Recaps

The darkness disappeared, and Shen Hui confirmed to Chi Yan that he was safe before learning that The Fool had told the Tarot Club he caused it. After arranging to visit Zhiyue and Qingxue, Shen Hui encountered survivors who had been driven mad and began worshipping him.

• The darkness vanished along with You Teng, the two Lord of Night Preselected Candidates, and everyone who had died inside it.
• Chi Yan sealed off the affected area for investigation and called Shen Hui, who told her he was safe outside the darkness.
• Shen Hui called Zhiyue and learned that The Fool had informed the Tarot Club that Shen Hui caused the darkness.
• Zhiyue told Shen Hui that Qingxue was awake but in a strange condition, and Shen Hui arranged to visit her the next day.
• Shen Hui encountered survivors muttering and drawing incoherently, and they all knelt and chanted to him as he passed.

Shen Hui returned to the Red Night Organization after the darkness swallowed several people, then confronted the Lord of Night about failing to intervene during the underground auction. The Lord of Night explained that faction leaders had restrained one another and began showing Shen Hui the deity in his Creation World.

• Shen Hui arrived at the Red Night Organization, where preselected candidates begged him to teach them how to create deities.
• Shen Hui sarcastically told the candidates to dream about it, and they mistook his joke for a real method.
• Huang Lingheng warned Shen Hui that Night's other preselected candidates had vanished in the darkness and might unite against him.
• Shen Hui accused the Lord of Night of abandoning him during the auction, and the Lord of Night said the faction leaders had kept one another from interfering.
• The Lord of Night brought forth his Creation World, replacing the room with a new world as he prepared to show Shen Hui its deity.

The Lord of Night showed Shen Hui his survival-type Creation World and explained that the powerful deity within it had grown after the divinity lock opened. He revealed that the invading monsters were Fallen Gods from the Negative World, who could be devoured by a deity to gain Divine Power, and urged Shen Hui to destroy them.

• The Lord of Night showed Shen Hui humans exploring the mist-filled paths of his survival-type Creation World and introduced its strongest monster, a powerful shadow deity.
• The Lord of Night deduced that Shen Hui had unlocked his divinity lock with a Saint Ascension-quality creation, and Shen Hui confirmed it.
• The Lord of Night explained that the invaders were Fallen Gods: forgotten or abandoned deities who had fallen into the Negative World and sought faith and Divine Power.
• The Lord of Night told Shen Hui that a deity could devour Fallen Gods and gain their Divine Power, encouraging him to eliminate them in his Creation World.

Shen Hui learned that the Negative World remained only a theory before returning to the Real World and visiting Qingxue. He discovered that distortion had infected her Creation World, leaving her unconscious and embroiling her world in conflict, and prepared to restore order by making the distortion espers dominant.

• The Lord of Night told Shen Hui that the Negative World was only a theory and asked him again to become Lord of Night, but Shen Hui declined and said he preferred to remain in the Red Night Organization.
• Shen Hui left the Red Night Organization's base and went to Zhiyue's home to see Qingxue, who was half-conscious and unresponsive.
• Shen Hui sensed distortion in Qingxue and entered her Creation World to investigate.
• Shen Hui found that distortion had created monsters and distortion espers, who were fighting true espers and driving Qingxue's world into chaos.
• Shen Hui prepared to restore order in Qingxue's Creation World by making the distortion espers dominant.

Shen Hui connected his Death World to Qingxue’s Esper World, sending Eldritch Beings to force its inhabitants to adapt to aberrant powers. As the worlds’ power systems aligned, Shen Hui gained control of Qingxue’s Creation World and decided to spread faith in Cthulhu there.

• Shen Hui opened a channel between the Death World and Qingxue’s Esper World, intending to make aberration its dominant force.
• Shen Hui sent urban legends and Eldritch Beings into the Esper World, killing or maddening normal espers while many aberrant espers grew stronger.
• Normal espers began learning to control aberrant powers as the invasion drove the Esper World toward the Death World’s nature.
• Shen Hui used the Death World’s will to enter and control Qingxue’s Creation World, gaining access to its state, Hero Units, and World Origin.
• Shen Hui discovered that a faith-linked esper had first embraced Cthulhu’s power, creating the aberrant espers, and decided to spread Cthulhu’s faith throughout the world.

