Recaps

Lin Qiye accepted the role of Great Xia’s Seventh Commander-in-Chief and rallied the Night Watchmen to fight the gods. The chapter ended with An Qingyu preparing to seize the mist and addressing Cao Yuan as a new threat emerged.

• Lin Qiye climbed Mount Jiuhua as Night Watchmen and Special Squad members welcomed him as their new leader.
• At Ye Fan’s old temple, Lin Qiye reflected on the fallen commanders and promised to end the dark age.
• Lin Qiye drew the blade marked with “Seven” and declared himself the Seventh Commander-in-Chief of Great Xia’s Night Watchmen.
• The Night Watchmen drew their blades and pointed them toward the gray mist.
• An Qingyu declared that Earth’s god kingdoms had fallen and that he would take over the mist, then asked Cao Yuan whether he agreed.

Four years after the moon vanished, Fang Mo’s Demon Squad searched the nearby waters for Aratos, the wounded former chief god of Olympus and eighth target of the God Slaying Plan. Fang Mo detected blood nearby, and Aratos’s enormous divine body began rising from the sea beneath their ship.

• The squad played a game aboard the Explorer Ship, and Su Zhe accused Su Yuan of stabbing him in three consecutive rounds.
• Fang Mo asked Lu Baoyou about traces of 073, but Lu Baoyou said he had found none.
• Li Zhenzhen read the squad Aratos’s history, including his defeat by Shen Qingzhu and escape using a self-mutilation secret technique.
• Fang Mo vowed that the squad would not return until it found Aratos, and the others agreed to keep searching.
• Fang Mo smelled blood nearby and extinguished the candles as Aratos’s enormous divine body rose from the sea.

The Demon Squad found Aratos at sea, but their attack failed to kill him. Fang Mo’s coin summoned Commander Lin’s Outer Space Strike, and the resulting disturbance drew another six-winged figure to the scene as Aratos escaped beneath the water.

• Aratos destroyed the Explorer Ship and attacked the seven Demon Squad members, who scattered and retreated from him.
• Fang Mo failed to contact Instructor Shen and decided to use a strange coin to target Aratos.
• Fang Mo activated the coin and ordered the squad to flee as it triggered a golden sword strike from Commander Lin in space.
• The strike engulfed the sea, but Aratos survived and slipped beneath the surface without suffering a vital injury.
• Fang Mo spotted a figure bearing Gray Six Wings approaching and said the squad would soon be able to report back.

New Night Watchmen recruits learned that the Demon Squad had returned with a god’s corpse and heard how the legendary Nightfall Squad, once led by Lin Qiye, had scattered. The Demon Squad rushed back to Shangjing City to report to Lin Qiye, where they learned the Knights Squad had arrived first.

• A veteran Night Watchman told recruits that Great Xia had won the God War and that the old Nightfall Squad, captained by Lin Qiye, had once surpassed the Demon Squad in renown.
• Seven members of the Demon Squad emerged from the Wall of Mist carrying a massive god’s corpse in a net, which helicopters took from them.
• Fang Mo and the others hurried toward Shangjing City because they feared the Knights Squad would beat them to the report.
• At Night Watchmen Headquarters, Lin Qiye told Fang Mo that the Knights Squad had arrived ten minutes earlier but was still recovering from seasickness.

Lin Qiye learned that Charles had found no trace of Nyx and was told she was probably dead, but he believed she was still alive. He vowed to find her, while sending Charles on a new mission and giving Fang Mo’s squad a vacation.

• Fang Mo reported that his squad had helped Shen Qingzhu kill 073, and Lin Qiye praised their work.
• Charles told Lin Qiye that years of searching for 043, Nyx, had yielded no leads and said she might have died from her injuries.
• Lin Qiye reacted with a burst of power that cracked the headquarters, then assigned Charles to investigate Divine Lust Heaven and granted Fang Mo’s squad leave.
• After Fang Mo and Charles left, Lin Qiye mourned Nyx and told Shen Qingzhu he believed she was alive because he had sensed no change in the Night Law.
• Lin Qiye vowed to find Nyx, who he believed was somewhere in the world but unable to communicate with anyone.

Lin Qiye endured a soul-wrenching pill while Chaos taunted him, then confronted Chaos in Ward Five over Nyx and Olympus. Although Lin Qiye killed Chaos again, Chaos reappeared unharmed, leaving Lin Qiye wondering how he survived.

