Recaps

Chen Lu told Zuo Qing that the Mist had appeared because of Cthulhu, whose gods were on the moon, and questioned why Michael had remained there for over a century. At the same time, Chen Yangrong revealed to Lin Qiye that he worshipped Cthulhu and intended to bring the beings back, even as flesh consumed him.

• Chen Lu told Zuo Qing that Cthulhu had caused the Mist and suggested the Lovecraftian Deities were beyond Earth.
• Zuo Qing questioned why Great Xia had never detected the Cthulhu Gods on the moon, and Chen Lu pointed out that Michael had stayed there for more than a century.
• Chen Yangrong told Lin Qiye that Cthulhu was on the moon and that he was a devoted believer, not its agent.
• Chen Yangrong said Cthulhu had granted him power and a second life, while the flesh embedded in him continued to consume his body.
• Chen Yangrong vowed to personally usher Cthulhu and the others back.

Lin Qiye concluded that the giant beast’s divine power had corrupted Chen Yangrong and driven his desire to bring back the Lovecraftian Deities, while Chen Yangrong warned that the Blood Moon was about to descend. At the Fishing Village, An Qingyu traced Chen Gou’s Soul Contamination to his father’s bloodline and realized it could also be reaching Chen Lu as a blood-red moon appeared.

• Lin Qiye explained to Jialan that the giant beast’s divine power had corrupted Chen Yangrong’s mind and likely caused his sudden ambition to revive the Lovecraftian Deities.
• Chen Yangrong said that the Blood Moon was about to descend as the beast’s stomach wall swallowed most of him.
• Chen Gou collapsed in agony during a storm and told An Qingyu that he had heard the voices of “them.”
• An Qingyu detected a scarlet thread contaminating Chen Gou and nearly had his own mind invaded when he tried to analyze it.
• An Qingyu connected the contamination to Chen Gou’s dead father and realized it could pass through their bloodline to Chen Lu.
• An Qingyu looked up and saw a blood-red moon emerging behind the clouds.

An Qingyu discovered that the Red Moon was intensifying the force driving people to slaughter one another, and physical barriers could not block it. As the village descended further into violence, he realized Baili Pangpang, Cao Yuan, and Shen Qingzhu might have the combat power to help them escape the Time Loop.

• An Qingyu subdued the blood-soaked Er Zhuzi and stopped himself from attacking him after Jiang Er called out to him.
• An Qingyu concluded that the Red Moon was causing the emotional influence and that its power would grow as it emerged from the clouds.
• An Qingyu tried to block the influence with a cocoon of black thorns, but the barrier did not ease his agitation.
• An Qingyu considered whether Baili Pangpang, Cao Yuan, and Shen Qingzhu could help them break out of the Time Loop.
• Villagers killed one another near a burning house as the Red Moon rose and its influence spread.

As the Red Moon’s influence drove the villagers and the three men toward madness, Shen Qingzhu had Baili Pangpang restrain them so they would not endanger Lin Qiye and the others. Meanwhile, Lin Qiye resisted Chen Yangrong’s demand to pull out a blade, even as the force affecting his emotions grew stronger.

• Baili Pangpang used the Green Rope to bind the fighting villagers, while Cao Yuan nearly reached for a bloodstained blade before Shen Qingzhu threw it away.
• Shen Qingzhu decided they should stop searching and have Baili Pangpang bind them, trusting Jialan to remain unaffected and Lin Qiye’s group to find a way out.
• When Baili Pangpang could no longer control two Forbidden Items, Shen Qingzhu took one and bound Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan, then sat alone to smoke and maintain his composure.
• A young man carrying a Black Coffin and a bloodstained firewood cleaver emerged from the road and walked toward the bound Cao Yuan.
• On the seafloor, Lin Qiye struggled against the Red Moon’s growing influence while Chen Yangrong urged him to pull out a blade and warned that humans would lose their sanity and kill one another.

Lin Qiye deduced that the Fishing Village’s time loop was a prison delaying the resurrection of a giant beast beneath the Red Moon, and that Chen Yangrong had become its puppet. Chen Yangrong revealed that the Mask Squad had entered several loops earlier and that most had been erased; Lin Qiye moved to inspect the timeline recorded on the Time Blade’s ring.

