Chapter Summaries

Seventeen-year-old Lin Qiye, a blindfolded boy carrying groceries, returned home and met a new doctor for his annual checkup. He began explaining that the event behind his blindness was seeing a Seraph when he was seven.

• Arno and the others watched Lin Qiye cross the street with a young girl’s help and recognized him as a former student who had been sent to a school for the blind.
• Lin Qiye returned home, where Auntie scolded him for spending his disability subsidy on groceries and told him Dr. Li had arrived for his checkup.
• Dr. Li reviewed Lin Qiye’s records and asked about the accident that caused his blindness and mental instability.
• Lin Qiye told Dr. Li that he had been watching the moon from his roof as a child when he saw a six-winged Seraph surrounded by golden radiance.

Lin Qiye told Dr. Li that a Seraph on the Moon had caused his blindness, but then insisted the story had been a delusion. After Dr. Li left, Lin Qiye shared a meal with his aunt, Yang Jin, and Xiao Hei Lai, and reaffirmed his determination to attend an ordinary high school.

• Lin Qiye told Dr. Li he had seen a Seraph watching Earth from the Moon when he was seven, and had gone blind after meeting its gaze.
• Dr. Li doubted Lin Qiye’s account, and Lin Qiye explained that he now considered it a delusion caused by falling off a roof.
• After Dr. Li left, Lin Qiye joined his aunt and Yang Jin for dinner, where Xiao Hei Lai eagerly came to sit beside him.
• Lin Qiye told Yang Jin and his aunt that his eyes had healed but still needed protection from light.
• Lin Qiye’s aunt said she had arranged his transfer to an ordinary high school, and Lin Qiye insisted he wanted the same chance as other students.

Lin Qiye struggled to open his eyes and reflected on how seeing the Seraph on the moon had blinded him ten years earlier. He returned to his recurring dream of the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods and spent another night knocking on its gates.

• Lin Qiye tried and failed to open his eyes, though he could perceive everything within ten meters through his supernatural vision.
• Lin Qiye recalled seeing a Seraph on the moon ten years earlier and recognized that the encounter had left him blind.
• Lin Qiye fell asleep, and golden light briefly shone from beneath his eyelids.
• Lin Qiye entered his recurring dream and approached the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, whose gates had resisted his attempts to enter for five years.
• Lin Qiye knocked on the gates again, but they remained closed as he continued through the night.

Lin Qiye transferred to Class 2, Year 11, where his classmates warmly welcomed him after his aunt had asked them to look after him. During class, he learned that a deadly fog had consumed nearly all of Earth, leaving Great Xia isolated as humanity’s possible last refuge.

• Lin Qiye entered his new school and attracted attention, but students offered to help him rather than mock him.
• Classmates guided Lin Qiye to his seat and introduced themselves, explaining that his aunt had brought them eggs and asked them to take care of him.
• Lin Qiye remembered his aunt’s earnest visit and murmured, “Aunt...”
• The teacher introduced the history of the mysterious fog that appeared over Antarctica and swallowed nearly 98% of Earth in a day.
• The teacher explained that the fog had stopped at Great Xia, that expeditions into it had never returned, and that March 9th was commemorated as Survival Day.

Lin Qiye walked home with classmates and questioned whether the fog was truly a natural phenomenon. In Cangnan City's old district, a man activated the third signboard, forming a hidden domain as six cloaked figures began a purge operation.

• Jiang Qian and Lin Qiye's classmates escorted him from school, and most gradually departed along the way.
• Li Yifei, Jiang Qian, and Wang Shao discussed whether the fog would return, while Lin Qiye suggested it might not be natural.
• A man placed the third “No Entry Ahead” signboard in Cangnan City's old district and activated its Forbidden Ruin, Boundless Void Domain with his blood.
• Three points of light formed a dark-red triangle that made half the old district vanish from view.
• Six black-and-red cloaked figures flew through the domain, and their leader announced the start of the Ghost-faced Man purge operation.

Zhao Kongcheng guarded the old district while a Ghost-faced King escaped through the sewers, and Wang Shao, Lin Qiye, and their classmates learned about a series of brutal killings nearby. A nauseating stench led them toward the alley Wang Shao had entered, where a scream rang out.

