Chapter Summaries

The Eastern Emperor Bell rang as Destiny Monk appeared in the Qilian Mountains and warned the Golden Immortals about the burning moon. Lin Qiye and Wu Quan vanished from the Explorer Ship, while the approaching lunar crisis stirred An Qingyu and the Heavenly Court; a mysterious woman awoke and wondered whether Qiye would come.

• Destiny Monk appeared with the Eastern Emperor Bell in the Qilian Mountains and pointed the Golden Immortals toward the lunar seal, sending True Lord Taiyi and the others into space.
• A burst of holy covenant light took Lin Qiye and Wu Quan from the Explorer Ship, and Shen Qingzhu spotted Nightfall's burning azure symbol above and flew off after them.
• An Qingyu crushed a white chess piece as its Karma Thread faded, then saw the burning moon and forced the Gate of Truth's phantom to disappear.
• Lingbao Tianzun, Primordial Celestial Venerable, and Taoist Celestial Venerable discussed Michael's disappearance as the Heavenly Court raced toward the moon.
• Skuld announced that the woman had awakened, and the woman emerged from the Spirit Spring, saw the Eastern Emperor Bell's sign, and wondered whether Qiye would come.

A gray-clad figure emerged from a red coffin in Fengdu and learned that Michael was dead, while the Great Xia Gods battled Lovecraftian Deities breaking out of the lunar seal. Lingbao Tianzun took the Heavenly Court to suppress the breach, wondering where the one marked by the Nightfall insignia was.

• A gray-clad figure rose from a red coffin in Fengdu, concealed a golden law with Karma Threads, and declared that humanity would act against the gods.
• A lunar seal broke, allowing several Lovecraftian Deities, including Mh'goh'n and Noth-Yidhrac, to emerge and attack the Heavenly Court.
• The Great Xia Gods charged into battle against the escaping Lovecraftian Deities as more creatures poured from the breach.
• Lingbao Tianzun proposed using the Heavenly Court to suppress the lunar breach while Primordial Celestial Venerable and Taoist Celestial Venerable stopped Chaos from widening it.
• Lingbao Tianzun guided the empty Heavenly Court toward the moon and asked where the person marked by the Nightfall insignia was.

Shen Qingzhu and the Great Xia Gods struggled to hold back the Lovecraftian Gods pouring from the Moon, while new reinforcements arrived too few to turn the tide. On the Moon, Primordial Celestial Venerable and Taoist Celestial Venerable fell into a trap and met Doctor Nyarlathotep, who identified them as Patients Number Two and Three.

• Shen Qingzhu restrained a two-headed Mountain Worm, but it shed its skin, broke free, and survived his flames.
• A ghostlike Lovecraftian Deity slipped past the Golden Immortals until Zhou Ping blocked it with a wall of Sword Qi.
• Master Chen and Lu Wuwei joined the battle, but Nezha realized the few reinforcements could not stop the nine Lovecraftian Gods already free of the Moon's seal.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable and Taoist Celestial Venerable attacked a Black man at a breach in the Moon's seal, but he vanished as the crater transformed into a room.
• Doctor Nyarlathotep greeted the two Celestial Venerables and called them Patient Number Two and Patient Number Three.

Chaos confronted Primordial Celestial Venerable at the hospital and used its rules to overpower him, while Lingbao Tianzun struggled to hold back the Lovecraftian Gods attacking the Heavenly Court. A man in a Crimson Cloak returned to the battlefield, subdued the Black Toad with Karma Threads, and stood before the Lovecraftian Deity as its king.

• Chaos told Primordial Celestial Venerable that Michael was dead, the lunar seal had opened, and the Heavenly Court had no chance of winning.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable attacked Chaos with golden Dao flowers, but Chaos remained unharmed under the hospital's rules and dragged him into a dark chamber.
• Lingbao Tianzun wounded the eleventh Lovecraftian God, but the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth emerged and battered the Heavenly Court.
• A Broken Sword pierced the Black Toad, and Lingbao Tianzun recognized the returning man as someone from the past.
• The man in a Crimson Cloak pulled Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi from the earth and used Karma Threads to make the Black Toad bow before him.

Lin Qiye arrived on the moon, helped Lingbao Tianzun seal the breach, and went after Chaos at the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods. There, the Sixth Ward opened and Lin Qiye confronted Chaos.

• Lin Qiye used karmic threads to make Black Toad attack the last Lovecraftian God besieging the Heavenly Court.
• Lingbao Tianzun sealed the breach, and Lin Qiye told him he had mastered only the law of cause within karma and wanted the enemy to pay for everything.
• Lin Qiye followed a karmic thread into a crater, seeking Chaos and the things Chaos had stolen from him.
• At the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, Chaos revealed that he had destroyed four universes while Primordial Celestial Venerable struggled to resist him.
• Knocking from the Sixth Ward made its door open, and Lin Qiye stepped out to face Chaos.

