Chapter Summaries

Han Qing led the 007 Squad into an unfinished high-rise to hunt the Crimson Eye Black Shadow, but it possessed Zhao Kun and turned the squad’s own formation against them. The fight left several squad members incapacitated, while the Crimson Eye Black Pupil narrowly dodged Han Qing’s attack and remained loose in the building.

• Han Qing ordered the 007 Squad to storm the building in the 331 formation, then leaped to the twentieth floor and sealed the top against escape.
• Qi Xiaoyu, Yang Letong, and Zhao Kun found the actor bound to a pillar on the seventh floor and realized he was a decoy after the Red-eyed Black Shadow appeared above them.
• The shadow possessed Zhao Kun, knocked Qi Xiaoyu unconscious, and used high-pressure water to sweep Yang Letong out a window and smash through several floors.
• Crimson Eye Zhao Kun threw Qi Xiaoyu through the hole, forcing one squad member to rush downstairs and another to attack him.
• Crimson Eye Zhao Kun dodged Han Qing’s purplish-red lightning, which struck the attacking squad member and sent him tumbling toward the first floor.

Han Qing’s attempt to stop Crimson Eye Zhao Kun ended when Ghost Jiang Er possessed him and Baili Pangpang brought him to a trap. Lin Qiye confronted Zhao Kun inside an Ancient Treant cage, where Zhao Kun recognized him.

• Crimson Eye Zhao Kun threatened Han Qing with Zhao Kun’s life, and she extinguished her flames and let him leave.
• Ghost Jiang Er entered Zhao Kun’s body, forcing him to flee, and Baili Pangpang caught him on Yaoguang and carried him to a construction site.
• The Ancient Treant sealed Zhao Kun inside a wooden cage, while the young man with the Black Coffin froze the water Zhao Kun summoned.
• Zhao Kun’s water blades failed to break the cage, and he saw the Red Boy Mask girl make it indestructible.
• Lin Qiye appeared inside the cage wearing a Monkey King Mask, and Zhao Kun saw through it and said he had finally found him.

Lin Qiye lured the Seer of Secrets into a prepared wooden cage where its precognition could not function, then killed it without harming Zhao Kun. As the Mystery faded away, it said goodbye to Director Lin.

• Lin Qiye confronted Crimson Eye Zhao Kun, who said he had wandered for twelve years to fulfill a great existence’s wish.
• Lin Qiye explained how he and Jiang Er had moved the Seer of Secrets away from its chosen construction site and into a prepared wooden cage.
• Lin Qiye used plants and flames to block the Seer of Secrets from predicting the future and drawing water from the air.
• Lin Qiye distracted the Seer with Seraphim Divine Might, then revealed the hidden Soul Severing Blade and destroyed its soul through Zhao Kun’s crimson eye.
• The fading Seer of Secrets told Lin Qiye goodbye.

Lin Qiye defeated the Seer of Secrets and confirmed the confrontation was won, while Fengdu was carried toward the Egyptian City of the Sun by Shu. Inside the powerless, freezing city, Chen Han and Xiao Shao continued rescuing unconscious residents as their lives slowly faded.

• Lin Qiye told Zhao Kun that the Seer of Secrets had possessed him and that he had saved him.
• Lin Qiye gave the Black Ring to Shen Qingzhu, and he declared the confrontation won while a crimson-cloaked figure watched from a rooftop.
• Shu tried and failed to break the Fengdu Law, then carried the city fragment west toward the Egyptian City of the Sun.
• A streak of sword light slipped through the mist and entered Fengdu's ghostly barrier unnoticed by Shu.
• Chen Han and Xiao Shao carried frost-stricken residents through the dark city, despite Chen Han's fever and their nineteen hours of rescue work.

As Chen Han and Lu Yu sheltered Anta County residents in the mall’s underground garage, Chen Han explained why he had stayed to guard the frontier. A sound at the entrance interrupted them, and Chen Han drew his sword as a black-clad figure approached.

• Lu Yu followed Chen Han to the mall garage, where they laid unconscious residents beside the stoves.
• Chen Han used his Micro-healing Forbidden Ruins to treat a feverish civilian despite his own injuries and high fever, then collapsed into Lu Yu’s arms.
• Chen Han told Lu Yu that he had written three transfer applications and explained that a Night Watchman’s value lay in guarding people, even when the sky fell.
• A sound came from the garage entrance, and Chen Han sprang up with his sword as a black-clad figure carrying a sword case approached.

Zhou Ping arrived in Anta County and set out to slay the Wind God while Chen Han and Lu Yu gathered the unconscious residents. Meanwhile, Cao Yuan broke through to the Sea realm, and Lin Qiye’s team prepared for its final challenge to become a Special Squad.

