Recaps

Bragi used the blood-filled Holy Grail to wish for Idunn’s return, but the wish summoned a terrifying Pale Giant Eye over Asgard instead. As Michael cornered Odin, a milky-white light descended from the eye, leaving the nature of the apparition unknown.

• Michael caught up with the wounded Odin, who fled again, and Michael pursued him across the sky.
• Bragi, badly injured after fighting Odin, accepted the full Holy Grail from the Monkey King and wished for Idunn to return.
• A black storm vortex formed over Asgard, and a huge, eyeless Pale Giant Eye appeared within it.
• Michael trapped Odin in his Mortal Divine Domain and began purging the crimson worms from his body.
• Michael saw the descending vortex and reacted with alarm as a milky-white ball of light drifted down from the Pale Giant Eye.

Bragi rescued Idunn's soul from a mysterious monster, but was mortally wounded in the struggle. He carried her away with him to the Eternal Secret Garden, leaving Lin Qiye and Monkey King behind.

• Bragi flew to Idunn's soul, but a pale-eyed monster tried to swallow her back into the clouds.
• Bragi attacked the monster's maw, but it swallowed him and Idunn before he broke free with her soul.
• Lin Qiye caught Bragi as he fell, while the Holy Grail shattered and Monkey King urged him to return to Great Xia for treatment.
• Bragi refused help, told Lin Qiye they would meet again, and used Asgard's origin to depart with Idunn's soul.
• Lin Qiye wrote “Eternal Secret Garden” in the ruins to answer Monkey King's question about where Bragi and Idunn had gone.

Michael emerged from the void carrying Odin’s head and warned the world that those who colluded with the Lovecraftian Gods would be killed. Lin Qiye and Monkey King returned to their companions after Asgard’s destruction, and Queen Mother of the West brought the group back toward Great Xia.

• Worried that Lin Qiye and the others had not returned, Yang Jian and Zhou Ping prepared to enter Asgard and search for them.
• Michael appeared carrying Odin’s lifeless head, crossed beyond Earth’s atmosphere, and announced Odin’s death and his warning against anyone colluding with the Lovecraftian Gods.
• Zeus heard Michael’s warning in Olympus and reflected that Nordic and the City of the Sun had fallen, leaving only Great Xia’s Heavenly Court.
• An Qingyu assured the others that Lin Qiye was safe, and Lin Qiye and Monkey King returned on the Somersault Cloud; Monkey King said Lin Qiye’s ears had been deafened by a shockwave.
• Monkey King told the group that Asgard had been destroyed and almost none of its gods had survived, and Queen Mother of the West used the Kunlun Mirror to take everyone back toward Great Xia.

Lin Qiye and the others reached Great Xia, where they reunited with Skuld and Zhou Ping revealed he had found the Ark of the Covenant. In Cangnan, Si Xiaonan returned to the Night Watchmen Cemetery to mourn Leng Xuan, while Bragi awoke to find himself reunited with a woman in a sea of flowers.

• Lin Qiye recognized Skuld near Great Xia's border and invited her to return with them after she explained what had happened.
• Zhou Ping showed the group a box he had found in an abandoned divine kingdom, and Baili Pangpang and the others recognized it as the Ark of the Covenant.
• Si Xiaonan visited the Heping Agency and learned that Gan Yangyu was Team 136's captain, then left for the Night Watchmen Cemetery.
• Su Zhe recognized Si Xiaonan from a photograph and followed her to the cemetery, where he heard her say that she and Leng Xuan had come home.
• Bragi awoke in a wooden house and found a woman waiting for him among a sea of Scale-Treading Chrysanthemums.

Lin Qiye brought Skuld to Shangjing to accelerate Jialan’s awakening, learning that the process could take two months if Skuld’s divine power was replenished. He arranged for Zuo Qing to contact the Heavenly Court, then returned to his friends with news that they would wait for now.

• Lin Qiye visited Li Zhenzhen with Skuld and brought her to Jialan, who had remained asleep since the battle at Takama-ga-hara.
• Skuld explained that Jialan was consuming time to complete her immortality and reach the divine realm, and that accelerating the process would take at least two years if Skuld had to recover her own divine power.
• Skuld estimated she could awaken Jialan in two months if she did not need to worry about divine power consumption, and Lin Qiye called Zuo Qing to arrange help from the Heavenly Court.
• Lin Qiye told An Qingyu, Baili Pangpang, Cao Yuan, and Jiang Er that Jialan could wake in two months and that Zuo Qing had instructed them to stand by.
• Cao Yuan said Great Xia was safe for now after the fall of the City of the Sun and the Norse gods and Olympus’s failed attack, leaving only India’s Heavenly God Temple as a potential threat.

