Recaps

Lin Qiye’s team recruited Shen Qingzhu and An Qingyu, then defeated 007 Squad’s challenge by killing the Seer of Secrets. Meanwhile, Zhou Ping entered the Mist to recover the city fragment, where Shu carried Fengdu west and Chen Han continued rescuing residents until a sword-bearing stranger arrived.

• Shen Qingzhu killed The Whisperer, and the Third Seat’s death activated the altar that summoned Osiris over Lintang.
• Zhou Ping and Emperor Fengdu defeated Osiris, while Ye Fan revealed that Shu had taken half of Anta County into the Mist and Zhou Ping went after it alone.
• Lin Qiye welcomed An Qingyu and Shen Qingzhu into the team, then bound the pug as orderly 006 and led his squad to challenge 007 Squad.
• The two squads agreed to race to kill a Limitless-realm Mystery, and the Seer of Secrets used its crimson eye and surveillance cameras to anticipate 007 Squad’s movements.
• Lin Qiye’s team lured the Seer away from its chosen site and trapped it in a wooden cage, where Lin Qiye destroyed its soul through Zhao Kun’s crimson eye.
• Lin Qiye declared his team the winner, while Shu carried Fengdu west and Chen Han and Xiao Shao continued rescuing residents in the dark city.
• Chen Han treated an injured civilian despite his own fever, told Lu Yu why he had stayed to guard people, and faced a black-clad sword bearer at the garage entrance.

Lin Qiye and his companions defied orders to enter the Mist and rescue Zhou Ping, who faced the gods while protecting the people of Fengdu. Zhou Ping broke through his limits, created humanity’s first law, and killed Set, though the Sword Law was destroying his body.

• Lin Qiye learned that Zhou Ping might die, and Ye Fan sent the other Human Apexes to defend Great Xia while refusing to delay the team’s assessment.
• After learning about Zhou Ping’s past and the forty-eight-hour challenge, Lin Qiye’s team defeated 006 Squad in a contest and received metal plates to travel through the Mist.
• Lin Qiye led his companions into the Mist, where Zhou Ping protected civilians and children as Egyptian gods attacked Fengdu.
• When the people called for the Sword Saint, Zhou Ping confronted Set, Shu, and Amon, but Set and Shu badly wounded him.
• Lin Qiye’s team arrived on a Somersault Cloud and tried to rescue Zhou Ping, but Set and Shu pursued them and blocked their escape.
• Baili Pangpang reassured Zhou Ping that his companions believed in him, and Zhou Ping broke his limits, created humanity’s first Sword Law, and named his realm Mortal World Sword Immortal.
• As Zhou Ping’s body began to break apart under the Sword Law, he left Lin Qiye’s team to defend Fengdu and charged the gods.
• Zhou Ping split Set’s defenses and Yellow Sand Law with one strike, killing him.

Lin Qiye’s group cleared the Beast Tide, received Zhou Ping’s final gifts, and guided the shattered city toward Great Xia as the Night Watchmen and Heroic Spirits repelled attacks on the nation. The arc ended with Lin Qiye encountering a masked old man whose wounds healed as time rewound.

• Lin Qiye and the Fifth Special Squad fought the Beast Tide, while Nyx emerged to restrain the Mysteries and help Lin Qiye defeat them.
• Nyx helped Lin Qiye obtain the Night Origin, then made a deal with Zhou Ping as he dissolved into the Dao and preserved his heart for a possible return.
• Lin Qiye named the team Nightfall, and the group discovered that Zhou Ping’s Dragon Elephant Sword had been carrying the shattered city toward Great Xia.
• Ye Fan, Lu Wuwei, Guan Zai, and Master Chen battled Egyptian gods at the South Sea while Jinian returned and threatened the gods with planted bombs.
• Amon’s National Destiny Curse met six Heroic Spirits, who destroyed the curse and pursued him to Egypt, where Huo Qubing cut away thirty percent of the City of the Sun’s national destiny.
• The Egyptian gods withdrew from the South Sea, and Jinian left again after refusing Ye Fan’s request to bring back the Shang Xie Association.
• Lin Qiye and Nightfall guided the shattered city through the mist toward Great Xia, then left it to investigate a divine presence and found an old man wearing a mask marked “King.”

Ye Fan sacrificed himself to restore Zhou Ping, who chose to leave the Night Watchmen and search the Mist for his students. Lin Qiye and his companions were stranded in Japan, where Lin Qiye encountered a world ruled by the Pure Land and escaped an Oracle Envoy with help from Amamiya Haruki.

• King Mask sent Lin Qiye and the others into a deep-sea vortex, then departed as a River of Time appeared.
• Emperor Fengdu restored the missing half of Anta County and returned its residents to their homes, while Ye Fan set out to save Zhou Ping.
• Ye Fan gave his life to rebuild Zhou Ping’s body and retrieve his remaining soul, and Zhou Ping returned to life.
• Zhou Ping heard Ye Fan’s message, chose to follow his own path, and backed Zuo Qing as acting Commander-in-Chief before heading into the Mist to find his students.
• Yurina rescued Lin Qiye from the sea, and he learned that Japan’s citizens lived under the Pure Land and its gods.
• Lin Qiye discovered that activating his Forbidden Ruins drew a mysterious gaze, while Pure Land identified him as an intruder and sent an Oracle Envoy to capture him.
• The Oracle Envoy broke Zhanbai and attacked Lin Qiye, but Amamiya Haruki and Hong Yan joined the fight and helped him escape.
• Amamiya Haruki explained that invaders could not use their full power in this world and described a previous invader whom Lin Qiye recognized as Cao Yuan.