Recaps

Lin Qiye battled Vishnu inside a collapsing dark world, struggling against the Supreme God's power as his own divine energy dwindled. Outside, the other Night Watchmen defeated their opponents, but Vishnu gained the upper hand and sent Lin Qiye flying.

• Lin Qiye and Vishnu traded attacks inside the dark world, which began to fracture under their blows.
• Lin Qiye realized he could not outlast Vishnu, while Vishnu aimed to win by keeping him suppressed until his divine power ran out.
• Shen Qingzhu, Hu Jia, and King Mask regrouped after the other gods were defeated, and Hu Jia reported sensing the Black Goat and its black eggs far away.
• The Night Watchmen watched the battle between Lin Qiye and Vishnu intensify as the collapsing black hole churned the sea and clouds into a vast vortex.
• Vishnu struck Lin Qiye with the phantom conch, then combined attacks from the bow and golden wheel to blast him backward.

Lin Qiye revealed the Power of Faith Merlin had sealed within him and used it to overpower Vishnu. Their final clash unleashed a golden shockwave that vaporized the surrounding sea, leaving Reporter Liao and the people at Chenglong Pass staring at the devastation.

• Vishnu attacked the wounded Lin Qiye with the phantom vajra, but Lin Qiye blocked the blow with his straight blade.
• Lin Qiye unleashed the Power of Faith from Takama-ga-hara that Merlin had sealed within him years earlier.
• Lin Qiye trapped Vishnu with Thorns of Utmost Darkness and starlight shackles, then severed the arms wielding his four phantom treasures.
• Vishnu gathered his remaining divine power as Lin Qiye launched a blazing final strike, and their attacks collided in a devastating golden explosion.
• Three cloaks tore open a gap in the shockwave before it reached Chenglong Pass, and Reporter Liao looked out over the vanished sea.

Lin Qiye killed Vishnu but survived with catastrophic injuries, then concealed them and walked toward Chenglong Pass. While the crowds celebrated his apparent victory, Shen Qingzhu stopped Hu Jia from helping him and insisted that Lin Qiye had to finish the walk alone.

• Lin Qiye rose from the battlefield after killing Vishnu and burned Vishnu's corpse to prevent the Black Goat from corrupting it.
• Lin Qiye cauterized his chest wound with golden flame, covered his ruined body with his crimson cloak, retrieved his blade, and headed for Chenglong Pass.
• The expedition team spotted Lin Qiye approaching, and Reporter Liao announced his victory as viewers and shelter residents erupted in celebration.
• Shen Qingzhu, Wang Mian, and Hu Jia saw the injuries hidden beneath Lin Qiye's cloak.
• Hu Jia tried to go support Lin Qiye, but Shen Qingzhu stopped him and told him to let Lin Qiye walk alone.

Lin Qiye reached Chenglong Pass after defeating Vishnu, where the Night Watchmen welcomed him and cleared the devastated battlefield. He collapsed from catastrophic injuries, while Chaos departed after revealing Vishnu had been a pawn, leaving Nyx worried about Great Xia.

• Lin Qiye staggered toward Chenglong Pass, and Shen Qingzhu and the Night Watchmen welcomed him home in triumph.
• Lin Qiye ordered the Night Watchmen to clear the field, and they disposed of Leviathan's remains and restored the area around Chenglong Pass.
• Lin Qiye collapsed inside the gates, and Hu Jia, King Mask, and Shen Qingzhu discovered his vital organs were severely damaged and rushed to save him.
• Chaos dismissed Vishnu as a toy he had sent to create a spectacle, then left deep space after telling Nyx they might meet again soon.
• Nyx watched Great Xia with worry after Chaos disappeared.

After the battle at Chenglong Pass, reporters failed to meet Commander Lin, who had already left for Shangjing City. In the shelter, Zhao Zhengbin and his mother discovered that its floor plan matched the strange pattern on the Spring Couplets sent to their family for years, leaving Zhao Zhengbin puzzled by the connection.

• Wu Quan told the reporters that Commander Lin had gone to Shangjing City and could not be interviewed.
• The exploration team continued broadcasting from Chenglong Pass, but viewers lost interest when they could not see Commander Lin.
• Zhao Zhengbin returned to the dormitory and told his mother that the Night Watchmen had won the battle.
• Zhao Zhengbin's mother showed him a shelter layout and said its outline resembled the pattern on the Spring Couplets his father's comrades had sent every New Year.
• Zhao Zhengbin recognized that the shelter plan and the Spring Couplets bore the same strange design, but he could not explain why.