Lin Qiye confronted Chaos in the asylum and revealed that its consciousness had been hiding among the orderlies. With Li Yifei's help, the asylum consciousness returned and turned the tables, leaving Lin Qiye as director and Chaos as his sixth patient.

• Chaos attacked Lin Qiye, but Primordial Celestial Venerable blocked its strike before Lin Qiye stepped forward to face it.
• Lin Qiye explained that Chaos had not destroyed the asylum's consciousness and suggested it had hidden among the orderlies.
• The Director's Office opened, and Li Yifei emerged with a chess piece containing the asylum consciousness and threw it to Lin Qiye.
• The asylum's consciousness and rules returned, restoring the grounds and stripping Chaos of its director's authority.
• Chaos became a patient named Nyarlathotep, while Lin Qiye donned a white lab coat and introduced himself as Doctor Lin.

Lin Qiye reclaimed the Psychiatric Hospital’s authority and joined the two Celestial Venerables in confronting Chaos. After sealing Chaos’s polluted universes in the Hospital’s rooms, Lin Qiye attacked him to reclaim his stolen body.

• Lin Qiye revealed that the Hospital had secretly transferred its authority to him, and the Taoist Celestial Venerable joined him and the Primordial Celestial Venerable against Chaos.
• The Taoist Celestial Venerable’s wooden sword and the Primordial Celestial Venerable’s attack wounded Chaos, who then summoned four Black Coffins containing polluted universes.
• Lin Qiye resisted the coffins’ pollution and sealed each one in a room of the Hospital, identifying them as deranged patients.
• Lin Qiye explained that an anchor in his soul protected him from pollution and spoke of karma’s role in their past encounters.
• The two Celestial Venerables immobilized Chaos, and Lin Qiye struck his forehead with a hand wrapped in Karma Threads, demanding his body back.

Lin Qiye reclaimed his original body from Chaos and began taking revenge while Chaos remained trapped in the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods. As Lin Qiye stabbed Chaos with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, his puppet-like body joined the attack from behind.

• Lin Qiye used Karma Threads with help from two Celestial Venerables to expel Chaos from his original body and seize control of the body as an avatar.
• Lin Qiye approached the soul-form Chaos with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, which could injure him and prevent his recovery under the hospital’s rules.
• Chaos transformed into the pharaoh and unleashed destructive beams that annihilated the hospital grounds, but Lin Qiye pierced his soul with the Broken Sword.
• Lin Qiye stabbed Chaos repeatedly, taunting him for stealing and manipulating others, until Chaos trapped him with pale arms and tentacles.
• Lin Qiye’s controlled body appeared behind Chaos and stabbed him with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, telling him, “You did very well... child.”

Lin Qiye sealed Chaos back inside the Sixth Ward after it transformed into a devastating black hole, and his final Life-Saving Hair restored his shattered body. He returned to the Moon with the two wounded Celestial Venerables and turned his attention to the Great Xia Gods’ battle in space.

• Chaos transformed into a red-glimmering black hole that shattered Lin Qiye’s original body and grievously wounded the Primordial Celestial Venerable and Taoist Celestial Venerable.
• Lin Qiye used the hospital’s power to seal Chaos inside the Sixth Ward, restoring the hospital and its surroundings.
• The Primordial Celestial Venerable and Taoist Celestial Venerable told Lin Qiye their injuries would take centuries to heal and worried that his body had been destroyed.
• Lin Qiye’s third Life-Saving Hair revived his shattered body, and he brought the two Celestial Venerables back to the Moon.
• Lin Qiye saw the Great Xia Gods losing their battle in space and said the real show was about to begin.

Lin Qiye called for help against the Lovecraftian Gods, and Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan answered by leaving National Destiny Island to fight. The chapter ended with Huo Qubing crushing the chess piece and preparing to take the step they had hidden from for two thousand years.

• Lin Qiye told the two injured Celestial Venerables that he would face the five Lovecraftian Gods and revealed that he was not alone.
• Huo Qubing sensed Lin Qiye's call through the white chess piece as his power surged across National Destiny Island.
• The Night Watchmen Commanders realized Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan were abandoning their Heroic Spirit bodies and the nourishment of the national destiny.
• Huo Qubing entrusted the national destiny beneath the island to Nie Jinshan, while Gongyang Wan ordered him to stay and guard the Great Xia Dragon Vein.
• Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan departed, and Huo Qubing crushed the chess piece as he prepared to take the step they had postponed for two thousand years.

