Chapter Summaries

Lin Qiye learned that Annihilating Brahma had used Yue Huai to establish the Ancient God Church, then tried to recruit the slain Makara as a hospital orderly. When the contracts burned and Makara could not be recruited, Lin Qiye chose to erase it and searched the hospital for signs of trouble before leaving.

• Li Kengqiang explained that Annihilating Brahma had sent Yue Huai to establish the Ancient God Church in Great Xia, but the revived gods and Yue Huai's death had ruined the plan.
• An Qingyu returned to the air-raid shelter with the Black Crocodile corpse to perform an autopsy while Lin Qiye went to sleep and entered the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods.
• Lin Qiye found Makara's fear level had reached 62 and tried to hire it as an orderly.
• The contract repeatedly burst into flames, so Lin Qiye gave up recruiting Makara and ordered its soul erased; its body then exploded and vanished.
• Lin Qiye searched the hospital for anything unusual, felt reassured by Li Yifei's snores, and withdrew his consciousness.

As Tang Yusheng trained Lin Qiye and his companions, he revealed the history behind the Night Watchmen’s three-piece set and explained how a Forbidden Drug let Commanders become Heroic Spirits after death. The chapter ended with Zuo Qing taking the drug at Night Watchmen Headquarters, waiting for its torment to begin.

• Tang Yusheng told Lin Qiye and the others that Li Kengqiang had created Ghost God's Pull, while earlier and later Commanders had contributed the Star Sabers and protective cloaks.
• An Qingyu and Lin Qiye questioned how Commanders could reach the near-death state needed to become Heroic Spirits, and Tang Yusheng explained the process and its painful cost.
• Tang Yusheng revealed that Commanders took a Forbidden Drug daily so its residue could preserve their souls after death and extend their lives long enough to become Heroic Spirits.
• Zuo Qing heard an alarm at Night Watchmen Headquarters, opened a locked drawer, swallowed a gray pill, and waited for its side effects.

Zuo Qing endured a painful episode while reaffirming that humans must not rely solely on the returning Great Xia Gods, then received an urgent report about the Heavenly God Temple. On the island, Li Kengqiang put Lin Qiye’s group through an absurd swimming exercise before they spotted a Heavenly Venerable approaching across the sea.

• Zuo Qing suffered through severe pain, and Jiang Ziya brought him tea while they discussed the Great Xia Gods and human strength.
• A Night Watchman delivered an urgent report from the front lines, and Zuo Qing reacted with alarm when he read about the Heavenly God Temple.
• Cao Yuan, Baili Pangpang, An Qingyu, and Lin Qiye questioned their strange training as Li Kengqiang announced a doggy-paddle contest.
• Baili Pangpang began sinking during the swim, and Lin Qiye pulled him back to the surface.
• Baili Pangpang spotted a Daoist figure walking across the waves, whom he identified as a Heavenly Venerable.

The Primordial Celestial Venerable visited Lin Qiye and his companions during Li Kengqiang’s bizarre training and delivered an elixir from the Taoist Celestial Venerable. Lin Qiye expelled the hidden illness left by the monster’s sound, and his body and Mental Power improved.

• The Primordial Celestial Venerable appeared before Lin Qiye and his companions as they dog-paddled in the sea, then brought them back to the beach.
• Baili Pangpang explained that Li Kengqiang had put them through unusual Heart Barrier training, including swimming contests, hula dancing, handstand races, and poker.
• The Primordial Celestial Venerable gave Lin Qiye an elixir and warned that the monster’s sound had left a dangerous root of illness in him, as it had in Yang Jian and the Monkey King.
• Lin Qiye swallowed the elixir, and a mass of black liquid emerged from his body before the Primordial Celestial Venerable burned it away.
• Lin Qiye’s complexion recovered, his breathing steadied, and his Mental Power rose as the elixir took effect.

After Lin Qiye took the medicine, his Mental Power surged toward the next threshold, and a mysterious liquid he had vomited appeared connected to the Cthulhu Mythos. Primordial Celestial Venerable privately revealed that the group was being kept on the island to contain the risk posed by a Seed of Calamity, then left after sensing an unexpected arrival.

• Lin Qiye felt his Mental Power rise close to breaking through the Klein realm’s ceiling, while he and the others examined the blackened sand left by the mysterious liquid.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable dismissed the group, and Li Kengqiang ended the training competition.
• Baili Pangpang confronted Primordial Celestial Venerable, who admitted he had kept the group on the island to control the danger posed by the Seed of Calamity.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable explained that the island would protect and strengthen them until the God War ended, since Great Xia could not risk the worst outcome.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable sensed that someone had arrived sooner than expected and told Baili Pangpang to stay on the island unless he was prepared to return.

