Recaps

Ye Jiang fought Ghost Mother after learning she was Monster No. 4, while Xiao Pei guarded the cage containing a conscious Polluted girl. The girl revealed that she could create the poisonous projectiles Ye Jiang controlled, then asked Xiao Pei to chat.

• Ye Jiang learned from Xiao Pei that their opponent was Ghost Mother, and Rong Yin confirmed that monsters could kill one another.
• Ye Jiang told Xiao Pei to guard the caged girl, identified her as a Polluted, and attacked Ghost Mother with sharp petals.
• Ghost Mother defended herself with countless masks, then shattered Ye Jiang’s petals and sent the masks after her.
• The girl distracted Xiao Pei and escaped her chains, then attacked her with pollution-infused twigs that produced projectiles like Ye Jiang’s petals.
• Xiao Pei recognized that the girl had created the petal projectiles Ye Jiang controlled, and the girl asked her to chat.

Ye Jiang fought the Ghost Mother while Xiao Pei faced the Monster Level girl, and the garden owner’s near-death revealed that she was also a protagonist whose death could rewind time. The Ghost Mother sent her masks to attack everyone in the illusion, leaving Xiao Pei expecting time to reset.

• The girl escaped her cage, revealed herself as a Monster Level Polluted, and watched the fight while attacking Xiao Pei with poisonous branches.
• Ye Jiang transformed and struck the Ghost Mother with a faster punch, knocking off her hat.
• The girl poisoned the garden owner, but Ye Jiang healed her before she died, stabilizing the space and showing that the owner was another protagonist of the illusion.
• The Ghost Mother sent her masks across the city to attack the humans and offered Ye Jiang a final chance to become her child.
• Ye Jiang refused the Ghost Mother's offer and continued treating the garden owner, while the masks dove toward the city's residents.

Xiao Pei tried to separate Xiao Yu from the plants, while Ye Jiang fought Ghost Mother and protected the city. Xiao Yu then attacked Ghost Mother herself, finally getting close enough to confront the monster she had hated for over a hundred years.

• Xiao Pei bound Xiao Yu and dragged her toward the garden exit, but Xiao Yu broke free and returned to the kapok tree.
• Xiao Pei saw that the city's citizens wore armor like the Blood Knight's, while Ye Jiang revealed her powers by summoning dark red masks.
• Ye Jiang battered Ghost Mother with increasingly fast punches, and Ghost Mother transformed into a giant after admitting she had held back because Ye Jiang interested her.
• Xiao Yu broke free of Xiao Pei's chains and stabbed Ghost Mother's chest with a poisonous branch as Ye Jiang dodged her attack.
• Xiao Yu called Ghost Mother "Auntie" and said she was happy to have finally gotten close to her, letting her hatred show.

Ghost Mother devoured Xiao Yu, who had spent over a hundred years cultivating deadly poison inside herself, and the poison began destroying the monster. Ye Jiang and Xiao Pei attacked Ghost Mother, but her true form survived, and her Pollution incapacitated Xiao Pei as Ye Jiang protected her.

• Ghost Mother revealed that she had seen through Xiao Yu’s disguise and her plan to exploit the monster’s weakness, then swallowed her before Ye Jiang could save her.
• Ghost Mother’s body began to rot as the poison Xiao Yu had prepared took effect, and Ye Jiang recognized the decay as the scent she had carried.
• Xiao Pei and Ye Jiang attacked the weakened Ghost Mother, tearing into her body, but she remained alive and began releasing her true form and Pollution.
• Ghost Mother’s Pollution caused Xiao Pei to vomit and lose consciousness, while Ye Jiang caught her and used her abilities to heal and protect her.
• Ghost Mother mocked humans and the partnership between Ye Jiang and Xiao Pei, insisting that poison and their abilities could not kill a high-level monster.

Ghost Mother assumed her true form and attacked Ye Jiang, while Rong Yin tried to protect her and revealed that he believed she was too injured to win. Ye Jiang rejected his help and pressed Ghost Mother about Xiao Yu as the fight continued.

• Ghost Mother shed her host's rotten flesh, spread mental pollution across the city, and fixed her hungry gaze on Ye Jiang.
• Rong Yin stepped in to face Ghost Mother, but Ye Jiang refused his protection and chose to fight her herself.
• Ghost Mother attacked Ye Jiang and Rong Yin with roots, while Rong Yin used black holes to intercept the blows.
• Rong Yin recognized Ghost Mother as a monster beyond the normal limit and prepared to kill her after Ye Jiang had fought.
• Ye Jiang struggled to approach Ghost Mother, who taunted her about revealing her true form.
• Ye Jiang asked Ghost Mother whom she had eaten who was close to Xiao Yu, and Ghost Mother identified Xiao Yu as her daughter.

