Chapter Summaries

Lin Qiye and his team arrived at Team 008’s base for a sparring challenge, but they found the agency empty. Zhou Ping sensed blood nearby, and Lin Qiye’s mental scan revealed something was wrong.

• Lin Qiye left the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods after the Monkey King stopped responding, and he wondered whether the title “Great Sage” was connected to the Monkey King’s illness.
• Lin Qiye explained Team 008’s strength and discussed the challenge with his teammates as they traveled to the base.
• The team arrived at the Daylight Detective Agency, where Zhou Ping awkwardly tried to call Team 008 out for a five-on-five spar.
• Lin Qiye and his teammates entered the unlocked agency but found no one at the reception desk.
• Zhou Ping smelled blood, and Lin Qiye spread his Mental Power before exclaiming that something was wrong.

Lin Qiye and his team discovered that Team 008 had been slaughtered, then a phantom emerged from a television and possessed Lin Qiye. Under its influence, Lin Qiye attacked Baili Pangpang, but someone caught his fist before it landed.

• Zhou Ping led the team to a wrecked office, where Lin Qiye identified the six corpses as Team 008, including Captain Li Hong.
• An Qingyu examined the scene and concluded that a powerful attacker had killed the squad around twenty-one days earlier; the team suspected the Ancient God Church.
• Lin Qiye noticed that a disconnected television was showing static, and a white-dressed girl appeared on its screen, cursing Believers.
• The phantom flew out of the television and entered Lin Qiye, leaving him motionless before he turned around with fury in his eyes.
• Lin Qiye charged at Baili Pangpang, whose guilt left him unwilling to dodge, but a fair hand caught Lin Qiye's fist.

Lin Qiye and his companions subdued a ghostly girl who had taken control of Lin Qiye’s body. Lin Qiye recognized her as Jiang Er, a deceased member of Team 008, and concluded she was a victim rather than a survivor.

• Jialan questioned Lin Qiye’s identity, and Lin Qiye fought off the force controlling his body with the Seraph’s Divine Might.
• The White Shadow attacked Baili Pangpang, but his Jade Armor repelled her; Jialan then knocked her unconscious with a headbutt.
• An Qingyu explained that the girl was a magnetic field rather than a human or ordinary ghost.
• Lin Qiye identified the girl as Jiang Er, a deceased member of Team 008, and pointed out her mangled corpse nearby.
• Lin Qiye explained that Jiang Er’s Forbidden Ruins was Spirit Channeling Field and said she was a victim, not a survivor.

Lin Qiye and his companions found Jiang Er, a Night Watchman whose body had been destroyed by a monster but whose consciousness survived as a magnetic field. She recounted how a suspicious man and his dog attacked her office, and revealed that the man called the dog the First Seat.

• Lin Qiye showed Jiang Er his Night Watchman emblem, and she recognized him as the famed top-ranked recruit from three years earlier.
• Jiang Er explained that she had graduated first in her class the previous year, while Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan reacted to her accounts of their reputations.
• Jiang Er recounted how a man posing as a construction worker came to her office seeking help over his brother’s death, but the detectives noticed inconsistencies in his story.
• After the group exposed the man’s lies, he released his dog, which transformed into a powerful earth-dragon-like monster and attacked them.
• Jiang Er explained that her Forbidden Ruins let her consciousness survive as a magnetic field after her body was destroyed.
• Jiang Er said she overheard the man call the dog the First Seat.

Lin Qiye and his companions identified the attackers’ Wind Vein Earth Dragon and gathered the bodies of Team 008, while Jiang Er grieved for her fallen teammates and worried about her own corpse. Jialan brought An Qingyu to help her, and he promised that he was a professional.

• Zhou Ping explained that a Boundless Earth Dragon awakened its racial talent, and that the Wind Vein Earth Dragon could disperse Mental Power to suppress Forbidden Ruins.
• Jiang Er warned Lin Qiye and the others that the two attackers would require a Special Squad, but Lin Qiye chose to recover Team 008’s bodies first.
• Baili Pangpang arranged coffins and vehicles while Cao Yuan documented the scene and reported it to the higher-ups.
• Lin Qiye noticed Jiang Er’s grief as she watched her teammates being placed in coffins, and Jialan sat beside her to comfort her.
• Jiang Er explained that she could move only within one kilometer of her body and admitted she was afraid to face its horrific condition.
• Jialan introduced An Qingyu to Jiang Er, and he said he was a professional.

An Qingyu explained that Jiang Er's magnetic-field existence would end when her brain decayed, leaving her only three days, but offered to preserve her brain and keep her alive. The group left her with him while they went to investigate Lintang City, and An Qingyu began preparing his experiment.

