Chapter Summaries

Ye Fan resolved to exchange his life through the Fate Transfer Bead to restore the remaining quarter of the Mortal World Sword Immortal’s soul. As Ye Fan began the ritual, Guan Zai and Lu Wuwei arrived at Mount Jiuhua, where Zuo Qing confronted Guan Zai outside the temple.

• Ye Fan explained that the Sword Immortal’s soul would take about twenty-four hours to merge into the world’s laws and that a quarter of it remained.
• Ye Fan accepted that exchanging lives would destroy his body and soul, and said his life would pave the way for Great Xia and bring the Sword Immortal back.
• Ye Fan crushed his Buddhist beads and began burning in golden flames as the Heroic Spirits watched without intervening.
• Guan Zai and Lu Wuwei reached Mount Jiuhua and charged toward the temple, where Zuo Qing stood guard.
• Guan Zai demanded that Zuo Qing let him pass, but Zuo Qing refused and unleashed his half-step Human Apex pressure against Guan Zai.

Ye Fan sacrificed his body and soul in the Buddhist hall to reconstruct a vessel for Zhou Ping and bring his remaining soul back. He succeeded, then died believing he had secured Great Xia’s future.

• Zuo Qing stopped Guan Zai from reaching Ye Fan and revealed that Ye Fan was trading his life for Guan Zai’s brother.
• Ye Fan burned his body and soul while using the Dragon Elephant Sword, fragments of Buddhist beads, and prepared materials to rebuild Zhou Ping’s body.
• Huo Qubing and the other Heroic Spirits poured national fortune into the reconstructed body, completing its baptism.
• Ye Fan used the Fate Transfer Bead fragments to retrieve Zhou Ping’s remaining soul and watched it emerge from the Buddha’s Light.
• Ye Fan died seated before the Black Coffin, smiling as he saw the rising stars of Great Xia.

After Ye Fan died, the man who had arrived at the Buddhist hall learned what had happened and left in grief. Across Great Xia, people connected to him sensed that something was wrong, while the six Heroic Spirits wondered why a complete Mortal World Sword Immortal still existed.

• Buddha's Light enveloped the mountaintop, and Zuo Qing sensed an aura fading inside the temple before whispering Ye Fan's name.
• At the Psychiatric Hospital, the man in patient clothes felt his heart hurt and appeared unusually clear-minded.
• On a transport plane, Xia Simeng jolted awake from a nightmare and said she thought she had dreamed something terrible.
• King Mask froze before beginning a time-stop, then told Vortex and the others that he felt something bad had happened.
• Shao Pingge dropped his pen, and it rolled into the darkness in the corner; Jinian also sensed something and drove through the Misty Wall.
• After Li Kengqiang explained what had happened, the man thanked the six Heroic Spirits, left the Buddhist hall in tears, and Huo Qubing suggested that unknown events had kept the Mortal World Sword Immortal's soul complete.

Zhou Ping returned to Third Uncle’s restaurant after emerging from the Buddhist hall, where the six Heroic Spirits had vanished. Zuo Qing found him there and came to deliver Ye Fan’s message.

• Zhou Ping emerged from the Buddhist hall, and Guan Zai recognized him as the brother he thought was dead.
• Zhou Ping asked to be alone and vanished with a flash of sword light, leaving Guan Zai to discover that the six Heroic Spirits were gone and only a lifeless golden Buddha remained.
• Zhou Ping returned to Third Uncle’s restaurant in Xijin City, where Third Uncle welcomed him back and put him to work.
• After serving customers, Zhou Ping sat lost in thought until Zuo Qing arrived and ordered a meal.
• Zuo Qing told Zhou Ping that he had come to deliver Ye Fan’s words.

Zhou Ping struggled with Ye Fan’s sacrifice and considered whether to remain in Xijin and live peacefully with Third Uncle. Remembering his role and purpose as the Sword Saint, Zhou Ping chose to face the dangers threatening humanity rather than hide from them.

