Recaps

Zhao Kongcheng injected himself with Ghost God's Pull to awaken a Forbidden Ruin and turned the tables against the Ghost-faced King. He severed one of the King’s arms with Life-Annihilating Flash Moon.

• Lin Qiye tried to break through Zhao Kongcheng’s Boundless Void Domain and insisted on helping fight the Ghost-faced King.
• Zhao Kongcheng told Lin Qiye the domain could only be entered if he let him in or died, and Lin Qiye stopped making noise outside.
• Zhao Kongcheng recalled that his emblem contained a needle coated with Ghost God's Pull, which could awaken a hidden Forbidden Ruin at the cost of burning his potential.
• Zhao Kongcheng injected himself with Ghost God's Pull as the Ghost-faced King advanced.
• Zhao Kongcheng awakened Forbidden Ruins, Sequence 083—Life-Annihilating Flash Moon, and sliced off one of the Ghost-faced King’s arms.

Zhao Kongcheng used Ghost God's Pull and Life-Annihilating Flash Moon to battle the Ghost-faced King, but his strength began to fade before he could finish it. Lin Qiye broke into the Boundless Void Domain, and Zhao Kongcheng used his final slash to decapitate the monster.

• Zhao Kongcheng fought the Ghost-faced King with his Forbidden Ruin, cutting deep wounds into it as his power began to wane.
• The Ghost-faced King struck Zhao Kongcheng and sent him crashing into the mud, but he got back up and continued fighting.
• Lin Qiye broke through the Boundless Void Domain with a glare and entered the battlefield.
• Zhao Kongcheng told Lin Qiye to watch his final slash, then charged the Ghost-faced King and severed its head.

After Zhao Kongcheng killed the Ghost-faced King, Lin Qiye discovered the monster had survived and watched Zhao die from his injuries. Lin Qiye took Zhao’s blade and fought the Ghost-faced King, targeting the ghostly face he believed was its true body.

• Zhao Kongcheng told Lin Qiye he had killed the Ghost-faced King, smoked a cigarette, and died in Lin Qiye’s arms.
• Lin Qiye saw the Ghost-faced King’s headless body rise again with its ghostly face on its chest.
• Lin Qiye took Zhao Kongcheng’s blade and dodged the Ghost-faced King’s attacks.
• Lin Qiye repeatedly slashed the ghostly face on the Ghost-faced King’s chest, then plunged his blade into it.
• The Ghost-faced King let out a shrill howl.

After killing the Ghost-faced King, Lin Qiye decided to join the Night Watchmen for ten years to repay Zhao Kongcheng for saving his family, then left his aunt’s home without saying goodbye. He carried Zhao Kongcheng’s body toward Hong Ying, who had rushed to find him, and announced that he was bringing the general home in triumph.

• Lin Qiye defeated the Ghost-faced King, collected its remains, and sat beside Zhao Kongcheng’s corpse.
• Lin Qiye reflected on Zhao Kongcheng’s sacrifice and resolved to protect the world for ten years before leaving the Night Watchmen.
• Lin Qiye knelt toward his aunt’s house, apologized for leaving without saying goodbye, and promised to repay her kindness before departing.
• Hong Ying reached the old residential district and learned from Wu Xiangnan that Zhao Kongcheng’s insignia had begun moving toward her.
• Lin Qiye emerged through the rain carrying Zhao Kongcheng’s body and shouted that he was sending General Zhao Kongcheng home in triumph.

After Zhao Kongcheng and the Ghost-faced King died in battle, Lin Qiye recounted the fight to the Night Watchmen of Team 136. The chapter ended with Lin Qiye insisting that Zhao Kongcheng had killed the Ghost-faced King alone.

• At home, Yang Jin reassured Auntie that Lin Qiye would be fine and pointed out that the rain had stopped.
• A black Mangy Dog crossed the blade-scarred clearing and used the words "Soul Return" at the spot where a man's corpse had lain.
• At Heping Agency, Wu Xiangnan introduced Lin Qiye to Team 136's captain Chen Muye and its members Hong Ying, Wen Qimo, Si Xiaonan, and Leng Xuan.
• Lin Qiye told Wu Xiangnan that Zhao Kongcheng had fought the Ghost-faced King alone inside the Boundless Void Domain and that they had died together.
• Chen Muye identified Zhao Kongcheng's Forbidden Ruins as Life-Annihilating Flash Moon and said he had used Ghost God's Pull.
• When Wu Xiangnan questioned the wounds on the Ghost-faced King's corpse, Lin Qiye repeated that Zhao Kongcheng had solo-killed it.

