Recaps

Lin Qiye confronted Chaos in the asylum and revealed that its consciousness had been hiding among the orderlies. With Li Yifei's help, the asylum consciousness returned and turned the tables, leaving Lin Qiye as director and Chaos as his sixth patient.

• Chaos attacked Lin Qiye, but Primordial Celestial Venerable blocked its strike before Lin Qiye stepped forward to face it.
• Lin Qiye explained that Chaos had not destroyed the asylum's consciousness and suggested it had hidden among the orderlies.
• The Director's Office opened, and Li Yifei emerged with a chess piece containing the asylum consciousness and threw it to Lin Qiye.
• The asylum's consciousness and rules returned, restoring the grounds and stripping Chaos of its director's authority.
• Chaos became a patient named Nyarlathotep, while Lin Qiye donned a white lab coat and introduced himself as Doctor Lin.

Lin Qiye reclaimed the Psychiatric Hospital’s authority and joined the two Celestial Venerables in confronting Chaos. After sealing Chaos’s polluted universes in the Hospital’s rooms, Lin Qiye attacked him to reclaim his stolen body.

• Lin Qiye revealed that the Hospital had secretly transferred its authority to him, and the Taoist Celestial Venerable joined him and the Primordial Celestial Venerable against Chaos.
• The Taoist Celestial Venerable’s wooden sword and the Primordial Celestial Venerable’s attack wounded Chaos, who then summoned four Black Coffins containing polluted universes.
• Lin Qiye resisted the coffins’ pollution and sealed each one in a room of the Hospital, identifying them as deranged patients.
• Lin Qiye explained that an anchor in his soul protected him from pollution and spoke of karma’s role in their past encounters.
• The two Celestial Venerables immobilized Chaos, and Lin Qiye struck his forehead with a hand wrapped in Karma Threads, demanding his body back.

Lin Qiye reclaimed his original body from Chaos and began taking revenge while Chaos remained trapped in the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods. As Lin Qiye stabbed Chaos with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, his puppet-like body joined the attack from behind.

• Lin Qiye used Karma Threads with help from two Celestial Venerables to expel Chaos from his original body and seize control of the body as an avatar.
• Lin Qiye approached the soul-form Chaos with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, which could injure him and prevent his recovery under the hospital’s rules.
• Chaos transformed into the pharaoh and unleashed destructive beams that annihilated the hospital grounds, but Lin Qiye pierced his soul with the Broken Sword.
• Lin Qiye stabbed Chaos repeatedly, taunting him for stealing and manipulating others, until Chaos trapped him with pale arms and tentacles.
• Lin Qiye’s controlled body appeared behind Chaos and stabbed him with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, telling him, “You did very well... child.”

Lin Qiye sealed Chaos back inside the Sixth Ward after it transformed into a devastating black hole, and his final Life-Saving Hair restored his shattered body. He returned to the Moon with the two wounded Celestial Venerables and turned his attention to the Great Xia Gods’ battle in space.

• Chaos transformed into a red-glimmering black hole that shattered Lin Qiye’s original body and grievously wounded the Primordial Celestial Venerable and Taoist Celestial Venerable.
• Lin Qiye used the hospital’s power to seal Chaos inside the Sixth Ward, restoring the hospital and its surroundings.
• The Primordial Celestial Venerable and Taoist Celestial Venerable told Lin Qiye their injuries would take centuries to heal and worried that his body had been destroyed.
• Lin Qiye’s third Life-Saving Hair revived his shattered body, and he brought the two Celestial Venerables back to the Moon.
• Lin Qiye saw the Great Xia Gods losing their battle in space and said the real show was about to begin.

Lin Qiye called for help against the Lovecraftian Gods, and Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan answered by leaving National Destiny Island to fight. The chapter ended with Huo Qubing crushing the chess piece and preparing to take the step they had hidden from for two thousand years.

