Chapter Summaries

Jinian showed Lin Qiye and the others around Utopia, including Research Institute No. 3, which housed more than a thousand Mystery specimens. An Qingyu accepted Jinian’s offer to lead the institute temporarily, while Lin Qiye learned that the nearby black castle held the Shang Xie Association’s archives and records of its expeditions into the Cthulhu Pantheon’s ruins.

• Jinian guided Lin Qiye, Baili Pangpang, Cao Yuan, and An Qingyu through Utopia, where they encountered Western women riding bicycles.
• Jinian explained that Research Institute No. 3 housed over a thousand Mystery corpses for research, and An Qingyu eagerly studied the building.
• Jinian offered An Qingyu temporary leadership of the institute in exchange for sharing his knowledge with its researchers.
• After Lin Qiye gave his approval, An Qingyu agreed and headed to Research Institute No. 3 with Jiang Er’s Black Coffin.
• Jinian told Lin Qiye that the nearby black castle stored the Shang Xie Association’s records, including archives of its expeditions to the Cthulhu Pantheon’s ruins on Earth.

Lin Qiye explored the Shang Xie Association’s archives with Jinian, learning about ancient Lovecraftian ruins and sharing what he knew of Heaven’s sealing of the gods. Jinian revealed that Cthulhu Mythos should never have existed in this world and suspected its gods, like her and Lin Qiye’s hospital, came from elsewhere.

• Cao Yuan and Baili Pangpang stayed outside while Lin Qiye followed Jinian into the archive to find information about the Sumerian Pantheon.
• Jinian explained that the Sumerian Pantheon had declined and pointed out its files, but led Lin Qiye upstairs to show him the Cthulhu ruins exhibition first.
• Jinian described the ancient Lovecraftian relics discovered by Great Xia and the Shang Xie Association, and Lin Qiye explained how Heaven’s Holy Lord had sealed the Lovecraftian Gods on the moon.
• Lin Qiye asked why the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods could not contain Lovecraftian souls, and Jinian questioned how he had learned about Cthulhu Mythos.
• Jinian explained that Cthulhu Mythos originated as fiction in another world and should not have appeared in this one, then suspected its gods were also outsiders.

Jinian told Lin Qiye that three Lovecraftian Deities had remained hidden on Earth, and that at least two had awakened. After she left, Lin Qiye studied the sparse files on Sumerian Mythology and departed the ancient castle late at night.

• Jinian showed Lin Qiye an ancient inscription suggesting three Lovecraftian Deities had stayed on Earth instead of being sealed on the moon.
• Jinian identified them as Black Goat Shub-Niggurath, Key of Doors Yog-Sothoth, and Chaos Nyarlathotep, and said at least two had awakened.
• Jinian linked Shub-Niggurath to the red worms and flesh tumors controlling corpses, and Yog-Sothoth to the Nameless Mist that brought the apocalypse.
• Lin Qiye recalled An Qingyu's mention of Nicholas and wondered about his connection to Shub-Niggurath and the red worms.
• Jinian said Nyarlathotep had not been connected to any known incidents and warned Lin Qiye to remain vigilant.
• After Jinian left, Lin Qiye read the available Sumerian Mythology investigation files and left the ancient castle late at night.

Lin Qiye reviewed records about Gilgamesh’s power and missing body, then met He Lin in Utopia and went for a drink with him. Their conversation was interrupted when Lin Qiye spotted two familiar masked figures at a nearby club table and pretended not to know them.

• Lin Qiye read that Gilgamesh had forged a Law, built the King's Treasury, and vanished from his tomb after a suspected Sumerian god stole his body.
• Lin Qiye wondered whether the Sumerian Pantheon had caused Gilgamesh to lose control as he walked through Utopia.
• He Lin recognized Lin Qiye and invited him to a bar, where they caught up over drinks.
• He Lin asked about Shen Qingzhu, and Lin Qiye said he had run into trouble lately.
• Lin Qiye saw two masked figures resembling Pigsy and Sandy at a nearby private room, then denied knowing them when He Lin asked.

Lin Qiye and his companions learned from He Lin that Zhou Ping had killed three Olympus gods before leaving the Human Circle with a mysterious figure of starlight. As they waited for Jinian to explain how she could locate him, they unexpectedly caught her leaving a male escort club.

• Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan joined Lin Qiye and He Lin for drinks in Utopia.
• He Lin recounted seeing Zhou Ping kill bandits and then three Olympus gods in the Human Circle before a starlit figure took him away.
• Lin Qiye told He Lin that they hoped to bring Zhou Ping back to protect Great Xia from the worsening situation in the mist.
• He Lin said Jinian might know how to find Zhou Ping and expected her to contact them after she woke up.
• Lin Qiye and the others saw Jinian emerge drunk from a male escort club, and she exclaimed when she recognized them.

