Recaps

Lin Qiye and An Qingyu remained puzzled by the corpse evidence, while Wu Xiangnan identified a ritual that could explain the murders and predicted the Mystery’s next attack. Team 136 prepared to stake out a residential district before the ritual’s final stage at 3:33 a.m.

• Lin Qiye questioned how the bar corpse’s wounds fit their theory, then left An Qingyu to investigate further after receiving a call from the Vice-Captain.
• Wu Xiangnan told Team 136 that the Mystery likely had never been recorded and might be following an ancient ritual to transform a vengeful spirit into a powerful ghostly being.
• Wu Xiangnan explained that the ritual required five victims killed under specific conditions, followed by a large sacrifice of soul power.
• Wu Xiangnan used the earlier crime-scene locations and a ritual diagram to identify a high-end residential district as the site of the fifth sacrifice.
• Chen Muye ordered Team 136 to spread out and watch the district, while Lin Qiye warned that the Mystery was expected to act at 3:33 the following morning.

While the Night Watchmen kept watch over the neighborhood, Wen Qimo learned that the Tavern Owner was trying to flee Cangnan and went to intercept him. Meanwhile, An Qingyu investigated the tavern and discovered a clue by comparing the victim’s wounds with his own regenerating fingers.

• Lin Qiye and the others reported no abnormalities during hours of surveillance around the neighborhood.
• Wen Qimo received word that the Tavern Owner was heading to the airport after claiming to see ghostly figures, and Chen Muye ordered Wen Qimo to stop him and report any sign of a Mystery.
• Wen Qimo left his post, and Lin Qiye took over his surveillance point.
• An Qingyu entered the deserted tavern, compared its layout with a recording, and examined the bloodstained wall in the backyard.
• An Qingyu cut off five fingers to recreate the victim’s outline, then noticed his fingers regenerating and realized what was wrong.

Lin Qiye learned that the apparent supernatural murder video had been played in reverse, revealing that An Qingyu had staged it using his Super Regeneration. He deduced that Sun Xiao had been killed before being nailed to the wall and that the true crime scene was inside the tavern, where only one person could have acted unnoticed.

• Lin Qiye received a video from An Qingyu showing him apparently being killed by invisible forces and iron nails.
• An Qingyu explained that the first video was reverse playback and sent footage showing his wounds healing and the nails being expelled.
• Lin Qiye realized the recording showed An Qingyu recovering, not being attacked, and that someone had staged the scene.
• Lin Qiye concluded that Sun Xiao had already been dead when he was nailed to the wall and had been killed inside the tavern.
• Lin Qiye reasoned that only one person could have committed the murder unnoticed inside the tavern.

An Qingyu discovered the hidden first crime scene and confirmed the Tavern Owner had concealed it. Lin Qiye realized the Tavern Owner planned to perform the ritual aboard a plane passing over the designated area, and Team 136 rushed to stop him before the 3:20 flight took off.

• An Qingyu found fresh blood and nail marks in a hidden storage room beneath the tavern and explained how the altered property layout had misled the police.
• Lin Qiye reasoned that the Tavern Owner was carrying out the ritual for another Mystical creature and would return to the area to complete it.
• Lin Qiye noticed a plane overhead, checked the time, and tried to reach Wen Qimo, who had stopped responding.
• After learning the Tavern Owner's flight was scheduled to take off at 3:20, Lin Qiye deduced that he intended to perform the ritual in the sky and use Wen Qimo's soul as a sacrifice.
• Chen Muye ordered the airport contacted and sent Wu Xiangnan, Hong Ying, Si Xiaonan, and Lin Qiye to capture the Tavern Owner while he and Leng Xuan guarded the residential complex.

Lin Qiye and An Qingyu raced to stop the Tavern Owner, who had taken off on a plane before the airport could ground it. Lin Qiye and A Zhu caught up to the aircraft, but A Zhu fainted on its tail and they began sliding off.

• Lin Qiye sent An Qingyu to the airport to find the Tavern Owner’s 3:20 a.m. flight while An Qingyu raced there using his new abilities.
• Lin Qiye summoned A Zhu and rode him toward the airport as a giant spider.
• An Qingyu found the plane after it took off and clung to its underside, then told Lin Qiye what had happened.
• Lin Qiye and A Zhu shot Spider Silk onto the plane and climbed onto its tail as it flew low over Cangnan City.
• A Zhu looked down, fainted from fright, and lost his grip, sending himself and Lin Qiye sliding off the plane.