• Jialan told Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan to turn away while An Qingyu stitched Jiang Er's corpse back together.
• An Qingyu explained that Jiang Er's consciousness would disappear when her brain decayed, which he estimated would happen in three days.
• An Qingyu asked Jiang Er whether she wanted immortality and said preserving her brain could keep her Forbidden Ruins operating.
• Lin Qiye left An Qingyu to work on Jiang Er's body and told him to set up Fish Seed across Lintang City.
• An Qingyu prepared his tools, placed Jiang Er's body on the dissection table, and asked whether she was ready.

Lin Qiye’s group investigated the Believers’ presence in Lintang City and suspected their plan involved earthquakes and something underground. Meanwhile, Shen Qingzhu learned the altar would revive in two or three days and knocked out the Ninth Seat, leaving him an opening to act.

• Lin Qiye reasoned that the Believers were likely still in Lintang City because they had killed Team 008 to conceal a major plan that had to happen there.
• Baili Pangpang relayed Jiang Er’s report of three unusual minor earthquakes since Team 008 was killed, leading Lin Qiye to suspect the Believers were working underground.
• Lin Qiye sent himself and Jialan to investigate the Geological Bureau while Cao Yuan and Baili Pangpang questioned people around the city; Zhou Ping stayed behind to watch for unusual auras.
• Shen Qingzhu secretly withheld his Mental Power from the altar while pretending to help revive it, and the Ninth Seat told him it would be fully active in two or three days.
• When the Ninth Seat prepared to go shopping with the Seventh Seat, Shen Qingzhu followed and knocked him unconscious with a touch to his back.

Shen Qingzhu brought the exhausted Ninth Seat back to bed, then was ordered to go shopping with the Seventh Seat. In the laboratory, An Qingyu restored Jiang Er’s corpse and explained that her existence would last only as long as he lived, leaving them bound together after they exchanged names.

• Shen Qingzhu carried the unconscious Ninth Seat to bed, and the Third Seat confirmed that his Mental Power was severely depleted.
• The Seventh Seat criticized the Ninth Seat for pushing himself, while Shen Qingzhu defended him and angered her.
• The Third Seat sent Shen Qingzhu and the Seventh Seat to buy a few days’ worth of food for the manor.
• An Qingyu used an MP3 player to let Jiang Er speak through her own voice and told her he would restore her body to how it looked when she was alive.
• Jiang Er said she did not want immortality if it meant being trapped, and An Qingyu explained that she would fade away three days after he died.
• Jiang Er and An Qingyu exchanged names and clasped hands, though his hand passed through her incorporeal one.

An Qingyu questioned Jiang Er about how her magnetic-field-based influence worked and how Jialan had managed to knock her away. In Lintang City, Shen Qingzhu tried to find a way to send information while shopping for supplies with the Seventh Seat, then spotted a familiar fat man in the supermarket.

• Jiang Er explained that she linked her magnetic field to a person's brain, but strong or rapidly changing brain activity could expel her.
• Jiang Er speculated that Jialan had matched her magnetic field, though she could not explain how Jialan had learned its fluctuations.
• Shen Qingzhu and the Seventh Seat argued as they walked through Lintang City, and the Seventh Seat left him alone while she went into a mall restroom.
• Shen Qingzhu considered ways to alert the Night Watchmen but abandoned his chance to borrow a passerby's phone after sensing something was wrong.
• The Seventh Seat returned, and she and Shen Qingzhu went to a supermarket to buy supplies.
• Shen Qingzhu recognized a fat man speaking with a sales clerk in the fresh food section.

Shen Qingzhu secretly used exploding chip bags and his ring to alert Lin Qiye’s group that the believers were connected to an altar. Lin Qiye found Shen Qingzhu’s note identifying an abandoned manor on Dong’an Street and calling for a Special Squad.

• Shen Qingzhu avoided Baili Pangpang and the Seventh Seat, then hid his ring and a note in a supermarket chip shelf.
• Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan found Shen Qingzhu’s ring after three bags of chips burst and alerted Lin Qiye.
• Lin Qiye and Jialan arrived at the supermarket, and Lin Qiye realized Shen Qingzhu had used the surveillance camera to send a message.
• Lin Qiye’s group reviewed the footage and found Shen Qingzhu’s note behind the chip shelf.
• Lin Qiye read the note, which named an abandoned manor at No. 42 Dong’an Street as the Nether God Altar and requested a Special Squad.