• Zhou Ping introduced himself to Chen Han as an independent Forbidden Ruins wielder who had come to help.
• Chen Han asked Zhou Ping to help carry unconscious pedestrians into shelter, but Zhou Ping said he would do so after returning from slaying the Wind God.
• Cao Yuan broke through to the Sea realm aboard the team’s plane, and Baili Pangpang stopped him from drawing his blade in midair.
• Lin Qiye reviewed the requirements for Special Squad status and said the team still had to pass its final challenge against Shangjing City’s 006 Squad.
• Baili Pangpang suggested possible squad names and asked for a code name before Lin Qiye urged everyone to prepare for the challenge.
• Lin Qiye closed his eyes and entered the Psychiatric Hospital in his mind.

Nyx gave Lin Qiye a hand-knitted overcoat, and Merlin revealed that making it had weakened her soul as she struggled to suppress her power. Lin Qiye then confronted the Red-eyed Black Shadow, who said a great existence had guided its actions and arranged its arrival in the world.

• Nyx showed Lin Qiye the black overcoat she had knitted for him, and he thanked her for the warmth it brought him.
• Nyx invited Lin Qiye to lunch, but he declined because he had an important assessment and left for the Director's Office.
• Merlin told Nyx that weaving her divine power into the overcoat had damaged her soul and would prevent her from recovering her peak strength.
• Lin Qiye visited the Red-eyed Black Shadow in its cell and accused it of hiding for twelve years to reach the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods.
• The Red-eyed Black Shadow said a great existence had guided its actions, and Lin Qiye asked who He was.

Lin Qiye learned that someone close to him was going to die and woke on the plane holding a Wooden Chopstick. In the Mist, Zhou Ping returned badly wounded after driving off the Wind God and told Chen Han and Lu Yu to go home.

• The Red-eyed Black Shadow told Lin Qiye that an unnamed ally would always stand by him, then revealed that someone was going to die.
• Lin Qiye woke on the plane, found a Wooden Chopstick against his chest, and stood frozen as he looked at it.
• Chen Han and Lu Yu watched the city of ghostly light shake during the battle between the Sword Saint and the Wind God, then feared the city would fall.
• Zhou Ping staggered back into the city covered in blood, and Chen Han and Lu Yu supported him.
• Zhou Ping said the Wind God had retreated and told Chen Han and Lu Yu to go home.

Lin Qiye learned that the Red-eyed Black Shadow’s master had arranged to save him from being erased with Cangnan and set him on the path to becoming the Seraph’s Agent. He was left wondering what price the being had paid and why it had always stood by his side.

• Lin Qiye questioned the Red-eyed Black Shadow about a prediction that someone would die, and it explained how fate could be changed at a cost.
• Lin Qiye allowed the Red-eyed Black Shadow to stay at the hospital and asked what it had done when it descended on Cangnan twelve years earlier.
• The Red-eyed Black Shadow said it had found Jinian and delivered a letter and a diagram of the Three Saints Spirit Communication Array.
• Lin Qiye connected the array and the three divine artifacts to his survival when Shiva’s Grudge erased Cangnan, and to his receiving the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods.
• Lin Qiye realized the being behind the Red-eyed Black Shadow had altered his fate, but could not understand its motive or the price it had paid.

Lin Qiye recruited the Red-eyed Black Shadow as orderly Black Pupil, who warned him against changing Zhou Ping’s fate. As Lin Qiye and the Fifth Reserve Team arrived in Shangjing for a confrontation with 006 Squad, Lin Qiye warned that the Sword Saint was in trouble, while Yuan Gang and Shao Pingge prepared for the coming match.

• Lin Qiye gave the Red-eyed Black Shadow a labor agreement, named him Black Pupil, and sent him to meet the other orderlies and patients.
• Black Pupil warned Lin Qiye that changing Zhou Ping’s fate would cost too much, and Lin Qiye vanished without replying.
• Cao Yuan, Baili Pangpang, Shen Qingzhu, An Qingyu, and Lin Qiye traveled through rainy Shangjing, where Lin Qiye announced that the Sword Saint was going to be in trouble.
• At 006 Squad headquarters, Yuan Gang told Shao Pingge that the confrontation with the Fifth Reserve Team was scheduled for nine the next morning.
• Shao Pingge urged Yuan Gang to take time to meet his former students, then insisted he could handle the squad’s work while Yuan Gang went for a drink.

At the City of the Sun, the Sun God learned that Xiu had lost Emperor Fengdu and a city fragment to a human swordsman. The Sun God ordered the Nine Pillars to launch a coordinated campaign against Great Xia and keep its vulnerabilities secret from rival divine kingdoms.

