Recaps

Li Yifei survived and learned from the hospital’s consciousness that Qiye was connected to the Sacred Covenant, then accepted power from the hospital. Ten days later, Lin Qiye defeated a Klein-level Mystery in Changxi City, and Shen Qingzhu told him that Mr. Lu had found Chloe, though her situation was complicated.

• Li Yifei woke in the dungeon with a white Go stone and heard the hospital’s voice whisper to him.
• Li Yifei learned something shocking about Qiye, accepted the hospital’s power, and recalled Merlin’s foresight and the Sacred Covenant.
• Lin Qiye defeated a Klein-level Mystery in Changxi City, and Shen Qingzhu left the Night Watchmen to arrange cleanup.
• Lin Qiye and Shen Qingzhu headed to the military airport, discussing Lin Qiye’s workload and his inability to use the Forbidden Ruins.
• Shen Qingzhu told Lin Qiye that Mr. Lu had found Chloe, but her situation was complicated.

Lin Qiye learned that Chloe was in the hands of the Holy Judgment Knights near London, and Number 27 believed she could only have gone with them willingly. Lin Qiye set out to find her, while Zuo Qing uncovered the term “Holy Covenant” in two restricted files.

• Wu Quan told Lin Qiye and Shen Qingzhu that Mr. Lu had located Chloe, but the Holy Judgment Knights had sealed off the area near London.
• Number 27 appeared in the cabin and said Chloe was so powerful that no one could imprison her by force, suggesting she had gone to the knights willingly.
• Lin Qiye decided to travel with Number 27 to find Chloe and ask her about the mysterious boy and the two restricted Han Dynasty files.
• Lin Qiye, Shen Qingzhu, Wu Quan, and Number 27 flew toward Chenglong Pass to continue their journey by ship.
• Zuo Qing entered the highest-security archive and found the words “Holy Covenant” in two files, including a Han Dynasty scroll.

Lin Qiye and Number 27 discussed Chloe’s powers and her mysterious plan to save the world before Number 27 pointed out that Chaos may have replaced the hospital’s original Sixth Patient. The chapter ended with Lin Qiye seeing a treatment progress display above his head in the mirror.

• Number 27 explained that Chloe could make agreements with things in the world, remain ageless, and gradually inspire those around her to believe in her.
• Number 27 said he had traveled with Chloe for three years after meeting her in the mist, then searched for her when she vanished five years ago.
• Lin Qiye told Number 27 about the hospital and Chaos’s disguise as a patient in the Sixth Ward.
• Number 27 asked where the Sixth Ward’s original patient had gone, making Lin Qiye realize Chaos might have taken their place.
• Lin Qiye looked in the washroom mirror and saw the words “Lin Qiye Treatment Progress: 44%” above his head.

Lin Qiye saw a Treatment Progress bar appear above him and suspected it belonged to the mysterious boy inside his body. After arriving in ruined London, he destroyed the surrounding buildings to draw out the Holy Judgment Knights, whose armored motorcycle convoy came to meet them.

• Lin Qiye saw a Treatment Progress bar above his head and wondered whether it belonged to the mysterious boy within him.
• Lin Qiye, Shen Qingzhu, Wu Quan, and Number 27 reached London aboard the Explorer Ship and went ashore among the ruins.
• Lin Qiye struck the ground with his fist, sending a shockwave across the city to attract the Holy Judgment Knights.
• A convoy of armored riders on heavy motorcycles approached, and Number 27 reacted to their armor.

Lin Qiye and his companions met the Holy Judgment Knights in London and persuaded their commander, Charles, to take them to Chloe. They reached the cathedral sheltering the knights, where Lin Qiye began asking Charles about its origins.

• Lin Qiye introduced himself to Charles and said he had come to find Chloe, prompting the Holy Judgment Knights to prepare for a fight.
• Shen Qingzhu released his Lord God-level pressure, but restrained it when Lin Qiye signaled him to ease the knights' suspicions.
• Charles agreed to take Lin Qiye and his companions to Chloe, and the group followed the knights through London to a cathedral protected from the Mist.
• Charles calmed the cathedral's hidden sentries and led Lin Qiye and his companions inside.
• Lin Qiye examined the cathedral's paintings and asked Charles whether he had built it.

