Recaps

After receiving his practical test rewards, Shen Hui examined how his Level 2 world and Sadako had grown and gathered the invaders’ corpses for later use. Ye Long delivered an invitation to a party, and then a staff member arrived with Shen Hui’s reward supplies.

• Shen Hui checked his generous rewards, arranged delivery, and took Qingxue home before returning to his apartment.
• Shen Hui inspected his Level 2 world, noted Sadako’s improved abilities, and had her pile up the corpses left by invading creatures.
• Ye Long arrived in a red Ferrari, invited Shen Hui to live with him, and gave him a golden party invitation.
• Shen Hui declined Ye Long’s offer to go out that night and answered a call from the staff member delivering his rewards.
• A staff member arrived in a military jeep and approached Shen Hui with a briefcase as neighbors watched and speculated.

Shen Hui received rare rewards for his Awakening test and used them to strengthen his Death World, making it even more hostile to life. Worried that this would prevent the world from developing on its own, he came up with an idea to keep death and life separate.

• Shen Hui confirmed his identity and received his reward briefcase, then fled home after the local residents crowded around him to curry favor.
• Shen Hui inspected the rewards and recognized the Scenario Progression Card and World Origin Core Crystal as exceptionally valuable items.
• Shen Hui consumed three World Origin Potions, bringing his World Origin Power total to 750 units.
• Shen Hui used the World Origin Core Crystal, which transformed into his world's Death World origin and increased its aura of death.
• Shen Hui worried that strengthening the Death World would make it harder for living creatures to survive, then realized he could keep death and life separate.

Shen Hui created a one-kilometer Land of New Life inside his Death World by using World Origin Power and a Terrain Card to isolate the aura of death. After confirming that Tomie's human body remained unharmed there for two years, he planned to expand the safe area and create living things.

• Shen Hui decided to create a safe region in the Death World as the first step toward separating it into a Surface World and an Otherworld.
• Shen Hui used a Scenario Progression Card, a Terrain Card, and World Origin Power to imbue a region with rules that isolated the aura of death.
• Shen Hui's world began to crack and collapse, so he chose a one-kilometer area for the new terrain and stabilized the world's rules.
• Shen Hui ended the simulation and made its results real, creating the Land of New Life within his Death World.
• Shen Hui sent Tomie into the Land of New Life and advanced time by two years, confirming that her human body remained unchanged.
• Shen Hui planned to expand the Land of New Life and use it to create living things.

Shen Hui and Qingxue headed to the World Association to buy World Origin potions and challenge the Borderlands, but they found City Lord Wang Xinhai and members of the Guardians Organization arriving. Ye Long joined them and offered to explain the confidential reason for the gathering somewhere private.

• Shen Hui checked his Death World and found that creating the Primal Soil had used all his World Origin, then went to sleep.
• Qingxue called Shen Hui and invited him to challenge the Borderlands at the World Association, and he agreed because he also wanted to buy World Origin potions.
• Shen Hui met Qingxue at the station, and they took the bus to the World Association.
• Shen Hui and Qingxue saw City Lord Wang Xinhai and several powerful members of the Guardians Organization arrive at the World Association.
• Ye Long introduced Shen Hui and Qingxue to his father, Ye Yitian, who praised them before entering the association.
• Ye Long told Shen Hui and Qingxue that the reason for the gathering was confidential and asked them to find somewhere quiet to talk.

Shen Hui, Qingxue, and Ye Long heard a rumor about a foreign-race threat, then visited the World Association's shop. Shen Hui bought and drank six World Origin Potions, gaining 900 World Origin Power to use for creating things and heroes in his world.

• Ye Long told Shen Hui and Qingxue that the seal on the Starry Sky Battlefield passage had weakened and shared a rumor that the foreign races might threaten Blue Star.
• Shen Hui, Qingxue, and Ye Long went to the World Association's item shop, where Shen Hui and Qingxue used their intermediate-member discounts.
• Shen Hui bought six Low-Level World Origin Potions for 4,800,000 World Coins after his discount.
• Shen Hui drank all six potions in a private lounge, adding 900 World Origin Power to his world.
• Shen Hui planned to use the power to create things and heroes because he could not expand the Land of New Life further.

Shen Hui created Siren Head as a Perfect-quality Hero, then used most of his remaining World Origin Power to renew soil and grow woodland in the Land of New Life. After leaving his world, he joked with Ye Long about teaching him to create a Hero for five million.