At Chennan Pass, Great Xia’s defenders received a highest-level alert and watched the Indian Heavenly God Temple appear beyond a Void Gate. Yang Jian and Guan Zai realized India had connected its divine kingdom directly to Great Xia, leaving the pass threatened by an overwhelming invasion.

• Guan Zai announced that Night Watchmen Headquarters and the Great Xia Heavenly Court had issued a highest-level alert for Chennan Pass.
• A massive dark golden gate formed above the Wall of Miracles, with the Heavenly God Temple visible through it.
• Yang Jian identified the structure as India’s Void Gate, a one-way passage connecting the Heavenly God Temple to Great Xia.
• Guan Zai warned that the Indian Gods had brought their entire divine kingdom to Chennan Pass while Great Xia’s forces were spread across the border fortresses.
• Figures began rushing through the opened Void Gate as Yang Jian questioned why India had suddenly chosen war with Great Xia.

The Indian Gods poured through the Void Gate into Great Xia, and Yang Jian and a small group of Heavenly Court deities fought to hold them back until reinforcements arrived. Guan Zai’s intervention briefly slowed the invasion, but the Indian Gods broke through their defense and a sun-shrouded god pierced Martial Star Lord’s chest.

• Yang Jian explained that the Heavenly Court had to scatter its forces to defend Great Xia, while reinforcements from other war fortresses were still on their way.
• Yang Jian and the Howling Celestial Dog charged toward the Void Gate, where Indian Gods gathered in overwhelming numbers.
• Yang Jian confronted the invaders, admitted he had killed Indra, and attacked as the Indian Gods descended.
• Yang Jian’s Dharma manifestation killed a Lesser God, while Guan Zai used code to stretch the distance and divide the advancing attackers.
• The Indian Gods resumed their assault, cracked Yang Jian’s manifestation, and a sun-shrouded god pierced Martial Star Lord’s chest.

Yang Jian and Chennan Pass’s defenders faced the Heavenly God Temple’s overwhelming assault, and Guan Zai ordered the pass to fight to the death. As Night Watchmen and Spirit Medium arrived to confront the divine-beast horde, Bu Li led his squad into battle.

• The Heavenly God Temple’s gods overwhelmed Yang Jian and shattered his Law Manifesting Heaven and Earth before turning their attack toward Chennan Pass.
• Guan Zai activated Chennan Pass’s war modules, and the pass launched a devastating barrage that briefly slowed the gods.
• The Heavenly God Temple sent divine beasts through the Void Gate, and Guan Zai ordered every defender to engage them.
• Night Watchmen charged the beasts, using Ghost God's Pull to raise their realms as many were killed or wounded.
• Spirit Medium arrived from Xuehan Pass and used seven lightning pillars to block the beast horde.
• Bu Li pricked his fingertip with a silver needle, surged toward the Human Apex, and led Spirit Medium into a fight to the death.

Nezha and Monkey King arrived at Chennan Pass as Yang Jian lay near death, while Master Chen took him away to keep him safe. At the pass, Bu Li and the Spirit Medium team continued holding back the divine beasts until Commander Zuo appeared.

• Nezha struck the Indian gods with the Qian Kun Ring and rescued the badly wounded Yang Jian as Monkey King attacked the gods with his Golden Cudgel.
• Monkey King urged Yang Jian to hold on, then returned to battle while Nezha carried him toward Chennan Pass.
• Master Chen took Yang Jian into his carriage, and Nezha joined the fighting as more Great Xia Gods arrived.
• Bu Li and the Spirit Medium team used Ghost God's Pull and the seven lightning pillars to draw the divine beasts' attention and hold them back from Chennan Pass.
• A divine beast knocked the Spirit Medium team away, but Commander Zuo arrived and severed its descending claw.

Bu Li and the Spirit Medium squad fought the divine beasts at Chennan Pass while Zuo Qing and King Mask joined the defense. Yurina Takishiro and Guan Zai raised the Red Brick Maze to hold back the horde, but Vishnu appeared behind the Void Gate.

• Zuo Qing told Bu Li that Great Xia reinforcements had arrived, but Nightfall might not come, and promised to send the seven Spirit Medium members to Abstinence Hall after Bu Li died.
• Bu Li led the Spirit Medium squad in an attack on the four-trunked elephant as King Mask slowed time and cut down a divine beast threatening them.
• Zuo Qing and Master Chen fought through the beast horde while the Thunder God Pillars began to break and the beasts threatened Chennan Pass.
• Yurina Takishiro arrived by fighter jet, and she and Guan Zai created the Red Brick Maze, separating the horde and buying Great Xia at least ten minutes.
• Vishnu's Buddha face appeared behind the Void Gate, and his divine might struck the gods and people at Chennan Pass.

