Recaps

While shopping with Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan, Lin Qiye discovered a note warning that someone planned to attack his family at his old home. He rushed there with two Black Boxes, determined to protect his aunt and A Jin.

• Hong Ying told Lin Qiye that a Mystery lizard’s corpse had been found half missing, echoing the disappearance of the Nanda Snake Demon’s head.
• A cloaked figure fired a blunt metal arrow at Lin Qiye, then fled when Hong Ying chased him.
• Lin Qiye found a note hidden in the arrow warning that someone would target his family at No. 3901 in the old district.
• Lin Qiye handed the shopping bags to Si Xiaonan, collected two Black Boxes from the van, and ran toward his family’s home.

On New Year’s Eve, Yang Jin and his aunt prepared their home while a mercenary group watched them, waiting for Lin Qiye. Lin Qiye arrived and attacked Scorpion Three, who countered by firing a submachine gun at him.

• Yang Jin helped his aunt hang Blessing signs, including a special one on Lin Qiye’s bedroom door, while she worried that Lin Qiye had not called home.
• Scorpion Three and other members of the Mad Scorpion mercenary group reported watching Yang Jin and his aunt, and Scorpion One ordered them to seize the pair if Lin Qiye did not appear by nightfall.
• Scorpion Three questioned the group’s allegiance to the Ancient God Church, while Scorpion One warned that defying its covenant would endanger them all and said a powerful believer could handle Lin Qiye.
• Lin Qiye appeared outside Scorpion Three’s van, destroyed the walkie-talkie and van door, and asked what believers were.
• Scorpion Three lunged at Lin Qiye with a blade, then drew a submachine gun and fired at him.

Lin Qiye interrogated Scorpion Three and learned that his group served Medusa, then killed him. Two hidden snipers attacked Lin Qiye, but Leng Xuan killed both and left the approaching enemies to Lin Qiye.

• Lin Qiye crippled Scorpion Three and tortured him into explaining that the believers were a puppet organization serving the Ancient God Church, and that his group worshiped Medusa, also known as Snake Woman.
• Lin Qiye connected Medusa to the woman suspected of destroying the Training Camp and killed Scorpion Three.
• A sniper shot at Lin Qiye, and a second sniper joined the attack, forcing him to take cover.
• Leng Xuan revealed himself as an ally and shot both snipers from several hundred meters away.
• Leng Xuan said the next move was up to Lin Qiye, who sensed several figures closing in.

Lin Qiye fought off the Mad Scorpion squad in the snow while Lu Liang slipped away to capture his family. Lu Liang encountered a small mangy dog on the stairs, and the chapter left him facing the dog.

• Lin Qiye used his darkness and Star Sabers to kill Scorpion Four, then fought Scorpion Five, Scorpion Six, Scorpion Two, and Scorpion Seven as they tried to wear him down.
• Lin Qiye held his ground against the four attackers, relying on the Starry Night Dancer to sustain him while he waited for Scorpion One to appear.
• Lu Liang watched the battle from a building and criticized the Mad Scorpion squad for failing to capture Lin Qiye’s family.
• Lu Liang went upstairs, intending to seize Lin Qiye’s family, but stopped when he found a small mangy dog lying on the stairs.
• Lu Liang laughed and called the dog ugly.

Lin Qiye killed Scorpion Two, Scorpion Seven, Scorpion Five, and Scorpion Six, but Scorpion One used the Forbidden Object Blood Boil to absorb the dead mercenaries’ strength and overpower him. As Scorpion One approached the injured Lin Qiye, a phone call from his aunt interrupted the fight.

• Lin Qiye used Seraphim Divine Might to kill Scorpion Two and Scorpion Seven, then shot Scorpion Five and Scorpion Six with floating guns.
• Scorpion One arrived and revealed that he had sacrificed his squad to empower the Forbidden Object Blood Boil.
• Scorpion One absorbed the dead mercenaries’ strength, raised his combat power to the River realm, and charged Lin Qiye.
• Scorpion One overpowered Lin Qiye in a blade clash and kicked him into a wall, leaving him coughing up blood.
• Lin Qiye’s phone rang as Scorpion One approached, and the caller was Aunt.

Lin Qiye defeated Scorpion One in a desperate battle on New Year's Eve, then called Auntie and reassured her that he was fine. The chapter left him watching his family celebrate from nearby as he exchanged New Year greetings with Auntie and Yang Jin.