• Lin Qiye explained that the Red Moon was reviving the giant beast and that King Mask’s time loop had delayed its resurrection for fifty years.
• Chen Yangrong confirmed Lin Qiye’s deduction and said another group of seven gray-cloaked people had discovered the truth three loops earlier.
• Lin Qiye realized Chen Yangrong was describing the Mask Squad and demanded to know what had happened to them.
• Chen Yangrong said time had erased the group, though one young man had apparently outrun time and vanished.
• Lin Qiye rejected Chen Yangrong’s claim and rushed to examine the timeline recorded on the ring at the end of the Time Blade.

Twelve days earlier, King Mask and Mask Squad entered the giant beast’s stomach and found Chen Yangrong pinned to the wall by a future version of Yiyuan. As King Mask examined the weapon’s timeline, he revealed the deadly cost of changing history and then warned the squad that something was wrong.

• King Mask and Mask Squad drained the seawater from the beast’s stomach and recognized Yiyuan in Chen Yangrong’s chest as the weapon carried by King Mask’s future self.
• King Mask explained that his Time Sequence Thug let him change the past without erasing himself, but the causal backlash had cost him nearly twenty years of lifespan.
• Vortex joked with King Mask to lift the squad’s spirits, then distracted Chen Yangrong while King Mask examined the timeline within Yiyuan’s ring of light.
• Chen Yangrong offered the squad a reward if they pulled Yiyuan from his chest, and King Mask opened his eyes with a grave warning.

King Mask learned that the Time Loop was meant to stop a giant beast from reviving, but his attempts to reverse time and escape the loop failed. He was left aged and exhausted, with Mask Squad still trapped in the Fishing Village.

• King Mask explained that the Time Loop had been created to prevent the giant beast from coming back to life.
• King Mask tried to reverse time and return to before Mask Squad entered the village, but he returned unable to escape the loop.
• Balance sent the other members of Mask Squad to search the village’s edge for a way out.
• King Mask activated Time Sequence Thug again and spent two hours trying to outrun the loop.
• King Mask returned nearly ten years older and collapsed, having failed to escape the loop.

King Mask resisted the Red Moon’s influence and returned to the Fishing Village as the closed loop ended and the Time Law’s eradication began. Vortex transferred his Mental Power into King Mask as the expanding silver ring approached.

• King Mask nearly pulled Yiyuan from Chen Yangrong but realized the Red Moon was manipulating his emotions and stopped himself.
• Vortex used incense to bind the maddened Moon Ghost, Sandalwood, Star Mark, and Rose while he and Balance discussed why Mask had come to the Fishing Village instead of Nightfall.
• Vortex accepted that their squad had taken Nightfall’s place and said, “Fortunately, it was us.”
• King Mask arrived as the Red Moon emerged and a silver ring swept across the world, ending the closed loop and beginning the Time Law’s eradication.
• Vortex grabbed King Mask and poured his Mental Power into the captain’s depleted body.

Vortex sacrificed his power to help King Mask escape the Red Moon’s destruction, and King Mask broke into the Human Apex before vanishing into a frozen pocket of time. Back in the present, Lin Qiye reacted to Mask’s apparent death by attacking Chen Yangrong, then revealed a Mortal Divine Domain that terrified him.

• Vortex drained his Mental Power into King Mask and urged him to run while he stayed behind beneath the Red Moon.
• King Mask entered the Time Rift, broke through to the Human Apex, and plunged into the Time Law, becoming sealed in a zone of stagnant time.
• Lin Qiye returned to the present, seized Chen Yangrong by the throat, and blamed him for killing Mask.
• Lin Qiye decapitated Chen Yangrong, but his head regenerated because he had fused with the giant beast’s corpse.
• Lin Qiye spread his Mortal Divine Domain over Chen Yangrong, who recognized it as the gatekeeper on the moon’s power.

Lin Qiye fought Chen Yangrong inside the giant beast’s body, but Red Moon corruption led him into a reckless attack that left him gravely wounded. Jialan rescued him and gave him her immortality, and Lin Qiye used a fresh wind to protect her from the deep sea.

• Lin Qiye discovered that Zhanbai could sever Chen Yangrong’s arm because Mortal Divine Domain suppressed the giant beast’s power.
• Lin Qiye realized Chen Yangrong’s Klein-level strength came from the beast’s corpse and that Chen Yangrong could not wield it like a true Klein.
• Red Moon corruption magnified Lin Qiye’s confidence, and he charged Chen Yangrong, whose blood-red eyes pierced him with beams of light.
• Chen Yangrong dragged the wounded Lin Qiye toward a whirlpool, but Jialan caught him and gave him her immortality.
• Lin Qiye used a gust of fresh wind to shield Jialan from the suffocating deep sea.

