Recaps

Lin Yu learned that Lu Xiao used human remains from her killings as Anchor Points to resist the world's interference with their memories. After Lu Xiao left to find someone for Lin Yu to kill, he played his second recording, which began to explain a more efficient method of making Anchor Points.

• Lin Yu questioned whether he and Lu Xiao were foreign Players trapped in a strange world and asked about her Anchor Points.
• Lu Xiao showed Lin Yu the teeth and finger bones taped around her waist and explained that killing people exposed the world's failure to depict death.
• Lu Xiao said she had killed people on the rooftop and kept their remains close to preserve memories and form Anchor Points.
• Lu Xiao locked Lin Yu on the rooftop and left to bring someone back so they could create an Anchor Point together.
• Lin Yu played his second recording, in which his past self described the world's finite boundaries and announced he had found a more efficient method.

Lin Yu listened to recordings that contradicted each other, then used the latest one to stop Lu Xiao from forcing him to kill He Jinzhe. He recovered his memories, but the rooftop was being overwhelmed by the monstrous being he had summoned.

• Lin Yu heard an earlier recording claim that killing people and working with Lu Xiao could help him escape the counterfeit world.
• Lin Yu found a third recording warning him not to kill anyone or trust Lu Xiao, and naming high-level information as the only Anchor Point.
• Lu Xiao dragged the unconscious He Jinzhe onto the rooftop and pressured Lin Yu to kill him with a dagger.
• Lin Yu played the third recording, which named a high-level being and caused Lu Xiao to freeze as blood and black feathers erupted from her.
• Lin Yu remembered that he was a Death game Player called the Director and had come to recover Li Nian's soul, but the summoned monster began flooding the rooftop.

Lin Yu resisted Yundu’s attempt to alter his identity by investigating its strange rules and creating Memory Anchors. He discovered that Yundu was one organism within the Gray Domain, a wider world inhabited by immense monsters and living Authorities.

• Lin Yu noticed the Gray Domain was planting false memories in him and found that he could resist its influence by exploring with his Mental Power.
• He discovered that Yundu was a bounded artificial world where no one died and every resident’s soul had identical fluctuations.
• Lin Yu killed a critically ill patient and found that the man disappeared, leaving behind a Memory Anchor that revealed lost memories and exposed the Gray Domain’s cognitive alterations.
• As he created more Memory Anchors, Lin Yu gained spiritual sight and saw that Yundu’s residents shared one connected soul controlled by a single organism.
• Lin Yu broke through the cognitive interference at Yundu’s edge and glimpsed the Gray Domain’s vast monsters, including living Authorities and Raraavis, before retreating to the town.

Lin Yu remembered that he had created Lu Xiao as a vessel for Leila Avi, a high-dimensional being, and realized that Leila had also been manipulating him. He resisted her attempt to distort his thoughts, revealed that he could still use his Item Space, and asked to negotiate.

• Lin Yu recalled that he had invented Lu Xiao through Cognitive Disturbance and prepared Leila Avi as her soul, intending to use Leila against Yundu’s monster.
• As blood flooded the rooftop and black feathers covered the sky, Lin Yu recognized that Leila was a threat and questioned how he could escape.
• Lin Yu exposed the voice posing as his thoughts and said his soul’s cognition let him resist its deception.
• Lu Xiao warned Lin Yu that naming powerful beings would have serious consequences and claimed his memory confusion came from the world’s Rule.
• Lin Yu challenged Lu Xiao’s claim that he had been trapped for a month and a half, took out the [Cyber Ghost's Electronic Coffin], and declared that he could erase the Gray Domain’s influence and negotiate with Leila Avi.

Lin Yu questioned Leila Avi and learned that Gray Domain had sent her to prevent outsiders from disrupting Wudu. Before Gray Domain erased her, Leila revealed the Mirror World and warned that it would use a new method against him, leaving Lin Yu to search for the world’s core as a typhoon forced the school to close.

