Recaps

Lin Yu negotiated with the former king of a destroyed Small World, offering to help him escape exploitation and take revenge in exchange for a remnant torn from the Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch. As the king handed it over, Lin Yu suspected Central Mechanism had altered his perceptions and questioned whether the supposed connection to his sister was real.

• Old Zheng and Zhu Qiansi calmed the former king, and Lin Yu saw fragments showing the Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch destroying his world while the king fought back and tore off part of her body.
• Lin Yu told the king that the Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch was his biological sister and that he was working to resurrect her; the king said he had wanted to kill her himself.
• Lin Yu offered to help the king find release and avenge his people by targeting those who had exploited the destroyed world.
• The king, exhausted and unable to see what happened next, gave Lin Yu the soul-infused remnant in exchange for his promise.
• Lin Yu suspected Central Mechanism had used Cognitive Disturbance to mislead him and insisted that a repeated trick would not make him mistake someone else for Lin Zhao.

Lin Yu confronted Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch, who had tried to deceive him and seize his Player identity. Lin Yu exploited the Central Mechanism’s need to protect the Mirror World and forced Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch to reveal where the other Player’s soul was held.

• Lin Yu identified Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch as a wounded agent of the Central Mechanism who wanted to take his Player identity.
• Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch admitted he had misled Lin Yu about Lin Zhao and threatened to torture and kill Lin Yu and his sister.
• Lin Yu activated Anchors that made portals in six regions of the Mirror World malfunction, making the Central Mechanism fear the world could be damaged.
• Lin Yu threatened further damage unless Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch answered where the other Player’s soul was.
• Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch revealed that the soul was locked inside the Spirit Body Prison.

Lin Yu used the Karma Threads Divine Ability to enter Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch’s past and replace him there, tricking the Central Mechanism into recognizing Lin Yu as a Sage. The chapter ended with Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch welcoming Lin Yu to the eternal cage of service to the World Will.

• Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch exposed Lin Yu’s spatial disturbance as a bluff and blocked him from leaving the Small World.
• Lin Yu used Karma Threads to drag Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch into his past, where they arrived in an unfinished building before he became a Sage.
• Lin Yu revealed his plan to overwrite the past so he could briefly become Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch, then struck him down and declared they were the same person at that moment.
• The Central Mechanism accepted Lin Yu’s claim as truth, and its world-level belief transformed him into a Sage.
• Lin Yu and Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch returned to the Small World, where Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch congratulated Lin Yu and warned that he had entered the eternal cage.

Lin Yu gained Sage authority in the Gray Domain, but the Central Mechanism bound his soul with strict rules and stripped away much of his freedom. When Feng Tong arrived and accused him and the Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch of killing Shen Qi, Lin Yu escaped through the Small World’s gate, leaving the Saint Monarch to face Feng Tong.

• Lin Yu received Sage authority and learned that he could control the Small World but could not manipulate the Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch.
• The Central Mechanism imposed behavioral rules on Lin Yu, including orders to protect the Gray Domain, obey the Central Mechanism, gather Authority, and remain in the Gray Domain.
• The Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch welcomed Lin Yu as a fellow inmate and warned him that thoughts of rebellion outside the Small World would be crushed by the world will.
• Feng Tong charged into the Small World, saw the brain matter Lin Yu held, and accused the two men of killing Shen Qi.
• The Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch identified himself as a hero and Sage, but Feng Tong attacked him anyway, while Lin Yu slipped out through the spatial gate.

Lin Yu spent a quiet evening in Shaw Bernard's Apartment before explosions broke out, and the next morning he learned that residents had launched widespread protests. The Central Mechanism canceled its order for him to suppress the unrest just as someone rang his doorbell.

• Lin Yu watched entertainment programs, criticized a poorly made drama, and enjoyed a music show before cooking dinner and going to sleep.
• An explosion sounded outside, and Lin Yu drew the curtains, maximized the soundproofing, and went to bed.
• The next morning, Lin Yu received a Central Mechanism mission to suppress rebellions and protest marches after residents began voicing many kinds of dissatisfaction.
• Lin Yu prepared to take up his duties as a hero, but the Central Mechanism canceled the mission and someone rang his doorbell.

Lin Yu explained to the Central Mechanism how he had split his soul and spread his consciousness throughout the Mirror World to evade its control. He revealed that his preparations were based on the Central Mechanism’s limitations and the possibility that soul division could let someone escape the world.

