Recaps

An Qingyu traded his emotions to the Gate of Truth to bring Jiang Er back, but the gate demanded more and began reaching for the rest of him. Lin Qiye interrupted the exchange and warned An Qingyu that the gate might keep raising its price until nothing remained.

• The Gate of Truth took An Qingyu's emotions as payment, leaving him unable to feel and searching him for more to collect.
• An Qingyu agreed to let the gate take whatever else it wanted as long as it spared his life.
• Lin Qiye struck the starlit tentacles with Zhanbai, then used Hand of Royal Authority to reach An Qingyu.
• Lin Qiye argued that the Gate of Truth had concealed the exchange's full price and might demand An Qingyu's life after taking everything else.

An Qingyu’s attempt to resurrect Jiang Er through the Gate of Truth recovered only part of her magnetic field, while Lin Qiye paid a terrible price to help. As the gate vanished, Yu Er and Yu Si confronted Lin Qiye, and An Qingyu turned to their official business.

• Lin Qiye gave his blood to the Gate of Truth and threatened to destroy its true body if it took everything without saving Jiang Er.
• The Gate of Truth released magnetic fields across Erhai Lake, and Jiang Er’s figure appeared before dissolving into streams of radiance.
• An Qingyu realized the gate had restored only part of Jiang Er’s magnetic field, leaving her without life, consciousness, or memories.
• Lin Qiye concluded that the Gate of Truth had demanded an enormous price for only a fragment of Jiang Er’s return.
• Yu Er and Yu Si appeared before the weakened Lin Qiye as An Qingyu announced that it was time to handle official business.

Shen Qingzhu approached the mire at Great Xia’s border as the Lovecraftian God’s attack swallowed him, while An Qingyu ambushed Lin Qiye at Erhai Lake with two Artificial Gods and tried to take him hostage. Lin Qiye fought back, but An Qingyu anticipated his techniques and evaded his Karma Threads.

• Shen Qingzhu learned that the War Passes were under attack, that a sword had halted the Black Goat, and that no news had come from Erhai Lake, then ordered someone to release Destiny Monk from Kunlun Mountain.
• Shen Qingzhu approached the mire-covered sea and was swallowed by a sludge head that emerged from the clouds.
• Lin Qiye found An Qingyu waiting with Yu Er and Yu Si, two Lord God level Artificial Gods, and realized An Qingyu intended to take him hostage to deter the Mortal World Sword Immortal.
• Lin Qiye drew Zhanbai and Divine Calamity and attacked An Qingyu, who blocked one blade and dodged the other.
• Yu Er and Yu Si struck Lin Qiye with lightning, but he emerged mostly unharmed and sent Karma Threads toward the three opponents.
• An Qingyu retreated before the Karma Threads reached him, and Lin Qiye realized An Qingyu seemed wary of something in the void.

Lin Qiye struggled against An Qingyu and two Artificial Gods while Destiny Monk arrived and discussed a risky plan to turn the battle around. The Spirit Medium Squad then appeared to support Lin Qiye, and Destiny Monk silently signaled his agreement as the fight continued.

• The two Artificial Gods took turns attacking Lin Qiye while An Qingyu kept his distance, hoping Lin Qiye would exhaust himself.
• Destiny Monk contacted Lin Qiye through their Karma Threads and proposed dying to let Lin Qiye become the God of Karma, but Lin Qiye argued it would not prevent An Qingyu from escaping through a clone.
• Lin Qiye proposed another risky plan, and Destiny Monk hesitated as Lin Qiye neared his limit.
• Yuan Wenling led the Spirit Medium Squad out of the fog to support Lin Qiye, but Lin Qiye ordered them to leave.
• Yu Er appeared and attacked the Spirit Medium Squad while An Qingyu threatened that the squad could be wiped out.
• Destiny Monk arrived, met Lin Qiye's gaze, and gave him an almost imperceptible nod.

Lin Qiye went with An Qingyu as a hostage, while Destiny Monk reassured the Spirit Medium team that they had nearly ruined an important plan. An Qingyu then brought Lin Qiye to Xuehan Pass, where the Black Goat remained as the pass was overwhelmed by blood rain and its survivors lost contact with headquarters.

