Chapter Summaries

Zhou Ping gave Lin Qiye and the others detailed combat analyses and personalized training plans, then sent them to begin training. Lin Qiye and Jialan left to spar, while Cao Yuan lost control almost immediately during tic-tac-toe practice with Baili Pangpang.

• Lin Qiye read Zhou Ping’s handwritten analysis of his fighting style and studied his personalized training plan to spar with Jialan while she wielded Sky Palace.
• Zhou Ping assigned Cao Yuan and Baili Pangpang to play tic-tac-toe to help Cao Yuan regain consciousness in his Black King state, and gave An Qingyu a dissection-focused training plan.
• Lin Qiye and Jialan left the warehouse to train elsewhere, and An Qingyu went to prepare his laboratory.
• Baili Pangpang drew a tic-tac-toe grid and began playing with Cao Yuan, who drew his blade and entered a dangerous state.
• Cao Yuan snapped his branch, grinned at Baili Pangpang, and unleashed a roar and grim black radiance inside the warehouse.

Lin Qiye fought Jialan in a training match, but an accidental glimpse beneath her robes enraged her and turned the spar into a potentially deadly fight. Meanwhile, An Qingyu helped Baili Pangpang use Cao Yuan’s Spirit Calming Beads, allowing Cao Yuan to regain enough control to draw his first X.

• Lin Qiye attacked Jialan and countered her arrows and spear with Praying Abyss, the night-controlled saber, and a wind-and-fire spell.
• Lin Qiye accidentally lifted Jialan’s robe while restraining her, prompting her to break free and glare at him with boiling killing intent.
• An Qingyu found Baili Pangpang struggling to get Mad Demon Cao Yuan to draw an X and examined the Buddhist beads on Cao Yuan’s wrist.
• An Qingyu explained that Cao Yuan could use the Spirit Calming Beads only after regaining some control of his consciousness, and Baili Pangpang used Disarm to activate them.
• Cao Yuan briefly regained control, picked up a branch, and drew a crooked X on the board.

Cao Yuan made progress controlling Black King Annihilation, while Lin Qiye and Jialan’s training ended only after he promised her four chicken legs. Meanwhile, The Whisperer sent Shen Qingzhu and the Ninth Seat to Lintang, where two more seats were already being deployed for an unexplained mission.

• Cao Yuan completed a stroke while berserk, showing he had taken a step toward controlling Black King Annihilation.
• Baili Pangpang, Cao Yuan, and An Qingyu found Lin Qiye and Jialan fighting fiercely during their training.
• Lin Qiye persuaded Jialan to stop by promising her four chicken legs, and she returned to the warehouse with him.
• The Whisperer praised Shen Qingzhu and the Ninth Seat for killing Baili Xin and Baili Tumming, then ordered them to go to Lintang.
• The Ninth Seat told Shen Qingzhu that the Third Seat was already in Lintang and the Seventh Seat was on the way, leaving Shen Qingzhu to wonder what awaited them there.

Lin Qiye discovered that Bragi’s treatment progress had fallen from 32% to 16% and learned that Bragi was distressed by dreams about his missing wife, Idunn. Bragi asked to leave the hospital so he could search for her.

• Lin Qiye visited Nyx in the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods and saw that her treatment progress had reached 89%.
• Nyx told Lin Qiye that Bragi had seemed unwell lately, so he went to check on him.
• Lin Qiye found Bragi alone on the rooftop and saw that his treatment progress had regressed to 16%.
• Bragi asked Lin Qiye to let him leave the hospital because he missed Idunn and feared for her after dreaming that she was imprisoned, forced to fight, or dead.

Lin Qiye struggled to help Bragi, whose lovesickness had worsened after Idunn vanished, and found no answers in Dr. Li’s notes. After asking Baili Pangpang for advice, Lin Qiye seized on the idea of writing a letter, leaving him with a possible way to help Bragi.

• Lin Qiye refused to let Bragi leave the Psychiatric Hospital and promised to help him, but Bragi’s Treatment Progress fell from 16% to 14%.
• Lin Qiye searched Dr. Li’s notes for hours but found no useful case or solution.
• The next day, Lin Qiye asked Baili Pangpang for advice about a friend suffering from lovesickness, while his companions mistook the problem for his own.
• Baili Pangpang suggested a video call or writing a letter, and Lin Qiye realized that a letter might help Bragi.

