Chapter Summaries

Lin Qiye learned that Old Dog Wu discovered the prison passphrase by entering orderlies’ dreams, while he and An Qingyu were suddenly treated as the prison’s new bosses. They considered recruiting Old Dog Wu for their escape, but remained wary of his unstable mind.

• Lin Qiye questioned an orderly about his dreams and realized Old Dog Wu learned the passphrase by visiting orderlies in their dreams.
• Prisoners welcomed Lin Qiye as a new boss and explained that he and An Qingyu had taken Han Jinlong’s place.
• Lin Qiye told An Qingyu about Old Dog Wu, and An Qingyu revealed that he had dreamed about him too.
• An Qingyu suggested recruiting Old Dog Wu for their prison escape, but Lin Qiye worried that his instability could put them at risk.
• Wang Lu and Fang Yanghui entered the cafeteria and noticed that the balance of power in Abstinence Hall had changed.

Lin Qiye and his friends learned that Old Dog Wu may have been confined to the Abstinence Hall for his protection from Spirit Medium. Elsewhere, Shen Qingzhu joined an Ancient God Church operation whose target was revealed to be Wu Tongxuan.

• Lin Qiye asked Wang Lu and Fang Yanghui about Old Dog Wu, and they said he had once belonged to Spirit Medium and was rumored to be hunted by them.
• An Qingyu and Lin Qiye reasoned that Old Dog Wu’s long stay in the Abstinence Hall might be protection, since its defenses could shield him from Spirit Medium.
• Fang Yanghui explained that Spirit Medium hunted dangerous ability users and was led by the strongest person beneath the Human Apex.
• An Qingyu joked that Lin Qiye was a cat after he questioned why she had given him so much fish.
• Shen Qingzhu arrived at the Ancient God Church and was assigned to observe during an operation with the Second Seat and Fifth Seat.
• The Whisperer revealed that the operation’s target was Wu Tongxuan, the Abstinence Hall’s former Spirit Medium vice-captain.

Lin Qiye spoke with An Qingyu about his future after escaping prison, then visited Master Chen, who confirmed that the Town Ruin Stele had been hidden in his mindscape. The chapter left Lin Qiye knowing where the stele had been concealed, while An Qingyu remained uncertain about what to do with his life.

• Lin Qiye warned An Qingyu that escaping prison would make him a fugitive, but An Qingyu said he did not know what he wanted to do.
• The prisoners called out their farewells to Lin Qiye as he left the activity area, while An Qingyu sat alone under a tree.
• Lin Qiye found Master Chen waiting in his carriage and joined him for tea.
• Master Chen said he could not influence Dr. Li or the Night Watchmen leadership to shorten Lin Qiye's required year of observation.
• Lin Qiye asked whether a black pillar was the Town Ruin Stele, and Master Chen confirmed he had concealed it in his mindscape to protect it.

Lin Qiye learned that his three stages of observation were complete, though Dr. Li said a full year of monitoring would be safest. He then asked Dr. Li how to help two souls sharing one body without harming either, and Dr. Li concluded that the case required unconventional methods.

• Master Chen told Lin Qiye to contact acting warden Xie Yu about prison matters while he was away in Huaihai City.
• Dr. Li gave Lin Qiye the files confirming that his three observation stages had ended and explained how the hospital had assessed him.
• Lin Qiye learned that he could use the hospital's activity areas or keep sharing the exercise yard with the prisoners, and that a year of observation would be safest.
• Lin Qiye described a patient with two independent souls, a man and his former wife, and asked how they could be treated without harming either soul.
• Dr. Li said the case did not fit modern medicine's definition of a disease and would require unconventional treatment.

Lin Qiye received Dr. Li’s notes on treating Bragi and Idunn and decided to copy them inside the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods. Bragi admitted that he missed his wife, leaving Lin Qiye to begin studying and transcribing the notes.

• Dr. Li explained that separating Bragi and Idunn’s souls without harm would require a rare Forbidden Ruin or Forbidden Object, and warned Lin Qiye to monitor their mental state.
• Dr. Li offered Lin Qiye his psychiatric notes, and an orderly delivered a huge stack of notebooks to Lin Qiye’s room.
• Lin Qiye decided to copy the notes inside the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods because he could not take them with him.
• Bragi sneaked into Lin Qiye’s Director’s Office to practice reciting poetry, and Lin Qiye told him to ask Merlin for a soundproof barrier.
• Lin Qiye asked Bragi about his well-being, and Bragi confessed that he missed his wife.
• Lin Qiye returned to his desk and began copying Dr. Li’s notes.