• Lin Qiye sent Shen Qingzhu to contact Lu Wuwei and arranged for King Mask to accompany him because the mission could be dangerous.
• Lin Qiye took a gray pill and endured its agonizing effects while Chaos mocked him and brought up Zuo Qing.
• Lin Qiye entered Ward Five and beat Chaos after Chaos taunted him about Nyx and the Greek gods.
• Lin Qiye stabbed Chaos through the heart with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, destroying his life force.
• Chaos appeared unharmed outside Ward Five, and Lin Qiye wondered how he kept surviving.

Four years after sealing Chaos, Lin Qiye visited Destiny Monk to ask how humanity’s chances in the Chess Game had changed and to discuss Nyx’s disappearance. Destiny Monk could not give him an answer about humanity’s prospects, and Lin Qiye was left considering whether to search for Nyx himself.

• Lin Qiye visited the hospital and asked Li Yifei whether he had given Chaos his medicine; Li Yifei prepared a mug packed with psychiatric pills to force down Chaos.
• Li Yifei declined Lin Qiye’s offer to leave the quiet hospital, saying he enjoyed watching Chaos and would stay to care for him.
• Lin Qiye traveled to a new Buddhist temple in the Kunlun Mountain Range and found Destiny Monk waiting with a Chess Game.
• Lin Qiye pressed Destiny Monk for humanity’s chances of winning after four years of victories, but Destiny Monk said he could not tell him yet.
• Lin Qiye told Destiny Monk that Nyx remained missing and that Lu Wuwei’s Electric Scooter could not reach the place trapping her; Destiny Monk asked whether Lin Qiye intended to search for her himself.

Lin Qiye and Destiny Monk discussed escalating the God Hunt plan to flush out the hidden Lovecraftian Gods. In Shangjing, Chen Han left his squad headquarters to attend an emergency meeting called by Lin Qiye, where five of the Seven Ministers were already waiting.

• Lin Qiye argued that Great Xia should clear away the gods in the mist to prevent them from becoming weapons for the Lovecraftian Gods.
• Destiny Monk proposed striking the gods hard enough to create chaos and force the hidden opponent to reveal their trail, and Lin Qiye decided what to do.
• Xu Liao introduced recruits Miao Shengyuan and Mao Qingxia to 006 Squad's courtyard headquarters and told them about Captain Chen Han's rank and duties.
• Chen Han told Xu Liao that the Commander-in-Chief had called an emergency meeting for all Seven Ministers.
• Chen Han rode his Nether Black Horse to headquarters and entered the meeting room, where five figures were already seated.

Lin Qiye announced the God Hunting Celebration, a gathering for Night Watchmen teams to commemorate humanity’s hunts of nine gods. At Heping Agency, Hong Ying and Wen Qimo assigned Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi to attend and sent them with dumplings for Lin Qiye, whom the newcomers barely knew.

• Lin Qiye convened the Night Watchmen leaders and announced that he planned to hold the God Hunting Celebration.
• Wen Qimo read the notice stating that the celebration would take place at Chennan Pass in three days and that teams had to send representatives.
• Hong Ying wanted to attend, but Wen Qimo explained that she and he were too senior to qualify as newcomers.
• Wen Qimo chose Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi to represent Team 136, and Hong Ying gave them frozen dumplings for Lin Qiye.
• Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi asked who Qiye was, then learned he was the Commander Lin Qiye.

Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi traveled to Shangjing City with frozen dumplings for Lin Qiye, then boarded a covert tour bus carrying Night Watchmen to the God Hunting Celebration. Lin Qiye arranged the celebration and ordered the Phoenix Squad to rename its performance, while the bus headed toward the venue with Jia Shasha hiding the dumplings from his fellow rookies.

• Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi left for Shangjing City with bags of frozen dumplings after Hong Ying told them to find Lin Qiye and deliver them.
• Lin Qiye reviewed the celebration program, renamed the Phoenix Squad's performance “I Love Work, Work Loves Me,” and ordered festive preparations while discussing defenses and intelligence with Min Junliang.
• Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi reached Shangjing City, found the covert tour bus using the notice's photograph and code phrase, and boarded it with other Night Watchmen.
• Zhen Xiaoyi cooled the dumplings as she and Jia Shasha exchanged backpacks, then Jia Shasha concealed the bulging bag when a former classmate asked what it held.
• Lin Qiye walked to the office window as Destiny Monk appeared in its reflection, and he murmured that the celebration had begun.

Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi boarded a ship bound for Chenglong Pass, carrying dumplings for Commander Lin while worrying about meeting him. Meanwhile, Kira and Turk infiltrated the ship disguised as Night Watchmen, leaving them poised to disrupt the celebration.

• A classmate frightened Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi with stories about Commander Lin, but Jia Shasha decided they should still complete their mission and deliver Hong Ying’s dumplings.
• At the pier, a calm logistics worker checked their identification and told them to give the dumplings to anyone wearing a Crimson Cloak; the two boarded without learning his name.
• The ship departed for Chenglong Pass, and Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi reflected that Commander Lin might not be as frightening as they had imagined.
• Kira and Turk emerged from beneath the sea and hid in an empty storage room aboard the ship.
• Turk used a secret treasure from Lord Poseidon to disguise them as Great Xia natives wearing dark-red cloaks, and Kira and Turk joined the Night Watchmen unnoticed.

Turk and Kira doubted the Night Watchmen newcomers could threaten them as the God Hunting Celebration began at Chenglong Pass. While Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi searched for the person in a Crimson Cloak to deliver their Dumplings, Phoenix Squad opened the festivities with a strange play.

• Turk and Kira discussed the young Night Watchmen aboard the ship and suspected other hostile groups, including Divine Lust Heaven and the Hidden Gods, had sent agents to the celebration.
• The ship reached Chenglong Pass, where fireworks and music welcomed the Night Watchmen to the God Hunting Celebration.
• The newcomers entered the city and saw nine enormous god corpses displayed on the walls, prompting Turk and Kira to worry about the humans who had killed them.
• Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi set off together to find the person wearing a Crimson Cloak and deliver their Dumplings.
• The hosts announced a Phoenix Squad performance called I Love Work, Work Loves Me, and a chain-bound, exhausted woman emerged from backstage proclaiming her love of work.

Commander Lin arrived at Chenglong Pass for the God Hunting Celebration as Kira and Turk watched and sent a concealed message beyond the Mist. Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi spotted Lin and tried to reach him, and Lin stopped when Jia Shasha called out to him.

• The Phoenix Squad performed a heroic tale, while Kira and Turk watched the Night Watchmen and decided to wait until Great Xia's leaders had gathered before sending their message.
• Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi searched Chenglong Pass for Commander Lin, then climbed a watchtower to watch for his arrival.
• Lin Qiye arrived by helicopter, and Kira identified him as Turk sent a concealed gray message beyond the Mist.
• Kira noted that most of Great Xia's top combat power had gathered, with Sword Immortal Zhou Ping and one mysterious Apex absent.
• Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi approached Commander Lin, but a staff member stopped them; Jia Shasha shouted Lin's name, and Lin stopped.

Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi delivered Hong Ying’s New Year dumplings to Commander Lin, and Lin Qiye officially opened the God Hunting Celebration at Chenglong Pass. As hostile gods moved toward Great Xia’s borders to attack while the celebration drew away its strongest defenders, a six-winged gray angel confronted two Greek gods in the mist.

• Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi gave Commander Lin the dumplings Hong Ying had saved for him, and he thanked them and asked them to thank her.
• Seven Night Watchmen ministers gathered before the nine divine corpses as Lin Qiye appeared and announced the start of the God Hunting Celebration.
• At Great Xia’s northern border, Ares landed in the snow-covered mountains and charged toward a human city.
• At the southern border, two Greek gods learned that Great Xia’s top combat forces were at Chenglong Pass and set out to attack human cities.
• A six-winged gray angel appeared above the mist and asked the two Greek gods whom they planned to catch off guard.

Long Bai, Guan Zai, Chen Han, and Master Chen revealed that the God Hunting Celebration was a trap to lure gods into Great Xia, then surrounded Ares at the northern border. As Ares fought back, a golden pillar struck him, while a six-winged angel appeared above Great Xia.

• Long Bai trapped Ares with the Eight Arts of God Binding and revealed himself as a Human Apex.
• Guan Zai, Master Chen, and Chen Han joined Long Bai, surrounding Ares and revealing that the celebration was bait for a larger god hunt.
• Ares broke through one of the metal pillars, but Guan Zai formed a red-brick arena to seal the battlefield.
• Chen Han charged Ares on horseback, and Long Bai's Divine Calamity blade cut Ares and dispelled some of his laws.
• A golden pillar struck Ares, while a six-winged angel holding a Golden Holy Sword appeared above Great Xia.

