Chapter Summaries

At Lu Qiu’s cenotaph, Lu Baoyou heard about his father’s sacrifice and the compensation meant to secure his future, while Demon Child urged him to join the Ancient God Church. Lu Baoyou rejected the demon’s contempt for his father and chose not to destroy the legacy Lu Qiu had left behind.

• Liu Qi told Lu Baoyou that Lu Qiu’s monument was a cenotaph and offered him the compensation his father had designated for him.
• Liu Qi left Lu Baoyou alone at the monument after urging him to remember that Lu Qiu’s sacrifice had protected countless people.
• Demon Child tried to persuade Lu Baoyou to abandon an ordinary life and join the Ancient God Church, insulting Lu Qiu as a fool.
• Lu Baoyou erupted in anger, manifested dark crimson wings, and defended his father while acknowledging that Lu Qiu had failed his family.
• Lu Baoyou touched the inscription on Lu Qiu’s monument and vowed not to shatter the legacy his father had left behind.

Lu Baoyou tore out his corrupted left eye to silence Demon Child and left the mountain determined to return to the Night Watchmen. At the training camp, Lin Qiye monitored the exhausted recruits as Ding Chongfeng and Li Zhenzhen fled A Zhu, then Fang Mo warned them that another group of Mysteries was closing in.

• Lu Baoyou removed and crushed his left eye, silencing Demon Child, then left the mountain without returning home.
• Lin Qiye checked the remaining recruits during escape training and noted that several showed promise.
• Ding Chongfeng persuaded the exhausted Su Zhe to keep moving by invoking his sister, and Su Zhe got back to his feet.
• A Zhu attacked Ding Chongfeng and Su Zhe, and Li Zhenzhen cut the Spider Silk trapping Ding Chongfeng before helping him escape.
• Fang Mo warned Ding Chongfeng and Li Zhenzhen that another team of Mysteries was closing in and told them to follow her.

Fang Mo, Li Zhenzhen, and Ding Chongfeng survived Lin Qiye’s endurance training and reached the training field before the Mysteries withdrew. Outside the camp, Lu Baoyou returned and declared that he wanted to walk his own path, leaving Lin Qiye to decide whether to let him back in.

• Fang Mo led Li Zhenzhen and Ding Chongfeng through the Mysteries’ attacks until the whistle ended the training.
• Lin Qiye announced that the surviving recruits had avoided The Dark Room, then left An Qingyu in charge and went to the camp gate.
• Lu Baoyou arrived at the gate and insisted on entering recruit training despite the officers telling him his qualification had been revoked.
• Lin Qiye confronted Lu Baoyou, who said he had found his answer and wanted to return.
• Lu Baoyou told Lin Qiye that he was neither the Fallen Angel’s agent nor Lu Qiu’s shadow, but wanted to walk his own path.

Lin Qiye let Lu Baoyou train at the camp as an observer, despite his lost recruit status, and urged him to see beyond his pact with Lucifer to his duty to Great Xia. He gave Lu Baoyou two more chances to try to kill him, warning that a failed third attempt would end with Lu Baoyou’s death.

• Lin Qiye refused to restore Lu Baoyou’s recruit status but allowed him to train at the Training Camp as an observer.
• Lu Baoyou accepted the offer and followed Lin Qiye inside, asking why Lin Qiye had chosen to help him.
• Lin Qiye explained that their shared duty to Great Xia mattered more than their personal conflict as agents of Lucifer and Michael.
• Lu Baoyou thanked Lin Qiye for his guidance, and Lin Qiye offered him three chances to attempt to kill him, counting the preliminary assessment as the first.

Lin Qiye gave Lu Baoyou a chance to remain with the Night Watchmen and personally backed his potential, while refusing to make his path too easy. The recruits then gathered for dinner, where An Qingyu announced that raw meat and the foul-smelling Unfortunate Fish Cake were their meal.

• Lu Baoyou accepted Lin Qiye’s offer of three chances and resolved to catch up to him someday.
• Lin Qiye told Yuan Gang he would personally guarantee Lu Baoyou, but refused to restore his recruit status directly so Lu Baoyou could be tested through hardship.
• Yuan Gang said Lin Qiye reminded him of Ye Fan, and Lin Qiye ended the call as he arrived at the cafeteria.
• Su Zhe heard a recruit describe how tentacle monsters from the Internal Affairs Department had tortured them with amplified tickling and massages in The Dark Room.
• An Qingyu told the recruits to eat the raw meat and cement-flavored Unfortunate Fish Cake, while Cao Yuan silenced their objections.

