Recaps

After refusing to recruit new members for Nightfall Squad, Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan left Zuo Qing’s office. In the Heavenly Court, Lingbao Tianzun explained that An Qingyu could be sealed to stop the Gate of Truth from recovering, and An Qingyu asked what would happen to Jiang Er.

• Zuo Qing ordered Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan not to seek out the Heavenly Court or interfere with An Qingyu’s handling, then offered them a roster of active Night Watchmen.
• Lin Qiye refused to recruit new members for Nightfall Squad, and Cao Yuan followed him out of Zuo Qing’s office.
• Lingbao Tianzun explained that An Qingyu’s existence was repairing the Gate of Truth and would eventually awaken the Key of Doors.
• Lingbao Tianzun said killing An Qingyu would stop the Gate of Truth, but proposed sealing him and sinking him into the Heavenly Court’s Spirit Abyss instead.
• An Qingyu accepted Lingbao Tianzun’s plan and asked what would happen to Jiang Er if he was sealed.

An Qingyu agreed to be sealed to contain the Gate of Truth, while Jiang Er chose to remain beside the Spirit Abyss in the Celestial Court. Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan set out to find the Celestial Court, but a strange chessboard and Yelander’s disappearance left Lin Qiye with a new mystery.

• Lingbao Tianzun explained that Jiang Er could survive in the Celestial Court’s spiritual spring, and she insisted on staying there until An Qingyu returned.
• An Qingyu accepted the plan to seal him and was warned not to touch the Gate of Truth if it called to him.
• Lin Qiye decided to go to the Celestial Court with Cao Yuan despite Commander Zuo’s concerns, and they entered the mist on a Somersault Cloud.
• Lin Qiye found Li Yifei back at the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, where Li Yifei showed him a chessboard covered in black pieces with one white piece.
• Li Yifei went to look for Yelander and returned to tell Lin Qiye that Yelander was missing.

Lin Qiye searched for the vanished Yelander and learned that the old man had recently been gazing at the sky. While traveling toward the Americas with Cao Yuan, Lin Qiye encountered Number 27, the Ancestral Hunter, who demanded to know why Lin Qiye had not fulfilled their agreement.

• Lin Qiye searched the hospital for Yelander, found no trace of him, and sent Li Yifei and the orderlies to keep looking.
• Lin Qiye questioned Gilgamesh, who recalled Yelander playing chess with Li Yifei before going to the rooftop and said he had recently started looking at the sky.
• Lin Qiye left the hospital with Cao Yuan on the Somersault Cloud and realized they had not found the Heavenly Court despite traveling toward the Americas.
• Number 27 appeared in the air ahead of the Somersault Cloud, and Lin Qiye recognized him as the Ancestral Hunter.
• Number 27 explained that he had waited outside Great Xia after killing Loki and accused Lin Qiye of avoiding their agreement; Lin Qiye said he had expected Number 27 to come find him inside Great Xia.

Number 27 confronted Lin Qiye over the contract, then agreed to accompany him while he and Cao Yuan continued their urgent journey. In Heaven, An Qingyu and Jiang Er discussed the increasing Mi Go arrivals as the sealing approached.

• Number 27 threatened Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan when Lin Qiye asked to delay finding someone, but Lin Qiye stopped Cao Yuan from attacking.
• Number 27 sensed the complete Dark Origin within Lin Qiye, checked that Dark Ancestor had not harmed him, and agreed to wait for Lin Qiye’s urgent business to end.
• Number 27 concealed himself inside Lin Qiye, and Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan continued their journey on the Somersault Cloud.
• Jiang Er found An Qingyu awake in Heaven, where he told her that the Gate of Truth was calling to him across space-time.
• An Qingyu and Jiang Er witnessed another wave of Mi Go descend and expected the Great Xia God’s sealing to take place within a day or two.

An Qingyu and Jiang Er shared a quiet night before the planned sealing, while the Heavenly Court prepared to finish the seal. A mysterious black mist abducted them through a Space-Time Rift, prompting the Jade Emperor to suspect the Gate of Truth had gone out of control.

• An Qingyu and Jiang Er discussed his coming sealing, and Jiang Er asked to visit Erhai Lake with him when he woke.
• Guang Chengzi and Monkey King killed a wave of Mi Go as True Lord Taiyi reported that the seal would be ready by the following afternoon.
• A black mist entered the courtyard and watched An Qingyu, then used a Space-Time Rift to swallow him and Jiang Er along with the pavilion.
• A bell alerted the Heavenly Court, and Guang Chengzi rushed to the ruined courtyard while Monkey King guarded the South Heaven Gate.
• The Jade Emperor arrived above the ruins and wondered whether the Gate of Truth had gone out of control.