In Lin Qiye’s dream, Old Dog Wu confirmed they were alike and offered to help him escape Abstinence Hall when the time was right. Elsewhere, the Spirit Medium team attacked The Whisperer in the desert, and he fled toward the southeastern sea, prompting their leader to realize something was wrong.

• Lin Qiye confronted Old Dog Wu in the deepest part of his dream and asked about his connection to the Spirit Medium team.
• Old Dog Wu refused to leave Abstinence Hall because someone outside wanted to kill him, but offered to help Lin Qiye escape when the time was right.
• The Spirit Medium team ambushed The Whisperer in the desert with seven lightning-charged pillars and ordered their cloaked figures to kill him.
• The Whisperer used a black vortex to absorb the team’s Wind Blades, then unleashed nightmare tentacles before escaping toward the southeastern sea.
• The Spirit Medium team’s leader recognized where The Whisperer was heading and cursed.

Shen Qingzhu, the Second Seat, and the Fifth Seat approached the island housing the Abstinence Hall, while Cao Yuan and Baili Pangpang secretly made it ashore. The two groups unexpectedly encountered each other in the woods, leaving their intentions and next move unclear.

• The Second Seat explained that the three would evade the Abstinence Hall’s defenses by swimming in sonar-resistant wetsuits and wait for The Whisperer’s signal.
• Cao Yuan and Baili Pangpang reached the island shore and hid in nearby woods after swimming three hundred meters.
• Baili Pangpang admitted that his plan was to get onto the island and play it by ear, so Cao Yuan explained they still needed to find a way through the guarded main gate.
• Baili Pangpang spotted three more divers coming ashore, and Cao Yuan watched them head into the woods.
• Shen Qingzhu, the Second Seat, and the Fifth Seat came face to face with Cao Yuan and Baili Pangpang, and both groups fell silent.

Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan encountered Shen Qingzhu, Second Seat, and Fifth Seat on the Abstinence Hall, with both groups pretending they were visiting a Dive Base. After realizing the others were also intruders, they considered how to avoid disrupting their plans, then confronted each other in the woods.

• Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan met the three believers and exchanged awkward pleasantries after Fifth Seat claimed they were vacationing at a Dive Base.
• Second Seat realized they could not use their Forbidden Ruins and concluded that the island was the Abstinence Hall and the two youths were likely intruders.
• Shen Qingzhu warned Second Seat and Fifth Seat not to attack the youths and risk alerting the prison guards.
• Cao Yuan identified the two as possible fellow prison-breakers and worried they might jeopardize his and Baili Pangpang’s attempt to free someone.
• Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan pursued the three believers, and Baili Pangpang summoned a flash of golden light as the groups faced off.

Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan captured Second Seat, Fifth Seat, and Shen Qingzhu while Lin Qiye and An Qingyu worked on an escape plan from Abstinence Hall. A deliberately created meteorite was destroyed by the island’s missiles, leaving Lin Qiye suspicious that the attack concealed another purpose.

• Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan discussed their oddly bound captives before heading toward Abstinence Hall, while Second Seat told Fifth Seat to stay hidden and wait for the Town Ruin Stele’s effects to end.
• Lin Qiye and An Qingyu reviewed their detailed map of Abstinence Hall and discussed an incomplete escape plan.
• A meteorite appeared through a crack in the sky and headed toward Abstinence Hall, and Lin Qiye concluded that someone had created it deliberately.
• Acting Warden Xie Yu ordered the military to shoot down the meteorite, and prison guards cleared the activity area and returned prisoners to their cells.
• Lin Qiye erased the map and went toward the hospital as two missiles struck the meteorite and sent its fragments into the sea.
• Lin Qiye suspected the attack had another purpose because the meteorite could not have destroyed Abstinence Hall.

Xie Yu placed Abstinence Hall under Level One alert after the meteorite was shot down, while Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan searched for a way inside to rescue Lin Qiye. They decided to surrender at the prison entrance, and approached the checkpoint carrying a plea for mercy.

• Xie Yu ordered two-thirds of the prison guards transferred to reinforce Abstinence Hall's perimeter and put every prisoner under confinement.
• Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan found the checkpoint too heavily defended to infiltrate, and the Town Ruin Stele had weakened or disabled many of Baili Pangpang's Forbidden Objects.
• Baili Pangpang proposed that they surrender voluntarily so the guards would take them into the prison, and Cao Yuan reluctantly agreed.
• At dusk, snipers and special forces surrounded the approaching Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan, who raised their hands and displayed a banner reading, “Spare us, boss!”