• Scorpion One taunted Lin Qiye about his family while they fought, and Lin Qiye struggled as his strength and Mental Power ran low.
• Lin Qiye used the Absolute Darkness Divine Forbidden Zone to blind Scorpion One with snow, then stunned him with the Seraph's divine might.
• Lin Qiye used Zhao Kongcheng's Star Saber to kill Scorpion One and took the silver tag from his corpse.
• Lin Qiye answered Auntie's long-running call and told her he was fine, while watching her from a stairwell near their apartment.
• Lin Qiye spoke with Yang Jin, then exchanged Happy New Year wishes with Auntie.

Lin Qiye left his home to avoid drawing danger to his aunt and Yang Jin, then joined Team 136 for New Year’s Eve dinner. As the city welcomed the new year, Baili Pangpang, Shen Qingzhu, and Cao Yuan celebrated together, while An Qingyu drank alone underground.

• Leng Xuan told Lin Qiye that Chen Muye had placed the Weiyang forbidden item at his home to protect his family, as Team 136 had done for its members’ families.
• Lin Qiye said goodbye to Xiao Hei Lai and left home, carrying the two Black Boxes back to the agency.
• Lin Qiye joined Team 136 for dinner, where Hong Ying said the archer had escaped, and Chen Muye toasted the team and remembered the absent Zhao Kongcheng.
• Baili Pangpang persuaded Shen Qingzhu to drink with him and Cao Yuan as they watched New Year’s fireworks from a hotel.
• An Qingyu watched the moonlight in his underground cavern, raised his Sprite, and wished himself a happy new year.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Lin Qiye worried that the hidden enemies had yet to make their move, while Baili Pangpang’s group was attacked at a hotel. Baili Pangpang revealed that his family’s four powerful Forbidden Item Wielders were guarding him, and the story left them heading off to fight more approaching enemies.

• Lin Qiye woke after the New Year’s Eve celebration, swept snow outside the office, and wondered why the hidden enemies and the Medusa Agent had not appeared.
• Lin Qiye spotted smoke rising in the distance and realized an explosion had gone off.
• Cao Yuan carried the still-drunken Baili Pangpang out of the burning hotel while Shen Qingzhu extinguished the flames and protected them from debris.
• Four apparent attackers knelt and greeted Baili Pangpang as the Baili Family’s Forbidden Item Wielders, and the Fire Envoy reported that they had eliminated the three enemies who ambushed the hotel.
• The Wind Envoy sensed more enemies approaching, and the four Forbidden Item Wielders left to confront them as Shen Qingzhu asked Baili Pangpang why he had called him along.

Yuan Gang exposed three undercover agents in the Training Camp, but two of them attacked him and detonated themselves after invoking The Whisperer. Furious, Yuan Gang left the camp to put an end to the conflict.

• The instructors discussed the camp’s uneasy atmosphere and the disappearance of Han Li and several instructors.
• Yuan Gang and Instructor Hong confronted Li Yaoguang with evidence that he had secretly left the camp and received suspicious payments.
• Li Yaoguang confessed that he had cooperated because his parents had been captured, and Yuan Gang said he would be sent to the Night Watchmen Tribunal in Shangjing City.
• Yuan Gang named Wang Gui and Wu Ruotong as the other undercover agents, and they attacked him with short blades.
• Yuan Gang repelled Wang Gui and Wu Ruotong, who self-destructed inside his golden barrier after naming The Whisperer.
• Yuan Gang left the Training Camp in anger, and Instructor Hong remarked that he was angry.

Snake Woman was ordered to recruit Lin Qiye or have Han Shaoyun kill him, while Lin Qiye left the agency to check on Baili Pangpang. He discovered that the street had become a Forbidden Zone covered in snake-eye patterns and came face-to-face with Snake Woman.

• Snake Woman learned that the Training Camp infiltrators had been exposed and was told to recruit Lin Qiye or arrange his death with Han Shaoyun.
• Lin Qiye left Heping Agency carrying Black Boxes and New Year goods to check on Baili Pangpang and test the hidden enemies.
• Wu Xiangnan woke up and, with Chen Muye and Wen Qimo, prepared to go to work after Lin Qiye left.
• Lin Qiye sensed something wrong on the deserted road and discovered snake-eye patterns covering the buildings, ground, branches, and sun.
• Lin Qiye recognized the street as a Forbidden Zone and saw Snake Woman approaching him.

Lin Qiye confronted Snake Woman, the Ancient God Church’s Medusa Agent, and rejected her attempt to make him her slave. Their battle began as both unleashed their Forbidden Zones, leaving Lin Qiye facing Snake Woman’s teleportation and her forbidden item, Snake Fang.