Lin Qiye gave Bragi an ordinary mailbox and presented it as a way to exchange letters with Idunn without revealing that she lived within his consciousness. Idunn read Bragi’s letter and began writing a reply, leaving their secret communication underway.

• Lin Qiye gave Bragi a mailbox and explained rules that would keep him from discovering the truth about Idunn.
• Bragi wrote a heartfelt letter to Idunn and placed it in the mailbox before going to sleep.
• Lin Qiye watched from the courtyard as Idunn emerged and met his gaze through the window.
• Idunn opened Bragi’s letter, read it with tears in her eyes, and began writing a reply.

Bragi received a letter from the woman he loved and learned she was alive and well, easing his emotional burden. Meanwhile, Zhou Ping began training Lin Qiye and the others with his Sword Qi Tide, but Jialan remained conscious after everyone else passed out.

• Bragi read the woman's reply and rejoiced that she was alive and living in their home in Asgard.
• Lin Qiye saw Bragi's Treatment Progress rise from 14% to 42% after his worries were relieved.
• Zhou Ping waxed the training floor and explained that his Sword Qi Tide would temper their Mental Power.
• Zhou Ping released his sword qi, sending Lin Qiye and the others crashing into the walls and rendering them unconscious.
• Jialan stayed awake through the Sword Qi Tide, and Zhou Ping questioned who she really was.

Lin Qiye woke after Sword Qi Tide training and learned Jialan had carried him back, then joined Zhou Ping’s delayed class. Meanwhile, Shen Qingzhu and the Ninth Seat met the Believers’ other surviving members, learned a newcomer had become the Twelfth Seat, and heard that the elusive First Seat had arrived.

• Lin Qiye woke to find his blanket, slippers, and thermos prepared, then asked Zhou Ping how he had returned to his room.
• Zhou Ping said Jialan had carried Lin Qiye and the others back, and Jialan turned away when Lin Qiye tried to thank her.
• An Qingyu, Cao Yuan, and Baili Pangpang emerged from the same room, and Zhou Ping began class by handing out novels.
• Shen Qingzhu and the Ninth Seat entered a ruined villa in Lintang City, where they met the Seventh Seat and the Third Seat.
• The Seventh Seat introduced a newcomer as the Twelfth Seat, and the Third Seat revealed that the First Seat had also arrived.

Shen Qingzhu and the other Seats descended beneath an estate to learn that their mission was to spend two months awakening the Nether God Altar with Mental Power. While inspecting the basement, Shen Qingzhu uncovered a large tunnel hidden behind a black cloth, and the Third Seat warned him against being too curious.

• The Seventh Seat accused Shen Qingzhu of bringing bad luck, but the Ninth Seat defended him until the Third Seat ordered them to stop arguing.
• The Third Seat led the Seventh Seat, Ninth Seat, Twelfth Seat, and Shen Qingzhu down into an underground space and showed them the Nether God Altar.
• The Third Seat explained that the group had to pour Mental Power into the altar for at least two months to activate it, following Lord The Whisperer's order.
• Shen Qingzhu questioned the altar's origins, then noticed dirt on the basement floor and followed a draft toward the edge of the underground space.
• Shen Qingzhu pulled down a black cloth and exposed a huge tunnel in the wall, whereupon the Third Seat appeared behind him and warned him not to be too curious.

After two months of quiet reading and training, Lin Qiye’s team continued to improve, with An Qingyu analyzing Belial Crande and developing a mental-contamination solution. During combat training, Baili Pangpang beat Cao Yuan at tic-tac-toe, triggering another clash, while Lin Qiye prepared to train with a still-sulking Jialan.

• Lin Qiye reflected on how two calm months of reading, chores, and training had eased his mind and begun loosening his cultivation bottleneck.
• An Qingyu gave Lin Qiye Belial Crande’s analyzed corpse and a vial of concentrated mental-contamination solution, explaining that it could erode minds but could not control creatures.
• After lunch, Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan played tic-tac-toe while Cao Yuan struggled to keep the Black King’s consciousness in check.
• Baili Pangpang won, and Cao Yuan snapped his branch, lost control to the Black King, and attacked him as Baili Pangpang defended himself with his artifacts and a Taiji Bagua Diagram.
• Lin Qiye turned from the explosions and asked Jialan to begin their training, but she remained sullen and rejected his wording.

