Recaps

Lin Qiye fought Si Xiaonan in the Pill Hall after she tried to flee with the Eternal Pill, but she secretly obtained a Soul Devouring Poison Pill. Her words about the green Higanbana left Lin Qiye stunned by a memory of Team 136.

• Si Xiaonan realized the Eternal Immortal Pill might consist of two pills and raced through the Pill Hall with the flasks while Lin Qiye pursued her.
• Lin Qiye summoned the Pure Source Dharma Form to block the exit, and Si Xiaonan used her Celestial Phenomenon, Deceit, to damage its halberd and try to escape.
• Lin Qiye restrained and struck Si Xiaonan, preventing her from altering reality before she could recover from her injuries.
• Si Xiaonan secretly transferred a Soul Devouring Poison Pill from a dark green flask into the empty white flask.
• Si Xiaonan told Lin Qiye that the green Higanbana would bloom, prompting him to remember Team 136 discussing its flower language as everlasting hope.

Si Xiaonan escaped with the two Pill Flasks, and Loki took her back to Asgard while the Queen Mother of the West let him leave Kunlun Void. Lin Qiye learned that the Queen Mother had remained there as an avatar and had personally forged the Night Watchmen’s Star Sabers.

• Si Xiaonan struck Lin Qiye and fled with three phantom clones, but he lowered Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi and chose to trust her signal about the green Higanbana.
• The Queen Mother of the West attacked Si Xiaonan, but Loki rescued her, took the two Pill Flasks, and sent her to Asgard.
• Loki told the Queen Mother that she could not stop him as an avatar, then vanished from Kunlun Void.
• The Queen Mother of the West returned to Lin Qiye and gathered the six Soul Pearls of the Jade Pool maidservants into a bracelet.
• The Queen Mother explained that her true body had entered reincarnation while her avatar had stayed in Kunlun Void for a hundred years, and revealed that she had forged the Night Watchmen’s Star Sabers.

Lin Qiye learned that Queen Mother of the West had forged the Night Watchmen’s Star Sabers for Nie Jinshan, then asked her how to awaken Jialan. She left without answering, while Loki escaped to the Pamir Plateau and ran into Zuo Qing and Lu Wuwei.

• Queen Mother of the West told Lin Qiye that she had forged batches of Star Sabers for Nie Jinshan, the first Commander-in-Chief of the Night Watchmen.
• Queen Mother of the West restored the Pill Hall and discovered that the Soul Devouring Poison Pill was missing; she revealed that the Immortal Pill had left the Jade Pool two thousand years earlier.
• Lin Qiye asked Queen Mother of the West how to awaken Jialan, but she said the Kunlun Mirror could not accelerate the process and left without explaining further.
• Loki emerged wounded on the Pamir Plateau and headed for the Great Xia border, believing the Great Xia Gods had left few people able to stop him.
• Zuo Qing and Lu Wuwei arrived on an electric scooter, identified Loki from a receipt, and confronted him.

At Kongur Tagh, An Qingyu told Baili Pangpang and the others that Loki had appeared in the Kunlun Void while Lin Qiye remained missing. At the Kayush Border Defense Company, Su Zhe and Su Yuan learned from Ke Changlin why he guarded the fog-covered border, as the recruits’ assessment neared its end.

• An Qingyu told Baili Pangpang, Cao Yuan, and the others that Commander Zuo and Mr. Lu were hunting Loki, while Lin Qiye had not yet returned from the Kunlun Void.
• Baili Pangpang said the eliminated recruits were still volunteering at the border defense company as the assessment’s final day approached.
• Su Zhe finished his cold-weather watch shift and ate with Su Yuan at the Kayush Border Defense Company.
• Su Zhe and Su Yuan wondered what Instructor Lin intended to teach them through their volunteer work after elimination.
• Ke Changlin shared homemade sheep-milk cakes and explained that he guarded the border to protect his mother and younger brothers from whatever might emerge from the fog.

Lin Qiye learned the history of the Eternal Immortal Pill and the Queen Mother of the West’s massacre at the Jade Pool, but the mysteries remained unresolved. As he left Kunlun Void to return to the True World, the realm began to shake.

