Recaps

Lin Yu accepted a covert mission from the Order to hinder Monica’s bid for president of the Player Mutual Aid Society, then learned he could enter a Trial that might let him become a God. Meanwhile, Old Zhou and the Comedian brought a seasick Qianhuan to Shenzhen, where God of Cookery welcomed them with food and a painfully cold pun.

• The Professor told Lin Yu that Monica must not become president, citing her suspected ties to the Marauders and the danger of her inheriting Benevolent King's power.
• Lin Yu agreed to secretly weaken Monica’s election advantage, asked whether the Order would tolerate indirect lethal consequences, and requested Paper Kite’s help.
• The Secretary told Lin Yu that his reward for defeating the Freedom Alliance was a place in the Trial Ground and asked whether he wanted to become a God.
• Old Zhou and the Comedian carried Qianhuan off the train in Shenzhen after he spent much of the journey vomiting.
• God of Cookery invited them home and promised a feast, and the Comedian joked that sunny weather meant there would be no fresh tomatoes, making everyone shudder.

The Secretary explained Order’s God Creation Project to Lin Yu, which aimed to help chosen Players master compatible Authorities before following the Death game’s usual advancement path. He revealed that Lin Yu’s Film Emperor profession suited him to the ownerless Authority of Drama, which was located in the Trial Ground and could be included in Lin Yu’s reward instance.

• The Secretary explained how Players could become gods by mastering Authorities and said the General had already become a god through the Authority of Strength.
• The Secretary described Order’s plan to match Players with compatible Authorities and prepare their abilities and items in advance.
• The Secretary said the God Creation Project’s core candidates could bypass the usual tiers and Heart Domain to master an Authority directly.
• Lin Yu asked why Order had chosen him, and the Secretary said his Unique Profession and Qimo helped identify compatible Authorities.
• The Secretary told Lin Yu that the Authority of Drama was ownerless, located in the Trial Ground, and could be included in Lin Yu’s reward instance.

The Secretary offered Lin Yu a dangerous chance to pursue the ownerless Drama Authority through Order’s God Creation Project, while the Professor explained its risks and his belief in Lin Yu’s potential. Lin Yu left without deciding, with a deadline of next week to answer.

• The Secretary told Lin Yu that the four previous God Creation Project participants had all failed, suffered severe soul damage, and eventually died, though none had died during the attempt.
• The Secretary estimated Lin Yu’s chance of success at over fifty percent and gave him until next week to decide whether to seek the Drama Authority.
• The Professor warned Lin Yu that possessing an Authority would invite danger from powerful beings, but said he hoped Lin Yu would participate and might even reach the realm of the gods.
• Lin Yu thanked the Professor, said he would think it over, and left to focus on the Player Mutual Aid Society election.
• Dionysus’s wariness toward Lin Yu eased after she heard the discussion, but she turned cold again when she encountered Good Night in the corridor.
• Good Night asked what the Professor and Secretary had told Lin Yu, and Lin Yu gave him a joking account that Good Night mistook for a secret.

Lin Yu reviewed messages across his identities and learned that several Freedom Alliance members had arrived in Shenzhen for the Player Mutual Aid Society election. He switched to Yayu’s identity to investigate the Marauders’ plans, where White Sand’s death had brought A'yu into the mission.

• Lin Yu learned that Tycoon had left Jiang City temporarily and planned to use him later to investigate the God Creation Project and clear his suspicions.
• Lin Yu read Li Nian’s account of Freud’s fight with Fang Qing and concluded that he needed to get Schreiber into the Psychology Society to learn more directly about its plans.
• Lin Yu discovered that Xiao Yun, Qianhuan, Old Zhou, and Comedian had arrived in Shenzhen to observe the election and the movements of Order and the Marauders.
• Lin Yu considered meeting the Freedom Alliance members while keeping Zhu Ming’s identity concealed.
• Lin Yu checked the Marauders’ chat as Yayu and learned that White Sand’s death had led the Diviner to assign A'yu to the vacant mission.

