Recaps

Qianhuan watched Fluoxetine and Bandura join the battle against Xia Jin’s forces, then saw White Sand and Zuo Xi enter the fray. He realized the [Instance] held far more powerful Players than he had expected and prepared to intervene as the Demon Race’s advantage came under pressure.

• Qianhuan used Teacher Rabbit’s mirror to discover that Fluoxetine and Bandura were fighting Xia Jin’s Witch Soldiers.
• Qianhuan decided he could cooperate with Fluoxetine and Bandura, but planned to warn the Director and conceal his whereabouts if they found him.
• White Sand attacked Bandura, and Fluoxetine fired at White Sand before he corrected her that he was a tiger, not a bear.
• Qianhuan judged that Fluoxetine and Bandura could handle White Sand, but then noticed Zuo Xi’s ink stains creeping toward Bandura.
• Qianhuan told Teacher Rabbit to switch positions as he realized Zuo Xi’s arrival would put more pressure on the Demon Race.

The battle outside the Wolf Tribe Sacred Land spiraled into chaos as the wolf, Witch, and Spirit Tribes joined the Players’ clash. Zhu Ming appeared as a Projection, revealed that she had helped create the earlier Beast Tide, and warned the Players to retreat before a stampede arrived.

• The wolf tribe's leader transformed into a giant wolf while the Witch Priest summoned an eagle-headed Totem Giant.
• Ten Spirit Tribe shamans attacked both the Witch Priest and the wolf tribe, intensifying the melee.
• White Sand, Bandura, Qianhuan, Fluoxetine, and Zuo Xi discussed the uncontrolled battle while continuing to fight.
• Zhu Ming appeared above the battlefield, and Fluoxetine recognized her as a Projection.
• Zhu Ming said she had created the earlier Beast Tide and told the Players to retreat before vanishing.
• More than a thousand ferocious beasts charged from the forest toward the battlefield.

The five Players inferred that Zhu Ming’s appearance came from Lin Yu’s hidden Film Emperor Professional Item, and Lin Yu emerged to confirm its abilities and warn them against attacking or imprisoning him. As the Beast Tide struck the natives’ formation, Lin Yu vanished again after gaining a surge of Belief.

• The Xia Jin Witch Soldiers, wolf clan elites, and spirit clan shamans halted their fight and spread out to defend against the approaching Beast Tide.
• Qianhuan, Zuo Xi, Fluoxetine, Bandura, White Sand, and Pen Name connected Zhu Ming’s appearance to Lin Yu’s abilities and guessed that his Professional Item could summon projections or borrow Items.
• Lin Yu emerged from the shadows, and Fluoxetine and Pen Name stopped White Sand from attacking him.
• Lin Yu revealed that his [Guest Appearance Invitation] let him borrow Items or summon projections with consent in exchange for acting fees, subject to specific conditions.
• Lin Yu warned White Sand, Pen Name, Fluoxetine, and Bandura that he could summon a far stronger Player if they tried to kill or imprison him, then gained Belief and vanished as the Beast Tide hit the formation.

Lin Yu used his control over more than a thousand Black Marsh beasts to drive the Tier 3 Players away, then turned their belief in his fabricated identity into a real [Guest Appearance Invitation]. With his new trump card secured, he began the next stage of his plan near the Xiajin Human Race’s Central Army Tent.

• Lin Yu vanished as the Beast Tide charged, and White Sand, Qianhuan, Zuo Xi, and the Psychology Society members retreated in different directions.
• Lin Yu returned to his Anchor Point and explained that he had used Old Zheng’s help to hypnotize and control the beasts, suppressing the instincts of the strongest ones with illusions.
• Lin Yu used stored belief to make the [Guest Appearance Invitation] real, then permanently fixed it with [Gossip Can Melt Gold].
• Lin Yu teleported to the shadow of the Kuiwen Hundred Tribulations Refining King Tower beside the Xiajin Human Race’s Central Army Tent.
• The Cloth-clothed Woman appeared beside Lin Yu and spread pale spider silk around the tent while the shamans listened to battle reports.