After Zhao Kongcheng’s death, Lin Qiye agreed to join the Night Watchmen to honor his promise, though he intended to leave after ten years. While awaiting the September training camp, he accepted Hong Ying’s offer to stay at her home, and Wen Qimo asked to come along.

• Hong Ying angrily rebuked Wu Xiangnan for continuing to question Lin Qiye about Zhao Kongcheng, and Chen Muye ended the questioning.
• Chen Muye asked why Lin Qiye now wanted to join the Night Watchmen, and Lin Qiye said he was honoring his agreement with Zhao Kongcheng and planned to leave after ten years.
• Chen Muye explained that Lin Qiye would need to complete a year of training before becoming an official member, and Lin Qiye accepted that he might not be able to leave after ten years.
• Hong Ying offered Lin Qiye a room at her home until training began and gave him her address.
• Wen Qimo led Lin Qiye upstairs to explain the Night Watchmen and asked if he could stay at Hong Ying’s place too.

Wen Qimo comforted Lin Qiye and explained how the Night Watchmen’s city teams and Special Squads operated. He told Lin Qiye that his status as the Seraph’s Agent gave him exceptional potential, leaving Lin Qiye with a glimpse of a future far beyond Cangnan.

• Wen Qimo told Lin Qiye that he and the others had noticed his distress and that Hong Ying had tried to lift his spirits despite her own grief.
• Wen Qimo explained that the Night Watchmen stationed teams in every city so they could respond quickly to Mythical Creatures.
• Wen Qimo described the four Special Squads and recounted how the Mask squad had eliminated three 'Sea' realm Mythical Creatures in Huaihai City.
• Wen Qimo said Special Squad members needed to reach the peak of the 'Chuan' realm and possess a rare distinction, such as a powerful Forbidden Zone sequence or being a God's Agent.
• Wen Qimo told Lin Qiye that his status as the Seraph’s Agent gave him enormous potential and that he might one day join or lead a Special Squad.

Lin Qiye learned about the Night Watchmen’s greatest protectors and visited the Cangnan cemetery with Wen Qimo. There, they watched Hong Ying secretly carve Zhao Kongcheng’s tombstone.

• Wen Qimo told Lin Qiye about the five Human Apex, including the rumors that they were called One Sword, One Rider, One Venerable, One Void, and One Master.
• Lin Qiye asked whether humanity had ever killed an ancient god, then confirmed that temporary members received benefits and subsidies.
• Wen Qimo brought Lin Qiye to the Night Watchmen cemetery and explained its history, the growing casualties, and Zhao Kongcheng’s choice to be buried there.
• Lin Qiye saw Hong Ying carving Zhao Kongcheng’s tombstone in secret, and Wen Qimo explained that teammates carved the stones and that Hong Ying had been close to Zhao Kongcheng.
• When Lin Qiye asked whether they should greet Hong Ying, Wen Qimo suggested that others might also be watching from the sidelines.

Wu Xiangnan and Chen Muye discussed how Lin Qiye had changed and why he let Zhao Kongcheng take credit for killing the Ghost-faced King, while Leng Xuan secretly photographed Team 136. Lin Qiye arrived at Hong Ying’s villa to stay the night, learned her parents had disappeared in the Mist, and knocked on her bedroom door after she warned him not to enter without permission.

• Chen Muye found Wu Xiangnan watching Hong Ying carve a gravestone, and they discussed Wu’s past and Lin Qiye’s character.
• Wu Xiangnan questioned whether Lin Qiye had killed the Ghost-faced King, and Chen Muye said Lin had willingly given the credit to Zhao Kongcheng.
• Leng Xuan photographed Team 136 members from a distant hill and stored the pictures in his collection.
• Lin Qiye reached Hong Ying’s mansion and learned that she and Si Xiaonan lived there because Hong Ying’s parents had disappeared in the Mist.
• Hong Ying showed Lin Qiye his room and warned him not to enter her or Si Xiaonan’s room without knocking.
• After the bedroom doors closed, Lin Qiye knocked on Hong Ying’s door, and she opened it holding a spear.

Lin Qiye wrote a letter telling Aunt Wang and Yang Jin that he had enlisted and left for Qiqihar, while Chen Muye and Wen Qimo hurried to reassure his guardian about the enlistment. Their explanation revealed that Lin Qiye was actually headed to Wulumuqi, leaving Aunt Wang startled and confused.