• Lin Qiye offered to go with An Qingyu as a hostage, and An Qingyu accepted after Destiny Monk warned him not to trust the traitor.
• Lin Qiye left with An Qingyu and the two Artificial Gods, while Destiny Monk told Yuan Wenling they had nearly ruined something important and went to stop the Mortal World Sword Immortal.
• At Xuehan Pass, blood rain mutated most of the people, leaving the survivors trapped in the central control room without contact with headquarters as the Black Goat remained outside the wall.
• An Qingyu arrived with Lin Qiye and the two Artificial Gods, refused to let the Black Goat take Lin Qiye, and headed toward Great Xia's border.
• The Black Goat stayed over Xuehan Pass, and An Qingyu warned it that it was courting death.

An Qingyu withdrew the Lovecraftian Gods and took Lin Qiye toward Erhai Lake, prompting Zhou Ping to nearly strike the Black Goat before the Destiny Monk explained the plan. The chapter ended with Seraph Lin Qiye reporting that the plan was proceeding smoothly.

• An Qingyu ordered the Lovecraftian Gods to retreat and left with Lin Qiye, ignoring the Black Goat’s objections.
• Zhou Ping threatened An Qingyu with his Sword Intent, then turned his anger toward the Black Goat as it fled into the mist.
• The Destiny Monk explained that Lin Qiye’s Primordial Spirit Embryo should keep him safe while An Qingyu investigated the Lovecraftian Gods’ secrets.
• Seraph Lin Qiye entered the Sword Pavilion and told Zhou Ping and the Destiny Monk that the plan was proceeding smoothly.

After the battle, Lin Qiye decided to travel alone to Antarctica to solve the Time Maze and bring back Nyx, leaving Destiny Monk to manage the Night Watchmen. Meanwhile, An Qingyu carried Lin Qiye’s frozen body into Cthulhu’s nest, where Lin Qiye awoke inside a recreation of the Capital City Courtyard.

• Destiny Monk told Seraph Lin Qiye that Great Xia’s top fighters had suffered severe losses, and Lin Qiye chose to go to Antarctica alone.
• Lin Qiye ordered Destiny Monk to manage the Night Watchmen while he was away, then flew toward Antarctica.
• An Qingyu sealed Lin Qiye in a gray ice coffin and carried him through a mirror-image strait into Cthulhu’s nest.
• An Qingyu brought the ice coffin through a laboratory and corpse collection hall to a maple-covered courtyard.
• Lin Qiye awoke in the familiar Capital City Courtyard and realized An Qingyu had recreated it inside Cthulhu’s nest.

Lin Qiye questioned An Qingyu’s motives after finding himself sealed inside the recreated Capital City Courtyard, while An Qingyu prepared to target the Hidden Gods and detected a signal connected to Jiang Er. Meanwhile, Lin Qiye’s Seraph clone reached Antarctica to search for the Time Maze and spotted a group carrying a black sedan chair across the ice.

• Lin Qiye asked An Qingyu why he had recreated the Capital City Courtyard, and An Qingyu explained that he lived there and warned Lin Qiye not to cross the barrier because the Black Goat was outside.
• An Qingyu returned to his laboratory, learned that Divine Lust Heaven had moved south and the Hidden Gods’ actions were unknown, then ordered Yu Si to take five Lovecraftian Gods and destroy the Hidden Gods.
• An Qingyu detected chaotic signals on his laboratory equipment and murmured that he had found Jiang Er.
• Lin Qiye’s Seraph clone flew south to Antarctica to search for the Time Maze that could lead to Goddess of Night Nyx.
• Lin Qiye spotted more than a dozen figures crossing the Antarctic ice while carrying a black sedan chair that gave off an indescribable fragrance.

Lin Qiye followed a group from Divine Lust Heaven in Antarctica, defeated Harun, and transformed into him to infiltrate their search for the Time Maze. He learned that their mysterious Holy Lord was seeking something inside it and continued with the group, posing as Harun.

• Lin Qiye spotted a mixed group of gods carrying a black sedan chair through Antarctica and followed one of them after the group split up to search.
• Lin Qiye struck Harun unconscious, concealed him with a Magic Array, and transformed into his likeness.
• Lin Qiye returned to the group and heard the voice inside the sedan chair order them to keep searching for the entrance to the Time Maze.
• The Holy Lord promised the group another chance to taste the Forbidden Fruit if they found what they sought, revealing their affiliation with Divine Lust Heaven.
• A Lord God spoke privately with Lin Qiye while they walked, praising the Forbidden Fruit and suggesting he would endure a hundred years to taste it again.