Lin Yu received A'yu's invitation to join the Marauders' important mission in Shenzhen and considered how to use Yayu's identity to gather information. After discovering that snacks gave him a powerful new buff, he told Good Night and Li Hua he planned to meet an informant alone to investigate the Marauders' plans.

• A'yu invited Yayu to join the Marauders' important mission in Shenzhen, and Lin Yu replied that she was available and asked what the mission involved.
• Lin Yu considered how Yayu could use her eagerness to gain merit to ask about the Marauders' operation without raising suspicion.
• Good Night returned with bags of snacks and beers, and he and Lin Yu sampled the food together.
• Lin Yu gained the thirty-day Pleasant Leisure buff, which greatly increased recovery and vitality when he felt happy.
• Li Hua asked whether the Hacker had given Lin Yu a mission, and Lin Yu said he had been told to act freely.
• Lin Yu told Good Night and Li Hua that he planned to go out alone for an hour to meet an informant and learn what the Marauders were planning.

Lin Yu recruited Good Night and Li Hua to cover his secret movements, then adopted Yayu’s identity to contact Chestnut about the Marauders’ operation in Shenzhen. Chestnut directed him to the temporary base and warned him that Order might recognize him, leaving Lin Yu with a way into the operation before A'yu had landed.

• Lin Yu convinced Good Night and Li Hua that an unnamed informant was helping him investigate the Marauders, and they agreed to conceal his movements.
• With Good Night’s cover, Lin Yu used [Shady Corner] and [Dust of Transformation] to leave the hotel and reach a night market as Yayu.
• Lin Yu contacted Chestnut, the Shenzhen Branch Director, and asked where he could wait for A'yu and the other operation participants.
• Chestnut sent Yayu the temporary base’s location and offered to arrange an escort.
• Chestnut warned Yayu that Order personnel might recognize him because they had seen him before and could have issued an internal wanted notice; Yayu replied that he would avoid them.

Lin Yu traveled to meet A'yu while using his Yayu identity to cultivate trust with the Marauders and his Director identity to strengthen his standing in Order. He concluded that the Marauders’ hidden plan and possible ties to Copper Furnace made the coming operation dangerous, but also offered a chance to uncover their objectives.

• Lin Yu refused Chestnut’s offer of a ride and told her he was taking the subway to meet A'yu.
• Lin Yu claimed Yayu had independently tracked Order’s movements, while privately relying on internal files in Order’s group chat and planning to feed the Marauders selective, partly fabricated intelligence.
• Chestnut sent Lin Yu the Marauders’ intelligence summary, and he judged that their surveillance had identified only some of Order’s temporary inspection teams.
• Lin Yu assessed how the Marauders’ unknown objective, Diviner’s presence, Grandmaster’s imprisonment, and possible Copper Furnace involvement complicated Order’s efforts to secure the election.
• Lin Yu planned to use Director’s informant investigation to gain more authority in Order and considered using Yayu to approach the Marauders’ core and possibly Copper Furnace.

Lin Yu met Chestnut at the Marauders’ Shenzhen base, where she revealed that she hoped to recruit him for a future leadership role. She led him into a warehouse to join the gathering’s traditional fistfights.

• Lin Yu arrived at the silent factory and met Chestnut, then verified her identity with a message on his phone.
• Lin Yu told Chestnut he sensed her probing him and asked what she wanted from him.
• Chestnut said she hoped to bring Lin Yu into her faction and considered him a candidate to help lead in Shenzhen.
• Lin Yu accepted her explanation but suspected she had concealed part of the truth.
• Chestnut led Lin Yu into the warehouse, where Marauders members were fighting in circles as part of their gathering.

Lin Yu, posing as Yayu, watched the Marauders’ brutal boxing matches and decided to enter one to build Yayu’s reputation. After publicly challenging Tier 2 fighters, he drew Red Sheep, then shocked him by refusing to use any Items.