• Lin Yu used the Three-Minute Lie Detector to question Leila Avi, who explained that her consciousness was fused with the Authorities of Doubt and Calamity.
• Leila Avi revealed that Gray Domain had sent her as insurance against Lin Yu, and admitted she had tried to use his Player identity to escape its control.
• Lin Yu offered to help Leila Avi leave Gray Domain if she helped him, and she explained that Gray Domain had a Surface World of Small Worlds and a Mirror World where the Authority of Life existed.
• Leila Avi said Lin Yu’s friend’s soul had entered the Mirror World and might become an Authority of Life, and that finding the world’s core could help him reach it.
• Gray Domain erased Leila Avi, while Lin Yu told the bewildered He Jinzhe that he had sleepwalked and returned to the school building.
• The school broadcast announced that Typhoon Mok had arrived early and canceled afternoon classes, ordering everyone to leave campus.

Lin Yu regained access to his Item Space in the Gray Domain but found that many powerful items and companions were still unavailable. After a near-accident at school, he realized the world might be targeting him through seemingly random disasters, leaving him to defend himself against an enemy with no tangible form.

• During a violent rainstorm, Lin Yu realized he had recovered his memories but did not know where home was or how to find the Small World’s core.
• Lin Yu confirmed he could use Item Space, though the Gray Domain still blocked many powerful items and prevented him from summoning Hannah, Old Zheng, and Zhu Qiansi.
• Lin Yu asked a student about Lu Xiao and learned that she had transferred schools the previous month.
• A bulletin board fell toward Lin Yu and the nearby student, but Lin Yu caught it with his bare arms and claimed he was unharmed because he was a student-athlete.
• Lin Yu suspected the Gray Domain would target him with unlucky accidents and recognized that he could only defend himself against the world itself.

Lin Yu endured a series of increasingly dangerous accidents in the Gray Domain and tried to infer its limits. At the school gate, he saw a familiar woman calling him “Xiao Yu” and suspected the Gray Domain had escalated its attack.

• Lin Yu concluded that the Gray Domain’s attacks followed realistic physical laws and rescued two girls who slipped down the stairs toward him.
• A falling ginkgo tree narrowly missed Lin Yu, challenging his theory that accidents needed to harm another resident to target him.
• Lin Yu crossed the courtyard while dodging several more accidents, including a toppled statue, falling tiles, and an out-of-control security patrol vehicle.
• At the school gate, Lin Yu saw a short-haired woman under a yellow umbrella calling him “Xiao Yu,” then instinctively waved back and called her “Sis.”

Lin Yu rode home with a Lin Zhao created by the Gray Domain, unsure whether she was real, until a near-fatal truck crash and her sudden confession revealed that she might contain the real Lin Zhao’s soul. She recognized that Lin Yu had entered through the Death game and realized he had suffered without her.

• Lin Zhao picked Lin Yu up from school and tried to cheer him up as he talked about death and parting.
• An out-of-control truck ran a red light, and Lin Zhao accelerated her modified car to evade it.
• After the crash, Lin Zhao abruptly asked Lin Yu not to leave her and accelerated again, alarming him.
• Lin Zhao stopped the car and laughed, revealing that she knew about the Death game and might be a genuine Lin Zhao trapped in the Gray Domain.
• Lin Zhao told Lin Yu that the game had put him through a lot of suffering and noted that he had been without her for a long time.

Lin Yu reunited with Lin Zhao in the Gray Domain and learned that she was a contingency formed from the original Lin Zhao’s memories and consciousness. After they compared their conflicting timelines and discussed the shattered Authority of Destiny, Lin Zhao postponed settling their accounts until after dinner and asked about Lin Yu’s school life.

• Lin Zhao told Lin Yu she had earned the Apartment herself and explained that she had recognized the world’s version of him as an Impostor.
• Lin Yu and Lin Zhao discovered that their timelines differed, and Lin Yu explained that she had died three years earlier after killing the God of Destiny with Shen Bingmiao.
• Lin Yu recounted how he joined the Death game and learned from Shen Bingmiao about Lin Zhao’s role in the Final Trial.
• Lin Zhao concluded that she was a contingency created by the Gray Domain’s Rules from a Soul Fragment of the original Lin Zhao.
• Lin Zhao prepared dinner and asked Lin Yu how he had done on the college entrance exam and which university he attended.

Lin Zhao explained to Lin Yu how the Gray Domain’s Mirror World used the Surface World and its Small Worlds to resist the Death game. She then asked whether resurrecting her had consumed much of Lin Yu’s energy.

