Chapter Summaries

Chen Muye and the Night Watchmen joined forces to attack Han Shaoyun, revealing that Chen Muye’s blades could cut lifespan as well as flesh and souls. As Han Shaoyun fought off their attacks, Lin Qiye entered the battle and launched a fresh assault.

• Han Shaoyun recognized Chen Muye as Black Wuchang and questioned why he had remained at the River Realm, then clashed with him across the Nether River.
• Han Shaoyun wounded Chen Muye and cut down nearby buildings with Wind Blades, while Chen Muye admitted he could not defeat Han Shaoyun alone.
• Hong Ying attacked with a flaming spear, and a sniper on a distant rooftop fired specially made rounds that forced Han Shaoyun to dodge.
• Wu Xiangnan explained that his injured hands kept him from fighting, so Lin Qiye recovered enough Mental Power to return to the battlefield.
• Wen Qimo bound Han Shaoyun with the Heart Demon Binding Method, allowing Chen Muye to wound him and cut his lifespan with the Wuchang Blade.
• Han Shaoyun knocked Chen Muye’s blades away, but Lin Qiye leaped through the darkness, seized one blade, and slashed at him.

Lin Qiye and the others nearly defeated Han Shaoyun, but Wu Xiangnan sacrificed one of his lives in an explosion and still failed to kill him. Han Shaoyun began forming a devastating storm over Cangnan City, while Shen Qingzhu snapped his fingers from afar.

• Lin Qiye, Hong Ying, Chen Muye, and Leng Xuan injured Han Shaoyun, but Wu Xiangnan grabbed him and detonated the explosives beneath his cloak.
• Chen Muye explained that Wu Xiangnan’s Forbidden Ruins, Rebirth, gave him twelve chances to revive, and Wu Xiangnan regenerated after the blast.
• Wu Xiangnan revealed he had used his last chance without killing Han Shaoyun, who rose from the crater and recognized him as the immortal from the Blue Rain squad.
• Han Shaoyun began creating an eye of the storm powerful enough to tear through Chen Muye’s Boundless Void Domain and devastate Cangnan City.
• Han Shaoyun warned that they had little time to solve the problem at its root, while his growing wind domain repelled Leng Xuan’s bullet and Hong Ying’s spear.
• As Shen Qingzhu approached the Boundless Void Domain with Baili Pangpang’s group, he looked toward the storm and snapped his fingers.

Shen Qingzhu nullified Han Shaoyun’s wind eye, allowing Yuan Gang to defeat him, but Chen Muye killed Han before he could be taken into custody. Han warned that the Whisperer would return to kill Lin Qiye, and Team 136 then considered whether the Ancient God Church had planted other believers among the Night Watchmen.

• Shen Qingzhu drained the air around Han Shaoyun’s wind eye, making it vanish, and Lin Qiye realized Qi Min was a counter to Han’s ability.
• Yuan Gang beat Han Shaoyun into a crater and prepared to send him to the Abstinence Hall, but Chen Muye stabbed him through the heart.
• Before dying, Han Shaoyun warned Chen Muye that the Whisperer would return to kill Lin Qiye.
• Chen Muye defended his decision to kill Han, then told Yuan Gang that in Cangnan he was the rule.
• Wu Xiangnan explained that the Ancient God Church’s contracts could control a believer’s actions and thoughts, and Lin Qiye questioned why Han had left the Night Watchmen.
• Chen Muye agreed that other believers might still be hidden among the Night Watchmen.

After the assassination attempt ended, Lin Qiye hosted his friends and Team 136 for dinner before leaving Cangnan to return to the Training Camp. As the buses departed, he spotted a lone sniper watching him from a distant rooftop.

• Chen Muye explained that soul-binding contracts were rare and imperfect, though Lin Qiye remained wary of the possibility that a high-ranking Night Watchman could be controlled.
• Lin Qiye agreed to invite his friends to dinner at Hong Ying's villa before returning to camp the following night.
• Lin Qiye arrived at the villa with Baili Pangpang, Cao Yuan, and a reluctant Shen Qingzhu.
• Baili Pangpang handed watches to the members of Team 136 as gifts, while Cao Yuan eagerly ate and Shen Qingzhu behaved shyly.
• Lin Qiye said goodbye to Team 136, returned his Star Saber, and boarded a bus with the other trainees.
• As the buses left for the Training Camp, Lin Qiye saw what appeared to be a sniper watching him from a distant rooftop.