• Lin Qiye borrowed paper and a pen from Hong Ying, then wrote a letter to Auntie and Yang Jin.
• Yang Jin found the letter, and he and Auntie learned that Lin Qiye had secretly enlisted and supposedly boarded a train to Qiqihar.
• Auntie worried about Lin Qiye's eyes and rushed outside to seek help retrieving him.
• Chen Muye and Wen Qimo arrived with enlistment paperwork and subsidies, pretending the documents had already been approved.
• Wen Qimo assured Aunt Wang that Lin Qiye's enlistment in Wulumuqi had been approved, and Aunt Wang exclaimed that he was not going to Qiqihar.

Wen Qimo and Chen Muye convinced Lin Qiye’s aunt that he had joined the army and left her his allowance before Lin Qiye departed. After a tearful phone call, Lin Qiye said goodbye to his home and left with Chen Muye.

• Wen Qimo gave Aunt Lin Qiye’s documents and explained that he had been reassigned to Wulumuqi, while Chen Muye handed her his military allowance.
• Aunt worried about Lin Qiye’s safety and asked when he would return, and Chen Muye told her it would be in ten years.
• Chen Muye told Lin Qiye that Aunt had believed their explanation and invited him to the office for meals.
• Lin Qiye called Aunt, who urged him to take care of himself and said she had saved his allowance for when he returned.
• Aunt wept after ending the call, while Yang Jin called Lin Qiye an idiot.
• Lin Qiye took one last look at home and left with Chen Muye.

Lin Qiye learned from Nyx that a girl named Ji had visited the hospital before him and defeated her in a contest of creation. He found the girl's hidden letter in the Director's Office, discovering that she had borrowed the hospital and intended to find him when she grew up.

• Lin Qiye visited Nyx to give her medicine, and she recalled that a girl in a white outfit had won her bracelet.
• Nyx told Lin Qiye that the girl was twelve or thirteen, had long black hair and a strange pattern on her hand, and had a surname that might be Ji.
• Nyx pointed Lin Qiye toward the Director's Office, where the girl had gone before returning to her room.
• Lin Qiye used Seraph's divine realm to search the office and found a yellowed letter hidden beneath the last drawer.
• Lin Qiye read Jinian's letter, which said she had borrowed the hospital and items from some patients, promised to return them, and mentioned another place beneath the office.

Lin Qiye discovered a hidden prison beneath the hospital and found the Ghost-faced King, whom the hospital offered him the choice to erase or recruit as an orderly. He rejected the creature and destroyed it, then left the prison.

• Lin Qiye found a hidden passage beneath the office and entered a prison filled with empty cells.
• Lin Qiye discovered the Ghost-faced King in a cell and learned the hospital could turn creatures he had killed into orderlies.
• Lin Qiye considered recruiting the Ghost-faced King, but remembered it had killed someone important to him.
• Lin Qiye crushed the Ghost-faced King until it exploded, and the prison absorbed its remains.
• Lin Qiye left the prison as the blood on his white coat seeped away.

Lin Qiye visited the Night Watchmen’s headquarters, where he learned about the team’s odd assortment of side jobs and received Zhao Kongcheng’s saber. Chen Muye began training him ahead of camp, and Lin Qiye’s first sparring session ended in screams.

• Lin Qiye arrived at the storefront and discovered Hong Ying and Wen Qimo helping an elderly woman investigate her husband.
• Wen Qimo explained the Night Watchmen’s many side services and directed Lin Qiye to meet Chen Muye at the training ground.
• Chen Muye told Lin Qiye that his joining paperwork was ready and gave him Zhao Kongcheng’s saber.
• Chen Muye arranged for Lin Qiye to train in saber techniques, his Forbidden Ruin, and firearms before training camp.
• Lin Qiye charged at Chen Muye with his saber, and three seconds later his screams rang through the underground chamber.

Wen Qimo taught Lin Qiye about Forbidden Ruin sequences and explained that Mortal Divine Domain was Sequence 003 in Archangel Michael’s hands, though its power depended on Lin Qiye’s strength. Lin Qiye concealed that he served two gods and demonstrated his domain’s current ability to perceive everything within twenty meters.

