Recaps

Lin Yu, Fu Luo, and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot were surrounded by nine hundred corpse puppets, including one made from Captain Gao Shan’s body, which challenged Lin Yu about his investigation of Sherlock. Lin Yu used his Mental Power with Old Zheng’s support and declared the puppets his, hoping the hidden mastermind would believe he could seize control of them.

• Nearly nine hundred lifelike corpse puppets emerged from the ground and surrounded Lin Yu, Fu Luo, and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot.
• A puppet made from Captain Gao Shan’s corpse spoke with his voice and argued with Fu Luo about whether it had inherited Gao Shan’s will.
• The Gao Shan puppet questioned Lin Yu about why he was investigating Sherlock, then threatened to turn him into another puppet.
• Lin Yu released his Mental Power and asked Old Zheng to amplify it, while Old Zheng explained that the puppets used artificial mechanical consciousness rather than souls.
• Lin Yu declared that the puppets belonged to him, and Belief arrived as his words took effect.

Lin Yu used the Fraudster’s power to seize control of ninety-two corpse puppets, but Captain Gao Shan’s corpse revealed that the puppets could use abilities and Items from their former lives. As hundreds of corpses prepared to attack, Lin Yu and his companions faced a renewed threat and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot accepted the possibility of dying beside them.

• Lin Yu realized the mastermind had believed his cover story, confirming that the mastermind did not know his connection to Arthur, and he used the resulting belief to strengthen his Mental Power.
• Lin Yu took control of ninety-two corpses, planted Mental Power Seeds in them, and arranged them to protect his group.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot offered to borrow the captured corpses and joked that she would marry Lin Yu; Lin Yu introduced her to Fu Luo as the second young lady of the Nightless Sky Family.
• The monster in Captain Gao Shan’s corpse produced his [Item], revealing that corpse puppets could wield abilities they had possessed in life.
• More than three hundred corpses released substantial Living Alchemy Energy while Player corpses picked up their [Items], and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and her lieutenant prepared to fight to the death.

Nightless Sky Fire Apricot revealed a powerful alchemical technique that crystallized the corpses attacking her and Lin Yu. After freezing nearly a hundred of them, she called the raccoon lieutenant and charged into the horde.

• A corpse attacked Lin Yu, and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot stepped in front of her to block the corpses’ first wave of strikes with her armored forearms.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot counterattacked with reinforced fists, knocking corpses down and spreading Stone Transformation through them.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot used life force to fuel her modified Stone Transformation, crystallizing corpses and immobilizing nearly a hundred of the first attackers.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot called the raccoon lieutenant, who leaped onto her shoulder, and charged into the center of the corpse horde.

Nightless Sky Fire Apricot used Stone Transformation to crystallize hundreds of corpses, but her abilities and body became overloaded as the corpses adapted. She withdrew to Lin Yu's side and left the remaining fight to him, and Lin Yu began activating the corpses under his control.

• Lin Yu observed that Nightless Sky Fire Apricot's modifications and combat ability made her far stronger than an ordinary fighter, while her Stone Transformation rapidly crystallized the corpses.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot used several speed-boosting Alchemies to attack scattered enemies as the captain collected their Items and Alchemical Creations.
• The corpses used weaker fighters to wear Nightless Sky Fire Apricot down, and a Great Wilderness Warrior's hammer opened a gap in her defense before other experts joined the attack.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot retreated to Lin Yu, claiming that her body and Alchemical systems were overloaded and that she could no longer fight.
• Lin Yu recognized that Nightless Sky Fire Apricot was exaggerating her condition and agreed to take over, then called to Old Zheng as the corpses under his control began to mutate.

Lin Yu’s mutated corpses were overwhelmed by a larger force of undead puppets, but he turned the battle around with Meme Cat and summoned allies. He reached Gao Shan’s corpse and challenged the hidden controller to reveal another move.