On the island, Lin Qiye and the others debated leaving their training ground, but Jiang Er’s breakthrough to Klein gave them a way to restore phone signals. Their call to Zuo Qing connected to a battlefield in chaos, where someone shouted about Vishnu and called for King Mask.

• Lin Qiye told the others that Brother Spear had refused to let them leave the island, and that they could not contact Commander Zuo because the island blocked signals.
• Baili Pangpang suggested they stay and grow stronger, but Lin Qiye argued that reaching the apex would take years and they still needed to overcome their Heart Barriers.
• A surge of Mental Power revealed that Jiang Er had broken through to the Klein realm, making her body more stable and allowing her magnetic field to affect objects in the Real World.
• Jiang Er used her magnetic field to restore signal to Lin Qiye’s phone and connect a call to Zuo Qing despite the lack of an answer.
• The call carried the sounds of a battle, including someone shouting that Vishnu had appeared and calling for King Mask.

After hearing a fragmented call from Zuo Qing that mentioned Vishnu and King Mask, Lin Qiye confronted Li Kengqiang about keeping the squad on the island. Li Kengqiang warned that the island protected them from an approaching danger, leaving Lin Qiye to decide whether to defy him.

• Lin Qiye heard signs that Zuo Qing was in danger and hurried into the forest to find Li Kengqiang.
• Lin Qiye argued that Zuo Qing and King Mask being in battle meant something had happened in Great Xia, but Li Kengqiang dismissed his concerns and refused to let the squad leave.
• Lin Qiye accused Li Kengqiang of placing the squad under house arrest and questioned why their training was necessary.
• Li Kengqiang explained that he had been helping the squad build beautiful memories so they could endure future pain, and warned that leaving could put them at risk.
• Wang Qing and Nie Jinshan emerged after Lin Qiye left, and Nie Jinshan reassured Li Kengqiang that the choice was now Lin Qiye's.

After learning that Nightfall had been placed under house arrest on the island, Lin Qiye struggled to decide whether they should stay or try to leave. Baili Pangpang revealed that his reincarnation as Lingbao Tianzun was nearing completion, leaving him to wonder whether anyone cared about what he wanted.

• Lin Qiye told Cao Yuan and the others that Li Kengqiang had said they were under house arrest, and An Qingyu reasoned that the order was meant to protect them and Great Xia.
• Lin Qiye weighed staying on the island against trying to escape, then walked to the shore to think while the others dispersed.
• Gongyang Wan visited Baili Pangpang and apologized for Li Kengqiang's treatment of him, then asked when his reincarnation would be complete.
• Baili Pangpang explained that the completed reincarnation would leave only Lingbao Tianzun, and said he hoped Nightfall could remain safe on the island but knew they would not accept being caged.
• Gongyang Wan asked whether Baili Pangpang had found a way to save the world, and he answered, "Perhaps," before lamenting that people cared about Lingbao Tianzun's return rather than what Baili Pangpang wanted.

Lin Qiye rescued a damaged transport helicopter carrying survivors from Chennan Pass and helped the group kill a divine beast hidden aboard. The surviving pilots revealed that the Heavenly God Temple had invaded Great Xia and Chennan Pass was about to fall.

• The helicopter lost control after a red crawler damaged its tail rotor, but an invisible force carried it toward an island.
• Lin Qiye caught the helicopter with his night power and set it down on the beach.
• The crawler burst from the wreckage and attacked Cao Yuan, but Tang Yusheng pinned it with his Heavenly Halberd and Nie Jinshan crushed it with his staff.
• Lin Qiye and the others rescued the two surviving pilots, while Baili Pangpang confirmed everyone else aboard had died.
• A pilot told Lin Qiye that the Heavenly God Temple had invaded Great Xia and Chennan Pass was about to fall.

After learning that the Heavenly God Temple had invaded and the Great Xia Gods were losing ground, Lin Qiye and Nightfall helped deliver seven fallen Spirit Medium to the Abstinence Hall. Lin Qiye then rallied his companions to break out of house arrest and return to the battle.

• Lin Qiye learned from a pilot that the Great Xia Gods had suffered heavy casualties and were fighting the Heavenly God Temple at Chennan Pass.
• The pilot and Lin Qiye identified seven coffins as the bodies of Spirit Medium, which Commander Zuo had ordered delivered to Wu Tongxuan at the Abstinence Hall.
• An Qingyu repaired the damaged helicopter with Silver Spider Silk, and the pilots flew the coffins toward the Abstinence Hall.
• After the commanders-in-chief left, Lin Qiye's companions urged him to lead them out of house arrest.
• Lin Qiye recalled their earlier escape from the Abstinence Hall and ordered everyone to break out once more.

