Recaps

Team 136 struggled to hold back the endless Frost Giants while the Phoenix Squad arrived to destroy the portals. Loki prepared to enter the battle, but Lu Wuwei intercepted him with a delivery and declared he only needed to hold him back.

• Hong Ying and Wen Qimo revealed that they had broken through to the River realm, helping Team 136 hold off the Frost Giants as more poured through the portals.
• Xia Simeng and the Phoenix Squad arrived by transport plane, assessed the battlefield, and flew toward the portals to destroy them.
• Loki spotted Chen Muye and prepared to teleport into the battlefield, but Lu Wuwei arrived on an Electric Scooter with a pizza delivery addressed to Loki.
• Lu Wuwei introduced himself as an ordinary delivery rider and said he only needed to hold Loki back while Loki summoned an even larger spatial vortex.

Lin Qiye insisted on leaving Master Chen’s mindscape to return to the battle in Cangnan, despite Master Chen’s warning that he was too weak. After Master Chen sent him out, Lin Qiye saw Indra pursuing the carriage and two giant beasts approaching the city.

• Loki revealed Garm and Kraken, two Klein-level giant beasts, and challenged Lu Wuwei as they descended on Cangnan.
• Indra’s lightning tore into Master Chen’s mindscape while Lin Qiye questioned why he was being kept inside.
• Lin Qiye told Master Chen that his family and comrades were in the city and insisted on joining the battle.
• Master Chen agreed to send Lin Qiye out, warning him never to leave Cangnan City’s boundaries.
• Lin Qiye appeared ten li from the carriage and saw Indra hurling lightning at it as it sped away.
• Lin Qiye climbed a nearby high-rise and saw two giant beasts closing in on the city.

Lin Qiye chose to risk his soul by borrowing Merlin’s power to stop the Sea Monster and protect Cangnan. Outside the city, Xia Simeng ordered Phoenix Squad to split up and face both beasts, despite knowing they might not survive.

• Lin Qiye summoned Nyx and Merlin and asked for help against the two Klein-level beasts approaching Cangnan.
• Nyx warned that Lin Qiye’s soul could not bear another god’s power, while Merlin said he could trap the Sea Monster but could scarcely kill it.
• Lin Qiye thought of Team 136 and Zhao Kongcheng, then drove Zhao Kongcheng’s sword into the ground and asked Merlin to lend him his power.
• Xia Simeng and Phoenix Squad fought Garm as Kong Shang reported that the Sea Monster Kraken was heading for the toll station and could not be stopped.
• Xia Simeng ordered Phoenix Squad to split into two groups to face the beasts and advanced toward Garm, declaring that Night Watchmen had to die defending the city if necessary.

Chen Muye tried to face the approaching Kraken alone, but Lin Qiye arrived and sent Team 136 back to safety before confronting the Sea Monster. The chapter ended with Lin Qiye floating at the edge of Cangnan City beneath three enormous black Magic Arrays.

• Hong Ying and the others finished fighting the Frost Giants after the Phoenix Squad destroyed their portal.
• Chen Muye revealed that the Kraken was targeting him for something he carried and tried to lure it away from the city alone.
• Team 136 refused to leave Chen Muye, but he bound everyone except An Qingyu with chains and asked An Qingyu to look after them.
• Lin Qiye appeared, sealed Chen Muye and Team 136, and teleported them to the underground Heping Agency.
• Team 136 reached the roof and saw Lin Qiye facing the Kraken at the edge of Cangnan City beneath three enormous black Magic Arrays.

Lin Qiye trapped the Kraken with three layers of magic, while Loki recognized him as a miracle that might be reaching its limit. As the battle continued elsewhere, Loki’s call awakened something within Si Xiaonan.

• Lin Qiye used Triple Rashomon, Dimensional Banishment, and Eternal Freeze to seal the Kraken inside an icy pyramid.
• Xia Simeng and Kong Shang recognized the presence of a god and suspected the figure sealing the Kraken was Lin Qiye.
• Loki sensed that the Kraken had been stopped, recognized Lin Qiye, and wondered whether the miracle protecting him had reached its limit.
• Lu Wuwei vowed to keep Loki from reaching Lin Qiye, but Loki insisted he could not be stopped.
• Loki’s voice called Si Xiaonan his chosen agent and heir, and she crouched in pain as the others watched the sealed Kraken.

Si Xiaonan revealed she was Loki’s agent and took Shiva’s Grudge after incapacitating Team 136. Leng Xuan confronted her as she tried to leave, and she wounded him, but he still pursued her with a box of photographs.