• Lin Yu watched his mutated corpses fall as the undead puppets closed in, while Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and Fu Luo questioned whether they should retreat.
• When undead puppets broke through the defensive line and attacked him, Lin Yu used Mind Matter threads and the Dragon Bone Sword Staff to knock several down.
• Lin Yu activated Meme Cat, contaminating the puppets’ perceptions, then summoned Serpentkin and the Shadow of the Void God's Attendant to attack them.
• Lin Yu’s allies and remaining mutated corpses drove the undead puppets back, and he advanced toward Gao Shan’s corpse.
• Lin Yu reached Gao Shan’s corpse and taunted the hidden controller, declaring that the ambush was not enough to defeat him.

Lin Yu crushed the mastermind’s ambush and confronted him through Captain Gao Shan’s corpse, while keeping his identity as “Arthur” separate from “Director.” The mastermind claimed the battle was only a minor move in a larger game, and a distant explosion left the true outcome unresolved.

• Lin Yu defeated Captain Gao Shan’s puppet and restrained it with threads of Mind Matter as his controlled corpses overwhelmed the other living-dead puppets.
• The mastermind took control of Gao Shan’s corpse and admitted the ambush had failed, revealing that its intended target had been “Director.”
• Lin Yu and the mastermind discussed Lin Yu’s abilities and his connection to Freud, while Lin Yu let the mastermind believe that “Arthur” was “Schreiber.”
• Lin Yu suggested he had the upper hand, but the mastermind argued that their clash was only one point in a larger game.
• An explosion sounded in the distance as the mastermind said that the key to victory lay elsewhere.

Lin Yu and his companions realized the mastermind had lured them away to attack Nightless Sky Huo Ming, then rushed back to the checkpoint despite the risk of being framed. They arrived to find the checkpoint devastated by an explosion, with its defenders and workers suffering catastrophic casualties.

• The mastermind shut down the remaining corpse puppets as a massive explosion erupted in the direction of the checkpoint where Nightless Sky Huo Ming was stationed.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot, Fu Luo, and Old Zheng feared Huo Ming had been killed, while Old Zheng warned that the mastermind might frame Lin Yu and his companions for the attack.
• Lin Yu decided they had to return quickly, reasoning that they were likely already under suspicion and might still be able to save survivors.
• Lin Yu hurried back to the checkpoint and sensed that the explosion had come from active energy produced by an alchemical formula within the Barren Realm.
• Lin Yu and his companions found the checkpoint reduced to rubble, with burning ruins, widespread casualties, and survivors struggling to stay alive.

After the outpost explosion, Lin Yu searched for Nightless Sky Huo Ming and discovered her hidden inside a powerful lifesaving cocoon beneath the rubble. As he prepared to force it open, the cocoon opened on its own, revealing Huo Ming alive but wary of her rescuers.

• Lin Yu told Fu Luo that he intended to expose the mastermind hiding within Order, while Fu Luo believed the mastermind had mistaken Lin Yu for Schreiber.
• Lin Yu and Old Zheng scanned the ruined outpost for Nightless Sky Huo Ming but found no trace of her.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot sensed an unusual alchemical fluctuation beneath the rubble and led Lin Yu to a concealed white cocoon.
• Lin Yu cleared the rubble and planned to use his Fear Torch to destroy the cocoon after Nightless Sky Fire Apricot could not explain how to open it.
• The cocoon cracked open before Lin Yu could bring the torch near, and Nightless Sky Huo Ming emerged, asking whether they had come to help or finish her off.

After surviving the explosion, Nightless Sky Huo Ming learned that Nightless Sky Fire Apricot was the Fairy Queen and joined Lin Yu’s investigation of the ambush. The group decided to leave the ruined base before the Universal Chamber of Commerce arrived, and Dongming Shuliu emerged alive from the rubble.