Lin Yu used Zhu Qiansi’s Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord powers to create a Karma Illusion and inspect a meeting in Xia Jin, where he learned the purpose of the Giant Tower and how the shamans reached the Three Mounds. The illusion collapsed after Lu Gu noticed Lin Yu.

• Xia Jin’s shamans debated the repeated Beast Tide and suspected it was being deliberately manipulated.
• Lin Yu activated Karma Threads through Zhu Qiansi, who briefly reclaimed her main body’s powers and trapped the shamans in a Karma Illusion.
• Lin Yu entered the memory of a meeting at Great Shaman Lu Gu’s residence and observed Lu Gu, Chu Ju, Chun Cang, and the other shamans.
• Lin Yu read the bamboo books held by four affected shamans and memorized the invasion assignments and answers about the Giant Tower and the shamans’ arrival in the Three Mounds.
• A shaman asked Lu Gu whether the meeting was an illusion, and Lu Gu noticed Lin Yu before the Karma Illusion collapsed.

Lin Yu escaped after his illusion exposed him to the High Shamans and returned to Stiller with intelligence about Lu Gu’s plans. He learned that Lu Gu sought the Path to Godhood and had secretly found a way to move Xiajin’s army through the Gale Wind above the Black Marsh World.

• Lin Yu shattered the Karma Illusion, alerted the High Shamans to the webs around their tent, and fled with [Shady Corner].
• Lin Yu used the [Mind-State Teleportation Gun] to return to Stiller and told her he had obtained crucial intelligence.
• Lin Yu learned that Lu Gu planned to use the Kuiwen Hundred Tribulations Refining King Tower to gather spiritual energy and open the Path to Godhood.
• Lin Yu realized that Lu Gu’s army had not crossed Sanqiu by waterways or underground routes, but by flying through the supposedly forbidden Gale Wind.
• Lin Yu learned that Lu Gu had tamed the Gale Wind three years earlier.

Lu Gu’s unconventional path through witchcraft led him to create the Wind Vein, a new system for controlling wind. After an outsider exposed his secret and a Beast Tide destroyed his Vein Eye, Lu Gu decided to go to the northern front himself rather than send reinforcements.

• Lu Gu’s limited first teacher inspired him to question traditional witchcraft, and he taught himself the Jie Zi Department’s Ancestral Spirit Witchcraft before becoming a High Shaman of the Zhi Zi Department.
• Doubting Sutu’s claim that witchcraft had reached its limits, Lu Gu forged the Kuiwen Hundred Tribulations Refining King Tower and later devised a way to control wind.
• In the royal capital, Lu Gu demonstrated the Wind Vein when his disciple reported that a Beast Tide had destroyed the Vein Eye near the Wolf Tribe Sacred Land.
• Lu Gu said the Beast Tide and the Vein Eye’s fall were deliberate, and that an outsider had spied on him with power from beyond this world.
• Lu Gu refused to send reinforcements and said he would go to the northern front himself to investigate.

After seizing the Vein Eye, Lin Yu realized Lu Gu might send powerful reinforcements and hurried to prepare for the next stage of his plan. He handed control of his body to Old Zheng so he could study while it ran to the designated location.

• Lin Yu explained that the Vein Eye was the only route for descending from the Gale Wind’s wind veins and understood that taking it would draw the human race’s attention.
• Lin Yu ordered the Half-Demons to reach the Beast Tide before nightfall and climb onto nearby large beasts if they noticed anything unusual in the sky.
• Lin Yu told Stiller to carry out the next step of the plan early, then jumped off the scaled beast and headed for the designated location himself.
• Lin Yu equipped his speed-enhancing items, ate a meat pie, and fixed Old Zheng on his head.
• Lin Yu gave Old Zheng control of his body and took out his student ID so he could study.

