Chapter Summaries

Thor used Asgard’s origin to force a breakthrough toward the Supreme realm as Great Xia’s forces decided to retreat from Asgard. The group escaped across the Rainbow Bridge, but Monkey King revealed that Bragi had entered the shattered God King’s Palace.

• Thor absorbed Asgard’s origin and unleashed a pillar of light as he attempted to reach the Supreme realm.
• Odin killed Urd, but Verdandi attacked him from behind and pierced his heart with her spear.
• Lin Qiye and Queen Mother of the West recognized that Thor was using Asgard’s origin, and Zuo Qing urged Great Xia’s forces to retreat.
• Queen Mother of the West extended the Rainbow Bridge, and the group crossed it to leave Asgard.
• Monkey King stopped Lin Qiye and said he had seen Bragi enter the shattered God King’s Palace.

Monkey King and Lin Qiye left the Rainbow Bridge to help Bragi while the others continued ahead. At the God King's Palace, Thor tore Gungnir from his chest and seized Asgard's origin, but as his body began to rupture, he tried to absorb Idunn's soul crystal to survive.

• Monkey King told the others he was going to help a friend, and Lin Qiye joined him on the Somersault Cloud.
• An Qingyu led Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan onward, while Yang Jian agreed to wait in the mist.
• Thor pulled Gungnir from his chest and used Asgard's origin to force himself into the realm of the Supreme.
• Thor's body began bursting apart under the origin's power, and he refused to surrender himself to the Worm Eyes within him.
• Thor recognized Idunn's purple crystal as a source of life force, grabbed it, and bit down, shattering it.

Bragi reached the ruined temple and discovered Thor had consumed and destroyed the amethyst tied to Idunn, then learned Thor had sacrificed her life and vitality to pursue the Supreme state. Bragi attacked Thor with newfound strength and his harp, leaving Thor battered in the shattered ruins.

• Bragi hurried to the temple and found Thor chewing the amethyst while surrounded by the Illusory Sea.
• Thor blasted Bragi with lightning, then spat out and crushed the remaining crystal fragments when consuming them failed to stabilize his power.
• Thor told Bragi that he had used Idunn’s life and vitality to reach the Supreme state and claimed her sacrifice was her duty to the Norse.
• Bragi struck Thor through his lightning and vowed to kill him for betraying their trust and condemning Idunn.
• Bragi snapped his harp strings, unleashing cutting sound waves and a whirlwind that battered Thor and drove him into the ground.

Thor’s body collapsed under Asgard’s source before flesh-worms transformed him into a monster and restored his strength. As Thor attacked Bragi for Idunn’s heart, Monkey King arrived to take the fight, and Gilgamesh prepared to leave the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods.

• Thor’s body began failing under the forced fusion with Asgard’s source, but flesh-worms replaced his organs and drove his strength toward Supremacy.
• Thor attacked Bragi with crimson lightning, pinned him, and blasted a hole through his chest.
• Bragi’s Life Law and Idunn’s heart healed his wound, and Thor demanded that he surrender the heart.
• Monkey King struck Thor with the Golden Cudgel and told Bragi to step back while he fought.
• Monkey King addressed Gilgamesh through Lin Qiye, and Gilgamesh announced that he was going out.

Lin Qiye, Sun Wukong, and Gilgamesh joined Bragi’s fight against Thor, marking the hospital patients’ first battle together. Afterward, Lin Qiye revealed what he knew about Idunn and gave Bragi the Holy Grail as a possible way to revive her.

• Gilgamesh emerged from Lin Qiye’s hospital, and he and Sun Wukong stood with Bragi as Thor confronted them.
• Sun Wukong attacked Thor while Gilgamesh told Lin Qiye to use the Star Coin to summon a version of him from Lin Qiye’s memories.
• Lin Qiye summoned Gilgamesh with the Star Coin, and the manifested king joined Sun Wukong in striking Thor’s insect-mountain form.
• Bragi thanked Lin Qiye, who explained that Idunn’s soul had not been in the crystal and that she had given Bragi her heart and laws.
• Lin Qiye gave Bragi the King’s Holy Grail, and Bragi hoped its power might revive Idunn.