• Ke Changlin apologized for his outburst, described his nightmares about something emerging from the mist, and left to change shifts while Su Zhe and Su Yuan ate flatbread.
• Lin Qiye told Yang Jian and Nezha that the Eternal Immortal Pill had been stolen, and they explained its origins and Lingbao Tianzun’s disappearance.
• Lin Qiye realized the pill’s theft was a secret and asked what had happened at the Jade Pool more than two thousand years earlier.
• Yang Jian said the Queen Mother of the West had massacred everyone at the Jade Pool, prompting two Celestial Venerables to seal it for three days.
• Lin Qiye said goodbye to Yang Jian and Nezha and flew toward Kunlun Void’s exit, but the realm began to shake violently as he stepped forward.

Lin Qiye, Yang Jian, and Nezha discovered that the Queen Mother of the West had recreated the Kunlun Void on Survival Day, when the fog first invaded Great Xia. As the Queen Mother’s avatar joined Star Lord Ziwei to face the crisis, the Time Silhouette spread beyond Kunlun to the western border.

• Lin Qiye and the others saw the Kunlun Void’s true landscape revealed beneath the Time Silhouette: mountains covered in tens of millions of ancient swords.
• Star Lord Ziwei reported that deadly fog had appeared beyond Great Xia’s borders and that the gods sent to stop it had been overwhelmed.
• Lin Qiye realized the scene was set on March 9, 1921, the day known as Survival Day.
• The Queen Mother of the West’s avatar heard Ziwei’s plea and vowed to accompany the immortals, while her true body began stirring the swords through the Kunlun Mirror.
• The Queen Mother’s avatar and Star Lord Ziwei left the Kunlun Void, and Lin Qiye, Yang Jian, and Nezha followed them to the century-old Pamir Plateau as the Time Silhouette spread across the world.

Lin Qiye explained that the Queen Mother of the West had projected a Time Silhouette of the past over the Pamir Plateau, but Yang Jian refused to avoid the coming disaster and flew toward the mist. Lin Qiye went to Kongur Tagh to protect the recruits, where the group witnessed the projection’s events and spotted a golden figure riding a Somersault Cloud toward the mist.

• Lin Qiye told Yang Jian and Nezha that the plateau was overlapped by a Time Silhouette and that history could not be changed.
• Yang Jian learned that the coming events were connected to his reincarnation, then chose to fight at Great Xia’s western border despite the danger.
• Nezha followed Yang Jian, while Lin Qiye headed for Kongur Tagh to stabilize the situation and protect the recruits.
• At Kongur Tagh, An Qingyu, Jiang Er, Baili Pangpang, and Cao Yuan saw divine figures and the approaching mist before Lin Qiye explained the Time Silhouette.
• Lin Qiye stopped speaking when he saw a golden figure in a Kasaya riding a Somersault Cloud toward the mist.

Lin Qiye pursued a cloud-riding figure while An Qingyu split the Nightfall Squad to guard the recruits. At Kongur Tagh, Fang Mo and Lu Baoyou resumed their rivalry, then encountered True Lord Yu Ding and the One-Eyed White Tiger before Baili Pangpang sent the Daoist toward the Mist.

• Lin Qiye left to pursue the figure, and An Qingyu assigned the squad to guard recruits at Kongur Tagh and the Kayush Border Defense Company.
• Fang Mo collapsed in the snow, and Lu Baoyou caught up with him and challenged him to race for the summit again.
• True Lord Yu Ding arrived on the One-Eyed White Tiger and questioned why Fang Mo carried a white tiger's aura.
• Lu Baoyou drew his blade against True Lord Yu Ding, but Baili Pangpang explained that Lu Baoyou was only a hot-tempered junior.
• Baili Pangpang pointed out the thunder at the western Mist border, and True Lord Yu Ding departed toward the Mist.
• Baili Pangpang told Fang Mo and Lu Baoyou to continue their race while he waited at the summit of Kongur Tagh.