Si Xiaonan said farewell to Lin Qiye and entered the mist with Fenrir to prepare for the ongoing war. There, Agni and four Lesser Gods appeared and asked to join her, leaving their future uncertain.

• Si Xiaonan met Lin Qiye and told him she had visited the Cangnan cemetery to honor Leng Xuan and the fallen Night Watchmen.
• Si Xiaonan told Lin Qiye she planned to enter the mist, and he reluctantly wished her well.
• Si Xiaonan and Fenrir crossed the border into the mist, where Agni and four Lesser Gods confronted them.
• Agni explained that the City of the Sun had fallen and the group had nowhere to return, so they wanted to join Si Xiaonan.
• Si Xiaonan refused their suggestion that they seek shelter in Great Xia's Heavenly Court, saying it would not accept them.

Si Xiaonan gathered Agni and other displaced gods into a force called the Hidden Gods, planning to plunder weaker divine kingdoms. In Shangjing, Lin Qiye won a card game with a miraculous trick, then entered the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods to draw Bragi’s final ability.

• Si Xiaonan invited the displaced gods to join her in building a divine kingdom by seizing the origins, faith, and resources of weaker realms.
• Agni and the other Lesser Gods agreed to follow Si Xiaonan, and they named their group the Hidden Gods.
• In Shangjing, Lin Qiye used four jokers to beat An Qingyu at Fight the Landlord, surprising everyone at the table.
• Lin Qiye said Commander Zuo had told the team to wait for a mission, then returned to his room and entered the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods to draw Bragi’s final ability.

Lin Qiye drew the Soul Domination Song ability and tested it on A Zhu in the hospital courtyard. The test succeeded, and Lin Qiye began controlling A Zhu through his singing.

• Lin Qiye noticed that the courtyard was empty and realized he could not remember who had fought the Monkey King.
• Lin Qiye drew Soul Domination Song, an ability that temporarily controlled souls through rhythmic singing.
• Lin Qiye decided to combine the song with Tyrant's Wrath to frighten targets and make them easier to dominate.
• Lin Qiye tried singing several lyrics to A Zhu, but the first attempts had no effect.
• Lin Qiye sang about a big pinwheel, successfully dominated A Zhu, and made him dance to his commands.

Lin Qiye learned that the Nightfall Squad had no urgent missions and was sent with his team to an island for a training camp. Zuo Qing and Jiang Ziya revealed that the camp had been arranged by a mysterious figure, leaving Zuo Qing uncertain but trusting that figure’s reasons.

• Lin Qiye discovered that A Zhu had awakened from the Soul Domination Song because he had sung part of it off-key, then received a call from Zuo Qing.
• Zuo Qing told Lin Qiye that the Heavenly Court had taken Jialan and the Future Goddess to receive the Sacred Spring, and that Great Xia was currently at peace.
• Zuo Qing gave Lin Qiye a map and ordered the Nightfall Squad to go to an island for training, though he would not reveal who would train them.
• Lin Qiye told the Nightfall Squad about the camp, and the team packed their gear and set out from Shangjing at dawn.
• After the squad departed, Zuo Qing asked Jiang Ziya whether the training camp was necessary, and Jiang Ziya said it had been arranged by a certain figure whose reasons they should trust.
• Sanjiu announced that he was withdrawing from the Golden Panda Online Literature Awards vote and thanked Fans for their support.

Lin Qiye and his companions searched a remote island for their training base and found a ballroom hidden beneath an abandoned shelter. They discovered dozens of people dancing inside, leaving Lin Qiye convinced something was wrong.

• Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan teased each other on the yacht, and Baili Pangpang fell silent when Cao Yuan mentioned Molly.
• An Qingyu told the group they were nearing the island, and Lin Qiye used his Mental Power to search it after they came ashore.
• Lin Qiye led the group to a rusty iron gate hidden on a wasteland, which An Qingyu judged had been sealed since the 1920s.
• The group opened the gate and followed a dark passage where they smelled perfume and heard rhythmic music.
• The passage opened into a lavish ballroom where dozens of men and women danced, and Lin Qiye warned that something was wrong.