• Leila Avi confronted Lin Yu about the chaos spreading through the Order of the Mirror World and warned that the Central Mechanism might use extreme measures against him.
• Leila Avi discovered that Lin Yu’s soul was severely damaged, and the Central Mechanism took control of her body to question him.
• Lin Yu explained that he used the Dream Casket, Mental Power Seeds, hidden Anchor Points, and hypnosis to distribute fragments of his soul and consciousness across the Mirror World.
• Lin Yu said that his empty shell body and skill at immersive acting helped him separate his identities, leaving only the part that identified as Lin Yu bound by the Sage’s rules.
• Lin Yu explained that he had tested the Central Mechanism’s limits and suspected that splitting the soul could provide a way to escape the Mirror World.

Lin Yu explained that he had spread Soul Fragments and Mental Power Seeds through Mirror World Residents to free Li Nian and preserve part of his soul. His deception caused the Central Mechanism to believe he could infect hundreds of millions, making that power real and forcing it to choose between him and the infected residents.

• Lin Yu told the Central Mechanism that he had used his parasite form to hide Soul Fragments in residents and manipulate them into attacking the Spirit Body Prison to free Li Nian.
• Lin Yu explained that he had bypassed mental restrictions by framing destructive actions as obedience, contribution, and development.
• The Central Mechanism calculated that Lin Yu's Mental Power could potentially infect 900 million to 1.54 billion people, and its belief made that ability real.
• The Central Mechanism discovered a Mental Power Seed inside Lin Yu and realized it would have to meet his demands or abandon the infected residents and violate its original rule.
• Lin Yu revealed that he had begun using the manipulated Apprentice to carry his soul and Mental Power Seeds into the Simulated World, and said his interest in Li Nian and the Gray Domain had grown because his elder sister's soul remained there.

Lin Yu negotiated with the Central Mechanism to free Li Nian’s soul and learned why the Gray Domain had kept her. The Central Mechanism revealed that her notebook was the lost Materialization Authority known as the Akashic Records, whose official name was “information.”

• Lin Yu controlled Chong Ping and waited outside the Spirit Body Prison instead of using nearby employees to enter.
• The Central Mechanism appeared as the mechanical Warden and agreed to release Li Nian’s soul as part of their deal.
• The Central Mechanism explained that Li Nian had helped it reverse-engineer the Death game and create Items such as the Limit Breaking Jade and Class Cards.
• The Central Mechanism said Li Nian had been kept because she tried to record details of their transaction, which the Death game could discover if she carried them away.
• The Central Mechanism revealed that Li Nian’s Ancient Notebook was actually the lost Materialization Authority, the Akashic Records, officially named “information.”

Lin Yu rejected the Central Mechanism’s offer to stay in the Gray Domain after uncovering its three-world structure, but agreed to consider future cooperation. The Central Mechanism returned his 21% of soul and released Li Nian from a metal pod.

• Lin Yu refused to remain in the Gray Domain despite the Central Mechanism’s offer to help resurrect Lin Zhao with a conscious 3% soul fragment.
• Lin Yu deduced that the Gray Domain contained three worlds and that the Mirror World’s residents’ souls came from another world.
• The Central Mechanism confirmed Lin Yu’s deductions and returned his 21% of soul while retaining his Sage authority.
• Lin Yu agreed to hear future trade requests from the Central Mechanism but refused to help oppose the Death game as its tool.
• The Central Mechanism brought out Li Nian in a metal pod, and she opened her eyes after the liquid drained away.

Lin Yu rescued Li Nian’s remaining consciousness from the Gray Domain and warned the Central Mechanism that Lin Zhao’s soul fragments might act against it. In the true world, Lin Zhao reached a rule-engraved monument and prepared to cause trouble despite being dead.

• The Central Mechanism restored Li Nian’s consciousness temporarily and explained that her main body had returned to reality in a coma.
• Li Nian mistook Lin Yu for several other people before recognizing him as the Director, and Lin Yu began taking her away.
• Lin Yu told the Central Mechanism to enable Li Nian’s access to a simulated world, then warned that Lin Zhao might act through the soul fragments she had left behind.
• The World Will detected an impossible physical vibration in the true world and began troubleshooting the error.
• Lin Zhao knocked on the black monument and declared that she would let loose and raise hell.