During training, Lin Qiye accidentally exposed himself to concentrated mental contamination, and his dazed confessions dispelled Jialan’s two months of gloom. The others named An Qingyu’s strange invention “Qi Ye Obedience Water” as Jialan carried Lin Qiye back to his room.

• Lin Qiye wondered why Jialan had acted strangely toward him for two months, then resumed their training.
• Jialan accidentally crushed a container of An Qingyu’s concentrated mental contamination in Lin Qiye’s pocket, leaving him dazed.
• Jialan carried Lin Qiye out of the purple mist and checked his condition.
• Lin Qiye asked Jialan to take him somewhere with a bed and told her it would be hard to fall for anyone else with her by his side.
• Jialan blushed and carried Lin Qiye toward the warehouse as Cao Yuan, Baili Pangpang, and An Qingyu watched.
• An Qingyu identified the purple substance as liquid mental contamination from Belial Klande, and Baili Pangpang dubbed it “Qi Ye Obedience Water.”

After Zhou Ping cleared Lin Qiye’s mental contamination, Lin Qiye broke through into the “Sea” realm. The group learned that their third training phase would pit them against four Night Watchmen teams, but Zhou Ping’s social anxiety left them unsure how he would arrange the challenges.

• Jialan brought the contaminated Lin Qiye back to the warehouse, where Zhou Ping used sword qi to clear his mind.
• Lin Qiye’s Mental Power surged, and he broke through into the “Sea” realm.
• Zhou Ping announced that the third training phase would involve team battles against Night Watchmen teams 006 through 010, though Team 010 was still reorganizing.
• The group discovered that the other teams had not been informed of the challenges and that Zhou Ping was forbidden from revealing his identity while negotiating with them.
• Zhou Ping said they would leave the next morning, then shut himself in his room, leaving the others worried about whether he could communicate or would run away.

Zhou Ping tried to escape the military base, but Lin Qiye and the others surrounded it with hundreds of cars and began the third phase of training. In Xining, Zhou Ping reluctantly led them to confront Night Watchman Team 009 and told its captain he had come to wreck the place.

• Zhou Ping knocked out the Sentinels guarding the base and tried to slip away with his suitcase.
• Lin Qiye, Baili Pangpang, Jialan, and the others revealed their ambush, using hundreds of Mercedes-Benz cars to block every route out.
• The group traveled to Xining City, where Lin Qiye identified Team 009’s members and persuaded Zhou Ping to practice negotiating with them.
• Zhou Ping led the group to Team 009’s Cainiao Post storefront and told captain Huang Yuande he had come to wreck the place.

Lin Qiye’s group kidnapped Team 009’s captain, Huang Yuande, and lured the rest of the team to an abandoned factory. As the team arrived at sunset, Lin Qiye prepared to begin their trial in disguise.

• Lin Qiye’s group subdued Huang Yuande at the courier station and left a threatening letter directing Team 009 to an abandoned factory.
• Dan Mei found the letter, suspected the kidnappers were malicious superpowered individuals, and ordered the team to request headquarters support before gearing up.
• Lin Qiye’s group waited at the factory while Baili Pangpang worried that Team 009 might not come.
• An SUV carrying Team 009 approached, and Lin Qiye put on the Monkey King Mask and told everyone to prepare for the trial.

Lin Qiye and the others confronted Team 009 at an abandoned factory, where they quickly overwhelmed the Night Watchmen with their abilities. Lin Qiye trapped the remaining members in his Eternal Secret Garden, leaving them immobilized and close to collapse.

• Jiang Liu drove Team 009 into the factory, where its members attacked Lin Qiye and the others.
• Baili Pangpang used Qian Kun Chaos to disarm Team 009 and pull their blades and submachine guns away.
• Dan Mei charged at Lin Qiye's group while Jiang Liu launched mechanical missiles, but Qingyu froze the barrage and Jialan sent Dan Mei flying.
• Lin Qiye blocked the rest of Team 009 and spread Eternal Secret Garden across the battlefield.
• Flowers grew over Team 009, draining their Mental Power and leaving them rooted to the ground, barely conscious.