At Abstinence Hall, Dr. Li asked Old Dog Wu to give up Spirit Medium and replicate another Forbidden Ruin, revealing that he had found someone else who possessed it. As five Lovecraftian Gods raced toward Great Xia, Lin Qiye went to intercept them, and Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan emerged with human-made laws to fight alongside him.

• Dr. Li gave Old Dog Wu a white chess piece and asked him to set aside Spirit Medium to replicate another Forbidden Ruin.
• Dr. Li revealed that a shackled person being escorted from Abstinence Hall also possessed Spirit Medium.
• Five Lovecraftian Gods broke through the Great Xia Gods' defenses and headed toward Earth, while Lin Qiye raced to intercept them.
• Chaos taunted Lin Qiye, but he insisted that humanity had more defenders than himself.
• Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan used the Soul Concealment Technique to temporarily restore their bodies and unleash their human-made laws.

Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan ascended to godhood and raised a celestial wall against five Lovecraftian Gods as the ancient Royal Ruin holders assembled. With Lin Qiye’s arrival, the seven Kings stood ready as humanity’s hidden defense, and he challenged the Omniscient and Omnipresent to have foreseen their move.

• Huo Qubing became the Myriad Manifestations Soldier Immortal, and Gongyang Wan became the Thousand-Faced Immortal.
• Huo Qubing raised a wall of tricolored lightning to block the five approaching Lovecraftian Gods.
• Dr. Li revealed that he was Hu Jia, holder of the Sixth Royal Ruin, and introduced Old Dog Wu as Wu Tongxuan, holder of the Seventh.
• Jialan arrived as an Immortal Immortal, followed by the Destined Buddha, who was an individual born from the Fruit of Predestination rather than Lin Qiye.
• Lin Qiye arrived before the celestial wall and greeted Jialan as the seven Kings gathered to defend humanity.
• Lin Qiye looked toward the doorway watching from higher spacetime and asked whether the Omniscient and Omnipresent had foreseen their move.

As the Lovecraftian Gods attacked, Lin Qiye’s allies moved to hold them back, and Dr. Li became a god by taking the Mind Law. With his mortal body dissolving, Dr. Li began transferring his Mental World into Old Dog Wu’s body so they could fight together as a Mind God in Dual State Superposition.

• Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan engaged two Lovecraftian Gods, and Destiny Monk joined Gongyang Wan.
• Jialan asked Lin Qiye whether his promise from two thousand years earlier still stood, then entered a miniature crimson Star Core with Immortality copied by Old Dog Wu.
• Dr. Li chose the Mind Law and broke through into the divine realm, but his mortal body began dissolving into the Dao.
• Dr. Li asked Old Dog Wu to accept his Mental World moving into his body, and Old Dog Wu agreed.
• Dr. Li touched Old Dog Wu between the brows as his body blurred and the transfer began.

Old Dog Wu became an immortal Mind God and trapped a fourth Lovecraftian God, while Lin Qiye awakened his former body as a new Seraph. Controlling both bodies, Lin Qiye attacked the final Lovecraftian God with the Mortal Divine Domain and Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, gaining a decisive advantage.

• Hu Jia transferred his Mental World into Old Dog Wu and took control of his immortal body.
• Old Dog Wu used the Ancient Xun to pull a Lovecraftian God’s consciousness into another Mental World, leaving four of the five restrained.
• Lin Qiye summoned his former body and sent Michael’s Laws into its Mortal Divine Domain, transforming it into a Seraph.
• Seraph Lin Qiye charged the final Lovecraftian God while Lin Qiye supported him with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi and Karma Threads.
• Lin Qiye and his Seraph incarnation used the Mortal Divine Domain and their other powers to overwhelm the final Lovecraftian God.

Huo Qubing used Emperor Crimson Blood and the Law of Domination to trap and destroy a Lovecraftian God with a lightning spear accelerated around Earth. After the first Lovecraftian God fell, Huo Qubing headed to aid the Great Xia Gods while Lin Qiye prepared to end his own fight.

• Huo Qubing activated Emperor Crimson Blood and faced the liquid-cube Lovecraftian God in deep space.
• Huo Qubing escaped from the creature's maw and struck it with more than a thousand Lightning Spears.
• Huo Qubing compressed the Lovecraftian God and held it in the path of a spear accelerating around Earth's orbit.
• Huo Qubing redirected the spear, which struck the creature at two-thirds the speed of light and destroyed it.
• Spirit embryo Lin Qiye sensed the destruction and recognized Huo Qubing had slain the first Lovecraftian God in the God War.
• Huo Qubing charged toward the Great Xia Gods' battlefield, while Lin Qiye decided to speed up his own fight.

Lin Qiye and Seraph Lin Qiye defeated a Lovecraftian God and rescued Jialan from a Star Core. After destroying the Star Core, Lin Qiye and Jialan reunited with a kiss, ending their wait of over two thousand years.