Lin Qiye infiltrated a plane controlled by the Tavern Owner and joined An Qingyu as they headed for the cockpit. He discovered that the Tavern Owner was accompanied by two Mysteries, including a crystal-sealed figure near death.

• Lin Qiye used the Chaos Cube to teleport from the plane’s tail to An Qingyu, then brought them both inside the aircraft.
• Lin Qiye told Team 136 he had infiltrated the plane, and revealed that he had graduated first from the Training Camp before removing his earpiece.
• Lin Qiye and An Qingyu crossed the passenger cabin, realizing the passengers were unaware that the pilots and flight attendants had been controlled.
• At the curtain separating first class from the cockpit, Lin Qiye sensed the Tavern Owner with a Ten-Cut Ghost Child and another Mystery sealed in crystal and near death.

Lin Qiye and An Qingyu rescued Wen Qimo from the Tavern Owner, who planned to sacrifice the plane’s passengers and people on the ground to revive Belial Clande. After stopping the ritual, Lin Qiye offered An Qingyu one corpse each as payment.

• An Qingyu used his mental-control Forbidden Ruin to knock out the first-class passengers while Lin Qiye went to the cockpit.
• The Tavern Owner revealed his plan to crash the plane into a residential district and sacrifice its victims to revive Belial Clande.
• Wen Qimo resisted the Tavern Owner and trusted his teammates, then used darkness to free himself and strike the Tavern Owner with the iron nails.
• An Qingyu entered the cockpit and blocked Ten-Cut Ghost Child from attacking Wen Qimo as Lin Qiye checked his injuries.
• Lin Qiye called An Qingyu a helper and offered him one corpse each.

Lin Qiye exposed the Tavern Owner’s murder ritual and plan to destroy the Night Watchmen, tracing the clues that revealed him as the killer. The Tavern Owner sent ten Ten-Cut Ghost Children to attack while he resumed the ritual, leaving Lin Qiye and An Qingyu to face the threat.

• Lin Qiye and An Qingyu confronted the Tavern Owner, whose Super Regeneration healed the wound in his brow.
• Lin Qiye explained how the Tavern Owner staged the murders, fabricated a Mystique, and planned to sacrifice a Night Watchman to restore Belial Klande.
• Lin Qiye revealed that the Tavern Owner had loaded six hundred kilograms of explosives onto a plane to crash it into the Night Watchmen’s residential complex.
• Lin Qiye described how inconsistencies in Sun Xiao’s murder and its recording led them to uncover the reverse playback and identify the Tavern Owner.
• The Tavern Owner ordered the Ten-Cut Ghost Child to attack as he continued the ritual, and it split into ten copies that surrounded Lin Qiye, An Qingyu, and Wen Qimo.
• An Qingyu chose to fight one of the Ten-Cut Ghost Children while Lin Qiye dealt with the Tavern Owner.

Lin Qiye fought the Tavern Owner on the outside of the plane, where the Tavern Owner used Eerie Silk and Super Regeneration to withstand his attacks. After Lin Qiye decapitated him and he revived, Lin Qiye immediately struck again.

• The Tavern Owner pinned a pilot to the wall, but Lin Qiye attacked him and shattered the cockpit windshield, sending two Ten-Cut Ghost Children and the Tavern Owner outside.
• Lin Qiye followed the Tavern Owner onto the plane’s exterior and learned that his Sequence 351 Forbidden Relic, Eerie Silk, let him control razor-sharp threads.
• Lin Qiye blocked the Tavern Owner’s thread attacks and cut him across the chest, but Super Regeneration healed the wound within seconds.
• The Tavern Owner fired at Lin Qiye, whose darkness stopped the bullets, and Lin Qiye cut the Tavern Owner’s throat and sent his head flying.
• The Tavern Owner’s threads reattached his head and revived him, but Lin Qiye immediately slashed again and decapitated him.

An Qingyu fought Ten-Cut Ghost Children inside the plane as a red-glowing insect appeared to trigger sinister behavior among the first-class passengers. Meanwhile, Lin Qiye kept the regenerating Tavern Owner under control atop the plane and summoned the little mummy, asking how much explosive it would take to destroy his enemy completely.

• An Qingyu froze the broken cockpit window, identified the Ten-Cut Ghost Children's weak points, and continued fighting them as the insect in the Crystal Ball began glowing red.
• Several passengers in first class woke under the insect's influence, pinned a young man to the wall, and cut his fingers without reacting to his pain.
• Hong Ying, Wu Xiangnan, and Si Xiaonan arrived beneath the circling plane, and Leng Xuan told them Lin Qiye was fighting the Tavern Owner on its roof.
• Lin Qiye beheaded the Tavern Owner for the sixth time, dismantled his gun with the Absolute Darkness Divine Forbidden Zone, and concluded that killing him would be difficult because he regenerated.
• Lin Qiye summoned the frightened little mummy onto the plane and asked how many kilograms of explosives would be needed to destroy the Tavern Owner completely.