Lin Qiye and his companions found Chloe asleep in a London church, where she had been protected by the Holy Judgment Knights for five years. Chloe suddenly unleashed a burst of power that knocked Lin Qiye unconscious, while Chaos ordered An Qingyu to eliminate an agent carrying Yeland’s power.

• Charles told Lin Qiye that Chloe had led the Holy Judgment Knights to their church refuge six or seven years earlier and that she had once helped them escape the Human Circle.
• Charles revealed that Chloe had been asleep for five years after saying she needed to fulfill an agreement, and he refused to let Lin Qiye approach her.
• As Lin Qiye and the others prepared to leave, Chloe released a surge of white light and a blurred figure struck Lin Qiye, knocking him unconscious.
• Chaos sensed a weak trace of Yeland’s power and ordered An Qingyu to kill the agent carrying it.
• An Qingyu agreed to leave the Mist but warned Chaos that this would be the last time.

Tyler confronted Shen Qingzhu, Number 27, and Wu Quan over the disturbance that had affected the Saintess, then tried to force them out of the church. Wu Quan attacked Tyler with his abilities, and Tyler retreated after losing his right arm, but he prepared to retaliate.

• Tyler accused Charles of bringing outsiders into the church and headed to confront them despite Charles's warning.
• Number 27 told Shen Qingzhu that Qiye was asleep and had not been injured, while Wu Quan suggested the Saintess had been sleepwalking.
• Tyler ordered Shen Qingzhu, Number 27, and Wu Quan to leave the church, but Shen Qingzhu refused because Qiye had not woken up.
• Tyler attacked Shen Qingzhu, and Wu Quan restrained him, broke his right arm, and wounded his back with a summoned Mystique.
• Wu Quan sent metal spears toward Tyler, who escaped the Echo Corridor and slammed his remaining hand against the ground to retaliate.

Tyler rang the bronze bell and trapped Shen Qingzhu, Wu Quan, and Number 27 inside a distorted Echo Corridor, where a giant knight’s sword attacked them. As Tyler slashed at their figures in the mural, Lin Qiye woke and demanded an explanation.

• Tyler rang the bronze bell, leaving Shen Qingzhu and the others disoriented as the corridor’s murals vanished and the space around them shifted.
• Number 27 warned that the cathedral’s hidden arrangements had trapped them, while Shen Qingzhu and Wu Quan heard a cutting sound.
• A colossal Western Knight Sword pierced the cathedral, and Shen Qingzhu carried Wu Quan to safety as Number 27 identified the attacker’s sword.
• Inside the Echo Corridor, Tyler attacked the figures moving through the mural, and Charles challenged him for trapping them despite their lack of hostile intent.
• Tyler insisted the Saintess regarded the intruders as enemies and continued slashing at the mural.
• Lin Qiye woke, saw the damage Tyler had caused, and demanded an explanation.

Lin Qiye attacked the Holy Judgment Knights after Tyler and the other knights moved against him, overwhelming most of them with his physical strength. As four Knight Commanders arrived, a shriek from outside the church made Lin Qiye recognize Mi Go.

• Tyler prepared to fight Lin Qiye as knights rushed toward the Echo Corridor, and Lin Qiye kicked Tyler through two walls into the nave.
• Lin Qiye assessed the surrounding Holy Judgment Knights and challenged them to attack him together.
• The knights charged Lin Qiye, but he shattered their armor and sent more than half of them crashing into the church walls or out through its windows.
• Tyler warned the knights that Lin Qiye would kill them all unless they acted, and four Knight Commanders rushed onto the scene.
• A piercing shriek sounded from outside the church, and Lin Qiye turned toward it and recognized Mi Go.

Lin Qiye chased the Mi Go after hearing their cries, while Tyler led the Holy Judgment Knights to defend the church and Saintess. An Qingyu watched the knights approach London, and the Mi Go ambushed and killed two knights before hundreds more closed in.

• Lin Qiye recognized the Mi Go and rushed out of the church toward them, while Tyler ordered the knights to protect Saintess and rode after the creatures.
• An Qingyu sent Mi Go across London, noticed the gray rain, and spotted the approaching Holy Judgment Knights.
• Knight Baron attacked a Mi Go, but another Mi Go emerged from distorted space and killed him.
• A second knight decapitated the attacker, but the headless Mi Go killed him before the knights destroyed its body.
• The knights saw hundreds of Mi Go approaching in a pink tide.