Lin Qiye and the Nightfall Squad encountered a bizarre ballroom illusion on an apparently deserted island, where a young man claimed to be the long-dead Commander Li Kengqiang. After Lin Qiye tested the illusion with End King's Law, Li Kengqiang revealed his knowledge of the squad and welcomed them to the Heroic Spirit Squad's base.

• Lin Qiye questioned how the ballroom had electricity when his Mental Power had detected no life or power-generating equipment on the island.
• A young man in sunglasses stopped the dance, introduced himself as Li Kengqiang, and greeted the Nightfall Squad.
• Lin Qiye recognized Li Kengqiang as the deceased second Commander-in-Chief of the Great Xia Night Watchmen and accused him of lying.
• Lin Qiye used End King's Law to expose part of the ballroom as an illusion, but Li Kengqiang's appearance remained unchanged.
• Li Kengqiang proved his connection to the Night Watchmen by naming the squad members and Zuo Qing, then summoned a golden dragon of national destiny and revealed that they were at the Heroic Spirit Squad's base.

Lin Qiye and Nightfall learned that the mysterious Heroic Spirits were Great Xia’s Special Squad No. 001, charged with guarding the nation’s destiny. Li Kengqiang revealed how the spirits endured through the national destiny and asked the team to call him Brother Spear.

• Wang Qing joined Tang Yusheng on the mountain, where they watched Great Xia’s National Destiny Golden Dragon rise.
• An Qingyu connected the dragon veins on a chart and identified the island as the Dragon Eye where they converged.
• Li Kengqiang revealed that he and the others were Heroic Spirits, Special Squad No. 001, guarding Great Xia’s national destiny.
• Li Kengqiang explained that Heroic Spirits were sustained by national destiny after their souls were preserved in vessels made from their bodies and weapons.
• Lin Qiye apologized and bowed to Li Kengqiang, who praised him and told Nightfall to call him Brother Spear.

Lin Qiye and his companions arrived at the Heroic Spirit base, where Li Kengqiang assigned them a neglected air-raid shelter and promised to train them. As they settled in for the night, they worried about the absent Shen Qingzhu and vowed that Nightfall Squad would reunite with no one missing.

• Li Kengqiang welcomed Lin Qiye and the others to the Heroic Spirit base, explained that he would be their chief instructor, and directed them to a rundown air-raid shelter.
• Baili Pangpang unloaded appliances and a Mercedes G-Class from his Freedom Space, and An Qingyu used them to turn the shelter into a modern residence.
• The five companions ate barbecue beside a bonfire and wondered whether the commanders were secretly watching them.
• Lin Qiye and the others worried that Shen Qingzhu remained missing with Hell, then raised their beers and promised Nightfall Squad would reunite with no one missing.

Li Kengqiang reminisced about his lost brothers before taking Lin Qiye and the others to a valley and using his Forbidden Ruins to reconstruct a memory of an old city. He explained that the reconstructed scene changed in response to their actions, leaving the group to explore a world that behaved like an open-world game.

• Li Kengqiang told Nie Jinshan that he missed his brothers and wished he could get drunk enough to dream of them again.
• The next morning, Lin Qiye, Baili Pangpang, and Cao Yuan discussed the strange singing Baili Pangpang had heard the previous night.
• Li Kengqiang led the group to a vast valley and snapped his fingers, transforming their surroundings into an old urban district.
• Li Kengqiang explained that his Forbidden Ruins, Sequence 048, Virtual Reconstruction, recreated scenes from his memories and changed them according to people's actions.

Li Kengqiang sent Lin Qiye and Nightfall Squad into a reconstructed Huaihai City from the 1980s, where they had one hour to prevent a disaster that would kill millions. The squad began searching for clues, and Lin Qiye stole radios so Jiang Er could help them communicate.

• Li Kengqiang explained that his reconstructed world was connected to the Real World and told the squad to stop the coming disaster while keeping casualties below two.
• Lin Qiye and Nightfall Squad learned they had until around 6:40 p.m. to investigate the disaster in 1980s Huaihai City.
• An Qingyu confirmed that his Fish Seed could function in the reconstructed world, while Jiang Er found she could control only signal sources already present there.
• Lin Qiye ordered the squad to split up and search for clues, then decided they needed radios to communicate.
• Lin Qiye and the others grabbed four radios from an appliance store and ran without paying.