Yuan Gang explained the Night Watchmen’s merit medals and announced that Lin Qiye would receive a Star Medal for his actions during the missile attack and the battle against the Ancient God Church. The ceremony began with Lin Qiye named as the first recipient.

• Lin Qiye and Baili Pangpang rushed to morning assembly and noticed that three instructors were missing.
• Yuan Gang canceled training and explained the four kinds of Night Watchmen merit medals, including the rare Sea of Stars Medal.
• Yuan Gang recounted how King Mask earned the Sea of Stars Medal by helping evacuate civilians and fighting Yamata no Orochi.
• Yuan Gang announced that Lin Qiye had saved more than fifty recruits, wounded Snake Woman, and helped Team 136 kill Han Shaoyun, earning him a Star Medal.

Lin Qiye and Shen Qingzhu received medals for their roles in protecting Cangnan City, then began classroom-based training at the camp. Lin Qiye ended the chapter by asking Instructor Gu whether the world they lived in was real.

• Yuan Gang awarded Lin Qiye a Star Medal for protecting the recruits and his service to the Night Watchmen.
• Yuan Gang awarded Shen Qingzhu a Starlight Medal for destroying the storm's destructive eye and saving half of Cangnan City.
• Baili Pangpang teased Shen Qingzhu by loudly praising Lin Qiye, drawing unfriendly looks from the other recruits.
• The recruits began studying tactics, Forbidden Domains, mythology, and other classroom subjects after physical training ended.
• Instructor Gu questioned Shen Qingzhu and Lin Qiye about Mental Power, and Lin Qiye asked whether their world was real.

Lin Qiye challenged Instructor Gu to prove that their world was real, hoping to help treat Merlin, while the recruits began Mental Power control training with the ACE wristwatches. The chapter left Baili Pangpang helplessly flipping toward the cafeteria under the device’s effects.

• Lin Qiye questioned whether higher-dimensional beings had created their world, leaving Instructor Gu unable to answer and determined to investigate.
• Instructor Gu hurried away after class, still absorbed in Lin Qiye’s questions.
• An instructor explained that the recruits would use ACE wristwatches to train precise Mental Power control by resisting unpredictable mental currents.
• Cao Yuan put on an ACE watch and immediately performed a backflip.
• Baili Pangpang put on his watch, launched into a series of acrobatic flips, and cried out for Lin Qiye to save him.

Lin Qiye and the recruits struggled to control their involuntary acrobatics after putting on the wristwatches, then Lin Qiye offered Yuan Gang a Forbidden Item in exchange for information about Chen Muye and Wu Xiangnan. Yuan Gang had not yet answered Lin Qiye’s question when the chapter ended.

• Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan quickly learned to counter the wristwatches’ currents with Mental Power while many other recruits kept flipping across the training ground.
• At the cafeteria, Lin Qiye fed the flipping Baili Pangpang, while Shen Qingzhu tried to feed Deng Wei, Li Jia, and Li Liang.
• Lin Qiye visited Yuan Gang and showed him a Forbidden Item called Blood Boil, which he had taken from Scorpion One’s corpse.
• Yuan Gang valued Blood Boil at around two million, and Lin Qiye agreed to turn it in for cash.
• Lin Qiye asked Yuan Gang what had happened to Chen Muye and Wu Xiangnan.

Yuan Gang told Lin Qiye how Wu Xiangnan survived the destruction of Blue Rain Squad after the team encountered Susanoo in Takama-ga-hara. Lin Qiye learned that Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi had left Wu Xiangnan permanently unable to wield a sword and wondered whether the gods in the Psychiatric Hospital could heal him.

• Yuan Gang agreed to explain Wu Xiangnan's past and revealed that Wu Xiangnan had served in the Special Squad Blue Rain.
• Yuan Gang recounted how Blue Rain pursued Yamata no Orochi into the mist, lost its way, and entered Takama-ga-hara.
• Yuan Gang said Blue Rain fought Susanoo while exhausted, and every member died except Wu Xiangnan, who resurrected after being killed three times.
• Yuan Gang explained that Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi wounded Wu Xiangnan's hand beyond the power of resurrection to heal, and that Wu later disappeared from the hospital.
• Lin Qiye wondered whether the gods in the Psychiatric Hospital could find a way to heal Wu Xiangnan's injury.

Yuan Gang explained Chen Muye’s departure from Shangjing City and revealed the catastrophic power of Shiva’s Grudge, while Lin Qiye learned that the artifact had sparked a God War. After Lin Qiye left, Instructor Gu remained consumed by doubts about whether the world was real.