Xie Yu mistook Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan’s failed prison break for part of The Whisperer’s plan to attack the Abstinence Hall. He freed them and returned their weapons, leaving the two teenagers baffled by his trust.

• A prison officer told Xie Yu that Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan had tried to escape but surrendered without a fight.
• Xie Yu connected their capture to The Whisperer’s signal and decided they were allies meant to draw guards away from the Abstinence Hall.
• Guards brought the shackled teenagers to Xie Yu’s office, where he dismissed the guards and spoke to them privately.
• Xie Yu apologized for their predicament, unlocked their shackles, and returned Cao Yuan’s blade and Baili Pangpang’s pocket.
• Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan exchanged confused looks as Xie Yu prepared them to act on his mistaken assumptions.

Xie Yu hacked Abstinence Hall’s control systems and plunged the prison into darkness while Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan waited for a chance to rescue Qiye from Sunshine Psychiatric Hospital. The Fourth Seat, Sixth Seat, and Twelfth Seat escaped their cells and headed for the eastern gate, while An Qingyu noticed them passing.

• Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan waited in Xie Yu’s office, believing the acting warden had been bribed by the Baili Family to help them reach Sunshine Psychiatric Hospital.
• Xie Yu entered Abstinence Hall’s central control room and used a USB drive to crack its systems.
• Xie Yu shut down the lights and disabled surveillance and automatic door controls, plunging Abstinence Hall into darkness.
• The Fourth Seat, Sixth Seat, and Twelfth Seat slipped out of their cells and made for the lightly guarded eastern gate.
• An Qingyu heard the prisoners passing his cell and looked toward them with a faint gray gleam in his eyes.

The Fourth Seat and Sixth Seat used the Blade of Shattering Illusions to breach the Principal’s Mindscape and strike the Town Ruin Stele, weakening its suppression of Forbidden Ruins. As the prisoners regained power, they broke out of their cells and began a riot.

• The Sixth Seat killed the Twelfth Seat, and the Fourth Seat extracted the Blade of Shattering Illusions from his body.
• The Fourth Seat used the blade to cut a passage through the Principal’s Mindscape, and the Sixth Seat carried the Twelfth Seat’s corpse and bloodied hammer inside.
• The Sixth Seat struck the Town Ruin Stele, weakening its suppression of Forbidden Ruins throughout the prison.
• An Qingyu sensed that he could project his Forbidden Ruin again as the other prisoners discovered their powers were returning.
• After further hammer blows raised the prisoners’ strength to the River realm, prisoners shattered their cell doors and launched a riot.

Sixth Seat and Fourth Seat failed to destroy the Town Ruin Stele, but its weakened effect threw Abstinence Hall into chaos. Lin Qiye used the turmoil to escape the Metal Room, only to encounter Old Dog Wu, who revealed that he had pulled Lin Qiye into a dream.

• Sixth Seat used up Blood Hammer’s power after striking the Town Ruin Stele three times, while Fourth Seat sent the guards’ bullets flying back at the watchtowers.
• Sixth Seat and Fourth Seat decided to use the chaos in Abstinence Hall to settle old scores.
• Lin Qiye sensed that the Town Ruin Stele’s suppression had weakened and decided to escape, partly because he worried about An Qingyu.
• Lin Qiye knocked out an orderly, used Transformation Magic to take his appearance, and walked out of the laboratory.
• Old Dog Wu appeared in the corridor and told Lin Qiye that he had pulled him into a dream.

Lin Qiye escaped the Psychiatric Hospital after Old Dog Wu helped him pass the code phrase, while Second Seat and Fifth Seat launched an attack on Abstinence Hall. The chapter ended with a massive explosion at the hall’s main gate as Shen Qingzhu watched from outside.

• Old Dog Wu told Lin Qiye that the attackers had come for him and urged Lin Qiye to leave, then said Lin Qiye already knew the code phrase.
• Lin Qiye passed the hospital checkpoints disguised as an orderly and realized Old Dog Wu was speaking through the code phrase verifier.
• Lin Qiye gave the correct code phrase, left the Psychiatric Hospital, and told himself not to return.
• Second Seat freed Shen Qingzhu and Fifth Seat, then entered a spatial rift with Fifth Seat to attack Abstinence Hall.
• Shen Qingzhu watched as a terrifying explosion erupted at Abstinence Hall’s main gate.