• Zhao Kongcheng used his Forbidden Ruin to turn a passerby away from the old district, then learned that a Ghost-faced King had injured Hong Ying and escaped through the sewers.
• Zhao Kongcheng drove southeast to pursue two Ghost-faced Men who had also fled into the sewers, taking his cloak and blade.
• Li Yifei warned Wang Shao, Jiang Qian, Liu Yuan, and Lin Qiye that more than ten people had been killed in the old district and that the victims' faces had been skinned.
• Wang Shao left through a narrow alley despite the warning, while Jiang Qian and the others noticed a foul smell coming from the same direction.
• A scream echoed from near the alley after the smell overwhelmed the group and Jiang Qian began vomiting.

Lin Qiye rushed into the alley after hearing screams, driven by his debt to Wang Shao, and found his classmates fleeing from a monster. The Ghost-faced Man caught Jiang Qian as Lin Qiye tried to escape, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Lin Qiye entered the alley after realizing Wang Shao might have encountered danger because he and his classmates had walked together.
• Lin Qiye found Jiang Qian, Liu Yuan, and Li Yifei frozen in terror, and Jiang Qian told him a monster was chewing on Wang Shao's face.
• Lin Qiye and Li Yifei shouted for everyone to run, while Liu Yuan knocked Lin Qiye off balance and fled with the others.
• The Ghost-faced Man charged into Lin Qiye's range of perception, and Lin Qiye warned Jiang Qian not to turn around.
• Jiang Qian panicked and swung her backpack at the Ghost-faced Man, which grabbed its strap and knocked her down before a dark shadow fell over her.

After witnessing Jiang Qian’s death, Lin Qiye found himself trapped between two monsters and fought back as one attacked him. His eyes, shut for ten years, opened when he faced death, releasing a pillar of light into the sky.

• Lin Qiye fled from the monster eating Jiang Qian, only to find a second monster devouring Wang Shao’s body and blocking his escape.
• The second monster attacked Lin Qiye, who dodged its claws and struck at it with his blind cane, but the cane broke and its tail sent him flying.
• Lin Qiye refused to give up, and the surge of emotion shattered the barrier in his mind.
• Lin Qiye opened his eyes for the first time in ten years and saw the Seraph’s eyes, releasing a blazing pillar of light that illuminated the night.

Lin Qiye’s eyes unleashed the lingering power of Michael, revealing the old district and stunning the city’s investigators. After the light faded, his enhanced perception helped him evade a Ghost-faced Monster, and he used divine might to freeze it long enough to strike its eye with the Half a Blind Cane.

• Five cloaked investigators recovered the Boundless Void Domain and found the old district strewn with Ghost-faced Men, while their captain pursued two escapees.
• Hong Ying and the others identified a pillar of light as a Divine Zone belonging to Michael, the King of Angels.
• Lin Qiye’s eyes released Michael’s remaining power, and after the light faded, he rejoiced at seeing the world again.
• Lin Qiye discovered that his mental perception had expanded and his dynamic vision had improved, helping him dodge a Ghost-faced Monster.
• Lin Qiye focused divine might through his eyes to paralyze the attacking monster, then drove the Half a Blind Cane into its right eye.

After Lin Qiye killed one Ghost-faced Man, Zhao Kongcheng arrived and killed the second, then tried to recruit Lin Qiye. Lin Qiye escaped and returned home, where Yang Jin noticed the smell of blood on him.

• Lin Qiye, pinned beneath the dead monster and too exhausted to move, watched as the second Ghost-faced Man charged at him.
• Zhao Kongcheng arrived, drove the monster back with his straight blade, and decapitated it.
• Zhao Kongcheng introduced himself and tried to persuade Lin Qiye to join him, but Lin Qiye said he wanted his backpack and study materials.
• While Zhao Kongcheng waited, Lin Qiye slipped away, leaving him to realize the boy had run off.
• Lin Qiye went home and told Yang Jin he had lost his cane and that everything was fine.
• After Lin Qiye went to his room, Yang Jin and Xiao Hei Lai sensed the smell of blood on him.

After surviving a monster attack, Lin Qiye entered the dream of the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods and found that he could finally open its gate. He explored the strange wards, failed to open five doors, and opened the First Ward by accident.

