Chapter Summaries

An Qingyu used the Gate of Truth to scramble Lucifer’s body, but the backlash left him gravely weakened as Lin Qiye and Number 27 arrived to help. Lucifer trapped them in his domain, while Gilgamesh noticed the old man watching him from across the hospital.

• An Qingyu retched blood after using the Gate of Truth to scramble Lucifer’s organs, and Jiang Er carried him away as Lucifer sent air demons after them.
• Lin Qiye arrived with Cao Yuan and rescued An Qingyu and Jiang Er, then realized that Jiang Er’s real body was missing.
• Number 27 fought Lucifer, passed through an air demon’s attack, and severed one of Lucifer’s wings.
• Lucifer unleashed his domain and sealed the area with demons, leaving Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan trapped as Lin Qiye considered their options.
• At the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, Gilgamesh noticed the old man in white robes watching him from a rooftop across the window.

Gilgamesh reached 100% Treatment Progress after Yelander manipulated it and was discharged into the battlefield, where he joined Lin Qiye and the others against the demons. He trapped Lucifer and Number 27 inside King's Treasury and prepared to fight them.

• Gilgamesh realized Yelander was raising his Treatment Progress and attacked him, but Yelander sent him through a spatial rift as his progress reached 100%.
• Li Yifei found Yelander standing alone on the rooftop, while the hospital’s chessboard turned completely black.
• Gilgamesh emerged from a rift beside Lin Qiye and explained that Yelander had tampered with his Treatment Progress.
• Seeing Zu Shou struggle against the demons, Gilgamesh agreed to help Lin Qiye and flew into the battle.
• Gilgamesh used King's Treasury to transport Lucifer and Number 27 into its desert world, then summoned the stars above them.

Gilgamesh and Number 27 nearly destroyed Lucifer, but he escaped through a spatial demon and called on the Great Forest Black Goat for help. The Great Xia Gods arrived to finish him, just as a golden sword strike revealed that Heavenly Venerable’s side had also entered the battle.

• Gilgamesh used divine artifacts and End King's Law while Number 27 attacked Lucifer, leaving him gravely wounded.
• A spatial demon swallowed Lucifer and carried him away from the battlefield, despite Number 27 wanting to pursue.
• Lucifer emerged from the mist and tried to flee toward the Black Goat to heal his injuries.
• The Jade Emperor and the Great Xia Gods arrived, drawn by the divine power from Lucifer’s earlier battle with the Mi Go.
• The Jade Emperor ordered the gods to kill Lucifer as he called upon the Great Forest Black Goat.
• A golden sword ray pierced the sky, and the Jade Emperor recognized that Heavenly Venerable’s side had made its move.

Primordial Celestial Venerable, Lingbao Tianzun, and Taoist Celestial Venerable attacked Black Goat with the Dust Eye Array while Archangel Michael supported them from the moon. Black Goat’s true body began dissolving, and Primordial Celestial Venerable estimated it would lose its body and soul within five hours.

• Primordial Celestial Venerable confronted Black Goat over their old score from Chennan Pass as Red Moon contamination spread across the sea.
• Lingbao Tianzun and Taoist Celestial Venerable joined Primordial Celestial Venerable, and the three formed the Dust Eye Array to contain Black Goat and its red worms.
• The Dust Eye Array blasted Black Goat with a divine pillar, but a mountain-sized goat hoof broke through its light.
• Archangel Michael struck the breach from the moon with his holy sword, burning Black Goat’s protruding flesh to ashes.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable and Archangel Michael combined their power with Lingbao and Taoist, forcing Black Goat back into the array as its body began to dissolve.

An Qingyu woke in the Heavenly Court and learned that Jiang Er’s body and brain had been destroyed, leaving only a fading conscious magnetic field. He and Lin Qiye faced the remains of her Black Coffin without finding a way to restore her.

• After Guang Chengzi reported the fiend slain, An Qingyu passed out after urging Lin Qiye to bring Jiang Er back.
• Two hours later, An Qingyu awoke in the Heavenly Court and rushed out to find Jiang Er.
• Lin Qiye asked the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother of the West how Jiang Er could be saved, but the Queen Mother explained that her destroyed brain could not be restored and her magnetic field would fade.
• Lin Qiye tried to use the Mortal Divine Domain on the Black Coffin fragments, but the Queen Mother said Lucifer’s contaminated blood made it ineffective.
• An Qingyu arrived, saw the fragments and promised Jiang Er that he would fix her.