• Yuan Gang told Lin Qiye that Chen Muye and Shao Pingge had once served together as the Black and White Wuchang of Shangjing City before Chen Muye left on a classified order and became captain in Cangnan City.
• Yuan Gang explained that Shiva’s Grudge could erase whatever concept was written on its parchment, though humans lacked the Mental Power to wield its full destructive force.
• Yuan Gang said that Shiva’s Grudge drew the attention of Evil Gods and caused a God War ten years earlier, when five human apexes fought Loki and Gaia at Great Xia’s border.
• Yuan Gang took Blood Boil and promised to mail it to Night Watchmen Headquarters, while Lin Qiye saluted him and left.
• Instructor Gu, exhausted from studying ancient books, tried to sleep but jolted awake and shouted in frustration over whether the world was real.

After learning that Instructor Gu had been hospitalized following the question Lin Qiye asked him, Lin Qiye realized Gu’s treatment might help Merlin and began looking for a chance to speak with him. Instructor Hong warned Lin Qiye not to mention the True World, but Lin Qiye enlisted Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan to help find Gu.

• Baili Pangpang excelled at free-fire practice while Lin Qiye missed the target three times, and the recruits wondered why Instructor Gu had been absent for two months.
• Instructor Hong told Lin Qiye that Gu had suffered a mental breakdown over Lin Qiye’s question and was receiving treatment in a psychiatric hospital.
• Instructor Hong said Gu was improving and might return to the Training Camp to collect his belongings before recuperating at home, and he warned Lin Qiye not to bring up the True World.
• Lin Qiye thought Gu’s treatment might work for Merlin and asked Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan to alert him if they saw Gu.
• Baili Pangpang agreed to help and called on the other recruits for assistance.

Instructor Gu returned to Training Camp in disguise, but the recruits spotted him and alerted Lin Qiye, who persuaded him to explain how he had recovered. Lin Qiye then returned to the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, where Li Yifei struggled to manage Merlin and asked when another orderly would arrive.

• Instructor Gu sneaked into Training Camp to collect his belongings while avoiding people who knew about his illness.
• A recruit recognized Instructor Gu, and the others relayed his location until Lin Qiye intercepted him.
• Lin Qiye claimed he was suffering similarly and asked Instructor Gu how the doctor had treated him, so Instructor Gu took him into the office.
• At the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, Li Yifei sedated Merlin after chasing him around the courtyard in his starfish form.
• Li Yifei complained about his exhausting duties and asked Lin Qiye to bring another orderly, but Lin Qiye said he could not do so yet.

Lin Qiye gave Merlin medicine and argued that the world and the people in it mattered whether or not they were truly real. Merlin fell into thought, and his treatment progress began to rise, triggering a random draw of one of Merlin’s Divine Personality Abilities.

• Merlin woke in the activity room, and he and Lin Qiye discussed Merlin’s lost memories and his recent luck.
• Lin Qiye gave Merlin medicine and told him that he believed their world was real because its people and their lives mattered to him.
• Merlin fell silent and deeply considered Lin Qiye’s argument as Lin Qiye left the room.
• Lin Qiye saw Merlin’s Treatment Progress reach 2%, meeting the reward requirements and starting a random draw of Merlin’s Divine Personality Ability.

Lin Qiye learned Summoning Magic and secretly experimented with Random Summoning while Baili Pangpang slept. The experiment brought a mosquito into the room and left Baili Pangpang baffled by missing slippers and a pile of strange objects beneath his bed.

• Lin Qiye gained Merlin the Mage's knowledge of Summoning Magic and learned about its dimensional, targeted, and random forms.
• Lin Qiye used Baili Pangpang's slipper as the focus for a Random Summoning spell, which summoned a mosquito.
• The mosquito bit Baili Pangpang while he slept, and Lin Qiye quietly continued experimenting with items near his bed.
• Baili Pangpang woke with more than twenty mosquito bites and discovered his slippers were missing.
• Baili Pangpang found a pile of objects beneath his bed, including stockings, and Lin Qiye denied knowing anything about them before suggesting they belonged to Cao Yuan.

Lin Qiye, Baili Pangpang, and Cao Yuan discussed how the upcoming Score Ranking would determine their Night Watchmen assignments after graduation. Meanwhile, Yuan Gang received three captured River-level Mysteries at the Training Camp and prepared a Carnival Day for the recruits.