• Seraph Lin Qiye cleaved the Lovecraftian God made of heads in two while Primordial Spirit Embryo Lin Qiye bound it with Karma Threads.
• Primordial Spirit Embryo Lin Qiye found Jialan trapped inside a Star Core and pulled her out, burning his arm in the process.
• Jialan told Lin Qiye she had been unable to escape the Star Core, and he reassured her as his arm healed.
• Seraph Lin Qiye swept the weakened Star Core into the Mortal Divine Domain and destroyed it.
• Lin Qiye kissed Jialan, and she kissed him back as they reunited after more than two thousand years apart.

Lin Qiye proposed to Jialan, and she accepted his marriage proposal before they returned to the battle. As they joined the others in cornering Mh'goh'n, the Key of Doors appeared to be approaching through a Spacetime Vortex.

• Lin Qiye asked Jialan to marry him, and she happily accepted.
• Lin Qiye made Jialan a crimson ring from a Star Core and their Karma Thread, then the two headed to help the Great Xia Gods.
• Monkey King and Yang Jian fought Mh'goh'n until Lin Qiye and Jialan arrived with a Six-winged Seraphim avatar and helped surround the Invisible Giant Wolf.
• Yang Jian noticed Jialan's ring, and Lin Qiye told him the wedding would take place after the battle.
• Mh'goh'n sensed a vast aura and looked up in fear as a Spacetime Vortex formed; Lin Qiye recognized the approaching presence as the Key of Doors.

The Key of Doors unleashed a devastating black lightning strike that damaged the Heavenly Court Origin and weakened the Great Xia Gods, shifting the battle toward the Lovecraftian Deities. As Gongyang Wan and Old Dog Wu joined the fight, more Lovecraftian Deities roared beneath the wreckage, threatening to break free.

• An Qingyu sensed a call from the doorway in the mist but hesitated before continuing onward.
• The Key of Doors sent black lightning from the Spacetime Vortex toward the Heavenly Court on the moon.
• The strike shattered nearly a third of the Heavenly Court Origin, widened the lunar breach, and weakened the Great Xia Gods.
• The Invisible Giant Wolf attacked, and Lin Qiye protected Sun Wukong while the Golden Immortals' encirclement collapsed.
• Gongyang Wan and Old Dog Wu joined the battle, then soul-piercing roars rose from beneath the Heavenly Court wreckage.

Primordial Celestial Venerable, Taoist Celestial Venerable, and Lingbao Tianzun struggled to contain the Lovecraftian Gods after the Key of Doors damaged the Heavenly Court. Destiny Monk revealed that Jialan was his backup plan, while Si Xiaonan triggered a power struggle in Olympus and vanished.

• Primordial Celestial Venerable and Taoist Celestial Venerable descended to the ruins, where Lingbao Tianzun said the Heavenly Court Origin could be repaired but the Lovecraftian Gods below could no longer be contained.
• Destiny Monk told Lin Qiye and Jialan that the Key of Doors had intervened and could only make this move once, then identified Jialan as his backup plan.
• Si Xiaonan learned from Zeus that Olympus would not intervene in the God War, then received a message through a white chess piece.
• Si Xiaonan fired a feathered arrow that signaled the Lord Gods of Olympus to attack Zeus's palace and compete for the God King's token.
• The Olympus gods realized Bia's signal had tricked them and began fighting Zeus, while Si Xiaonan returned to her original appearance and vanished into the void.

Destiny Monk explained that the Immortal Pill inside Jialan was one half of Lingbao Tianzun’s failed attempt to create an indestructible Eternal Heavenly Court. He said rebuilding the Heavenly Court required refining Jialan into a pill, leaving Lin Qiye to confront the cost of the choice he had made two thousand years ago.

• Destiny Monk revealed that the Eternal Pill and Immortal Pill were fragments of a pill meant to merge with the Heavenly Court Origin and make the Heavenly Court eternal.
• Destiny Monk explained that the Key of Doors had shattered the pill, preventing the Eternal Heavenly Court from being created.
• Destiny Monk said the damaged Heavenly Court Origin had to be restored before the beings beneath the moon escaped, and declared that Jialan’s Immortal Pill was needed.
• Jialan realized that removing the Immortal Pill might require her to be refined into a pill, and Destiny Monk confirmed it.
• Lin Qiye seized Destiny Monk and protested, but Destiny Monk argued that Jialan had become a chess piece when Lin Qiye fed her the Immortal Pill two thousand years earlier.
• Destiny Monk warned that defeating the Cthulhu Mythos required sacrifices, while Lin Qiye stood shaken by the consequences of his past choice.