Ye Jiang revealed her true form as “Sky” and killed Ghost Mother, then returned to the Ability Control Bureau’s base exhausted after treating the others. Xiao Pei woke to find the survivors safe, and Ye Jiang asked the Bureau to pay her treatment fees.

• Ye Jiang stopped dodging Ghost Mother’s attacks and revealed herself as “Sky,” suppressing Ghost Mother with the wind.
• Ghost Mother realized she was facing “Sky” and was sliced apart by the wind before she could escape.
• The young man caught Ye Jiang as she weakened, and she insisted she had not weakened as much as he thought.
• Xiao Pei woke at the Ability Control Bureau’s base and found Ye Jiang, the citizens, Ming Chun, and Ming Xia safe.
• Ye Jiang told Xiao Pei that Ghost Mother was dead and asked the Ability Control Bureau to settle her treatment fees.

After the Ghost Mother’s attack froze the illusion, Ye Jiang repaired it and erased outsiders’ memories from its inhabitants, setting the story on course for its ending. The chapter then returned to the true history from three hundred years earlier, where Ye Yanran told stories to the silent Ye Jiang in the hospital.

• Xiao Pei worried that the damaged illusion might trap them, but Ye Jiang assured her it would not and denied being hurt.
• Xiao Pei ruffled Ye Jiang’s hair, and Ye Jiang later allowed the young man to touch her hair in return.
• After recovering from being overdrawn, Ye Jiang restored the illusion, making time flow again and recalling the armor from the city’s inhabitants.
• Ye Jiang told Xiao Pei that she had purged outsiders and their memories from the illusion, and said its ending was coming.
• At the hospital, Ye Yanran acted out a story for Ye Jiang, who remained silent as she had in the true past three hundred years earlier.

Ye Yanran and the Special Affairs Office set out to retrieve Jing Qiu, a newly reported Living Dead, while Ye Jiang warned Ye Yanran that the afflicted were already dead. The team arrived at Zhao Yuantong’s estate and found him brutally killed on the lawn.

• Ye Yanran told Ye Jiang that the Special Affairs Office had received a report about a new Living Dead, and Ye Jiang silently warned her that the Living Dead were already dead.
• Ye Jiang followed Ye Yanran and her colleagues as they drove to the suburbs, with Xiao Pei following Ye Jiang.
• Ye Yanran learned that Jing Qiu, a beloved elderly woman supported by Zhao Yuantong, had become a Living Dead and that Zhao Yuantong’s acquaintance had asked the Special Affairs Office to treat her.
• Xiao Pei sensed danger at the estate, and Ye Yanran found Zhao Yuantong lying dead and mutilated on the lawn beyond the gates.

Ye Yanran witnessed an A-Rank Polluted massacre the city and kill her teammates, then lost herself amid the destruction. Ye Jiang reached her in the illusion and told her that the people she grieved were already dead.

• Ye Yanran saw the centipede-like Polluted impale Qin Xiu, Pang Wen, and Jia Le, while Xiao Pei recognized it as an A-Rank Polluted.
• Ye Yanran tried to attack the monstrosity, but it blasted the car with fire and raced toward the city, leaving her wounded and unable to stop it.
• The Polluted and the Living Dead rampaged through the city, killing civilians; Living Dead No. 2 impaled a family as Ye Yanran watched helplessly.
• Ye Jiang found Ye Yanran sitting outside the hospital amid the dead experts and their bloodstained research documents.
• In the illusion, Ye Jiang ignored Xiao Pei's warning, approached Ye Yanran as she had three hundred years earlier, and told her, "They're already dead."

Ye Jiang witnessed Ye Yanran sacrifice herself as an aberration to destroy the Living Dead and protect the city, then absorbed the energy released when the illusion ended. Back in the cave, Ye Jiang reached SSS-Rank, while Xiao Pei struggled to voice her suspicion about what Ye Jiang was.

• Ye Jiang offered Ye Yanran energy to kill the Living Dead, warning that the power would kill her and bring no praise.
• Ye Yanran transformed into an enormous aberration, killed the Living Dead, and died after shielding the city with her body.
• Xiao Pei realized the aberration became the mountain range remembered in a story as a hero’s victory.
• A newborn black creature absorbed the unstable energy around Ye Yanran’s remains, and Ye Jiang picked it up before the illusion collapsed.
• The outsiders returned to the cave as the remaining energy entered Ye Jiang, and she saw her rank rise to SSS-Rank.
• Xiao Pei looked at Ye Jiang and struggled to express her growing suspicion about her identity.