• Cao Yuan told Lin Qiye and Baili Pangpang that the Score Ranking would help decide where recruits were assigned after graduation.
• Lin Qiye said he hoped to remain in Cangnan, while Baili Pangpang wanted to serve in Guangshen and hoped to be assigned with Lin Qiye.
• Cao Yuan described the many training and testing criteria for the ranking, including a heavily weighted hidden score.
• Three armed transport planes landed at the Training Camp carrying three captured River-level Mysteries sealed in Black Cubes.
• Yuan Gang opened one Black Cube and announced that the new recruits' Carnival Day was about to begin.

Lin Qiye discovered that most recruits in the Training Camp had fallen into an unexplained sleep and that all instructors and staff had vanished. He suspected the situation was a test and concluded that someone was observing the remaining recruits.

• Lin Qiye woke at five thirty to find the Training Camp quiet and no instructors blowing the morning whistle.
• Lin Qiye saw Zheng Zhong, Cao Yuan, Mo Lan, and Li Shaoguang washing up, and Zheng Zhong sensed that something was wrong.
• At seven thirty, Lin Qiye tried to wake Baili Pangpang, but even forcing Mental Power through his ACE watch failed to keep him awake.
• Shen Qingzhu told Lin Qiye that roughly seventy percent of the dormitory's recruits were unresponsive and that the instructors, staff, and cafeteria workers had disappeared.
• Lin Qiye reasoned that the instructors had staged a test and were secretly observing the recruits, while Shen Qingzhu cursed and raised his middle finger at a surveillance camera.

Lin Qiye and the awake recruits investigated why others had fallen asleep and suspected something was wrong in the Training Camp. After arming themselves at the warehouse, they heard screams from the cafeteria and had to choose where to go next.

• Lin Qiye found Deng Wei asleep and realized that every awake recruit had risen before six, suggesting that those still asleep had been drawn into a mental trap.
• Lin Qiye suspected another enemy might be in the camp and learned that the girls' dormitory, Building Three, had gone silent.
• Lin Qiye ordered some recruits to guard Building One while the rest followed him to the warehouse for weapons.
• Shen Qingzhu blasted open the warehouse doors with an explosive gum bubble, and the recruits entered and took weapons.
• Lin Qiye and the others heard screams from the cafeteria, and Shen Qingzhu asked which way they should go.

Lin Qiye and the recruits found Wang Li dead in a cafeteria filled with spiderwebs, confirming that a dangerous Mystery was present. Lin Qiye entered the web-filled hall with Cao Yuan and Shen Qingzhu, discovered a giant spider using a mental attack, and hurled his Star Saber at it.

• Lin Qiye led the group to the cafeteria after hearing a scream and found its lock cut and the air tainted with blood.
• The group discovered the cafeteria covered in massive webs and found Wang Li’s mutilated body caught among them.
• Lin Qiye warned that the spider Mystery might still be nearby, then entered the cafeteria with Cao Yuan and Shen Qingzhu while keeping the other recruits outside.
• Lin Qiye carefully navigated the dense webs and spotted a giant gray-white spider clinging to the ceiling.
• The spider’s glowing scarlet eyes triggered Lin Qiye’s Azure Guard, and he threw his night-wreathed Star Saber at it.

Lin Qiye and the recruits survived an encounter with a powerful spider that fled, while two hidden figures revealed the attack had been staged. The spider boy hid in a warehouse and used his Mental Spider Web to trap the sleeping recruits’ souls, but one recruit’s soul had only just begun to wake.

• Lin Qiye missed the spider with his blade, Shen Qingzhu struck it with an explosion, and the spider fled through a window.
• Lin Qiye assigned Shen Qingzhu to guard Building One while he and Cao Yuan led the other recruits toward Building Three.
• Two hidden figures revealed that Wang Li’s apparent corpse and the spider attack were part of an effort to create an atmosphere.
• The spider transformed into a boy, hid in a warehouse, and spread a Mental Spider Web that trapped the sleeping recruits’ soul bodies.
• The spider boy noticed that one plump recruit’s soul had genuinely been asleep, and the recruit began to wake.

Baili Pangpang escaped a spiderweb that had trapped his soul and used his forbidden items to free the other recruits. After the spider boy withdrew his web, Baili Pangpang tracked him to his hiding place.

• Baili Pangpang used the Soul Severing Blade to cut himself free from the spiderweb and return to his body.
• Shen Qingzhu told Baili Pangpang that a spiderweb had trapped the recruits’ soul bodies across the Training Camp.
• Baili Pangpang used the True Sight Eye, Yaoguang, and the Soul Severing Blade to cut the web and free the recruits.
• The spider boy, pained by the severed threads, withdrew the web and released the trapped soul bodies.
• Baili Pangpang spotted where the spider boy was hiding and turned serious.