Recaps

Lin Yu thwarted an imprisoned elf’s attempt to take his Seeker of Truth badge by disrupting the elf’s magic with Dark Flow Waters. He then offered the elf hope of freedom for the entire elven race, leaving him to consider Lin Yu’s proposal.

• The elf recognized Lin Yu’s badge as a means of temporary freedom and began casting a spell to seize it.
• Lin Yu poured Dark Flow Waters over the elf, disrupting his magic and causing it to backfire.
• The elf questioned Lin Yu about the Abyss and insisted he still intended to take the badge.
• Lin Yu argued that the elf wanted freedom, not the badge, and suggested there might be a way to obtain true freedom.
• Lin Yu claimed he could secure a chance at freedom for all the elves, not just the elf before him.

Lin Yu offered an imprisoned elf a chance to free his people in exchange for their loyalty, though he had no plan to release them and wanted a temporary ally. He argued that serving him would be a better kind of freedom than the elves’ endless imprisonment, leaving the elf to weigh the price.

• Lin Yu sensed the elf’s growing belief and admitted to himself that he had no way or intention of freeing the elves from the Eternal Prison.
• The elf asked whether Lin Yu could free his people, and Lin Yu claimed to be more than seventy percent confident while warning that freedom would come at a price.
• The elf offered the eternal friendship of the elven race, but Lin Yu argued that their thousand years of imprisonment had left that promise without substance.
• Lin Yu demanded loyalty instead of friendship, and the elf objected that loyalty seemed incompatible with freedom.
• Lin Yu urged the elf to compare serving one human with remaining utterly imprisoned, and argued that the bargain would let the elves return to their world and avoid repeating their crimes.

Lin Yu persuaded Medalo, the former Great Sage of the elves, to consider helping him in exchange for a chance to leave the Eternal Prison. After revealing the Ancient Notebook’s Authority, Lin Yu asked Medalo to explain what the elves had learned about the prison’s rules and walls.

• Medalo challenged Lin Yu’s offer, asking whether a failed escape attempt would leave the elves worse off, and Lin Yu let him decide after consulting the others.
• Medalo introduced himself as the former Great Sage and asked why Lin Yu believed he could help the elves escape.
• Lin Yu displayed the Ancient Notebook and invoked the Authority of information, convincing Medalo that he was an extraordinary figure among the Seekers of Truth.
• Lin Yu told Medalo that he wanted the elves’ temporary loyalty in exchange for help collecting useful items, not religion or conquest.
• Medalo described how the elves’ early resistance and escape efforts faded into despair over their thousand years in prison.
• Lin Yu asked Medalo to share the elves’ research on the Eternal Prison, especially how its walls could be crossed.

Lin Yu learned from Medalo how prisoners could cross Partition Walls and decided to try crossing one during the cage’s night. Medalo estimated night would begin after three hundred of his heartbeats, and Lin Yu sensed that each heartbeat took nearly a minute.

• Medalo explained that Partition Walls could be crossed with a Guardian’s permission, by winning a duel, or by physically crossing them during the cage’s night.
• Medalo said that night would weaken prisoners’ abilities almost completely, though neither Guardians nor Partition Walls would then stop someone from crossing a Partition Wall.
• Lin Yu decided to attempt the nighttime crossing and speculated that the same methods might also work on Boundary Walls.
• Medalo estimated that night would arrive after three hundred of his heartbeats, then let Lin Yu sense his heartbeat directly.
• Lin Yu heard Medalo’s slow heartbeat and realized that each beat took nearly a minute.

Lin Yu gave Medalo food and a rare golden Faluo Hua fruit, then asked the elven Great Sage to explain Night Valley’s distant past. He hoped the history would help him impersonate an elf and clarify whether the elves’ imprisonment, the Abyss, and his sister were connected.

• Lin Yu sensed that Medalo’s body was naturally strengthened by magic, and Medalo demonstrated a complete heartbeat.
• Lin Yu gave Medalo food with the [Reusable Delicious Paper], producing a golden Faluo Hua fruit that Medalo said could increase magic and had gone extinct.
• Lin Yu tasted a slice of the fruit and felt his magic increase, while Medalo concluded that Lin Yu was an extraordinarily miraculous being.
• Lin Yu asked Medalo how the Night Valley Realm had operated before the elves arrived and before their sinful decision.
• Lin Yu considered using what he learned to impersonate an elven expert and investigate whether the elves’ imprisonment and the Abyss were connected to his sister.