• Snake Woman revealed herself as the Medusa Agent and approached Lin Qiye, first threatening him and then trying to seduce him into becoming her slave.
• Lin Qiye attempted to kill Snake Woman with a surprise attack, but she vanished and reappeared on a tree with a handleless blade.
• Snake Woman made increasingly explicit demands that Lin Qiye submit to her, and he declared that he would kill her instead.
• Snake Woman activated the Snake Eye patterns across the street, while Lin Qiye unleashed the Absolute Darkness Divine Forbidden Zone.
• Snake Woman repeatedly teleported and blocked Lin Qiye’s twin blades with Snake Fang, which Lin Qiye could not control with darkness.
• Snake Woman twisted her neck toward Lin Qiye and told him to look into her eyes as a black glow emerged from them.

Lin Qiye uncovered the Snake Woman’s teleportation limits and overcame her petrifying gaze, but a believer named Han Shaoyun intervened before he could kill her. Han Shaoyun identified himself as the Thirteenth Seat.

• Lin Qiye shut his eyes to avoid the Snake Woman’s petrifying gaze and dodged her black python hair and attacks.
• Lin Qiye realized the Snake Woman could teleport only to locations marked by her Snake Eyes.
• Lin Qiye struck the Snake Woman through her scales, then opened his eyes and overwhelmed her with the divine might of two gods.
• The Snake Woman’s Eye of Petrification began turning Lin Qiye’s arm gray, but she collapsed in pain under his divine pressure.
• As Lin Qiye moved to kill the Snake Woman, Han Shaoyun blocked his blade with a silver halberd and introduced himself as the Thirteenth Seat among the believers.

Lin Qiye faced the believer Han Shaoyun until Team 136 arrived to confront him. Elsewhere, a Sea-realm attacker overwhelmed the Baili Family’s Forbidden Item Wielders, but Yuan Gang revealed that the attack was a ploy to draw him away from Lin Qiye.

• Han Shaoyun sent Snake Woman away and told Lin Qiye he had come to kill him, but the Night Watchmen’s Boundless Void Domain appeared before Lin Qiye could summon Nyx.
• Chen Muye led all of Team 136 into the street and challenged Han Shaoyun.
• The Sea-realm attacker defeated Fire Envoy, Wind Envoy, Water Envoy, and Earth Envoy as Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan watched.
• Baili Pangpang tried to buy the attacker off, but Yuan Gang arrived and identified the attack as a plan to lure him away from Lin Qiye.
• Yuan Gang challenged the attacker’s assumption that he was the only person in Cangnan City capable of killing a Sea-realm cultivator.

Lin Qiye refused to abandon Team 136 when Han Shaoyun challenged them, and the team joined him in fighting the former Gusu City captain. Their first attacks briefly exploited Han Shaoyun’s heart demons, but he unleashed Great Wind Disaster as the battle escalated.

• Lin Qiye left the rooftop and joined Team 136, deciding to stand with his comrades against Han Shaoyun.
• Chen Muye recognized Han Shaoyun as the former captain of the Gusu City Night Watchmen team and refused his offer to let Team 136 leave.
• Leng Xuan fired a grenade at Han Shaoyun, while Hong Ying charged him with her spear and Wen Qimo used Heart Demon Binding Method to distract him.
• Han Shaoyun suppressed Wen Qimo’s illusion, sent Hong Ying flying with a blast of wind, and brought down the old building beneath him.
• Han Shaoyun invoked Forbidden Ruin Sequence 079, Great Wind Disaster, filling the area with tornadoes and swirling snow.

Han Shaoyun confronted Team 136 in a devastating blizzard, and Chen Muye challenged him over his past and his allegiance to the Believers. Chen Muye revealed his Forbidden Ruin, Black Wuchang, leaving Han Shaoyun shocked to learn the captain’s identity.

• Si Xiaonan used Unfettered Veil to protect Team 136 from the blizzard and clear their vision.
• Chen Muye questioned Han Shaoyun about becoming a Believer after the Gusu City team’s encounter with The Whisperer.
• Han Shaoyun said the Ancient God Church had forced him to sign a Soul Contract to save his teammates, leaving him unable to return to his former life.
• Chen Muye drew his twin blades and declared that he would never show mercy to the Believers.
• Chen Muye activated Forbidden Ruin Sequence 037, Black Wuchang, and Han Shaoyun recognized him in shock.

Chen Muye and the Night Watchmen joined forces to attack Han Shaoyun, revealing that Chen Muye’s blades could cut lifespan as well as flesh and souls. As Han Shaoyun fought off their attacks, Lin Qiye entered the battle and launched a fresh assault.