After An Qingyu and Jiang Er vanished through a space-time disturbance, the Heavenly Court and Great Xia mobilized their forces to search for them. An Qingyu woke in ancient ruins somewhere in the mist and tried to contact Great Xia before the Mi Go could find them.

• The Great Xia Gods concluded that An Qingyu and Jiang Er had been displaced by a space-time disturbance and began searching for them on the Jade Emperor’s orders.
• Zuo Qing ordered Lu Wuwei, Zhou Ping, and the other Human Apexes to search, while arranging for King Mask to reverse time if An Qingyu was lost.
• An Qingyu woke beside the Black Coffin in the ruins of an abandoned city, and Jiang Er emerged to ask where they were.
• An Qingyu suspected his unconscious space-time disturbance had intensified and told Jiang Er to try connecting to Great Xia’s signal.

An Qingyu and Jiang Er tried to signal the Great Xia Gods from the ruins while Lin Qiye searched for the Heavenly Court. As Mi Go surrounded An Qingyu and Jiang Er, their fate remained uncertain.

• Jiang Er failed to send a signal through the fog, so An Qingyu made signal flares from materials she gathered in the ruins.
• Lin Qiye struggled to locate the Heavenly Court until a gust of wind shifted a branch and pointed him in a new direction, which he followed with Cao Yuan on the Somersault Cloud.
• An Qingyu fired signal flares every hour, but none drew help, and he worried that another Mi Go descent was approaching.
• Mi Go appeared through Space-Time Rifts, forcing An Qingyu to flee in his wheelchair while Jiang Er followed in the Black Coffin.
• Over a thousand Mi Go surrounded An Qingyu and Jiang Er, then bowed as though worshipping their king.

An Qingyu agreed to go with the Mi Go to keep Jiang Er safe, then set off the signal flares inside his body to stop them from restoring the Key of Doors. His rapid regeneration saved him, and as the Mi Go pursued him and Jiang Er, Lucifer descended.

• An Qingyu learned that the Mi Go intended to sacrifice him to help restore the Gate of Truth and bring back the Key of Doors.
• An Qingyu agreed to go with the Mi Go if they let Jiang Er leave, and she escaped aboard the Black Coffin.
• Near the Space-Time Rift, An Qingyu cut open his chest and ignited four signal flares inside himself.
• Jiang Er caught An Qingyu’s largest piece of flesh with the Black Coffin, and he began regenerating as the Mi Go pursued them.
• The Mi Go sped up as An Qingyu recovered, and Lucifer descended beneath the clouds.

Lucifer attacked An Qingyu and Jiang Er while trying to capture An Qingyu for the Black Goat. After Lucifer destroyed the Black Coffin, he trapped them and threatened to crush part of Jiang Er’s body unless An Qingyu surrendered.

• Lucifer recognized An Qingyu as someone who carried the aura of the Gate of Truth and reached for him, but a swarm of Mi Go attacked Lucifer to protect him.
• Jiang Er carried An Qingyu away in the Black Coffin, then fought off three pursuing Mi Go by using her ghostly body and the coffin as a weapon.
• Lucifer fired a dark-red beam that vaporized half of An Qingyu and shattered the Black Coffin, but Jiang Er caught An Qingyu with a remaining piece of its lid.
• Lucifer trapped An Qingyu and Jiang Er with air demons, then threatened to crush a piece of the Black Coffin unless An Qingyu came to him.

Lucifer betrayed An Qingyu by destroying the Black Coffin and swallowing Jiang Er, then tortured An Qingyu while taking him away. Enraged, An Qingyu drew on the Gate of Truth’s power and deconstructed Lucifer’s body, leaving Lucifer grotesquely rearranged.

• An Qingyu surrendered to Lucifer in exchange for Jiang Er’s freedom, but Lucifer’s demon devoured the Black Coffin and Jiang Er before she could escape.
• Lucifer pinned An Qingyu in an air demon’s jaws and threatened him, while Jiang Er charged at Lucifer in fury.
• The air demon holding An Qingyu burst into blood mist as the Gate of Truth’s aura emerged through him.
• An Qingyu revealed a changed left eye and used the Gate of Truth’s power to twist Lucifer’s body into a grotesque ball of rearranged flesh.