Lin Qiye and the others learned that Shen Qingzhu was undercover among the believers and set out for the Nether God Altar, while Zhou Ping rushed ahead to destroy it. At the manor, Shen Qingzhu was speaking with the recovering Ninth Seat when a sword cry rang out overhead.

• Lin Qiye connected the earthquakes to the north suburbs and realized Shen Qingzhu’s warning meant he was free of The Whisperer’s Soul Contract.
• At the safe house, Zhou Ping heard that the Nether God Altar was at an abandoned manor on 42 Dong'an Street and rushed off to cut it down.
• Jiang Er asked to join the mission to avenge her comrades, and An Qingyu carried her Black Coffin on his back.
• Lin Qiye summoned Hong Yan so the group could ride a dragon to the manor instead of driving.
• At the manor, Shen Qingzhu encountered the recovering Ninth Seat, and a sword cry suddenly sounded above the clouds.

Zhou Ping found the abandoned manor and destroyed the altar with the Dragon Elephant Sword, but The Whisperer escaped with the Wind Vein Earth Dragon. Lin Qiye and his companions arrived to find Shen Qingzhu still alive and other believers remaining in the manor.

• Zhou Ping identified the manor above the clouds and used the Dragon Elephant Sword to cleave the altar in two, knocking the Third Seat unconscious.
• The Whisperer tried to pass himself off as a bystander, but Zhou Ping attacked him and forced him to flee with help from the Wind Vein Earth Dragon.
• The Wind Vein Earth Dragon transformed and carried The Whisperer away as Zhou Ping pursued them.
• Lin Qiye and his companions arrived at the ruined manor, and Lin Qiye sensed that Shen Qingzhu and the other believers were still alive.

After the Sword Saint’s strike shattered the manor, Shen Qingzhu realized the First Seat and The Whisperer had fled, leaving the believers in disarray. A mysterious radio broadcast interrupted his attempt to attack the Twelfth Seat, and the Seventh Seat ordered them to search for intruders together.

• Shen Qingzhu surveyed the wreckage and concluded the First Seat and The Whisperer had joined forces to escape the Sword Saint.
• An old radio began changing channels, and the Twelfth Seat confronted Shen Qingzhu, accusing him of calmly listening after the altar was destroyed.
• Shen Qingzhu prepared to attack the Twelfth Seat, but the radio broadcast a story naming Li Goudan, making him stop.
• The Seventh Seat arrived and ordered Shen Qingzhu and the Twelfth Seat to search for intruders while she searched the upper floors.
• After the Seventh Seat left, Shen Qingzhu picked up the radio and followed the reluctant Twelfth Seat, saying he was worried about him.

An Qingyu and his allies trapped the Seventh Seat on the manor’s second floor, weakening her with possession, mental pollution, and the Eternal Secret Garden. As the Monkey King-masked figure silenced her, Shen Qingzhu followed the Twelfth Seat on the first floor, preparing to target him next.

• The Seventh Seat walked down the second-floor corridor as grass and flowers spread in her wake, then Jiang Er possessed her.
• An Qingyu and the unseen allies stopped the Seventh Seat from resisting and hit her with concentrated mental pollution while the flowers drained her strength.
• The Seventh Seat tried to call for help, but Qian Kun Chaos took her folding fan and a flower blocked her mouth.
• The Seventh Seat collapsed as a Monkey King-masked figure approached and gestured for silence.
• Shen Qingzhu followed the Twelfth Seat with a radio and stopped after the broadcast announced that Li Goudan had died and that the Twelfth Seat was next.

Lin Qiye and his companions silently killed the Seventh Seat and prepared to attack the wounded Klein beneath the manor. Meanwhile, Shen Qingzhu trapped the Twelfth Seat in an airless barrier and killed him with compressed air.

• Lin Qiye’s Eternal Secret Garden drained the Seventh Seat, then returned some of her Mental Power to him as the garden vanished.
• Lin Qiye told An Qingyu that three Believers remained, and the group decided to kill the wounded Klein at the underground altar before pursuing the Ninth Seat.
• Baili Pangpang teased Cao Yuan about his realm, while Jiang Er declined to explain how she had advanced.
• Shen Qingzhu kept the Twelfth Seat trapped in a vacuum behind a high-pressure Air Wall, then forced the compressed air into his lungs and made it explode.

Zhou Ping attacked The Whisperer and the Wind Vein Earth Dragon as they fled Lintang City, destroying the dragon but failing to catch The Whisperer. At the manor, Shen Qingzhu contacted Jiang Er and reached the injured Third Seat beneath the destroyed altar, telling him that everything was under control.