• Lin Qiye told the two injured Celestial Venerables that he would face the five Lovecraftian Gods and revealed that he was not alone.
• Huo Qubing sensed Lin Qiye's call through the white chess piece as his power surged across National Destiny Island.
• The Night Watchmen Commanders realized Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan were abandoning their Heroic Spirit bodies and the nourishment of the national destiny.
• Huo Qubing entrusted the national destiny beneath the island to Nie Jinshan, while Gongyang Wan ordered him to stay and guard the Great Xia Dragon Vein.
• Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan departed, and Huo Qubing crushed the chess piece as he prepared to take the step they had postponed for two thousand years.

At Abstinence Hall, Dr. Li asked Old Dog Wu to give up Spirit Medium and replicate another Forbidden Ruin, revealing that he had found someone else who possessed it. As five Lovecraftian Gods raced toward Great Xia, Lin Qiye went to intercept them, and Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan emerged with human-made laws to fight alongside him.

• Dr. Li gave Old Dog Wu a white chess piece and asked him to set aside Spirit Medium to replicate another Forbidden Ruin.
• Dr. Li revealed that a shackled person being escorted from Abstinence Hall also possessed Spirit Medium.
• Five Lovecraftian Gods broke through the Great Xia Gods' defenses and headed toward Earth, while Lin Qiye raced to intercept them.
• Chaos taunted Lin Qiye, but he insisted that humanity had more defenders than himself.
• Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan used the Soul Concealment Technique to temporarily restore their bodies and unleash their human-made laws.

Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan ascended to godhood and raised a celestial wall against five Lovecraftian Gods as the ancient Royal Ruin holders assembled. With Lin Qiye’s arrival, the seven Kings stood ready as humanity’s hidden defense, and he challenged the Omniscient and Omnipresent to have foreseen their move.

• Huo Qubing became the Myriad Manifestations Soldier Immortal, and Gongyang Wan became the Thousand-Faced Immortal.
• Huo Qubing raised a wall of tricolored lightning to block the five approaching Lovecraftian Gods.
• Dr. Li revealed that he was Hu Jia, holder of the Sixth Royal Ruin, and introduced Old Dog Wu as Wu Tongxuan, holder of the Seventh.
• Jialan arrived as an Immortal Immortal, followed by the Destined Buddha, who was an individual born from the Fruit of Predestination rather than Lin Qiye.
• Lin Qiye arrived before the celestial wall and greeted Jialan as the seven Kings gathered to defend humanity.
• Lin Qiye looked toward the doorway watching from higher spacetime and asked whether the Omniscient and Omnipresent had foreseen their move.

As the Lovecraftian Gods attacked, Lin Qiye’s allies moved to hold them back, and Dr. Li became a god by taking the Mind Law. With his mortal body dissolving, Dr. Li began transferring his Mental World into Old Dog Wu’s body so they could fight together as a Mind God in Dual State Superposition.

• Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan engaged two Lovecraftian Gods, and Destiny Monk joined Gongyang Wan.
• Jialan asked Lin Qiye whether his promise from two thousand years earlier still stood, then entered a miniature crimson Star Core with Immortality copied by Old Dog Wu.
• Dr. Li chose the Mind Law and broke through into the divine realm, but his mortal body began dissolving into the Dao.
• Dr. Li asked Old Dog Wu to accept his Mental World moving into his body, and Old Dog Wu agreed.
• Dr. Li touched Old Dog Wu between the brows as his body blurred and the transfer began.

Old Dog Wu became an immortal Mind God and trapped a fourth Lovecraftian God, while Lin Qiye awakened his former body as a new Seraph. Controlling both bodies, Lin Qiye attacked the final Lovecraftian God with the Mortal Divine Domain and Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, gaining a decisive advantage.