An Qingyu used the Gate of Truth to scramble Lucifer’s body, but the backlash left him gravely weakened as Lin Qiye and Number 27 arrived to help. Lucifer trapped them in his domain, while Gilgamesh noticed the old man watching him from across the hospital.

• An Qingyu retched blood after using the Gate of Truth to scramble Lucifer’s organs, and Jiang Er carried him away as Lucifer sent air demons after them.
• Lin Qiye arrived with Cao Yuan and rescued An Qingyu and Jiang Er, then realized that Jiang Er’s real body was missing.
• Number 27 fought Lucifer, passed through an air demon’s attack, and severed one of Lucifer’s wings.
• Lucifer unleashed his domain and sealed the area with demons, leaving Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan trapped as Lin Qiye considered their options.
• At the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, Gilgamesh noticed the old man in white robes watching him from a rooftop across the window.

Gilgamesh reached 100% Treatment Progress after Yelander manipulated it and was discharged into the battlefield, where he joined Lin Qiye and the others against the demons. He trapped Lucifer and Number 27 inside King's Treasury and prepared to fight them.

• Gilgamesh realized Yelander was raising his Treatment Progress and attacked him, but Yelander sent him through a spatial rift as his progress reached 100%.
• Li Yifei found Yelander standing alone on the rooftop, while the hospital’s chessboard turned completely black.
• Gilgamesh emerged from a rift beside Lin Qiye and explained that Yelander had tampered with his Treatment Progress.
• Seeing Zu Shou struggle against the demons, Gilgamesh agreed to help Lin Qiye and flew into the battle.
• Gilgamesh used King's Treasury to transport Lucifer and Number 27 into its desert world, then summoned the stars above them.

Gilgamesh and Number 27 nearly destroyed Lucifer, but he escaped through a spatial demon and called on the Great Forest Black Goat for help. The Great Xia Gods arrived to finish him, just as a golden sword strike revealed that Heavenly Venerable’s side had also entered the battle.

• Gilgamesh used divine artifacts and End King's Law while Number 27 attacked Lucifer, leaving him gravely wounded.
• A spatial demon swallowed Lucifer and carried him away from the battlefield, despite Number 27 wanting to pursue.
• Lucifer emerged from the mist and tried to flee toward the Black Goat to heal his injuries.
• The Jade Emperor and the Great Xia Gods arrived, drawn by the divine power from Lucifer’s earlier battle with the Mi Go.
• The Jade Emperor ordered the gods to kill Lucifer as he called upon the Great Forest Black Goat.
• A golden sword ray pierced the sky, and the Jade Emperor recognized that Heavenly Venerable’s side had made its move.

Primordial Celestial Venerable, Lingbao Tianzun, and Taoist Celestial Venerable attacked Black Goat with the Dust Eye Array while Archangel Michael supported them from the moon. Black Goat’s true body began dissolving, and Primordial Celestial Venerable estimated it would lose its body and soul within five hours.

• Primordial Celestial Venerable confronted Black Goat over their old score from Chennan Pass as Red Moon contamination spread across the sea.
• Lingbao Tianzun and Taoist Celestial Venerable joined Primordial Celestial Venerable, and the three formed the Dust Eye Array to contain Black Goat and its red worms.
• The Dust Eye Array blasted Black Goat with a divine pillar, but a mountain-sized goat hoof broke through its light.
• Archangel Michael struck the breach from the moon with his holy sword, burning Black Goat’s protruding flesh to ashes.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable and Archangel Michael combined their power with Lingbao and Taoist, forcing Black Goat back into the array as its body began to dissolve.

An Qingyu woke in the Heavenly Court and learned that Jiang Er’s body and brain had been destroyed, leaving only a fading conscious magnetic field. He and Lin Qiye faced the remains of her Black Coffin without finding a way to restore her.

• After Guang Chengzi reported the fiend slain, An Qingyu passed out after urging Lin Qiye to bring Jiang Er back.
• Two hours later, An Qingyu awoke in the Heavenly Court and rushed out to find Jiang Er.
• Lin Qiye asked the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother of the West how Jiang Er could be saved, but the Queen Mother explained that her destroyed brain could not be restored and her magnetic field would fade.
• Lin Qiye tried to use the Mortal Divine Domain on the Black Coffin fragments, but the Queen Mother said Lucifer’s contaminated blood made it ineffective.
• An Qingyu arrived, saw the fragments and promised Jiang Er that he would fix her.