• Shen Hui used World Origin Power to create Siren Head, a twelve-meter-tall creature that could disguise itself, imitate sounds, attack with sound waves, spread fear, and reproduce through parasitism.
• Shen Hui discovered that Siren Head was Perfect quality and had only 120 World Origin Power left after its creation.
• Shen Hui renewed some soil and created a small woodland, leaving only 40 World Origin Power for future development.
• Ye Long called Shen Hui out of his lounge, and Shen Hui said he had created a Hero.
• Ye Long asked Shen Hui to teach him to create a Hero, and Shen Hui offered to do so for five million.

Shen Hui explained how planning a hero’s identity and background had helped him create four heroes, impressing Qingxue and Ye Long. After lunch, the three entered the Borderlands, where Shen Hui began a challenge against a Level 2 Unclaimed World.

• Shen Hui told Qingxue and Ye Long to develop each hero’s identity and background before creating them.
• Qingxue and Ye Long learned that Shen Hui had created four heroes and understood that his undeveloped world left more room for them.
• Shen Hui, Qingxue, and Ye Long ate lunch at the World Association, then entered the Borderlands together.
• Shen Hui chose to challenge a Level 2 Unclaimed World and paid the one-million-World-Coin fee.
• Shen Hui began the challenge as his world started merging with an unfamiliar world.

Shen Hui challenged a technology world and sent Siren Head to test its strength against a scouting team. The recon team lost communications, encountered Siren Head in the forest, and one member saw its speakers come alive just before it screamed.

• Shen Hui merged his world with the technology world, whose researchers discovered the connection and hoped its energy could save their declining world.
• Professor Yang ordered combat personnel to scout Shen Hui's world, and their fighter jets landed in its fog-covered territory.
• Siren Head disrupted the team's communications with a piercing sound, and the recon team continued toward the forest.
• The recon team entered a strange clearing where voices, whispers, and an air-raid siren echoed around them.
• A recon team member spotted Siren Head disguised as a utility pole, saw its speakers grow teeth and smile, and heard its piercing scream.

The scout squad encountered Siren Head, whose attacks killed several fighters and drove the survivors away from their parked jets. Shen Hui then steered them toward the forest, where the Pig-headed Butcher began to close in as the scouts found themselves surrounded.

• The scouts opened fire on Siren Head, but their laser-like weapons did no damage, and Siren Head crushed several fighters while blasting them with sound.
• The captain ordered the survivors to retreat toward their fighter jets, but Siren Head overtook them and blocked their route.
• At Shen Hui’s direction, the captain led the squad toward the forest where Sadako was, though Shen Hui intended the Pig-headed Butcher to confront them first.
• The squad stopped outside the forest to rest, but the captain sensed something wrong and ordered them to move.
• Snorting sounds came from around the scouts, and a ring of blue light appeared in the Chaos Mist, surrounding them.

Tomie lured the surviving reconnaissance team away from the Pig-headed Butcher and into Sadako’s forest, then recorded Sadako with their recorder. The Electronic Curse activated, and Tomie planned to let the team carry the footage out.

• The Demon Pigs surrounded the reconnaissance team, and the Pig-headed Butcher transformed into a giant pig that killed several members as the survivors fled.
• The remaining seven reconnaissance team members reached Tomie’s house, where Tomie assured them that they were safe and offered to guide them out.
• Tomie led the team into Sadako’s forest, and its members became captivated by her and answered her questions eagerly.
• Tomie asked to record the area, took the team’s recorder, and filmed Sadako inside a withered well.
• The Electronic Curse began to take effect, and Tomie prepared to have the team take the recording away.

Tomie led the recon squad back to the technological city, where the commander and researchers were captivated by her beauty. As the researchers reviewed the recording, it began showing a black-and-white Deadwood Forest and a Withered Well, signaling that Sadako’s curse had reached the city.

• Tomie led the recon squad safely out of the forest, and the squad returned to the city with her and the recorder.
• The commander sent the recon squad members out of Tomie’s room and stayed alone with her, becoming captivated by her laugh.
• The professor and the researchers watched the recording and saw Siren Head and the Pig-headed Butcher transform into a giant monster pig.
• The researchers watched Tomie meet the recon squad, while a female researcher questioned why she had been living alone in the forest.
• The recording flickered with static and showed a black-and-white Deadwood Forest with the camera aimed at a Withered Well.