An Qingyu struggled against the Key of Doors as its gate neared completion, while Nyarlathotep arrived to taunt him over Vishnu’s sacrifice. The Key of Doors briefly took control of An Qingyu’s body, spoke with Nyarlathotep, and then withdrew, leaving An Qingyu awake and Nyarlathotep gone.

• An Qingyu told Jiang Er to stay away from him, then threw his walkie-talkie toward the factory as the gray petrification spread across his body.
• Nyarlathotep approached An Qingyu and celebrated how Vishnu’s sacrifice had strengthened Great Xia’s faith.
• An Qingyu accused Nyarlathotep of sacrificing Vishnu to create a stronger enemy, and Nyarlathotep struck him unconscious.
• The Key of Doors took over An Qingyu’s body and warned Nyarlathotep not to damage the vessel, adding that it would awaken fully in seven or eight days.
• The Key of Doors shared something interesting with Nyarlathotep and returned to the Gate of Truth; An Qingyu awoke as Nyarlathotep disappeared into the mist.

After surviving Vishnu’s attack with the help of a miracle, Lin Qiye concealed his injuries and called an urgent war meeting as Great Xia prepared for a larger threat. Destiny Monk failed to attend, and Lin Qiye learned that he was heading to the Primal God Temple.

• Yue Jiulin told Shen Qingzhu and King Mask that Lin Qiye’s fatal wounds could not be healed because a miracle was sustaining him.
• Lin Qiye left the hospital, ordered a war meeting, and instructed the others to keep his injuries secret.
• Night Watchmen leaders and allied fighters gathered in Shangjing City while Chen Han confirmed that civilians had been evacuated to shelters.
• Min Junliang told Lin Qiye that Destiny Monk could not attend because he was on his way to the Primal God Temple.

Destiny Monk entered the Primal God Temple and urged the Twelve Ancestor Gods to sacrifice themselves in a prepared Primal Ancestor Array to kill the Crawling Chaos before the coming battle. He revealed that he knew the future in which their rushed attempt failed, then asked whether they had made up their minds.

• Destiny Monk entered the Primal God Temple, where the Twelve Ancestor Gods challenged him before recognizing his request for an audience.
• Destiny Monk learned that the ancestor gods had recovered barely ten percent of their strength and could not regain combat capability within the four days before the decisive battle.
• Destiny Monk asked the ancestor gods to die and invoke the Primal Ancestor Array, which startled them because they had never told outsiders about it.
• Destiny Monk described a future in which the Crawling Chaos interrupted the array and survived, then argued that preparing the trap in advance could change the outcome.
• Destiny Monk told the ancestor gods that only he could urge them to make the sacrifice and asked whether they had decided.

Destiny Monk secured the ancestral gods’ agreement to support a secret plan and keep it from Lin Qiye. As Lin Qiye organized Great Xia’s defenses against the coming Lovecraftian assault, Destiny Monk arrived and vowed to kill Chaos himself.

• Destiny Monk asked the ancestral gods to cooperate with his plan and conceal it from Lin Qiye, and they agreed.
• Lin Qiye warned the Night Watchmen that the defeat at Chenglong Pass did not mean the war was won and revealed that the full assault would begin in ninety-five hours and sixteen minutes.
• Lin Qiye described the enemy forces and their southern attack route, then led the Night Watchmen in planning defenses for Jialin Pass, Shanhai Pass, and Bore Pass.
• Lin Qiye explained to Shen Qingzhu that fifty Night Watchmen would activate defenses at the passes while he bore the burden of preparing them.
• Destiny Monk arrived and told Lin Qiye to follow the plan, declaring that he would kill Chaos.

Lin Qiye left for Jialin Pass as the Demon Squad prepared for the coming war. Destiny Monk summoned the squad for an extremely dangerous mission to escort people to the Primal God Temple and asked them to share any final wishes.

• Lin Qiye ordered Min Junliang to arrange a plane to Jialin Pass and flew toward the coming battle.
• Su Zhe, Su Yuan, Lu Baoyou, Li Zhenzhen, and Fang Mo discussed the war and the possibility that they might not survive.
• Destiny Monk called the Demon Squad to the Commander-in-Chief's office and announced a dangerous escort mission to the Primal God Temple.
• Destiny Monk said the squad would be escorting people, withheld further details, and asked whether they had any unfulfilled wishes.

