Chapter Summaries

Lin Qiye arranged protection and a place to stay for Baili Pangpang after the hotel was destroyed, then returned to Hong Ying’s home. As snow fell over Cangnan, Chen Muye and Wu Xiangnan joined Leng Xuan in keeping watch over the villa.

• Lin Qiye explained why Shen Qingzhu would protect Baili Pangpang, and Shen Qingzhu borrowed Cao Yuan’s three hundred yuan to help the three lackeys at the noodle shop.
• Lin Qiye led Baili Pangpang, Cao Yuan, and Shen Qingzhu to a lovers’ hotel, where Shen Qingzhu and Cao Yuan insisted on sharing Baili Pangpang’s room to guard him.
• Lin Qiye left the inn and headed to Hong Ying’s house, catching a snowflake and thinking that he could not build snowmen with A Jin that year.
• Hong Ying welcomed Lin Qiye home and told Wen Qimo to protect him for the night.
• Leng Xuan kept watch over the villa from a church roof, and Chen Muye and Wu Xiangnan joined him in the snowfall.

Lin Qiye unlocked the second ward in the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods and discovered Merlin, a clear-eyed patient from English Mythology. Merlin greeted him as if he had expected him, leaving Lin Qiye to wonder whether the hospital’s six wards represented different mythological systems, including one from Great Xia.

• Lin Qiye saw that Nyx’s treatment progress had stalled at 78% and suspected he would need to find a solution outside the hospital.
• Lin Qiye explained to Li Yifei that his breakthrough into the Pool realm might let him open the second ward door.
• Lin Qiye unlocked the second ward and found a young man in a deep blue robe who said he had known Lin Qiye was coming.
• Lin Qiye read the ward notice identifying the patient as Merlin, whose treatment progress was at 0%.
• Lin Qiye recognized Merlin as a legendary mage and wondered whether the six wards represented different mythological systems, including Great Xia’s.

Lin Qiye met Merlin, who described his prophecy and the mysterious girl Jinian, then explained that he was investigating the true nature of the world. Merlin left Lin Qiye with the possibility that their world had been created by a higher-dimensional being.

• Li Yifei saw Merlin transform into a woman and then a Nanda Snake Demon before Merlin returned to his usual form.
• Merlin told Lin Qiye that he had foreseen Lin Qiye opening the door ten years earlier, but could not clearly see his past or future.
• Merlin explained that Jinian had defeated him in a contest of deduction and won his Crystal Ball.
• Lin Qiye connected Jinian to the girl who had also won Nyx's bracelet and left an envelope in the Director's Office.
• Merlin said he was a scholar seeking the world's true nature and asked Lin Qiye whether a higher-dimensional being had created their world.

Merlin's search for the True World caused him to transform into a pink starfish and act like Patrick from SpongeBob, so Lin Qiye and Li Yifei sedated him. The next morning, Lin Qiye woke to heavy snow and found a motionless gray mouse in his room.

• Li Yifei challenged Merlin's claim that their world was fake, and Merlin recalled seeing an underwater world with pineapple-shaped houses and a yellow square.
• Merlin transformed into a pink starfish, called Lin Qiye SpongeBob, and ran through the courtyard pretending to catch jellyfish.
• Merlin mistook Nyx for Plankton, and Nyx embraced him as her grandson.
• Lin Qiye concluded that Merlin's visions of the True World had caused a mental breakdown, and Li Yifei chased Merlin with a syringe and injected him with a sedative.
• Lin Qiye left the hospital, then woke the next morning to find Cangnan covered in snow and a motionless gray mouse in his room.

Lin Qiye spent the morning with Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan while An Qingyu secretly monitored Cangnan City through rats implanted with artificial snake demon neurons. After assessing the dangerous forces gathering in the city, An Qingyu decided to warn Lin Qiye.

• Lin Qiye woke early, found Hong Ying practicing her spear, and joined her for breakfast with Wen Qimo and Si Xiaonan.
• Hong Ying took Lin Qiye and Si Xiaonan out to buy groceries while Wen Qimo stayed behind to wash the dishes.
• A gray rat watched the group from the mansion before returning to An Qingyu's underground lair in Cangnan's sewers.
• An Qingyu used more than four hundred rats implanted with fourth-generation artificial snake demon neurons, which he called Fish Seeds, to monitor the city.
• An Qingyu considered the powerful and dangerous figures gathering in Cangnan, then decided to give Lin Qiye a hand.