Old Zheng ran toward the Wolf Tribe Sacred Land while Lin Yu studied through their Mental Power network. The Great Shaman Lu Gu arrived and ordered his forces to seize the Sacred Land, leaving Old Zheng to warn Lin Yu that Lu Gu was there.

• Old Zheng reflected on Lin Yu’s potential and why he had founded the Psychology Society as he ran with Lin Yu’s body.
• Lin Yu warned Old Zheng through Mental Power when the network revealed the Half-Demons and beasts near the Wolf Tribe Sacred Land.
• Lu Gu appeared in the sky amid golden winds, and the Witch Soldiers knelt to beg forgiveness.
• The Demon Race and Spirit Race feared that Lu Gu’s arrival meant war, while Qianhuan recognized the Wolf Tribe Sacred Land was doomed.
• Lu Gu ordered his forces to take the Sacred Land quickly, then left before acting himself.
• Old Zheng realized he had reached Lin Yu’s planned destination and warned him to hurry because Lu Gu had arrived.

Old Zheng, controlling Lin Yu’s body, lured Lu Gu to a wind-vein Vein Eye and tried to delay him, but Lu Gu began summoning an ancestral spirit. Old Zheng redirected his Mind Manifestation Instrument needles toward the forming phantom, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Old Zheng used an explosion at a Vein Eye to draw Lu Gu out, following Lin Yu’s plan to stall him.
• Lu Gu arrived and said he had come specifically to deal with the two Outsiders for attacking his wind veins and Vein Eyes.
• Lu Gu summoned sixteen totem pillars and began using Ancestral Spirit Witchcraft to form a raptor-skulled giant.
• Old Zheng attacked with gray Mind Manifestation Instrument needles, then redirected them past Lu Gu and into the forming ancestral spirit.

Old Zheng tried to stop Lu Gu by breaking his Ancestral Spirit Witchcraft, but Lu Gu strengthened the ritual and overwhelmed him. Lin Yu took back control just in time to counter Lu Gu with the wind-vein technique, leaving Lu Gu astonished.

• Old Zheng shattered Lu Gu's first Ancestral Spirit phantom with Mind Matter needles, and Lu Gu acknowledged that Old Zheng could counter that technique.
• Lu Gu drew blood to empower the sixteen totem pillars and formed a stronger phantom protected by spiritual power that stalled Old Zheng's needles.
• Lu Gu fused the phantom with his body and struck at Lin Yu, while the blood-red light weakened and weighed down Lin Yu's body.
• Old Zheng surrendered control to Lin Yu just before Lu Gu's fist landed, and Lin Yu used the wind-vein technique to halt the attack.
• Lu Gu asked why Lin Yu knew his wind-vein technique, and Lin Yu replied that he had just learned it.

Lin Yu used his knowledge, the Mental Network, and the Sage's Emblem to master Wind Vein Technique and confront Lu Gu. Lu Gu stopped his attack, unable to kill Lin Yu until he learned how the stranger had acquired such skill.

• Lu Gu recognized Lin Yu's mastery of Wind Vein Technique but could not recall ever meeting him.
• Lin Yu explained how he analyzed the Wind-Catching Bone Talisman and the Wind-Stabilizing Feather Ring to learn wind-control witchcraft.
• Lin Yu drew on the Mental Network and his knowledge of witchcraft to master Wind Vein Technique in a short time.
• Lin Yu used the Sage's Emblem to convert his Mental Power and magical True Essence into spiritual power.
• Lin Yu stirred the Vein Eye into chaos, and Lu Gu halted his punch, unable to kill him before learning how he had mastered the technique.

Lin Yu used his mastery of the Wind Vein Technique to negotiate with Lu Gu and convinced the Great Shaman that he had learned it through observation and talent. Lu Gu’s belief strengthened Lin Yu’s abilities, filling in his witchcraft knowledge and leaving him with the skills of a true High Shaman.