During Chenglong Pass’s celebration, foreign God's Agents believed they were slaughtering the Night Watchmen, but Hu Jia revealed the massacre was an illusion designed to deceive them and lure Olympus into a failed attack. The celebration had truly taken place, while Lin Qiye was aboard a ship with more than a hundred unconscious Night Watchmen.

• Commander Lin canceled his address after receiving an alarm, and the Night Watchmen leaders and powerful guests rushed toward the borders.
• Turk, Kira, and five other foreign God's Agents attacked the young Night Watchmen, believing the higher-ups had left Chenglong Pass undefended.
• The apparent massacre vanished, revealing that the seven agents had been trapped in an illusion after hearing Hu Jia play his Stone Xun.
• Hu Jia revealed that he had used the illusion to make Kira pass false intelligence and draw Olympus into attacking Great Xia.
• Hundreds of miles away, Lin Qiye held the Uncaused Cause aboard a ship as Karma Threads drifted from more than a hundred unconscious Night Watchmen.

Lin Qiye used Uncaused Cause to stage a nonexistent God Hunting Celebration for the sleeping Night Watchmen, then gathered his allies as they fought enemies at the borders. With the celebration’s karma ending, Lin Qiye and Destiny Monk prepared for their most crucial next step.

• Destiny Monk delivered Lin Qiye’s scripted speech at the celebration, telling the Night Watchmen he hoped they would become the last generation needed to protect the world.
• The Night Watchmen sailed away from Chenglong Pass as the celebration’s phantoms, including Destiny Monk and the Human Apexes, faded from the nonexistent stretch of karma.
• Lin Qiye opened his eyes on the East Sea as more than a hundred Karma Threads returned to the sleeping Night Watchmen, and Xia Simeng fled with the Phoenix Squad when he asked about her unfinished reflection.
• Destiny Monk asked about the border battles, and Wu Quan went to help at the southern border after Lin Qiye reported that enemies were surrounded in the north and one had escaped into the mist.
• Lin Qiye and Destiny Monk discussed their crucial next step while Zhen Xiaoyi and Jia Shasha slept nearby.

Lin Qiye revealed that the God Hunting Celebration had taken place in a safe strand of karma while the real Night Watchmen were protected. As the young Night Watchmen returned to Chenglong Pass, Lin Qiye and Destiny Monk used Ares’s corpse to begin linking its heart to Olympus’s divine kingdom.

• Lin Qiye explained that he had drawn the Night Watchmen into an unreal but safe strand of karma and that Hu Jia had trapped the Outer God agents in a Mental World.
• The young Night Watchmen woke on the ship and discussed the celebration before Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi realized the logistics worker was Lin Qiye.
• Lin Qiye asked Jia Shasha about Team 136 and promised Zhen Xiaoyi that he would return for dinner when he was finished.
• Helicopters carried Ares’s corpse toward Chenglong Pass, and Lin Qiye recognized it as the God of War.
• Destiny Monk took Ares’s heart from the corpse, and Lin Qiye caught the Karma Threads connecting it to the origin of Olympus’s divine kingdom.

Lin Qiye approached Ares’s corpse as a golden light erupted from the sea, while Poseidon and Hades discovered that the Olympus Origin had projected an indestructible golden cross over their divine realm. The gods could not explain the mutation and decided to watch it.

• Destiny Monk selected several Karma Threads as Lin Qiye told Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi to sail on to Cangnan and flew toward Ares’s corpse.
• A brilliant golden radiance erupted from the sea behind the ship and nearly capsized it, turning the distant sea golden.
• Poseidon and Hades discussed their plan to use Great Xia against Olympus’s rivals and their hope that one of them would soon reach the Supreme Realm.
• Karma Threads locked onto the Olympus Origin in Poseidon’s hand, and golden light burst from it.
• A golden cross appeared over Olympus, and Poseidon and Hades discovered that their attacks passed through it and that they could not remove it without destroying the origin.
• Poseidon and Hades could not determine whether the origin had mutated on its own or had been changed by someone, so they decided to observe the mark.

Lin Qiye and Shen Qingzhu discussed the recent battle against the Outer Gods and approved Xia Simeng’s unusual maternity-leave request. They then visited their teacher in seclusion, whose sword aura was nearing the Supreme Realm, and received his answer that he would emerge in nine days.