Lin Qiye and Mumu killed the Tavern Owner in midair and returned to the plane, where An Qingyu had defeated the Ten-Cut Ghost Child. They discovered that Belial Krande had escaped its Crystal Ball and found a mutilated corpse in first class.

• The Tavern Owner jumped from the plane, but Lin Qiye and Mumu followed, using Mumu’s Flamethrowers to catch up and behead him.
• Mumu strapped explosives to the Tavern Owner’s neck, and the blast destroyed his body; Lin Qiye found no signs of life but lost track of Eerie Silk.
• An Qingyu killed the last Ten-Cut Ghost Child in the cockpit and examined its corpse.
• Lin Qiye and An Qingyu found the Crystal Ball cracked from the inside and realized Belial Krande had escaped.
• Lin Qiye rushed into first class and found a young man’s corpse with all ten fingers missing and a knife in his chest.

Lin Qiye and An Qingyu stopped a mind-controlled pilot from crashing the plane, while Chen Muye used an ancient parchment to divert it away from a residential district. The ritual appeared to have been completed despite the deaths of the Tavern Owner and Ten-Cut Ghost Child, and Wen Qimo explained that Team Phoenix would handle the Western Mist Mystery.

• An Qingyu discovered that the first-class passengers had died during a ritual, and Lin Qiye realized the creature’s control had a limited range.
• Lin Qiye knocked out the mind-controlled pilot while An Qingyu took over the controls and pulled the plane out of its dive.
• Chen Muye revealed an ancient parchment, and the plane veered away from the residential district and climbed back into the sky.
• Lin Qiye had the flight attendants reassure the passengers and told Wen Qimo that the ritual might have absorbed the souls of the Tavern Owner and Ten-Cut Ghost Child.
• Wen Qimo told Lin Qiye that Western Mist Mysteries were handled by Team Phoenix.

Lin Qiye searched the plane for Belial Krand and reunited with Team 136 after landing, while An Qingyu refused to return to the Night Watchmen. Chen Muye received a troubling call from Commander Ye, who also summoned Master Chen back to Cangnan.

• Wen Qimo explained the different duties of Special Squads 001 through 004, though he did not know what Team 001 did.
• Lin Qiye searched the plane for Belial Krand, but found no trace of him before An Qingyu landed the plane.
• Little Black's cleanup team removed the bodies and let the passengers disembark, while Lin Qiye kept searching them for Belial Krand.
• An Qingyu declined Lin Qiye's offer to return to the Night Watchmen, thanked him, and left among the passengers.
• Lin Qiye reunited with Hong Ying and the others from Team 136, then Chen Muye received a call from Commander Ye and answered in private.
• Commander Ye summoned Master Chen back to Cangnan, and Master Chen ordered the page boy to turn the carriage around.

Team 136 enjoyed a picnic after Chen Muye arranged a team-building outing, then learned they had been invited to Shangjing for observation and study. Chen Muye said he and Lin Qiye would remain in Cangnan while the others prepared to leave the next morning.

• Chen Muye interrupted the team’s office bickering and invited everyone on an outing.
• At Cangnan City Park, Lin Qiye learned that the Calamity Raven could warn of impending disasters.
• The team ate together, and Si Xiaonan showed them a green higanbana that Wu Xiangnan said symbolized everlasting hope.
• Chen Muye announced that Team 136 had been invited to Shangjing for observation and study.
• Wu Xiangnan worried about leaving Cangnan unguarded, so Chen Muye said he and Lin Qiye would stay behind.

Chen Muye sent five members of Team 136 to Shangjing City under a fabricated observation program to keep them away from possible danger in Cangnan, while Lin Qiye stayed behind under orders. As the Phoenix Squad flew to Cangnan to deal with the foreign Mystery Belial Klande, they were ordered to turn back because the city had been sealed off from all outside contact.