Lin Qiye protected Jialan from the Red Moon’s corruption and accepted the immortality she gave him, promising she would take it back after he killed Chen Yangrong. Carrying Jialan, he transformed into an immortal Godzilla and reached Chen Yangrong in the deep sea.

• Lin Qiye scolded Jialan for giving him immortality, but she refused to take it back while Chen Yangrong was still threatening his life.
• Lin Qiye charged at Chen Yangrong while carrying Jialan and carefully evaded the giant tentacles so she would not be hurt.
• Jialan asked whether she was holding Lin Qiye back, and he told her to watch how he used her immortality to kill Chen Yangrong.
• Lin Qiye used Transformation Magic to become Godzilla, shielding Jialan beneath its scales as the Red Moon’s lightning struck him without harm.
• Godzilla tore Chen Yangrong’s tentacles from the stomach wall and rose through the bloodied deep sea to confront him.

Lin Qiye struck down Chen Yangrong, while An Qingyu decided to kill Cao Yuan to prevent the Time Law from erasing everyone. Cao Yuan’s death unleashed the Black King, whose immense body rose from the flames still bound by seven chains.

• Lin Qiye tore through the stomach wall as Godzilla and then cut Chen Yangrong’s neck with Zhanbai.
• An Qingyu told Shen Qingzhu he had to kill Cao Yuan because the Black King inside him would otherwise let the Time Law erase them all.
• Shen Qingzhu agreed to take Baili Pangpang and Jiang Er to the village’s edge while An Qingyu dealt with Cao Yuan.
• An Qingyu stabbed Cao Yuan through the heart, releasing a vast pillar of Malevolent Qi Flames that engulfed him and Fishing Village.
• Shen Qingzhu looked back and saw the Black King rise from the ruins, its body of black flame restrained by seven chains.

Shen Qingzhu recognized Cao Yuan’s face in the chained giant shadow as a silver ring of Time Law swept toward the Fishing Village, while Lin Qiye defeated Chen Yangrong and found Jialan struggling under the Red Moon after giving him her immortality. The ring reached the giant shadow as Jialan was about to take back her immortality, leaving both confrontations unresolved.

• Shen Qingzhu recognized Cao Yuan’s face in the giant shadow and continued toward the Fishing Village with Jiang Er and Baili Pangpang.
• The chained shadow sensed the silver Time Loop ring sweeping across the coast and pressed its hands against it to resist its erasing power.
• Lin Qiye sheathed Zhanbai after killing Chen Yangrong and discovered that Jialan was struggling against the Red Moon’s influence.
• Lin Qiye urged Jialan to reclaim her immortality, and she began to reach for it before the silver ring approached and stopped her.

Merlin completed his treatment and left the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, warning Li Yifei that he had to go before the director was endangered. In the deep sea, Jialan refused to retract her immortality as the Time Law erased everything, choosing to sacrifice herself so Lin Qiye could survive.

• Merlin stood beneath the courtyard tree as the Monkey King and Gilgamesh watched, and Bragi told them Merlin did not have much time left.
• Merlin told Li Yifei that he was leaving because his time had reached its limit and the director would be in danger if he stayed.
• Merlin removed the final remnant of the foreign soul, reached 100% treatment progress, and vanished from the courtyard through a Magic Array.
• Lin Qiye recognized the approaching silver ring as the Time Law's erasure, but Jialan refused to retract her immortality.
• Lin Qiye realized Jialan intended to trade her life for his, leaving him as the Nightfall Squad's sole survivor.

Lin Qiye faced the annihilating Time Law as Jialan refused to withdraw her immortality, leaving him to choose between protecting Great Xia from unknown consequences and saving the Nightfall Squad. When an outside force slowed the Time Law, Lin Qiye decided to pull Yiyuan from the stomach wall, while the giant at Fishing Village broke part of the Time Loop but could not stop the annihilation.

• Lin Qiye begged Jialan to stop sacrificing herself, but she held on as the Time Law’s silver ring expanded around them.
• An unseen force slowed the silver ring’s expansion, giving Lin Qiye a final chance to act.
• Lin Qiye turned toward Yiyuan, realizing that pulling out the sword could save the Nightfall Squad but bring terrible consequences.
• At Fishing Village, the towering giant held back the silver ring and used a black blade to cut apart the gap King Mask had left in the Time Loop.
• The broken Time Loop could no longer reset events, but the Time Law continued expanding and the giant began to falter.
• Lin Qiye chose his brothers and comrades over the uncertain consequences and prepared to pull out Yiyuan.