• Han Shaoyun recognized Chen Muye as Black Wuchang and questioned why he had remained at the River Realm, then clashed with him across the Nether River.
• Han Shaoyun wounded Chen Muye and cut down nearby buildings with Wind Blades, while Chen Muye admitted he could not defeat Han Shaoyun alone.
• Hong Ying attacked with a flaming spear, and a sniper on a distant rooftop fired specially made rounds that forced Han Shaoyun to dodge.
• Wu Xiangnan explained that his injured hands kept him from fighting, so Lin Qiye recovered enough Mental Power to return to the battlefield.
• Wen Qimo bound Han Shaoyun with the Heart Demon Binding Method, allowing Chen Muye to wound him and cut his lifespan with the Wuchang Blade.
• Han Shaoyun knocked Chen Muye’s blades away, but Lin Qiye leaped through the darkness, seized one blade, and slashed at him.

Lin Qiye and the others nearly defeated Han Shaoyun, but Wu Xiangnan sacrificed one of his lives in an explosion and still failed to kill him. Han Shaoyun began forming a devastating storm over Cangnan City, while Shen Qingzhu snapped his fingers from afar.

• Lin Qiye, Hong Ying, Chen Muye, and Leng Xuan injured Han Shaoyun, but Wu Xiangnan grabbed him and detonated the explosives beneath his cloak.
• Chen Muye explained that Wu Xiangnan’s Forbidden Ruins, Rebirth, gave him twelve chances to revive, and Wu Xiangnan regenerated after the blast.
• Wu Xiangnan revealed he had used his last chance without killing Han Shaoyun, who rose from the crater and recognized him as the immortal from the Blue Rain squad.
• Han Shaoyun began creating an eye of the storm powerful enough to tear through Chen Muye’s Boundless Void Domain and devastate Cangnan City.
• Han Shaoyun warned that they had little time to solve the problem at its root, while his growing wind domain repelled Leng Xuan’s bullet and Hong Ying’s spear.
• As Shen Qingzhu approached the Boundless Void Domain with Baili Pangpang’s group, he looked toward the storm and snapped his fingers.

Shen Qingzhu nullified Han Shaoyun’s wind eye, allowing Yuan Gang to defeat him, but Chen Muye killed Han before he could be taken into custody. Han warned that the Whisperer would return to kill Lin Qiye, and Team 136 then considered whether the Ancient God Church had planted other believers among the Night Watchmen.

• Shen Qingzhu drained the air around Han Shaoyun’s wind eye, making it vanish, and Lin Qiye realized Qi Min was a counter to Han’s ability.
• Yuan Gang beat Han Shaoyun into a crater and prepared to send him to the Abstinence Hall, but Chen Muye stabbed him through the heart.
• Before dying, Han Shaoyun warned Chen Muye that the Whisperer would return to kill Lin Qiye.
• Chen Muye defended his decision to kill Han, then told Yuan Gang that in Cangnan he was the rule.
• Wu Xiangnan explained that the Ancient God Church’s contracts could control a believer’s actions and thoughts, and Lin Qiye questioned why Han had left the Night Watchmen.
• Chen Muye agreed that other believers might still be hidden among the Night Watchmen.

After the assassination attempt ended, Lin Qiye hosted his friends and Team 136 for dinner before leaving Cangnan to return to the Training Camp. As the buses departed, he spotted a lone sniper watching him from a distant rooftop.

• Chen Muye explained that soul-binding contracts were rare and imperfect, though Lin Qiye remained wary of the possibility that a high-ranking Night Watchman could be controlled.
• Lin Qiye agreed to invite his friends to dinner at Hong Ying's villa before returning to camp the following night.
• Lin Qiye arrived at the villa with Baili Pangpang, Cao Yuan, and a reluctant Shen Qingzhu.
• Baili Pangpang handed watches to the members of Team 136 as gifts, while Cao Yuan eagerly ate and Shen Qingzhu behaved shyly.
• Lin Qiye said goodbye to Team 136, returned his Star Saber, and boarded a bus with the other trainees.
• As the buses left for the Training Camp, Lin Qiye saw what appeared to be a sniper watching him from a distant rooftop.

Yuan Gang explained the Night Watchmen’s merit medals and announced that Lin Qiye would receive a Star Medal for his actions during the missile attack and the battle against the Ancient God Church. The ceremony began with Lin Qiye named as the first recipient.

• Lin Qiye and Baili Pangpang rushed to morning assembly and noticed that three instructors were missing.
• Yuan Gang canceled training and explained the four kinds of Night Watchmen merit medals, including the rare Sea of Stars Medal.
• Yuan Gang recounted how King Mask earned the Sea of Stars Medal by helping evacuate civilians and fighting Yamata no Orochi.
• Yuan Gang announced that Lin Qiye had saved more than fifty recruits, wounded Snake Woman, and helped Team 136 kill Han Shaoyun, earning him a Star Medal.