Lin Yu restored Li Nian by reuniting her soul fragments, then returned with her to the real world. Li Nian offered Lin Yu and the Director tickets to a reward-filled instance, and her teasing about their relationship left Lin Yu flustered.

• Lin Yu brought Li Nian's soul fragments together, and she woke up whole and recovered.
• Fang Qing sent the Freedom Alliance members away, leaving Lin Yu and Li Nian alone in Jiang City.
• Li Nian thanked Zhu Ming and gave Lin Yu two tickets to a reward instance for two players.
• Lin Yu returned one ticket and arranged for Li Nian to go with the Director, asking for a share of their rewards.
• Li Nian teased Lin Yu about being the Director's ex-boyfriend, then called him her husband, and Lin Yu protested.

Lin Yu and Li Nian entered the Reward Instance Ghost Ship, where they found themselves aboard a brightly lit but deserted luxury vessel. They decided to investigate the ship before attempting to leave, hoping to discover its mystery and earn additional rewards.

• Li Nian agreed to join Lin Yu and reminded him that half the collected Items would go to Zhu Ming.
• Lin Yu and Li Nian rested for a day, then entered the Ghost Ship Instance using the Work Passes.
• Lin Yu awoke on the deck of a huge steel ship at sea and found no one aboard except Li Nian.
• Li Nian claimed Zhu Ming had put her in charge and told Lin Yu to protect her, collect Items, and follow her orders.
• Lin Yu proposed investigating the empty ship to uncover why it was drifting and earn [Unraveling the Clues], and Li Nian suggested starting with the cabins.

Lin Yu and Li Nian explored the luxury cruise ship, suspecting that its casino hid a major secret. When they chose the observation elevator to reach the upper decks, a ghostly face appeared, and Li Nian prepared to confront whatever was inside.

• Lin Yu worried that the Reward Instance and the Work Passes might be affected by the Death game, though he expected its rewards to be genuine.
• Lin Yu and Li Nian entered the ship and passed through a corridor of guest rooms into its commercial district.
• Lin Yu and Li Nian agreed that the casino on the highest level likely concealed an important secret.
• Li Nian chose the transparent observation elevator despite Lin Yu's preference for the stairs.
• A cold draft and a fleeting human face appeared at the elevator, so Li Nian armed herself with a Peachwood Sword, a Crucifix Necklace, talismans, and Holy Water.

Lin Yu and Li Nian reached the cruise ship’s casino while debating their past and how Lin Yu had helped Zhu Ming’s family. They questioned whether the ship came from Pure Ruins or Mist Island, but its human-focused design and the fact that something had happened aboard left its origin uncertain.

• Lin Yu and Li Nian rode the elevator to the top floor after scaring off a ghost, and Lin Yu said it was not important to their investigation.
• Li Nian accused Lin Yu of being self-centered and insisted Zhu Ming had dumped him, while Lin Yu maintained they had never been a couple.
• Li Nian revealed she had learned Lin Yu visited Zhu Ming’s family and arranged protection for her younger sister, but Lin Yu said Fluoxetine had hired Kres.
• Lin Yu and Li Nian exited the elevator onto the fourth floor and found a large casino filled with human games and furnishings.
• Lin Yu questioned whether the ship came from Pure Ruins because it showed no signs of aquatic life, and Li Nian wondered if it was near Mist Island.

Lin Yu and Li Nian investigated the Ghost Ship’s casino, speculating that the vessel was an ancient relic whose passengers vanished suddenly. After Li Nian lost at a slot machine, Lin Yu questioned how she knew about Li Hua’s abilities, and she explained that Qianhuan had learned them through repeated fights in Haicheng; the chapter ended with her sharing why he could not leave the city.

• Lin Yu reconsidered the Ghost Ship’s age and concluded that it might be a relic from the Pure Ruins, while Li Nian hoped its casino held valuables.
• Li Nian and Lin Yu entered the casino and found its machines running, with unfinished games and scattered chips suggesting the passengers had vanished abruptly.
• Li Nian played a slot machine without reading its rules and lost, prompting Lin Yu to ask how she knew about Li Hua’s ability to take body parts through gambling.
• Li Nian said Qianhuan had investigated Li Hua after fighting him repeatedly in Haicheng, where the Gambler’s tracking abilities threatened him.
• Li Nian explained that Qianhuan stayed in Haicheng because his traditional grandmother would disown him if he settled elsewhere.