Lin Qiye used Laifu to guide the foreign gods to the Time Maze’s apparent entrance, but the Holy Lord recognized the glowing vortex as a trap too late. The blast swallowed most of the group, and the Holy Lord identified the masked girl behind the ambush as Si Xiaonan, leader of the Hidden Gods.

• After the gods failed to find the Time Maze, Lin Qiye sent Laifu racing across the ice to draw them toward its entrance.
• Lin Qiye repeatedly redirected the search until the group reached a broad ice field, where a glowing vortex appeared after dark.
• The gods rushed toward the vortex, but Lin Qiye stayed back and watched as the Holy Lord warned them it was a trap.
• The vortex erupted with divine power and swallowed most of the group in a massive explosion.
• The Holy Lord confronted the masked girl standing above a giant wolf shadow and identified her as Si Xiaonan, leader of the Hidden Gods.

Lin Qiye recognized the false Si Xiaonan riding Demon Wolf Fenrir as Divine Lust Heaven attacked, then realized the Holy Lord was No. 22, the vanished Lust God's agent. No. 22 revealed a grotesque fused body and used a Golden Scepter to drain divine power before striking Fenrir.

• The false Si Xiaonan charged Divine Lust Heaven on Fenrir, and the wolf shattered Kubera's golden seal before overpowering two Lord Gods.
• No. 22 knocked from inside the black sedan chair and drained divine power from the unconscious Lesser Gods and the two Lord Gods.
• No. 22 emerged fused inside a shell of humanoid flesh, and Lin Qiye recognized him as the Lust God's agent from King's Treasury.
• No. 22 used the Golden Scepter to drain Fenrir's divine power, dodged its bite, and struck its head with a golden-lit palm.

Lin Qiye revealed himself after helping the masked girl escape No. 22, then explained that she had found the entrance to the Time Maze first. No. 22 and Divine Lust Heaven faced the entrance with Lin Qiye standing nearby, unsure why he was letting them pass.

• No. 22 crushed Fenrir beneath the ice, but the masked girl ambushed him and tried to take the King's Scepter fused into his body.
• No. 22 caught the girl and threatened her with the King's Treasure Sword, but Lin Qiye intervened and blocked the strike.
• No. 22 recognized Lin Qiye as Commander Lin of the Great Xia Night Watchmen after Lin dispelled his disguise.
• The masked girl and Fenrir vanished, and Lin Qiye pointed out that the moon's reflection revealed time near the river was still stuck in the past.
• Lin Qiye said the girl had found the Time Maze entrance before No. 22, then stepped aside and invited Divine Lust Heaven to enter, leaving No. 22 suspicious.

No. 22 waited in the Time Maze and repeatedly drained the gods' divine power to prepare an ambush for Lin Qiye. Lin Qiye evaded his first strike and overwhelmed the group with his six-winged form, demanding that they enter the maze or be forced in.

• No. 22 led the gods into the Time Maze while Lin Qiye stayed outside, watching them enter.
• No. 22 repeatedly used the King's Scepter to absorb the gods' divine power as he waited for Lin Qiye to appear.
• Lin Qiye delayed for hours, then sent his crimson cloak into the moonlight and followed through the void.
• No. 22 slashed at the cloak, but Lin Qiye appeared behind him and knocked him into the ground with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi.
• Lin Qiye spread his golden domain and threatened the gods, asking whether they would enter the maze willingly or be chased inside.

Lin Qiye forced Divine Lust Heaven into the Time Maze and tested how its space-time shifts worked. He discovered that each step could carry them into the past or future, leaving the group to navigate the maze by following the same footprints.

• No. 22 dispersed the divine power he had plundered and led Divine Lust Heaven deeper into the maze rather than fight Lin Qiye.
• Two Lesser Gods vanished when they stepped onto the plain, so Lin Qiye had the others retrace the left one's exact position.
• Lin Qiye and the others crowded onto a tiny patch of ice, where No. 22 explained that newcomers pushed someone else off into another time.
• Lin Qiye carved a mark into the ice with the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, then led the group onward by repeating the same footprints.
• Lin Qiye found that his mark had vanished and concluded their latest step had taken them into an earlier time.

Lin Qiye mapped the Time Maze by marking the chronological order of its locations, then the gods abandoned him to use his method on their own. No. 22 led them farther away, where they began marking the ice themselves.