While shopping with Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan, Lin Qiye discovered a note warning that someone planned to attack his family at his old home. He rushed there with two Black Boxes, determined to protect his aunt and A Jin.

• Hong Ying told Lin Qiye that a Mystery lizard’s corpse had been found half missing, echoing the disappearance of the Nanda Snake Demon’s head.
• A cloaked figure fired a blunt metal arrow at Lin Qiye, then fled when Hong Ying chased him.
• Lin Qiye found a note hidden in the arrow warning that someone would target his family at No. 3901 in the old district.
• Lin Qiye handed the shopping bags to Si Xiaonan, collected two Black Boxes from the van, and ran toward his family’s home.

On New Year’s Eve, Yang Jin and his aunt prepared their home while a mercenary group watched them, waiting for Lin Qiye. Lin Qiye arrived and attacked Scorpion Three, who countered by firing a submachine gun at him.

• Yang Jin helped his aunt hang Blessing signs, including a special one on Lin Qiye’s bedroom door, while she worried that Lin Qiye had not called home.
• Scorpion Three and other members of the Mad Scorpion mercenary group reported watching Yang Jin and his aunt, and Scorpion One ordered them to seize the pair if Lin Qiye did not appear by nightfall.
• Scorpion Three questioned the group’s allegiance to the Ancient God Church, while Scorpion One warned that defying its covenant would endanger them all and said a powerful believer could handle Lin Qiye.
• Lin Qiye appeared outside Scorpion Three’s van, destroyed the walkie-talkie and van door, and asked what believers were.
• Scorpion Three lunged at Lin Qiye with a blade, then drew a submachine gun and fired at him.

Lin Qiye interrogated Scorpion Three and learned that his group served Medusa, then killed him. Two hidden snipers attacked Lin Qiye, but Leng Xuan killed both and left the approaching enemies to Lin Qiye.

• Lin Qiye crippled Scorpion Three and tortured him into explaining that the believers were a puppet organization serving the Ancient God Church, and that his group worshiped Medusa, also known as Snake Woman.
• Lin Qiye connected Medusa to the woman suspected of destroying the Training Camp and killed Scorpion Three.
• A sniper shot at Lin Qiye, and a second sniper joined the attack, forcing him to take cover.
• Leng Xuan revealed himself as an ally and shot both snipers from several hundred meters away.
• Leng Xuan said the next move was up to Lin Qiye, who sensed several figures closing in.

Lin Qiye fought off the Mad Scorpion squad in the snow while Lu Liang slipped away to capture his family. Lu Liang encountered a small mangy dog on the stairs, and the chapter left him facing the dog.

• Lin Qiye used his darkness and Star Sabers to kill Scorpion Four, then fought Scorpion Five, Scorpion Six, Scorpion Two, and Scorpion Seven as they tried to wear him down.
• Lin Qiye held his ground against the four attackers, relying on the Starry Night Dancer to sustain him while he waited for Scorpion One to appear.
• Lu Liang watched the battle from a building and criticized the Mad Scorpion squad for failing to capture Lin Qiye’s family.
• Lu Liang went upstairs, intending to seize Lin Qiye’s family, but stopped when he found a small mangy dog lying on the stairs.
• Lu Liang laughed and called the dog ugly.

Lin Qiye killed Scorpion Two, Scorpion Seven, Scorpion Five, and Scorpion Six, but Scorpion One used the Forbidden Object Blood Boil to absorb the dead mercenaries’ strength and overpower him. As Scorpion One approached the injured Lin Qiye, a phone call from his aunt interrupted the fight.

• Lin Qiye used Seraphim Divine Might to kill Scorpion Two and Scorpion Seven, then shot Scorpion Five and Scorpion Six with floating guns.
• Scorpion One arrived and revealed that he had sacrificed his squad to empower the Forbidden Object Blood Boil.
• Scorpion One absorbed the dead mercenaries’ strength, raised his combat power to the River realm, and charged Lin Qiye.
• Scorpion One overpowered Lin Qiye in a blade clash and kicked him into a wall, leaving him coughing up blood.
• Lin Qiye’s phone rang as Scorpion One approached, and the caller was Aunt.

Lin Qiye defeated Scorpion One in a desperate battle on New Year's Eve, then called Auntie and reassured her that he was fine. The chapter left him watching his family celebrate from nearby as he exchanged New Year greetings with Auntie and Yang Jin.