Jinian told Lin Qiye about a secret gathering for God's Agents where he might learn what happened to Zhou Ping. The next afternoon, Lin Qiye and He Lin traveled by Pixel Submarine toward the gathering, emerging into the mist with their destination still ahead.

• Jinian explained that God's Agents held a secret annual gathering to trade information and rare goods.
• Jinian said Lin Qiye might find clues about Zhou Ping at the gathering and arranged for He Lin to accompany him as an attendant.
• Lin Qiye met He Lin beneath Utopia's central tower, while Baili Pangpang, Cao Yuan, An Qingyu, and the others stayed behind.
• He Lin operated a Pixel Submarine and took Lin Qiye up from Utopia toward the ocean surface.
• Lin Qiye climbed out onto the submarine as it emerged into the mist.

Lin Qiye and He Lin traveled toward an agents’ gathering in the Mist, where Lin Qiye needed to conceal his identity as a Dual God Agent. Disguised as Brown Miles, an agent of Merlin, Lin Qiye arrived at Notre Dame Cathedral on a dragon, drawing the attention of those inside.

• He Lin explained that the Shang Xie Association was hated by many agents, so they hid their submarine far from the gathering and continued on foot.
• He Lin warned Lin Qiye not to reveal his identity or use the divine realms of the Seraph and Nyx, since agents might target him for information about Great Xia.
• Lin Qiye disguised himself as Brown Miles, an agent of Merlin, God of Prophecy and Magic.
• Lin Qiye summoned the Blazing Vein Earth Dragon and flew with He Lin toward the gathering at Notre Dame Cathedral.
• Several figures inside Notre Dame Cathedral looked up as Lin Qiye and He Lin descended on the roaring dragon.

At a gathering in Notre Dame Cathedral, Lin Qiye entered under the identity Brown Miles, an agent of Merlin, and quietly observed the other agents. He then returned to the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, where Gilgamesh attacked Li Yifei before Monkey King intervened.

• Lin Qiye used magic to prove his Divine Realm to the black phantom marked 01, then entered the gathering with He Lin wearing cloaks marked 33.
• Lin Qiye tried to sense the other agents with his Mental Power, but several detected his perception and clashed with it.
• At the hospital, Gilgamesh accused a raccoon orderly of poisoning his meal, then grabbed Li Yifei by the throat.
• Lin Qiye stopped Gilgamesh's attack and kicked him through a wall, but Gilgamesh charged back out of the storage room.
• Monkey King burst from his ward and attacked Gilgamesh while Lin Qiye checked that Li Yifei was safe.

After Gilgamesh nearly harmed others during a hallucination, he asked Monkey King and Lin Qiye to restrain him, and Lin Qiye bound him to a throne. Monkey King then discovered that real gods had infiltrated the agents’ gathering, where Lin Qiye chose to stay and investigate.

• Monkey King defeated Gilgamesh and helped him realize that the person he had attacked was a caregiver.
• Gilgamesh asked to be bound because his hallucinations were making it harder to distinguish reality from illusion, and Lin Qiye chained him to a black throne.
• Monkey King agreed to watch over Gilgamesh with Bragi and discovered that he could see Lin Qiye’s surroundings through their shared field of vision.
• Monkey King used his Fiery Golden Eyes to identify three genuine gods, marked 03, 04, and 27, among the agents at the gathering.
• Lin Qiye told He Lin that gods had infiltrated the gathering but refused to leave before investigating, and No. 01 entered as the pendulum clock rang.

Lin Qiye attended the annual Agents’ gathering in the Mist Remains, where No. 01 explained the rules and Agents began requesting information. He learned how difficult it had become to infiltrate Great Xia and heard about the Ten Imperial Predecessors, including Si Xiaonan’s fifth-place ranking.

• No. 01 laid out the gathering’s rules, including anonymity, a ban on violence, staggered departures, and penalties for fraudulent transactions.
• No. 02 asked for the exact location of the Indian Heavenly God Temple, and No. 17 offered to trade the information privately.
• Nos. 03 and 04 stood without making requests, and He Lin explained that some Agents attended only to hear public clues or find trading partners.
• No. 05 asked how to infiltrate Great Xia, and an Agent described its extensive defenses and warned that previous infiltrators had suffered heavy losses.
• He Lin explained that the Ten Imperial Predecessors were the ten strongest Agents closest to godhood, and said Gaia’s Agent ranked tenth while Loki’s Agent, Si Xiaonan, ranked fifth.