• Hu Jia transferred his Mental World into Old Dog Wu and took control of his immortal body.
• Old Dog Wu used the Ancient Xun to pull a Lovecraftian God’s consciousness into another Mental World, leaving four of the five restrained.
• Lin Qiye summoned his former body and sent Michael’s Laws into its Mortal Divine Domain, transforming it into a Seraph.
• Seraph Lin Qiye charged the final Lovecraftian God while Lin Qiye supported him with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi and Karma Threads.
• Lin Qiye and his Seraph incarnation used the Mortal Divine Domain and their other powers to overwhelm the final Lovecraftian God.

Huo Qubing used Emperor Crimson Blood and the Law of Domination to trap and destroy a Lovecraftian God with a lightning spear accelerated around Earth. After the first Lovecraftian God fell, Huo Qubing headed to aid the Great Xia Gods while Lin Qiye prepared to end his own fight.

• Huo Qubing activated Emperor Crimson Blood and faced the liquid-cube Lovecraftian God in deep space.
• Huo Qubing escaped from the creature's maw and struck it with more than a thousand Lightning Spears.
• Huo Qubing compressed the Lovecraftian God and held it in the path of a spear accelerating around Earth's orbit.
• Huo Qubing redirected the spear, which struck the creature at two-thirds the speed of light and destroyed it.
• Spirit embryo Lin Qiye sensed the destruction and recognized Huo Qubing had slain the first Lovecraftian God in the God War.
• Huo Qubing charged toward the Great Xia Gods' battlefield, while Lin Qiye decided to speed up his own fight.

Lin Qiye and Seraph Lin Qiye defeated a Lovecraftian God and rescued Jialan from a Star Core. After destroying the Star Core, Lin Qiye and Jialan reunited with a kiss, ending their wait of over two thousand years.

• Seraph Lin Qiye cleaved the Lovecraftian God made of heads in two while Primordial Spirit Embryo Lin Qiye bound it with Karma Threads.
• Primordial Spirit Embryo Lin Qiye found Jialan trapped inside a Star Core and pulled her out, burning his arm in the process.
• Jialan told Lin Qiye she had been unable to escape the Star Core, and he reassured her as his arm healed.
• Seraph Lin Qiye swept the weakened Star Core into the Mortal Divine Domain and destroyed it.
• Lin Qiye kissed Jialan, and she kissed him back as they reunited after more than two thousand years apart.

Lin Qiye proposed to Jialan, and she accepted his marriage proposal before they returned to the battle. As they joined the others in cornering Mh'goh'n, the Key of Doors appeared to be approaching through a Spacetime Vortex.

• Lin Qiye asked Jialan to marry him, and she happily accepted.
• Lin Qiye made Jialan a crimson ring from a Star Core and their Karma Thread, then the two headed to help the Great Xia Gods.
• Monkey King and Yang Jian fought Mh'goh'n until Lin Qiye and Jialan arrived with a Six-winged Seraphim avatar and helped surround the Invisible Giant Wolf.
• Yang Jian noticed Jialan's ring, and Lin Qiye told him the wedding would take place after the battle.
• Mh'goh'n sensed a vast aura and looked up in fear as a Spacetime Vortex formed; Lin Qiye recognized the approaching presence as the Key of Doors.

The Key of Doors unleashed a devastating black lightning strike that damaged the Heavenly Court Origin and weakened the Great Xia Gods, shifting the battle toward the Lovecraftian Deities. As Gongyang Wan and Old Dog Wu joined the fight, more Lovecraftian Deities roared beneath the wreckage, threatening to break free.

• An Qingyu sensed a call from the doorway in the mist but hesitated before continuing onward.
• The Key of Doors sent black lightning from the Spacetime Vortex toward the Heavenly Court on the moon.
• The strike shattered nearly a third of the Heavenly Court Origin, widened the lunar breach, and weakened the Great Xia Gods.
• The Invisible Giant Wolf attacked, and Lin Qiye protected Sun Wukong while the Golden Immortals' encirclement collapsed.
• Gongyang Wan and Old Dog Wu joined the battle, then soul-piercing roars rose from beneath the Heavenly Court wreckage.