• Scorpion One taunted Lin Qiye about his family while they fought, and Lin Qiye struggled as his strength and Mental Power ran low.
• Lin Qiye used the Absolute Darkness Divine Forbidden Zone to blind Scorpion One with snow, then stunned him with the Seraph's divine might.
• Lin Qiye used Zhao Kongcheng's Star Saber to kill Scorpion One and took the silver tag from his corpse.
• Lin Qiye answered Auntie's long-running call and told her he was fine, while watching her from a stairwell near their apartment.
• Lin Qiye spoke with Yang Jin, then exchanged Happy New Year wishes with Auntie.

Lin Qiye left his home to avoid drawing danger to his aunt and Yang Jin, then joined Team 136 for New Year’s Eve dinner. As the city welcomed the new year, Baili Pangpang, Shen Qingzhu, and Cao Yuan celebrated together, while An Qingyu drank alone underground.

• Leng Xuan told Lin Qiye that Chen Muye had placed the Weiyang forbidden item at his home to protect his family, as Team 136 had done for its members’ families.
• Lin Qiye said goodbye to Xiao Hei Lai and left home, carrying the two Black Boxes back to the agency.
• Lin Qiye joined Team 136 for dinner, where Hong Ying said the archer had escaped, and Chen Muye toasted the team and remembered the absent Zhao Kongcheng.
• Baili Pangpang persuaded Shen Qingzhu to drink with him and Cao Yuan as they watched New Year’s fireworks from a hotel.
• An Qingyu watched the moonlight in his underground cavern, raised his Sprite, and wished himself a happy new year.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Lin Qiye worried that the hidden enemies had yet to make their move, while Baili Pangpang’s group was attacked at a hotel. Baili Pangpang revealed that his family’s four powerful Forbidden Item Wielders were guarding him, and the story left them heading off to fight more approaching enemies.

• Lin Qiye woke after the New Year’s Eve celebration, swept snow outside the office, and wondered why the hidden enemies and the Medusa Agent had not appeared.
• Lin Qiye spotted smoke rising in the distance and realized an explosion had gone off.
• Cao Yuan carried the still-drunken Baili Pangpang out of the burning hotel while Shen Qingzhu extinguished the flames and protected them from debris.
• Four apparent attackers knelt and greeted Baili Pangpang as the Baili Family’s Forbidden Item Wielders, and the Fire Envoy reported that they had eliminated the three enemies who ambushed the hotel.
• The Wind Envoy sensed more enemies approaching, and the four Forbidden Item Wielders left to confront them as Shen Qingzhu asked Baili Pangpang why he had called him along.

Yuan Gang exposed three undercover agents in the Training Camp, but two of them attacked him and detonated themselves after invoking The Whisperer. Furious, Yuan Gang left the camp to put an end to the conflict.

• The instructors discussed the camp’s uneasy atmosphere and the disappearance of Han Li and several instructors.
• Yuan Gang and Instructor Hong confronted Li Yaoguang with evidence that he had secretly left the camp and received suspicious payments.
• Li Yaoguang confessed that he had cooperated because his parents had been captured, and Yuan Gang said he would be sent to the Night Watchmen Tribunal in Shangjing City.
• Yuan Gang named Wang Gui and Wu Ruotong as the other undercover agents, and they attacked him with short blades.
• Yuan Gang repelled Wang Gui and Wu Ruotong, who self-destructed inside his golden barrier after naming The Whisperer.
• Yuan Gang left the Training Camp in anger, and Instructor Hong remarked that he was angry.

Snake Woman was ordered to recruit Lin Qiye or have Han Shaoyun kill him, while Lin Qiye left the agency to check on Baili Pangpang. He discovered that the street had become a Forbidden Zone covered in snake-eye patterns and came face-to-face with Snake Woman.

• Snake Woman learned that the Training Camp infiltrators had been exposed and was told to recruit Lin Qiye or arrange his death with Han Shaoyun.
• Lin Qiye left Heping Agency carrying Black Boxes and New Year goods to check on Baili Pangpang and test the hidden enemies.
• Wu Xiangnan woke up and, with Chen Muye and Wen Qimo, prepared to go to work after Lin Qiye left.
• Lin Qiye sensed something wrong on the deserted road and discovered snake-eye patterns covering the buildings, ground, branches, and sun.
• Lin Qiye recognized the street as a Forbidden Zone and saw Snake Woman approaching him.

Lin Qiye confronted Snake Woman, the Ancient God Church’s Medusa Agent, and rejected her attempt to make him her slave. Their battle began as both unleashed their Forbidden Zones, leaving Lin Qiye facing Snake Woman’s teleportation and her forbidden item, Snake Fang.