After Jiang Er's death, An Qingyu tried to stitch her body back together while Lin Qiye struggled with guilt over failing to protect his team. As Jiang Er's spirit begged him to stop making her wait, An Qingyu ran from the courtyard with her.

• An Qingyu carried the broken Black Coffin out of the palace, while the Queen Mother of the West warned that he had become dangerously changed after seeing the truth beyond the Gate of Truth.
• Lin Qiye learned that the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother of the West had sent Guang Chengzi and True Lord Taiyi to watch An Qingyu, then left the palace as Zuo Qing and the others arrived.
• Lin Qiye found An Qingyu stitching Jiang Er's remains together in the rain and asked Cao Yuan whether he had been a terrible captain.
• An Qingyu recalled Jiang Er's words and tried to keep repairing her body, while Jiang Er told him she did not want to spend her last moments watching him do it.
• Jiang Er embraced An Qingyu and asked him not to make her wait anymore, and he grabbed her arm and ran out of the courtyard.

An Qingyu tried to return to Great Xia with Jiang Er to see her off at Erhai Lake, but the Heavenly Court blocked him because they feared his Lovecraftian power. Lin Qiye arrived and insisted on accompanying him, promising to kill An Qingyu himself if anything went wrong.

• An Qingyu told Jiang Er he wanted to take her to Erhai Lake to make up for his regrets before she faded away.
• Guang Chengzi and True Lord Taiyi stopped An Qingyu at the South Heaven Gate, fearing he could endanger Great Xia.
• The Jade Emperor and the gathered gods and Human Apexes refused to let An Qingyu leave, despite his plea to see Jiang Er off.
• Lin Qiye arrived with another Crimson Cloak and demanded that An Qingyu be allowed to go, offering to accompany him and kill him if he became dangerous.

Lin Qiye and his allies forced their way out of the Heavenly Court so An Qingyu could accompany Jiang Er, with Lin Qiye laying out Nightfall’s medals as proof of the squad’s service. Afterward, An Qingyu affirmed that he intended to accept death to protect Great Xia, and Lin Qiye agreed not to stop him.

• Zhou Ping, Monkey King, Gilgamesh, Number 27, King Mask, Spirit Medium, and others joined Lin Qiye in vouching for An Qingyu.
• Lin Qiye led Nightfall toward the South Heaven Gate and scattered the squad’s medals across the path, asking the Heavenly Court to let them pass.
• Zuo Qing stepped aside, and the other Great Xia Gods and Human Apexes let Lin Qiye and his companions leave without interference.
• An Qingyu promised the Heavenly Court he would return and accept death after seeing Jiang Er through her final journey, then departed with Lin Qiye.
• On the Somersault Cloud, An Qingyu explained that his death was necessary to protect Great Xia, and Lin Qiye agreed to respect his choice.
• Lin Qiye asked An Qingyu what he had seen behind the Gate of Truth.

An Qingyu explained to Lin Qiye that the Gate of Truth held limitless knowledge, and that the Key of Doors could threaten Earth by wielding truth’s power over time and space. He and Jiang Er reunited at Erhai Lake, where they shared a peaceful walk beneath a sudden break in the clouds.

• An Qingyu explained that truth underlay the world's workings and that glimpsing it could overwhelm even gods; the Key of Doors could manipulate time and space.
• An Qingyu told Lin Qiye that the Key of Doors returning could bring about Earth's destruction, then arrived with Jiang Er at Erhai Lake.
• An Qingyu and Jiang Er descended from the Somersault Cloud and reached the shore of Erhai Lake.
• Jiang Er shared the lake's beauty with An Qingyu, who felt relaxed despite knowing his fate.
• The clouds parted over Dali, and An Qingyu and Jiang Er walked hand in hand along the sunlit shore.

An Qingyu visited Jiang Er’s parents and claimed to be her fiancé before leaving with her at dusk. After they departed, Jiang Er’s parents received a message from her and discovered that their health and appearance had been restored.

• An Qingyu and Jiang Er arrived at her parents’ home, and Jiang Er hid underground when they came out.
• An Qingyu introduced himself as Jiang Er’s fiancé and asked for her hand, prompting her father to threaten him with a broom before sending him away.
• An Qingyu told Jiang Er he had left something in the house and given her parents a bride price, then walked with her toward Erhai Lake.
• Jiang Er’s father received a video message of her in uniform and told her mother that her unit was moving into the mountains, where she would have no signal.
• Jiang Er’s parents discovered that their ailments had vanished and their appearances had changed, then rushed outside to find An Qingyu and Jiang Er gone.