The recruits faced An Qingyu’s revolting but energy-rich dinner, and Lu Baoyou showed his resolve by eating it and heading to class. Lin Qiye and the others reunited with Old Sun, who reminded them that they had grown beyond the rookies they once were.

• An Qingyu gave the recruits ten minutes to eat dinner before nighttime lessons, warning them about being late.
• Lu Baoyou arrived, swallowed the raw meat and Unfortunate Fish Cake despite nearly vomiting, and left for the teaching building.
• Lin Qiye told An Qingyu he had done what an instructor ought to do, while Fang Mo also finished his food and left for class.
• Baili Pangpang tasted the Unfortunate Fish Cake, and An Qingyu explained that it contained enough energy to sustain the recruits through training.
• Old Sun served Lin Qiye and the others hot food, and they bowed to him before he said they were no longer the rookies they had once been.

Lin Qiye and his companions returned to the Training Camp and were welcomed by Old Sun’s feast. Later, Fang Mo confronted Lu Baoyou over the danger he posed to Lin Qiye, and Li Zhenzhen stopped their clash before it became a fight.

• Old Sun served Lin Qiye and his companions nine dishes and soup, while the recruits ate raw meat and Unfortunate Fish Cake.
• An Qingyu said he would teach the recruits about Mysteries and borrow some of Lin Qiye’s subordinates as teaching materials.
• Fang Mo threatened to kill Lu Baoyou if he harmed Lord Qi Ye, and the two agents’ divine powers clashed in the classroom.
• Ding Chongfeng, Su Zhe, and Su Yuan arrived outside the classroom and hesitated to intervene as Lu Baoyou and Fang Mo fought.
• Li Zhenzhen kicked open the door and ordered the two to stop, and they withdrew their divine powers.

At the school, Lin Qiye and the others discussed the clash between Lu Baoyou and Fang Mo, while Jialan hurried off after an idea struck her. At the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, Li Yifei watched Monkey King and Gilgamesh continue their ongoing martial arts rivalry, which left them tied at thirty-two and thirty wins.

• Lin Qiye reassured Jiang Er that Fang Mo and Lu Baoyou would not fight in the classroom, and joked that Li Zhenzhen could stop them with her power.
• An Qingyu left to teach the recruits, Lin Qiye returned to rest, and Jialan slipped away toward the school building.
• Li Yifei visited the kitchen, took three cucumbers, and joined Merlin and Bragi to watch the courtyard.
• Bragi told Li Yifei that Monkey King had won thirty-two rounds against Gilgamesh's thirty, as the two began another fight.
• Merlin explained that the hospital could withstand even their full strength, while Li Yifei recalled that the rivals fought whenever they caught each other's gaze.

Merlin established rules for Gilgamesh and the Monkey King to fight without disrupting the attendants, while explaining to Li Yifei why his humanity made him uniquely suited to lead the Psychiatric Hospital. Lin Qiye checked on the hospital and noticed the Monkey King's treatment progress had reached 40%.

• Merlin set limits on Gilgamesh and the Monkey King's fights, including their location, hours, and ban on divine power.
• Gilgamesh and the Monkey King fought in the courtyard as Bragi tracked their score and Li Yifei watched.
• Merlin told Li Yifei that his human soul and complete humanity made him uniquely qualified to serve as chief steward.
• Lin Qiye arrived to inspect the hospital and asked whether the Monkey King had been acting unusually.
• Lin Qiye noticed that the Monkey King's treatment progress was 40%.

Lin Qiye realized that Monkey King’s daily battles with Gilgamesh were helping him shake the Kasaya’s seal and increase his treatment progress. With Monkey King beginning to recover on his own, Lin Qiye turned his attention to figuring out Gilgamesh’s illness.

• Lin Qiye and Li Yifei watched Monkey King and Gilgamesh fight with weapons as Bragi tracked the score.
• Merlin ended the battle at midday, and Monkey King’s treatment progress rose from 40% to 41%.
• Lin Qiye concluded that Monkey King was using battle to relieve his guilt and break the Kasaya’s seal.
• Lin Qiye recognized that Monkey King’s recovery might remain limited until he resolved his inner conflict.
• Lin Qiye decided to speak with Gilgamesh, who insulted him for looking directly at the king.