• Lin Qiye tested whether No. 22 could return to his original time and concluded that time in the maze was bound to space.
• Lin Qiye marked the ice with numbers to map the maze’s chronology, and the group followed his method as they advanced.
• After Lin Qiye carved “-14,” No. 22 and the other gods suddenly fled through the maze, leaving him behind.
• No. 22 and the gods reasoned that they could solve the maze without Lin Qiye and might even prepare an ambush.
• No. 22 led the others away from Lin Qiye’s route, and they began carving their own marks into the ice.

No. 22 and the Divine Lust Heaven group tried to navigate the time maze by carving marks into the Antarctic ice, but the marks quickly disappeared as the ice changed. They lost their way, and after Kubera vanished while flying, only three people remained with No. 22, who ordered them to keep moving.

• No. 22 replaced ordinary numbers with secret symbols and led the group onward, but none of their marks could be found again.
• The group realized that the ice melted and refroze too quickly for their marks to last, leaving them unable to retrace their route to Lin Qiye’s marks.
• Kubera tried to fly above the maze to find their position, but vanished after rising only a few meters.
• With Divine Lust Heaven reduced to three survivors, No. 22 ordered the remaining group to choose a direction at random and keep moving.

Lin Qiye followed his markings through the Time Maze into the past and encountered the masked woman who had taken Si Xiaonan’s identity. She revealed herself as Lina Perin, heir to King Arthur, and Lin Qiye learned she had been ranked first among the Ten Imperial Predecessors.

• Lin Qiye used the numbers carved with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi to navigate the Time Maze and found a path leading farther into the past.
• Lin Qiye encountered a masked woman beside Demon Wolf Fenrir and recognized that she had posed as Si Xiaonan.
• Lin Qiye threatened the woman until she removed her mask and revealed that she was human.
• Lina Perin introduced herself as the legitimate heir of King Arthur and said she had been ranked first among the Ten Imperial Predecessors.
• Lin Qiye asked why Lina had disguised herself as Si Xiaonan.

Lina explained how Si Xiaonan made her the Hidden Gods’ successor before going undercover in Olympus, and how the group later stripped Lina of her authority. She also revealed that the Sword in the Stone let her sense the Time Maze’s structure, leaving Lin Qiye to infer that its deepest point lay at the era when the Gate of Truth shattered.

• Lina told Lin Qiye that Si Xiaonan had arranged for her to lead the Hidden Gods before infiltrating Olympus, where Si Xiaonan disappeared during the God War.
• Lina explained that the Hidden Gods had grown suspicious of her and stripped her of real power after she revealed she was human.
• Lin Qiye summoned two hospital employees to treat Fenrir and said he would not abandon Si Xiaonan’s chosen successor or her mount.
• Lina revealed the Sword in the Stone and explained that it had helped her evade Divine Lust Heaven by letting her sense time in the maze.
• Lina described the Time Maze as an inverted pyramid, with increasingly ancient periods toward its bottom and the Gate of Truth’s remnants likely at the end.

Lin Qiye and Lina headed toward the ruins of the Gate of Truth while Fenrir recovered, as No. 22’s group wandered through the Time Maze and found the Supreme God Vishnu. No. 22 killed a Lesser God who lost hope, then begged Vishnu to save him.

• Lin Qiye and Lina concluded that the Time Maze had become more stable and set off toward the ruins of the Gate of Truth with the recovering Fenrir.
• The chief god and the Lesser God argued as they wandered the maze with No. 22, and the Lesser God regretted leaving Lin Qiye’s side.
• No. 22 killed the Lesser God for complaining and warned the chief god not to lose his composure.
• No. 22 and the chief god encountered Vishnu, a Supreme God seated on the ice.
• No. 22 recognized Vishnu and dropped to his knees, pleading with him to save him.

No. 22 persuaded the hidden Vishnu to leave the Time Maze by claiming that the Heavenly Court had fallen and Divine Lust Heaven could help him rule the world. Vishnu agreed to kill Lin Qiye, and he led No. 22 and the Main God toward the maze’s deepest fragment to wait for him.