Bragi, the Monkey King, and Gilgamesh attacked Thor after he transformed into a regenerating insect monster. Bragi reached Thor and tore Asgard’s source from his chest, leaving Thor’s fate unresolved.

• Thor’s body fused with the insect swarm, and the Monkey King and Gilgamesh struggled against his regenerating tentacles.
• Bragi explained that removing Asgard’s source would stop Thor’s regeneration and asked the Monkey King and Gilgamesh to open a path to him.
• The Monkey King and Gilgamesh carved a deep passage through the insect mountain while Bragi descended toward Thor.
• Bragi pulled Thor from the swarm and severed his arm when Thor tried to attack him.
• Bragi pierced Thor’s chest and began extracting the prism that held Asgard’s source.

Bragi seized Asgard’s origin from Thor and sacrificed Thor to the Holy Grail, desperately wishing for his wife Idunn to return. The Grail did not answer, but Asgard’s origin began merging with Bragi and raised him toward the Supreme realm.

• As the origin left Thor, Asgard’s insect mountain shook, and Bragi endured the swarm’s attack while holding on to the Prism origin.
• Bragi pulled the Prism origin from Thor, killed him, and watched the worms collapse as the insect mountain shriveled.
• Bragi placed Thor’s remains in the Holy Grail and repeatedly begged it to resurrect Idunn, but it showed no response.
• Lin Qiye tried to comfort Bragi, who wondered whether his wish had failed because his heart was not sincere enough.
• Bragi’s divine power surged as Asgard’s origin merged with his body, and Gilgamesh told him he was about to reach the Supreme realm.

Odin killed Verdandi after learning Thor had died and Asgard’s origin had been taken. Bragi used the origin to become a Supreme and resolved to purge the corrupted Norse gods, turning their power into sacrifices to revive Idunn.

• Odin sensed Thor’s death and realized someone had taken Asgard’s origin, then killed Verdandi when she challenged him.
• Bragi grieved over his wife and resisted becoming Supreme, but the Monkey King urged him to use the Holy Grail and seek sacrifices.
• Bragi absorbed Asgard’s origin and ascended to Supreme as the ruined Norse realm echoed with the cries of corrupted gods.
• Bragi told Lin Qiye he would purge the corrupted Norse gods so their divine power could help revive Idunn.
• Bragi explained that Asgard’s origin let him locate the gods and reach them through sound, then began his final symphony.

Skuld escaped toward Great Xia after Bragi severed her connection to Asgard, while Bragi used his harp to reveal the letters he had exchanged with Idunn. His sorrowful music reached the corrupted Norse Gods, who began to weep.

• Skuld sensed that Urd and Verdandi had died and set out for Great Xia to find Lin Qiye.
• Bragi told Skuld not to turn back, then used his harp to sever her connection to Asgard's source.
• As Skuld flew onward, she heard Bragi's mournful harp and realized she was crying.
• Bragi played among the ruins of the divine mountain, and more than two thousand letters to Idunn appeared and were recited aloud.
• The corrupted Norse Gods heard Bragi's music, stopped howling, and wept bloody tears.

Bragi used The Sky's Poet to weaken and kill corrupted Norse Gods, collecting their blood in the Holy Grail before Odin confronted him and dragged him into the void to fight. Lin Qiye, Monkey King, and Gilgamesh could only wait, but Lin Qiye spotted reinforcements approaching.

• Bragi's song reached across Asgard, moved its gods, and weakened their connection to the origin and their divine realms.
• Bragi snapped the harp's strings to kill corrupted Norse Gods, sending their blood into the Holy Grail until it overflowed.
• Odin appeared and demanded Asgard's origin and the Holy Grail, but Bragi handed the Grail to Monkey King and faced Odin himself.
• Odin froze space-time and dragged Bragi into the void, leaving Lin Qiye, Monkey King, and Gilgamesh unable to follow.
• Lin Qiye saw a golden streak approaching and announced that reinforcements were coming.

Bragi used the blood-filled Holy Grail to wish for Idunn’s return, but the wish summoned a terrifying Pale Giant Eye over Asgard instead. As Michael cornered Odin, a milky-white light descended from the eye, leaving the nature of the apparition unknown.