Shen Hui helped Qingxue’s Creation World recover by spreading the Death World’s churches and integrating distortion into its Superpower system. After Qingxue reunited with him in the Real World and confessed her fear of losing him, the two grew closer and spent the night together.

• Shen Hui spread the churches from his Death World through Qingxue’s Creation World, allowing both worlds to gain power.
• Qingxue’s consciousness awakened as order returned to the Esper World, and she told Shen Hui she admired his Creation World and welcomed their worlds’ connection.
• Shen Hui returned to the Real World and found Qingxue holding him, crying because she had feared losing him.
• Shen Hui comforted Qingxue and urged her to strengthen her Creation World, offering to guide her.
• Qingxue and Shen Hui shared an intimate night together.

Shen Hui discovered that Qingxue had been chosen by The Fool for the Tarot Club’s sixth position, The Lovers, and wondered whether her ritual had already been completed. A woman identifying herself as The High Priestess appeared and offered to guide Qingxue, addressing Shen Hui as a Death God candidate.

• At breakfast, Zhiyue told Shen Hui and Qingxue about a Starry Sky Leaderboard mission involving the Laughing Moon Cult, scheduled to depart from World Association headquarters at one in the afternoon.
• Shen Hui agreed to join the mission after taking Qingxue home.
• On the way, Shen Hui and Qingxue passed a woman offering children tarot readings, but the woman disappeared before Shen Hui could question her.
• Qingxue showed Shen Hui the tarot card The Lovers, which she said a masked clown had given her after promising she would find a lover.
• A middle-aged woman introduced herself as The High Priestess and offered to guide The Lovers, calling Shen Hui a Death God candidate.

The High Priestess explained that Qingxue had been chosen by The Lovers and invited her to activate her authority, while Shen Hui left to join a World Association mission. At the headquarters, Shen Hui joined a ten-person team assigned to investigate Laughing Moon Cult strongholds.

• The High Priestess told Qingxue that The Lovers had chosen her and invited her to activate her authority; Qingxue agreed to go with her after returning home.
• Shen Hui parted from Qingxue and returned to Zhiyue, who accepted that Qingxue had been chosen and urged him to head to the World Association headquarters.
• Shen Hui and Zhiyue arrived at the headquarters, where Bai Fan, Tu Xingchen, Zhuge Hongjing, and Ye Long also gathered.
• A World Association elder announced rewards for investigating Laughing Moon Cult strongholds and warned that the sites might still be dangerous.
• Shen Hui, Zhiyue, Ye Long, and Zhuge Hongjing were assigned to the same ten-person team to investigate the strongholds.

Shen Hui and the others entered the Land of Ruins to investigate a Laughing Moon Cult hideout believed to be hidden underground. After navigating old passages and avoiding spatial rifts, they found signs of digging and reached a widened underground space.

• Shen Hui and the others surveyed the ruined landscape beyond the five major cities and learned why humanity had retreated behind the walls.
• Zhuge Hongjing suggested that the group enter their Creator Forms before descending into the underground passage.
• Raven detached from Shen Hui's arm and transformed, then Shen Hui followed Zhiyue and the others down the stairs.
• Ye Long uncovered an iron hatch beneath a pile of junk, revealing a passage into the old city's underground drainage channels.
• The group traveled several kilometers, carefully passed a spatial rift, and found a widened area with signs of recent digging.
• Shen Hui examined the underground space and found combustible material on the wall.

Shen Hui and the others explored a tunnel marked with murals and found an apparently abandoned Laughing Moon Cult bedroom. Shen Hui discovered a photograph with a cryptic message and took it as a possible clue, just before someone called the group outside.

• Zhuge Hongjing and Shen Hui offered different interpretations of the mural showing a dark figure swallowing the moon and a red moon appearing.
• After the group moved on, the mural revealed that the figure had died after swallowing the moon, and its blood had turned the bamboo forest and moon red.
• Shen Hui and the others found rooms along the tunnel and searched a clean, simply furnished bedroom with a worn circular array on the floor.
• Shen Hui found a childhood photo beneath a cup, with a message on the back saying, "In the dark of night, He watches over us like a warm mother. Today, I will follow Mother."
• Shen Hui wondered whether the message echoed the Giant God Cult, then pocketed the photo to have it investigated.
• Someone outside shouted for everyone to come out and look.