Lin Qiye discovered signs that someone inside the Abstinence Hall had damaged the Town Ruin Stele, then encountered Han Jinlong plotting an escape with three prisoners. Han Jinlong demanded they kill Lin Qiye, and Lin Qiye turned back to face them.

• Lin Qiye sensed that a large prohibited artifact had cracked the Town Ruin Stele inside the Master's Mindscape and suspected a high-ranking mole in the Abstinence Hall.
• Lin Qiye followed Han Jinlong, a gaunt prisoner, a bearded man, and Old Zhang as they planned to escape through the drainage system.
• The three prisoners threatened to abandon Han Jinlong, but he warned them they needed him to navigate the Abstinence Hall's water system.
• Old Zhang attacked Lin Qiye after the group sensed him nearby, but Lin Qiye emerged unharmed and tried to leave.
• Han Jinlong demanded that the three prisoners help him kill Lin Qiye, and Lin Qiye stopped and accepted the challenge.

Lin Qiye faced Han Jinlong and three other River-realm enemies, using a miracle and Transformation Magic to overpower them. As the remaining attackers unleashed a swarm of metal mosquitoes, Lin Qiye summoned Mumu and transformed into a second War Mummy to fight back.

• The gaunt man hurled enlarged boulders at Lin Qiye, but Lin Qiye used a miracle to make them miss.
• Han Jinlong charged Lin Qiye, who transformed into a green giant and smashed him into a crater, gravely injuring him.
• Old Zhang sent barriers after Lin Qiye while the bearded man transformed into a swarm of metal mosquitoes.
• Lin Qiye summoned Mumu and transformed himself into a War Mummy as the swarm descended.
• Mumu and Lin Qiye became war fortresses and raised their arms to fire at the incoming mosquitoes.

Lin Qiye survived an attack by the Fourth Seat and watched the two Believers kill Han Jinlong. The Believers recognized Lin Qiye as a target, leaving him facing two powerful enemies.

• Lin Qiye destroyed the steel mosquitoes with Mumu’s help, killing the bearded man and crippling the gaunt man in the blast.
• Old Zhang offered Han Jinlong to Lin Qiye, but the Fourth Seat emerged and nearly killed Lin Qiye with an iron shard.
• The Sixth Seat confronted Han Jinlong, while the Fourth Seat crushed Old Zhang and the gaunt man with steel rebars.
• Lin Qiye held back as the two Believers tortured Han Jinlong and then killed him.
• The Fourth Seat identified Lin Qiye as someone the Whisperer had ordered killed, and the Sixth Seat welcomed the chance to kill a Dual God Agent.

Lin Qiye faced the Fourth Seat and Sixth Seat, but Wu Tongxuan intervened by drawing them into a dream and summoning illusions of the Spirit Medium team. The believers used Mental Counteraction to break the dream, but Wu Tongxuan revealed that My Dream was not his Forbidden Ruin.

• Lin Qiye prepared to bear Merlin or Nyx's soul as the Fourth Seat and Sixth Seat moved to kill him.
• Wu Tongxuan appeared in a dreamlike ocean and told Lin Qiye he would handle the two believers.
• Wu Tongxuan summoned illusions of the Spirit Medium team to attack the Fourth Seat and Sixth Seat.
• The Sixth Seat used Mental Counteraction to disrupt the dream, and the Fourth Seat identified Wu Tongxuan's My Dream as a lower-ranked Forbidden Ruin.
• Wu Tongxuan dispelled the dream himself, then told the believers that My Dream was not his Forbidden Ruin.

Old Dog Wu revealed that his Forbidden Zone, Formless, could copy Lin Qiye’s Divine Domains, and used a copied Absolute Darkness Divine Forbidden Zone to attack the believers. He crippled Sixth Seat, but Fourth Seat struck back by binding him in metal pipes and raining steel pillars down on him.

• Old Dog Wu explained that his Formless Forbidden Zone could copy the Forbidden Zones and Divine Domains it touched, then copied Lin Qiye’s Absolute Darkness Divine Forbidden Zone.
• Fourth Seat identified Formless as one of the seven King Forbidden Zones, while Old Dog Wu reflected on the strange abilities he had copied from Lin Qiye before landing on the darkness.
• Old Dog Wu tore through Sixth Seat with a strike of darkness, splitting the believer’s body and damaging the ground, buildings, and clouds around him.
• Fourth Seat attacked Old Dog Wu with falling steel pillars and metal pipes, binding him in midair.