• Lin Yu told Lu Gu that he had learned witchcraft from observing Seagull, Lu Gu’s disciple among the outsiders.
• Lu Gu questioned how Lin Yu could know the Wind Vein Technique when Seagull had never mastered it.
• Lin Yu explained that he had learned the technique by observing the active wind veins and Vein Eye.
• Lu Gu believed Lin Yu possessed exceptional witchcraft talent, and the belief empowered Lin Yu through the Sage’s Emblem and Fraudster’s ability.
• Lin Yu gained the basic knowledge of a High Shaman and sensed that he had also mastered the Zhi Zi Department’s Ancestral Spirit Witchcraft.

Lin Yu used his shamanic power and rare Authority-bearing items to persuade Lu Gu not to kill him and to consider cooperation. Lu Gu agreed to hear him out, and Lin Yu offered to share his insights into the Laws of Heaven and Earth.

• Lin Yu became a genuine shaman, but Lu Gu prepared to kill him because he saw the self-taught outsider as an uncontrolled threat to his Path to Godhood.
• Lin Yu invoked his Student ability and showed Lu Gu the Fragment of Fate and Black Swan's Blood, which carried the aura of Authority.
• Lu Gu's killing intent faded as he recognized the items' value to someone seeking the divine path.
• Lin Yu refused to give Lu Gu the items but offered to share his insights into natural Laws of Heaven and Earth if Lu Gu trusted him.
• Lu Gu sat down and asked whether Lin Yu could give away those insights, and Lin Yu brought out the Dream Casket.

Lin Yu negotiated with Lu Gu, offering insights into witchcraft and the possibility of Rakshasa blood to secure Lu Gu’s cooperation. He proposed that Half-Demons occupy territory in Xia Jin, giving Lu Gu an excuse to prolong and expand the war he needed to obtain the Authority of War.

• Lin Yu gave Lu Gu his insights into the Authority of Life, and Lu Gu admitted that they helped him.
• Lin Yu offered Lu Gu access to Rakshasa blood so he could further study the Blood Pool Refining King Tower, and Lu Gu asked what Lin Yu wanted in return.
• Lin Yu asked Lu Gu to take him as a master and proposed settling his beasts and Half-Demons near Xia Jin.
• Lu Gu objected that the Half-Demons would disrupt Xia Jin, but Lin Yu explained that their presence in a vacant character division would justify continuing the war.
• Lin Yu revealed that Lu Gu needed the Authority of War for his path to godhood and argued that the Half-Demons could help spread the conflict across Xia Jin and the Blood Country.
• Lu Gu acknowledged that Lin Yu’s proposal suited his plans and lamented that Lin Yu had not been born in Xia Jin.

After securing Lu Gu’s protection, Lin Yu used the Wind Vein Technique to fly freely and reached the Wolf Tribe Sacred Land. There, he saw the city’s defenses mostly breached and Qianhuan fighting on the front line with newfound ease.

• Lin Yu relied on his agreement with Lu Gu and his status as Lu Gu’s nominal disciple to feel safer as he prepared for the final phase of the mission.
• Lu Gu left through the wind veins to continue his work as Great Shaman and further inflame the war across the Black Marsh World.
• Lin Yu used the Wind Vein Technique and Butterfly Wings to fly through the sky, discovering that the combination let him move faster and briefly leave the fixed wind veins.
• Lin Yu flew to the sky near the Wolf Tribe Sacred Land and saw that the site had again fallen into fierce battle and was mostly breached.
• Lin Yu spotted Qianhuan holding the front line, fighting with greater confidence after adapting to the chaos of war.

Lin Yu surveyed the battlefields and observed the Players as the conflict escalated at the Fox Tribe Sacred Land, where Lu Gu faced two Demon Race experts. She tracked the Players’ behavior and estimated that several of them could complete the [Instance] around the same time if the major battles ended together.