• Lin Qiye arrived bruised after sparring with Chen Muye, and Wen Qimo said the captain had beaten him without holding back.
• Wen Qimo explained how the Forbidden Ruin Sequence ranked abilities by danger and described the destructive potential of extremely high-risk Forbidden Ruins.
• Wen Qimo told Lin Qiye that Mortal Divine Domain was Sequence 003 for Archangel Michael but was only high-risk in Lin Qiye’s hands for now.
• Lin Qiye asked whether someone could serve several gods, and Wen Qimo said there had never been such a precedent; Lin Qiye privately recalled his connection to the Goddess of Night as well as Michael.
• Lin Qiye said his domain let him perceive everything within a twenty-meter radius, then answered Wen Qimo’s question about Hong Ying’s underwear.

Wen Qimo assessed Lin Qiye’s abilities and concluded that the Seraph had given him only an incomplete Divine Domain, then began training him to use his perception and dynamic vision. As Lin Qiye struggled to dodge volleys of rubber bullets, Chen Muye prepared bone broth and made the team wait for him before eating.

• Wen Qimo recorded Lin Qiye’s abilities and judged that his Divine Domain was likely incomplete and only an ordinary danger level.
• Wen Qimo designed a training exercise in which Lin Qiye had to dodge rubber bullets using his perception and dynamic vision.
• Lin Qiye was quickly overwhelmed by the bullets and complained that he was getting beaten up again.
• Chen Muye served bone broth to the team, but stopped Hong Ying from eating until Lin Qiye finished class.

After a grueling day of training, Lin Qiye struggled with shooting practice while learning why Chen Muye pushed his team so hard. He ended the night practicing sword techniques on his own.

• Lin Qiye joined the Night Watchmen for dinner, where Leng Xuan broke up Hong Ying and Wu Xiangnan’s dispute over a piece of meat by drawing his submachine gun.
• Chen Muye told Si Xiaonan to treat Lin Qiye only enough to keep him ready for more training, then Leng Xuan took Lin Qiye for shooting practice.
• Lin Qiye missed a target thirty meters away, leaving Leng Xuan discouraged by his lack of marksmanship talent.
• Hong Ying explained that Chen Muye’s harsh training helped protect the Night Watchmen by making them stronger, and Lin Qiye said he understood.
• After returning to his room, Lin Qiye got up and repeatedly practiced the sword techniques Chen Muye had demonstrated.

After returning to school for his forgotten homework, Li Yifei hid from the Dean of Students and witnessed Liu Xiaoyan devour him. The Dean reappeared unharmed, and the two left together, leaving Li Yifei shaken by another encounter with the supernatural.

• Li Yifei returned to the nearly empty school to retrieve his homework after forgetting it in his desk.
• Li Yifei hid in his classroom when Liu Xiaoyan and the Dean of Students stopped outside.
• Liu Xiaoyan revealed a monstrous mouth, swallowed the Dean of Students, and then spat him out unharmed.
• The Dean of Students rose, smiled at Liu Xiaoyan, and left with her while Li Yifei watched in terror.

Team 136 investigated a suspected Mystery at Cangnan City Second High School after Li Yifei reported seeing a monster there. The team planned to search for the creature’s original body and assigned Hong Ying, Xiao Nan, and Lin Qiye to infiltrate the school.

• Hong Ying brought Lin Qiye to a Team 136 meeting, where Chen Muye revealed that a suspected Mythical Creature had appeared at Lin Qiye’s former school, Second High School.
• Li Yifei described seeing a monster at the school, and Wu Xiangnan judged that the case almost certainly involved a Mystery.
• Wu Xiangnan explained that the creature could disguise itself, communicate without detection, and assimilate those it swallowed, making its original body and the number of infected people unknown.
• Wu Xiangnan warned that the infection could have spread across the school or beyond, but Wen Qimo said the Calamity Raven had not sounded an alarm.
• Wu Xiangnan proposed splitting Team 136 to search outward from the school and infiltrate it to find the creature’s original body.
• Chen Muye assigned Hong Ying, Xiao Nan, and Lin Qiye to enter Second High School without alerting the creature.

Lin Qiye joined a Night Watchmen operation to investigate a Mythical Creature infiltrating Second High School, using his old school and classmate Liu Xiaoyan to approach the threat. He entered his classroom and sensed a troubling number of suspicious people, leaving the team uncertain about the situation.

• Chen Muye assigned Lin Qiye, Hong Ying, Si Xiaonan, and Li Yifei to investigate the creature at Second High School, and Lin Qiye accepted the mission.
• Leng Xuan gave Lin Qiye a loaded handgun before the team set out.
• Lin Qiye, Hong Ying, and Si Xiaonan climbed over the school wall, then split up so Lin Qiye could approach Liu Xiaoyan while the others investigated the Dean of Students.
• Lin Qiye returned to his classroom and used his Forbidden Ruins to detect people around him.
• When Chen Muye asked about the numbers, Lin Qiye replied that the situation was not good.