Fang Mo expelled Su Zhe from Demon Squad after he questioned whether he had to join their mission, and Su Yuan asked Destiny Monk to keep her brother off the battlefield. After the others left, Destiny Monk warned Fang Mo that his next words concerned the team’s lives and the future of humanity.

• Su Zhe asked Destiny Monk whether he had to go on the mission, and Destiny Monk said he could leave Demon Squad if he refused.
• Fang Mo proposed expelling Su Zhe, and Su Yuan, Lu Baoyou, and Li Zhenzhen voted in favor.
• Destiny Monk formally expelled Su Zhe, who left the office in anger after Su Yuan told him he did not belong in Demon Squad.
• Su Yuan asked Destiny Monk to reassign Su Zhe to logistics work in Team 136, and Destiny Monk agreed.
• Destiny Monk dismissed the others, kept Fang Mo behind, and said his next words concerned their lives and the future of humanity.

After leaving the headquarters, Fang Mo went to see someone about a mysterious escort mission. Lu Baoyou later asked Destiny Monk to find the girl he had met beneath a bridge five years earlier, and Destiny Monk agreed to try despite the vague details.

• Li Zhenzhen comforted Su Yuan and affirmed her resolve to stay with Fang Mo wherever he went.
• Fang Mo left the headquarters without explaining the escort mission, saying he needed to go see someone.
• Lu Baoyou took charge of the Demon Squad, then spent a day alone before returning to Destiny Monk.
• Lu Baoyou asked Destiny Monk to find a girl he had met as a beggar beneath a bridge in Shangjing City on New Year's Eve five years earlier.
• Lu Baoyou told Destiny Monk that the girl might be his only remaining attachment, and Destiny Monk agreed to do his best to find her.

Destiny Monk refused Su Zhe’s request to rejoin Demon Squad and urged him to live for himself, confirming his transfer to the Logistics Department. At Jialin Pass, Guan Zai and Chen Han discussed the hurried construction of an S-rank War Pass and Commander Lin’s exhausting work on its forbidden spells.

• Su Zhe pleaded with Destiny Monk to reverse his expulsion, but Destiny Monk said only Fang Mo could persuade Demon Squad to take him back.
• Destiny Monk told Su Zhe that Su Yuan had expelled him to protect him and encouraged him to build a life of his own.
• Destiny Monk handed Su Zhe his file, which transferred him to the Logistics Department to maintain order at Shelter 136-007.
• At Jialin Pass, Guan Zai and Chen Han discussed the pass’s rapid upgrade to S-rank and the danger posed by the Black Goat offspring.
• Guan Zai learned that Commander Lin had worked without rest engraving forbidden spells and went to check on him.

Lin Qiye tirelessly engraved forbidden spell formations into metal blocks to strengthen the three passes before the Cthulhu forces’ final assault, with 932 blocks still remaining. In a shelter, Zhao Zhengbin recognized a Night Watchman and asked whether the young man wearing a red armband was one too.

• Guan Zai urged Lin Qiye to rest, but Lin Qiye continued engraving, saying the lives of Great Xia’s people depended on completing the three passes.
• Lin Qiye briefly faltered from exhaustion, then resumed work and learned that 932 metal blocks remained.
• Zhao Zhengbin waited in the Cangnan City shelter for news and wondered what the Night Watchmen were doing outside.
• Zhao Zhengbin recognized a disguised Night Watchman speaking with a young man in a red armband and stopped the young man to ask if he was a Night Watchman.

Zhao Zhengbin met Su Zhe, a Night Watchman posing as a shelter security administrator, and asked how to join the Night Watchmen. Su Zhe tried to dissuade him by describing the dangers and sacrifices of the job, then hurried off to calm a food-distribution dispute, leaving Zhao Zhengbin to head back to the dormitories.

• Su Zhe denied being a Night Watchman, but his sword fell from his waistband and exposed his lie to Zhao Zhengbin.
• Su Zhe introduced himself, and Zhao Zhengbin agreed to keep his identity secret while asking about the Night Watchmen.
• Zhao Zhengbin asked how to become a Night Watchman, and Su Zhe warned him about the deadly work, relentless duty, and sacrifices involved.
• An argument broke out over food distribution, so Su Zhe covered his sword, straightened his armband, and ran to restore order.
• Zhao Zhengbin watched Su Zhe leave, then sighed and returned to the dormitories.

An Qingyu met with Chaos on the island, where he sensed that the day of Chaos’s planned celebration had arrived and prepared a pebble for a final step. At Great Xia’s border, Lin Qiye finished carving the forbidden spells for the three passes and flew to Shangjing to rest before the coming battle.