At the agents’ gathering, Lin Qiye learned that No. 22 had found the entrance to Gilgamesh’s King’s Treasury, while No. 03 and No. 04 appeared to be pursuing it. Lin Qiye then offered information about the Dual God Agent, claiming that he knew where the agent was in the mist.

• No. 22 offered to trade the location of Gilgamesh’s King’s Treasury, drawing the interest of Lin Qiye, No. 03, and No. 04.
• No. 03 and No. 04 both obtained tokens from No. 01, and Lin Qiye concluded that they were working together to find the treasury.
• No. 27 asked the agents for the fifth time whether anyone had seen Chloe, a red-haired girl he had searched for over five years.
• Lin Qiye asked for the whereabouts of the Great Xia Sword Immortal, and No. 17 and No. 03 said they knew.
• Lin Qiye offered to trade information about the Dual God Agent and claimed the agent had left Great Xia and entered the mist.

Lin Qiye posed as Brown Miles, an agent of Merlin, and sold supposed prophecies about the Dual God Agent to agents at the gathering. He traded with No. 02 for the location of the Indian Heavenly God Temple and left No. 02 suspecting the Dual God Agent was among them, particularly No. 03 or No. 04.

• Lin Qiye revealed his face and claimed to be Brown Miles, an agent of Merlin who could foresee the Dual God Agent's movements.
• Twenty-two agents paid Lin Qiye for his information, and he told He Lin he wanted to muddy the waters.
• Lin Qiye went upstairs to conduct private transactions, where No. 02 exchanged the location of the Indian Heavenly God Temple for the Dual God Agent's reported whereabouts.
• Lin Qiye suggested No. 01 would keep the Dual God Agent's identity secret to preserve the gathering's rules, leading No. 02 to believe the Dual God Agent was present.
• Lin Qiye hinted that No. 03 and No. 04 seemed suspicious.

Lin Qiye traded with the agents seeking the Dual God Agent and learned that Zhou Ping had disappeared after pursuing gods from Zeus's pantheon. No. 22 gave him the location of the King's Treasury in the Mozambique Channel, but warned that a divine-realm turtle guarded it and that gods could not enter.

• Lin Qiye traded information with the visiting agents and learned that Zhou Ping had joined Nyx's faction before vanishing to hunt gods from Zeus's pantheon.
• No. 22 demanded more than the Dual God Agent's whereabouts for his clue, so Lin Qiye offered the strange items he had collected from earlier trades.
• No. 22 revealed that the King's Treasury sat on the back of a slow-moving divine-realm turtle near the Mozambique Channel, and Lin Qiye memorized the location before destroying the map.
• Lin Qiye gave No. 22 the same information about the Dual God Agent he had shared with the others, withholding his suspicions about No. 03 and No. 04.
• No. 22 warned Lin Qiye that gods could not enter Gilgamesh's treasury and that the turtle's defenses were impossible to overcome below the divine realm, then left to meet No. 03.

Lin Qiye suspected No. 03 and No. 04 were gods from the Zeus Faction seeking King's Treasury and planned to force gathered agents to retrieve it. He left the gathering with He Lin, while No. 03 and No. 04 wondered whether he had foreseen their scheme.

• Lin Qiye canceled his remaining trades and left Notre Dame Cathedral with He Lin after telling No. 01 that his life was in danger.
• Lin Qiye explained that No. 03 and No. 04 were likely Zeus Faction gods who had infiltrated the gathering to find agents capable of entering Gilgamesh's King's Treasury.
• Lin Qiye reasoned that the gods might coerce the gathered agents into serving as expendable treasure seekers, and He Lin agreed the theory made sense.
• No. 03 found Lin Qiye's room empty, and No. 04 told him that the seer had left early.
• No. 03 and No. 04 considered whether Lin Qiye had discovered their disguise or foreseen their plans.

After Lin Qiye’s warning led the agents to suspect No. 03 and No. 04 of being Dual God Agents, they arranged to leave the gathering in reverse numerical order so they could ambush the pair outside Notre Dame Cathedral. No. 04 finally emerged and walked into their trap, where an attacker shouted Lin Qiye’s name.

• No. 03 and No. 04 discussed the agents’ suspicious attention and dismissed the danger, with No. 03 claiming he had marked the agents who met his conditions.
• An agent proposed that everyone leave in reverse numerical order, and the attendees voted to approve it after Lin Qiye’s hint made them suspect No. 03 and No. 04.
• No. 05 left the gathering and searched for a hiding place near Notre Dame Cathedral, finding that other agents had already claimed most vantage points.
• The agents concealed themselves in the mist and waited for No. 04 to leave the cathedral.
• No. 04 emerged and walked away from the entrance, prompting more than twenty agents to attack as someone shouted, "Die, Lin Qiye!!"

