Chapter Summaries

Destiny Monk revealed that Michael, Zuo Qing, and others had been sacrificed to advance the game, and he trapped Lin Qiye to stop him from interfering with Jialan’s sacrifice. Jialan left for the Heavenly Court, and Si Xiaonan followed her, while Lin Qiye remained imprisoned.

• Destiny Monk told Lin Qiye that Michael and Zuo Qing had been sacrificed as part of his plan to defeat the Three Pillars.
• Jialan told Lin Qiye that the others had given their lives for the game and that she would not let it be ruined because of her.
• Destiny Monk trapped Lin Qiye in a black cage and severed his connection to the Seraph clone.
• Jialan used her immortality to hold the cage in place and asked Lin Qiye to stay as she left for the Heavenly Court.
• Si Xiaonan recognized the move as hers, then followed Jialan toward the Heavenly Court.

As the Celestial Venerables moved the moon away from Earth to prepare for Lingbao Tianzun to detonate the Heavenly Court Origin, Jialan and Si Xiaonan arrived at Tushita Palace to reforge the Eternal Pill. Si Xiaonan began telling Jialan about a case Lin Qiye had worked on, leaving her story unfinished.

• Lingbao Tianzun told Primordial Celestial Venerable and Taoist Celestial Venerable to move the moon away from Earth so he could detonate the Heavenly Court Origin and destroy the attacking Lovecraftian Gods.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable and Taoist Celestial Venerable cast a formation that pulled the moon away, while Jiang Ziya realized the Heavenly Court was near its end.
• Jialan reached Tushita Palace, where Si Xiaonan joined her and explained that the furnace could combine their pills into the Eternal Pill using their souls as a catalyst.
• Si Xiaonan told Jialan how Lin Qiye discovered that an elderly woman searching for her missing husband had forgotten he had died, and Jialan asked what happened next.

Si Xiaonan sacrificed herself to save Jialan’s soul and sent the fused pills toward the Heavenly Court. The Eternal Pill restored the Heavenly Court Origin, turning the collapsing realm into an eternal fortress.

• Si Xiaonan told Jialan how Lin Qiye’s understanding of love came from helping an old woman remember her husband.
• Si Xiaonan set the Alchemy Furnace’s Samadhi True Fire loose, then pulled the Eternal Pill from her body and used a trickery to preserve Jialan’s soul.
• Si Xiaonan wished Jialan a happy wedding before they were swallowed by the flames and Tushita Palace collapsed.
• The fused pills became a streak of light and struck the damaged Heavenly Court Origin as Lingbao Tianzun and the other Celestial Venerables faced the Lovecraftian Deities.
• The Eternal Pill repaired the Heavenly Court and suppressed the Lovecraftian Gods, transforming it into the Eternal Heavenly Court.

Lin Qiye learned that Jialan was truly gone and chose to continue the Chess Game despite his grief. As the Eternal Heavenly Court restored divine power on the battlefield, An Qingyu appeared and opened the Gate of Truth, allowing the remaining Lovecraftian Gods to escape.

• The cage lost its indestructibility, and Lin Qiye realized Jialan would not return; Destiny Monk told him her body and soul had been consumed to restore the Eternal Pill.
• Lin Qiye seized Destiny Monk in fury, but released him after the monk argued that Jialan’s sacrifice had secured humanity’s hope and the Chess Game could not be abandoned.
• The Eternal Heavenly Court stabilized the lunar seal, restoring and strengthening the Great Xia Gods’ divine power.
• An Qingyu emerged from a Space-Time Rift and announced that he had come to end the farce.
• An Qingyu formed the Gate of Truth, and the nine remaining Lovecraftian Deities escaped through it before the Great Xia Gods could stop them.

An Qingyu took nine Lovecraftian Gods through the Gate of Truth, while the Eternal Pill began elevating the Heavenly Court and its gods. Lin Qiye persuaded the Great Xia Gods to enter slumber, entrusting humanity’s future to people who could defend Earth without them.

• An Qingyu crushed Chloe’s chess piece, took nine Lovecraftian Gods, and left through the Gate of Truth; the Great Xia Gods began growing drowsy as their godhood changed.
• Destiny Monk told Lin Qiye to go to the Heavenly Court and see the gods off as the Eternal Pill’s benefits outweighed suppressing the lunar seal.
• Lingbao Tianzun explained that the Eternal Pill was elevating the Heavenly Court and might let its strongest gods break through, but the pantheon would need to slumber for years.
• The three Lin Qiyes arrived and opposed interrupting the ascension, arguing that humanity could defend itself while the gods slept.
• Lin Qiye asked the Celestial Venerables to let the Great Xia Gods enter slumber, and Lingbao Tianzun and Primordial Celestial Venerable agreed to entrust humanity’s future to him.