• Michael caught up with the wounded Odin, who fled again, and Michael pursued him across the sky.
• Bragi, badly injured after fighting Odin, accepted the full Holy Grail from the Monkey King and wished for Idunn to return.
• A black storm vortex formed over Asgard, and a huge, eyeless Pale Giant Eye appeared within it.
• Michael trapped Odin in his Mortal Divine Domain and began purging the crimson worms from his body.
• Michael saw the descending vortex and reacted with alarm as a milky-white ball of light drifted down from the Pale Giant Eye.

Bragi rescued Idunn's soul from a mysterious monster, but was mortally wounded in the struggle. He carried her away with him to the Eternal Secret Garden, leaving Lin Qiye and Monkey King behind.

• Bragi flew to Idunn's soul, but a pale-eyed monster tried to swallow her back into the clouds.
• Bragi attacked the monster's maw, but it swallowed him and Idunn before he broke free with her soul.
• Lin Qiye caught Bragi as he fell, while the Holy Grail shattered and Monkey King urged him to return to Great Xia for treatment.
• Bragi refused help, told Lin Qiye they would meet again, and used Asgard's origin to depart with Idunn's soul.
• Lin Qiye wrote “Eternal Secret Garden” in the ruins to answer Monkey King's question about where Bragi and Idunn had gone.

Michael emerged from the void carrying Odin’s head and warned the world that those who colluded with the Lovecraftian Gods would be killed. Lin Qiye and Monkey King returned to their companions after Asgard’s destruction, and Queen Mother of the West brought the group back toward Great Xia.

• Worried that Lin Qiye and the others had not returned, Yang Jian and Zhou Ping prepared to enter Asgard and search for them.
• Michael appeared carrying Odin’s lifeless head, crossed beyond Earth’s atmosphere, and announced Odin’s death and his warning against anyone colluding with the Lovecraftian Gods.
• Zeus heard Michael’s warning in Olympus and reflected that Nordic and the City of the Sun had fallen, leaving only Great Xia’s Heavenly Court.
• An Qingyu assured the others that Lin Qiye was safe, and Lin Qiye and Monkey King returned on the Somersault Cloud; Monkey King said Lin Qiye’s ears had been deafened by a shockwave.
• Monkey King told the group that Asgard had been destroyed and almost none of its gods had survived, and Queen Mother of the West used the Kunlun Mirror to take everyone back toward Great Xia.

Lin Qiye and the others reached Great Xia, where they reunited with Skuld and Zhou Ping revealed he had found the Ark of the Covenant. In Cangnan, Si Xiaonan returned to the Night Watchmen Cemetery to mourn Leng Xuan, while Bragi awoke to find himself reunited with a woman in a sea of flowers.

• Lin Qiye recognized Skuld near Great Xia's border and invited her to return with them after she explained what had happened.
• Zhou Ping showed the group a box he had found in an abandoned divine kingdom, and Baili Pangpang and the others recognized it as the Ark of the Covenant.
• Si Xiaonan visited the Heping Agency and learned that Gan Yangyu was Team 136's captain, then left for the Night Watchmen Cemetery.
• Su Zhe recognized Si Xiaonan from a photograph and followed her to the cemetery, where he heard her say that she and Leng Xuan had come home.
• Bragi awoke in a wooden house and found a woman waiting for him among a sea of Scale-Treading Chrysanthemums.

Lin Qiye brought Skuld to Shangjing to accelerate Jialan’s awakening, learning that the process could take two months if Skuld’s divine power was replenished. He arranged for Zuo Qing to contact the Heavenly Court, then returned to his friends with news that they would wait for now.

• Lin Qiye visited Li Zhenzhen with Skuld and brought her to Jialan, who had remained asleep since the battle at Takama-ga-hara.
• Skuld explained that Jialan was consuming time to complete her immortality and reach the divine realm, and that accelerating the process would take at least two years if Skuld had to recover her own divine power.
• Skuld estimated she could awaken Jialan in two months if she did not need to worry about divine power consumption, and Lin Qiye called Zuo Qing to arrange help from the Heavenly Court.
• Lin Qiye told An Qingyu, Baili Pangpang, Cao Yuan, and Jiang Er that Jialan could wake in two months and that Zuo Qing had instructed them to stand by.
• Cao Yuan said Great Xia was safe for now after the fall of the City of the Sun and the Norse gods and Olympus’s failed attack, leaving only India’s Heavenly God Temple as a potential threat.