Lin Qiye discovered several students had been infected by a Mythical Creature while Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan found shed human skin in the Dean of Students' office. As students gathered for the flag-raising ceremony, Li Yifei revealed that three infected girls were roommates.

• Lin Qiye sensed that Liu Xiaoyan and Han Ruoruo were infected and reported finding about six infected people on their floor to Chen Muye.
• Lin Qiye told Li Yifei he needed a chance to sense everyone at school and planned to use the flag-raising ceremony.
• Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan searched the Dean of Students' office and found a sheet of human skin hidden beneath a tile.
• Lin Qiye identified Tian Li as another infected student, and Li Yifei revealed she shared a room with Liu Xiaoyan and Han Ruoruo.

Lin Qiye suspected the mythical creature had come from the girls' dormitory and sent Hong Ying to investigate while he searched the students gathered for the flag-raising ceremony. After inspecting the crowd disguised as the Flag Bearer, he realized something alarming about the officials and students around him.

• Lin Qiye told Hong Ying his suspicion that the mythical creature had appeared from the girls' dormitory, and she went there with her companions.
• Lin Qiye and Li Yifei slipped through the packed student formation as Lin Qiye used his psychic perception to search the crowd.
• When the ceremony was about to begin, Lin Qiye took the flagpole from the Flag Bearer by pretending Li Yifei was an outstanding student representative.
• Lin Qiye marched past the officials and scanned the students before returning to the flagpole and raising the flag.
• As the national anthem began, Lin Qiye saw the officials and students below and warned his captain to prepare mentally.

Lin Qiye reported that more than sixty people at Second High School had been infected, while Chen Muye and Wu Xiangnan contained the spreading threat elsewhere. Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan searched the girls’ dormitory and discovered four human skins hanging on a clothes rack.

• Lin Qiye escaped the teacher in charge after briefly terrifying him with the golden flames in his eyes.
• Lin Qiye told Chen Muye that at least sixty students, teachers, and administrators at Second High School were infected.
• Chen Muye said infected families were spreading the danger beyond the school and assigned his team to contain it while Lin Qiye and the others searched for the Mythical Creature.
• Chen Muye arranged to isolate Second High School with a Forbidden Artifact and the Boundless Void Domain, then ordered Lin Qiye’s team to find and kill the creature while protecting the students and staff.
• Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan entered the girls’ dormitory and searched the second-to-last room on the north side.
• Hong Ying found four thin sheets of human skin swaying on the dormitory’s clothes rack.

Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan discovered that many students in the dormitory had been infected, and Hong Ying deduced that the monster’s infection had limits and its true body was nearby. When a group of disguised monsters attacked them in the stairwell, Hong Ying unleashed rose-colored flames and drew a spear from her Long Case.

• Hong Ying found human skins hanging from balconies in several neighboring dorm rooms and concluded that the monster could infect only a limited number of people.
• Hong Ying reasoned that the monster was targeting boarders and girls more often, and concluded that its true body was in the dormitory.
• Lin Qiye warned Hong Ying that a large group of girls was approaching the dorm building.
• Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan encountered the girls on the stairs, and Hong Ying pretended they had gone to the wrong floor.
• The girls revealed their monstrous forms as Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan passed, but Hong Ying blasted them back with rose-colored flames.
• Hong Ying summoned a spear from the Long Case on her back and faced the monsters in the burning stairwell.

Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan faced a growing crowd of monsters in the hallway while Lin Qiye intervened in Han Ruoruo and Liu Yuan’s relationship. The chapter ended with Lin Qiye explaining that he had saved Liu Yuan once as a Night Watchman, but would not protect him if he recklessly pursued Han Ruoruo again.

• Hong Ying charged through one monster with her flaming spear, then counted eighteen more gathering around her and Si Xiaonan.
• Han Ruoruo accepted Liu Yuan’s drink and asked him to meet her in the garage after school, but abruptly left for the dorm.
• Lin Qiye confessed to Han Ruoruo in front of the class and asked her to be his girlfriend, and she agreed while Liu Yuan watched in shock.
• Lin Qiye told Li Yifei that he had saved Liu Yuan out of his Night Watchman duty, but would not intervene if Liu Yuan continued risking his life over Han Ruoruo.