Charles struggled to open the Echo Corridor while the Holy Judgment Knights fought an overwhelming swarm of Mi Go outside the cathedral. Shen Qingzhu, Number 27, and Wu Quan broke free of the corridor and returned to reality, just as the knights faced defeat.

• Three Knight Commanders defended the cathedral as the Mi Go overwhelmed the knights’ charging formations and rushed toward the Saintess.
• Charles searched the Echo Corridor mural for a way to release Shen Qingzhu and the others, but could not find the switch.
• Number 27 pierced the boundary between the mural’s world and reality, freeing Shen Qingzhu and Wu Quan; Shen Qingzhu asked about the Mi Go and recalled An Qingyu.
• Tyler rallied the surviving knights as the Mi Go descended on them, and Shen Qingzhu appeared in the distance and snapped his fingers.

Shen Qingzhu returned from Hell as a Six-Winged Silent Angel and slaughtered most of the Mi Go in London. He confronted An Qingyu, who admitted he and Shen Qingzhu stood on opposing sides, and their standoff ended with both preparing to fight.

• Shen Qingzhu’s gray divine domain silenced London and revealed him as a Six-Winged Angel, while Tyler recognized his face in disbelief.
• An Qingyu spotted Shen Qingzhu and fled toward the church as Lin Qiye sensed the Gate of Truth’s aura and hurried in the same direction.
• Shen Qingzhu killed most of the Mi Go with a snap, then pressured Tyler and left after promising to settle their score later.
• Shen Qingzhu caught up with An Qingyu, who warned him not to obstruct his path and said he would show no mercy.
• Shen Qingzhu challenged An Qingyu and spread his silent domain across the battlefield as they prepared to fight.

An Qingyu escaped Shen Qingzhu and his allies by using a prepared substitute, then reached the church to attack Chloe. He killed one Knight Commander and melted the other two inside their armor.

• Shen Qingzhu trapped An Qingyu in a cocoon of arms and attacked him with fire, but An Qingyu used the Gate of Truth to break free and extinguish the flames.
• Wu Quan, Number 27, and another ally attacked An Qingyu, but Number 27's blade passed through his heart without drawing blood as An Qingyu transformed into rats and escaped.
• An Qingyu reappeared outside the church and entered, where the three Knight Commanders challenged him.
• An Qingyu dodged a Knight Commander's lightning strike, then twisted the knight's armor and body until he died.
• An Qingyu used analysis and reconstruction to melt the other two Knight Commanders into their armor, leaving them motionless.

An Qingyu battled the wind and fire protecting the sleeping Chloe, then prepared to use the Gate of Truth to reach her. Lin Qiye confronted him and demanded to know why he had betrayed them, but An Qingyu insisted that witnessing the truth beyond the Gate had changed his view of what could be solved.

• An Qingyu entered the church and found Chloe asleep on a stone platform, but a hurricane and purple fire attacked him whenever he approached.
• An Qingyu transformed the fire dragons' flames into golden maple leaves and summoned the Gate of Truth to devour Chloe from a distance.
• Lin Qiye arrived and stopped An Qingyu just as he was about to activate the Gate of Truth.
• Lin Qiye asked why An Qingyu had betrayed them, and An Qingyu replied that humanity had no chance of winning.
• Lin Qiye rejected An Qingyu's explanation, and An Qingyu said he had witnessed truths beyond the Gate that could not be solved by something as simple as death.

An Qingyu told Lin Qiye that the Key of Doors could act across time and that humanity’s defeat was already foreseen, then tried to take the person the Night Watchmen were protecting. Lin Qiye fought him and struck him down, but An Qingyu regenerated and acknowledged Lin Qiye’s ability to create miracles.

• An Qingyu explained that the Key of Doors was spacetime itself and could influence the present from any point in history.
• Lin Qiye rejected An Qingyu’s call to give up and refused to let him take the person the Night Watchmen were protecting.
• An Qingyu attacked Lin Qiye with highly concentrated poisonous mist and tried to deconstruct his body, but neither stopped him.
• Lin Qiye’s punch sent An Qingyu through ruined buildings and reduced him to a mangled mass.
• An Qingyu regenerated and said that Lin Qiye could still create miracles even without the Mortal Divine Domain.