After Jiang Er's death, An Qingyu tried to stitch her body back together while Lin Qiye struggled with guilt over failing to protect his team. As Jiang Er's spirit begged him to stop making her wait, An Qingyu ran from the courtyard with her.

• An Qingyu carried the broken Black Coffin out of the palace, while the Queen Mother of the West warned that he had become dangerously changed after seeing the truth beyond the Gate of Truth.
• Lin Qiye learned that the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother of the West had sent Guang Chengzi and True Lord Taiyi to watch An Qingyu, then left the palace as Zuo Qing and the others arrived.
• Lin Qiye found An Qingyu stitching Jiang Er's remains together in the rain and asked Cao Yuan whether he had been a terrible captain.
• An Qingyu recalled Jiang Er's words and tried to keep repairing her body, while Jiang Er told him she did not want to spend her last moments watching him do it.
• Jiang Er embraced An Qingyu and asked him not to make her wait anymore, and he grabbed her arm and ran out of the courtyard.

An Qingyu tried to return to Great Xia with Jiang Er to see her off at Erhai Lake, but the Heavenly Court blocked him because they feared his Lovecraftian power. Lin Qiye arrived and insisted on accompanying him, promising to kill An Qingyu himself if anything went wrong.

• An Qingyu told Jiang Er he wanted to take her to Erhai Lake to make up for his regrets before she faded away.
• Guang Chengzi and True Lord Taiyi stopped An Qingyu at the South Heaven Gate, fearing he could endanger Great Xia.
• The Jade Emperor and the gathered gods and Human Apexes refused to let An Qingyu leave, despite his plea to see Jiang Er off.
• Lin Qiye arrived with another Crimson Cloak and demanded that An Qingyu be allowed to go, offering to accompany him and kill him if he became dangerous.

Lin Qiye and his allies forced their way out of the Heavenly Court so An Qingyu could accompany Jiang Er, with Lin Qiye laying out Nightfall’s medals as proof of the squad’s service. Afterward, An Qingyu affirmed that he intended to accept death to protect Great Xia, and Lin Qiye agreed not to stop him.

• Zhou Ping, Monkey King, Gilgamesh, Number 27, King Mask, Spirit Medium, and others joined Lin Qiye in vouching for An Qingyu.
• Lin Qiye led Nightfall toward the South Heaven Gate and scattered the squad’s medals across the path, asking the Heavenly Court to let them pass.
• Zuo Qing stepped aside, and the other Great Xia Gods and Human Apexes let Lin Qiye and his companions leave without interference.
• An Qingyu promised the Heavenly Court he would return and accept death after seeing Jiang Er through her final journey, then departed with Lin Qiye.
• On the Somersault Cloud, An Qingyu explained that his death was necessary to protect Great Xia, and Lin Qiye agreed to respect his choice.
• Lin Qiye asked An Qingyu what he had seen behind the Gate of Truth.

An Qingyu explained to Lin Qiye that the Gate of Truth held limitless knowledge, and that the Key of Doors could threaten Earth by wielding truth’s power over time and space. He and Jiang Er reunited at Erhai Lake, where they shared a peaceful walk beneath a sudden break in the clouds.

• An Qingyu explained that truth underlay the world's workings and that glimpsing it could overwhelm even gods; the Key of Doors could manipulate time and space.
• An Qingyu told Lin Qiye that the Key of Doors returning could bring about Earth's destruction, then arrived with Jiang Er at Erhai Lake.
• An Qingyu and Jiang Er descended from the Somersault Cloud and reached the shore of Erhai Lake.
• Jiang Er shared the lake's beauty with An Qingyu, who felt relaxed despite knowing his fate.
• The clouds parted over Dali, and An Qingyu and Jiang Er walked hand in hand along the sunlit shore.

An Qingyu visited Jiang Er’s parents and claimed to be her fiancé before leaving with her at dusk. After they departed, Jiang Er’s parents received a message from her and discovered that their health and appearance had been restored.

• An Qingyu and Jiang Er arrived at her parents’ home, and Jiang Er hid underground when they came out.
• An Qingyu introduced himself as Jiang Er’s fiancé and asked for her hand, prompting her father to threaten him with a broom before sending him away.
• An Qingyu told Jiang Er he had left something in the house and given her parents a bride price, then walked with her toward Erhai Lake.
• Jiang Er’s father received a video message of her in uniform and told her mother that her unit was moving into the mountains, where she would have no signal.
• Jiang Er’s parents discovered that their ailments had vanished and their appearances had changed, then rushed outside to find An Qingyu and Jiang Er gone.