• Si Xiaonan revealed that she was a Klein-level agent of Loki and that her identity and records as a Night Watchman had been fabricated.
• Si Xiaonan knocked Team 136 unconscious and took Shiva’s Grudge from Chen Muye.
• Leng Xuan confronted Si Xiaonan, arguing that she had grown attached to Team 136 and that she was still their Xiao Nan.
• Si Xiaonan wounded Leng Xuan’s arm and warned him not to stop her again, but he followed her and shattered a metal box against his chest, scattering photographs.
• Si Xiaonan froze when she saw the photographs flying through the air.

Si Xiaonan recovered her memories and told Leng Xuan she had a dangerous plan, while the battle against Garm and Kraken reached its breaking point. As Lin Qiye prepared to make a desperate sacrifice, a massive black hound raced out from the city and stunned him.

• Si Xiaonan saw photographs of Team 136 and remembered her past with the team and the city.
• Leng Xuan comforted Si Xiaonan, promised to face the future with her, and told her he believed her when she revealed she had a dangerous plan.
• Chen Muye woke and found that Si Xiaonan's Unfettered Veil had sealed the aura of the parchment, leaving him to wonder what she had taken.
• As Lin Qiye's ice seal on Kraken began to collapse, Xia Simeng and Kong Shang led the Phoenix Squad in preparing to fight Garm to the death.
• Kraken broke free, and Lin Qiye took out an emblem and prepared to follow the same path as someone before him.
• A massive black hound raced out from the city, interrupting Lin Qiye and drawing the attention of the fighters.

A black vicious dog that looked exactly like Lin Qiye’s Xiao Hei Lai killed Kraken and intimidated Garm. Meanwhile, Si Xiaonan delivered Shiva's Grudge to Loki, who escaped Lu Wuwei and turned his attention toward Lin Qiye.

• The black vicious dog attacked Kraken, tore off its head, and stood over its corpse as Garm retreated in fear.
• Lin Qiye noticed the dog resembled Xiao Hei Lai and put away the emblem he had prepared.
• Si Xiaonan gave Shiva's Grudge to Loki and introduced Leng Xuan as her follower.
• Loki evaded Lu Wuwei’s attempt to touch him by transforming into venomous snakes and reappearing at a distance.
• Loki said he had obtained what he wanted, then fixed his attention on Lin Qiye before leaving.

Lin Qiye saw through Loki’s disguise as Chen Muye, but Loki revealed that he had tricked Lin Qiye into leaving Cangnan. Lin Qiye watched in horror as the city began to disappear.

• Phoenix Squad recognized the black hound as the Howling Celestial Dog as it overwhelmed Garm.
• Chen Muye appeared and claimed Si Xiaonan had defected, but Lin Qiye realized he was an impostor and tried to escape.
• Loki revealed himself as the God of Trickery and explained that he had meant to lure Lin Qiye outside Cangnan.
• Loki told Lin Qiye that he had already left Cangnan by deceiving space, and Lin Qiye saw the city vanishing in golden light.

Cangnan City began disappearing as the ten years sustained by Lin Qiye’s Mortal Divine Domain came to an end. Master Chen explained that the city had originally been erased by Shiva’s Grudge and that Lin Qiye’s power had miraculously rebuilt it, leaving its future uncertain as the Divine Domain faded.

• People across Cangnan City vanished into golden motes, while those disappearing accepted their fate and said goodbye to loved ones.
• Master Chen and his bookboy witnessed the city dissolving, and Master Chen explained that Zeus had sent Gaia to use Shiva’s Grudge to erase Cangnan City and kill a prophesied Blasphemer.
• Master Chen revealed that Lin Qiye had been the sole survivor of the original erasure, protected by a mysterious array formed by three divine artifacts beneath an old house.
• Master Chen explained that Michael made Lin Qiye his proxy and gave him the power to reconstruct Cangnan City and revive its citizens within the Mortal Divine Domain.
• Master Chen said the divine power sustaining the domain had lasted ten years, allowing the citizens’ descendants to exist beyond it, and identified the Mortal Divine Domain as the greatest miracle.

Master Chen explained that Lin Qiye had sustained Cangnan with the Mortal Divine Domain, while the Night Watchmen prepared for the city's destruction. As Cangnan vanished, Chen Muye revealed his ten-year vigil and disappeared with the city, leaving Shiva's Grudge in Hong Ying's care.