Ye Jiang revealed that she created the Blood Moon, the Moon Tree, and the Toy Mall to help humanity, and told Xiao Pei that the Blood Moon could control ability users as a side effect. After Xiao Pei learned that Ming Chun had regained consciousness after Ye Jiang removed a monster’s body tissue, Ming Chun said she needed to go to the City of Flowers to honor a deal with a girl.

• Ye Jiang showed Xiao Pei a missing part of the illusion in which Ye Yanran chose to die as an experiment to awaken human abilities, leading to the Blood Moon’s creation.
• Ye Jiang confirmed that she created the Blood Moon, the Moon Tree, and the Toy Mall, and explained that she wanted to protect human lives because their emotions fascinated her.
• Ye Jiang told Xiao Pei that the Blood Moon could control ability users, but declared that she stood with humanity; Xiao Pei accepted the revelation and prepared to report it to the Ability Control Bureau.
• Ming Xia told Xiao Pei that Ye Jiang had removed a monster’s body tissue from Ming Chun, restoring her consciousness after she nearly attacked City A.
• Ye Jiang said the hostile monster tissue had appeared in the Toy Mall, and Xiao Pei gathered the rescued citizens to return to the Ability Control Bureau.
• Ming Chun declined to go with Xiao Pei immediately because she had promised a girl she would go to the City of Flowers, prompting Xiao Pei to ask what had happened between them in the illusion.

Ming Chun learned that the flower girl’s “seed” was condensed vitality, then continued to Huanxia City to fulfill her promise as the world’s war against the World Destroyer unfolded. Xiao Pei discovered that three years had passed while she was in the Watch Mountain Range, and Ming Chun arrived in a ruined Huanxia City amid humanity’s ongoing counteroffensive.

• Ming Chun recalled how the plant-type Polluted girl spared her, gave her a seed of vitality, and asked her to plant it in Huanxia City.
• Ye Jiang identified the seed as condensed vitality, and Xiao Pei learned that the girl’s power may have helped make Huanxia City fertile.
• Ming Chun parted from Xiao Pei, Ming Xia, Ye Jiang, and Rong Yin, and the others returned to M City, where Xiao Pei learned that three years had passed and the World Destroyer had devastated the world.
• Ming Chun reached Huanxia City and learned that the World Destroyer had raised an army of S-Rank Polluted and captured more than half of humanity’s cities.
• The Ability Control Bureau and allied monsters maintained four major bases while human ability users fought to evacuate civilians from the fallen cities.

Ming Chun entered the deserted City of Flowers, where she discovered four S-Rank Polluted and learned Qin Daichuan had hidden the city’s million citizens in a concealed barrier. She agreed to help fight the Polluted and entrusted a seed to a guesthouse owner, who asked whether the girl who had given it to Ming Chun would return.

• Ming Chun encountered an S-Rank Polluted whose voice spread rust, then Qin Daichuan warned her that three more Polluted were closing in.
• Qin Daichuan led Ming Chun to the Simulated Space, where a million citizens of the City of Flowers were concealed from the four Polluted.
• Qin Daichuan recognized Ming Chun as a Polluted, and she revealed that she was Mushroom Man and had recently parted from Xiao Pei.
• Qin Daichuan asked Ming Chun to help defeat the four Polluted before the barrier expired, and she agreed, hoping to make amends for her past rampage.
• Ming Chun entrusted the guesthouse owner with a seed to plant after the disasters ended, and the owner asked whether the girl who had given it to her would return.

Xiao Pei joined Ming Chun, Qin Daichuan, and Zhao Yi in City of Flowers as humanity’s counterattack began, while the chapter showed a rescue operation in City C unraveling after civilians were intercepted. Ye Jiang returned to the Toy Mall and opened the Domination section of her Ability System.

• Xiao Pei arrived in City of Flowers, stopped Ming Chun from sending a farewell message, and gathered the four S-Rank ability users for the coming counterattack.
• A giant gate to the Toy Mall appeared above City of Flowers, and Xiao Pei announced that humanity’s counterattack was beginning.
• Xiao Pei and the other ability users fought the S-Rank Polluted, with her chains binding and pulling the flying eyeball from the sky.
• A wounded young ability user in City C learned that the last civilians had been intercepted after their evacuation item failed, and she resolved to keep fighting.
• The Toy Mall’s gate appeared through the Pollution in City C, giving the young ability user hope that the legendary Healer had returned.
• Ye Jiang walked out of the Ability Control Bureau, summoned her Ability System, and opened the Domination section to view its three storage slots.