• Zuo Qing delivered Ye Fan’s message that Zhou Ping was free to choose his own life and no longer had to fulfill a duty to Great Xia.
• Third Uncle served Zhou Ping a home-cooked meal and described the peaceful future he had imagined for them.
• Third Uncle told Zhou Ping to decide what he truly wanted and assured him he would always have a home in Xijin.
• As he ate, Zhou Ping remembered the people who had called on the Sword Saint to slay the gods, Lin Qiye and the others, and the Buddha beside the Black Coffin.
• Zhou Ping realized his heart, body, laws, and sword were meant to slay gods, and resolved not to turn away from the dangers ahead.

Zhou Ping left Third Uncle’s restaurant to pursue a life beyond his hometown. At the Night Watchmen headquarters, Zuo Qing claimed the acting commander position after Ye Fan’s death, but He Xingwen challenged the document naming him before a mysterious black-clad figure intervened.

• Zhou Ping told Third Uncle he would leave, thanked him, and departed the restaurant after Third Uncle encouraged him to follow his own path.
• Night Watchmen executives learned Ye Fan had died and debated who should serve as acting commander.
• Zuo Qing presented Ye Fan’s document naming him acting commander, and the executives accepted it as authentic.
• He Xingwen accused Zuo Qing of forging the document and called for the executives to choose a commander by vote.
• A black-clad figure entered, planted the Dragon Elephant Sword in the conference table, and publicly recommended Zuo Qing as acting commander, asking who objected.

Zhou Ping returned to the Night Watchmen headquarters and secured Zuo Qing’s position as acting Commander-in-Chief before setting out into the Mist to find his missing students. As Zhou Ping headed for the border, a vengeful woman arrived at Olympus.

• Zhou Ping silenced the senior officials’ objections and established Zuo Qing as acting Commander-in-Chief.
• Zhou Ping told Zuo Qing he would support him until he reached the Ceiling, then warned him to handle the Night Watchmen’s internal affairs himself.
• Zhou Ping revealed he would search the Mist’s divine kingdoms for his students and vowed to destroy a kingdom if they had been killed.
• Zuo Qing promised to take care of the Night Watchmen, and Zhou Ping flew toward the Mist’s border as a streak of sword light.
• A woman carrying a humming longsword approached Olympus and declared that she had returned.

Yurina stood on a cliff and planned to end her life, but she spotted a strange man floating among the reefs and pulled him ashore. The apparently dead man suddenly sat up, leaving Yurina facing an unexpected survivor as police approached.

• Yurina called the Yokohama City Police Department to ask them to collect her body, then hung up when the operator tried to stop her.
• Yurina prayed to Daikokuten and prepared to jump, but noticed a man in black lodged among the reefs below.
• Yurina abandoned her spot, swam into the sea, and dragged the man away from the rocks onto the pebble beach.
• Yurina examined the dry, corpse-like man and started to return to the cliff before he abruptly sat up and gasped for breath.

Lin Qiye awoke on a beach in a Japan that appeared untouched by the mist, where he met Yurina, a girl who mistook his inability to understand Japanese for deafness. When police arrived to arrest Yurina for attempting suicide and violating the Sea Ban Order, she fled with Lin Qiye, who followed her up a steep slope.

• Lin Qiye woke on a rocky beach alone with Yurina and realized the clear coastline appeared to be Japan, despite his belief that the country had been swallowed by mist.
• Yurina questioned Lin Qiye in Japanese, and his silence convinced her that he was deaf.
• Police arrived to search for Yurina and said they would imprison her if she was alive because suicide and entering the sea violated the law.
• Yurina hid from the police and led Lin Qiye along the coast, telling him to follow her quietly.
• Yurina climbed a steep slope to escape, and Lin Qiye landed beside her with ease.

Lin Qiye followed Yurina through a modern Japanese city and concluded it was not Japan from the past, though he could not explain how the country existed beyond the mist. Yurina brought him to a hidden container home, where they met an elderly woman she called Grandma Crane.

• Lin Qiye considered whether the white-haired man was King Mask from the future and wondered why he had brought them to Japan.
• Lin Qiye recognized signs of a modern city and ruled out the possibility that they had traveled a hundred years into the past.
• Yurina led Lin Qiye to an isolated container and told him to follow quietly.
• Yurina introduced Lin Qiye to Grandma Crane, who was folding paper cranes inside the container.
• Yurina helped Grandma Crane sit back down and urged Lin Qiye to enter and close the door so no one would see them.