• Nightless Sky Huo Ming recovered enough to stand and confirmed that Lin Yu, Fu Luo, and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot had not been at the base during the explosion.
• Lin Yu explained that he and Fu Luo had been ambushed while investigating the Fear project, and that the attackers intended to frame them for Huo Ming’s death.
• Lin Yu revealed that Nightless Sky Fire Apricot was the Fairy Queen, shocking Huo Ming; Fire Apricot admitted that she had built her influence in the Outer City.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot apologized for drawing Huo Ming into the ambush, but Huo Ming accepted her as a capable partner and offered to work with her.
• Huo Ming decided that the group should leave before the Universal Chamber of Commerce’s forces arrived, then called out for Dongming Shuliu.
• Dongming Shuliu crawled out from beneath the ruins, bloodied but alive.

After the outpost explosion, Lin Yu, Nightless Sky Huo Ming, and their companions traveled on foot through the Great Wilderness toward a Truth Company outpost while fearing pursuit and further attacks. A sandstorm worsened their journey, and Nightless Sky Huo Ming warned that they had little chance of defeating the Universal Trade Association’s pursuers without equipment.

• Nightless Sky Huo Ming left her wounded subordinates at the destroyed outpost and promised to negotiate with the Universal Trade Association and seek revenge.
• Dongming Shuliu identified their location as Area F9 by feeling the soil and estimated that they needed to walk six hours to reach the Fourth Detachment’s territory.
• Nightless Sky Huo Ming and Lin Yu said they would hold the Universal Trade Association and the hidden attacker responsible for the explosion.
• After about an hour, a severe sandstorm reduced visibility to roughly five meters and made tracking the group more difficult.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot offered to fight anyone who stopped them, while Nightless Sky Huo Ming warned that their odds against fully equipped pursuers were poor even with Lin Yu’s help.

Lin Yu’s group avoided their pursuers by crossing the Great Wilderness in a sandstorm, and Dongming Shuliu led them through a poorly guarded processing plant. As they entered, Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and Lin Yu sensed an active Alchemical Creation nearby and identified its bearer as a woman with a blade.

• Nightless Sky Huo Ming led the group through the sandstorm, while Lin Yu used [Chat's Supplies] to provide food and water.
• Lin Yu described the Fear Supply Pack’s cost and potential, and Nightless Sky Huo Ming said the project’s promise explained why someone might target her.
• Dongming Shuliu guided the group into Area F8 and proposed cutting through a former Universal Trade Association processing plant to avoid pursuers and find vehicles.
• Nightless Sky Huo Ming approved the route, and the group slipped past the plant’s inattentive guards.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot sensed a powerful active Alchemical Creation nearby, and Lin Yu identified its bearer as a woman carrying a blade.

Lin Yu and his companions encountered Qiu Xinli, a powerful Divine Power Group executive and Autumn Family heir wielding half of the inherited Divine Artifact White Bone View. She had come to kill them and erase all evidence, and the chapter ended with Lin Yu wondering why she had not yet attacked.

• Lin Yu sensed a hostile blade-wielding woman approaching through the sandstorm, and the storm abruptly stopped as she appeared.
• Qiu Xinli introduced herself and admitted she intended to kill Nightless Sky Huo Ming and destroy the witnesses and evidence.
• Lin Yu learned from Nightless Sky Fire Apricot that Qiu Xinli had undergone extensive Alchemical Modification Surgery and wielded half of the Autumn Family's Divine Artifact, White Bone View.
• Lin Yu realized Qiu Xinli had also stopped the security personnel's breathing and heartbeats, and wondered what she was waiting for.

Qiu Xinli revealed that she was waiting for a timed signal before attacking Lin Yu and the others. The third explosion arrived in the form of the Divine Power Group’s Sky King, whose Life Energy bombardment created a twisted wasteland to erase the evidence, just as Qiu Xinli launched her first strike.

• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot asked Qiu Xinli why she was delaying, and Qiu Xinli explained that she was waiting for a signal to kill them at the right time.
• Qiu Xinli said the signal would consist of three explosions, and Lin Yu realized that the first two had destroyed the vehicles and stronghold used by their group.
• Lin Yu suspected that the third explosion would come from an aerial combat unit, and Nightless Sky Huo Ming identified the KS-001, nicknamed the Sky King.
• The Sky King appeared above the group and bombarded the ground with Life Energy, causing grotesque plants and animal remains to grow across the wasteland.
• Nightless Sky Huo Ming realized the attack would create an alchemical forbidden zone to destroy the evidence, and Qiu Xinli confirmed that they would be buried there.
• Qiu Xinli attacked Lin Yu with a sudden slash.

Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot fought Qiu Xinli amid the twisted battlefield, and Lin Yu unleashed a sandstorm with Black Swan's Blood. Qiu Xinli survived the calamity, but a raccoon bit her toe and briefly stunned her as the fight continued.

• Lin Yu blocked Qiu Xinli's opening slash while Nightless Sky Fire Apricot joined the fight and dodged Qiu Xinli's blood claw.
• Qiu Xinli used a rapid flashing movement to attack Lin Yu, who deduced that the battlefield suited her abilities and questioned her commission.
• Lin Yu and Qiu Xinli clashed at close range until Nightless Sky Fire Apricot struck Qiu Xinli's head with a wrench, giving Lin Yu time to unleash Black Swan's Blood and summon a powerful sandstorm.
• Qiu Xinli activated the sand and stones to shield herself, then prepared to attack Lin Yu again.
• A raccoon bit Qiu Xinli's reinforced toe and fled behind Nightless Sky Fire Apricot, who answered Qiu Xinli's threat with a cheerful remark.

Qiu Xinli relied on her overwhelming compatibility with Alchemical Creations and the power of White Bone View to corner and drain Lin Yu. Just as she moved in to kill him, Nightless Sky Fire Apricot stopped her blade, and Lin Yu revealed that Fire Apricot was their strongest fighter.

• Qiu Xinli recalled how the Autumn Family had hidden her ability to merge completely with White Bone View and cultivated her as its Blade Holder.
• Qiu Xinli trapped Lin Yu with twisted vegetation and flesh, then used White Bone View to drain his life force and disrupt Butterfly Wing.
• Qiu Xinli pursued the weakened Lin Yu and raised White Bone View to finish him.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot blocked Qiu Xinli's blade with two fingers and said she could no longer sit back while Qiu Xinli attacked her friend.
• Lin Yu told Qiu Xinli that Nightless Sky Fire Apricot was the strongest among them.

Lin Yu tested Nightless Sky Fire Apricot’s loyalty by allowing Qiu Xinli to wound him, and she revealed her strength to save him. Qiu Xinli withdrew when Nightless Sky Fire Apricot summoned a massive, raccoon-lifted giant, whose connection to the Nightless Sky Family remained unknown.

• Lin Yu let Qiu Xinli’s vitality-draining attacks strike him to test Nightless Sky Fire Apricot, who intervened and proved she would not leave him in danger.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot resisted Qiu Xinli’s attacks, fought back, and revealed that she could survive severe injuries as though she were a corpse.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot called for reinforcements, and a giant female figure rose from beneath the sand, carried by more than a dozen raccoons.
• Qiu Xinli cleared the sandstorm and escaped into the Sky King fortress on steel cables as the giant’s presence threatened her.
• Lin Yu recovered from his feigned weakness, while Nightless Sky Huo Ming confirmed that the giant had no connection to the Nightless Sky Family.

After Qiu Xinli withdrew, Nightless Sky Fire Apricot led the group away and worried that her hidden strength would be exposed. The group discussed the risks and teased one another about marriage, leaving Nightless Sky Fire Ming exasperated by Nightless Sky Fire Apricot’s proposal to marry her.

• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot asked Nightless Sky Fire Ming to keep her strength secret from Mother, then revealed that she knew Nightless Sky Fire Ming was preparing a Hand of Alchemy ritual.
• Dongming Shuliu warned that Qiu Xinli could report Nightless Sky Fire Apricot’s concealed strength, while Lin Yu suggested the Autumn Family might conceal the news from the Mercury Family.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot accused Lin Yu of hiding his strength, and the group joked that Lin Yu and Fu Luo might become brothers-in-law.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot proposed marrying Lin Yu and offering him a raccoon, but Lin Yu refused.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot asked Nightless Sky Fire Ming to marry her instead, prompting Nightless Sky Fire Ming to rebuke her.

After returning to Truth Company's stronghold, Lin Yu refused Nightless Sky Huo Ming's offers of protection and secretly set out alone to pursue a crucial lead. He headed toward the Divine Power Group's aerial fortress, the KS-001, where Qiu Xinli was.

• Nightless Sky Huo Ming offered Lin Yu the choice of waiting at the stronghold or returning to the City That Never Sleeps under escort.
• Lin Yu asked Nightless Sky Huo Ming to help him leave secretly so he could investigate alone, and she let him go.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot assured Nightless Sky Huo Ming that Lin Yu could survive even against a joint hunt by the three companies.
• Lin Yu released Old Zheng and followed his directions toward the KS-001, the Divine Power Group's aerial fortress where Qiu Xinli was.

After her failed assassination attempt, Qiu Xinli reviewed her mistakes, spoke with Qiu Xinliu, and ordered the Sky King to intensify its search for the target. The chapter ended with Lin Yu disguising himself as an unconscious intern inside the Sky King and dismissing Divine Power Group’s top security as unimpressive.

• Qiu Xinli recovered in her repair pod and concluded that she had underestimated Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and made tactical mistakes during the battle.
• Qiu Xinli told Qiu Xinliu that she could not attack again in the Great Wilderness without risking a war, and he reminded her that their main target was the mysterious person connected to Sherlock.
• Qiu Xinliu said he would use what Qiu Xinli had uncovered in negotiations and urged her to stay in peak condition.
• Qiu Xinli ordered KS-001 to maximize its scanning power and search for the uploaded individuals’ Life Energy traces.
• Lin Yu hid an unconscious intern in the intern’s locker, put on the intern’s clothes, and walked through the Sky King, remarking that Divine Power Group’s highest-level security was nothing special.

Lin Yu infiltrated the KS-001 airborne hub by impersonating George Ander and used the [Cyber Ghost's Electronic Coffin] to connect a hacker to the Sky King's systems. The hacker seized control and triggered panic with false warnings, while Lin Yu tried to keep the chaos from causing a real disaster.

• Lin Yu used George's memories and belongings to pose convincingly as the intern and followed Tark to their workstations.
• Lin Yu learned that their project group worked on the Sky King's air-to-air weapon system inside the KS-001 hub.
• Lin Yu fed George's personal storage terminal into the [Cyber Ghost's Electronic Coffin], giving it an interface to connect with the hub's equipment network.
• Lin Yu contacted the hacker through the terminal and asked it to disable surveillance and access controls and create chaos.
• The hacker took over the hub's main control and triggered false alarms claiming the security, power, and central control systems had failed, causing widespread panic.
• The hacker assured Lin Yu the hub was still flying safely and offered to fire weapons at ground outposts to spread the chaos.

Lin Yu used the [Cyber Ghost's Electronic Coffin] to exploit chaos aboard the Sky King and reach Qiu Xinli's level. After rejecting a route that bypassed her guards, he plunged the area into darkness and prepared to confront them head-on.