Primordial Celestial Venerable, Taoist Celestial Venerable, and Lingbao Tianzun struggled to contain the Lovecraftian Gods after the Key of Doors damaged the Heavenly Court. Destiny Monk revealed that Jialan was his backup plan, while Si Xiaonan triggered a power struggle in Olympus and vanished.

• Primordial Celestial Venerable and Taoist Celestial Venerable descended to the ruins, where Lingbao Tianzun said the Heavenly Court Origin could be repaired but the Lovecraftian Gods below could no longer be contained.
• Destiny Monk told Lin Qiye and Jialan that the Key of Doors had intervened and could only make this move once, then identified Jialan as his backup plan.
• Si Xiaonan learned from Zeus that Olympus would not intervene in the God War, then received a message through a white chess piece.
• Si Xiaonan fired a feathered arrow that signaled the Lord Gods of Olympus to attack Zeus's palace and compete for the God King's token.
• The Olympus gods realized Bia's signal had tricked them and began fighting Zeus, while Si Xiaonan returned to her original appearance and vanished into the void.

Destiny Monk explained that the Immortal Pill inside Jialan was one half of Lingbao Tianzun’s failed attempt to create an indestructible Eternal Heavenly Court. He said rebuilding the Heavenly Court required refining Jialan into a pill, leaving Lin Qiye to confront the cost of the choice he had made two thousand years ago.

• Destiny Monk revealed that the Eternal Pill and Immortal Pill were fragments of a pill meant to merge with the Heavenly Court Origin and make the Heavenly Court eternal.
• Destiny Monk explained that the Key of Doors had shattered the pill, preventing the Eternal Heavenly Court from being created.
• Destiny Monk said the damaged Heavenly Court Origin had to be restored before the beings beneath the moon escaped, and declared that Jialan’s Immortal Pill was needed.
• Jialan realized that removing the Immortal Pill might require her to be refined into a pill, and Destiny Monk confirmed it.
• Lin Qiye seized Destiny Monk and protested, but Destiny Monk argued that Jialan had become a chess piece when Lin Qiye fed her the Immortal Pill two thousand years earlier.
• Destiny Monk warned that defeating the Cthulhu Mythos required sacrifices, while Lin Qiye stood shaken by the consequences of his past choice.

Destiny Monk revealed that Michael, Zuo Qing, and others had been sacrificed to advance the game, and he trapped Lin Qiye to stop him from interfering with Jialan’s sacrifice. Jialan left for the Heavenly Court, and Si Xiaonan followed her, while Lin Qiye remained imprisoned.

• Destiny Monk told Lin Qiye that Michael and Zuo Qing had been sacrificed as part of his plan to defeat the Three Pillars.
• Jialan told Lin Qiye that the others had given their lives for the game and that she would not let it be ruined because of her.
• Destiny Monk trapped Lin Qiye in a black cage and severed his connection to the Seraph clone.
• Jialan used her immortality to hold the cage in place and asked Lin Qiye to stay as she left for the Heavenly Court.
• Si Xiaonan recognized the move as hers, then followed Jialan toward the Heavenly Court.

As the Celestial Venerables moved the moon away from Earth to prepare for Lingbao Tianzun to detonate the Heavenly Court Origin, Jialan and Si Xiaonan arrived at Tushita Palace to reforge the Eternal Pill. Si Xiaonan began telling Jialan about a case Lin Qiye had worked on, leaving her story unfinished.

• Lingbao Tianzun told Primordial Celestial Venerable and Taoist Celestial Venerable to move the moon away from Earth so he could detonate the Heavenly Court Origin and destroy the attacking Lovecraftian Gods.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable and Taoist Celestial Venerable cast a formation that pulled the moon away, while Jiang Ziya realized the Heavenly Court was near its end.
• Jialan reached Tushita Palace, where Si Xiaonan joined her and explained that the furnace could combine their pills into the Eternal Pill using their souls as a catalyst.
• Si Xiaonan told Jialan how Lin Qiye discovered that an elderly woman searching for her missing husband had forgotten he had died, and Jialan asked what happened next.