Researchers watching footage of the Withered Well witnessed Sadako crawl out of the screen and begin killing them, while chaos spread through the base as Tomie multiplied and combat personnel turned on one another. One researcher escaped into an emergency elevator, only to see the Well appear on its screen and Sadako’s hands emerge again.

• Sadako appeared in the recorder footage and crawled out of the screen, killing the researcher she touched.
• Sadako vanished and reappeared around the lab, killing researchers as the survivors fled and found bodies throughout the corridors.
• The researchers saw that Tomie had multiplied after the reconnaissance team killed her, and that bewitched combat personnel had slaughtered one another.
• A researcher witnessed a combatant kill a Tomie and then shoot himself before escaping to the emergency elevator.
• The elevator screen showed Deadwood Forest and the Withered Well, where a pair of hands appeared at the opening.

Shen Hui defeated the technological world, merged it into his Death World, and gained World Origin, resources, and a rare Technology Civilization Card. As deathly aura killed survivors across the city, some humans found safety in the Land of New Life, where Shen Hui planned to establish new inhabitants.

• Tomie used a researcher to broadcast Sadako's footage through the city, spreading the Electronic Curse until the city fell and Shen Hui received confirmation of victory.
• Shen Hui's Death World absorbed the technological world's World Origin, and its deathly aura spread across the merged territory, threatening the remaining humans.
• Shen Hui received 300 World Origin Power, a Technology Civilization Card, technological resources, and biological lives as rewards for completing the challenge.
• Shen Hui used his remaining Time Flow Rate Card, and over seven days the city's survivors searched for safety as the deathly aura killed those who stayed behind.
• Survivors discovered the Land of New Life, where life did not fade, and gathered there before the deathly aura erupted across the rest of the world.

After five years passed in the Land of New Life, its survivors had turned the Eldritch Beings into rumors, while Tomie’s abilities grew stronger after reaching Level 2. Shen Hui recovered from his world challenge and discussed the results with Ye Long and Qingxue, then planned to sell items from his merged world.

• Shen Hui accelerated time by five years, during which survivors settled in the Land of New Life, explored the Death World, and passed stories of the Eldritch Beings on to their children.
• Shen Hui saw that the survivors had begun treating Sadako, Tomie, and the other Eldritch Beings as rumors, then stopped monitoring the Land of New Life as closely.
• Tomie reached Level 2, shortening the time needed for her Mad Love and Hate ability to take effect and strengthening her enchantment through photographs and videos.
• Shen Hui left his world challenge feeling dizzy and mentally drained, while Ye Long and Qingxue also completed their challenges.
• Qingxue complained that Shen Hui and Ye Long had challenged Level 2 Worlds without her, and they reassured her before promising to tell her about future challenges.
• Shen Hui said he planned to sell useless items from his merged world, and Ye Long offered to buy any Rare items through the Ye Family Chamber of Commerce.

Shen Hui sold the buildings from his fused Technology World and learned from Chi Yan that the foreign races might be plotting against Blue Star. The next day, he accepted Ye Long’s offer to exchange his Low-Level Technology Civilization World Card for a Low-Level World Origin Crystal and a Low-Level Scenario Progression Card.

• Shen Hui sold the buildings from the fused Technology World for 3.2 million World Coins and 50 World Association points.
• Chi Yan warned Shen Hui, Qingxue, and Ye Long that the foreign races in the Starry Sky Battlefield might be targeting Blue Star and gave Shen Hui and Qingxue her contact information.
• Ye Long and Ye Yitian took Shen Hui and Qingxue to dinner, and Ye Long later drove them home while promising to bring a price for Shen Hui’s card the next day.
• Ye Long offered Shen Hui either 300 million World Coins or a Low-Level World Origin Crystal and a Low-Level Scenario Progression Card for his Low-Level Technology Civilization World Card.
• Shen Hui chose the two rare items, and Ye Long agreed to bring them over that afternoon.

Shen Hui enhanced the Death World with the Mist of Lost Direction, then went with Qingxue to Ye Long and Xiao Xiangyan’s party at the Nine Phoenix Pavilion. At the entrance, three privileged guests cut ahead in line and confronted them.

