Arc 38The Human Circle’s Last Stand
Lin Qiye joined Jinian’s effort to destroy the Human Circle and free the souls bound in the Yata no Kagami, then fought the Red Moon’s Corpse Beasts while trying to protect its people. As Osaka endured Lin Qiye’s vast spell, Amamiya Haruki’s group awakened a Corpse God beneath Mount Fuji.
- Lin Qiye learned that Jinian had brought him to the Human Circle because a mysterious man had told her to keep him alive, and he lent the Shang Xie Association Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi for its plan to destroy the Yata no Kagami.
- Jinian explained that Jialan was drawing time from the River of Time to rebuild her immortality, while Lin Qiye realized he loved her and chose to stay in the Human Circle rather than leave in search of help.
- Lin Qiye flew to Osaka with Jinian’s Heart of Purification, where he found Yurina Takishiro near death after he had saved civilians from a Corpse Beast.
- Lin Qiye summoned his orderlies, built a vast Magic Array, and used the Heart of Purification to draw Corpse Beasts toward Osaka, where Black Sun Sacrifice began killing them.
- Baili Pangpang, Cao Yuan, An Qingyu, and Shen Qingzhu arrived to help Lin Qiye, while An Qingyu treated Yurina Takishiro and Shen Qingzhu rallied the Black Killer Group to support the operation.
- Lin Qiye used Tyrant’s Wrath, amplified by a meditation cushion, to force people throughout the Human Circle to their knees and stop their violence as the battle against the Corpse Beasts continued.
- Warrior Princess pulled Mountain of Burial from Mount Fuji, but a Corpse God emerged from the Heavenly God’s corpse beneath the mountain and attacked Amamiya Haruki’s group.
- Amamiya Haruki gave Yurina the wooden box of Magatsu Blades and ordered Yurina and Koyuan Yoshiki to escape, then drew Rain Collapse to face the Corpse God.