An Qingyu and Jiang Er held a wedding beside Erhai Lake as her ghostly form faded away. He returned to the Heavenly Court, where the Great Xia Gods prepared to kill him with the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.

• An Qingyu showed Jiang Er how the Gate of Truth let him transform a stone into a white rose, but admitted he still could not save her.
• Jiang Er told An Qingyu her time was almost up, and he turned the rose into a ring and asked her to marry him.
• An Qingyu and Jiang Er exchanged vows and bowed to each other, but Jiang Er vanished, leaving the ring in the shallows.
• An Qingyu accepted the ring's fall as Jiang Er's answer and walked away as night descended.
• At the South Heaven Gate, Guang Chengzi and True Lord Taiyi discussed using the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to erase An Qingyu's soul and prevent the Key of Doors from awakening.
• An Qingyu returned to the Heavenly Court and announced that he had come to meet his death.

An Qingyu entered the Heavenly Court’s Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to end his life, with Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan accompanying him to the final steps. Before the formation could kill him, a fragment of Nyarlathotep appeared and swallowed him, while Lin Qiye suddenly collapsed unconscious.

• Lin Qiye brought An Qingyu back to the Heavenly Court, where True Lord Taiyi and Guang Chengzi led them to the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• An Qingyu began climbing the sword tower, and Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan accompanied him until he asked to continue alone.
• The Jade Emperor activated the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation as An Qingyu stood beneath its four swords.
• A chaotic face burst from beneath the tower, swallowed An Qingyu, and resisted the sword formation’s attacks.
• The Jade Emperor realized the face was only a part of Nyarlathotep and suspected its true body was nearby.
• Lin Qiye spat blood and collapsed unconscious while the Heavenly Court searched for Nyarlathotep’s true body.

Lin Qiye woke in an empty Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, unable to return to his body, and discovered that the Yelander there was actually Chaos, Nyarlathotep. His attempt to kill Chaos with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi failed, leaving him badly injured.

• Lin Qiye found himself trapped in the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods after losing consciousness at the Sword Tower.
• Lin Qiye searched the deserted hospital and found Yelander sitting beside a chessboard beneath the courtyard tree.
• Yelander revealed himself as a faceless figure and mocked Lin Qiye, claiming the real Yelander was still guarding the seal on the moon.
• Lin Qiye recognized the impostor as Chaos, Nyarlathotep, and attacked him with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi.
• Chaos remained unharmed, struck Lin Qiye with Giant Strength, and sent him flying while he spat blood.

Crawling Chaos revealed that Lin Qiye was not the hospital’s master and explained how he had secretly seized control of part of it. Lin Qiye uncovered Crawling Chaos’s role in Idunn’s disappearance, but the chapter ended with the revelation that Bragi’s wish to restore her had summoned Crawling Chaos’s true form and shattered the Holy Grail.

• Crawling Chaos told Lin Qiye that anyone could use the hospital and that Jinian had hidden it in Lin Qiye’s mind.
• Crawling Chaos explained that he had been taking control of the hospital, changing its rules, and preventing Lin Qiye from recruiting new orderlies.
• Lin Qiye realized Crawling Chaos had waited until the earlier patients left because he feared they would join forces against him.
• Crawling Chaos admitted that he had swallowed Idunn’s soul, causing Bragi to leave the hospital with full Treatment Progress.
• Lin Qiye connected Idunn’s disappearance and Bragi’s discharge to Crawling Chaos, then recalled that Bragi’s wish had summoned Crawling Chaos’s true form and shattered the Holy Grail.

Lin Qiye discovered that Yelander was Chaos in disguise and that it planned to seize the hospital and use Lin Qiye’s body to act in the outside world. Chaos defeated Lin Qiye, shattered Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, and devoured his soul before taking over his body.

• Lin Qiye realized that Yelander was Chaos, which had been manipulating the hospital and watching An Qingyu.
• Chaos revealed that it intended to take control of the hospital, and Lin Qiye attacked with his strongest abilities.
• Chaos effortlessly stopped Lin Qiye’s strike and shattered Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, then seized him and drained his strength.
• Chaos explained that it wanted Lin Qiye’s body as a vessel for wielding its power beyond the hospital.
• Chaos blasted Lin Qiye’s soul out of his body, swallowed it, and entered the vacant body.

Chaos took control of Lin Qiye beneath the Sword Tower and broke free of the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation. After An Qingyu escaped its grasp and tried to flee through a spatial-temporal disturbance, Chaos overwhelmed him and began forcing the Gate of Truth’s power into him.