Si Xiaonan sacrificed herself to save Jialan’s soul and sent the fused pills toward the Heavenly Court. The Eternal Pill restored the Heavenly Court Origin, turning the collapsing realm into an eternal fortress.

• Si Xiaonan told Jialan how Lin Qiye’s understanding of love came from helping an old woman remember her husband.
• Si Xiaonan set the Alchemy Furnace’s Samadhi True Fire loose, then pulled the Eternal Pill from her body and used a trickery to preserve Jialan’s soul.
• Si Xiaonan wished Jialan a happy wedding before they were swallowed by the flames and Tushita Palace collapsed.
• The fused pills became a streak of light and struck the damaged Heavenly Court Origin as Lingbao Tianzun and the other Celestial Venerables faced the Lovecraftian Deities.
• The Eternal Pill repaired the Heavenly Court and suppressed the Lovecraftian Gods, transforming it into the Eternal Heavenly Court.

Lin Qiye learned that Jialan was truly gone and chose to continue the Chess Game despite his grief. As the Eternal Heavenly Court restored divine power on the battlefield, An Qingyu appeared and opened the Gate of Truth, allowing the remaining Lovecraftian Gods to escape.

• The cage lost its indestructibility, and Lin Qiye realized Jialan would not return; Destiny Monk told him her body and soul had been consumed to restore the Eternal Pill.
• Lin Qiye seized Destiny Monk in fury, but released him after the monk argued that Jialan’s sacrifice had secured humanity’s hope and the Chess Game could not be abandoned.
• The Eternal Heavenly Court stabilized the lunar seal, restoring and strengthening the Great Xia Gods’ divine power.
• An Qingyu emerged from a Space-Time Rift and announced that he had come to end the farce.
• An Qingyu formed the Gate of Truth, and the nine remaining Lovecraftian Deities escaped through it before the Great Xia Gods could stop them.

An Qingyu took nine Lovecraftian Gods through the Gate of Truth, while the Eternal Pill began elevating the Heavenly Court and its gods. Lin Qiye persuaded the Great Xia Gods to enter slumber, entrusting humanity’s future to people who could defend Earth without them.

• An Qingyu crushed Chloe’s chess piece, took nine Lovecraftian Gods, and left through the Gate of Truth; the Great Xia Gods began growing drowsy as their godhood changed.
• Destiny Monk told Lin Qiye to go to the Heavenly Court and see the gods off as the Eternal Pill’s benefits outweighed suppressing the lunar seal.
• Lingbao Tianzun explained that the Eternal Pill was elevating the Heavenly Court and might let its strongest gods break through, but the pantheon would need to slumber for years.
• The three Lin Qiyes arrived and opposed interrupting the ascension, arguing that humanity could defend itself while the gods slept.
• Lin Qiye asked the Celestial Venerables to let the Great Xia Gods enter slumber, and Lingbao Tianzun and Primordial Celestial Venerable agreed to entrust humanity’s future to him.

After the Great Xia Gods returned to Heavenly Court, Lin Qiye said humanity would have to walk its own path while the moon remained exiled to keep the Lovecraftian Gods away from its seal. As Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan faded after fulfilling their ancient agreement, Huo Qubing mentioned Lin Qiye’s marriage pact with Jialan, prompting Lin Qiye to seize a Karma Thread from each of them and ask them to wait.