• Chen Muye explained that Wu Xiangnan, Hong Ying, Wen Qimo, Leng Xuan, and Si Xiaonan would attend an observation program in Shangjing City, and the team prepared to leave.
• After the five departed, Lin Qiye revealed that he had sensed Chen Muye forging the documents and learned that Chen had sent them away because danger might strike Cangnan.
• Chen Muye told Lin Qiye that he had to remain in Cangnan under orders, though his safety would still be guaranteed.
• A military transport carrying the Phoenix Squad flew toward Cangnan as Kong Shang briefed them on the foreign Mystery Belial Klande.
• The plane turned back after a military officer announced that Cangnan was cut off from the outside world and that no transportation, including Special Squads, could enter.

A catastrophic storm along the East Sea coast drew Zhou Ping, the Sword Saint, to confront Poseidon, who had come to claim the divine artifact Shiva's Grudge. Zhou Ping stood against the sea god and forbade gods from entering Great Xia, leaving their clash about to begin.

• Military personnel spotted a target amid the storm and were ordered not to act.
• Zhou Ping arrived carrying a Long Case and sliced apart two enormous waves with his sword.
• Zhou Ping declared that gods were forbidden in Great Xia, and the sea parted to reveal Poseidon.
• Poseidon identified himself as God of the Sea and challenged Zhou Ping, who named himself the Sword Saint.
• Poseidon demanded Shiva's Grudge be handed over so he could take it to Olympus, but Zhou Ping refused and prepared to fight.

Ye Fan confronted Hades as the underworld god’s deathly darkness spread across Northern Great Xia, while a Mi Tuan delivery rider caught up with Loki near Cangnan City and handed him a box of explosives. The chapter ended with Loki staring at the armed delivery.

• Hades’s darkness killed birds and raised the dead as it spread toward a city in Northern Great Xia.
• Ye Fan blocked the darkness with Buddha’s Light and introduced himself as the Supreme Commander of the Great Xia Night Watchmen.
• Hades demanded Shiva’s Grudge and threatened to turn Great Xia into part of his underworld, while Ye Fan taunted him about the gods’ weakening power.
• A Mi Tuan delivery rider kept pace with a Maybach driven by Loki, identified him as deity number 018, and handed him a pizza box.
• The pizza box opened to reveal a row of explosives, freezing Loki’s expression.

A mysterious man entered Cangnan City seeking Shiva's Grudge after one of his avatars was killed. In Cangnan, the Calamity Raven died, and Chen Muye revealed that he had spent ten years suppressing the dangerous relic; meanwhile, Team 136 discovered that all travel to and from Cangnan had been suspended.

• A man disguised as a backpacking woman transformed and entered Cangnan City, intent on claiming Shiva's Grudge.
• The Calamity Raven died, and Chen Muye told Lin Qiye that its death signaled an Outer God's attention.
• Chen Muye explained that he had kept Shiva's Grudge suppressed for ten years, but its power was growing beyond his control.
• Chen Muye and Lin Qiye agreed to wait while the authorities evacuated civilians and prepare to buy time if Cangnan was attacked.
• Si Xiaonan woke from a nightmare in Shangjing, and Hong Ying comforted her before they prepared to go out.
• Wu Xiangnan, Wen Qimo, and Leng Xuan reported that every route to and from Cangnan had been canceled and that they could not reach Chen Muye.

Lin Qiye sought Merlin’s help with an approaching death tribulation, but Merlin could not see Lin Qiye’s fate clearly and suspected their paths would soon intersect. Lin Qiye realized Merlin might be connected to breaking the tribulation and tried to find a way to advance his treatment, ending by demanding that Merlin reveal the secret of the True World.

• Li Yifei won A Zhu’s work vouchers at mahjong, while Hong Yan bit through the table and swallowed tiles.
• Lin Qiye asked Merlin to divine his future, and Merlin sensed a dim path and an approaching death tribulation.
• Merlin said his fate might soon intersect with Lin Qiye’s and could hold the key to breaking the tribulation.
• Lin Qiye realized Merlin might need to leave the hospital, but his treatment progress had stalled at 41%, nine points short of the threshold.
• After thinking alone for the morning, Lin Qiye confronted the dozing Merlin and asked whether he had found the secret of the True World.

Lin Qiye tried to treat Merlin by extracting his starfish second personality, but Merlin’s soul stopped the summoning after half the personality was pulled free. The extracted half appeared to have ended up inside The Whisperer, who began acting like the starfish as he left the church.

• The Whisperer scolded two men for nearly failing a mission, then struggled to stop himself from talking about catching jellyfish and Krabby Patties.
• At the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, Lin Qiye used targeted summoning magic to draw the starfish personality out of Merlin.
• Merlin’s soul disrupted the spell after half the starfish personality had been extracted, raising Merlin’s treatment progress to 62%.
• Lin Qiye wondered where the extracted half of the starfish soul had gone.
• The Whisperer’s body suddenly began running through the church, calling for Patrick and inviting SpongeBob to catch jellyfish.