• Lin Yu arrived at a factory where Marauders were holding bloody boxing matches under rules meant to prevent deaths.
• He acted eager to fight, and Chestnut explained how challengers could enter the arena.
• After predicting Nine Bridges would defeat Dust Fox, Lin Yu watched the match end and then stepped into the arena.
• Lin Yu announced that Yayu, a Tier 1, would fight anyone, while warning weaker opponents to stay away.
• Red Sheep, a Tier 2 Marauder, accepted the challenge and displayed five Items for Lin Yu to choose from.
• Lin Yu told Red Sheep which two Items to put away, then said he would use no Items.

Lin Yu, posing as Yayu, defeated Red Sheep in a fistfight without using any [Items] and drew the Marauders’ attention. As members began to suspect she was using the event to establish herself within A’yu’s faction, Shepherd Boy entered the arena to challenge her.

• Red Sheep took offense when Lin Yu said she did not need [Items] and charged at her with his cleaver when the fight began.
• Lin Yu sent Red Sheep flying out of bounds with one quick move, defeating him without using any [Items].
• The spectators were shocked by Lin Yu’s speed, and Marauder reconsidered how capable Yayu was and what she might be aiming to accomplish.
• Lin Yu invited another opponent to fight, and Shepherd Boy stepped into the arena, introducing himself as a Tier 2 under Ling Xian.
• Marauder suspected Lin Yu planned to gain influence by defeating members of rival factions, and recognized Shepherd Boy as a formidable opponent.

A'yu rushed to Shenzhen after hearing that Yayu was being targeted in a series of faction-driven fistfights, only to discover Yayu had won nine matches without taking damage. Yayu learned that their mission was to hold back all Night Watcher reinforcements during Brother Zhan's planned Great Chaos.

• A'yu heard from Liuli that Yayu was fighting repeated Tier 2 challengers in Shenzhen and hurried to the Warehouse to intervene.
• A'yu burst into the Warehouse and found Yayu surrounded by spectators after winning nine consecutive matches.
• Chestnut explained that Yayu had defeated every opponent without taking damage, and A'yu watched Liuli's video confirming it.
• A'yu praised Yayu's strength, and Yayu attributed her victories to her advantages when fighters could use only three Items.
• Yayu asked about the mission, and A'yu said Brother Zhan was gathering materials in the Prison Mountain Realm for his Great Chaos.
• A'yu told Yayu that their task was to hold back all Night Watcher reinforcements when the Great Chaos began.

A'yu explained the Marauders' plans for the upcoming operation to Lin Yu, then proposed taking a trip around Guangdong Province before it began. Lin Yu refused, saying he still did not have time to travel.

• Lin Yu questioned whether A'yu's group could face a Tier 4 Night Watcher, and A'yu said she trusted Brother Zhan's arrangements and expected help from other experts.
• A'yu revealed that Liuli had supplied her analysis and explained that the gathered Marauders would exchange information before carrying out separate missions.
• A'yu checked her screenshots and told Lin Yu that her team would hold back Night Watcher reinforcements, Ling Xian would assault Order, Celestial King would target the election venue, and Nineteen and Pluto would secure an escape route.
• A'yu suggested they spend the next two days sightseeing outside Shenzhen City, arguing that Brother Zhan was handling the operation and the group had little reason to remain on standby.
• Lin Yu declined A'yu's invitation to travel, saying he still did not have time.

Lin Yu traveled with Old Zheng to investigate the Psychology Society’s Shenzhen base and used a seized phone to uncover a mysterious Mental Power signature. Old Zheng recognized the signature as his own and identified Fluorvosamine as the phone’s likely maker and owner.

• Lin Yu declined A'yu’s invitation to stay, claiming he had a private job to finish, then left the Marauders’ base with Old Zheng.
• Lin Yu asked Old Zheng to lead him to the Psychology Society’s Shenzhen base, and Old Zheng warned that the region was overseen by second-generation Adler and his capable subordinates.
• Lin Yu fed the seized Psychology Society phone to the Cyber Ghost's Electronic Coffin, raising its charging progress to roughly fifty percent and unlocking the phone.
• Lin Yu opened the phone’s spiral icon, releasing Mental Power that Old Zheng recognized as his own signature.
• Old Zheng concluded that Fluorvosamine was likely the phone’s maker and owner.

