby who insulted him, and disguised himself in the man’s clothes.
• Qin Liangyu searched the sewers for Zhang Xianzhong, and Bai Mo told her he was likely elsewhere and directed her toward his location.

Blue Country’s nobles considered serving Bai Mo after Zhang Xianzhong’s defeat, while Zhang sought their help to regain his strength. Qin Liangyu confronted him, but some nobles turned against her before Bai Mo appeared and struck Zhang down.

• Blue Country’s nobles discussed whether Bai Mo was independent of Qin Shi Huang and considered switching their allegiance.
• Zhang Xianzhong entered the nobles’ meeting and asked who would still follow him, but no one answered.
• Qin Liangyu arrived and attacked Zhang Xianzhong, accusing him of causing her village’s destruction.
• Several nobles sided with Zhang Xianzhong, and one struck Qin Liangyu from behind as she fought him.
• Bai Mo appeared behind Zhang Xianzhong and punched through his steel body, blasting him to the ground.

Bai Mo confronted Zhang Xianzhong and the other powerful figures in the city, rejecting their offers of wealth and authority and condemning their exploitation of Blue Country’s people. He demanded that they die and prepared to enforce his judgment by power.

• Bai Mo sealed the area and approached Zhang Xianzhong, who tried to save himself by offering resources, wealth, and obedience.
• Several people urged Bai Mo to take control and offered to crown him, while Zhang Xianzhong seethed at their betrayal.
• Bai Mo demanded that Zhang Xianzhong and the others kill themselves, then condemned them for profiting from the suffering of Blue Country’s lower classes.
• Zhang Xianzhong accused Bai Mo of hypocrisy by invoking Qin Shi Huang, but Bai Mo said he did not approve of Qin Shi Huang’s rule.
• Bai Mo explained that he would use superior power to punish those who ruled through power, while Qin Liangyu gripped her spear and watched.

Bai Mo forced Zhang Xianzhong to fight after stripping him of his power and followers, and Zhang’s defeat drove him into a murderous frenzy. Zhang created the Self-Breaking Way by transforming himself into a beast, but Bai Mo’s Nidhogg’s Bite pierced his heart and filled him with poison and curses.

• Bai Mo challenged Zhang Xianzhong to face him with his own strength, and Zhang attacked with the Heavenly Martial Killing Way.
• Bai Mo countered Zhang’s techniques, severed his wrist, broke his ribs, and beat him into a window.
• Zhang Xianzhong killed a subordinate who had urged Bai Mo to replace him, then declared that he would kill everyone he considered disloyal.
• Zhang turned his anger inward and developed the Self-Breaking Way, using his power to damage and transform his brain into a beastlike state.
• Bai Mo struck Zhang with his twin blades, but Zhang kept transforming until Nidhogg’s Bite pierced his heart and unleashed poison and curses through his body.

Bai Mo fought Zhang Xianzhong after the latter’s Self-Breaking Way transformed him into a beastlike fighter with heightened senses and reactions. Zhang Xianzhong escaped Bai Mo’s attacks and began eating the bodies in the room, leaving the survivors terrified.

• Bai Mo and Qin Liangyu saw Zhang Xianzhong tear the venomous flesh from his chest and behave erratically.
• Bai Mo reasoned that Landao Tianwu had kept Zhang Xianzhong alive because Supreme Principles for Ordering the World had foretold his potential, then attacked to test his Self-Breaking Way.
• Zhang Xianzhong recovered from his injuries and dodged Bai Mo’s attacks with animalistic movements.
• Bai Mo’s Heaven-Severing Way killed most of the people in the room, but Zhang Xianzhong evaded its power.
• Bai Mo analyzed how the Self-Breaking Way enhanced Zhang Xianzhong’s realm, perception, and reactions at the cost of his humanity.
• Zhang Xianzhong fled into the pile of bodies, tore off a thigh, and ate it while the surviving people recoiled in fear.

Bai Mo fought Zhang Xianzhong after the latter fixated on Qin Liangyu and attacked her. Zhang Xianzhong was poisoned by Nidhogg's Bite, escaped the room, and died as Bai Mo explained the destructive effects of the Self-Breaking Way.

• The survivors begged Qin Liangyu for protection, and Zhang Xianzhong turned his attention toward her before lunging.
• Bai Mo intercepted Zhang Xianzhong and fought him while the Second War God struck him, but Zhang Xianzhong continued trying to reach Qin Liangyu.
• Qin Liangyu received Han Xin's message that Qin Shi Huang wanted Zhang Xianzhong kept alive for research, but Bai Mo objected and continued arguing with Qin Shi Huang.
• Zhang Xianzhong pounced again, then collapsed as Nidhogg's Bite's poison and curse spread through his body.
• Bai Mo lifted the room's restrictions, and Zhang Xianzhong crawled outside before dying amid the crowd's retaliation.
• Bai Mo concluded that the Self-Breaking Way's severe side effects made it harmful to its user as well as others.