• Xiu told the gods that Great Xia had taken Emperor Fengdu and that a human with a sword had defeated him.
• The other gods mocked Xiu until he erupted with divine power, and the Sun God silenced the conflict and demanded that Xiu admit his failure.
• The Sun God ordered Set and Xiu to retrieve the city fragment with Amon and then begin the National Destiny Curse against Great Xia.
• The Sun God ordered Tefnut, Geb, Nut, and Isis to attack Great Xia's border together, while avoiding its core and targeting a second Dragon Vein if necessary.
• The Sun God told the gods to conceal that Great Xia's gods could not act, intending to conquer Great Xia before rival divine kingdoms learned the truth.

Ye Fan secured absolute command over the Night Watchmen and learned from Lin Qiye that Zhou Ping was in danger inside the mist. He prepared Great Xia for a national crisis and contacted someone through a strange pixel-style walkie-talkie.

• Ye Fan won five votes in favor of taking full control of the Night Watchmen during the coming crisis.
• Lin Qiye told Ye Fan that Zhou Ping might die inside the mist, and Ye Fan refused to postpone the assessment for a rescue attempt.
• Ye Fan told Zuo Qing to summon Guan Zai, send every Human Apex except Zhou Ping to Great Xia's borders, and wake Special Squad No. 001.
• Ye Fan opened a hidden safe in his office, took out a pixel-style walkie-talkie, and asked its recipient to repay an old favor.

Lin Qiye and his companions sought a way to locate the flying city where the Sword Saint was in danger. An Qingyu explained how to find the city's coordinates, but the group lacked a way to reach it through the mist, so they went to meet Yuan Gang for dinner, hoping he could help.

• An Qingyu reasoned that multiple gods might have threatened the Sword Saint, while Lin Qiye and the others lamented that they could not reach him.
• An Qingyu revealed that he could reproduce the Dimensional Summoning Magic Array precisely and use it to determine the flying city's coordinates.
• Lin Qiye received a call from Yuan Gang, who invited the group to dinner, and they decided to go in hopes of getting help.
• Lin Qiye and his companions arrived at the snack street and found Yuan Gang waiting outside King of Barbecue.

During a barbecue with Instructor Yuan, Lin Qiye and the others asked about the Sword Saint’s Forbidden Ruins. Yuan Gang explained that Sequence 333, Glass-like Pure Heart, had helped the Sword Saint immerse himself in fictional sword cultivators’ experiences and develop his sword intent, leaving them with a clearer picture of how he became humanity’s strongest swordsman.

• Yuan Gang reminisced with Lin Qiye’s squad about their time at Training Camp while they ate and drank together.
• Yuan Gang asked about Jiang Er, and she greeted him through her MP3 before teasing him about a woman pinned in his WeChat.
• Lin Qiye asked Yuan Gang what he knew about the Sword Saint and his Forbidden Ruins.
• Yuan Gang revealed that the Sword Saint’s Forbidden Ruins was Sequence 333, Glass-like Pure Heart, which made its owner’s heart and thoughts utterly pure.
• Yuan Gang explained that the Sword Saint immersed himself in the lives of fictional sword cultivators, learned their experiences through novels, and developed sword intent and sword techniques.
• Yuan Gang said the Night Watchmen discovered the Sword Saint after he killed a Sea-realm Mystery with one strike in Xijin City.

Yuan Gang explained how Zhou Ping’s pure nature and childhood trauma shaped his withdrawal and hindered his growth, then Zhou Ping cared for survivors in the mist and remembered how Ye Fan recruited him. The chapter left Zhou Ping agreeing to become Great Xia’s Sword Saint in exchange for the title.

• Yuan Gang told Lin Qiye and the others about Zhou Ping’s childhood abuse, abandonment, and the psychological wounds that obstructed his advancement.
• Jialan condemned the people who had hurt Zhou Ping, and Yuan Gang explained that Commander Ye believed Zhou Ping could overcome his inner barrier and become Great Xia’s hope.
• In the mist, Zhou Ping and Lu Yu brought frozen passersby to a stove while Chen Han rescued three children and asked Lu Yu and Zhou Ping to look after them.
• The children introduced themselves as Li Ruodie, Wang Jiaqi, and Chen Nan, and Lu Yu told them that Zhou Ping was Great Xia’s Sword Saint.
• Remembering his past, Zhou Ping recalled Ye Fan asking him to become the Human Apex, and he agreed only if he could be called Great Xia’s Sword Saint.

Lin Qiye and his teammates insisted they would risk their lives to save the Sword Saint, but Yuan Gang said they could not enter the Mist without Commander Ye’s permission. He then briefed them on the next day’s match to qualify as the Fifth Special Squad, while Shao Pingge watched from the 006 Squad headquarters and reflected on the team.