• Shen Hui spent 300 World Origin Power to enhance the Death World, gaining the Mist of Lost Direction property, which made creatures lose their bearings or experience hallucinations.
• Shen Hui stabilized his world, and the following day he called Qingxue to go with him to the party.
• Qingxue arrived wearing a blue-and-white dress and light makeup, and Shen Hui complimented her appearance.
• Shen Hui and Qingxue reached the Nine Phoenix Pavilion, where staff checked invitations and a long line of students waited to enter.
• Three well-dressed guests pushed through the line, insulted the other students, and reached Shen Hui and Qingxue.

Shen Hui and Qingxue entered the Ye Family gathering after Shen Hui stopped three men from cutting in line, while the men backed down after seeing their golden special invitations. Meanwhile, mysterious black-clad figures began coordinating attacks, including an assault on the Nine Phoenix Pavilion, as turmoil spread across the regions.

• Shen Hui grabbed a man who tried to touch Qingxue, and the three men returned to the back of the line after recognizing him.
• Shen Hui and Qingxue presented golden special invitations, which frightened the three men into abandoning their plans to target them.
• Staff escorted Shen Hui and Qingxue into the Nine Phoenix Pavilion, where Ye Long and Xiao Xiangyan greeted them and invited them to meet the other guests.
• At a hidden base, a black-clad leader ordered groups to cause disturbances and led an attack on the World Association, while others were told to target the Nine Phoenix Pavilion.
• The black-clad figures vowed to welcome Them and create a world of eternal life as similar operations began in every region.

Shen Hui and Qingxue attended a gathering for young elites at the Nine Phoenix Pavilion, where five men in black attacked with enormous magical tigers from the Creation World. With the pavilion under assault and all phones unable to get a signal, Shen Hui urged the others to escape.

• Ye Long introduced Shen Hui and Qingxue to Wang Caizhi, Zhang Yi, and three other prominent young people before leading them to the gathering downstairs.
• Five men in black arrived at the pavilion, and one summoned a gigantic tiger that killed the staff and guards outside.
• Shen Hui sensed a disturbance in space, and a huge tiger smashed through the entrance as the gathering realized the attackers had brought creatures from the Creation World.
• The men in black revealed their World Origin auras and threatened to kill everyone at the gathering, while the young elites initially dismissed them as no threat.
• Shen Hui and Ye Long found their phones had no signal, and Shen Hui urged everyone to leave the pavilion.

Men in black unleashed a Creation World that merged with reality, trapping and killing people inside the Nine Phoenix Pavilion. As a giant tiger pursued Shen Hui and the others, Shen Hui sensed a ripple linking his Death World to the Real World and wondered if he could release it.

• Shen Hui, Ye Long, Qingxue, and the others decided to escape through the back of the Nine Phoenix Pavilion.
• A giant tiger attacked the gathering, killing several people as the men in black ordered it to strike.
• The men in black made their Creation World overlap with the Real World, trapping everyone inside the pavilion as more tigers appeared.
• Shen Hui and his companions fled through the pavilion while tigers chased them and survivors' bodies littered the halls.
• Shen Hui sensed a ripple connecting his Death World to the Real World and wondered if he could release his Creation World.

Shen Hui connected his Death World to reality and used its creatures to repel a Giant Tiger. He then overlaid the Death World across the Nine Phoenix Pavilion, enveloping everyone in disorienting fog that left allies and enemies alike unable to see or navigate.

• Shen Hui connected his World Origin to reality as a Giant Tiger charged, and a towering humanoid creature emerged from his Death World to punch the tiger away.
• Qingxue, Ye Long, and the others recoiled from the creature, then realized Shen Hui had brought it into the real world.
• The five men in black dismissed Shen Hui's power as Giant Tigers, Giant Pythons, and Giant Crocodiles closed in.
• Shen Hui called out, "World, unfold!" and overlaid his entire Death World with reality.
• The Death World's Mist of Lost Direction spread across the Nine Phoenix Pavilion, blinding everyone and making them lose their sense of direction as fear and confusion took hold.

Shen Hui brought his Heroes into the fog-covered real world and explained his plan to destroy the intruders’ Creation Worlds by killing their creatures. After revealing that Siren Head was a Perfect-quality Hero, he summoned more terrifying allies and prepared to hunt the giant beasts.