After Merlin’s treatment progress reached 61%, Lin Qiye drew Transformation Magic and tested how well it could copy people and creatures. He left the hospital and found Cangnan nearly emptied by the evacuation, where a mysterious carriage stopped on Heping Bridge and an elderly voice asked if he was Lin Qiye.

• Lin Qiye drew Merlin’s Transformation Magic, which let him imitate creatures and objects he had seen, including some of their traits.
• Lin Qiye transformed into Li Yifei, A Zhu, and Hong Yan, then discovered he could imitate only abilities below his own realm when he became a Frost Giant Dragon and failed to breathe fire.
• Lin Qiye practiced transforming into his companions while Li Yifei and the others watched, then left the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods.
• Lin Qiye found Cangnan’s streets quiet as residents evacuated and most remaining residents stayed indoors.
• A carriage sped along the canal, stepped into the air near Heping Bridge, and stopped before Lin Qiye as an elderly voice asked his name.

Master Chen brought Lin Qiye into the inner scenery of his Forbidden Ruin and confronted him about the divine aura and the Blazing Vein Earth Dragon, but said he only wanted to meet and drink tea with him. Outside Cangnan City, Loki decided to force Shiva's Grudge to reveal its location by unleashing enormous humanoid beasts.

• Master Chen invited Lin Qiye into his carriage, where his Forbidden Ruin replaced the city outside with scenery from his heart.
• Master Chen told Lin Qiye that the divine aura and the Blazing Vein Earth Dragon were connected to him, citing traces of dragon blood on his blade.
• Lin Qiye denied responsibility for the divine aura, but Master Chen said he had not come to hold him accountable and only wanted to have tea with him.
• Master Chen offered Lin Qiye twelve kinds of tea, and Lin Qiye pretended to appreciate them despite knowing little about tea.
• Loki surveyed the troops sealing off Cangnan City and decided to make Shiva's Grudge reveal itself rather than risk entering the city.
• Loki summoned enormous humanoid beasts through hollow rifts and ordered them to descend into chaos.

Chen Muye called his former wife and apologized, then turned to face the Frost Giants invading Cangnan City. As the military’s defenses faltered and Phoenix Squad remained missing, the Master arrived and killed more than a hundred giants with a single cup of tea.

• Chen Muye called his former wife, learned that Xiaoyang was waiting for him, and promised to send them money before hanging up.
• The military reported that more than two hundred Frost Giants led by Loki were approaching Cangnan City and that Phoenix Squad had gone missing.
• The Frost Giants overwhelmed the military’s conventional defenses as they advanced toward the city.
• The Master arrived in an intangible carriage, transforming the battlefield with grass and flowers.
• The Master hurled a teacup that became a vast blade of water vapor and decapitated more than a hundred Frost Giants.

Indra attacked Master Chen’s carriage after demanding Shiva’s Grudge, while Loki’s Frost Giants broke through the defenses and advanced toward Cangnan City. At the city’s final checkpoint, Chen Muye confronted the giants alone to protect the people behind him.

• Indra arrived in a pillar of lightning and demanded that Master Chen hand over Shiva’s forbidden artifact, Shiva’s Grudge.
• Master Chen had the page drive the carriage away with Lin Qiye still inside, and Indra pursued them after his lightning strike failed.
• With Master Chen gone, Loki’s Frost Giants crushed the remaining defenses and charged toward Cangnan City.
• Chen Muye stood at the highway toll station, declared that no one could pass, and activated the Boundless Void Domain.
• Chen Muye drew two blades and charged the Frost Giants with Yanluo Hall manifesting behind him.

Chen Muye and An Qingyu fought the Frost Giants at the toll station until Team 136 returned to join them. With Cangnan under threat, Chen Muye accepted that they would face the battle together.

• Chen Muye killed several Frost Giants with his twin blades before the giants overwhelmed him with attacks.
• An Qingyu appeared, helped Chen Muye, and identified the giants’ brow and sixth vertebra as fatal points.
• An Qingyu told Chen Muye that his teammates had arrived, and Hong Ying landed beside them after striking a Frost Giant with her spear.
• Wu Xiangnan, Wen Qimo, Leng Xuan, and Si Xiaonan reunited with Chen Muye after stealing a Boeing 737 and flying it back from Shangjing.
• Leng Xuan said Team 136 should become heroes together, and Chen Muye agreed to fight alongside them.