Lin Yu learned from Medalo that the elves were xenophobic supremacists whose plans to enslave other races had been stopped only when the God of Fairness and Judgment imprisoned them. He decided against adopting an elven identity long-term, but considered briefly impersonating an elf to gain abilities by making the claim believed.

• Lin Yu spent six hours learning about elven culture, history, and Night Valley Realm from Medalo.
• Lin Yu learned that the elves believed themselves superior and had planned to erase other races’ intelligence and enslave them, while also imprisoning intelligent plants in their holy land.
• Medalo explained that imprisonment and exposure to stronger beings had shattered the elves’ beliefs, leaving many prisoners numb and isolated.
• Lin Yu decided an elven identity would force him to act either dull and withdrawn or cruel and arrogant, and would cost him the ability to speak with both sides.
• Lin Yu considered briefly impersonating an elf and using the Fraudster’s power to make others believe he had mastered elven abilities.

After night fell in the Eternal Prison, Lin Yu set out to cross the Partition Wall and reach the Middle Ring. He discovered that supernatural powers could not affect the wall, but the Limit Breaking Jade Cleaver could cut into it, allowing him to begin climbing.

• The Ring of the Sky Curtain went dark, sharply restricting Lin Yu’s perception and supernatural powers.
• Lin Yu left Medalo after promising to remember his advice and decided to explore the prison during the night.
• Lin Yu reached the Partition Wall and found that it nullified his Mental Power, magic power, Soul Power, and witchcraft’s spiritual power.
• Lin Yu realized he could make handholds by damaging the smooth wall, but his bare hands could not break it.
• Lin Yu used the Limit Breaking Jade Cleaver to cut a handhold, then began climbing the hundred-meter wall by repeating the process.

Lin Yu climbed the self-repairing Partition Wall while his buffs were suppressed, then encountered Guardian Mans at the top. Mans said he had come to help Lin Yu because he needed a favor and had obtained an item that could store Lin Yu’s Mental Power frequency.

• Lin Yu rested while climbing and discovered that the Partition Wall automatically repaired the footholds he had carved.
• Lin Yu struggled onward for fifteen minutes and reached the top of the wall, exhausted.
• Lin Yu heard footsteps, focused his Mental Power, and identified the approaching Guardian as Mans.
• Mans explained that Lin Yu had permission to cross between areas at night and that doing so did not violate the rules.
• Mans admitted he had come looking for Lin Yu to ask a favor and revealed that he had obtained an item capable of storing the frequency of Lin Yu’s Mental Power.

Lin Yu had Mans record his Mental Power massage, and Mans rewarded him with a lantern and guidance across the Partition Wall. At the Boundary Wall, Lin Yu encountered a Guardian who looked like a member of the Nightless Sky Family.

• Lin Yu recorded his Mental Power fluctuations in Mans's device, making it repeat the massage.
• Mans gave Lin Yu a lantern and explained that he could travel along the Partition Wall at night, then pointed him toward the Boundary Wall and warned him not to cross it.
• Lin Yu followed Mans's directions and reached the much taller Boundary Wall, intending to climb it with the [Limit Breaking Jade Cleaver].
• A flashlight-wielding Guardian confronted Lin Yu and asked whether he planned to climb over the Boundary Wall.
• Lin Yu recognized the Guardian's resemblance to Nightless Sky Huo Le and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and wondered how someone from their family had entered the Eternal Prison.

Lin Yu met a Guardian who resembled a member of the Nightless Sky Family, but the man ambushed him and stole what appeared to be his identity card. Lin Yu revealed that he had anticipated the betrayal and the card was a decoy, leaving the Guardian confused.

• Lin Yu cautiously asked the man who he was, and the man identified himself as a Guardian overseeing the Qingtian Astronomical Society area.
• The Guardian claimed he would spare Lin Yu because he was a Seeker of Truth, then demanded proof of Lin Yu's identity.
• When Lin Yu reached for his identity card, the Guardian blinded him with a flashlight, attacked him, and seized the card.
• The Guardian explained that he could use the card to gain freedom or make Lin Yu lose his permissions, while Lin Yu prepared to fight for it.
• Lin Yu revealed he had never exposed his real identity card and pointed out that the stolen card belonged to a Truth Company employee named Vail Valetti.