After Qin Liangyu returned covered in Zhang Xianzhong’s blood, Ritsuka brought her to the hotel baths to wash and talk. Qin Liangyu worried that Bai Mo might oppose Qin Shi Huang, but Ritsuka argued that people should be free to seek a better life and persuaded her to enjoy the bath with a friend.

• Ritsuka found Qin Liangyu covered in Zhang Xianzhong’s blood and took her to the hotel baths to wash it off.
• Qin Liangyu washed with a wooden bucket instead of soaking in the luxurious pool, warning Ritsuka against excessive indulgence.
• Qin Liangyu asked whether Ritsuka opposed Qin Shi Huang’s rule, and Ritsuka questioned why ordinary people who made the palace’s luxuries could not enjoy better lives themselves.
• Ritsuka argued that people should not be forced to abandon hopes for a better future, and reminded Qin Liangyu that she had sought a more stable life for Blue Country’s people.
• Ritsuka pulled Qin Liangyu into the pool, and Qin Liangyu decided to treat the bath as psychological cleansing and train harder afterward.

Bai Mo and Qin Shi Huang agreed to settle their conflict through an honorable contest rather than a war that would kill many people. Qin Shi Huang sent Chaldea records of his secrets and forthcoming body, while in Xianyang he prepared to use his analysis of a white Giant Spirit.

• Bai Mo and Xu Fu continued testing Zhang Xianzhong’s technique on a head, but their experiment failed again.
• Qin Shi Huang asked Chaldea whether they intended to wage war or make peace, and Bai Mo rejected one-sided compromise.
• Bai Mo called for a fight, but after Qin Liangyu raised concerns about Landao Tianwu, he proposed a contest that would kill fewer people.
• Qin Shi Huang accepted the honorable contest and sent documents about himself and his forthcoming body to Bai Mo’s group.
• In Xianyang, Qin Shi Huang asked how the analysis of the white Giant Spirit was progressing and said it was time to use what had resulted from allowing two people into Mount Li.

Bai Mo and Xu Fu reviewed Qin Shi Huang’s intelligence and suspected he had used their agreed three-day delay to prepare, though he had missed an earlier chance to attack. In Xianyang, they met Qin Shi Huang after he had become a Corpse Liberation Immortal, leaving the group to face his transformed power.

• Bai Mo told Xu Fu that Qin Shi Huang might have used the three-day agreement to prepare and could have attacked earlier when Bai Mo was weakened.
• Bai Mo said Xu Fu might be key to dealing with Qin Shi Huang, and she reluctantly traveled with the group to Xianyang.
• At Epang Palace, Ritsuka, Hinako Akuta, and Qin Liangyu chose to enter and witness the meeting, while the captain of the guard went to watch with Han Xin.
• Bai Mo’s group found Li Shuwen and Han Xin waiting inside, then saw Qin Shi Huang seated in an immortal form.
• Qin Shi Huang thanked Hinako Akuta for helping him transcend the limits of the human body and overcome the Primordial Spirit’s shackles.

Bai Mo challenged Qin Shi Huang to a fight and argued that Great Qin’s peace and prosperity came at the cost of its people’s freedom, while Qin Shi Huang defended his rule and revealed the technologies behind his powers. The fight continued as Qin Shi Huang disclosed that he had helped create the Blue Country to obtain its technology.

• Qin Shi Huang lit the imperial audience hall and lamented that his former ministers had withered away.
• Bai Mo rejected the idea of offering counsel and challenged Qin Shi Huang to fight, while Xu Fu pleaded with him to avoid battle.
• Bai Mo attacked with the Blade of Hell, the Sword of Victory, and his martial techniques as Qin Shi Huang countered with mercury weapons and defended Great Qin’s two thousand years of peace.
• Bai Mo argued that Great Qin’s people lacked the freedoms and attractions found in the Blue Country, and Qin Shi Huang defended his system of calculated lives and prescribed duties.
• Qin Shi Huang explained that Epang Palace functioned as his mechanical body and that he used it to control mercury and dissipate attacks.
• Qin Shi Huang revealed that he had used Qin Hong and Landao Tianwu’s Giant Spirit technology and had allowed the Blue Country to form so he could obtain it.

Landao Tianwu realized Qin Shi Huang had manipulated him, while Bai Mo’s attack pierced Qin Shi Huang but left him trapped by mercury controlled throughout Epang Palace. Qin Shi Huang revealed Epang Palace as his Grotto-Heaven Noble Phantasm and declared his plan to extend its control over the world.

• Landao Tianwu cursed Qin Shi Huang for scheming against him, and Bai Lubao mocked him in the Martial God Space.
• Qin Shi Huang attacked with mercury, and Bai Mo froze it before countering with Tiandao and Great Saber’s combined powers.
• Bai Mo struck Qin Shi Huang with Avici Uninterrupted, piercing his body and prompting Ritsuka and Xu Fu to believe the battle had turned in their favor.
• Mercury inside Bai Mo’s body immobilized him, and Qin Shi Huang explained that Epang Palace let him control the natural world within it.
• Da Vinci warned Ritsuka to leave Epang Palace, and Qin Shi Huang identified the palace as his Grotto-Heaven Noble Phantasm and described his plan to expand its control across the world.