After the Great Xia Gods returned to Heavenly Court, Lin Qiye said humanity would have to walk its own path while the moon remained exiled to keep the Lovecraftian Gods away from its seal. As Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan faded after fulfilling their ancient agreement, Huo Qubing mentioned Lin Qiye’s marriage pact with Jialan, prompting Lin Qiye to seize a Karma Thread from each of them and ask them to wait.

• Lin Qiye told Lingbao Tianzun that Jialan was beneath the earth, and the Celestial Venerables decided to keep the moon far from the Lovecraftian Gods.
• The Great Xia Gods returned to Heavenly Court, while Lin Qiye said humanity would have to walk its own path; Destiny Monk wondered how humanity would fare in the coming Chess Game.
• Monkey King fell into a petrified slumber as his divine power surged, and Primordial Celestial Venerable told Yang Jian to leave him and return alone.
• Lin Qiye met Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan in space as their bodies began to fade after fulfilling their agreement from two thousand years earlier.
• After Huo Qubing lamented that he would not witness Lin Qiye’s marriage pact with Jialan, Lin Qiye plucked a Karma Thread from each of them and asked them to wait.

Lin Qiye tried to use the Uncaused Cause to create a past where he could marry Jialan, but discovered that her karma had vanished and broke down in grief. He disappeared from the others and later walked through Shangjing City, following a wedding procession while carrying liquor.

• Lin Qiye created a nonexistent karma and sent Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan into it to witness his intended wedding to Jialan.
• Lin Qiye searched for Jialan's karma but could not find it, realizing she had vanished from his world and that the wedding could not happen.
• Lin Qiye angrily blamed fate for taking Jialan from him, then vanished as the Human Apexes and Destiny Monk let him be alone.
• In Shangjing City, Lin Qiye drank from a bottle, brushed past a quarrelling couple, and continued walking in the direction of the wedding cars.

At a wedding where the groom’s bride-price bargain exposes his resentment, Lin Qiye recognizes the hearse as a sign of love and rushes to Fengdu. There, he uses the coffins and their remaining karma to bring Jialan into a past that never existed and prepares to marry her in a grand ghost wedding.

• The groom’s bride demands another two hundred thousand in bride price, and he borrows money to proceed with the wedding while secretly vowing to make her pay for humiliating him.
• Lin Qiye watches the wedding from outside and declares that the love he sees is in the hearse driving away, then realizes the coffins can help him reach Jialan.
• Lin Qiye returns to Fengdu and draws Karma Threads from the two coffins, using Jialan’s coffin and Miracle to stabilize a thread of karma that never existed.
• Lin Qiye transforms the netherworld hall into a wedding venue and announces that he and Jialan will marry there, inviting heaven, earth, gods, mortals, relatives, and friends to the feast.

Lin Qiye held a wedding for Jialan in a nonexistent strand of causality, using her soulless shell to fulfill their promise after her death. As the ceremony ended and the imagined history faded, Jialan’s face beneath the veil was streaked with tears.

• Lin Qiye summoned figures from his memories to fill the underworld hall, then welcomed Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan as the only other living guests.
• Lin Qiye called for Jialan’s bridal sedan chair, and Huo Qubing explained that the bride inside was only a soulless shell.
• Lin Qiye asked Huo Qubing to preside over the wedding and chose to bow only to Jialan.
• Lin Qiye and Jialan exchanged three bows before the coffins, completing their union in name and in truth.
• Lin Qiye called Jialan his wife as the hall and its guests faded away, revealing tears on her face beneath the veil.

After Commander Zuo died, Min Junliang found Lin Qiye in the Netherworld and asked him to lead the Night Watchmen as their Seventh Commander-in-Chief. Lin Qiye accepted and chose Mount Jiuhua for his succession ceremony, where Night Watchmen from across Great Xia gathered as he arrived.

• Lu Wuwei took Min Junliang by Electric Scooter to the Netherworld, where Min found Lin Qiye at the ancient Netherworld Gate.
• Min Junliang told Lin Qiye that Commander Zuo had named him as his successor and explained that the Night Watchmen could help him complete the Chess Game.
• Lin Qiye accepted the appointment as the Seventh Commander-in-Chief and chose Mount Jiuhua for the succession ceremony instead of Shangjing.
• Two days later, Night Watchmen, reserve teams, upper ranks, and Human Apexes gathered on Mount Jiuhua for the ceremony.
• Lin Qiye began ascending the mountain as the assembled Night Watchmen stood solemnly to greet him.