• No. 22 kowtowed to Vishnu and claimed he had come to invite him out of retirement, while Vishnu insisted they had never met.
• No. 22 told Vishnu that the Heavenly Court had vanished and described the events in the outside world, convincing Vishnu that he could become the world’s supreme god.
• Vishnu agreed to join No. 22 and grant his wish, then rose from the ice field with renewed confidence.
• No. 22 identified Lin Qiye as the person Vishnu needed to kill, explaining that he was a Main God and the leader of Great Xia’s forces.
• Vishnu agreed to kill Lin Qiye for bullying his godson and led No. 22 and the Main God toward the maze’s deepest fragment to wait for him.

Lin Qiye and Lina reached the deepest part of the Time Maze, where they encountered Vishnu, who had joined forces with No. 22. Vishnu pursued them across the temporal barriers, and Lin Qiye fought back as their escape became uncertain.

• Lin Qiye and Lina reached the Gate of Truth’s remnants in a time shard from a century after the gate’s destruction.
• Vishnu appeared with No. 22 and a familiar chief god, and No. 22 identified Lin Qiye as his target.
• Lin Qiye and Lina fled as Vishnu struck them with a massive golden palm, then pursued them through a temporal barrier.
• Vishnu knocked Lin Qiye and Lina into a boulder field and transformed into a towering golden giant.
• Lin Qiye confronted Vishnu’s vajra with his sword, and a graceful figure shot into the sky.

Lina summoned a phantom of King Arthur to help Lin Qiye repel Vishnu, then Lin Qiye escaped through the maze’s fragmented Time Shards while carrying her. Safe for the moment, Lin Qiye wondered what lay at the end of the future.

• Lina summoned King Arthur’s phantom through the Sword in the Stone, and she and Lin Qiye struck Vishnu’s vajra together, forcing Vishnu to resume his pursuit after they vanished.
• Lin Qiye carried the unconscious Lina through successive Time Shards, but Vishnu continued to track him.
• Lin Qiye followed his sword marks into the maze’s densely fragmented times and escaped Vishnu by leaping between them too quickly to follow.
• Vishnu failed to find Lin Qiye, then told No. 22 he would wait near the Gate of Truth to seal the maze’s exit.
• Lin Qiye brought Lina to the ice marked “0,” realized Vishnu would likely wait at the exit, and wondered what lay at the end of the future.

Lin Qiye searched the Time Maze for a path into the future, then followed Lina’s Sword in the Stone upward through the Time Shards. They emerged above the maze and saw its full shape as a Light Cone formed by the shattered Gate of Truth.

• Lin Qiye explored the unmarked ice near the maze entrance, carving numbers until he reached the farthest future point, 38, but nothing happened.
• Lina woke and explained that the Time Shards extended above them in three dimensions, making a ground-level search insufficient.
• Lina used the Sword in the Stone to sense the future’s direction and pointed directly overhead.
• Lin Qiye flew upward with Lina, passed through a Time Shard, and vanished with her into a black-and-white world.
• Lin Qiye saw the Time Shards gathered into a Light Cone around the shattered Gate of Truth and carried Lina toward its apex.

Lin Qiye and Lina found the Safe Passage beyond the Time Maze, but two goddesses ambushed them. After Lin Qiye identified himself and showed Nyx’s Night Origin, Athena and Artemis stopped attacking and acknowledged him.

• Lin Qiye explained that the Safe Passage led out of the Time Maze, and Lina saw Vishnu and No. 22 in a Time Shard.
• A golden arrow and a spear-wielding goddess attacked Lin Qiye and Lina, while a second goddess fired arrows from hiding.
• Lin Qiye fought off the attackers, used End King’s Law to reveal the hidden archer, and recognized the pair as Athena and Artemis.
• Lin Qiye introduced himself and said he had come to find Nyx, causing Athena and Artemis to halt their assault.
• Lin Qiye presented Nyx’s Night Origin, and Artemis apologized for the attack and said Nyx had mentioned him.

Lin Qiye learned that Nyx had entered the Gate of Truth nearly four years earlier to trade for the resurrection of her children. He tried to open the sealed gate with his Mortal Divine Domain, leaving Athena and Artemis watching.

• Artemis told Lin Qiye that Nyx had found the Gate of Truth and heard her past self describe its power of equivalent exchange.
• Artemis revealed that Nyx had entered the gate to resurrect her children, and Athena said their attempts to open it over nearly four years had failed.
• Lin Qiye placed his palm on the gate and unleashed his Mortal Divine Domain, pouring all his strength into trying to open it.