• The men in black chased mysterious figures through the fog but realized they had not moved from their original spot.
• Shen Hui brought Siren Head, Sadako, Tomie, and his other Heroes into the overlapping area and ordered Siren Head to protect the group.
• Wang Yi asked about Siren Head’s quality, and Shen Hui said it was Perfect, shocking Ye Long, Qingxue, and the others.
• Siren Head knocked a charging giant python aside with one punch, showing that the beasts were weaker than Shen Hui expected.
• Shen Hui decided to release his immortal Heroes to kill all the giant creatures and summoned three more threatening figures from the fog.
• Qingxue described Sadako as a dead-looking woman whose presence remained vivid in the mind even when her appearance could not be seen clearly.

Shen Hui’s Heroes fought off the gigantic creatures drawn to them in the fog while the men in black launched attacks across every district. At the World Association branch, Ye Yitian warned Chi Yan that Ye Long, Shen Hui, and Qingxue were at the Nine Phoenix Pavilion and could not be reached, so Chi Yan set out with him to check on them.

• Qingxue’s account of seeing Sadako discouraged Ye Long and the others from seeking out Shen Hui’s Heroes.
• Shen Hui ordered Siren Head to lure the gigantic creatures through the fog, and his Heroes killed them while Tomie multiplied to hold them back.
• The oppressive atmosphere drove some students toward mental breakdowns, but the battle between worlds began to turn in Shen Hui’s favor.
• Men in black attacked locations throughout every district, forcing Awakeners to respond as ordinary people were trampled and local forces struggled to cover all the crises.
• After the World Association branch dealt with its attackers, Chi Yan and the others began dispatching reinforcements and investigating the invasions.
• Ye Yitian told Chi Yan that Ye Long, Shen Hui, and Qingxue were at the Nine Phoenix Pavilion and could not be reached, so Chi Yan went with him to find them.

Five men in black discovered that the giant creatures they had released had been slaughtered, then were driven into panic by Sadako and the fog. Ye Yitian and Chi Yan reached the Nine Phoenix Pavilion and found Shen Hui, Ye Long, Qingxue, and the surviving students emerging from the fog, but the cause of the carnage and the students’ condition remained unclear.

• The five men in black found a vast pile of their disemboweled and partially eaten giant creatures and suspected a student had defeated them.
• Sadako appeared behind the men in black, and her presence sent them fleeing in different directions as fear overwhelmed them.
• Ye Yitian and Chi Yan arrived at the damaged Nine Phoenix Pavilion and saw grayish-black fog covering the area.
• The fog faded, and Shen Hui, Ye Long, Qingxue, and the others rushed out as Shen Hui urged Ye Yitian to call an ambulance for the students.
• Ye Yitian and Chi Yan saw giant creature corpses covering the ground and students sitting, screaming, laughing, or crying in distress.

After a wave of attacks by black-clad men struck every region, Shen Hui and the others sheltered at the World Association and considered who might be behind the violence. Chi Yan said the investigation was ongoing and asked Shen Hui and the others to recount what had happened.

• Shen Hui and the people he rescued took shelter at the World Association while those with severe mental trauma went to the hospital.
• Qingxue suggested that the attackers might be people who still worshipped the foreign races, and Ye Long and Shen Hui considered the idea plausible.
• Shen Hui wondered how the black-clad men had made the Creation World manifest, but the others had no explanation.
• Chi Yan, Ye Yitian, and the other Awakened Ones returned after attacks in every region had been contained, though the losses were severe.
• Chi Yan praised Shen Hui for limiting the damage in their region and asked him and the others to explain what had happened.

After recounting the attack at the Nine Phoenix Pavilion, Shen Hui and the others learned that the black-clad attackers shared strange traits, while Chi Yan warned them to keep their theory secret. Back home, Shen Hui checked his worlds and found that Siren Head had reached level two, though its transformation was still underway.

• Shen Hui and the others told Chi Yan and Ye Yitian about the gathering, the invasion, and the battle involving Shen Hui's Death World and Eldritch Beings.
• Chi Yan explained that the black-clad attackers' Creation Worlds had underpowered creatures, giant monsters, and no Hero Units, and she cautioned the group not to spread their theory about the incident.
• Chi Yan assured Shen Hui that the World Association would notify him when it learned more about Creation Worlds merging into the Real World.
• Shen Hui returned to his old residential complex, decided it seemed safer than busier areas, and checked on his Death World and the Land of New Life.
• Shen Hui found Siren Head wrapped in black mist as it underwent a transformation after reaching level two, then went to sleep.