• Master Chen told the pageboy that Lin Qiye was Cangnan's soul and that the Night Watchmen had planned for the city to disappear.
• Chen Muye reassured Hong Ying and Wen Qimo that Si Xiaonan had not betrayed them, just before Cangnan's residents began turning into golden motes.
• Chen Muye explained that only people present in Cangnan ten years earlier were disappearing, and Wu Xiangnan realized Chen Muye had been there.
• Chen Muye revealed that he had stayed in Cangnan to hide Shiva's Grudge after Gaia erased the city, then gave the relic to Hong Ying.
• Chen Muye said farewell, asked the others to thank Lin Qiye, and vanished with Cangnan, leaving Hong Ying grieving.

Yang Jin revealed his divine identity to Auntie as she dissolved into golden motes, then gathered Cangnan City's lost souls in the Soul-Collecting Pouch so they could be revived. He set out with Xiao Hei Lai to confront an Outer God, determined to announce the return of Great Xia's gods.

• Yang Jin shared a meal with Auntie and asked whether she regretted raising him and his brother in hardship.
• Auntie's memories returned as she began dissolving, and Yang Jin begged forgiveness for failing to save Cangnan City's million victims ten years earlier.
• Yang Jin explained that the Soul-Collecting Pouch could preserve the victims' souls until the Celestial Venerable restored their bodies, then gathered the city's golden torrent of souls.
• Nezha confronted Yang Jin outside the house and warned him that fighting an intact Outer God could cost him his life.
• Yang Jin called Xiao Hei Lai, summoned his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Halberd, and advanced through the realms until he became a god.
• Yang Jin departed with Xiao Hei Lai, declaring that they were going to kill a god.

Master Chen fought Indra to defend Great Xia, but Yang Jian emerged from the city and overwhelmed the foreign god. After beheading Indra, Yang Jian declared that Great Xia’s gods had returned.

• Master Chen resisted Indra’s lightning and declared that he would defend Great Xia rather than retreat.
• A divine radiance pierced the thunderclouds, and Yang Jian appeared with a black hound and announced that Great Xia had gods.
• Yang Jian seized Indra, sealed his escape, and battered him across the battlefield.
• Yang Jian severed Indra’s hand, then explained that Great Xia’s gods had sacrificed themselves to protect the people and borders from the mist.
• Yang Jian beheaded Indra and proclaimed that the hundred-year cycle had ended and Great Xia’s gods had returned.

Yang Jian’s sacrifice helped drive the foreign gods from Great Xia, but a Daoist Heavenly Venerable arrived to save him and promised to restore his godhood. As another archer on Changbai Mountain loosed a golden arrow at a distant target, the Heavenly Venerable warned that the conflict was not over.

• Zhou Ping held Poseidon off at the East Sea until Yang Jian’s announcement that Great Xia’s gods had returned made Poseidon retreat.
• At the northern border, Ye Fan told Hades that Great Xia’s gods had never disappeared, and Hades withdrew his underworld domain.
• Yang Jian reached the edge of Cangnan City with Indra’s head and collapsed, believing his godhood and life had ended.
• A Daoist Heavenly Venerable gave Yang Jian true essence, promised to rebuild his godhood, and said the foreign gods’ retreat did not end the matter.
• On Changbai Mountain, a bare-chested archer drew his bow and fired a golden arrow through space at a distant figure.

Poseidon was punished for intruding into Great Xia, while Golden Cicada confronted Hades in the underworld. As Great Xia’s gods left Cangnan to rebuild the Heavenly Court, Lin Qiye began to receive the Seraph’s remaining divine power and faced a vision of the Seraph.

• A golden arrow struck Poseidon beneath the sea, tearing off one of his arms and warning him against entering Great Xia’s territory.
• Golden Cicada arrived in Hades’s underworld under orders to purify a hundred thousand resentful souls, and Hades challenged him.
• Yang Jian asked the Taoist about the God of Trickery, and the Taoist explained that Lin Qiye had gained enough divine power to temporarily slay a god.
• The Taoist told Yang Jian that Great Xia’s gods would focus on rebuilding the Heavenly Court and hinted that the monkey might not be completely dead.
• At Cangnan’s border, Lin Qiye stood amid surging divine power and saw the Seraph appear before him in a daze.

Lin Qiye spoke with the Seraph within his consciousness and learned that Cangnan had been erased ten years earlier, while his Mortal Divine Domain had sustained the city ever since. After discovering that Cangnan’s residents, including Auntie and A Jin, had also been erased, Lin Qiye returned to the vanished city and found his home gone.