Lin Yu used a forged Truth Company card to test the Eternal Prison Guardian and learned that he belonged to the Nightless Sky Family. The Guardian gave the name Nightless Sky Yong Lian, but Lin Yu exposed the deception by naming the family’s previous head, Nightless Sky Yong Shang, leaving the Guardian furious.

• Lin Yu presented a disguised Veil Valetti employee card and inferred that the Guardian knew the Truth Company but showed no recognition of Veil Valetti.
• The Guardian admitted he belonged to the Nightless Sky Family, and Lin Yu said he might arrange a way for him to return to the Barren Realm.
• The Guardian claimed his name was Nightless Sky Yong Lian and tested Lin Yu by asking who currently led the family.
• Lin Yu named Nightless Sky Huo Le as the current family head and showed the Guardian White Bone Flowing Light, which he recognized as the Autumn Family’s White Bone View.
• The Guardian asked who had led the family before Huo Le, and Lin Yu answered Nightless Sky Yong Shang, making the Guardian accuse him of mockery.

Lin Yu revealed to Nightless Sky Yong Shang that his younger sister, Nightless Sky Yong Lian, had become head of the Nightless Sky Family and held power for more than fifty years. Nightless Sky Yong Shang learned that the other heirs of his generation had died in an internal conflict, and Lin Yu identified Yong Lian as the likely killer.

• Nightless Sky Yong Shang revealed that he was the presumed-dead heir, and Lin Yu said he would tentatively believe him.
• Lin Yu admitted that Nightless Sky Huo Le was only the leading candidate to become the next head and that the current head was from Yong Shang's generation.
• Lin Yu told Nightless Sky Yong Shang that his younger sister, Nightless Sky Yong Lian, had been head for more than fifty years.
• Nightless Sky Yong Shang said Yong Lian had been an unlikely successor because of her temperament and commoner blood, and Lin Yu explained that the other heirs had to die for her to take power.
• Lin Yu told Nightless Sky Yong Shang that the heirs had likely died in an internal conflict and that Yong Lian was the person who benefited most.

Lin Yu learned why Nightless Sky Yong Shang had been imprisoned and negotiated a chance for him to return to the Barren Realm. Nightless Sky Yong Shang revealed that a favored one of Destiny had identified the final winner of the family succession as the person responsible for his fate.

• Nightless Sky Yong Shang explained that he believed a family member had framed him after stealing his research, and he suspected Nightless Sky Yong Lian, who ultimately became head of the family.
• Nightless Sky Yong Shang admitted he had violated an Authority taboo by attempting to use an external Authority to kill a god, though he refused to reveal which god or Authority.
• Nightless Sky Yong Shang offered to take Lin Yu to the Middle Ring in exchange for a new deal, but Lin Yu refused to help him get Nightless Sky Yong Lian or Nightless Sky Huo Le imprisoned.
• Lin Yu offered Nightless Sky Yong Shang his identity certificate after the Trial so he could visit the Barren Realm and confront Nightless Sky Yong Lian himself, and Nightless Sky Yong Shang accepted.
• Nightless Sky Yong Shang said that ten years earlier a favored one blessed by Destiny had told him the final winner of the succession struggle had brought him to his current state, prompting Lin Yu to ask for details.

Lin Yu traded information with Nightless Sky Yong Shang and learned that the mysterious Favored One of Fate was likely the living Fragment of Fate he had met before. Nightless Sky Yong Shang brought Lin Yu to the Middle Ring’s entrance and left him to begin his trial, where Lin Yu found the area unexpectedly silent.

• Lin Yu exchanged information about the Mercury Family’s use of the Destiny Authority for Nightless Sky Yong Shang’s description of a black-haired Favored One of Fate.
• Lin Yu recognized the being as the living Fragment of Fate from Mist Island and felt disappointed that it was not a clue connected to Lin Zhao.
• Nightless Sky Yong Shang warned Lin Yu about the Middle Ring’s dangers, its Prisoners’ Taboo Punishments, and the need to hide, form cautious alliances, and fight without restraint.
• Nightless Sky Yong Shang opened the Boundary Wall with his Guardian Work Pass, and Lin Yu followed him through into the Middle Ring.
• Nightless Sky Yong Shang left Lin Yu at the entrance to the Middle Ring, and Lin Yu questioned why the area below seemed so peaceful and silent.