Su Zhe told Ke Changlin why he feared his sister would follow their mother into danger, and Ke Changlin helped him accept that protecting his sister could be his reason for joining the Night Watchmen. Just as Su Zhe resolved to take responsibility for that path, the mist surged back toward the border and a monk pondered how to resist its power.

• Su Zhe told Ke Changlin that his mother, a police officer, had died in a shootout and that he feared his sister would sacrifice herself while protecting others.
• Su Zhe admitted that he wanted to join the Night Watchmen only to protect his sister and questioned whether he belonged on the front lines.
• Ke Changlin explained that protecting one's home was part of defending the country and urged Su Zhe to stand by his sister and accept the responsibilities of his chosen path.
• Su Zhe thanked Ke Changlin and decided that joining for his sister's sake and becoming a good Night Watchman were compatible.
• The boundary of Time Silhouette covered the border defense company, and the mist retreated beyond Great Xia's border before rolling back toward the company.
• A plump, big-eared monk rode along the misty border and wondered whether abandoning divine power could keep him from being torn apart by the mist, then looked east for Monkey Brother.

Lin Qiye followed the Victorious Fighting Buddha toward the black World-Ending Mist and learned that Queen Mother of the West had recreated the ancient catastrophe to complete her sword-forging work. The Great Xia Gods’ attempt to investigate the mist ended in failure, leaving them facing a threat that drained divine power and concealed swarms of demonic creatures.

• Lin Qiye met the Victorious Fighting Buddha, who mistook him for a disciple of Patriarch Bodhi, and followed him toward the World-Ending Mist.
• Lin Qiye realized the black mist from a century ago was far more deadly than the grayish-white mist he had encountered before.
• Queen Mother of the West called Lin Qiye over and explained that she had recreated the scene to complete the final step of forging the Kunlun Sword Ruins.
• Thunder God and Lightning Mother failed to stop the mist, while Queen Mother of the West sent them away to rest.
• True Person Yellow Dragon, Chi Jingzi, and Ju Liusun emerged from the mist weakened, and True Person Yellow Dragon warned that demonic creatures had nearly overwhelmed them.

As the black mist threatened to engulf Great Xia, Victorious Fighting Buddha, Yang Jian, Emperor Fengdu, and the other gods joined forces to slow its advance. Queen Mother of the West explained that divine power and formations could not protect the whole nation, until a Celestial Venerable decreed that the gods would sacrifice themselves to forge nine Nation-Protecting Divine Steles.

• Victorious Fighting Buddha arrived and summoned his Buddha ape Dharma Form, striking the mist with the Golden Cudgel and stopping one section.
• Yang Jian restrained another section of the mist with his Pure Source Dharma Form, while Emperor Fengdu used six silver rings to stabilize the invasion across dozens of kilometers.
• The other Great Xia Gods joined in delaying the mist, but it continued advancing through gaps along the vast borders.
• Lin Qiye asked Queen Mother of the West how the mist could be stopped, and she explained that even the Grand Formation of the Stars could protect only one-fifth of Great Xia.
• A Celestial Venerable decreed that the Heavenly Court would shatter its origin to form the foundations of nine divine steles, and willing gods would sacrifice their Divine Bodies and divine power to protect the nation.

As the black mist threatened Great Xia, its gods chose to sacrifice their cultivation and enter reincarnation rather than protect the land at the cost of its people. The chapter left Lin Qiye watching the Black Stele Base take shape as the Queen Mother of the West and Emperor Fengdu gave themselves to it.

• True Lord Yu Ding explained that Great Xia's gods could resist the mist only by allowing catastrophic mortal casualties, so they chose to sacrifice themselves to protect the people.
• The Celestial Venerable destroyed the Heavenly Court and split its origin into nine strands that flew to Great Xia's borders, where one formed a Black Stele Base on the Pamir Plateau.
• The Queen Mother of the West declared her willingness to shatter her cultivation and protect Great Xia, then merged with the Black Stele Base to help form a divine stele.
• The Queen Mother of the West told Lin Qiye that she was repeating the choice she had made a hundred years earlier and completing her avatar's cycle of reincarnation.
• Emperor Fengdu returned the six silver rings to Fengdu, then sacrificed himself to the Black Stele Base as his divine power helped outline the stele.