Lin Qiye agreed to help Number 27 find Chloe in exchange for the god’s help killing someone. He named Loki as the first target, while his attempt to reach King’s Treasury remained interrupted.

• Lin Qiye sent He Lin to tell Jinian he might need support, then used the Somersault Cloud to hurry toward King’s Treasury.
• Number 27 appeared and revealed he had followed Lin Qiye because he wanted help finding Chloe.
• Lin Qiye denied knowing Prophecy Arts, but Number 27 realized he could see through the god-concealing Godly Garment.
• Number 27 offered to kill a god in exchange for Lin Qiye finding Chloe, and Lin Qiye accepted the deal.
• Number 27 gave Lin Qiye a silver coin and asked for a name; Lin Qiye chose Loki, the God of Trickery.

No. 03 and No. 04 defeated the agents at Notre Dame Cathedral and forced the survivors to work for them as they pursued No. 33 and King's Treasury. After they left, No. 01 examined the gathering’s records and revealed herself as Si Xiaonan, planning to use the information to further her own scheme.

• No. 03 joined No. 04 at the ruined battlefield, revived No. 22 and other unconscious agents, and confronted No. 09, No. 17, and No. 38 about No. 33’s warning.
• No. 03 and No. 04 learned that No. 33 had likely headed for King's Treasury and made the surviving agents choose between dying and helping them.
• No. 01 ordered No. 02 to leave Notre Dame Cathedral, then studied the list of agents and listened to recordings of their transactions.
• No. 01 considered using information about Brown Miles, King's Treasury, and Gilgamesh to disrupt Asgard’s plans.
• No. 01 addressed the bodies of Ram Bad and his clones, removed her hood, and revealed herself as Si Xiaonan, agent of the God of Trickery.

Lin Qiye searched the Indian Ocean for the King's Treasury and found the immense Divine Turtle hidden beneath an island. After the turtle detected him and drove him off with deadly vines, he decided to seek another way inside and turned to the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods.

• Lin Qiye recalled that Number 27 had left without question after hearing Loki's name, then continued toward the sea region on No. 22's map.
• Lin Qiye found an island whose vegetation suggested the Divine Turtle lay beneath it and searched for an entrance.
• When Lin Qiye stepped onto a grassy patch, vines erupted from the ground and attacked him at overwhelming speed.
• Lin Qiye used Zhanbai to enter a state of nothingness, but the vines exposed the turtle's shell and the Divine Turtle spotted him.
• Lin Qiye escaped the vines with repeated uses of Night Flicker as the Divine Turtle rose from the sea, then watched it sink back beneath the water.
• Lin Qiye concluded that brute force and infiltration would not work, and sank his consciousness into the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods.

Lin Qiye learned that Gilgamesh’s treasury was hidden beneath a long-lived King Turtle and that Tyrant’s Wrath could help him approach it. During another episode, Gilgamesh briefly warned Lin Qiye that he needed Star Coins before taking the treasury, while the Monkey King and Bragi stayed behind to watch over him.

• Gilgamesh explained that he had hidden his treasury beneath a King Turtle and that Tyrant’s Wrath could keep the turtle from attacking Lin Qiye.
• Gilgamesh suffered another violent episode, and the Monkey King arrived to help contain him.
• Gilgamesh briefly regained clarity and warned Lin Qiye to obtain Star Coins before taking the treasury.
• Lin Qiye left to investigate Star Coins while the Monkey King sealed off the courtyard with a golden circle.
• Bragi joined the Monkey King inside the circle, and they sat watching Gilgamesh from their throne and little stool.

Lin Qiye entered King's Treasury, where he encountered roaming divine artifacts and discovered a city in the desert. He secretly followed several men from Gilgamesh's era, hoping they might be descendants of Uruk's artifact-forging family.

• Lin Qiye used Tyrant's Wrath to make the King Turtle withdraw its vines, then entered the treasury inside its shell.
• Lin Qiye touched the treasury and was transported to its vast desert interior, where he began searching for the Star Coin.
• A silver Flying Bird, a blood-red spear, and winged boots pursued Lin Qiye; he escaped by landing and letting them leave.
• Lin Qiye spotted a distant city, approached its black wall, and saw several men emerge with empty barrels.
• Lin Qiye suspected the men were descendants of Uruk's forging family and secretly followed them in the form of night.