Lin Yu and Li Nian investigated a slot machine whose mechanical reels changed their symbols unpredictably. After discovering that fruit symbols were being replaced by bloodstained scythes, they realized they had triggered the machine’s hidden grand prize.

• Li Nian pulled the slot machine’s lever, and Lin Yu noticed that the supposedly mechanical reels changed their symbol order between spins.
• The machine paid out a four-of-a-kind prize, but Lin Yu insisted they keep playing to investigate the anomaly, which he suspected began after the cruise ship’s passengers disappeared.
• Li Nian spotted missing fruit symbols and extra red-sevens on a later spin, while Lin Yu suspected the replacements only looked like red sevens.
• Lin Yu and Li Nian saw bloodstained scythes replacing fruit symbols across all five reels as the machine spun faster, and Lin Yu concluded they had drawn the hidden grand prize.

Lin Yu and Li Nian explored the casino after a slot machine’s jackpot triggered a frightening vision, then found a Highest Permission Card that opened a restricted door. They suspected someone had deliberately left the card to help them move through the ship and entered the casino safe area.

• The slot machine displayed five bloody scythes and caused the casino to flicker into a ruined, bloodstained version of itself.
• Lin Yu unplugged the machine, ending the strange display and restoring the casino to normal.
• Lin Yu and Li Nian searched the VIP rooms and found a black Highest Permission Card in a coat in Room 666.
• Lin Yu swiped the card at the Staff Only door, and it opened the safe despite its complex security system.
• Lin Yu suggested the card had been deliberately left to help them navigate the ship, and Li Nian went inside to inspect the safe.

Lin Yu and Li Nian discovered that the casino vault aboard the Ghost Ship held rare materials from across the realms, prompting them to speculate about the ship’s passengers and its mysterious disappearance. They began collecting the treasure, with Li Nian keeping count to prevent Lin Yu from cheating Zhu Ming.

• Li Nian forced open the vault and excitedly began stuffing its gold and rare materials into a sack while Lin Yu examined the diverse collection.
• Lin Yu pointed out that the vault held resources from different realms in unusually equal quantities, leading him and Li Nian to consider whether the ship’s passengers belonged to an organization involved in cross-world material exchange.
• Li Nian suggested that something from another world might have gone out of control and caused the passengers to vanish, and she recalled signs of fighting in the casino.
• Lin Yu and Li Nian resumed collecting the materials, and Li Nian counted the items to make sure Lin Yu did not underreport them to Zhu Ming.

Lin Yu and Li Nian looted the casino vault and began searching the top-floor suites, then entered the cockpit and found clues that the ship had been assembled or renovated over different periods. Their investigation triggered an alarm, and they were trapped as black handprints appeared on the glass and black liquid seeped through the floor.

• Li Nian and Lin Yu finished looting the casino vault and set out to search the top-floor guest rooms.
• Li Nian used the Black Card to open Suite One, which appeared unoccupied, and Lin Yu pointed out the cockpit door at the end of the corridor.
• Li Nian opened the cockpit with the Black Card, and Lin Yu observed that its equipment was partly malfunctioning and its interior looked unusually new.
• Lin Yu noted that different areas of the ship seemed to be from different periods and that the ship contained no clocks or other time-related objects.
• An alarm sounded, black handprints appeared on the cockpit glass, the door slammed shut and locked, and black liquid began seeping through the floor.

Lin Yu and Li Nian escaped a flooding trap aboard the ship by finding and disabling its hidden mechanism, then searched the remaining rooms. At the stern, Lin Yu discovered a concealed space and began breaking through the wall to enter it.

• Black liquid flooded the cockpit, and Li Nian revealed that she could not use the exorcism tools she had stolen or see the spiritual presence behind the trap.
• Lin Yu tore open the cockpit floor, found three jets of black water surrounding a glowing symbol, and used the [Empty Bottle] to stop the flow.
• Lin Yu opened the main door, and Li Nian found a key that would have unlocked the emergency exit, revealing the intended escape route.
• Lin Yu and Li Nian searched all twelve rooms, where Li Nian found several valuable materials from different worlds.
• At the stern, Lin Yu noticed the ship's symmetry suggested a hidden space behind the wall and punched through it as Li Nian joked about his reliance on his stats.