Lu Baoyou and Fang Mo witnessed the Great Xia Gods’ sacrifice a century earlier, learning that they had become the divine monument guarding Great Xia from the mist. As recruits saluted the gods and the border defense company prepared to act, True Lord Yu Ding urged Lin Qiye to leave the sacrifice to the older gods and protect Great Xia’s future.

• Lu Baoyou and Fang Mo reached Kongur Tagh’s summit and saw the Great Xia Gods sacrifice their cultivation to form the divine monument at the border.
• Baili Pangpang explained that the vision showed the gods’ sacrifice a hundred years earlier, which had protected Great Xia from the mist.
• Shen Qingzhu led Lu Baoyou, Fang Mo, and the other recruits in saluting the Great Xia Gods.
• At the Kayush Border Defense Company, Ke Changlin recognized the monument from an old veteran’s story, and An Qingyu began issuing instructions over the speakers.
• True Lord Yu Ding told Lin Qiye not to join the sacrifice, saying Great Xia would depend on the younger generation.

Lin Qiye watched True Lord Yu Ding and Yang Jian sacrifice their cultivation to complete the Nation-Protecting Divine Stele, leaving him devastated as the Wall of Miracles began to form. A breach in the southwest let the mist surge into Great Xia, where the Victorious Fighting Buddha faced invading Mysteries while the Altar Cleanser Envoy and Golden Body Arhat rushed to help.

• True Lord Yu Ding answered the Celestial Venerable's decree by sacrificing his cultivation to strengthen the divine stele.
• Yang Jian told Lin Qiye they would meet in the next life, then sacrificed himself to restore the stele's final corner.
• Six pillars of divine power rose along Great Xia's borders and formed most of the Wall of Miracles, but the southwestern and southeastern sections remained incomplete.
• The Victorious Fighting Buddha destroyed five peak Klein realm Mysteries that charged out of the mist, then sensed more waiting beyond the border.
• The Altar Cleanser Envoy and Golden Body Arhat headed toward the southwestern breach as the mist poured toward inhabited areas.

The Altar Cleanser Envoy sacrificed his divine realm to become Zhu Bajie again and rescued herdsmen from the deathly mist, while Sha Wujing stayed behind to hold off the pursuing Mysterious. After the Wall of Miracles sealed the border, the Victorious Fighting Buddha and Lin Qiye found Zhu Bajie gravely wounded beside Sha Wujing’s body.

• The Altar Cleanser Envoy entered the mist to rescue civilians, but its power weakened his divine abilities and Mysterious approached.
• The Altar Cleanser Envoy destroyed his divine realm, transformed into a giant boar demon, and carried herdsmen out of the mist.
• Sha Wujing fought off the Mysterious to give Zhu Bajie time to escape, and Zhu Bajie returned to the mist to try to save him.
• The final two Nation-Protecting Divine Steles completed the Wall of Miracles, sealing the mist outside Great Xia.
• The Victorious Fighting Buddha and Lin Qiye reached the isolated patch of mist and found Zhu Bajie badly wounded beside Sha Wujing’s body.

Victorious Fighting Buddha found Sha’s corpse and Zhu Bajie mortally wounded, but Lin Qiye could not save Zhu Bajie. After Zhu Bajie died, Victorious Fighting Buddha renounced his Buddhist rank and began falling into demonhood.

• Victorious Fighting Buddha found Sha dead and learned from Zhu Bajie that Demonic Evils had attacked them in the mist.
• Victorious Fighting Buddha tried to keep Zhu Bajie alive, then pleaded with Lin Qiye for help when the wound’s black mist overwhelmed his efforts.
• Lin Qiye apologized because he could not save Zhu Bajie, and Zhu Bajie died after urging Victorious Fighting Buddha and their Master to protect the mortal world.
• Victorious Fighting Buddha mourned Zhu Bajie and cursed Heavenly Mandate as he struck the ground.
• Victorious Fighting Buddha tore a corner from his Kasaya, rejecting his Buddhist fruition as Demonic Energy surged through him.