Lin Qiye accepted the role of Great Xia’s Seventh Commander-in-Chief and rallied the Night Watchmen to fight the gods. The chapter ended with An Qingyu preparing to seize the mist and addressing Cao Yuan as a new threat emerged.

• Lin Qiye climbed Mount Jiuhua as Night Watchmen and Special Squad members welcomed him as their new leader.
• At Ye Fan’s old temple, Lin Qiye reflected on the fallen commanders and promised to end the dark age.
• Lin Qiye drew the blade marked with “Seven” and declared himself the Seventh Commander-in-Chief of Great Xia’s Night Watchmen.
• The Night Watchmen drew their blades and pointed them toward the gray mist.
• An Qingyu declared that Earth’s god kingdoms had fallen and that he would take over the mist, then asked Cao Yuan whether he agreed.

Four years after the moon vanished, Fang Mo’s Demon Squad searched the nearby waters for Aratos, the wounded former chief god of Olympus and eighth target of the God Slaying Plan. Fang Mo detected blood nearby, and Aratos’s enormous divine body began rising from the sea beneath their ship.

• The squad played a game aboard the Explorer Ship, and Su Zhe accused Su Yuan of stabbing him in three consecutive rounds.
• Fang Mo asked Lu Baoyou about traces of 073, but Lu Baoyou said he had found none.
• Li Zhenzhen read the squad Aratos’s history, including his defeat by Shen Qingzhu and escape using a self-mutilation secret technique.
• Fang Mo vowed that the squad would not return until it found Aratos, and the others agreed to keep searching.
• Fang Mo smelled blood nearby and extinguished the candles as Aratos’s enormous divine body rose from the sea.

The Demon Squad found Aratos at sea, but their attack failed to kill him. Fang Mo’s coin summoned Commander Lin’s Outer Space Strike, and the resulting disturbance drew another six-winged figure to the scene as Aratos escaped beneath the water.

• Aratos destroyed the Explorer Ship and attacked the seven Demon Squad members, who scattered and retreated from him.
• Fang Mo failed to contact Instructor Shen and decided to use a strange coin to target Aratos.
• Fang Mo activated the coin and ordered the squad to flee as it triggered a golden sword strike from Commander Lin in space.
• The strike engulfed the sea, but Aratos survived and slipped beneath the surface without suffering a vital injury.
• Fang Mo spotted a figure bearing Gray Six Wings approaching and said the squad would soon be able to report back.

New Night Watchmen recruits learned that the Demon Squad had returned with a god’s corpse and heard how the legendary Nightfall Squad, once led by Lin Qiye, had scattered. The Demon Squad rushed back to Shangjing City to report to Lin Qiye, where they learned the Knights Squad had arrived first.

• A veteran Night Watchman told recruits that Great Xia had won the God War and that the old Nightfall Squad, captained by Lin Qiye, had once surpassed the Demon Squad in renown.
• Seven members of the Demon Squad emerged from the Wall of Mist carrying a massive god’s corpse in a net, which helicopters took from them.
• Fang Mo and the others hurried toward Shangjing City because they feared the Knights Squad would beat them to the report.
• At Night Watchmen Headquarters, Lin Qiye told Fang Mo that the Knights Squad had arrived ten minutes earlier but was still recovering from seasickness.

Lin Qiye learned that Charles had found no trace of Nyx and was told she was probably dead, but he believed she was still alive. He vowed to find her, while sending Charles on a new mission and giving Fang Mo’s squad a vacation.

• Fang Mo reported that his squad had helped Shen Qingzhu kill 073, and Lin Qiye praised their work.
• Charles told Lin Qiye that years of searching for 043, Nyx, had yielded no leads and said she might have died from her injuries.
• Lin Qiye reacted with a burst of power that cracked the headquarters, then assigned Charles to investigate Divine Lust Heaven and granted Fang Mo’s squad leave.
• After Fang Mo and Charles left, Lin Qiye mourned Nyx and told Shen Qingzhu he believed she was alive because he had sensed no change in the Night Law.
• Lin Qiye vowed to find Nyx, who he believed was somewhere in the world but unable to communicate with anyone.

Lin Qiye endured a soul-wrenching pill while Chaos taunted him, then confronted Chaos in Ward Five over Nyx and Olympus. Although Lin Qiye killed Chaos again, Chaos reappeared unharmed, leaving Lin Qiye wondering how he survived.