Merlin told Lin Qiye how Gilgamesh defended Uruk from two celestial gods and sought immortality to protect the kingdom’s national fortune. After Gilgamesh died, his sword killed one god, but Uruk’s national fortune was eventually severed and the kingdom disappeared from history.

• Merlin gave Lin Qiye an ancient copper fragment from the ruins of Uruk that might be connected to Gilgamesh.
• Merlin showed Lin Qiye visions of Gilgamesh becoming Uruk’s tyrant king and raising the kingdom’s power.
• Two celestial gods attacked Uruk to sever its national fortune, but Gilgamesh defeated them and heard that Uruk would fall after his death.
• Gilgamesh searched for immortality but eventually died on his throne, still guarding Uruk.
• After Gilgamesh died, the Sword of Royal Authority killed one celestial god, but the remaining god later returned and severed Uruk’s national fortune.

Lin Qiye confronted Gilgamesh with a fragment of the Wedge Chapter Stone, provoking a violent reaction that revealed how deeply Gilgamesh’s memories of Uruk’s destruction had been buried. After suppressing Gilgamesh’s divine power, Lin Qiye challenged him to face the loss of his kingdom instead of hiding in delusions.

• After hearing Gilgamesh’s past from Merlin, Lin Qiye approached him with a fragment of the Wedge Chapter Stone.
• Gilgamesh recognized the fragment and unleashed his divine power, accusing Lin Qiye of destroying the symbol of Uruk.
• Monkey King rushed toward Gilgamesh, but Merlin stopped him and assured him that Lin Qiye would be fine.
• Lin Qiye realized Gilgamesh had created false memories in which Uruk still thrived, and told him that his kingdom had been gone for a long time.
• When Gilgamesh attacked Lin Qiye with the Sword of Royal Authority, Lin Qiye stopped the blade, suppressed his power, and challenged him to face Uruk’s fall.

Lin Qiye forcefully severed Gilgamesh from his false memories, earning the chance to obtain one of the Hero King's abilities. At the training camp, Jialan secretly got Li Zhenzhen to make a Cupid's Arrow for her, while Lin Qiye selected Tyrant's Wrath and considered how it could turn enemies into loyal spies.

• Lin Qiye's treatment helped Gilgamesh break away from his illusory memories, and the system announced that his treatment progress had reached 4%.
• Jialan asked Li Zhenzhen to create a Cupid's Arrow that could make Lin Qiye fall in love with her, and Li Zhenzhen handed her the finished arrow.
• Lin Qiye activated the random selection of Gilgamesh's Divine Personality Ability and received Tyrant's Wrath.
• Lin Qiye read that Tyrant's Wrath could weaken lesser enemies and might make powerful enemies betray their faction and swear loyalty to him.

Jialan used Cupid’s Arrow on Lin Qiye in a struggle that ended with their bed breaking and the instructors barging in. In Shangjing City, Zuo Qing learned that the Mask Squad had vanished in Ningchang County and confronted Chen Moyu over the failed search.

• Jialan crept to Lin Qiye’s bedside with Cupid’s Arrow, but Lin Qiye woke before she could use it.
• Jialan straddled Lin Qiye and tried to drive the arrow into his chest; after their struggle broke the bed, she transferred her immortality to the arrow and struck him with it.
• Instructors rushed into Lin Qiye’s room after hearing the crash and found him and Jialan amid the broken bed boards.
• Zuo Qing returned to Night Watchmen Headquarters and heard that the Mask Squad’s signals and surveillance trail had disappeared after they reached Ningchang County.
• Zuo Qing asked Chen Moyu how long he had served him, then bitterly questioned what Chen Moyu had become after four years.

Zuo Qing exposed Chen Moyu's role in sabotaging the Night Watchmen, but Chen Moyu killed himself before revealing who was behind him. Zuo Qing ordered an emergency meeting and set out for Huaihai City as Baili Pangpang began a lesson on Forbidden Objects at the training camp.

• Zuo Qing confronted Chen Moyu with evidence that he had altered recruits' files and erased the Mask Squad's encrypted call record.
• Chen Moyu hinted that Commander Ye's successor would have to ask the person behind the plot, then cut his own throat and died.
• Zuo Qing ordered senior officials to join a video conference, arranged a flight to Huaihai City, and summoned Nightfall to Shangjing.
• At the training camp, recruits spread a rumor about Instructor Jialan and Instructor Lin, while Li Zhenzhen tried to correct them.
• Baili Pangpang started his Forbidden Objects class by displaying the objects around him across the training ground.