• Snake Woman revealed herself as the Medusa Agent and approached Lin Qiye, first threatening him and then trying to seduce him into becoming her slave.
• Lin Qiye attempted to kill Snake Woman with a surprise attack, but she vanished and reappeared on a tree with a handleless blade.
• Snake Woman made increasingly explicit demands that Lin Qiye submit to her, and he declared that he would kill her instead.
• Snake Woman activated the Snake Eye patterns across the street, while Lin Qiye unleashed the Absolute Darkness Divine Forbidden Zone.
• Snake Woman repeatedly teleported and blocked Lin Qiye’s twin blades with Snake Fang, which Lin Qiye could not control with darkness.
• Snake Woman twisted her neck toward Lin Qiye and told him to look into her eyes as a black glow emerged from them.

Lin Qiye uncovered the Snake Woman’s teleportation limits and overcame her petrifying gaze, but a believer named Han Shaoyun intervened before he could kill her. Han Shaoyun identified himself as the Thirteenth Seat.

• Lin Qiye shut his eyes to avoid the Snake Woman’s petrifying gaze and dodged her black python hair and attacks.
• Lin Qiye realized the Snake Woman could teleport only to locations marked by her Snake Eyes.
• Lin Qiye struck the Snake Woman through her scales, then opened his eyes and overwhelmed her with the divine might of two gods.
• The Snake Woman’s Eye of Petrification began turning Lin Qiye’s arm gray, but she collapsed in pain under his divine pressure.
• As Lin Qiye moved to kill the Snake Woman, Han Shaoyun blocked his blade with a silver halberd and introduced himself as the Thirteenth Seat among the believers.

Lin Qiye faced the believer Han Shaoyun until Team 136 arrived to confront him. Elsewhere, a Sea-realm attacker overwhelmed the Baili Family’s Forbidden Item Wielders, but Yuan Gang revealed that the attack was a ploy to draw him away from Lin Qiye.

• Han Shaoyun sent Snake Woman away and told Lin Qiye he had come to kill him, but the Night Watchmen’s Boundless Void Domain appeared before Lin Qiye could summon Nyx.
• Chen Muye led all of Team 136 into the street and challenged Han Shaoyun.
• The Sea-realm attacker defeated Fire Envoy, Wind Envoy, Water Envoy, and Earth Envoy as Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan watched.
• Baili Pangpang tried to buy the attacker off, but Yuan Gang arrived and identified the attack as a plan to lure him away from Lin Qiye.
• Yuan Gang challenged the attacker’s assumption that he was the only person in Cangnan City capable of killing a Sea-realm cultivator.

Lin Qiye refused to abandon Team 136 when Han Shaoyun challenged them, and the team joined him in fighting the former Gusu City captain. Their first attacks briefly exploited Han Shaoyun’s heart demons, but he unleashed Great Wind Disaster as the battle escalated.

• Lin Qiye left the rooftop and joined Team 136, deciding to stand with his comrades against Han Shaoyun.
• Chen Muye recognized Han Shaoyun as the former captain of the Gusu City Night Watchmen team and refused his offer to let Team 136 leave.
• Leng Xuan fired a grenade at Han Shaoyun, while Hong Ying charged him with her spear and Wen Qimo used Heart Demon Binding Method to distract him.
• Han Shaoyun suppressed Wen Qimo’s illusion, sent Hong Ying flying with a blast of wind, and brought down the old building beneath him.
• Han Shaoyun invoked Forbidden Ruin Sequence 079, Great Wind Disaster, filling the area with tornadoes and swirling snow.

Han Shaoyun confronted Team 136 in a devastating blizzard, and Chen Muye challenged him over his past and his allegiance to the Believers. Chen Muye revealed his Forbidden Ruin, Black Wuchang, leaving Han Shaoyun shocked to learn the captain’s identity.

• Si Xiaonan used Unfettered Veil to protect Team 136 from the blizzard and clear their vision.
• Chen Muye questioned Han Shaoyun about becoming a Believer after the Gusu City team’s encounter with The Whisperer.
• Han Shaoyun said the Ancient God Church had forced him to sign a Soul Contract to save his teammates, leaving him unable to return to his former life.
• Chen Muye drew his twin blades and declared that he would never show mercy to the Believers.
• Chen Muye activated Forbidden Ruin Sequence 037, Black Wuchang, and Han Shaoyun recognized him in shock.