• Lin Qiye met the Seraph in a vision of the moon and learned the scene was a consciousness within his heart.
• The Seraph explained that Shiva's Grudge had erased Cangnan ten years earlier and that Lin Qiye's Mortal Divine Domain had kept the city in existence.
• The Seraph revealed that Lingbao Tianzun had made a deal a century earlier for the Seraph to empower Cangnan's sole survivor and sustain the city for ten years.
• Lin Qiye asked whether Cangnan's residents could be resurrected, and the Seraph told him that everyone within the city had been erased along with it.
• As the Seraph's consciousness faded, he told Lin Qiye that some divine power remained and that he could still do what he wished.
• Lin Qiye used the remaining divine power to return to the city and found the old district and his home completely gone.

After discovering that Auntie, A Jin, and Xiao Hei Lai were gone and their souls could not be found, Lin Qiye set out to kill Loki. Loki was trapped at Cangnan’s edge as Lin Qiye confronted him and unleashed a miracle that let him challenge a god.

• Lin Qiye searched the ruined clearing for Auntie and A Jin, then failed to revive them because their souls were missing.
• Merlin used three Mind Magic spells to calm Lin Qiye and steady his thoughts.
• Lin Qiye drew his blades, reached Cangnan’s edge, and confronted Loki, who could not teleport away.
• Lin Qiye activated Mortal Divine Domain and launched an attack on Loki with his blades and Magic Arrays.
• Loki summoned the God of Trickery’s Divine Might in response to Lin Qiye’s power.

Lin Qiye used the Mortal Divine Domain to injure Loki and counter his reality-warping tricks, forcing Loki to summon Jörmungandr. Lin Qiye combined Miracle with Random Summoning Magic, and a terrifying colossal shadow began to emerge behind him.

• Lin Qiye's golden blade light wounded Loki, and Lin Qiye explained that his Mortal Divine Domain made the impossible possible.
• Lin Qiye unleashed High-tier Magics, but Loki extinguished them and attacked with twelve trick serpents to drain Lin Qiye's divine power.
• Lin Qiye used Reverse Fixed-point Summoning to evade the serpents and strike Loki's true body, injuring his chest.
• Loki summoned the half-step Mythic Jörmungandr and ordered it to kill Lin Qiye.
• Lin Qiye used Random Summoning Magic with Miracle, causing a terrifying colossal shadow to emerge behind him.

Lin Qiye used a miracle to summon Godzilla, which battled Jörmungandr while he fought Loki with his remaining divine power. He stabbed Loki with two God-Slaying Blades, but Loki warned that he would return after the Seraph's divine power was exhausted.

• Lin Qiye used Random Summoning Magic and summoned Godzilla, which faced Jörmungandr as the surviving residents watched in shock.
• Godzilla and Jörmungandr fought fiercely while Lin Qiye turned to attack Loki, knowing that his divine power and soul were nearing their limits.
• Lin Qiye used a reverse-summoned straight blade and the Absolute Darkness Divine Forbidden Zone to break Loki's sword and pierce his chest with a God-Slaying Blade.
• Loki warned Lin Qiye that he would return once the Seraph's divine power ran out, and Lin Qiye drove another blade into Loki's heart.

Lin Qiye returned to the devastated Heping Agency, learned that the captain had disappeared and Si Xiaonan had taken Leng Xuan to Asgard, then used his remaining divine power to heal Wu Xiangnan’s hands. After leaving, Lin Qiye lost Merlin’s possession and collapsed, his soul wracked with pain.

• Si Xiaonan told Leng Xuan that Loki’s true body was in Asgard and took him there to continue their plan.
• Lin Qiye realized Loki’s apparent death was only the destruction of a false body and feared the backlash from Merlin’s possession.
• Lin Qiye returned to Heping Agency and learned from Hong Ying that the captain had disappeared with everyone else and Si Xiaonan had left with Leng Xuan.
• Lin Qiye reassured Hong Ying that he would someday bring the missing people back, then used his final divine power to heal Wu Xiangnan’s sword-scarred hands.
• Lin Qiye left through a spatial portal, where Merlin’s soul returned to the Psychiatric Hospital and Lin Qiye collapsed in agony.

Lin Qiye’s soul was repeatedly torn apart and repaired as he grieved for the people he had lost. A mysterious Daoist stabilized him, but Lin Qiye woke seeming to see his Auntie and left the Phoenix Squad wondering whether he had gone mad.