• Lin Qiye learned that Shen Qingzhu had killed one Outer God while another escaped.
• Lin Qiye read Xia Simeng’s claim that she was pregnant, approved her leave request, and warned that he would hold her to it.
• Lin Qiye and Shen Qingzhu traveled to a barren wasteland to visit their teacher, who had been in seclusion for nearly three years.
• Lin Qiye asked how much longer their teacher would remain in seclusion, and miniature sword phantoms formed the character “Nine.”

An Qingyu learned that a move against Olympus was underway and prepared to follow it, while Lin Qiye went to visit Yurina Takishiro after hearing he had asked to play games. The chapter left Lin Qiye at Yurina’s door, where the ailing youth greeted him with delight.

• A gray-furred rat with wings reached An Qingyu and told him about the activity involving Olympus, prompting him to vow to follow Zeus’s move.
• Xia Simeng’s leave was approved after she claimed she was pregnant, and Phoenix Squad left for the Golden Coast with its team funds.
• Lin Qiye learned from Min Junliang that Yurina Takishiro had asked to play games, then decided to visit him.
• Yurina Takishiro finished a game and vomited blood before answering the door to Lin Qiye.

Lin Qiye visited Yurina Takishiro and spent the day gaming with him, but Takishiro collapsed and was rushed to the Night Watchmen headquarters. Yue Jiulin told Lin Qiye that Takishiro was dying of old age because of the lasting effects of the experiments that made him an Artificial God test subject.

• Yurina Takishiro showed Lin Qiye his game and figurine collections and asked him to stay.
• Lin Qiye stayed to play games with Yurina Takishiro through the afternoon and into the night.
• Yurina Takishiro collapsed while heading to the kitchen, and Lin Qiye discovered that his life force was fading.
• Lin Qiye flew Yurina Takishiro to the Night Watchmen headquarters Medical Department for emergency treatment.
• Yue Jiulin told Lin Qiye that Yurina Takishiro had been revived but was going to die of old age from the effects of overtaxing his body.

Lin Qiye learned that Yurina Takishiro’s body had aged beyond saving and heard the dying boy make peace with his life. Guan Zai proposed that Takishiro become a god by turning into data and living in the game world.

• Yue Jiulin told Lin Qiye that Yurina Takishiro’s organs had deteriorated to the state of someone over a hundred and that nothing could reverse the damage.
• Yurina Takishiro told Lin Qiye he had known his condition and was grateful for the years and friendship he had gained.
• Yurina Takishiro gave Lin Qiye Divine Calamity and asked him to look after his sister, but Lin Qiye refused to accept that he was beyond saving.
• Lin Qiye and Shen Qingzhu discussed possible ways to save Takishiro, including a new body or a miracle.
• Guan Zai proposed that Takishiro become a god by turning into data and entering the game world as the God of Games.

Guan Zai proposed using a custom game to help Yurina Takishiro comprehend Game Law and become a god. Lin Qiye and Shen Qingzhu joined him in the game, which opened with the three of them appearing at a packed concert.

• Guan Zai explained that Takishiro might create Game Law if he faced a game challenging enough, and revealed that he had built a prototype.
• Guan Zai warned that Takishiro’s weakened body might not survive the game and proposed converting it into a three-person team challenge.
• Lin Qiye and Shen Qingzhu agreed to enter the game with Takishiro, and Lin arranged for Destiny Monk to handle urgent duties.
• Guan Zai finished loading the game, and the three were transported into a stadium filled with concertgoers.
• The game identified itself as G’s nightmare-difficulty game, titled "The Kiss of the Beautiful Idol."

Dionysus returned to Olympus badly wounded and told Poseidon that the marks appearing above their divine kingdom were a Chinese countdown, apparently placed there by Great Xia. Poseidon set out to retaliate, while Lin Qiye and the others began a strange game mission at a concert stadium.

• Dionysus arrived at Olympus alone and told Poseidon that Silent Angel had defeated him and Artemis at Great Xia's southern border.
• Dionysus recognized the marks above Olympus as the Chinese numbers eight, nine, and ten, revealing that they counted down to a threat against Olympus.
• Poseidon concluded Great Xia intended to destroy Olympus within ten days, then left to target its people, telling Dionysus to find Hades if anything happened.
• Lin Qiye, Shen Qingzhu, and Yurina Takishiro read the rules for a game mission to defeat idol Amy Mei without harming spectators.
• The stadium countdown reached zero, and missiles launched as the crowd cheered wildly.