Chapter Summaries

Lin Qiye reflected on the Asgardian gods’ fear and suspicion of Odin before visiting the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods and learning that Bragi’s treatment progress had reached 93%. Bragi remained eager to leave and reunite with Idunn, while Lin Qiye worried that learning she was dead would devastate him and resolved to keep him from leaving until his mission in Asgard was complete.

• Lin Qiye observed that many Asgardian gods feared Odin after seeing his true form, and some had even covered his statue.
• Bragi wrote Idunn a letter describing his hopes for their reunion, his admiration for the Monkey King, and his wish to leave the hospital soon.
• Lin Qiye told Bragi his treatment progress had reached 93% and that he might be discharged in a month or two.
• Bragi insisted that Idunn was waiting for him in Asgard and promised to bring her to visit Lin Qiye.
• Lin Qiye worried that Bragi would be devastated to learn Idunn was dead and decided to keep him from leaving until his Asgard mission was finished.

Lin Qiye learned how the hospital staff secretly preserved Bragi’s letters to Idunn and discussed with Li Yifei how to protect Bragi from the truth. He waited for Bragi to sleep, then headed to Ward 3 to find Idunn and ask about Asgard.

• Lin Qiye decided not to question Bragi about Asgard and planned to ask Idunn later instead.
• A little raccoon orderly collected Bragi’s letters and showed Lin Qiye the storage room where more than a thousand letters and replies had been kept in chronological order.
• Lin Qiye praised Li Yifei’s management and invited him to share a drink.
• Lin Qiye told Li Yifei he feared Bragi would suffer if he learned the truth and considered separating Bragi and Idunn, possibly with the Holy Grail’s help.
• Lin Qiye said Asgard might hold a chance to cure Bragi, then went to Ward 3 after Bragi’s lights went out.

Lin Qiye visited Idunn to ask about Asgard’s Abyssal Dungeon, and she gave him a map and warned him about its deadly guardian, Fenrir. After returning to the Real World, Lin Qiye prepared to leave, but a smoky black shadow suddenly flew into his shadow.

• Idunn told Lin Qiye that she continued to exchange letters with Bragi while borrowing his body each night.
• Lin Qiye asked Idunn about the Abyssal Dungeon because he intended to rescue Jinian.
• Idunn drew Lin Qiye a rough map of the dungeon and warned him that Fenrir guarded it.
• Lin Qiye returned his consciousness to the Real World after failing to find a way to deal with Fenrir.
• Lin Qiye rose to leave Miracle Square, and a smoky black shadow crashed into his shadow.

Lin Qiye hid the wounded Number 27 from Thor and the Norse War Department during their search across Asgard. After his perfect disguise fooled their detection, he went to Thor’s temple, where he prepared to let Number 27 emerge in private.

• Number 27 told Lin Qiye he was being hunted by Thor and planned to escape through the Sacred River.
• As the Norse War Department approached, Lin Qiye suggested hiding Number 27 as gas inside his lungs, and Number 27 entered his body.
• Thor confronted Lin Qiye, who showed his scars from Tyr and claimed he had seen nothing fly past.
• A Norse god used azure light to inspect Lin Qiye but failed to detect Number 27, and Thor invited Lin Qiye to stay at his temple.
• Lin Qiye reached a residence behind Thor’s temple, checked that no one was watching, and told Number 27 to come out.

After learning that Lin Qiye and the president had disappeared together, the Shang Xie Association issued an order recalling its envoys and began searching for clues. Cao Yuan, Baili Pangpang, and the Knight Commander sought help from Director An, who emerged from the research institute when told Qiye was in trouble.

• The Knight Commander learned that the president had sent a brief distress signal while trying to save Lin Qiye and ordered a search team to investigate where he was last seen.
• The Knight Commander issued the Shang Xie Order, recalling all envoys on missions in the mist to Utopia.
• Cao Yuan pressed Jia for information, and Jia revealed that Lin Qiye and the president had disappeared together.
• Cao Yuan and Baili Pangpang compared what they had learned, then met the Knight Commander, who said their location remained unknown.
• Baili Pangpang suggested that Director An might be able to find them, and the group asked the researcher at Institute No. 3 to summon him.
• Director An emerged from the institute carrying the Black Coffin after the researcher told him that Qiye was in trouble.