Lin Qiye and An Qingyu explored the Virtual Reconstruction of Huaihai City, searching for clues and preparing for the disaster they expected. Lin Qiye mapped a complex pattern across the city while An Qingyu found the 007 Squad’s office and faced an attack from inside.

• Lin Qiye used Transformation Magic to disguise himself and surveyed the reconstructed city, spotting its aurora boundary and a stretch of the Huangpu River.
• Lin Qiye hypnotized a young man into lending him a bicycle, then rode through the streets as black night traced a complex pattern across the ground.
• An Qingyu and Jiang Er discussed searching the local 007 Squad headquarters for information about the coming disaster.
• An Qingyu entered the office building unnoticed and found the 007 Squad’s former office.
• A person inside the office shouted and thrust a blade through the door at An Qingyu, who smiled and said he had found it.

An Qingyu traveled to an earlier era and was mistaken for an Ancient God Church member when he could not prove he was a Night Watchman. Lin Qiye learned that the church was active in Huaihai City, then spotted the young Whisperer in a noodle shop.

• An Qingyu showed 007 Squad his Night Watchman emblem, but they dismissed it as a fake and did not recognize Ghost God's Pull.
• When the squad moved to capture him, An Qingyu told Jiang Er he would use force to subdue them before questioning them.
• Lin Qiye heard from Jiang Er that An Qingyu had beaten 007 Squad and that suspected Ancient God Church members were active in Huaihai City.
• Lin Qiye resumed laying magical patterns while watching for Ancient God Church members.
• Lin Qiye recognized the young Whisperer eating in a noodle shop and hid his amusement as the man studied him suspiciously.

Lin Qiye recognized the young The Whisperer and followed him after a noodle-shop encounter, while An Qingyu uncovered a mysterious Bai Ze record from Huaihai City. The Whisperer sensed he was being tailed, and Lin Qiye confronted him in an alley.

• Lin Qiye recognized The Whisperer in a noodle shop, followed him outside, and put his meal on The Whisperer's tab.
• The Whisperer made a brief call at a factory-side shop, and Lin Qiye memorized the number from the recent-call log.
• Lin Qiye gave the number to Jiang Er to investigate while An Qingyu told him that Night Watchmen records mentioned a suspected Bai Ze Mystery found by the Huangpu River five years earlier.
• An Qingyu noted that the Bai Ze file lacked any account of what happened afterward and said he would question the 007 Squad members.
• The Whisperer tried to lose the person following him in a maze of alleys, but Lin Qiye appeared ahead of him and called out his name.

Lin Qiye confronted The Whisperer, an Ancient God Church proxy, and overpowered his Dream Divergence God Realm. Lin Qiye used Wangcai to force The Whisperer into another nightmare, leaving him terrified and vomiting.

• Lin Qiye identified The Whisperer as one of the Ancient God Church's oldest gods, and The Whisperer realized Lin Qiye knew his identity.
• The Whisperer trapped Lin Qiye in a lava nightmare, but Lin Qiye used End King's Law to freeze and control the God Realm.
• The Whisperer rebuilt his nightmare, but Lin Qiye filled it with grotesque monsters that frightened him into returning them to the alley.
• Lin Qiye named The Whisperer's ability as Dream Divergence and summoned Wangcai to prove that the pug could use the same God Realm.
• The Whisperer refused to answer Lin Qiye's questions, so Wangcai dragged him into a nightmare that left him trembling and vomiting.

Lin Qiye interrogated Chen Erniu, who identified himself as The Whisperer, but he killed himself before revealing the Ancient God Church’s plans. Lin Qiye found a tube of dark red liquid, and An Qingyu reported that eight brief calls near the Huangpu River might be connected to a poisoning plot.

• Li Kengqiang and Wang Qing were overwhelmed by the nightmare Wangcai showed them, while Lin Qiye recalled Wangcai and resumed questioning The Whisperer.
• The Whisperer revealed that his name was Chen Erniu and that he had been heading to the Huangpu River.
• The Whisperer killed himself before Lin Qiye could learn how many members of the Ancient God Church had come.
• Lin Qiye found a glass tube of dark red liquid in The Whisperer’s briefcase and suspected it might be intended to poison the Huangpu River.
• An Qingyu told Lin Qiye that eight calls had come from locations near the Huangpu River within the past half hour.

Lin Qiye sent Hong Yan to deliver a briefcase to An Qingyu and hurried to investigate the Ancient God Church’s signal sources before the predicted disaster. By the Huangpu River, Baili Pangpang caught a cult member trying to poison the water and learned the glass tube contained a foul-smelling substance.