Lin Qiye fought An Qingyu as the latter summoned the Gate of Truth, while Charles and Tyler intervened to stop him. After Tyler died interrupting the ritual, Number 27 discovered An Qingyu had no internal organs, and Lin Qiye took up Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi to strike at him as he fled toward the church.

• Lin Qiye’s attacks shattered An Qingyu’s black crystal shield, and An Qingyu used the Gate of Truth while trapping Lin Qiye with black spikes.
• Charles and Tyler attacked An Qingyu, but An Qingyu killed Tyler with his gray eye, interrupting the Gate of Truth ritual.
• Charles saw a holy covenant mark glowing on Lin Qiye’s chest and recognized its significance as Chloe slept on the stone platform.
• Number 27 cut An Qingyu in half and discovered that his body had no internal organs, but An Qingyu regenerated and charged toward the church.
• Number 27 threw Lin Qiye Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, and he launched into the air to slash at An Qingyu.

Lin Qiye and his allies failed to stop An Qingyu from escaping with Chloe, while the surviving Holy Judgment Knights prepared to die for failing to protect her. Charles stopped them and revealed that Chloe had awakened willingly and that Lin Qiye bore the Holy Covenant mark.

• Lin Qiye wounded An Qingyu, but An Qingyu turned the ground beneath Chloe into quicksand and escaped with her through a Spatial Vortex.
• Number 27 left to pursue An Qingyu, while Lin Qiye decided they could not catch him and recognized that he had left the scar on An Qingyu’s forehead.
• The surviving Holy Judgment Knights tried to kill themselves to atone for failing to protect Chloe, but Shen Qingzhu disarmed them.
• Charles told the knights that Chloe had allowed An Qingyu to take her and pointed to Lin Qiye as proof that she had awakened.
• The knights recognized the glowing golden mark on Lin Qiye’s chest as the Holy Covenant, and Lin Qiye asked what it was.

Lin Qiye accepted the surviving Holy Judgment Knights as Great Xia’s Seventh Reserve Team, with a chance to become Special Squad No. 04 after a year. Elsewhere, An Qingyu brought the sleeping Chloe to the sea, where she awoke and struck him with overwhelming force.

• Charles explained that Chloe had placed three sacred covenants on Lin Qiye and led the Holy Judgment Knights in swearing loyalty to him.
• Lin Qiye appointed Charles and the eight other knights to Great Xia’s Seventh Reserve Team for a one-year probationary period, after which they could become Special Squad No. 04.
• An Qingyu carried Chloe and her stone platform across the sea, then transformed the platform into a floating slab of ice.
• Chloe opened her eyes, spoke into An Qingyu’s mind, and struck his chest, sending him flying as a white afterimage entered his wound.

An Qingyu confronted Chloe, but she escaped before he could kill her. As Lin Qiye sailed toward Great Xia with Wu Quan and the seasick knights, a sudden bell from Great Xia activated his Sacred Covenant mark and transported him and Wu Quan away.

• An Qingyu summoned the Gate of Truth to attack Chloe, but she vanished in a burst of flames and left him wondering about the gift she had given him.
• Lin Qiye and Wu Quan sailed across the sea with Charles and the nine knights, who struggled with seasickness as they asked about Great Xia.
• Lin Qiye assured Wu Quan that his actions had earned merit and that he could eventually redeem himself.
• Bells rang from the direction of Great Xia, and the first of Lin Qiye's Sacred Covenant marks blazed with energy.
• A beam of light enveloped Lin Qiye and Wu Quan, and they vanished from the ship.

The First Sacred Covenant was activated when the Eastern Emperor Bell rang, drawing the attention of Chloe, the Night Watchmen, An Qingyu, and the Heavenly Court. The Golden Immortals traced the bell to the Qilian Mountains, where a mysterious figure emerged beside it.

• Chloe sensed the covenant mark consume her strength and declared that the First Sacred Covenant had been fulfilled, leaving the reversal of causality to Lin Qiye.
• On National Destiny Island, Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan recognized the bell as proof that the ancient covenant had been activated.
• An Qingyu felt something tear through his chest, pulled out a bloodstained white chess piece, crushed it, and continued toward the strait.
• Jiang Ziya and the Golden Immortals traced the bell to a snow-covered peak in the Qilian Mountains and found the lost Eastern Emperor Bell.
• The Golden Immortals gathered before the bell as a figure emerged from behind it.