• Chaos’s aura erupted from Lin Qiye, and Zhou Ping, Monkey King, and Gilgamesh attacked after realizing Chaos had possessed him.
• Chaos transformed into a mass of flesh and unleashed a howl that shattered the trio’s attacks and wounded the gods across the Heavenly Court.
• Chaos crushed one of the ancient swords, broke the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, and freed the drifting face before returning to Lin Qiye’s form.
• Chaos released An Qingyu, who recognized that the figure before him was not Lin Qiye and tried to reach the remaining swords.
• An Qingyu escaped Chaos’s sludge and attempted to flee through a spatial-temporal disturbance, but Chaos caught him and poured black mist into his body as a massive gate appeared behind him.

Chaos transformed into a black pharaoh and fought the Great Xia gods in the Heavenly Court while the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother of the West tried to restrain him. In Lin Qiye’s unconscious mind, a little boy intervened to wake him, and the Heavenly Court battle left its defenders badly injured and Chaos still in control.

• The Jade Emperor and Queen Mother of the West used the pagoda and Kunlun Mirror to restrain Chaos, who changed into a black pharaoh and prepared to kill the remaining gods.
• Zuo Qing explained that Nyarlathotep could take many forms, as Lu Wuwei and the Golden Immortals gathered to fight Chaos.
• A little boy found Lin Qiye sinking unconscious in darkness, recognized that Nyarlathotep had taken the hospital and Lin Qiye’s body, and touched Lin Qiye’s forehead to wake him.
• Chaos devastated the Heavenly Court, leaving several Golden Immortals wounded and the Map of Mountains and Rivers shattered.
• The Monkey King and Gilgamesh struggled to rise as Chaos taunted the battered Jade Emperor and Queen Mother of the West.

An Qingyu emerged from the Gate of Truth and agreed to go with Chaos, allowing Chaos to attack the surviving Great Xia Gods. Lin Qiye's soul then appeared, destroyed Chaos's attack, and trapped Chaos inside a cage of invisible planes.

• Chaos asked An Qingyu whether he had understood what he saw, and An Qingyu said he would go with Chaos.
• Chaos prepared to destroy the Great Xia Gods, and An Qingyu told him to do as he pleased.
• Lin Qiye's soul emerged from Chaos's giant eyeball and crushed it from within.
• Lin Qiye unleashed white laws that pierced Chaos's body and shattered his giant form into black vapor.
• Chaos tried to flee the Heavenly Court but struck invisible barriers that trapped him inside a tic-tac-toe pattern of planes.

Lin Qiye used the power of the world to crush Chaos’s manifested body, but Chaos escaped with the hospital prototype and turned its attention to another threat. At the Heavenly Court, An Qingyu continued toward Chaos despite Zuo Qing’s warnings, until Cao Yuan drew his blade to stop him.

• Lin Qiye trapped Chaos in a collapsing cube of space, destroying its body before his borrowed power faded and he fell unconscious.
• Chaos reappeared far from the Heavenly Court, kept the hospital prototype, and resolved to deal with An Qingyu.
• Zuo Qing confronted An Qingyu about abandoning Great Xia and Nightfall, but An Qingyu said he had chosen the only path that could prevent humanity’s defeat.
• An Qingyu ignored Zuo Qing’s threat to hunt him and continued toward the South Heaven Gate.
• Cao Yuan confronted An Qingyu and said he would knock him unconscious so he could explain himself to Lin Qiye.
• Cao Yuan drew his blade and attacked An Qingyu with Malevolent Qi Flames.

An Qingyu fought Mad Demon Cao Yuan and killed him, causing the Black King to erupt from the Heavenly Court. An Qingyu then battled the Black King, whose fifth chain broke, and challenged it to keep killing him as he regenerated.

• Mad Demon Cao Yuan severed both of An Qingyu's arms, but An Qingyu destroyed Cao Yuan's sword and struck a hole through his chest.
• Cao Yuan died after murmuring Lu Menglei's name, and a pillar of Malevolent Qi Flames erupted as the Black King rose with four of its seven chains shattered.
• The Black King smashed the palace where An Qingyu stood, but An Qingyu turned the ground into quicksand and sent the giant falling through the Heavenly Court into the sea.
• The Black King broke its fifth chain, formed a blade of Malevolent Qi Flames, and cut An Qingyu apart.
• An Qingyu regenerated from a drop of blood and challenged the Black King to see how many times it could kill him, prompting another massive strike.