An Qingyu used several abilities to locate Lin Qiye after he disappeared in the Mist. His ritual pointed to Asgard, and he realized that was where they needed to go.

• An Qingyu arrived carrying a Black Coffin and a colossal beast's head, and his immense Mental Power shocked Cao Yuan and Baili Pangpang.
• After hearing that Qiye was missing in the Mist, An Qingyu requested Mystery blood, Star Sand, Mystery bones, and a personal item belonging to the president.
• An Qingyu combined several abilities in a ritual to search for Qiye, using multiple pairs of arms to perform different methods at once.
• The ritual formed a map of the Mist, and its pen circled a region the knight identified as Asgard.
• An Qingyu recognized Asgard as the place they needed to go.

Lin Qiye hid the injured Number 27 in his body and learned how the assassin had infiltrated Asgard to attack Loki. The next morning, Thor asked Lin Qiye to use his Prophecy Arts to find the very assassin he was concealing.

• Number 27 explained that he had infiltrated Asgard after Thor and the other gods entered through the Rainbow Bridge, then attacked Loki while Thor and the one-armed God of War were weakened.
• Number 27 said he would recover in Lin Qiye's shadow and promised his next assassination would succeed.
• The next morning, Number 27 warned Lin Qiye that Thor was coming, so Lin Qiye hid him inside his body again.
• Thor asked Lin Qiye to use his Prophecy Arts to locate the foreign god who had attacked Loki, and gave him a vial of the assassin's blood.
• Lin Qiye accepted the blood and asked Thor what the assassin had been.

Lin Qiye learned that Number 27 was likely an ancient God of Hunting who had become the God of Assassination and Assassins, then fabricated a prophecy to send Thor and the other gods away from Asgard. With them gone, Lin Qiye used Mumu and the Holy Grail to conceal himself and headed for the Abyssal Dungeon to rescue Jinian.

• Thor told Lin Qiye that Number 27 was probably a survivor of primal mythology, once the nameless God of Hunting.
• Lin Qiye used prophecy to locate Number 27 in the northern snow mountains of Giant Country, claiming the effort had left him gravely weakened.
• After Thor left to gather Tyr and the Norse War Department, Lin Qiye revealed that he had fabricated the location to buy himself two days.
• Lin Qiye went to the Abyssal Dungeon, summoned Mumu, and wished for absolute concealment.
• Concealed by the Holy Grail's power, Lin Qiye headed toward the dungeon to rescue Jinian.

Si Xiaonan infiltrated the Abyssal Dungeon to rescue Jinian, who had been captured by Thor, but Jinian refused to leave before completing her purpose. Jinian asked whether Si Xiaonan had seen Lin Qiye and confirmed that she had received the item Jinian sent her.

• Si Xiaonan disguised herself as a wounded Norse War Department member and used Loki’s appearance to pass Demon Wolf Fenrir.
• Si Xiaonan forged Thor’s written order with her Divine Realm and persuaded the guards to let her enter Jinian’s cell alone.
• Si Xiaonan revealed her identity to Jinian, who asked whether she had seen Lin Qiye; Si Xiaonan said she had not.
• Jinian confirmed that she had received the item delivered to Si Xiaonan, then refused to leave the dungeon despite her injuries.

Lin Qiye secretly reached Jinian in the Abyssal Dungeon and found her badly injured but determined to stay imprisoned so she would not jeopardize their mission. After learning Loki planned to attempt the Supreme Realm in three days, Lin Qiye left with the mission more urgent than ever.

• Lin Qiye used the Holy Grail to conceal himself and slipped through the dungeon, where he briefly saw an injured man leaving the direction of Jinian’s cell.
• Lin Qiye found Jinian tortured in her cell and learned Si Xiaonan had visited disguised as a man before him.
• Jinian told Lin Qiye that she had stolen Gjallarhorn and hidden it in Utopia, but refused to escape because Asgard would suspect an insider and the mission would be endangered.
• Jinian explained that Loki would attempt to reach the Supreme Realm in three days and urged Lin Qiye to meet Si Xiaonan and continue the mission while she stayed behind.

Lin Qiye left Jinian in the dungeon and went after Si Xiaonan, finding her badly wounded and surrounded by three God's Agents. He rescued her from Phil and Rist, then revealed his identity to her.