• Lin Qiye reflected on the hidden world and decided he wanted only to protect his family, then fell asleep.
• Dream-Lin Qiye found that his body had become more solid and rang the hospital gate until it opened.
• Lin Qiye explored the activity area and noticed it matched the psychiatric hospital where he had once stayed.
• Lin Qiye examined the six sealed ward doors and wondered whether gods lived inside them.
• Lin Qiye failed to open Wards Six through Two, but his pull shattered the seal on the First Ward and opened its door.

Lin Qiye opened the first ward in the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods and discovered that its patient was Nyx, the Goddess of Night. Nyx mistook objects for her children, and after waking, Lin Qiye realized he could enter the hospital while awake and began thinking of how to treat her.

• Lin Qiye opened the first ward and read that he had to treat Nyx to earn portions of her abilities at specified progress milestones.
• Lin Qiye approached Nyx, who woke, called him her child, then ran past him to embrace a vase and a chair she believed were her children.
• Lin Qiye watched Nyx mistake other things around her for her children and concluded that she was seriously ill.
• At dawn, Lin Qiye discovered he could connect to the hospital while awake and sense what was happening inside it, though the other five wards remained sealed.
• Lin Qiye saw Nyx in the courtyard with the vase and chair, complained that he was not a doctor, then appeared to think of a plan.

Zhao Kongcheng reported meeting Lin Qiye, Seraph’s proxy, while the captain and Wu Xiangnan planned to track the wounded Ghost-faced King through Cangnan City’s sewers. Lin Qiye left home for Sunshine Psychiatric Hospital, where the old gatekeeper mistook him for someone blocking traffic.

• Zhao Kongcheng told his teammates that Lin Qiye was an ordinary high school student with residual power from Seraph and had run away when Zhao Kongcheng was distracted.
• The captain said the Ghost-faced King had escaped after their fight, and Wu Xiangnan concluded it would likely return to Cangnan City through the sewers to recover by eating people.
• Wu Xiangnan ordered Zhao Kongcheng to bring Lin Qiye in, and Zhao Kongcheng vowed to wait outside Second High School for him.
• Lin Qiye left home without his backpack, hid his recovered eyes behind sunglasses, and traveled to Sunshine Psychiatric Hospital.
• The old gatekeeper shouted at Lin Qiye for blocking a car behind him.

Lin Qiye consulted a psychiatrist about Nyx’s delusions and learned that understanding her past might help him treat her. After visiting the library, he was spotted by Zhao Kongcheng, who chased him down and caught him.

• Lin Qiye pretended to act out his friend’s symptoms for the doctor, then explained Nyx’s delusions and unusual behavior.
• The doctor recommended medication and psychological treatment, explaining that severe delusions could stem from psychological trauma.
• Lin Qiye decided to learn more about Nyx’s past and went to the Cangnan City Library, leaving the prescription unfilled.
• Zhao Kongcheng waited outside Second High School for Lin Qiye, then spotted him carrying books and chased him.
• Zhao Kongcheng caught Lin Qiye by the shoulder, and Lin Qiye pretended not to recognize him.

Zhao Kongcheng took Lin Qiye to a couples' hotel and questioned him about his eyes and his encounter with Michael. He explained that the mist had brought Mythical Creatures into the world, then revealed that the volcano Michael destroyed in North America had concealed Lucifer.

• Zhao Kongcheng dragged Lin Qiye to a couples' hotel, where the two got a room and began talking.
• Zhao Kongcheng asked Lin Qiye whether he had met Michael, and Lin Qiye confirmed that he had.
• Lin Qiye asked whether Mythological Gods existed, and Zhao Kongcheng explained that the mist's arrival had led to the discovery of Mythical Creatures.
• Zhao Kongcheng told Lin Qiye that Michael was Mythical Creature 003, first revealed by a golden sword light from the moon in 1928.
• Zhao Kongcheng explained that an exploration team later found the sealed Fallen Angel, Lucifer, in the ruins of the North American volcano.