Shen Hui and Ye Long discovered that the Laughing Moon Cult had used its followers as sacrifices in a ritual, and the team assumed the ritual had failed. As darkness swallowed the chamber, Shen Hui saw the remains on the formation melting, revealing that the ritual was only beginning.

• Shen Hui and Ye Long joined the others in a vast chamber, where they found a formation surrounded by human remains.
• The team guessed that the Laughing Moon Cult had sacrificed its followers, and Ye Long helped Shen Hui recognize one of the heads from a photo.
• The investigators found no further passages and decided to leave, though Shen Hui doubted the ritual had failed.
• As the group turned back, darkness spread through the tunnel and blinded everyone, prompting them to call out and prepare for danger.
• Shen Hui saw the flesh and heads on the formation melt into pools of bloody water, confirming that the ritual was starting.

Shen Hui and the others witnessed the Laughing Moon Cult’s ritual summon a sphere of dense Divine Power, though no deity or danger appeared. The group agreed to divide the power, and one man cautiously reached out to touch it.

• Shen Hui warned everyone that the array ritual had begun, and the darkness receded after the corpses vanished into blood.
• The group saw the blood activate the array, but an invisible barrier stopped one man from disrupting it.
• Everyone started toward the tunnel to return to the surface, but the array erupted with cold divine aura and drew them back.
• The ritual produced a sphere of Divine Power that the group suspected belonged to the Laughing Moon Cult’s deity.
• The group agreed to share the Divine Power, and one man approached and reached out to touch it.

Shen Hui refused to absorb the Divine Power because its convenient appearance seemed suspicious, and he left with Ye Long, Zhiyue, and Zhuge Hongjing. On their way out, Shen Hui noticed that the murals had changed and found a new image of the moon tearing through darkness to become a red moon.

• One person absorbed the Divine Power, and the others took turns drawing from the shrinking mass.
• Shen Hui and Zhiyue suspected the Laughing Moon Cult had left the power as a trap, and Zhuge Hongjing warned Shen Hui not to absorb it.
• Shen Hui stopped Ye Long from taking a share and said they would leave; Zhiyue and Zhuge Hongjing also declined the Divine Power.
• The remaining people were pleased to divide the four companions' shares as Shen Hui led them out through the tunnels.
• Shen Hui noticed the murals had changed and found a new image showing the moon tearing through a black shadow and becoming a red moon.

Shen Hui and the others discovered that the Laughing Moon Cult’s divinity absorbed people’s Creation Worlds and drove them to explode. The chapter ended with Shen Hui, Zhiyue, Zhuge Hongjing, and Ye Long also smiling strangely before their bodies burst apart into blood moons.

• Zhiyue interpreted the new mural as showing a shadow devouring the moon before exploding, and Shen Hui realized the shadow might represent them.
• Shen Hui urged the group to leave, but four survivors of the divinity ritual fled toward them, chased by two deranged companions.
• The two pursuers stopped at the moon carving, declared they would pursue Mother, and exploded, leaving red spheres containing their divinity and Creation Worlds.
• The red moons unfolded the absorbed Creation Worlds, merging them with the tunnel and trapping Shen Hui and the others in altered space.
• Shen Hui, Zhiyue, Zhuge Hongjing, and Ye Long began smiling like the possessed men, proclaimed their pursuit of Her, and exploded into four blood moons.

Shen Hui and the others discovered that the Laughing Moon Cult had fused six Creation Worlds into a blood-red battlefield, using divinity to control them. Unable to escape, they unfolded their own Creation Worlds and prepared to fight the attacking armies.

• The four people who had absorbed the Laughing Moon Cult's divinity burst apart, and their blood moons joined the six fused Creation Worlds.
• Zhuge Hongjing warned that the cult's deity could control Creation Worlds and turn their inhabitants into puppets, while Ye Long feared they were trapped.
• Shen Hui revealed his monstrous creation form and used his World Power to overcome the fused worlds' suppression.
• Zhiyue, Zhuge Hongjing, and Ye Long unfolded their Creation Worlds, with Zhuge Hongjing revealing his armored creator form and golden dragon.
• The six fused worlds sent vast armies to attack, and Shen Hui, Zhiyue, and Zhuge Hongjing deployed their own forces to meet them.

Shen Hui and the other Creators’ armies fought the six allied Creation Worlds, but a dark matter energy annihilation bomb devastated the battlefield. The survivors regrouped as fresh troops continued to arrive.