• Lin Yu left the Wolf Tribe Sacred Land and observed White Sand and Bandura hiding together near Fengze while humans and the Northern Spirit Race remained in a probing standoff.
• Lin Yu found that the forces at the Snake Race and Hou Race Sacred Lands had withdrawn their feints and were repairing their defenses or supporting the Wolf Tribe Sacred Land siege.
• Lin Yu reached the Fox Tribe Sacred Land and saw Lu Gu confronting a seven-tailed fox and a nearly transformed dragon-like python as the surrounding battle intensified.
• Lin Yu observed Fluoxetine using a vacuum-cleaner-shaped [Item] near wounded fighters and discovered that Zuo Xi slept while automatically attacking approaching nonhumans and rapidly recovering from wounds.
• Lin Yu assessed the Players’ participation and concluded that the battles at the Fox Tribe Sacred Land, Wolf Tribe Sacred Land, and Fengze might end at roughly the same time.

Lin Yu coordinated the Beast Tide to synchronize the battles across Sanqiu and Xia Jin while the Half-Demons attacked Xia Jin’s divisions. As the Players weakened in the fighting, Lin Yu prepared a risky plan using the [Ancient Notebook] and [Limit Breaking Jade Cleaver].

• Lin Yu gathered the Beast Tide and sent it to influence the various battlefields, assigning Stiller and powerful beasts to aid the Half-Demons.
• The Spirit Race, Xia Jin’s rival factions, and the Half-Demons widened the war across Sanqiu and Xia Jin.
• Blood Country declared war on both nations, and Sanqiu and Xia Jin dispatched forces to their borders.
• Lin Yu observed Blood Country’s orderly advance and continued directing the Beast Tide to shape the battles.
• The fighting left the five other Players weakened, so Lin Yu located them with Mental Power and began his risky plan.
• Lin Yu pressed the [Limit Breaking Jade Cleaver] against the [Ancient Notebook] and cut a shallow mark into its cover.

Lin Yu used the Limit Breaking Jade Cleaver to breach the seal on the Ancient Notebook, awakening its Information Authority and unlocking enhanced abilities. He prepared to use its Scene Reconstruction function across his vast perception range, with his formidable will backing the effect.

• Lin Yu reasoned that the Limit Breaking Jade Cleaver could breach the Ancient Notebook's seal because the cleaver's Gray Domain rules took priority.
• The Ancient Notebook's description changed, revealing that it sealed a supreme Rule and could preserve information, reconstruct scenes, store living souls as Information Lifeforms, and create new ones.
• Lin Yu recognized that the notebook's newly awakened Authority could attract the attention of powerful beings, including Lu Gu and Nightless Sky Yong Lian.
• Lin Yu compared Scene Reconstruction with Zhu Qiansi's Karma Threads Illusion and noted that the notebook could use his own recorded information without contact or a time limit.
• Lin Yu realized that the notebook's activation range covered the northern territory of Sanqiu through his Mental Power network, while his will could overpower targets unable to resist.

Lin Yu used the [Ancient Notebook] and [Narrative Trick] to trap five players in an information scene, where Copper Furnace representatives approached them with an invitation. The chapter ended with Fluoxetine learning the organization’s name.

• Lin Yu distorted the five players’ perceptions, making them briefly believe they had cleared the game before the [Ancient Notebook] drew their consciousness into an information scene.
• Qianhuan recognized that he was in an illusion and concluded he could resist it by using a soul-bound ability or focusing on waking up.
• A young Projection of White Sand explained that the scene was a secure Projection of the Gray Domain, beyond the Death game’s surveillance.
• Bandura inferred that the Second Generation president had correctly suspected a player had made an agreement with the Gray Domain.
• A young Zuo Xi told Zuo Xi that her organization had invited all five players because they met its standards.
• Fluoxetine asked the young Fluoxetine for the organization’s name, and she revealed it was called Copper Furnace.