• Chaos visited An Qingyu and urged him to watch the day’s celebration, hinting that he would not remain a bystander.
• An Qingyu traced something in the air, picked up a pebble, and said it was needed for the final step.
• Lin Qiye completed the last of 1,330 forbidden spells at the border and collapsed into a brief sleep from exhaustion.
• Guan Zai reported that the three passes’ defenses were linked across an eight-hundred-kilometer battle line and would soon be fully complete.
• Lin Qiye agreed to rest, and an aircraft carried him toward Shangjing.

Lin Qiye woke to news that the Lovecraftian Gods had attacked Great Xia's border passes at unexpected times and locations, contradicting King Mask's future knowledge. He suspected Yog-Sothoth had manipulated time and the future information to deceive Great Xia.

• The Black Goat and millions of offspring destroyed Xuehan Pass and poured across Great Xia's border.
• King Mask awoke in the hospital, realized something was wrong, and died before he could reach his sword.
• An earthquake woke Lin Qiye, who saw that the countdown to the final assault still had hours remaining.
• Min Junliang reported that Xuehan Pass and Beichong Pass had fallen, then said Jialin, Prajna, and Shanhai Passes were also under attack.
• Lin Qiye concluded that someone had altered the timeline and suspected Yog-Sothoth had used King Mask's return and future knowledge as a deception.

After discovering that the Key of Doors had deceived Great Xia and the northern defenses were collapsing, Lin Qiye ordered the three southern War Passes moved to North Bin City while he went to hold back the Black Goat. A time barrier then revealed a grotesque world and a twisted angel to him.

• Lin Qiye realized the time scam had left the northern War Passes exposed to the Black Goat and its millions of spawn.
• Lin Qiye ordered Chloe to teleport the three War Passes to North Bin City and arranged for Yurina Takishiro and King Mask to help her.
• Lin Qiye dismissed the idea of using King Mask to rewind time, believing the Key of Doors would kill him if he tried.
• Lin Qiye sensed someone watching him through the River of Time and smashed the frosted time barrier.
• Lin Qiye saw a world of writhing flesh, drifting ashes, and a savage angel hovering above two crosses.

Lin Qiye seized control of Uriel’s time domain and tried to kill Chaos in the past, hoping to rewrite history. An Qingyu from Lin Qiye’s timeline stopped the strike and admitted that Lin Qiye had fallen into his scheme, leaving the two facing off across the Rivers of Time.

• Lin Qiye recognized that Uriel’s time domain had connected him to a past moment and suspected the Key of Doors had delayed his journey to the northern front.
• Lin Qiye used End King's Law to keep Uriel’s domain open and take control of it, then targeted Chaos inside the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods.
• An Qingyu’s scalpel shattered Lin Qiye’s strike before it reached the Sixth Ward, and An Qingyu appeared across the River of Time.
• Lin Qiye accused An Qingyu of manipulating time and setting a trap, and An Qingyu confirmed that Lin Qiye had ended up caught in his scheme.
• Lin Qiye threatened to attack An Qingyu across the River of Time, invoking Miracle as golden light gathered around his hands.

Lin Qiye ended his meeting across the River of Time after An Qingyu warned him that their Chess Game was unfinished, leaving An Qingyu to deal with the valley. At Shelter 007, Zhao Zhengbin learned that Su Zhe’s masked sister was a Night Watchman and helped him escape a confrontation he had provoked.

• An Qingyu told Lin Qiye their Chess Game was not over, and Lin Qiye noticed that An Qingyu had shattered the recreated chessboard.
• Lin Qiye ended the time-spanning meeting and told An Qingyu to handle the mess in the valley.
• An Qingyu killed Uriel and every Lovecraftian Creature in the valley, freeing the two youths bound to crosses to flee.
• At Shelter 007, Zhao Zhengbin watched Su Zhe argue with residents while a masked young woman nearby received a call and left for an assignment that had been moved up.
• Zhao Zhengbin learned the woman was likely Su Zhe’s sister and helped him after the residents grabbed him over his suggestion to watch children’s programs.

Su Zhe learned that the girl who resembled him had left after being called away, then watched footage of a terrifying disturbance at a shelter in Tianhe City. The shelter’s mysterious framework lit up and the shaking stopped, leaving everyone safe but confused.