• The [Cyber Ghost's Electronic Coffin] took control of the Sky King's systems, while Lin Yu slipped into a wall and asked it to locate Qiu Xinli.
• Lin Yu followed the route through the Alchemy Gas Transport Pipeline Well and VIP Elevator Shaft to Qiu Xinli's level.
• Shen Bingmiao reported that six squads and an eleven-person maintenance team guarded Qiu Xinli's Exclusive Repair Pod Room.
• Lin Yu refused to sneak past the guards and ordered the [Cyber Ghost's Electronic Coffin] to shut off the area's lights.
• The elite guards organized in the darkness as Lin Yu spread his Mental Power across the area.

Qiu Xinli’s restoration was interrupted when an unseen intruder infiltrated the Sky King and silently cut off her guards. She prepared to fight with two Divine Artifacts, but a flickering mosaic spread across the floor and knocked her unconscious.

• Qiu Xinli learned that the KS-001 hub’s central control had been hacked, but her guards reported no physical intrusion or immediate danger.
• The Snow, Thunder, and Frost squads successively lost contact, prompting Qiu Xinli to gather the remaining guards and prepare for an attacker stronger than herself.
• After the guards outside fell silent, Qiu Xinli stopped her restoration, charged her Alchemy components, and took up the White Bone View and Impure View.
• Qiu Xinli sensed one attacker at the chamber entrance, but mosaic-like patterns appeared beneath her feet and made her lose consciousness.

Lin Yu infiltrated the Sky King, put Qiu Xinli to sleep, and searched her memories for information about the Autumn Family’s mysterious partner. He returned to the City That Never Sleeps with Qiu Xinli’s Divine Artifact, the White Bone View, and found that Nightless Sky Yong Lian had been watching him.

• Lin Yu used his abilities to incapacitate Qiu Xinli and searched her dreams for details about the Autumn Family’s cooperation with an Otherworlder.
• Lin Yu learned that the Otherworlder had promised to help the Autumn Family contend for the position of Chosen of Life, then prepared to retreat and misdirect the family’s investigation.
• Shen Bingmiao stirred up chaos across the wilderness with the Sky King, allowing Lin Yu to return safely to the City That Never Sleeps.
• Fu Luo confronted Lin Yu about the Sky King incident, and Lin Yu admitted he had obtained information from Qiu Xinli and taken her White Bone View.
• Lin Yu revealed that Nightless Sky Yong Lian was in the residence, and she teased him for noticing her presence.

Lin Yu met Nightless Sky Yong Lian in the Barren Realm, where she transformed the stolen White Bone View into a reward he could take through the Game. After returning to Shenzhen with Fu Luo, Lin Yu rejoined Good Night and learned that Dionysus had detected an Authority-bearing item and warned them that Marauders might be nearby.

• Nightless Sky Yong Lian explained the risks of the Autumn Family discovering the stolen Divine Artifact and said its loss could intensify the struggle over the next Chosen of Life.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian reforged the White Bone View into White Bone Flowing Light, making it her work so Lin Yu could take it as a reward.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian recognized that Lin Yu had used her forged item to restrain Qiu Xinli and identified the Authority of Rules within it.
• Lin Yu left the Barren Realm with Fu Luo and returned to Shenzhen, then put Fu Luo in the Ancient Notebook because his existence had been erased in reality.
• Lin Yu told Good Night he had found Captain Gao Shan's scene of death, and Dionysus urged them to leave because Marauders might be nearby.
• Dionysus recognized that Lin Yu possessed an Authority-related item and said she had gained one herself in the Nether Void Realm.

Lin Yu met with the Professor and the Secretary to discuss his role as deputy commander for the Player Mutual Aid Society election. The Professor revealed that the Order had a covert task for him: preventing one of the three leading candidates from becoming president.

• Yin Lan escorted Lin Yu safely back to the hotel while Good Night waited behind.
• Yin Lan brought Lin Yu to meet the Professor, and the Secretary joined their conversation by video call.
• The Professor assured Lin Yu that the Order trusted him to help keep the election orderly.
• The Professor told Lin Yu that the Order planned to secretly interfere in the election, not to support a candidate but to stop one leading candidate from becoming president.