Lin Qiye relived the Great Xia Gods’ sacrifice and watched the Monkey King enter the mist, then discovered that the ancient swords had shared in the gods’ resolve. As dawn broke on the final day of Devil Training, Queen Mother of the West declared that their era should return.

• The Monkey King endured the clash of demonic energy and Buddha’s Light, then charged through the Wall of Miracles into the mist.
• Lin Qiye grieved beside the fading scene as the Kunlun Mirror’s temporal replay ended.
• Lin Qiye realized Queen Mother of the West had used the gods’ sacrifice to let the Spiritual Swords witness emotion and temper their souls.
• Queen Mother of the West comforted Lin Qiye and helped him to his feet.
• Queen Mother of the West pointed out the dawn and said their era should return as Devil Training reached its tenth and final day.

The Grand Pure Celestial Venerable of Dao arrived in Asgard on the tenth day of his battle challenge and called Odin out. Odin remained seated in the supreme temple as the Celestial Venerable began advancing toward him.

• Asgard’s gods discussed the battle challenge and questioned whether the Great Xia Celestial Venerable would come.
• Tyr reported that he had found nothing unusual, while Thor and Loki waited with Odin and two shadowed strangers in the temple.
• The challenge slip caught fire as dawn pierced the night, and its remaining characters turned to ash.
• The Grand Pure Celestial Venerable of Dao appeared on the broken Rainbow Bridge, and the gods recognized him.
• The Celestial Venerable called for Odin to come out, then stepped forward when Odin did not move.

Taoist Celestial Venerable rode into Asgard after transforming Heimdall into an azure ox and defeated the Norse Gods who tried to stop him. He entered the Supreme Temple and confronted Odin, declaring that he had come to kill him.

• Taoist Celestial Venerable turned Heimdall into an azure ox and rode him toward Asgard's sacred mountain.
• Odin sent Tyr to stop Taoist Celestial Venerable, while the Norse Gods gathered along Sunset Avenue and watched him pass.
• Tyr led the Norse Gods in an attack on the mountain steps, but Taoist Celestial Venerable deflected their assaults and cut down the attackers.
• Taoist Celestial Venerable severed Tyr's right arm and climbed the final steps without being wounded.
• Taoist Celestial Venerable entered the Supreme Temple and told Odin he had come to kill him.

Taoist Celestial Venerable fought through Asgard’s gods and confronted Odin, accusing him of releasing the Nameless Mist and causing Great Xia’s devastation. After the wooden sword cut away Odin’s eyepatch, the Celestial Venerable asked the gods to question whether their king was still the Norse God King they knew.

• Thor faced Taoist Celestial Venerable as the Celestial Venerable challenged Odin to act.
• Hodur ambushed Taoist Celestial Venerable, and Thor and Loki joined the attack, but the Celestial Venerable repelled them and beheaded Loki.
• Thor tried to explain that not all Asgardian gods had wanted war, but Odin silenced him and rose from his throne.
• Taoist Celestial Venerable accused Odin of releasing the Nameless Mist and forcing the Great Xia Gods to sacrifice the Heavenly Court and their cultivation.
• Odin’s divine power crushed the mountain and restrained Taoist Celestial Venerable, but the Celestial Venerable’s wooden sword cut away Odin’s eyepatch.
• Taoist Celestial Venerable urged Asgard’s gods to look at Odin and ask whether he was still their God King.

The Taoist Celestial Venerable challenged Odin and called on the Kunlun Sword Ruins for aid, unleashing thirty million swords against Asgard’s ruler. The attack devastated the divine mountain, but Odin rose again, his body crawling with bloodworms and tentacles.