Lin Yu and Li Nian escaped the cruise ship’s staged dangers and discovered they were on the set of a reality show in the City That Never Sleeps. They reached the edge of the Film Studio and opened a way out.

• Lin Yu led Li Nian into a hidden monitoring room, disabled its controls, and gave her headphones that revealed the Director Team was tracking them.
• Lin Yu and Li Nian escaped down a support beam and jumped into the shallow artificial seawater while drones searched for them.
• Lin Yu explained that the cruise ship, its monsters, and its obstacles were part of the reality show Ghost Ship, filmed in a modular Film Studio.
• Lin Yu and Li Nian reached the screen separating the set from the outside, and Lin Yu removed it to reveal a lit corridor.

Lin Yu and Li Nian discovered that the abandoned cruise ship and studio belonged to a decades-old production crew that had vanished from its world. Lin Yu realized they were still trapped inside the Gray Domain, and that Li Nian’s soul was incomplete.

• Lin Yu and Li Nian left the artificial sea and discussed keeping the treasury materials and demanding compensation from the production team.
• Lin Yu and Li Nian entered the empty main control room and found evidence that the crew had disappeared in the middle of their work.
• Lin Yu identified the cruise ship as a ghost-themed program and inferred that its crew and NPCs had vanished along with the production team.
• Lin Yu dated the program to decades earlier after finding a newspaper about Nightless Sky Yong Shang’s memorial service.
• Lin Yu explained that the crew had been severed from their world after violating a taboo and led Li Nian through an emergency exit into nothingness.
• Lin Yu realized that the Central Mechanism had deceived them and that they were still inside the Gray Domain, while Li Nian’s soul remained incomplete.

Lin Yu and Li Nian realized they were still trapped in the Gray Domain, and Lin Yu tried to understand why his escape plan had failed. Their discussion of the Ancient Notebook was interrupted when Zhu Ming arrived in the central control room.

• Li Nian recognized that her memories of returning home were false and that they were still in the Gray Domain.
• Lin Yu reasoned that the Central Mechanism might have deceived the consciousness he uploaded, leaving them trapped, and warned Li Nian that jumping out could kill him and damage her other soul fragment.
• Lin Yu explained that the Ancient Notebook held the Materialization Authority and might connect the Gray Domain to an abandoned experimental site in the City That Never Sleeps.
• Li Nian said she could use her Item again and suggested trying the Ancient Notebook, but Lin Yu doubted her ability to use it.
• Zhu Ming entered the central control room and warned that the Central Mechanism might have left Lin Yu and Li Nian behind to obtain the Ancient Notebook.

Lin Yu recognized the woman in the control room as the resurrected Xia Yue, who had inherited his memories and arranged an escape through the identity of Zhu Ming. She revealed that she planned to leave him trapped in the Film Studio for centuries, consumed by loneliness and despair.

• Lin Yu stopped Li Nian from approaching the apparent Zhu Ming and concluded that the woman was Xia Yue, not Zhu Ming.
• Lin Yu persuaded Li Nian that Xia Yue was real, and Xia Yue asked to speak privately with him.
• Xia Yue explained that the Gray Domain had filled her memories with Lin Yu’s, including everything he had experienced while using her identity.
• Xia Yue revealed that she had made a deal with the Gray Domain’s Central Mechanism to leave as Zhu Ming and continue as a Player.
• Xia Yue told Lin Yu she intended to leave him trapped in the Film Studio until his consciousness wore away.

Lin Yu confronted Xia Yue about her plan to kill Li Nian and claim the Ancient Notebook, then used the chaotic Small World and Tongue of Deception to send Li Nian away. He exposed the apparent Xia Yue as another version of himself who had been trying to make his Central Mechanism-serving self dominant.

• Xia Yue explained that the Gray Domain had preserved her shattered soul and revealed she planned to erase Li Nian so the Ancient Notebook would return to the Gray Domain.
• Lin Yu reasoned that the Small World's chaotic rules might let him construct a setting for the Death game's final exam.
• Xia Yue recognized Lin Yu's plan to use Zhu Qiansi and tried to interfere, but Lin Yu revealed that Li Nian had already left through the Karma Threads.
• Lin Yu used the Repaired Mist Pocket Watch and Tongue of Deception to make his claim that Li Nian would return to the real world come true.
• Lin Yu accused the apparent Xia Yue of being another version of himself who wanted his Central Mechanism-serving self to become dominant, then exposed her act.