Zhao Kongcheng explained to Lin Qiye how the mist brought mythological gods and Forbidden Ruins into the world, then revealed that he fought without a personal Forbidden Ruin and relied on a Night Watchmen support item. He left Lin Qiye knowing that Zhao Kongcheng’s Signboard could deploy the Boundless Void Domain.

• Zhao Kongcheng told Lin Qiye that gods from many mythologies had appeared after the mist arrived, while Great Xia’s gods remained undiscovered and might have always protected the country.
• Zhao Kongcheng explained that some people and objects gained Forbidden Ruins through the mist’s influence, and that the powers grew with Mental Power across six realms.
• Zhao Kongcheng placed Lin Qiye in the Cup Realm, and Lin Qiye wondered whether advancing realms would let him release more patients from the hospital in his mind.
• Zhao Kongcheng revealed that he had no personal Forbidden Ruin and had killed the Ghost-faced Man through combat training and experience.
• Zhao Kongcheng explained that his Forbidden Item was the Night Watchmen’s standard-issue Signboard, which deployed the Boundless Void Domain.

Zhao Kongcheng explained the Night Watchmen, Forbidden Zones, and the danger posed by Mythical Creatures to Lin Qiye. Lin Qiye refused to join because he needed to stay with his aunt and cousin and protect his family at home.

• Zhao Kongcheng explained that divine agents received Forbidden Zones from gods and asked Lin Qiye what Michael wanted from him, but Lin Qiye said Michael had given him no instructions.
• Lin Qiye tried to leave, then agreed to hear about Zhao Kongcheng’s organization after learning that he would not be forced to join or punished for refusing.
• Zhao Kongcheng explained how the 139 Special Biological Response Team became the Night Watchmen, an organization that defended Great Xia from Mythical Creatures and Mysteries.
• Zhao Kongcheng urged Lin Qiye to join the Night Watchmen, but Lin Qiye refused because he needed to support his aunt and cousin and give them a better life.

Lin Qiye returned home after agreeing to sign the confidentiality agreement, then found Zhao Kongcheng’s engraved emblem in his pocket. At the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, he tried to reach Nyx by pretending to be her son, and she welcomed him back as Danaus.

• Lin Qiye left Zhao Kongcheng after agreeing to sign the confidentiality agreement, and Zhao Kongcheng could not bring himself to stop him.
• Lin Qiye returned home, discovered Zhao Kongcheng’s emblem, and read its Night Watchmen creed.
• Lin Qiye entered the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods and considered whether Nyx’s illness came from her longing for her children.
• Lin Qiye embraced Nyx and told her, “Mother, I'm back.”
• Nyx held Lin Qiye and welcomed him back as her child Danaus.

Lin Qiye drew the Divine Personality Ability Starry Night Dancer and gained powerful enhancements in darkness. After discovering medicine specially made for gods in the hospital, he brought Nyx her prescribed pills and decided to help her take them each day.

• Lin Qiye drew Starry Night Dancer, which multiplied his physical abilities in darkness and gave him stealth, intimidation, and communication with nocturnal animals.
• Nyx mistook Lin Qiye for her son Danaus and asked him to embrace a vase she believed was his little brother.
• Lin Qiye recognized Haloperidol labeled “For Gods” among the bottles Nyx carried and realized the hospital stocked medicine for gods.
• Lin Qiye found the medicine storage room and collected the medications prescribed for Nyx.
• Lin Qiye brought Nyx the pills and, seeing she was not listening, told her he would come give them to her every day.

Lin Qiye revealed to his aunt and brother that his eyesight had recovered, then returned to school and faced his classmates’ reactions. After noticing Liu Yuan’s guilt and awkwardness, Lin Qiye agreed to speak with Li Yifei outside.

• Lin Qiye woke from a peaceful night’s sleep and told his aunt that he could see again, making her cry with joy.
• Lin Qiye showed his recovered eyes to Yang Jin, and the brothers celebrated together with Xiao Hei Lai.
• At Second High School, Lin Qiye’s classmates were astonished to see that his eyesight had recovered and crowded around him with questions.
• Lin Qiye noticed Liu Yuan’s guilty, awkward reaction and remembered that Liu Yuan had abandoned him while fleeing from the monster.
• Li Yifei asked Lin Qiye to come outside for a private conversation, and Lin Qiye agreed.