Si Xiaonan said farewell to Lin Qiye and entered the mist with Fenrir to prepare for the ongoing war. There, Agni and four Lesser Gods appeared and asked to join her, leaving their future uncertain.

• Si Xiaonan met Lin Qiye and told him she had visited the Cangnan cemetery to honor Leng Xuan and the fallen Night Watchmen.
• Si Xiaonan told Lin Qiye she planned to enter the mist, and he reluctantly wished her well.
• Si Xiaonan and Fenrir crossed the border into the mist, where Agni and four Lesser Gods confronted them.
• Agni explained that the City of the Sun had fallen and the group had nowhere to return, so they wanted to join Si Xiaonan.
• Si Xiaonan refused their suggestion that they seek shelter in Great Xia's Heavenly Court, saying it would not accept them.

Si Xiaonan gathered Agni and other displaced gods into a force called the Hidden Gods, planning to plunder weaker divine kingdoms. In Shangjing, Lin Qiye won a card game with a miraculous trick, then entered the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods to draw Bragi’s final ability.

• Si Xiaonan invited the displaced gods to join her in building a divine kingdom by seizing the origins, faith, and resources of weaker realms.
• Agni and the other Lesser Gods agreed to follow Si Xiaonan, and they named their group the Hidden Gods.
• In Shangjing, Lin Qiye used four jokers to beat An Qingyu at Fight the Landlord, surprising everyone at the table.
• Lin Qiye said Commander Zuo had told the team to wait for a mission, then returned to his room and entered the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods to draw Bragi’s final ability.

Lin Qiye drew the Soul Domination Song ability and tested it on A Zhu in the hospital courtyard. The test succeeded, and Lin Qiye began controlling A Zhu through his singing.

• Lin Qiye noticed that the courtyard was empty and realized he could not remember who had fought the Monkey King.
• Lin Qiye drew Soul Domination Song, an ability that temporarily controlled souls through rhythmic singing.
• Lin Qiye decided to combine the song with Tyrant's Wrath to frighten targets and make them easier to dominate.
• Lin Qiye tried singing several lyrics to A Zhu, but the first attempts had no effect.
• Lin Qiye sang about a big pinwheel, successfully dominated A Zhu, and made him dance to his commands.

Lin Qiye learned that the Nightfall Squad had no urgent missions and was sent with his team to an island for a training camp. Zuo Qing and Jiang Ziya revealed that the camp had been arranged by a mysterious figure, leaving Zuo Qing uncertain but trusting that figure’s reasons.

• Lin Qiye discovered that A Zhu had awakened from the Soul Domination Song because he had sung part of it off-key, then received a call from Zuo Qing.
• Zuo Qing told Lin Qiye that the Heavenly Court had taken Jialan and the Future Goddess to receive the Sacred Spring, and that Great Xia was currently at peace.
• Zuo Qing gave Lin Qiye a map and ordered the Nightfall Squad to go to an island for training, though he would not reveal who would train them.
• Lin Qiye told the Nightfall Squad about the camp, and the team packed their gear and set out from Shangjing at dawn.
• After the squad departed, Zuo Qing asked Jiang Ziya whether the training camp was necessary, and Jiang Ziya said it had been arranged by a certain figure whose reasons they should trust.
• Sanjiu announced that he was withdrawing from the Golden Panda Online Literature Awards vote and thanked Fans for their support.

Lin Qiye and his companions searched a remote island for their training base and found a ballroom hidden beneath an abandoned shelter. They discovered dozens of people dancing inside, leaving Lin Qiye convinced something was wrong.

• Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan teased each other on the yacht, and Baili Pangpang fell silent when Cao Yuan mentioned Molly.
• An Qingyu told the group they were nearing the island, and Lin Qiye used his Mental Power to search it after they came ashore.
• Lin Qiye led the group to a rusty iron gate hidden on a wasteland, which An Qingyu judged had been sealed since the 1920s.
• The group opened the gate and followed a dark passage where they smelled perfume and heard rhythmic music.
• The passage opened into a lavish ballroom where dozens of men and women danced, and Lin Qiye warned that something was wrong.