Bai Mo confronted Qin Shi Huang over his plan to control every person in his world, then used the emperor’s own analysis of a Giant Spirit to master his power and attack. Xu Fu opened the vessel meant for the elixir of immortality and unleashed Immortal Killer, which pierced Qin Shi Huang’s defenses and made his immortal body feel death.

• Bai Mo accused Qin Shi Huang of turning his subjects into puppets, and Qin Shi Huang defended his rule as the best future for humanity.
• Bai Mo identified Qin Shi Huang’s rule as the line that caused the world to be pruned and challenged him to a fight.
• Bai Mo used Avici Uninterrupted to clear the mercury from his body and combined with the Three War Gods to charge Qin Shi Huang.
• Bai Mo revealed that Qin Shi Huang’s control over Epang Palace had helped him understand how to control his own power.
• Xu Fu opened the vessel for the elixir of immortality and invoked Immortal Killer, which pierced Qin Shi Huang’s chest and made him feel death.

Xu Fu used Immortal Killer to make Qin Shi Huang experience the threat of death, explaining that his perfect rule stifled humanity’s potential. Qin Shi Huang recognized the limits of his path as Bai Mo prepared to deliver a final blow.

• Xu Fu’s Immortal Killer threatened Qin Shi Huang, who was shocked that she could challenge him.
• Bai Mo said the weapon alone was enough to threaten Qin Shi Huang, while Xu Fu explained that perfection denied life the chance to change and develop.
• Bai Mo used two Command Spells to ease Xu Fu’s pain, and she unleashed Immortal Killer, driving its blade into Qin Shi Huang’s chest.
• Qin Shi Huang admitted he had misjudged Xu Fu, and she proudly defended the achievements of alchemists and other ordinary people.
• Qin Shi Huang recognized that humanity might progress further without him and chose to meet Bai Mo’s final attack with his own greatest strike.

Bai Mo forced Qin Shi Huang to recognize how his rule had distorted Great Qin, and Qin Shi Huang agreed to reconsider his policies. After a final test of strength, Qin Shi Huang sent Bai Mo the Lishan soldiers and set out to tour his realm.

• Bai Mo defeated Qin Shi Huang without killing him and urged him to fix the problems his rule had created.
• Qin Shi Huang praised Xu Fu, then learned from Hinako Akuta that Xu Fu had spent two thousand years researching how to fulfill Yu Mei-ren's unspoken wish instead of seeking immortality.
• Qin Shi Huang forgave Xu Fu for misusing his research funds, then challenged Bai Mo to test his strength before joining Bai Mo's side.
• Bai Mo and Qin Shi Huang fought until both were battered, and Bai Mo returned to his guest room to sleep.
• Qin Shi Huang ordered the captain of the guard to give Bai Mo a golden-red box and the Lishan soldiers, then set out to tour his realm with poets and painters.

Qin Shi Huang traveled toward Blue Country with poets and villagers, while Bai Mo discovered that the Realm of Immortals had supplied Great Qin with ancient technology and the Fusang Tree. The Realm was believed to be empty, but scholars at Mount Li could help Bai Mo enter it, so he was told he would have to go there himself.

• Qin Shi Huang admired poems among the mountains, then invited villagers heading to Blue Country to travel with him and promised to keep them safe.
• Bai Mo woke in Epang Palace and learned from the captain of the guard that Qin Shi Huang had left on an eastern tour.
• The captain explained that Qin Shi Huang had found the Realm of Immortals while investigating Yin-Shang technology and had taken the Fusang Tree from it.
• Ritsuka worried that Qin Hong might find a treasure in the Realm, but the captain said Qin Shi Huang had already dug through its soil and found it empty.
• Bai Mo asked how to enter the Realm of Immortals, and the captain said scholars at Mount Li could help but Bai Mo would have to go himself.

Bai Mo received Qin Shi Huang’s jade seal, which granted him authority over Epang Palace, and organized research into the Realm of Immortals while improving conditions beneath the palace. The chapter ended with Qin Hong completing Kuaiji Type Zero’s new Xiang Yu body and preparing it for battle.

• Bai Mo opened the box and found a jade seal that enthralled Xu Fu, Reines, and Ritsuka until he rapped them on the head.
• The captain of the guard explained that the seal gave Bai Mo authority over Epang Palace’s records and Mount Li’s soldiers, and Bai Mo borrowed it to find scholars who could reach the Realm of Immortals.
• Bai Mo recruited senior Great Qin scholars and Xu Fu to research the Fusang Tree, and he approved a proposal to improve the lives of the artists beneath Epang Palace.
• Bai Mo began tracking the research and investigating the current Self-Breaking Way while Ritsuka left for a meeting and Reines examined the art collection.
• Qin Hong completed Kuaiji Type Zero’s new body, which resembled an eight-meter-tall giant, and the machine announced it was ready to fight for Lan’s dream.