After a Sacred Covenant transported Lin Qiye and Wu Quan from the Explorer Ship, Lin Qiye found himself in a barren land and discovered they had arrived in an ancient era. He carried the badly injured Wu Quan toward a city, where he learned the year was Yuan Shou Six, just as the Marquis of Champion entered.

• Lin Qiye woke in a barren wilderness and saw that one of the three marks on his chest had nearly vanished.
• Lin Qiye found Wu Quan buried among shattered rocks, badly wounded, and carried him across the wasteland in search of help.
• Lin Qiye reached earthen huts and learned that Xue County lay nearby.
• Lin Qiye saw an ancient city and suspected the Sacred Covenant had transported him and Wu Quan through time.
• Lin Qiye learned the year was Yuan Shou Six, then heard that the Marquis of Champion was entering the city.

Lin Qiye saw Huo Qubing arrive at Xue County but chose to get the badly wounded Wu Quan treated instead of approaching him. The chapter left Lin Qiye threatening the clinic staff after learning they could save Wu Quan but required payment.

• Lin Qiye recognized Huo Qubing as the Marquis of Champion and realized he had arrived in the Western Han.
• Huo Qubing entered Xue County with Yu Wu, a Confucian-robed scholar, and a woman in a cangue, while requesting supplies and food from Magistrate Zhao Liang.
• Lin Qiye decided not to approach Huo Qubing and carried Wu Quan over the city wall into the city.
• Huo Qubing sensed something in Lin Qiye's direction, then went with his companions to the inn arranged by the magistrate.
• Lin Qiye brought Wu Quan to a clinic, learned the physician could save him for silver, and threatened the staff when he could not pay.

Lin Qiye stayed at a clinic to care for the badly injured Wu Quan and learned that Evil Spirits prowled the northwestern borderlands after dark beneath strange crimson stars. Elsewhere, Huo Qubing learned that black dogs had vanished from the city and noticed the Evil Spirits were growing in number.

• Lin Qiye learned that Wu Quan would need at least half a year to recover, then chose to stay with him at the clinic overnight.
• The physician warned Lin Qiye to lock the doors and windows, avoid lighting a candle, and never open the door at night because Evil Spirits roamed outside.
• Lin Qiye saw crimson stars in the darkening sky and noticed that only one tavern remained brightly lit.
• The county magistrate told Huo Qubing that the city had no Black Dog Tooth because residents had stewed their dogs to avoid attracting Evil Spirits.
• Huo Qubing dismissed the county magistrate, ignored the prisoner’s demand to be released, and observed that the Evil Spirits’ numbers were growing.

Lin Qiye saw Mysteries converging on the brightly lit tavern, where Huo Qubing and his companions prepared to fight them. As the deputy general and Yan Zhong competed to prove themselves, Lin Qiye headed toward the tavern, hoping Huo Qubing’s group might help heal Wu Quan.

• Huo Qubing declared that he would petition the Emperor to establish an office for Extraordinary Individuals to suppress evil spirits.
• Lin Qiye saw dozens of Mysteries rushing through the city toward the tavern and recognized Huo Qubing’s deputy general on its roof.
• Hoping to find a healer for Wu Quan, Lin Qiye put on a black robe and bamboo hat and quietly left the clinic for the tavern.
• The deputy general counted forty Mysteries as Yan Zhong joined him on the roof, and the two competed over who would kill more.
• The deputy general named his Forbidden Ruin Black Moon Slash, which cut down three Mysteries, and Yan Zhong mocked the name before proposing Life-Annihilating Flash Moon.

As Huo Qubing’s men fought Mysteries around the tavern, he challenged the female prisoner to escape the city after removing her shackles. She ran toward the gate and encountered Lin Qiye, who was carrying monster heads as gifts for Huo Qubing.

• A black-robed figure killed a bat and a wolf on his way to the tavern, deciding to bring their heads as gifts for the Marquis.
• Huo Qubing told the female prisoner he was the highest pillar among living beings and offered to let her try to escape.
• The female prisoner accepted Huo Qubing’s wager: if she failed to escape, she would obey him and eat his Heart-Returning Gu.
• Huo Qubing broke the prisoner’s shackles, restoring her strength, and she immediately fled through a window toward the city gate.
• Lin Qiye encountered the fleeing prisoner and decided to make his collection of monster heads a more substantial gift for Huo Qubing.