Lin Qiye sought a way to understand Yurina and Grandma Crane, who sheltered him in their container home, and Merlin used magic to grant him mastery of languages. Lin Qiye left ready to communicate with them.

• Lin Qiye closed the container door and watched Yurina cover Grandma Crane with a blanket before she fetched paper and a pen.
• Lin Qiye entered the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods and asked Lord Beile for a way to quickly learn the Mist's languages, but Lord Beile had no shortcut.
• Merlin told Lin Qiye he could use Linguistic Mastery to let him understand every language and cast the magic on his soul.
• Lin Qiye gained Linguistic Mastery and praised the God of Magic.

Lin Qiye questioned Yurina about the society he had awakened in and learned that its people were branded with numbers and controlled by the Pure Land. Yurina said the gods had created humanity starting with the First Generation Citizens and left behind modern technology, leaving Lin Qiye convinced something was deeply wrong with the country.

• Yurina asked Lin Qiye his name, and he wrote that he could not remember.
• Yurina explained that she was being pursued by police for attempting suicide without a divine decree and showed Lin Qiye the number branded on her shoulder.
• Yurina told Lin Qiye that the Pure Land monitored citizens and forced pregnant women there to give birth.
• Yurina showed Lin Qiye a travel guide depicting a vast silver disc above Tokyo and said he must have been born in the Pure Land.
• Lin Qiye realized that the First Generation Citizens might date back to the descent of the Mist, but Yurina claimed the gods had created the world and humanity with them.
• Yurina said Tokyo's modern technology was a gift from the gods, and Lin Qiye concluded that something was wrong with the country.

Lin Qiye left the container to investigate the mysterious city and the sea, but activating his Forbidden Ruins drew the attention of a powerful presence in the sky. He escaped its notice by stopping his ability and wondered whether the entity was tracking the Forbidden Ruins.

• Lin Qiye decided to explore the city despite having no money or place to stay, and Yurina mentioned that he could make money as a host.
• Grandma Crane gave Lin Qiye a bottle of Paper Cranes as a parting gift, and Yurina and Grandma Crane bowed as he left.
• Lin Qiye walked to the rocky shore to investigate the sea and possibly find traces of his team members.
• Lin Qiye activated Somersault Cloud, and a mysterious gaze descended and searched the area.
• Lin Qiye stopped using his Forbidden Ruins, causing the gaze to lose track of him, and he wondered if the entity was connected to his ability.

Lin Qiye discovered that activating Forbidden Ruins drew the attention of a mysterious gaze, so he used a hand-drawn summoning array to retrieve Zhan Bai without being located. He left the shoal with a weapon and a possible way to summon the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods’ orderlies, but had no money to buy a sword bag.

• Lin Qiye tested Absolute Darkness Erosion and confirmed that even a minimal Forbidden Ruins fluctuation attracted the mysterious gaze.
• Lin Qiye drew a directional summoning Magic Array by hand and briefly activated it, enduring the gaze’s increasingly angry search.
• Lin Qiye retrieved Zhan Bai and found that using the blade did not summon the gaze.
• Lin Qiye realized he might be able to summon the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods’ orderlies and use their innate abilities without activating Forbidden Ruins.
• Lin Qiye wrapped Zhan Bai in his trench coat and headed for the city to find a sword bag, wondering where he could get money.

A white-robed man traced the intruder who triggered Divine Wrath to a young man seen on Yokohama City's surveillance footage. At Pure Land's Ghost Prison, Oracle Envoy Number Four showed the photographs to Cao Yuan, a captive outsider with three months left to submit or face execution, and Cao Yuan recognized something in them.

• A white-robed man found a disorderly Magic Array on the shoal and detected traces of the intruder who had triggered Divine Wrath.
• The white-robed man searched road surveillance footage and identified a young man in a black knit trench coat whose movements matched the timing of Divine Wrath.
• The white-robed man sent the photographs to Number Four and ordered him to question the captive at Pure Land's Ghost Prison.
• Oracle Envoy Number Four visited Cao Yuan, warned him that he had three months to submit to Pure Land or be sentenced to death, and showed him the photographs.
• Cao Yuan's pupils contracted as he looked at the blurry photographs.