Lin Qiye and Shen Qingzhu received medals for their roles in protecting Cangnan City, then began classroom-based training at the camp. Lin Qiye ended the chapter by asking Instructor Gu whether the world they lived in was real.

• Yuan Gang awarded Lin Qiye a Star Medal for protecting the recruits and his service to the Night Watchmen.
• Yuan Gang awarded Shen Qingzhu a Starlight Medal for destroying the storm's destructive eye and saving half of Cangnan City.
• Baili Pangpang teased Shen Qingzhu by loudly praising Lin Qiye, drawing unfriendly looks from the other recruits.
• The recruits began studying tactics, Forbidden Domains, mythology, and other classroom subjects after physical training ended.
• Instructor Gu questioned Shen Qingzhu and Lin Qiye about Mental Power, and Lin Qiye asked whether their world was real.

Lin Qiye challenged Instructor Gu to prove that their world was real, hoping to help treat Merlin, while the recruits began Mental Power control training with the ACE wristwatches. The chapter left Baili Pangpang helplessly flipping toward the cafeteria under the device’s effects.

• Lin Qiye questioned whether higher-dimensional beings had created their world, leaving Instructor Gu unable to answer and determined to investigate.
• Instructor Gu hurried away after class, still absorbed in Lin Qiye’s questions.
• An instructor explained that the recruits would use ACE wristwatches to train precise Mental Power control by resisting unpredictable mental currents.
• Cao Yuan put on an ACE watch and immediately performed a backflip.
• Baili Pangpang put on his watch, launched into a series of acrobatic flips, and cried out for Lin Qiye to save him.

Lin Qiye and the recruits struggled to control their involuntary acrobatics after putting on the wristwatches, then Lin Qiye offered Yuan Gang a Forbidden Item in exchange for information about Chen Muye and Wu Xiangnan. Yuan Gang had not yet answered Lin Qiye’s question when the chapter ended.

• Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan quickly learned to counter the wristwatches’ currents with Mental Power while many other recruits kept flipping across the training ground.
• At the cafeteria, Lin Qiye fed the flipping Baili Pangpang, while Shen Qingzhu tried to feed Deng Wei, Li Jia, and Li Liang.
• Lin Qiye visited Yuan Gang and showed him a Forbidden Item called Blood Boil, which he had taken from Scorpion One’s corpse.
• Yuan Gang valued Blood Boil at around two million, and Lin Qiye agreed to turn it in for cash.
• Lin Qiye asked Yuan Gang what had happened to Chen Muye and Wu Xiangnan.

Yuan Gang told Lin Qiye how Wu Xiangnan survived the destruction of Blue Rain Squad after the team encountered Susanoo in Takama-ga-hara. Lin Qiye learned that Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi had left Wu Xiangnan permanently unable to wield a sword and wondered whether the gods in the Psychiatric Hospital could heal him.

• Yuan Gang agreed to explain Wu Xiangnan's past and revealed that Wu Xiangnan had served in the Special Squad Blue Rain.
• Yuan Gang recounted how Blue Rain pursued Yamata no Orochi into the mist, lost its way, and entered Takama-ga-hara.
• Yuan Gang said Blue Rain fought Susanoo while exhausted, and every member died except Wu Xiangnan, who resurrected after being killed three times.
• Yuan Gang explained that Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi wounded Wu Xiangnan's hand beyond the power of resurrection to heal, and that Wu later disappeared from the hospital.
• Lin Qiye wondered whether the gods in the Psychiatric Hospital could find a way to heal Wu Xiangnan's injury.

Yuan Gang explained Chen Muye’s departure from Shangjing City and revealed the catastrophic power of Shiva’s Grudge, while Lin Qiye learned that the artifact had sparked a God War. After Lin Qiye left, Instructor Gu remained consumed by doubts about whether the world was real.

• Yuan Gang told Lin Qiye that Chen Muye and Shao Pingge had once served together as the Black and White Wuchang of Shangjing City before Chen Muye left on a classified order and became captain in Cangnan City.
• Yuan Gang explained that Shiva’s Grudge could erase whatever concept was written on its parchment, though humans lacked the Mental Power to wield its full destructive force.
• Yuan Gang said that Shiva’s Grudge drew the attention of Evil Gods and caused a God War ten years earlier, when five human apexes fought Loki and Gaia at Great Xia’s border.
• Yuan Gang took Blood Boil and promised to mail it to Night Watchmen Headquarters, while Lin Qiye saluted him and left.
• Instructor Gu, exhausted from studying ancient books, tried to sleep but jolted awake and shouted in frustration over whether the world was real.