• Ye Long, Zhuge Hongjing, and Zhiyue joined their armies with Shen Hui’s forces and began battling the six Creation Worlds.
• Shen Hui’s black fog and Eldritch creatures, the Skaven Ratmen, Zhuge Hongjing’s disciplined soldiers, and Zhiyue’s Light Knights fought across the battlefield.
• A technology-system Creation World detonated a dark matter energy annihilation bomb, sending a destructive shock wave across the battlefield.
• Shen Hui’s Skaven Ratmen were largely destroyed, while Zhiyue’s and Zhuge Hongjing’s forces each lost roughly a third of their units and Ye Long’s cultivators suffered similarly heavy losses.
• Ye Long accepted the losses because his Creation World had many more cultivators, while fresh troops continued pouring onto the battlefield.

Shen Hui and his allies gained the upper hand against the six Creation Worlds, but the six moons merged and revealed that the Laughing Moon God was using those worlds to project his own world into the battlefield. As the god’s pressure overwhelmed their forces, Zhuge Hongjing launched a counterattack with the power of Great Qian.

• Shen Hui’s main forces arrived, and his creatures—including Pyramid Head, Shoggoth, Wandering Doom, and the Hard-to-Destroy Reptile—turned the battle in their favor.
• The six blood moons returned to normal, merged into one full moon, and shattered the sky to reveal the Laughing Moon World.
• Shen Hui realized that the six Creation Worlds had been sacrifices used to stabilize the space and let Laughing Moon descend.
• Laughing Moon’s pressure destroyed Ye Long’s Creation World and immobilized the others’ creations.
• Zhuge Hongjing summoned an army and a golden-robed ruler of Great Qian, who raised an imperial jade seal and called upon the fortune of heaven and earth.

Zhuge Hongjing summoned Great Qian’s fortune deity to attack Laughing Moon, but its cold white divine power overwhelmed the golden dragons. As Zhuge Hongjing neared his limit, Zhiyue began using Justice’s power to help resist Laughing Moon.

• Great Qian’s emperor used the Dragon Seal to summon nine golden fortune dragons from the Ascending Dragon Well.
• Zhuge Hongjing sent the fortune dragons against Laughing Moon, and Ye Long believed they might break the moon.
• Laughing Moon unleashed cold white beams that pierced the fortune dragons and overwhelmed their golden radiance.
• Shen Hui considered Laughing Moon’s unknown divine power while Zhuge Hongjing grew pale and struggled to maintain his attack.
• Zhiyue decided to use Justice’s authority, and a phantom set of scales appeared behind her.

Zhiyue’s justice authority briefly weakened Laughing Moon, but Zhuge Hongjing and Zhiyue began calling it their mother, and the scales shattered. Shen Hui knocked Ye Long unconscious and began awakening Cthulhu again, while Laughing Moon warned that it was prepared to prevent its revival.

• Zhiyue used her justice authority to absorb Laughing Moon’s power, weakening its light and freeing the golden dragons.
• Zhuge Hongjing called Laughing Moon “Mommy,” and the released golden dragons faded away instead of attacking it.
• Laughing Moon’s beams pierced the spectral scales, Zhiyue spat blood, and she also called it “Mommy.”
• Shen Hui recognized the connection to earlier incidents, knocked Ye Long unconscious, and used the Death World and its followers to awaken Cthulhu.
• Laughing Moon spoke to Shen Hui and declared that it was prepared to stop Cthulhu from reviving.

Laughing Moon trapped Shen Hui, Cthulhu, and the surrounding battlefield in its Deep World, where Shen Hui awoke as a child designated X-369 in a society that worshipped the moon as Mother. In the Real World, Laughing Moon began expanding its domain, swallowing tunnels and ruins while sealing spatial rifts.

• Cthulhu's awakening spread black seawater and writhing tentacles across the battlefield, but Laughing Moon's radiance halted its advance.
• Laughing Moon's power plunged Shen Hui and everything nearby into the Deep World, a consciousness-bound reality shaped by its will.
• Shen Hui's consciousness sank into darkness before a child named X-369 was born and taken to a farm.
• Years later, X-369 told his teacher that he kept dreaming of darkness and a huge, frightening presence calling to him.
• X-369 and the other children looked up at the moon and worshipped it as their loving Mother.
• In the Real World, Laughing Moon expanded its domain, engulfing tunnels and ruins, closing spatial rifts, and stabilizing the surrounding space.