• Lin Qiye left Jinian in the cell as guards approached and hurried out of the dungeon to catch up with Si Xiaonan.
• Lin Qiye sensed a fight in the forest and found Si Xiaonan bleeding while Phil, Rist, and a short woman attacked her.
• Si Xiaonan feigned weakness and killed the short woman with a dagger, then challenged Phil to fight her alone.
• Phil ordered Rist to kill Si Xiaonan, but Lin Qiye appeared and severed Rist's paws before cutting the giant bear in half.
• Lin Qiye landed beside Si Xiaonan, who recognized him as No. 33 or Miles, and he addressed her as Xiao Nan.

Lin Qiye revealed his identity to rescue the wounded Si Xiaonan, but Phil trapped them in a fragment of the Gray-White Colosseum and chose to fight. Lin Qiye killed Rist and turned to face Phil.

• Lin Qiye refused to leave Si Xiaonan behind, and Phil decided to attack them despite the risk of Thor's retaliation.
• Phil used a fragment of the Gray-White Colosseum to seal Lin Qiye, Si Xiaonan, and their enemies inside a five-kilometer domain.
• Lin Qiye revealed his true appearance and drew Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, while Si Xiaonan warned him about Phil and Rist.
• Lin Qiye used Shadow Clone Night to mislead Rist, then wounded him with Zhanbai and beheaded him with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi.
• Lin Qiye set Rist's body ablaze and turned toward Phil.

Lin Qiye defeated Phil by using End King's Law to seize control of part of the God of Light's divine realm, then overcame Phil's imitation of the God of Light and killed him. The colosseum remained in place because Lin Qiye and the wounded Si Xiaonan were still inside, and only one person could leave alive.

• After Phil recognized Lin Qiye as Great Xia's Dual God Agent, Lin Qiye used End King's Law to turn Phil's light attacks against him and control part of his divine realm.
• Phil transformed into a giant imitation of the God of Light, and Lin Qiye summoned his towering Dharma form to fight him.
• Lin Qiye's Dharma form overpowered Phil, and Lin Qiye cut through his defenses and stabbed his heart with the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, killing him.
• Lin Qiye wondered why the colosseum had not disappeared, and Si Xiaonan reminded him that only one of them could walk out alive.

Si Xiaonan faked her death to escape the Gray-White Colosseum, and Lin Qiye carried her to safety after she revived. Meanwhile, Knight’s group approached Asgard through its Human Circle, where he revealed that the Shang Xie Association had brought Gjallarhorn.

• Si Xiaonan stabbed herself and used a trick to make her body appear dead, causing the Gray-White Colosseum to release Lin Qiye.
• Si Xiaonan revived after the trick ended, and Lin Qiye carried her out of the forest while collecting the colosseum fragment for Mumu.
• Knight’s group sailed toward the entrance to Asgard’s Human Circle, and An Qingyu explained why they could not enter through Asgard’s main route.
• Knight introduced the Shang Xie Association’s Four Great Envoys as powerful allies for the rescue mission.
• Knight opened a black box and revealed Asgard’s supreme divine artifact, Gjallarhorn.

An Qingyu and the others agreed to join the Shang Xie Association’s dangerous plan to enter Asgard and rescue Lin Qiye and Jinian. In Asgard, Si Xiaonan woke up and accidentally reopened her wound when she mistook Lin Qiye for a threat.

• The knight explained that Gjallarhorn, the Horn of Disaster, could bring catastrophe to Asgard, but its effects were unpredictable.
• An Qingyu warned that using the horn was a dangerous gamble, and the knight declared the Shang Xie Association would risk everything to save Jinian.
• Baili Pangpang, An Qingyu, Cao Yuan, and Jiang Er chose to join the rescue rather than return to Great Xia.
• The knight led them and the Shang Xie Association toward Asgard’s Human Circle, where a masked envoy formed a Heavy Water Corridor to the mountain summit.
• Si Xiaonan woke in Asgard and thrust a dagger at Lin Qiye before recognizing him and withdrawing it.
• Lin Qiye noticed Si Xiaonan had reopened her abdominal wound and said the little mummy would bandage it.