Lin Qiye used Idunn’s Divine Forbidden Zone to subdue Team 009 after they attacked, while Jialan brought back the unconscious Dan Mei. Huang Yuande learned that Zhou Ping was the Sword Saint and guessed that Lin Qiye’s group was the Fifth Special Squad.

• Lin Qiye ended the Secret Burial Divine Forbidden Zone before it completely buried Team 009, leaving most of them unable to move and Jiang Liu barely able to stand.
• Jialan arrived with the unconscious Dan Mei, and Jiang Liu tried to summon Ghost God's Pull before Pigsy took the emblem from him.
• Lin Qiye told Jiang Liu that Dan Mei had only fainted, the captain was safe, and the fight had started because Team 009 attacked first.
• Baili Pangpang returned Jiang Liu’s emblem and began giving the fallen team members their weapons back.
• Huang Yuande toasted Zhou Ping and learned that he was the Sword Saint; he guessed that Lin Qiye’s group was the Fifth Special Squad.
• Zhou Ping looked outside as the battle ended sooner than he had expected.

Lin Qiye’s group apologized to Huang Yuande after defeating Team 009 and explained that they were training against several Night Watchmen teams. Huang Yuande arranged a normal spar with the next team and hosted a barbecue, where Dan Mei flirted with An Qingyu.

• Huang Yuande emerged unharmed and explained to Team 009 that their fight with Lin Qiye’s group had been a misunderstanding.
• Lin Qiye told Huang Yuande that his team planned to train against Teams 006, 007, 008, and 009, and Huang Yuande warned him about the strength of the teams in Huaihai and Shangjing.
• Huang Yuande offered to contact Li Hong so Lin Qiye’s group could spar normally with the Lintang City team.
• Huang Yuande arranged a barbecue for both teams in Xining, where Dan Mei flirted with An Qingyu and he accurately guessed her age and relationship history.
• Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan joked that An Qingyu might dissect Dan Mei if she continued flirting with him.

Lin Qiye discussed Zhou Ping’s social anxiety with Huang Yuande as they traveled toward Lintang City to meet Team 008. Zhou Ping practiced a polite challenge, while Lin Qiye remained uneasy that Team 008 had been unreachable.

• Huang Yuande told Lin Qiye that he could not reach Li Hong and gave him a letter to deliver if they met.
• Lin Qiye explained that Zhou Ping needed to choose to open up socially, rather than be forced into more interactions.
• The group left for Lintang City, and Lin Qiye worried because Team 008 had not returned to its base or answered calls.
• Zhou Ping practiced what to say to Team 008, first suggesting a threatening hostage line before Lin Qiye corrected him.
• Zhou Ping settled on the opening line, “Nameless Squad of the Night Watchmen. Please instruct us.”

Lin Qiye entered the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods to welcome a new patient, whose identity he had guessed from the staff on the ward’s plaque. When the fourth ward opened, they found an Ancient Ape in a Kasaya sitting motionless inside.

• Zhou Ping embarrassedly explained that his domineering line had come naturally after reading too many novels, while Baili Pangpang teased him.
• Lin Qiye visited the hospital and saw that Bragi’s Treatment Progress had reached 71% after he began writing letters to Idunn.
• Merlin guessed that Lin Qiye’s improved realm meant a new neighbor would arrive, and Bragi eagerly prepared to welcome him with music.
• Lin Qiye, Merlin, Bragi, and Nyx went to the fourth ward, where a staff was pictured on the plaque.
• Lin Qiye opened the ward and revealed an Ancient Ape wearing a Kasaya, sitting motionless with his palms pressed together.

Lin Qiye met the Victorious Fighting Buddha, who was awake but refused to be treated and violently drove him from the ward. After Lin Qiye stopped the clash between Monkey King and Nyx and Merlin, Monkey King told him not to call him the Great Sage.

• Lin Qiye discovered that the patient in Ward Four was Monkey King, appearing as the Victorious Fighting Buddha, and Merlin sensed that he was awake.
• Monkey King told Lin Qiye to get lost, unleashing divine power that sent him flying and clashed with Nyx and Merlin’s powers.
• Lin Qiye used “Disperse” to end the clash and reassured Nyx that Monkey King had only meant to drive him out.
• As Lin Qiye prepared to leave, Monkey King told him not to call him the Great Sage.