Lin Qiye and Nightfall tried to leave the island, but four commanders-in-chief raised a seawall and confronted them. Lin Qiye declared that Nightfall would keep fighting rather than hide, and Li Kengqiang moved to stop them.

• Lin Qiye led Cao Yuan, Baili Pangpang, An Qingyu, and Jiang Er toward the coast on a Somersault Cloud, suspecting the commanders-in-chief would intercept them.
• A vast seawall rose around the island, displaying a fabricated Huaihai City, as Li Kengqiang, Tang Yusheng, Wang Qing, and a commander with a black staff confronted Nightfall.
• Li Kengqiang warned Lin Qiye that leaving would endanger his team and asked him to consider their safety.
• Lin Qiye defended Nightfall's duty to fight, tore off his Crimson Cloak, and said they would rather have the sea bury their names than abandon their mission.
• Cao Yuan, Baili Pangpang, An Qingyu, and Jiang Er tore off their cloaks too, but Li Kengqiang decided to stop them and charged toward the group.

Lin Qiye and the Nightfall Squad fought the commanders blocking their escape from the island, only to discover that the commanders were deliberately going easy on them. As the squad climbed the wall of seawater, Commander Nie appeared and attacked them.

• Lin Qiye slashed at Li Kengqiang, who took a bloody wound and fell into the sea, making Lin Qiye realize the commanders were staging their defeats.
• Wang Qing attacked with her Long Whip, then pretended to be wounded and fell into the sea while winking at the squad.
• Baili Pangpang suggested Lin Qiye slash at Tang Yusheng, and Tang Yusheng acted as though a faint strike sent him flying toward the island.
• Li Kengqiang told Wang Qing that the Marquis had secretly helped the squad and that the Celestial Venerable wanted them to make their own choice about leaving.
• Lin Qiye and the others rode the Somersault Cloud up the wall of seawater, but Commander Nie leaped down and struck at them with his black staff.

Lin Qiye and his companions escaped the island after Elder Gongyang stopped Nie Jinshan from pursuing them. As they flew away, Huo Qubing sent them a strand of Great Xia’s National Destiny to aid them in battle for two days.

• Lin Qiye led his companions in splitting up and fleeing from Nie Jinshan, but Nie Jinshan tracked Lin Qiye even through the void and prepared to attack him.
• Elder Gongyang intervened and told Nie Jinshan to let them go, saying it was the Marquis’s decision.
• Lin Qiye and the others crossed the seawall together and celebrated their escape as they flew away on the Somersault Cloud.
• A spear sent by Huo Qubing caught up with them, and a golden dragon emerged from it and passed through the group.
• Huo Qubing granted Lin Qiye and his companions a strand of Great Xia’s National Destiny, which would strengthen them in battle for two days.

Lin Qiye and Nightfall Squad received Great Xia's National Destiny from Huo Qubing and learned it could power their Forbidden Ruins with little Mental Power cost as they headed toward Chennan Pass. At Abstinence Hall, Wu Quan spoke with Old Dog Wu about his violent punishment of prisoners who insulted his brother Shen Qingzhu and asked why Old Dog Wu remained imprisoned.

• Lin Qiye realized Huo Qubing's gift of National Destiny could sustain the squad's Forbidden Ruins, and Nightfall Squad bowed to thank the Marquis.
• Lin Qiye asked Jiang Er to use the Night Watchmen's encrypted channel to find out what was happening at Chennan Pass.
• Prisoners in Abstinence Hall avoided a young inmate and warned a newcomer never to provoke him or the disheveled man in psychiatric clothes.
• Wu Quan sat alone in the recreation area while nearby prisoners cleared away from him.
• Old Dog Wu dug up a weed to move it into the sunlight, and Wu Quan explained that he had mutilated prisoners for insulting Shen Qingzhu before asking why Old Dog Wu was still locked up.

Old Dog Wu learned that the Spirit Medium squad had died holding back the divine beast horde at Chennan Pass, then used his Seventh Royal Ruin, Formless, to revive them for a homecoming feast. Dr. Li revealed that Old Dog Wu had copied Wu Quan’s Emperor of Domination, explaining the weather that changed with his grief.

• A strange transport helicopter landed, and Dr. Li told Old Dog Wu that it was time for him to leave.
• The helicopter crew brought seven Black Coffins back from the front lines, and Old Dog Wu recognized the dead members of the Spirit Medium squad.
• The pilot told Old Dog Wu that the squad had earned merit by holding back the divine beast horde until the Great Xia God and reinforcements arrived.
• Old Dog Wu asked Dr. Li to prepare food and wine so he could welcome his brothers home, then used Formless to make the seven corpses sit up.
• Dr. Li explained to Wu Quan that Old Dog Wu’s Formless could copy Forbidden Ruins and Divine Ruins, and that he had copied Wu Quan’s Emperor of Domination.