• Lin Qiye sent Shen Qingzhu to contact Lu Wuwei and arranged for King Mask to accompany him because the mission could be dangerous.
• Lin Qiye took a gray pill and endured its agonizing effects while Chaos mocked him and brought up Zuo Qing.
• Lin Qiye entered Ward Five and beat Chaos after Chaos taunted him about Nyx and the Greek gods.
• Lin Qiye stabbed Chaos through the heart with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, destroying his life force.
• Chaos appeared unharmed outside Ward Five, and Lin Qiye wondered how he kept surviving.

Four years after sealing Chaos, Lin Qiye visited Destiny Monk to ask how humanity’s chances in the Chess Game had changed and to discuss Nyx’s disappearance. Destiny Monk could not give him an answer about humanity’s prospects, and Lin Qiye was left considering whether to search for Nyx himself.

• Lin Qiye visited the hospital and asked Li Yifei whether he had given Chaos his medicine; Li Yifei prepared a mug packed with psychiatric pills to force down Chaos.
• Li Yifei declined Lin Qiye’s offer to leave the quiet hospital, saying he enjoyed watching Chaos and would stay to care for him.
• Lin Qiye traveled to a new Buddhist temple in the Kunlun Mountain Range and found Destiny Monk waiting with a Chess Game.
• Lin Qiye pressed Destiny Monk for humanity’s chances of winning after four years of victories, but Destiny Monk said he could not tell him yet.
• Lin Qiye told Destiny Monk that Nyx remained missing and that Lu Wuwei’s Electric Scooter could not reach the place trapping her; Destiny Monk asked whether Lin Qiye intended to search for her himself.

Lin Qiye and Destiny Monk discussed escalating the God Hunt plan to flush out the hidden Lovecraftian Gods. In Shangjing, Chen Han left his squad headquarters to attend an emergency meeting called by Lin Qiye, where five of the Seven Ministers were already waiting.

• Lin Qiye argued that Great Xia should clear away the gods in the mist to prevent them from becoming weapons for the Lovecraftian Gods.
• Destiny Monk proposed striking the gods hard enough to create chaos and force the hidden opponent to reveal their trail, and Lin Qiye decided what to do.
• Xu Liao introduced recruits Miao Shengyuan and Mao Qingxia to 006 Squad's courtyard headquarters and told them about Captain Chen Han's rank and duties.
• Chen Han told Xu Liao that the Commander-in-Chief had called an emergency meeting for all Seven Ministers.
• Chen Han rode his Nether Black Horse to headquarters and entered the meeting room, where five figures were already seated.

Lin Qiye announced the God Hunting Celebration, a gathering for Night Watchmen teams to commemorate humanity’s hunts of nine gods. At Heping Agency, Hong Ying and Wen Qimo assigned Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi to attend and sent them with dumplings for Lin Qiye, whom the newcomers barely knew.

• Lin Qiye convened the Night Watchmen leaders and announced that he planned to hold the God Hunting Celebration.
• Wen Qimo read the notice stating that the celebration would take place at Chennan Pass in three days and that teams had to send representatives.
• Hong Ying wanted to attend, but Wen Qimo explained that she and he were too senior to qualify as newcomers.
• Wen Qimo chose Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi to represent Team 136, and Hong Ying gave them frozen dumplings for Lin Qiye.
• Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi asked who Qiye was, then learned he was the Commander Lin Qiye.

Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi traveled to Shangjing City with frozen dumplings for Lin Qiye, then boarded a covert tour bus carrying Night Watchmen to the God Hunting Celebration. Lin Qiye arranged the celebration and ordered the Phoenix Squad to rename its performance, while the bus headed toward the venue with Jia Shasha hiding the dumplings from his fellow rookies.

• Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi left for Shangjing City with bags of frozen dumplings after Hong Ying told them to find Lin Qiye and deliver them.
• Lin Qiye reviewed the celebration program, renamed the Phoenix Squad's performance “I Love Work, Work Loves Me,” and ordered festive preparations while discussing defenses and intelligence with Min Junliang.
• Jia Shasha and Zhen Xiaoyi reached Shangjing City, found the covert tour bus using the notice's photograph and code phrase, and boarded it with other Night Watchmen.
• Zhen Xiaoyi cooled the dumplings as she and Jia Shasha exchanged backpacks, then Jia Shasha concealed the bulging bag when a former classmate asked what it held.
• Lin Qiye walked to the office window as Destiny Monk appeared in its reflection, and he murmured that the celebration had begun.