• Lin Qiye learned that at least seven Ancient God Church members remained and raced toward the nearest signal source while Hong Yan carried the briefcase to An Qingyu.
• An Qingyu warned Baili Pangpang that the cult might poison the Huangpu River, and Baili Pangpang sensed something beneath the river connected to the disaster.
• Baili Pangpang stopped a cult member from throwing a glass tube into the river, then chased him into a deserted lane.
• Baili Pangpang overpowered and bound the attacker, who had wielded a Black Fire longsword.
• Baili Pangpang opened the tube, smelled its contents, crushed it, and furiously confronted the captive.

Lin Qiye tracked down and killed Ancient God Church members across the city, then headed for the Huangpu River as the disaster approached. At 007 Squad headquarters, An Qingyu read a captive's memories and discovered something alarming.

• Lin Qiye used Black Pupil to trace The Whisperer's phone call and found the Ancient God Church member carrying a briefcase.
• Lin Qiye concealed his attack from nearby civilians, killed the target, and recovered a glass tube filled with pale red liquid.
• With Black Pupil's guidance, Lin Qiye killed two more Ancient God Church members and learned that others were gathering by the Huangpu River.
• Lin Qiye told An Qingyu he would head to the riverbank, where Fatty had sensed something related to the disaster at the bottom of the river.
• An Qingyu questioned five bound 007 Squad members, read the burly man's memories, and realized something was wrong.

Lin Qiye investigated the Huangpu River after Cao Yuan reported its unnatural currents and discovered a giant Bai Ze guarded by Night Watchman Tang Mingxuan. Mistaken for an Ancient God Church member, Lin Qiye stopped Tang Mingxuan’s attack by claiming, “I’m Li Kengqiang!”

• Cao Yuan patrolled the Huangpu River in disguise to intercept anything thrown into it and told Lin Qiye the currents were unusually violent.
• Lin Qiye summoned Sea Beasts to search the riverbed and followed one after it was badly injured.
• Lin Qiye found a massive, pregnant Bai Ze on the riverbed, stirring the river with each breath.
• Tang Mingxuan, captain of the Great Xia Night Watchmen’s 007 Squad, attacked Lin Qiye, mistaking him for an Ancient God Church member.
• Lin Qiye shouted that he was Li Kengqiang, and Tang Mingxuan’s halberd stopped mid-attack.

Lin Qiye impersonated Li Kengqiang to gain Tang Mingxuan’s trust and learn why Bai Ze was hidden beneath the Huangpu River. Meanwhile, An Qingyu revealed that the Ancient God Church planned to disrupt Bai Ze’s imminent birth, leaving Huaihai City in danger with only minutes to spare.

• Lin Qiye used Li Kengqiang’s name and a standard-issue blade to convince Tang Mingxuan that he was a Special Squad captain.
• Lin Qiye pressed Tang Mingxuan for an explanation, and Tang admitted he had concealed Bai Ze from the higher-ups.
• An Qingyu told Cao Yuan and Baili Pangpang that the 007 Squad had rescued a wounded, pregnant Bai Ze five years earlier and that she was now about to give birth beneath the Huangpu River.
• An Qingyu explained that the Ancient God Church’s blood-based medicine could drive Bai Ze berserk during labor and trigger a disaster in Huaihai City.
• An Qingyu reported that the five remaining Ancient God Church members were near the river and Bai Ze had at most two minutes before giving birth.

Lin Qiye agreed that the Black Dragon Squad would protect Bai Ze while she gave birth beneath the Huangpu River. As the 007 Squad helped evacuate the Bund, several suspected Ancient God Church members exposed themselves and charged toward the river.

• Tang Mingxuan explained that he had not requested headquarters support because Commander Nie would likely drive Bai Ze away or detain her, endangering her and her unborn child.
• Tang Mingxuan revealed that his wife and newborn daughter had both died, then asked Li Kengqiang's Black Dragon Squad to help protect Bai Ze.
• Lin Qiye agreed to guard the Huangpu River until Bai Ze gave birth safely.
• An Qingyu freed the 007 Squad, told them he was not their enemy, and urged them to help at the Huangpu River.
• Lin Qiye ordered the squads to establish a perimeter and evacuate civilians, while the 007 Squad coordinated with police to clear both riverbanks.
• Several people carrying black briefcases remained among the evacuating crowd, then charged toward the river after realizing they had been exposed.