• At dinner, Lin Zhao regretted that Lin Yu had attended Jiangcheng Media, while Lin Yu reassured her that his study choices were his own responsibility.
• Lin Zhao told Lin Yu that she owned a successful fusion restaurant and explained that Yundu was a world altered to trap her.
• Lin Zhao explained that the Gray Domain had a Surface World and a dominant Mirror World, whose powerful residents had divided the Surface World into Small Worlds to shield themselves from the Death game.
• Lin Zhao described how the Mirror World’s rulers manipulated each Small World’s laws and residents’ cognition, restricted the emergence of gods, and used World Wills as a form of Heaven’s Law.
• Lin Zhao suddenly asked Lin Yu whether resurrecting her had taken a great deal of his energy.

Lin Yu confronted Lin Zhao, who revealed herself as the core of the Small World and attacked him with the Authority of Life. As Lin Yu appeared to be dying, the broken knife lifted a restriction on his items, and he activated his abilities and told Lin Zhao he had once reversed time and returned from death.

• Lin Yu admitted he needed to find the Mirror World and take Lin Zhao's soul, while Lin Zhao warned him not to trust the Authority of Life.
• Lin Zhao revealed she had poisoned the fish soup, but Lin Yu's blessing made him immune to poison, and she confirmed she was the Small World's core.
• Lin Zhao transformed the dining room and attacked Lin Yu with a green-jade kitchen knife, using her Authority to wound him and disable his defenses.
• As Lin Yu collapsed, Lin Zhao tapped his nose in a gesture of encouragement, and he realized the shattered knife had broken the restriction on his items.
• Lin Yu activated his abilities and told Lin Zhao that he had once reversed time and returned from death.

Lin Yu used his ability to die and return from the dead, crossing into the Mirror World through the Gray Domain’s process for handling player souls. He awakened in a new body and learned from a recording of Leila Avi that he had arrived in the true Gray Domain.

• Lin Yu made his return from the dead real, then died and let his soul sink through the Gray Domain toward the Mirror World.
• Lin Yu’s resurrection took effect as he crossed the Gray Domain’s protective membrane and regained consciousness in the Mirror World.
• Lin Yu awakened in a futuristic chamber inside a new body and heard that he was Apprentice No. 107053, with his Authority compatibility at 33%.
• Lin Yu found a smartphone in his uniform and used [Cyber Ghost's Electronic Coffin] to access it.
• Lin Yu watched Leila Avi’s recorded beginner’s guide, which welcomed him to the true Gray Domain.

Lin Yu learned how the Mirror World, its apprentices, heroes, and Authorities operated, and realized Lin Zhao and Lu Xiao had prepared his arrival. He left his room to explore the Mirror World and saw its astonishingly advanced city.

• A recorded explanation described how the Mirror World used manufactured bodies and consciousness transmission to send apprentices into Small Worlds on missions.
• Lin Yu learned that apprentices could become heroes by gaining an Authority, and that only thirty heroes knew the truth and were called Sages.
• The speaker warned Lin Yu that the Central Mechanism might eliminate him if it discovered he was a Player, and wished number 107053 luck.
• Lin Yu concluded that Lin Zhao had arranged his identity and body with Lu Xiao's help, and decided to explore the Mirror World.
• Lin Yu left his private room and saw a vast ring-shaped city built with advanced spatial technology.

Lin Yu assessed the Mirror World’s extensive surveillance and identified three possible locations where Li Nian’s soul might be held, with the Central Research Institute the most heavily defended. As he considered how to infiltrate them, he met the earnest apprentice Chong Ping and introduced himself under the alias Shaw Bernard.

• Lin Yu observed that the Central Mechanism monitored nearly every public space and realized his mission to retrieve Li Nian’s soul would be difficult.
• Lin Yu identified the Hero Training Center, the Simulated World Database Room, and the Central Research Institute as possible locations for Li Nian’s soul.
• Lin Yu learned that the Central Mechanism deliberately allowed Small Worlds to remain dangerous, relying on its defenses, heroes, and apprentices to contain threats.
• Chong Ping approached Lin Yu, introduced himself, and encouraged him not to forget his past after becoming an apprentice.
• Lin Yu gave Chong Ping his number and the alias Shaw Bernard, then decided to befriend the kind apprentice because he could take advantage of his naivety.

Lin Yu visited Chong Ping’s apartment, gathered information about him while secretly hypnotizing him, and then took his terminal and transformed into his appearance. He left the apartment disguised as Chong Ping to act without drawing the Central Mechanism’s attention.