Lin Qiye nearly pulled Yiyuan from the stomach wall to save those he cherished, but Merlin appeared and took over, explaining that the Time Loop had already served its purpose. Merlin removed the blade and broke the Time Law, while a terrifying domain suddenly appeared outside Fishing Village.

• Lin Qiye reached for Yiyuan, ready to accept the consequences of betraying his Night Watchman identity, but Merlin stopped him.
• Merlin told Lin Qiye he would handle everything and said the Time Loop had already been destroyed and had nearly completed its mission.
• Merlin pulled Yiyuan from the stomach wall, causing the silver ring to shatter and the Time Law to disappear.
• Outside Fishing Village, Lu Ruici told Zhou Dao that Master Chen had spent a day searching for a way inside without success.
• A silver ring flashed across the sky, and a translucent domain filled with black Malevolent Qi Flames appeared.

Master Chen confronted the Black King as Malevolent Qi Flames erupted from the Fishing Village, then rescued Shen Qingzhu, Jiang Er, and the unconscious Baili Pangpang. The Black King’s flames and body were pulled back into the revived Cao Yuan, who opened his eyes as the chapter ended.

• Master Chen sensed a near-divine presence in the Fishing Village and drove his carriage into the Malevolent Qi Flames, identifying the towering figure as the Black King.
• Shen Qingzhu escaped the Fishing Village with Jiang Er and the unconscious Baili Pangpang, and Master Chen’s carriage carried them out of the flames.
• Master Chen attacked the Black King with a Mindscape hidden in a celadon cup, but the Black King shattered the azure giant sword and struck the carriage’s Mindscape.
• Cao Yuan began reviving as the prison rebuilt itself, pulling the Black King and the Malevolent Qi Flames back into his body.
• Cao Yuan opened his eyes after the final Malevolent Qi Flame disappeared.

Cao Yuan awoke amid the Fishing Village’s ruins with no memory of what happened, while An Qingyu revived in a prepared clone beneath Cangnan City. As the Time Loop ended, Merlin reassured Lin Qiye that his brothers were safe, but warned that the awakened giant beast was only a catalyst for an approaching catastrophe.

• Cao Yuan woke in the devastated ruins and asked Shen Qingzhu what had happened, but Shen told him to wait for An Qingyu’s explanation.
• An Qingyu revived in a clone beneath Cangnan City and hurried to find out whether Lin Qiye and the others had survived.
• Merlin told Lin Qiye that his brothers were safe as the Time Loop and the Red Moon disappeared.
• Lin Qiye caught the unconscious Jialan as the giant beast began to awaken and draw seawater from its stomach.
• Merlin explained that the beast was merely a moving corpse and catalyst, leaving Lin Qiye to wonder what would cause the catastrophe.

Merlin told Lin Qiye that the beast’s destination held the root of the cataclysm and invited him to go there, along with the unconscious Jialan. Before they arrived, Merlin asked Lin Qiye to draw his final ability, and Lin Qiye chose one on Merlin’s recommendation.

• Lin Qiye asked whether stopping the beast could prevent the cataclysm, and Merlin said its root lay elsewhere.
• Merlin said the beast was heading toward the place where the cataclysm began and invited Lin Qiye to come with him to receive another gift.
• Merlin examined the unconscious Jialan and decided she would accompany them.
• At the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, Merlin explained that Lin Qiye could choose any ability except the unavailable Night Origin.
• Lin Qiye asked Merlin which ability to choose, then selected the one Merlin recommended and spun the roulette.

Lin Qiye obtained Merlin's Forbidden Spell Codex and learned about the dangers and preparation required to use its spells. In Japan, Yurina waited at the coast where she had first met Lin Qiye, then spotted a masked, silver-haired figure washed ashore.

• After thirty-six failed draws, Lin Qiye obtained Merlin's Forbidden Spell Codex and absorbed its knowledge.
• Merlin warned Lin Qiye that most forbidden spells required preparation and could drain his Mental Power if used recklessly.
• Lin Qiye learned that the giant beast was Bake-kujira, a sea beast of the Japanese Pantheon, while Merlin refused to explain more about Cthulhu.
• At the Kazari Family's coastal cliff, Yurina continued waiting for Lin Qiye despite Kazari Takuya's reminder that he might never return.
• Yurina saw a silver-haired, masked figure being carried by the waves and washed onto shore.