Lin Qiye listened as Si Xiaonan explained how Loki made her his agent and sent her to infiltrate Team 136, then accompanied her to a lake that reflected messages from the Human Circle. Leng Xuan’s latest message warned that something was about to happen there.

• Lin Qiye questioned Si Xiaonan about her past, and she revealed that Loki chose her as his agent when she was ten and ordered her to join Team 136 to seize Shiva’s Grudge.
• Si Xiaonan explained that Thor and other Asgard agents had inflicted her wounds after Loki abandoned her, and said she did not know why Loki planned to reach the supreme god realm in three days.
• Si Xiaonan led Lin Qiye to an emerald lake and explained that its surface reflected the lake in Asgard’s Human Circle, allowing light and carved messages to pass between them.
• Si Xiaonan read the marks Leng Xuan had left in the Human Circle’s lake and told Lin Qiye that something was about to happen there.

Lin Qiye learned that Loki planned to use a Death Transfer Array in Asgard’s Human Circle and prepared to seek the Norns’ help to awaken Jialan. Meanwhile, Leng Xuan received a one-of-a-kind weapon from a dwarven smith: a massive sniper rifle.

• Si Xiaonan explained the Death Transfer Array’s limits and said Leng Xuan was watching the Human Circle for signs of Loki’s plan.
• Lin Qiye outlined his plan to take the Sacred Rainbow Sword and open the Rainbow Bridge for the Great Xia Gods when Loki challenged the Supreme.
• Lin Qiye asked Si Xiaonan to take him to the Norns so he could seek their help in shortening Jialan’s sleep.
• Leng Xuan visited a dwarven smith, took several Spirit Awakening Pills, and opened a case containing a two-meter-long sniper rifle.

Leng Xuan left the Dwarven Kingdom with a seven-shot weapon forged by the God of Forging and found Si Xiaonan’s message at the lake. Lin Qiye and Si Xiaonan encountered Urd, the Goddess of the Past, who recognized their identities and questioned why Si Xiaonan had brought a Blasphemer to her.

• The short old man warned Leng Xuan that the Black Box could fire only seven bullets before exploding, and demanded that he keep its maker secret.
• Leng Xuan thanked the God of Forging, left the Dwarven Kingdom, and discovered symbols Si Xiaonan had left at the lake that led him to think of Qiye.
• Lin Qiye and Si Xiaonan searched the valley for the Three Goddesses and found Urd washing clothes beside a stream.
• Urd struck a stone with her paddle, forcing Lin Qiye and Si Xiaonan to relive their memories and collapse.
• Urd recognized Si Xiaonan as the God of Trickery’s agent and Asgard’s traitor, identified Lin Qiye as a Blasphemer, and asked why they had come; another voice then sounded from the forest.

Lin Qiye and Si Xiaonan were brought before the Norns, whose goddesses of the past and future exposed the hidden Number 27 inside Lin Qiye. They met Verdandi, the goddess of the present, while Skuld became fascinated with Mumu.

• Urd and Skuld found that Lin Qiye's past and future were obscured, then led him and Si Xiaonan deeper into the valley.
• Skuld revealed that she had foreseen the hidden Number 27, so Lin Qiye released him from his body.
• Urd recognized Number 27 as an ancient shadow god and allowed him to accompany the group.
• Urd brought Lin Qiye, Si Xiaonan, and Number 27 to Verdandi, the powerful goddess of the present.
• Skuld asked to play with Mumu, and Lin Qiye summoned Mumu and placed it in her arms.

Lin Qiye asked the Three Goddesses to let Skuld save Jialan, but they refused. Before he left, Skuld foresaw Ragnarok in the sunset and said Lin Qiye seemed to be hidden from her sight.

• Skuld happily took Mumu into the forest, while Verdandi explained that her younger sister had a childlike mind.
• Lin Qiye told the goddesses about Jialan's condition and asked Skuld to save her, but Urd rejected his offer of compensation and Verdandi ordered him to leave.
• Skuld offered to help Lin Qiye, but Verdandi stopped her.
• Skuld announced that the sunset had turned red, prompting Urd and Verdandi to recognize the sign of Ragnarok.
• Skuld could not see the source of the omen and said Lin Qiye seemed to be hidden; Verdandi searched him, then let him leave.
• Lin Qiye and his companions descended the mountain with Mumu, who waved goodbye to Skuld.