• The Phoenix Squad arrived as Lin Qiye’s Mind Magic broke and his soul suffered relentless agony.
• Xia Simeng discovered that Lin Qiye’s soul was being shredded and repaired, trapping him in continuous suffering.
• Lin Qiye tried to use Mortal Divine Domain to revive the dead, but each miracle he summoned shattered.
• A mysterious Daoist immobilized the Phoenix Squad, traced a mark on Lin Qiye’s forehead, and stabilized his soul.
• Lin Qiye woke on Xia Simeng’s back, reached toward someone unseen, and said, “Auntie, I’m back,” leaving the squad to wonder if he had gone mad.

After Cangnan City was destroyed, the Night Watchmen prepared to receive its survivors while Phoenix Squad learned that Lin Qiye was trapped in his Mental World and might lose control. Hong Ying visited him and promised to wait for him and the others.

• Wu Xiangnan watched the Night Watchmen logistics units approach Cangnan City and returned to Heping Agency, where Phoenix Squad waited for news of Lin Qiye.
• Dr. Li explained that Lin Qiye's consciousness remained trapped in his Mental World and that his unstable Mortal Divine Domain could go berserk.
• Dr. Li said Lin Qiye would be transferred to the Abstinence Hall's Sunshine hospital for supervision and treatment.
• Hong Ying entered Lin Qiye's reconstructed childhood bedroom and spoke to him about their absent comrades and their promise to reunite.
• A green Higanbana appeared beside Hong Ying, who smiled through her tears and promised to wait for everyone.

The Phoenix Squad received orders to transfer Lin Qiye to the Abstinence Hall and Wu Xiangnan to headquarters, where he would investigate Takama-ga-hara and the destruction of Blue Rain Squad. After Wu Xiangnan left, Hong Ying became Team 136’s captain and vowed that she and Wen Qimo would guard Cangnan until their comrades returned.

• Xia Simeng told the Phoenix Squad that Lin Qiye would be transferred to the Abstinence Hall under their protection, and warned Kong Shang that they would face military court over hijacking a plane.
• Wu Xiangnan questioned whether the Night Watchmen’s higher-ups had treated Ghost-faced Man and Zhao Kongcheng as pieces in a plan, but Xia Simeng insisted they would not betray their own companions.
• Xia Simeng told Wu Xiangnan that he had been ordered back to headquarters to investigate Takama-ga-hara and the destruction of Blue Rain Squad, and he accepted the transfer despite leaving Team 136 short-handed.
• One day later, Hong Ying read Wu Xiangnan’s letter at the graves of Zhao Kongcheng and Chen Muye, then decided to remain in Cangnan and lead Team 136.
• Hong Ying named herself captain and Wen Qimo vice-captain, and they vowed to guard the city while waiting for their comrades to return.

Dr. Li questioned Lin Qiye, who seemed to have forgotten the Night Watchmen and his friends, while living inside a sealed alloy cell. Dr. Li later told Commander Ye that Lin Qiye had remained trapped in his own Mental World for a year since the Cangnan incident, with no known way to wake him.

• Dr. Li asked Lin Qiye about his past and whether he remembered the Night Watchmen, Chen Muye, Zhao Kongcheng, and Team 136.
• Lin Qiye became distressed when Dr. Li mentioned them, but Dr. Li calmed him and caused him to forget the conversation.
• After Dr. Li left, Lin Qiye quietly questioned whether his experiences were delusions.
• Dr. Li revealed that Lin Qiye was restrained inside an alloy cube monitored by researchers, and that the apparent bedroom was part of his constructed world.
• Dr. Li told Commander Ye that Lin Qiye had not awakened in the year since the Cangnan incident and that his Mental World contained only endless mist.

After Lin Qiye had slept for a year, Nyx refused to wake him while Merlin insisted that he could not avoid his responsibilities forever. Their clash abruptly ended when Lin Qiye unconsciously suppressed both gods, bringing him to the brink of awakening as Nyx hurried to check on him.

• A Zhu, Li Yifei, and Hong Yan wondered when Lin Qiye would wake and whether Nyx or Merlin would win their confrontation.
• Merlin entered the courtyard and told Nyx that Lin Qiye had to wake, but Nyx insisted on letting her exhausted son rest.
• Merlin and Nyx fought with magic and divine power, alarming the orderlies and nearly throwing A Zhu into the wind.
• Lin Qiye instinctively suppressed both gods' power while still asleep, and his eyelids began to twitch.
• Nyx accused Merlin of arranging the clash to wake Lin Qiye, then hurried to his side and asked whether he was all right.