Amamiya Haruki searched the mountain for the last Magatsu Blade while Yurina told him she had found a time-frozen old man from Great Xia. The old man, King Mask, recognized Lin Qiye's name and revealed he could not use Time Reversal to save his fallen brothers because he lacked the lifespan.

• Yurina told Amamiya Haruki she had found an old man whose time was frozen, and Amamiya promised to visit the Kazari Family's place after searching for the last Magatsu Blade.
• Amamiya searched the mountain, found no blade, and wondered whether Shota's prophecy had been wrong again.
• Yurina heard a radio report about escalating violence in Osaka, then tried to offer tea to the silent King Mask.
• King Mask spoke Japanese when Yurina mentioned Great Xia and asked how she knew of it.
• Yurina explained that Asaba Qi Ye, whose original name was Lin Qiye, had also drifted to Japan in a time-frozen state.
• King Mask realized he could not use Time Reversal to return to the time before Mask Squad entered the Fishing Village because he had too little lifespan left.

King Mask learned that Qi Ye was doing well in Great Xia, then followed Yurina to a blood-red sky and found a powerful white-clad fighter killing a Corpse Beast. The fighter was Yurina Takishiro, and King Mask recognized the monster as he arrived while Yurina Takishiro guarded his sister.

• King Mask told Yurina that Qi Ye was doing well, making her eager to hear more about him.
• A thunderous blast and blood-red sky drew Yurina away, and King Mask sensed a familiar aura and followed her.
• Yurina Takishiro used a Ghost Suppressing Pillar and the Blade of Annihilation to kill a Corpse Beast and protect fleeing residents.
• Yurina reunited with Yurina Takishiro and wiped blood from his face, while he assured her that he was the strongest person in the country.
• Yurina Takishiro noticed King Mask and shielded Yurina, while King Mask stared at the Corpse Beast's body with an ugly expression.

King Mask discovered that monsters appearing in Japan carried the Red Moon’s aura, despite there being no Red Moon in the sky. At the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, Bragi’s treatment progress fell after Merlin left, prompting Lin Qiye to intervene while Bragi wrote a letter to Idunn.

• King Mask recognized the Red Moon’s aura on a monster’s corpse and learned from Yurina that such creatures had been appearing more often across Japan.
• King Mask wondered where the monsters came from because the moon above Japan showed no sign of turning red.
• Lin Qiye found Bragi feeling isolated after Merlin’s departure and saw Bragi’s treatment progress drop from 75% to 74%.
• Lin Qiye summoned Monkey King and Gilgamesh for a serious talk while Bragi watched uneasily and returned to his room.
• Bragi wrote Idunn a three-page letter saying he felt uneasy and could no longer fit in at the hospital.

Lin Qiye discovered that Wangcai had tormented the Thunder Beast into a fear level of 673, then forced it to become a caretaker named Laifu. Laifu revealed that Takama-ga-hara’s gods had stopped visiting and seemed to have abandoned the Human Circle around fifty or sixty years earlier.

• Lin Qiye remembered the imprisoned Thunder Beast and hurried to check on it.
• Lin Qiye found Wangcai performing a bizarre dance that repeatedly made the Thunder Beast faint, and saw its fear level had reached 673.
• Lin Qiye threatened the Thunder Beast with more time locked up with Wangcai, and it agreed to become a caretaker.
• Lin Qiye named the Thunder Beast Laifu and learned that Lord Takeomi had once visited yearly but stopped, while the other gods never appeared.
• Laifu told Lin Qiye that Takama-ga-hara’s gods seemed to have vanished around fifty or sixty years earlier.

King Mask visited the Kazari Family and met Amamiya Haruki, but he left dinner when grief kept him from joining the others. After Amamiya reminded him that time would not turn back, King Mask realized that becoming a god might give him enough lifespan to rewind time and change history, and he resolved to do so within two years.

• Yurina Takishiro welcomed King Mask to the Kazari Family courtyard and gave him a pair of Gilded Purple Dragon Chopsticks.
• Amamiya Haruki arrived for dinner and told Yurina Takishiro that he had not found the last Magatsu Blade because Shota's prophecies had been vague or wrong.
• Yurina raised a toast to welcome King Mask, but King Mask apologized and left the dinner without joining them.
• Amamiya Haruki followed King Mask outside and spoke about grieving his master's death and accepting that time would not turn back.
• King Mask realized that becoming a god might extend his lifespan and let him rewind time to change history, so he resolved to become a god within two years.