Lin Yu learned that Fluorvosamine could copy souls and create powerful Soul Puppets, and considered impersonating her. Old Zheng revealed her history as his violent high-school patient and explained how her beliefs evolved into giving people dangerous Trials, leaving Lin Yu to suspect that her worldview had shaped the Psychology Society’s radical current policies.

• Old Zheng identified the phone’s contents as Soul Puppets of himself, the first-generation Adler, and the first-generation Jung, and said Gambler could explain how it was seized.
• Lin Yu considered impersonating Fluorvosamine, but Old Zheng warned that she had a strong personality and might have been an A+ or S-rank talent.
• Old Zheng described treating Fluorvosamine as a high-school student whose violent beliefs returned after she became a Player, prompting him to recommend her to the Psychology Society.
• Old Zheng explained that Fluorvosamine came to believe the strong should give others Trials to make them stronger instead of simply bullying or killing them.
• Lin Yu noticed similarities between Fluorvosamine’s beliefs and the Psychology Society’s current radical policies, while Old Zheng admitted the organization had strayed from his original intentions.

Lin Yu and Old Zheng investigated the Psychology Society by visiting its Shenzhen stronghold, where Lin Yu posed as Schreiber and offered Skinner an item linked to the missing Fluvoxamine. Skinner revealed that Fluvoxamine had vanished on Mist Island while searching for the first-generation president, leaving the title vacant.

• Old Zheng showed Lin Yu Fluvoxamine’s appearance and explained her Delinquent class, combat style, and abilities.
• Lin Yu and Old Zheng went to the Psychology Society’s Shenzhen stronghold, a tavern called Asclepius, and Old Zheng identified its bartender as Skinner.
• Lin Yu revealed his Schreiber disguise, and Skinner recognized his resemblance to the Psychology Society’s first president and became wary.
• Lin Yu offered Skinner a phone-shaped item, claiming it belonged to the missing Executive Commissioner Fluvoxamine.
• Skinner said no current Executive Commissioner had that name and explained that the sole previous Fluvoxamine disappeared on Mist Island while searching for the first-generation president.

Lin Yu used the missing commissioner Fluorvosamine’s phone to approach Skinner and presented himself as Schreiber, a successor to the Psychology Society’s First Generation president. He argued that Skinner’s own beliefs aligned with his, leaving Skinner to consider whether Schreiber was an ally rather than an enemy.

• Lin Yu learned that Fluorvosamine was missing and asked Skinner how the organization knew he was not dead.
• Skinner doubted Lin Yu’s claim about the phone but admitted the capture order applied to the Executive Department and said he had no reason to attack Lin Yu.
• Skinner explained that the Psychology Society used Trials to help Players improve and aimed to produce supreme experts rather than strengthen everyone indiscriminately.
• Lin Yu revealed his plan to present Schreiber as an advocate of focusing Trials on proven experts while leaving newcomers and low-rank Players undisturbed.
• Lin Yu told Skinner that the current Psychology Society had strayed from the First Generation’s ideals and suggested Skinner’s views were closer to his than to Freud’s.

Lin Yu met Skinner in Shenzhen to discuss cooperation between himself and the Psychology Society, while presenting himself as a rival to the current Freud. He shared details of the Marauders' plans for the Player Mutual Aid Society election, leaving Skinner to consider the intelligence and pass word to the Society's leadership.

• Lin Yu told Skinner that he intended to challenge the current Freud openly, and Old Zheng endorsed Lin Yu's ideas as closer to the original Psychology Society.
• Skinner declined to join Lin Yu but agreed to pretend that he and Old Zheng had never visited.
• Lin Yu asked whether the Psychology Society planned to act during the Player Mutual Aid Society election in Shenzhen, and Skinner explained that the Society was short on manpower after its operation in Jiang City.
• Lin Yu asked Skinner to inform the Professional Committee and Board of Directors that he had arrived and wanted cooperation.
• Lin Yu revealed the Marauders' plan: Celestial King would attack the election venue, while Ling Xian and A'yu would restrain the Order's and Night Watcher's defenses, with the Diviner providing support.
• Skinner recorded Lin Yu's intelligence, and Lin Yu asked that the Psychology Society's actions not interfere with his own.