• Zhao Zhengbin urged Su Zhe to return to being a Night Watchman, but Su Zhe insisted he liked mediating disputes despite repeatedly getting beaten.
• Zhao Zhengbin told Su Zhe that a girl who looked like him had left after her captain called and said she had to rush out because something had been moved up.
• Su Zhe reacted blankly to the girl’s departure, then turned pale when Zhao Zhengbin asked whether something had happened outside.
• People in the shelter shared footage of violent shaking at shelter No. 002 in Tianhe City, and Su Zhe identified it as one of the city’s northernmost shelters.
• The shelter’s ceiling framework shone with a massive pattern, an invisible ripple passed through the structure, and a rumble ended the shaking without injuring anyone.
• The shelter announcement attributed the tremors to geological changes, while people online debated whether the frightening noises and light signaled anything more.

Su Zhe told Zhao Zhengbin that Weiyang had teleported the attacked shelter underground beneath North Bin City, where it could only buy time against the Cthulhu gods. As Su Zhe worried that Great Xia might not be able to stop the invasion, Zhao challenged his belief that only the powerful could help.

• After online claims dismissed the incident as an earthquake, Zhao Zhengbin pressed Su Zhe for the truth, and Su Zhe admitted that the Cthulhu gods had most likely attacked.
• Su Zhe explained that Commander Lin had connected the shelters’ Weiyang systems to the Earth Origin, letting attacked shelters teleport to one of five preset locations; this shelter had gone to the northern point beneath North Bin City.
• Su Zhe said Weiyang only bought the Night Watchmen time, and that a god could travel from Tianhe City to North Bin City in minutes.
• Su Zhe worried that Great Xia’s forces were concentrated at the southern border and that even Chloe and King Mask might not be enough to stop the Cthulhu gods’ army.
• Su Zhe called himself mere shelter logistics personnel and said the strong would bear the burden, but Zhao Zhengbin replied that the strong could get tired and that ordinary people should also do what they could.

Su Zhe struggled with whether he belonged in the shelter, while Destiny Monk revealed that the early enemy attack had overturned their predictions and that he had prepared to sacrifice Great Xia to defeat the Three Pillars. Demon Squad and the Twelve Golden Immortals agents flew toward the Primal God Temple, leaving Lu Baoyou disappointed that Destiny Monk had not found her.

• Su Zhe argued with Zhao Zhengbin about staying in the shelter, then walked away after Zhao insisted that he did not belong there.
• Fang Mo waited for Su Yuan at the helipad, where Demon Squad gathered as the enemy attack began earlier than expected.
• Destiny Monk explained that the Key of Doors had awakened, making King Mask's predictions wrong, and said Vishnu had been bait sent by the Cthulhu gods.
• Destiny Monk revealed that he had secretly sent one thousand young couples beyond Great Xia's borders and considered the war's casualties acceptable if humanity survived and the Three Pillars were killed.
• Destiny Monk ordered Demon Squad to escort the Twelve Golden Immortals agents to the Primal God Temple, and Fang Mo led them onto the planes.
• Destiny Monk told Lu Baoyou that they had not found her; Lu Baoyou hid his disappointment and boarded the plane.

Chaos and the Black Goat’s forces attacked shelters in Tianhe City and the southern wilderness, using the chief gods of the destroyed City of the Sun to uncover them. One shelter escaped by teleporting, but Chaos shattered the defenses of another and left it breached.

• The Black Goat’s offspring tore through Tianhe City and dug up three shelters, but one shelter vanished through a fixed-point teleportation before they could breach it.
• Chaos recognized the teleportation and Earth Origin aura, then ordered Nephthys to send Shu, Geb, and Nut south to attack another shelter.
• Geb split the earth, and Nut and Shu lifted the shelter near North Bin City without alerting its civilians or triggering Weiyang.
• Chaos struck through space and shattered the shelter’s glowing defenses, opening a massive breach.

Chaos, Nephthys, and Black Goat breached the shelter, and the terrified civilians fled into the wilderness as Chaos let them escape. After the crowd ran more than a kilometer, Crimson Eyeball appeared in their path, leaving them facing the god they had hoped to outrun.

• The three gods tore open the shelter’s ceiling, and their presence froze the people on the upper floor while alarms sent the rest into panic.
• The crowd surged toward the exits, crushing people in the rush, as military personnel tried and failed to maintain order.
• Chaos shattered every shelter exit, sending the fleeing civilians into the wilderness.
• Xiao Yu was swept out of the shelter and reunited with his mother, who carried him away despite his doubts that they could escape the gods.
• People livestreamed the gods as they ran, but after the figures vanished in the distance, Crimson Eyeball suddenly appeared before the crowd.