• Lin Qiye told Lingbao Tianzun that Jialan was beneath the earth, and the Celestial Venerables decided to keep the moon far from the Lovecraftian Gods.
• The Great Xia Gods returned to Heavenly Court, while Lin Qiye said humanity would have to walk its own path; Destiny Monk wondered how humanity would fare in the coming Chess Game.
• Monkey King fell into a petrified slumber as his divine power surged, and Primordial Celestial Venerable told Yang Jian to leave him and return alone.
• Lin Qiye met Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan in space as their bodies began to fade after fulfilling their agreement from two thousand years earlier.
• After Huo Qubing lamented that he would not witness Lin Qiye’s marriage pact with Jialan, Lin Qiye plucked a Karma Thread from each of them and asked them to wait.

Lin Qiye tried to use the Uncaused Cause to create a past where he could marry Jialan, but discovered that her karma had vanished and broke down in grief. He disappeared from the others and later walked through Shangjing City, following a wedding procession while carrying liquor.

• Lin Qiye created a nonexistent karma and sent Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan into it to witness his intended wedding to Jialan.
• Lin Qiye searched for Jialan's karma but could not find it, realizing she had vanished from his world and that the wedding could not happen.
• Lin Qiye angrily blamed fate for taking Jialan from him, then vanished as the Human Apexes and Destiny Monk let him be alone.
• In Shangjing City, Lin Qiye drank from a bottle, brushed past a quarrelling couple, and continued walking in the direction of the wedding cars.

At a wedding where the groom’s bride-price bargain exposes his resentment, Lin Qiye recognizes the hearse as a sign of love and rushes to Fengdu. There, he uses the coffins and their remaining karma to bring Jialan into a past that never existed and prepares to marry her in a grand ghost wedding.

• The groom’s bride demands another two hundred thousand in bride price, and he borrows money to proceed with the wedding while secretly vowing to make her pay for humiliating him.
• Lin Qiye watches the wedding from outside and declares that the love he sees is in the hearse driving away, then realizes the coffins can help him reach Jialan.
• Lin Qiye returns to Fengdu and draws Karma Threads from the two coffins, using Jialan’s coffin and Miracle to stabilize a thread of karma that never existed.
• Lin Qiye transforms the netherworld hall into a wedding venue and announces that he and Jialan will marry there, inviting heaven, earth, gods, mortals, relatives, and friends to the feast.

Lin Qiye held a wedding for Jialan in a nonexistent strand of causality, using her soulless shell to fulfill their promise after her death. As the ceremony ended and the imagined history faded, Jialan’s face beneath the veil was streaked with tears.

• Lin Qiye summoned figures from his memories to fill the underworld hall, then welcomed Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan as the only other living guests.
• Lin Qiye called for Jialan’s bridal sedan chair, and Huo Qubing explained that the bride inside was only a soulless shell.
• Lin Qiye asked Huo Qubing to preside over the wedding and chose to bow only to Jialan.
• Lin Qiye and Jialan exchanged three bows before the coffins, completing their union in name and in truth.
• Lin Qiye called Jialan his wife as the hall and its guests faded away, revealing tears on her face beneath the veil.

After Commander Zuo died, Min Junliang found Lin Qiye in the Netherworld and asked him to lead the Night Watchmen as their Seventh Commander-in-Chief. Lin Qiye accepted and chose Mount Jiuhua for his succession ceremony, where Night Watchmen from across Great Xia gathered as he arrived.

• Lu Wuwei took Min Junliang by Electric Scooter to the Netherworld, where Min found Lin Qiye at the ancient Netherworld Gate.
• Min Junliang told Lin Qiye that Commander Zuo had named him as his successor and explained that the Night Watchmen could help him complete the Chess Game.
• Lin Qiye accepted the appointment as the Seventh Commander-in-Chief and chose Mount Jiuhua for the succession ceremony instead of Shangjing.
• Two days later, Night Watchmen, reserve teams, upper ranks, and Human Apexes gathered on Mount Jiuhua for the ceremony.
• Lin Qiye began ascending the mountain as the assembled Night Watchmen stood solemnly to greet him.