Lin Yu explained that he wanted the Psychology Society involved to expose Copper Furnace members, not to protect Order’s plans, and learned Old Zheng was more concerned about Fluorvosamine’s disappearance. Disguised as Zhu Ming, Lin Yu headed toward the Freedom Alliance’s gathering in Shenzhen while concealing his location and using wind to travel.

• Lin Yu told Old Zheng that he had drawn the Psychology Society into the conflict to uncover Copper Furnace members beyond Order, even if the situation became more chaotic.
• Lin Yu suggested Old Zheng might want to investigate a mole in the Psychology Society, but Old Zheng said he was more concerned about where Fluorvosamine had gone.
• Lin Yu said he might next contact the Psychology Society using Fluorvosamine’s identity, then changed his face to Zhu Ming’s and prepared to visit his fallback and safe house.
• The Freedom Alliance members shared a late-night meal and posted messages and a group photo in their chat.
• Lin Yu told the group he was nearby but withheld his true location, then summoned Hannah to camouflage him and rode the wind toward the gathering.

Lin Yu traveled toward God of Cookery's house while checking messages and reviewing the Player Mutual Aid Society's finalized presidential election process. He saw how much the election depended on Order and recognized the opportunity this gave him to manipulate the proceedings discreetly.

• Lin Yu told Li Nian that he was in Shenzhen for personal matters and agreed to meet, then reassured her that he could escape if danger arose.
• Lin Yu switched Zhu Ming's phone to Director's and found that Order had received the election process, along with messages from Good Night.
• Lin Yu reviewed the rules: fewer than a thousand members could vote, each had three votes, and the five-day election included campaign statements, background checks, questions, debates or Arena matches, and final voting.
• Lin Yu noted that Order would handle candidate investigations, vote counts, and security, giving him room to discreetly alter Monica's presentation and potentially influence other candidates' materials.

Lin Yu warned the Freedom Alliance that Shenzhen’s coming conflict could involve the Marauders, the Psychology Society, and a hidden organization that might provide reinforcements. The Alliance considered which powerful allies could give the Marauders confidence, leaving Willow and Mercenary as likely candidates.

• Lin Yu joined the Freedom Alliance at God of Cookery’s villa, where the members welcomed her and discussed her hotel arrangements.
• Lin Yu told the Alliance that the Order had sent Dionysus and other powerful experts to Shenzhen, while the Marauders had mobilized heavily.
• Lin Yu warned that some members of the Psychology Society might intervene, though their involvement was uncertain.
• Lin Yu revealed that a hidden organization might strike during the operation and that the Marauders’ confidence could depend on the Diviner staying in the Ten Realms.
• Comedian and God of Cookery reasoned that Willow and Mercenary might be the reinforcements backing the Marauders.

Lin Yu questioned the Freedom Alliance about Marauders’ possible reinforcements and learned which powerful figures might oppose them. He secured the Alliance’s promise to shelter him and help Director if danger came, leaving Comedian to joke that he could hold off the Diviner until Fang Qing arrived.

• God of Cookery and the others assessed Liu and the All-around Mercenary King as likely threats, while ruling out Pen Name and Conception as probable Marauders allies.
• Qianhuan explained that the Feng Shui Master was the Diviner’s sworn enemy and would almost certainly oppose Marauders if he came to Shenzhen.
• Comedian realized Lin Yu had been gathering intelligence for Director, but the Freedom Alliance members said they did not mind helping Order through Lin Yu.
• Lin Yu admitted he had sought the Alliance as a potential escape route and asked them to help Director if he needed it.
• Old Zhou, Qianhuan, God of Cookery, Xiao Yun, and Comedian promised to protect Lin Yu and assist Director in a crisis.
• Comedian claimed he could hold off the Diviner long enough for Fang Qing to rescue him.