An Qingyu and Jiang Er held a wedding beside Erhai Lake as her ghostly form faded away. He returned to the Heavenly Court, where the Great Xia Gods prepared to kill him with the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.

• An Qingyu showed Jiang Er how the Gate of Truth let him transform a stone into a white rose, but admitted he still could not save her.
• Jiang Er told An Qingyu her time was almost up, and he turned the rose into a ring and asked her to marry him.
• An Qingyu and Jiang Er exchanged vows and bowed to each other, but Jiang Er vanished, leaving the ring in the shallows.
• An Qingyu accepted the ring's fall as Jiang Er's answer and walked away as night descended.
• At the South Heaven Gate, Guang Chengzi and True Lord Taiyi discussed using the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to erase An Qingyu's soul and prevent the Key of Doors from awakening.
• An Qingyu returned to the Heavenly Court and announced that he had come to meet his death.

An Qingyu entered the Heavenly Court’s Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to end his life, with Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan accompanying him to the final steps. Before the formation could kill him, a fragment of Nyarlathotep appeared and swallowed him, while Lin Qiye suddenly collapsed unconscious.

• Lin Qiye brought An Qingyu back to the Heavenly Court, where True Lord Taiyi and Guang Chengzi led them to the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• An Qingyu began climbing the sword tower, and Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan accompanied him until he asked to continue alone.
• The Jade Emperor activated the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation as An Qingyu stood beneath its four swords.
• A chaotic face burst from beneath the tower, swallowed An Qingyu, and resisted the sword formation’s attacks.
• The Jade Emperor realized the face was only a part of Nyarlathotep and suspected its true body was nearby.
• Lin Qiye spat blood and collapsed unconscious while the Heavenly Court searched for Nyarlathotep’s true body.

Lin Qiye woke in an empty Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, unable to return to his body, and discovered that the Yelander there was actually Chaos, Nyarlathotep. His attempt to kill Chaos with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi failed, leaving him badly injured.

• Lin Qiye found himself trapped in the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods after losing consciousness at the Sword Tower.
• Lin Qiye searched the deserted hospital and found Yelander sitting beside a chessboard beneath the courtyard tree.
• Yelander revealed himself as a faceless figure and mocked Lin Qiye, claiming the real Yelander was still guarding the seal on the moon.
• Lin Qiye recognized the impostor as Chaos, Nyarlathotep, and attacked him with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi.
• Chaos remained unharmed, struck Lin Qiye with Giant Strength, and sent him flying while he spat blood.

Crawling Chaos revealed that Lin Qiye was not the hospital’s master and explained how he had secretly seized control of part of it. Lin Qiye uncovered Crawling Chaos’s role in Idunn’s disappearance, but the chapter ended with the revelation that Bragi’s wish to restore her had summoned Crawling Chaos’s true form and shattered the Holy Grail.

• Crawling Chaos told Lin Qiye that anyone could use the hospital and that Jinian had hidden it in Lin Qiye’s mind.
• Crawling Chaos explained that he had been taking control of the hospital, changing its rules, and preventing Lin Qiye from recruiting new orderlies.
• Lin Qiye realized Crawling Chaos had waited until the earlier patients left because he feared they would join forces against him.
• Crawling Chaos admitted that he had swallowed Idunn’s soul, causing Bragi to leave the hospital with full Treatment Progress.
• Lin Qiye connected Idunn’s disappearance and Bragi’s discharge to Crawling Chaos, then recalled that Bragi’s wish had summoned Crawling Chaos’s true form and shattered the Holy Grail.

Lin Qiye discovered that Yelander was Chaos in disguise and that it planned to seize the hospital and use Lin Qiye’s body to act in the outside world. Chaos defeated Lin Qiye, shattered Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, and devoured his soul before taking over his body.

• Lin Qiye realized that Yelander was Chaos, which had been manipulating the hospital and watching An Qingyu.
• Chaos revealed that it intended to take control of the hospital, and Lin Qiye attacked with his strongest abilities.
• Chaos effortlessly stopped Lin Qiye’s strike and shattered Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, then seized him and drained his strength.
• Chaos explained that it wanted Lin Qiye’s body as a vessel for wielding its power beyond the hospital.
• Chaos blasted Lin Qiye’s soul out of his body, swallowed it, and entered the vacant body.