Cao Yuan refused to identify the foreign intruders shown to him in prison, while Lin Qiye searched Yokohama for a legal way to earn money and find his teammates. As Lin Qiye considered a job at a maid café, an Oracle Envoy entered the city and silenced the streets as everyone bowed before him.

• Cao Yuan denied knowing the people in the photographs, and the red-robed man warned him that he would face a death sentence the next time they met.
• After the man left, Cao Yuan smiled and told himself that the others must not get caught.
• Lin Qiye asked a passerby how to become a host, learned that Shinjuku was in Tokyo, and considered how to earn money for travel and supplies.
• Lin Qiye saw wanted-criminal notices on a city screen but dismissed the idea of collecting a reward because it could expose him to the police.
• Lin Qiye spotted a maid café sign and considered working there.
• An Oracle Envoy walked into central Yokohama, and the people and traffic fell silent as everyone prostrated themselves and greeted him.

Lin Qiye was confronted by Pure Land's Oracle Envoy Number Three after surveillance footage exposed his movements. When the Envoy attacked, Lin Qiye narrowly dodged and struck back with Zhan Bai, but his blade barely marked the Envoy's neck.

• Lin Qiye handed out flyers outside a maid café until a chime made everyone nearby kneel before a white-robed man.
• The Oracle Envoy Number Three identified Lin Qiye as an intruder using surveillance photographs, while Lin Qiye learned that cameras had led the Envoy to him.
• The Oracle Envoy said other intruders existed but refused to explain further before attacking Lin Qiye with an invisible blade.
• Lin Qiye dodged the attack and slashed the Oracle Envoy's neck with Zhan Bai, but the blade left only a faint mark.

Lin Qiye fought the white-robed Oracle Envoy, who broke Zhanbai and cornered him while a mysterious presence searched the sky. A sudden downpour interrupted the confrontation, and a figure with a paper umbrella appeared above the intersection.

• The Oracle Envoy blocked Lin Qiye’s attacks and identified Zhanbai as a blade without a blade spirit.
• The Oracle Envoy struck Zhanbai twice and broke the Baili Family artifact in half.
• Lin Qiye used Night Flicker to escape an attack that split two trade malls, drawing the mysterious gaze in the sky back to him.
• The Oracle Envoy warned Lin Qiye that Divine Judgment would destroy him if he kept using his Forbidden Ruin.
• A sudden downpour spread across the city, and Lin Qiye sensed that the rain was strange.
• A figure holding a paper umbrella appeared before the enormous screen above the intersection.

Amamiya Haruki confronted the Oracle Envoy and fought him with Rain Collapse while Lin Qiye waited for the mysterious gaze to pass. Lin Qiye summoned Hong Yan to help him escape, but she joined the battle instead, turning the duel into a two-on-one fight.

• Amamiya Haruki revealed himself to the Oracle Envoy and drew Rain Collapse, freezing the raindrops around them.
• Amamiya Haruki attacked the Oracle Envoy with Rain Collapse, and the two exchanged blows at high speed.
• Lin Qiye waited until the mysterious gaze vanished, then summoned Hong Yan through a Magic Array.
• Lin Qiye chose Hong Yan as his escape route because she could burrow underground without using a Forbidden Ruin.
• Hong Yan, now in the Limitless realm, charged the Oracle Envoy and joined Amamiya Haruki in battle.

Lin Qiye and Amamiya Haruki escaped the white-robed Oracle Envoy with Hong Yan’s help. Outside Yokohama, Lin Qiye learned that Amamiya had traveled with an invader resembling Cao Yuan two years earlier, leaving him confused about how Cao Yuan could have been there.

• Hong Yan attacked the Oracle Envoy, but her attempt to use her Forbidden Ruins drew the mysterious gaze and failed.
• Amamiya Haruki used Rain Collapse and Water Dragon Sky Curtain to cover the Oracle Envoy in rain, allowing himself, Lin Qiye, and Hong Yan to escape.
• At the outskirts of Yokohama, Amamiya said he had saved Lin Qiye because he was passing by and explained that invaders could not fully use their power in this world.
• Amamiya described an invader he had met two years earlier who carried a straight blade, wielded black flames, had a terrifying baleful aura, and favored mature women.
• Lin Qiye recognized the invader as Cao Yuan but questioned how Cao Yuan could have visited two years earlier.