Lin Yu used the five Players’ belief in his explanation of the Gray Domain World Projection to transform the Memory Reenactment Scene into a genuine projection. The second stage began, while the Players remained uncertain about Copper Furnace’s aims.

• Fluoxetine learned about Copper Furnace but was told she would have to discover what joining meant later.
• Zuo Xi learned that Copper Furnace had stopped hiding because Order’s investigations were drawing closer, and the organization claimed it was still well concealed.
• Bandura declined to join Copper Furnace and offered to pass a cooperation proposal to the Psychology Society’s president or Board of Directors.
• White Sand and Qianhuan each met younger versions of themselves, who deferred any decision about joining; Qianhuan suspected Copper Furnace had ill intentions toward another Player in the instance.
• Lin Yu sensed the five Tier 3 Players’ beliefs and used his Fraudster ability to give the Memory Reenactment Scene the true characteristics of a Gray Domain World Projection.

Lin Yu used the five Tier 3 players’ belief to alter the memory scene and prevent them from leaving at will. The six trapped players gathered in the school corridor, realized they had all encountered child versions of themselves, and agreed to cooperate to escape.

• Lin Yu gained control over the reconstructed students and sent them to prepare a stage.
• White Sand discovered he could not leave the scene and chased his short-haired counterpart into the corridor.
• White Sand found the other five players trapped in the school building as well.
• Fluoxetine compared the players’ encounters and confirmed that they had all met childlike versions of themselves from the Copper Furnace.
• Bandura and Director urged the group to cooperate and escape the illusion realm.

The group searched the school together while wary of one another, and the Director explained that their prison might be a projection of a Gray Domain Small World with a way out. They found a blood-drawn eye symbol on a stairwell wall, confirming that the school held anomalies as they continued looking for clues.

• Qianhuan asked the Director about the Gray Domain, and the Director said the school might contain a door leading back to the Black Marsh World.
• The Director admitted that Copper Furnace might have followed him into the Instance, while Qianhuan said the crisis had forced them to cooperate with the Marauders and the Psychology Society.
• Fluoxetine found a recently drawn eye symbol made of blood on a stairwell wall as the group descended through the school.
• Bandura warned that the school was more than a trap, and Qianhuan said the anomalies could provide clues to escaping.

As the Players investigated blood-painted symbols in the teaching building, Bandura activated an item that revealed the Gray Domain contained godlike lifeforms connected to Authority. The group suspected their unseen opponent was not a Player, and Fluoxetine confirmed she had sensed an Authority aura before they entered.

• Pen Name found a fifth blood-painted eye symbol and wondered whether it was linked to summoning Demons or worshipping an Evil God.
• Fluoxetine suggested Lin Yu might know about the Gray Domain, but Lin Yu denied it and said he wanted to learn more himself.
• Fluoxetine told Bandura to use the Psychology Society's [External Group Mind], and Bandura activated it to obtain information.
• Bandura revealed that the Gray Domain had no gods but contained powerful lifeforms that coexisted with Authority and ruled some Small Worlds.
• Pen Name, White Sand, and Lin Yu suspected the person behind their predicament might not be a Player, while Fluoxetine said she had sensed an Authority aura before they entered.

After discovering that the students had vanished, the players followed White Sand’s sense of smell to a warehouse where a crude passage descended underground. The passage was silent, but White Sand confirmed that the students’ scents came from below.

• After leaving the teaching building, Bandura and the others discovered that all the students on campus had disappeared.
• White Sand used his sense of smell to trace the students as they gathered and headed underground.
• White Sand pointed the players toward a warehouse on the sports field, and Director urged them to investigate.
• Fluoxetine led the group to the warehouse, where they found a hole in the concrete floor and a passage dug downward.
• White Sand confirmed that the students’ strong scents came from the passage.