• Lin Qiye told Yuan Gang that his team would not stand by while their teacher, the Sword Saint, faced death, and explained the losses each teammate had endured.
• The team members affirmed they would try to reach and help the Sword Saint, but Yuan Gang said only Commander Ye could authorize them to enter the Mist.
• Yuan Gang urged the team to rest before their match and explained the forty-eight-hour flag-capturing battle that would determine whether they became the Fifth Special Squad.
• At the 006 Squad headquarters, Shao Pingge realized Yuan Gang had secretly given the team advance information about the match and called them interesting.

Lin Qiye visited the Ancient Ape in the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods before his match and spoke about losing people he cherished, including the Sword Saint. His words awakened the Ancient Ape, who rose and rejected Heavenly Mandate.

• Lin Qiye asked Black Pupil whether he could foresee anything about the objects he carried, but Black Pupil said he could only foresee objects within the hospital.
• Lin Qiye declined Nyx's invitation to stay for lunch because he had a match, then visited the Ancient Ape in Room Four.
• Lin Qiye told the Ancient Ape about watching someone important die and described his guilt over failing to save Old Zhao, his aunt, and the Sword Saint.
• The Ancient Ape's Buddha's Light stirred violently, and his unleashed pressure shook the hospital as Li Yifei, Nyx, and others rushed toward his room.
• Lin Qiye stopped the others from entering as the Ancient Ape rose, faced him, and declared, "To hell with Heavenly Mandate!!"

After the Ancient Ape urged Lin Qiye not to abandon those he cherished, Lin Qiye led his companions to challenge 006 Squad and set out west to save someone. Shao Pingge gave them tools to travel through the Mist, and the Fifth Special Squad vanished into the clouds, with their return still uncertain.

• The Ancient Ape reminded Lin Qiye to save those he cherished, and Lin Qiye received a random Divine Personality ability for Monkey King.
• Lin Qiye proposed a faster contest at Yuan Gang’s courtyard and had Cao Yuan draw his blade, prompting 006 Squad to answer with their own pressure.
• Lin Qiye and his companions unleashed their combined divine might, overwhelming 006 Squad and damaging the courtyard.
• Lin Qiye told Yuan Gang they were going to save someone and declared that they would become Great Xia’s Fifth Special Squad if they returned.
• Shao Pingge gave Lin Qiye’s group seven metal plates that allowed free travel through the Mist and wished them a triumphant return.
• Lin Qiye summoned a Somersault Cloud, and the masked group rode west into the Mist with one coffin.

Guan Zai emerged from nearly three years of seclusion and learned that Zhou Ping had entered the mist to save someone. He wanted to go after Zhou Ping, but Ye Fan insisted he stay to help defend Great Xia against the Egyptian gods, leaving the two at odds.

• Ye Fan learned from Zuo Qing that Lin Qiye's reserve squad, Shao Pingge, and others had entered the northern mist to rescue Zhou Ping, and he ordered Zuo Qing to watch for their return.
• Master Chen teased Ye Fan for acting like a worried father, while Lu Wuwei arrived with milk tea he had been delivering.
• Guan Zai appeared through virtual code, and Ye Fan told him Zhou Ping had gone abroad into the mist to save someone.
• Guan Zai prepared to go help Zhou Ping, but Ye Fan told him he was needed to fulfill the Human Apex's duty and defend Great Xia.
• Guan Zai challenged Ye Fan's certainty that Zhou Ping could manage alone, and Ye Fan declared that Zhou Ping was Great Xia's Sword Saint.
• Master Chen stopped Lu Wuwei from stepping in as Ye Fan and Guan Zai faced off.

Guan Zai accused Ye Fan of forcing Zhou Ping to bear the burden of being the Sword Saint, while Ye Fan defended his choice as Great Xia’s last chance against the gods. As four Egyptian gods approached, the Human Apexes charged to meet them; meanwhile, in the mist, Chen Han worried over Zhou Ping’s grave injuries and offered him a cigarette, which Zhou Ping refused because children were present.

• Guan Zai confronted Ye Fan over the burden placed on Zhou Ping and said Ye Fan had wronged him.
• Ye Fan admitted he owed Zhou Ping but argued that Great Xia had no other chance against the foreign gods.
• Four Egyptian gods approached across the sea, and Ye Fan ordered the Human Apexes to stop them before they reached the city.
• Guan Zai asked Ye Fan if he was confident they could win, then joined Ye Fan, Master Chen, and Lu Wuwei as they charged the gods.
• In the mist, Chen Han told Lu Yu that two divine powers were tearing through Zhou Ping’s body and that he could not treat the injuries.
• Chen Han offered Zhou Ping a cigarette, but Zhou Ping refused and reminded him that children were present.