After gathering intelligence from Shenzhen’s major organizations, Lin Yu returned to the Order’s hotel and finally rested, only to find himself in an unfamiliar space woven from threads of Fate. There he met Jian Cunyi, a Player called the Feng Shui Master, whose connection to Zhu Qiansi and the Grandmaster left Lin Yu wary but inclined to think he was friendly.

• Lin Yu returned to the Order’s hotel, closed Captain Good Night’s door, and went to sleep after reflecting on his exhausting night and the [Fleeting Half-Day] buff.
• A voice questioned why Lin Yu pushed himself so hard, and Lin Yu realized he was in a space resembling a present-day illusion formed by threads of Fate rather than an ordinary dream.
• Lin Yu recognized that someone with a Fragment of Fate had drawn him into the space and recalled seeing the figure among Zhu Qiansi’s greatest fears alongside the Grandmaster.
• Lin Yu reasoned that the stranger likely favored the Order and had not seen through his Director disguise, though he remained cautious.
• The stranger introduced himself as Jian Cunyi and gave Lin Yu his Player codename, Feng Shui Master.

Lin Yu met with Jian Cunyi, the Feng Shui Master, who wanted to thwart the Diviner’s plans and asked Lin Yu to help ambush him in the Prison Mountain Realm. Jian Cunyi explained that the Diviner would not dare kill Lin Yu because he needed Lin Yu’s Fragment of Fate, and Lin Yu was left weighing the risks of joining the plan.

• Lin Yu questioned Jian Cunyi about his motives, and Jian Cunyi revealed that he opposed the Diviner’s attempt to become a god and strengthen the Marauders.
• Jian Cunyi explained that Order opposed his plan to bring ordinary people from the Ten Realms into reality, but said his current goal was simply to foil the Diviner.
• Jian Cunyi said the Diviner was likely in the Prison Mountain Realm, preparing to influence events in Shenzhen, and proposed attacking him when he acted.
• Jian Cunyi told Lin Yu that his Fragment of Fate could help break through the Diviner’s illusion, and asked him to join the ambush.
• Lin Yu hesitated to risk joining a fight between two powerful Tier 4s, so Jian Cunyi explained that the Diviner needed every Fragment of Fate at a specific Destiny node and therefore would not kill him.

Lin Yu agreed to Jian Cunyi’s plan to ambush the Diviner in the Prison Mountain Realm, hoping to learn more about the Authority of Destiny. Jian Cunyi revealed that his hatred for the Diviner came from a massacre of people who had trusted him.

• Lin Yu questioned whether Jian Cunyi’s beliefs about the timing of acquiring Fragments of Fate could be wrong, and Jian Cunyi promised to protect him if the Diviner tried to kill him.
• Lin Yu saw the planned confrontation as a chance to learn how the Authority of Destiny worked and considered how to fit the secret mission around his other identities’ obligations.
• Lin Yu agreed to cooperate with Jian Cunyi but said he would withdraw if circumstances changed, and asked Jian Cunyi to provide a way into the Prison Mountain Realm.
• Jian Cunyi explained that the Diviner had killed 147 people from the White Crane Martial Arts School, 45 from the Six Qin Martial Arts School, 19 from the Taichu Daoist Sect, and many others to strengthen himself and forge his Item.
• Jian Cunyi said some of the victims had been close to him and had shown him kindness, and vowed to thwart the Diviner’s plans whenever he could.

Lin Yu gained Jian Cunyi’s trust and learned that they both held deep grudges against the Diviner, whom Jian Cunyi believed Lin Yu might eventually be able to kill. Jian Cunyi gave Lin Yu a jade slip detailing the Diviner’s abilities and revealed that his real name was Leng Jing.

• Lin Yu judged Jian Cunyi’s hatred of the Diviner to be genuine and used his own grudge to strengthen their bond.
• Jian Cunyi explained that the Diviner was too powerful and well-protected for him to kill, but said Lin Yu might have a better chance as he grew stronger.
• Jian Cunyi shared a jade slip containing research on the Diviner’s techniques, items, and possible counters, while warning that it omitted the Diviner’s Exclusive item and Heart Domain.
• Jian Cunyi speculated about the Diviner’s background and age, then revealed his real name was Leng Jing.