• Lin Yu accepted Chong Ping’s invitation and asked about his family and personal life to learn how he behaved.
• Lin Yu used his Mental Power and the Hypnosis Pendant to put Chong Ping into a sleep that would last at least twelve hours.
• Lin Yu took Chong Ping’s terminal and transformed into his appearance with the [Mask].
• Lin Yu left the apartment disguised as Chong Ping, intending to use the identity to act in the Gray Domain.

Lin Yu traveled from Area 9 to the Second Plantation Area in Area 11, using [Mask] to pass the Teleportation Pod’s identification. He gained entry by claiming he was visiting Chong Ning and found his older sister working in the fields.

• Lin Yu used a Teleportation Pod to travel from Area 9 to Area 11, confirming that [Mask] still fooled identification.
• Lin Yu reached the Second Plantation Area, where Mirror World residents grew food from crops sourced from the Small Worlds.
• Lin Yu told the gate guard he had come to visit Chong Ning, Resident No. 2395112427, and was permitted to enter.
• Lin Yu followed Chong Ping’s directions and found Chong Ning setting fires in the fields with a Flamethrower.
• Chong Ning recognized Lin Yu and asked what had brought him there.

Lin Yu disguised himself as Chong Ping to gain Chong Ning’s trust and learn about her friend Xixi, who maintained a Teleportation Gate in Area 5. After getting Chong Ning drunk and hypnotizing her, he used her terminal and appearance to travel to Area 5 and contact Xixi.

• Lin Yu posed as Chong Ping and reassured Chong Ning that her work cultivating Crimson Flame Fruit was valuable.
• Chong Ning explained that she had studied Teleportation Gate maintenance and introduced Xixi as a close friend who worked in Area 5.
• Lin Yu invited Chong Ning to celebrate his progress and asked to hear more about her friendship with Xixi.
• After three hours, Lin Yu covered the sleeping Chong Ning, took her terminal, and used [Mask] to assume her appearance.
• Lin Yu traveled to Area 5, found Xixi in Chong Ning’s contacts, and messaged her to ask if she was working.

Lin Yu infiltrated the Hero Training Center under the identity of Shen Qi, a data recorder, but an attack interrupted his attempt to investigate the facility. The chapter ended as a dangerous, Sea Urchin Essence-like creature emerged and killed fleeing personnel.

• Lin Yu traced his connections through Chong Ping, Chong Ning, Xixi, Zeg, and Dull to obtain Shen Qi's identity and resident number 19441902.
• Lin Yu entered the Hero Training Center at night using Shen Qi's appearance and terminal.
• Feng Tong recognized Lin Yu as Shen Qi, and Lin Yu claimed he had returned to recheck a data-processing anomaly.
• An explosion triggered a level-three virus alert, and the broadcast ordered all non-hero personnel to evacuate.
• Lin Yu identified the spreading black corrosion overhead as the likely cause of the attack, and a spiked creature emerged and killed several people.

Lin Yu navigated the Sea Urchin Essence outbreak to reach the twenty-fifth floor, where Silver Fist appeared to protect him. Lin Yu recognized the hero as Feng Tong and tricked him into revealing his identity.

• The training center’s defense systems deployed lizard-shaped machines against the Sea Urchin Essence monsters as people evacuated.
• Lin Yu used Shen Qi’s terminal and clearance to locate the twenty-fifth floor, where he suspected the secret artificial Authority of Life research was located.
• Lin Yu found the floor overrun with black matter and Sea Urchin Essence monsters, then stopped as a metal shield blocked their attack.
• Silver Fist emerged from the corridor and asked Lin Yu why he had not evacuated.
• Lin Yu claimed he had returned to check data, prompting Silver Fist to refer to him as a colleague and reveal that he was Feng Tong.

Lin Yu revealed that Feng Tong was the hero Silver Fist and warned him that someone inside the Training Center might be researching how to eliminate heroes. Feng Tong dismissed the idea and trusted his defenses, but a black spike pierced his abdomen, leaving the invasion’s threat unresolved.

• Lin Yu confronted Feng Tong with his hero identity, and Feng Tong admitted it while asking Lin Yu to keep it secret.
• Feng Tong offered to escort Lin Yu out, but Lin Yu revealed that he had foreseen the invasion and urged Feng Tong to investigate the restricted area's research.
• Lin Yu claimed that the collected hero data could be used to discover how to eliminate heroes and suggested the invasion might have been aimed at Feng Tong.
• Feng Tong dismissed Lin Yu's warning, but a black spike pierced his battle suit and wounded his lower abdomen.