Ye Jiang returned and used the miracles to heal and strengthen humanity, inspiring people everywhere to counterattack. She sent Rong Yin to face the World Destroyer while she prepared to help the wounded, as the Gambler watched the fighting until his sight-bug network suddenly went dark.

• Ye Jiang raised the hidden door and manifested the Blood Moon and Moon Tree, whose gifts healed humans outside the fallen zones and greatly strengthened their abilities.
• Inspired by the miracles, humans across the cities rose and charged back into battle, while Ye Jiang returned to the mall and reunited with Dong Zhen, Shi Li, Luo Manyu, and the other monsters.
• Ye Jiang asked the monsters whether they could fight the Gambler, and Rong Yin volunteered to take on the World Destroyer so she could attend to people in the fallen zones.
• The Gambler watched humanity's renewed resistance and planned to fill the fallen zone with captured survivors, confident that the World Destroyer would prevail.
• The sight-bug signals abruptly vanished, and the Gambler's vision filled with countless arrows aimed at his eyes.

Ye Jiang confronted Gambler, broke the Barrier of Bewilderment, and healed the humans trapped in the fallen zone. She then left for another fallen zone and arrived at a ruined city where she had once lived.

• Ye Jiang rescued a human scout and learned from Gambler how he had turned the fallen zone into a living hell.
• Ye Jiang attacked Gambler with multiplying arrows, while Shi Li and three other high-level monsters arrived to fight him.
• Ye Jiang shattered the Barrier of Bewilderment and entered the city as Shi Li held Gambler back.
• Ye Jiang restored the trapped humans' clarity and health with dark red energy, then departed for the next fallen zone.
• Ye Jiang arrived at a ruined city where she had once lived.

Ye Jiang joined Rong Yin in fighting the World Destroyer above City A, where he revealed his plan to become the Sovereign of Power by turning humans into Polluted and absorbing their abilities. The World Destroyer continued his assault while Ye Jiang and Rong Yin protected the city below.

• Ye Jiang shielded City A and rushed to Rong Yin's aid when the World Destroyer taunted and attacked him.
• Ye Jiang and Rong Yin fought the World Destroyer together, and she restored her steel pipe after his Devour ability swallowed part of it.
• The World Destroyer explained that Devour would let him become the Sovereign of Power and unleashed attacks using many different abilities.
• Rong Yin and Ye Jiang blocked the World Destroyer's barrage with black holes and a barrier, protecting the humans below.
• Ye Jiang realized the World Destroyer planned to turn humans into Polluted and absorb the powers of specially selected ones.

Ye Jiang revealed her power to the World Destroyer and struck him down, only for him to assume his giant true form and challenge her. The young man then emerged in his own true form as Ye Jiang handed him the battle, while reports of her miracle rallied humanity to counterattack.

• Ye Jiang realized she was the former Sovereign of Power of the Inner World and unleashed many abilities against the World Destroyer.
• The World Destroyer recognized Ye Jiang as the Surface World's Sovereign of Power and was smashed against the city's barrier by her giant sword.
• The World Destroyer transformed into a colossal monster and vowed to kill Ye Jiang and become the world's Sovereign of Power.
• The young man appeared in his true form, and Ye Jiang dispersed her sword and yielded the battlefield to him.
• At the Ability Control Bureau, Zhu Yi and the officials began planning a counterattack after the Healer's command.
• The messenger received reports of cities preparing to fight and gifts from the miracle, as humanity rallied around the Healer's actions.

Ye Jiang traveled between fallen zones, healing survivors and opening them to rescue, then returned to City A as the monsters’ battles continued. A month later, the Slaughter God defeated the World Destroyer, who revealed that he was a Half-Step Sovereign of Power before something abruptly seized him.

• Yu Qingyi rescued a child and reassured them that some monsters were humanity’s friends, while recognizing that the Healer was also a monster and humanity’s object of faith.
• Ye Jiang healed fallen zones across the region, allowing waiting ability users to enter and rescue their compatriots.
• Ye Jiang watched humans fight without intervening, then returned to City A after half a month, where Shi Li and the other monsters reported the Gambler’s death.
• The monsters continued fighting above City A, and Ye Jiang watched as the star-chain monster gradually consumed the World Destroyer’s smoky-mud form.
• The defeated World Destroyer proclaimed that he was a Half-Step Sovereign of Power, then suddenly stiffened in midair as the faces within his mud showed terror.