Laughing Moon’s descent spread across the Real World, prompting the World Association, major powers, and the Giant God Cult to mobilize against it. At Shen Hui’s location, a mysterious raven entered the expanding Laughing Moon World unnoticed and headed toward him.

• Laughing Moon corrupted creators at multiple locations, and its world began spreading into the Real World.
• The World Association raised city shields and dispatched its organizations as families and powers joined the effort to contain the invasion.
• The high priestess ordered Giant God Cult members to attack Laughing Moon’s expansion and said they might use the Titan God’s power.
• Laughing Moon Cult members celebrated their mother’s return and called for the world to awaken.
• A raven navigated the spatial rifts near Shen Hui, entered Laughing Moon’s expanding domain as seven-colored orbs, and flew toward him.

On the day he came of age, 369 met a raven that called him Shen Hui and awakened vivid memories of a strange, terrifying world. He went to meet Mother, and the chapter ended as he opened the door and saw her.

• The farm teacher told 369 that his coming-of-age ceremony would let him meet Mother and begin a life of his own.
• A raven landed on 369’s hand, called him Shen Hui, and told him not to fear the gaze as it promised to find him across any space.
• The raven’s words brought back 369’s nightmares of dark worlds and bizarre creatures, though the memories now felt familiar rather than frightening.
• That night, 369 rode with the teacher to a building and went alone through the door where Mother waited.
• 369 saw what was inside and exclaimed, “Mother!”

On his coming-of-age ceremony, 369 met Mother and chose the name Shen Hui, awakening memories that Mother tried to suppress. Raven opened a hidden door into darkness, and as the Deep Consciousness World attacked him, Shen Hui’s memories returned and Mother’s flesh-bound machinery seized him.

• 369 entered the chamber and met the enormous moon-headed Mother, who said he would undergo a coming-of-age ceremony and receive a name.
• 369 rejected Mother’s chosen name and declared that he was Shen Hui, causing memories to awaken and Mother to demand to know who had given him the name.
• Shen Hui said a black bird had told him the name, prompting the people of the Deep Consciousness World and Mother to search for Raven.
• Raven broke through the hidden space, opened a white door, and escaped into the darkness beyond while declaring that the world was about to perish.
• The darkness began spreading through the Deep Consciousness World, Shen Hui’s memories came together, and Mother’s flesh and meridians wrapped around him to drag him into a chamber.

Shen Hui rejected Mother’s attempt to make him enter the chamber, deciding that both worlds were real and that he had to return to the other one. He regained his Creator Form as black water consumed the world, and an enormous shadow rose from beneath the ocean.

• Mother persuaded Shen Hui that his memories of the Real World were false and urged him to enter the chamber.
• Shen Hui told Mother that both worlds were real and chose to return to the world where Chi Yan, Qingxue, Ye Long, and Zhiyue were waiting.
• Shen Hui released the chamber door, and the darkness beyond it invaded the Deep World as the sphere of light became Raven and disappeared.
• Mother and the chamber tried to seize Shen Hui, but black mist from his body withered the flesh around him as he returned to his Creator Form.
• The building collapsed beneath a torrent of black water, and a mountain-range-sized shadow rose from the ocean as Laughing Moon watched from the sky.

Shen Hui destroyed the Deep Consciousness World by summoning Cthulhu, absorbed part of the divinity, and rescued Ye Long, Zhiyue, and Zhuge Hongjing. Back in the tunnel, the three awoke and struggled to distinguish their memories of the Real World from the Deep World.

• Cthulhu emerged in the Deep Consciousness World and crushed Laughing Moon, absorbing most of the divinity it left behind.
• Cthulhu gave Shen Hui the remaining divinity, which Raven devoured in part before Shen Hui absorbed the rest.
• As the Deep Consciousness World collapsed, Shen Hui gathered the consciousnesses of Ye Long, Zhiyue, and Zhuge Hongjing and led them through the door.
• Shen Hui returned to the tunnel beneath the ruins and waited for Ye Long, Zhiyue, and Zhuge Hongjing to awaken.
• Ye Long asked Shen Hui whether the world was real, and Zhiyue told them to stop worrying and live in the present.