Lin Yu deceived Feng Tong into believing that monsters had injured him and that the attack was a trap designed to kill him. He persuaded the frightened hero to stay and fight, drawing Feng Tong into Lin Yu’s plan to create chaos.

• Feng Tong was hurt and shocked when the monsters appeared to break through his defenses, so he asked Shen Qi what was happening.
• Lin Yu claimed that the attackers had studied hero data and made monsters to exploit Feng Tong’s weaknesses.
• Lin Yu revealed that he had fabricated Feng Tong’s injury using the Narrative Trick, turning the hero’s belief in the wound into reality.
• Lin Yu dismissed Feng Tong’s idea of calling for reinforcements by warning that he might be bait in a trap targeting incoming heroes.
• Lin Yu urged Feng Tong to fight as the only hero who could break the situation, and Feng Tong remained anxious about facing the monsters.

Lin Yu persuaded Feng Tong that people within the heroes’ ranks were conspiring against them and urged him to enter the Hero Training Center’s restricted areas. Feng Tong agreed to break through the monsters and investigate the secret projects, even at risk to himself.

• Lin Yu claimed that unidentified conspirators had targeted Feng Tong and that he had been investigating them for a long time.
• Lin Yu proposed that he and Feng Tong break through the monsters and enter the Hero Training Center’s restricted areas without following the usual application process.
• Lin Yu suggested that corrupt heroes and other powerful figures could be working against them, while insisting that the Central Mechanism itself remained trustworthy.
• Feng Tong accepted that some heroes might be involved and decided to bring Lin Yu into the secret areas to uncover the truth.

Feng Tong and Lin Yu fought through the Hero Training Center’s defenses and entered a hidden research institution studying artificial Authority of Life. They discovered sleeping embryos and biological tissues with powerful souls, along with a stable portal to a barren world beneath a crimson sky.

• Feng Tong broke through a security door and fought his way past the Central Mechanism’s defense machines.
• The Central Mechanism warned Feng Tong that he was violating the First Safety Law, but Lin Yu used suggestion and the Narrative Trick to convince him the system had been deceived by their enemies.
• Feng Tong unleashed his Authority and carried Lin Yu through the corridor to a transparent glass door.
• Feng Tong smashed the glass door, and he and Lin Yu entered the concealed research institution.
• Lin Yu sensed powerful souls within the sleeping embryos and biological tissues as the two saw the stable portal and the barren landscape beyond it.

Lin Yu and Feng Tong uncovered a hidden project that used souls and Authorities to create artificial heroes, and Lin Yu entered its testing ground to investigate. There, he found no trace of Li Nian but discovered that the immense mountain range was an intelligent living creature, which opened an eye and recognized him.

• Lin Yu told Feng Tong that the facility was forcing souls to combine with Authorities, and Feng Tong concluded that its operators wanted controllable heroes and planned to expose them.
• Lin Yu and Feng Tong agreed that Feng Tong would copy the facility's data and destroy the base while Lin Yu investigated the crimson portal's testing ground.
• Lin Yu entered the ruined Small World and confirmed that Li Nian's soul was not there.
• Lin Yu sensed that a vast Mental Power fluctuation came from the mountains surrounding him.
• The mountain range trembled, opened a pitch-black eye, and addressed Lin Yu through Mental Power: "It's... you!"

Lin Yu learned that the colossal creature mistook his borrowed appearance for the Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch, who had destroyed its world and stolen its Authority. When it recognized Lin Yu as Lin Zhao, he summoned Old Zheng and Zhu Qiansi to calm it and uncover its past.

• The colossal creature accused Lin Yu of destroying its world and trapping it, calling him the Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch.
• Lin Yu concluded that the creature had mistaken him for someone connected to his borrowed body, but it insisted that he was Lin Zhao.
• Lin Yu realized the creature could not harm him, then changed plans when it named him Lin Zhao and vowed to kill him.
• Lin Yu summoned Old Zheng and Zhu Qiansi and asked them to make the creature communicate normally and investigate its history.
• Old Zheng offered to treat the creature's hatred, while Zhu Qiansi proposed using its past karmic events to create memories that would calm it.