Ye Jiang severed the World Destroyer’s control over his dependents as humanity’s courage and emotions drove her power to infinity. After reconnecting with all living beings and sensing the two worlds’ blurred boundary, she was plunged into a soundless darkness and wondered where she was and who she was.

• The World Destroyer realized his connections to his S-Rank Polluted had been severed as the black growths fell away, and he accused Ye Jiang of taking his dependents back.
• Ye Jiang told the World Destroyer that human strength came from more than abilities, as people across the battlefield fought to protect one another and her rank climbed.
• The World Destroyer recognized Ye Jiang as the candidate who had once looked down on him, but a black hole swallowed him before he could finish speaking.
• Ye Jiang’s rank reached 99S and changed to ∞ as the living beings of the world became connected to her, and the young man asked whether she had fully recovered.
• Ye Jiang saw her Inner World Sovereign status return and perceived a black hole in the sky where the Inner World and Surface World overlapped, before everything went dark.
• In a pitch-black room, Ye Jiang wondered where she was and who she was.

A nameless being emerged from a sealed house with a young man and glimpsed countless human lives, stirring memories of a time when Coal Ball watched the human world with her. As peach blossoms began to wither, the chapter shifted to Rong Yin’s past and revealed how a powerful monster had taken him in and raised him.

• A being watched peach trees bloom beyond a crack in a house, then opened the window and met a young man who asked whether she had forgotten him.
• The being formed a body, took the young man’s hand, and followed him through the peach grove to a cliff overlooking countless homes and ordinary people.
• The young man said the being liked humans, triggering her memories of watching people with Coal Ball and asking whether he would help humans in need.
• The young man led the being back to the house, asked to enter with her, and stayed as they watched the peach blossoms grow more abundant.
• A wind sent peach blossoms raining through the grove, and the young man realized the withering was beginning.
• Rong Yin recalled being a weak newborn monster until a powerful monster took him away, gave him energy, and built him an amusement park.

Rong Yin confessed his desire to possess Sky in her world of consciousness, and she accepted him, allowing him to hold her. The peach grove faded without collapsing, and Rong Yin returned to reality sensing that Sky had become the Sovereign of Power and was now his master.

• Rong Yin confessed that he had loved and worshipped Sky while also wanting to possess her.
• Sky told Rong Yin she allowed him to possess her, but only a little.
• The peach grove faded, and Rong Yin and Sky returned to the real world.
• Rong Yin sensed that Sky had become the Sovereign of Power and was his master.

Ye Jiang recovered her memories and learned how the breach between the Surface World and the Inner World had weakened both worlds. With energy from both worlds, she repaired the breach completely, ending their long decline.

• Rong Yin realized Ye Jiang had returned to her place as Sovereign of Power and awkwardly released her while Shi Li and the other monsters watched in shock.
• Ye Jiang regained her memories and understood that Rong Yin had always been looking at her, but turned her attention to the breach in the sky.
• Ye Jiang recalled that the breach had weakened successive Sovereigns of Power, destabilized the Inner World's energy cycle, and intertwined the fates of both worlds.
• Ye Jiang gathered energy from the Surface World and the Inner World, then sent it into the breach to seal it completely.
• Dark red snow fell across both worlds, carrying away small clusters of pollution as their living beings felt the worlds' relief and anguish.

Six months after the World Destroyer’s fall, humanity rebuilt as pollution declined, and Ye Jiang reunited with Yu Qingyi before returning to the Toy Mall with Rong Yin. After helping Yu Qingyi hold a funeral for her deceased friend, Ye Jiang learned Rong Yin had left the Ability Control Bureau a promise of protection and accepted his advances.

• Seven days of snow passed, and humanity discovered that pollution levels had dropped; the dark red moon remained in the sky.
• Six months later, Yu Qingyi encountered Ye Jiang, who had recovered after repairing the barrier and came to ask Yu Qingyi to talk.
• Ye Jiang returned the host’s remains to Yu Qingyi, and they held a funeral in City A.
• Ye Jiang asked Rong Yin if he had left the Ability Control Bureau’s promise that humanity could seek his help, and Rong Yin confirmed he had.
• Rong Yin kissed the back of his hand while covering Ye Jiang’s eyes, and Ye Jiang decided to let him take the lead in dating.
• The Toy Mall arrived near a remote city where fields of flowers bloomed.