Baili Pangpang taught the recruits about Forbidden Objects while Lin Qiye and An Qingyu watched and discussed Lin Qiye’s feelings for Jialan. A phone call interrupted them, and Lin Qiye announced that they had a more important task to handle.

• Baili Pangpang showed the recruits Forbidden Objects and explained their abilities.
• Lin Qiye and An Qingyu watched the lesson and talked about An Qingyu’s lack of belonging among the Night Watchmen.
• An Qingyu pointed out that Lin Qiye’s actions showed he cared for Jialan and urged him to follow his feelings.
• Lin Qiye received a phone call, then said their rookie training had to pause because a more important task had arisen.

Baili Pangpang ended his lesson at the Training Camp when Nightfall Squad received an urgent summons to headquarters. Zuo Qing revealed that a traitor had lured Mask Squad to Ningchang County, where they disappeared.

• Baili Pangpang taught the recruits about prohibited items before joining Lin Qiye and the rest of Nightfall Squad for an urgent mission.
• Lin Qiye led Nightfall Squad to headquarters, where they found bloodstains in Zuo Qing's office.
• Zuo Qing told Nightfall Squad that a traitor within the Night Watchmen had used his phone and altered their voice to contact Mask Squad.
• Zuo Qing explained that Mask Squad had flown to Hainan for vacation, then gone to Ningchang County after receiving the traitor's call and vanished.

Lin Qiye and his companions retraced the Mask Squad’s journey aboard the passenger plane to Hainan, using Black Pupil to investigate how they had been lured away. Meanwhile, Zuo Qing arrived at a remote house on the outskirts of Huaihai City to pursue the Night Watchmen traitor.

• Zuo Qing told Lin Qiye that the captured traitor was dead and sent him to find the Mask Squad while he investigated the traitor’s identity.
• Lin Qiye, Baili Pangpang, An Qingyu, and Shen Qingzhu boarded the same passenger plane the Mask Squad had taken to Hainan so they could retrace the journey.
• Lin Qiye used Black Pupil’s Eye of Secret Peering to review what had happened aboard the plane, though it could not reveal what King Mask had heard on the phone.
• Lin Qiye and An Qingyu concluded that the traitor had likely assigned the Mask Squad a mission in Hainan and carefully timed the call to conceal their departure from the Night Watchmen.
• Zuo Qing reached a familiar house in a remote area outside Huaihai City.

Zuo Qing confronted Elder Chen over his betrayal of the Night Watchmen and his claim that he had acted to save Great Xia. Elder Chen revealed that the danger he feared was not the foreign gods, but an unseen “they,” and left Zuo Qing without an explanation.

• Zuo Qing visited Elder Chen and questioned him about his recent activities and the schemes he had planned.
• Elder Chen praised Zuo Qing for purging corrupt senior officials and said he had considered him better suited than Ye Fan to lead the Night Watchmen.
• Zuo Qing said Chen Moyu had died by running onto his blade and demanded to know why Elder Chen had ruined his own grandson.
• Elder Chen insisted that he had betrayed the Night Watchmen to save Great Xia and its people, claiming they would be spared only if the Great Xia Gods and Night Watchmen were destroyed.
• Zuo Qing rejected Elder Chen’s explanation and argued that Great Xia could defeat the foreign gods with its gods, Zhou Ping, the Human Apex, and the Night Watchmen.
• Elder Chen clarified that the “they” he feared were not foreign gods, then invited Zuo Qing to kill or interrogate him.

Zuo Qing detained Elder Chen for questioning after accusing him of betraying Great Xia and demanded to know where the Mask Squad was. Meanwhile, Lin Qiye and the others retraced the squad’s journey in Ningchang County and learned that its members had booked a private tour; the guide had not yet said which attraction they left at.

• Zuo Qing accused Elder Chen of endangering recruits and the Special Squad, threatened to torture him, and demanded the Mask Squad’s location.
• Zuo Qing ordered an interrogation team to prepare and detained Night Watchman Chen Lu for questioning.
• Lin Qiye and his companions arrived in Ningchang County and identified the tour bus the Mask Squad had boarded after arriving.
• Baili Pangpang paid to hire the tour agency, its driver, and the bus, and Lin Qiye asked the guide about the Mask Squad.
• The guide recognized the Mask Squad from photos and explained that they had booked a private tour with permission to leave the bus at attractions; Lin Qiye asked where they had stopped returning.