• Zhou Ping repeatedly struck The Whisperer and the Wind Vein Earth Dragon with sword qi as they tried to escape.
• The Whisperer ordered the Wind Vein Earth Dragon to turn and fight, but Zhou Ping's sword qi gravely wounded it and sent it falling.
• Zhou Ping chopped the falling Wind Vein Earth Dragon into pieces to prevent it from crashing into the city, but The Whisperer escaped.
• Shen Qingzhu used a radio to contact Jiang Er, who told him that the injured Third Seat was beside the Underground Altar and that the Ninth Seat was also heading there.
• Shen Qingzhu descended underground, found the Third Seat by the split altar, and told him that everything was under control.

The Third Seat revealed that the damaged Nether God Altar could be repaired with Source Conductors, while Shen Qingzhu persuaded him to fight Lin Qiye’s group instead of retreating. Jiang Er and Shen Qingzhu then turned the Ninth Seat and Shen Qingzhu against the Third Seat, leaving him alone against the intruders.

• The Third Seat explained that Source Conductors could reconnect the altar and that it would revive after two more days of Mental Power infusion.
• The Ninth Seat reported that the Seventh Seat and Twelfth Seat were missing, just as Lin Qiye and his companions arrived and Jiang Er identified the Third Seat as the man who had walked the dog.
• The Third Seat planned to retreat, but Shen Qingzhu argued that their greater strength meant they could not lose and warned that The Whisperer would blame them if the altar was abandoned.
• The Third Seat ordered the Ninth Seat and Shen Qingzhu to attack Lin Qiye’s group.
• Jiang Er controlled the Ninth Seat, and Shen Qingzhu pretended to be affected by Lin Qiye’s Mental Control before joining the attack on the Third Seat.
• The Ninth Seat and Shen Qingzhu charged the Third Seat, turning the fight into an eight-against-one confrontation.

Third Seat used Nine Yin to unleash Forbidden Ruins extracted from the dead, but Shen Qingzhu interrupted his first attack and Lin Qiye and Jialan fought back. Third Seat then struck Jialan into the ground and began counting his victims.

• Third Seat activated Nine Yin, revealing that he could use up to four stored Forbidden Ruins while injured.
• An Qingyu explained Nine Yin’s abilities, and Lin Qiye recognized its first manifested power as Han Shaoyun’s Great Wind Disaster.
• Shen Qingzhu snapped his fingers and erased Third Seat’s forming wind eye before pretending to remain an enemy.
• Third Seat used a lightning-based Forbidden Ruin to attack Lin Qiye, who evaded and cut Third Seat’s Ink Shell with Zhan Bai.
• Jialan thrust her golden spear at Third Seat, but he dodged and smashed her into the ground, declaring her his first victim.

An Qingyu and the others damaged the Third Seat’s Ink Shell while Shen Qingzhu recovered Soul Severing Blade and helped draw the Ninth Seat away. The Ninth Seat knocked Shen Qingzhu unconscious, then realized they were in Nightmare Space and found the wounded Whisperer on the altar.

• An Qingyu explained that breaking the Third Seat’s Ink Shell would interrupt Nine Yin, and Baili Pangpang and Jialan attacked the Third Seat.
• Lin Qiye struck the Third Seat with darkness-infused, miracle-imbued rubble, further damaging his Ink Shell and weakening his lightning.
• A masked ally returned Soul Severing Blade to Shen Qingzhu, who pretended to be mentally controlled and charged at the Ninth Seat.
• The Ninth Seat abandoned his pursuit of An Qingyu and tried to knock Shen Qingzhu unconscious, while Cao Yuan rushed to intervene.
• The Ninth Seat punched Shen Qingzhu and discovered that the underground space was Nightmare Space, where he found the blood-covered Whisperer sitting on the altar.

The Whisperer brought Shen Qingzhu and the altar into a nightmare space while the Third Seat unleashed his powers to stall for time in the manor. The Whisperer demanded that the Ninth Seat, He Lin, die to activate the altar, but He Lin revealed he was an undercover agent and attacked him.

• The Whisperer’s return transported Shen Qingzhu, the Ninth Seat, and the altar away, while the Third Seat used metal manipulation and gravity control to hold off Lin Qiye and the others.
• The Whisperer explained that he had taken Shen Qingzhu and the altar into a nightmare space where events could affect the real world.
• The Whisperer said the altar needed the Mental Power of someone at the Limitless realm and ordered He Lin to die so it could activate.
• He Lin called the Whisperer a hypocrite, revealed he was an undercover agent, and seized his throat.