• Odin dismissed the Celestial Venerable’s accusations, and the two clashed, destroying the divine temple.
• The Taoist Celestial Venerable invoked the Queen Mother of the West and borrowed swords from Kunlun.
• The Queen Mother of the West summoned the Kunlun swords, and millions of blades surged west as Lin Qiye watched.
• The Taoist Celestial Venerable sent thirty million swords at Odin, carving apart the divine mountain while the Heavenly God Temple’s Mysterious Persons chose to wait.
• Odin rose from the crater and used bloodworms and tentacles to gather and repair his shattered body.

The Taoist Celestial Venerable exposed Odin’s monstrous transformation and revealed that Odin had released the Nameless Mist and conspired with beings on the moon. When Vishnu joined the attack, Odin fled through a spatial rift, and the Taoist Celestial Venerable pursued him.

• The Taoist Celestial Venerable revealed Odin’s monstrous form, shocking Frigga and the other Norse Gods.
• The Taoist Celestial Venerable explained how he had exposed Odin to break apart the alliance of four divine kingdoms and make Odin the target.
• Odin admitted he sought to enter a higher realm with help from beings on the moon, claiming he was saving Asgard.
• The Taoist Celestial Venerable urged the two Mysterious Persons to stop Odin, and they revealed themselves as Vishnu.
• Odin escaped through a spatial rift, but the Taoist Celestial Venerable wedged his sword into it and pursued him.

Loki resurrected in the Human Circle and told Odin that Great Xia’s apparent threat to Asgard was an Empty Fort Strategy aimed elsewhere, then decided to help their plan. As the gods of Olympus, India, and Egypt sealed themselves away amid the growing conflict, a Taoist priest appeared inside the sealed City of the Sun.

• Loki resurrected using the corpses in a Gobi slum and recovered the hidden insect egg containing his means of contacting Odin.
• Loki told Odin that Great Xia’s public actions were a ruse and that he had figured out their true target; he planned to add fuel to their scheme.
• Zeus ordered Olympus sealed and sent Aglaea to Asgard to investigate Odin’s situation.
• The Buddha statue in India’s Heavenly God Temple spoke of Vishnu, Odin, and Cthulhu, then the temple gates closed and isolated it from the world.
• Egypt’s Pillar Gods sealed the City of the Sun after noting that Nephthys and Nut had not returned from investigating Great Xia.
• A Taoist priest appeared inside the sealed City of the Sun, startling the phantom atop the Sun God Pillar.

Primordial Celestial Venerable confronted the City of the Sun over its attacks on Great Xia, then revealed that the Heavenly Court had been concealed above the city. The Jade Emperor sealed the Egyptian gods inside a stellar formation and led the returning Great Xia gods into battle.

• Primordial Celestial Venerable accused the City of the Sun of helping shatter Fengdu and stealing another piece of it to curse Great Xia’s national destiny.
• The phantom atop the Sun God Pillar rejected the accusation and called on the Nine Pillars and Egyptian gods to defend the city.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable summoned the Heavenly Court, and the Jade Emperor appeared with the Great Xia gods.
• The Jade Emperor ordered the gods to form a stellar formation that sealed the City of the Sun off from the outside world.
• The Jade Emperor called on the Great Xia gods to restore their divine might, and they charged into battle against the Egyptian gods.

Queen Mother of the West told Lin Qiye that Great Xia planned to strike the Egyptian pantheon after weakening Asgard and Olympus. Walking back through the snow, Lin Qiye realized that although he would sacrifice himself as a Night Watchman, his original reasons for joining had been personal, and he ended the chapter calling himself selfish.

• Queen Mother of the West explained Great Xia's plan to expose Odin, weaken Asgard, and attack the City of the Sun, while warning that the coming war would remain difficult.
• Queen Mother of the West revealed the concealed Nation-Protecting Divine Stele to Lin Qiye, then left to attend to other matters.
• Lin Qiye walked toward the Kayush Border Defense Company and recalled the sacrifices made by Great Xia Gods and Night Watchmen.
• Lin Qiye remembered joining the Night Watchmen to protect his aunt, A Jin, and Zhao Kongcheng's dream rather than to protect all living beings selflessly.
• Lin Qiye picked up his fallen emblem, read its inscription, and bitterly admitted that he was selfish.