Recaps

Ye Jiang traveled to Shuiling Town to find Mei Ti and became involved in the town’s persecution of modified humans, treating Yuan De and securing medicine for the residents. When the Weird Snow began swallowing townspeople, Ye Jiang and Hua Ling sought help from a resentful gravekeeper, who refused to assist them.

• Ye Jiang left the Ability Control Bureau after treating Yun Hua, kept her ties to Dong Zhen despite warnings, and discovered that her ability rank had risen to C.
• Ye Jiang found Invisible Man in the A-S Wilderness Zone and destroyed the corruption within his water form, then secretly reunited with him after the Bureau believed he was dead.
• Ye Jiang accepted a mission to find Mei Ti in Shuiling Town, met Rong Yin and Hua Ling, and investigated Mei Ti’s home and the energy-bearing willow leaves.
• Hua Ling explained the town’s history of discrimination against modified humans, and Ye Jiang treated Yuan De until he woke as a human.
• After strange snow began falling only over Shuiling Town, Ye Jiang rescued Old Zhao from beneath it and helped the residents shelter as people began disappearing.
• Ye Jiang and Rong Yin broke into the Guard’s base and secured ten days’ worth of medicine for the town, while the residents learned more about Mei Ti and her connection to the Willow Mother Tree.
• The Weird Snow began taking people from their homes, and Ye Jiang restored Li Feng from her cat-person form before joining the search for the missing residents.
• Ye Jiang and Hua Ling asked the gravekeeper to track the missing people, but he refused and said he hoped the snow would swallow more townspeople.

Ye Jiang helped Shuiling Town defeat the Guard, learned the truth about Mei Ti, and left with Shi Li’s Blood Moon mark. Back in City A, she reunited with Yu Qingyi and entered the mysterious southern district door, where the expedition became separated in a toy-filled mall.

• Ye Jiang and the townspeople defeated the A-rank contaminant, then joined forces against Zou Dongrong and Hao Ping after Zou revealed the Guard’s human hunts.
• Hua Ling explained that the townspeople had hunted Mei Ti, who had secretly made medicine, and told Ye Jiang that the residents had hoped outsiders would notice their plight.
• After the Moon Tree shattered, Ye Jiang learned that Mei Ti had become a corrupted creature and named the monster who descended through her body Shi Li, who then gained a Blood Moon mark.
• Ye Jiang returned to City A, healed Yu Qingyi after a polluter attacked, and delivered Tang Su’s birthday message before an unknown S-rank ability appeared.
• Ye Jiang learned in the Monster Archives that Rong Yin was monster number 0 and heard that a mysterious door had swallowed Bureau workers, then accepted a paid mission to explore it.
• Ye Jiang entered the door with the Bureau’s expedition team, while Yu Hai awoke in a mall where giant toys threatened the trapped people.
• Ye Jiang found herself in a separate room with a cloud-covered floor and a view of City A’s southern district, where she could see outside but remained unseen.

Ye Jiang discovers that she created the mall’s wind-up toys, whose hidden space contains the exit, while Yu Hai reunites with the missing exploration team. The Ability Control Bureau begins evacuating the trapped people through the toys.

• Ye Jiang entered the toy-filled mall, met Yu Hai, and learned from Wu Si that residents had to complete toy tasks to reach higher floors.
• Ye Jiang crossed a barrier to the contaminated second floor, frightened Monsters 3, 5, and 7, and persuaded them to help find Yu Hai’s exploration team.
• Ye Jiang and Yu Hai encountered Chen Hong and Rong Yin as the toys’ missions turned violent, then were pulled into a dark version of the mall where Rong Yin explained that the toys’ consciousness depended on their creator.
• Ye Jiang found Song Cen’s remains in the toy graveyard and learned from Mirror Woman that the mall had no exit on the ninety-ninth floor and that the toys had made their own rules.
• Mirror Woman told Ye Jiang that the toys had repeatedly shown her special goodwill, prompting Ye Jiang to remember creating them and sending a monster into the mall with a booklet and a hidden gift.
• Yu Hai promised the stranded crowd he would find a way home, climbed to the ninety-ninth floor, and received his unconscious teammates from Monsters 3, 5, and 7.
• Rong Yin spotted the exit symbol inside a toy’s belly, and Ye Jiang recognized it as the way out of the mall.
• The Ability Control Bureau began evacuating the crowd through vine passages to toys on other floors, where the toys swallowed them.

Ye Jiang restored the mall, uncovered her connection to its monsters, and opened it as a place for training and cooperation. After Song Cen’s funeral, clues about a shared origin and Ghost Mother led Ye Jiang and Rong Yin to the Watch Mountain Range, where they were thrown back to 2034.

• Ye Jiang confronted the Cheng Xin impostor and helped stop the contaminated mall cats, then recovered memories of creating the mall and its toys and recognized Rong Yin as the little monster she had raised.
• Ye Jiang restored the mall, evacuated its survivors with the Bureau, and learned that the mall’s toys had only wanted to play, and Mirror Woman gave her Song Cen’s detection bead before Ye Jiang returned to the Ability Control Bureau.
• Ye Jiang told the Bureau that the mall’s Origin Power had awakened the toys, offered the mall for ability training, and warned that Cheng Xin was causing chaos, and the Bureau designated him Monster Number 10, World Destroyer.
• Ye Jiang opened the mall for ability users, recruited Luo Manyu to teach the little monsters, and let humans and monsters train and work together there.
• Ye Jiang attended Song Cen’s funeral with Mirror Woman, whose Blood Moon mark appeared, and learned that her rank had risen to SS as her system’s Domination entries grew.
• The Bureau decoded Song Cen’s message that all power shared one origin, while World Destroyer tested corrupted and ordered the Gambler to spread pollution, and Ye Jiang set out for the Watch Mountain Range with Rong Yin.
• Ye Jiang entered the mountains to search for Xiao Pei and encountered Ming Chun, but an energy distortion scattered them and brought Ye Jiang and Ming Chun to a city in 2034.
• Ming Chun went to search for Ming Xia, while Ye Jiang stayed in the past with Rong Yin following her.