Lin Yu entered the Middle Ring and witnessed how its prisoners endured random torture while fighting in sudden, coordinated bursts. After Nightless Sky Yong Shang left, Lin Yu began crossing the ring and discovered that its environment shifted between extreme conditions every few seconds.

• Lin Yu asked Nightless Sky Yong Shang why the Middle Ring was silent, and Yong Shang explained that its prisoners had trained themselves to endure punishments without making a sound.
• Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Yong Shang watched a clash erupt across nearly a third of the Authority Taboo before the fighters quickly withdrew or died.
• Nightless Sky Yong Shang explained that the battles ended when their outcomes were decided, and then he left Lin Yu to continue alone.
• Lin Yu climbed into the Middle Ring, concealed his presence, and used magic to keep himself warm as he advanced toward the fighting.
• Lin Yu experienced sudden heat followed by extreme dryness and realized that the Middle Ring's temperature and humidity changed at random to torment its prisoners.

Lin Yu used the [Bidirectional Radar] to reveal his position to the Middle Ring’s Prisoners, drawing them toward him. As the Prisoners fought one another over the chance to reach him, Lin Yu remained untouched at the center of the chaos.

• Lin Yu searched the Middle Ring’s buildings with his Mental Power but found no Prisoners.
• Concerned that his cautious search was too slow, Lin Yu activated the [Bidirectional Radar], revealing nearby living beings and his own location to them.
• Nearly a hundred Prisoners rushed toward Lin Yu, recognizing him as a possible path to temporary freedom.
• The approaching Prisoners began fighting one another, and the battles drew in even more combatants.
• As the fighting spread around Lin Yu, a deserted vacuum formed within thirty meters of him.

Lin Yu used Bidirectional Radar to provoke a battle among the Middle Ring Prisoners while he gathered information to choose fifteen opponents for Duels. A Mechanical Mole then led him toward its hidden master, using Frozen Truth Smoke and a reality-warping passage to conceal Lin Yu’s departure.

• Lin Yu watched the Middle Ring Prisoners fight over the freedom represented by his crimson projection and began recording their abilities with the Ancient Notebook.
• Lin Yu assessed the fighters’ combat intelligence and abilities as he gathered data for selecting fifteen Duel opponents.
• A Mechanical Mole approached Lin Yu unnoticed and invited him to meet its master.
• The Mole used Frozen Truth Smoke to leave a frozen image of Lin Yu behind and hide his departure from the fighters.
• Lin Yu followed the Mole underground, where the passage expanded to fit him, and inferred that its master could freeze and twist reality.

Lin Yu followed the Mechanical Mole through a twisted underground passage and found a vast factory where an elderly woman lived and worked. She revealed that she was a Player who wanted to offer him help and shelter, while Lin Yu concealed his connection to Order and suspected she had been imprisoned.

• Lin Yu followed the Mechanical Mole deeper underground, reasoning that its master might be a dangerous being whose powers were limited by the Eternal Prison.
• The Mechanical Mole led Lin Yu to a sealed Metal Door, authenticated him, and opened the entrance to the Underground Palace.
• Lin Yu discovered a frigid mechanical factory filled with machines, bionic animals, and an elderly woman working at a bench.
• The woman told Lin Yu that she was a Player and offered him help and shelter because the Middle Ring was dangerous.
• Lin Yu acted surprised, hid his ties to Order, and wondered whether the woman had been imprisoned for breaking its rules.

Lin Yu met Cheng Shuang, a fellow prisoner who had built a refuge in the Eternal Prison, but discovered that the Marauders resting there included Almond, an old enemy who exposed his ties to the Order. Meanwhile, the Diviner asked the God of Oblivion to deal with Lin Yu, warning that Lin Yu was special and was the Crow’s chosen one.

• Cheng Shuang told Lin Yu she had been imprisoned by the Order for nearly two years and had grown stronger in the Eternal Prison.
• Cheng Shuang led Lin Yu into her refuge’s rest area and introduced herself by her codename, while Lin Yu gave his codename as Double Wood.
• Cheng Shuang introduced Lin Yu to five Marauders, and Almond recognized him as May May and accused him of being an Order member and its rising star.
• The Diviner asked the God of Oblivion to deal with Lin Yu, saying Lin Yu had once escaped him and might even defeat the god.
• The Diviner told the God of Oblivion that Lin Yu was the Crow’s chosen one.

The Diviner bargained with the God of Oblivion to attack Lin Yu, offering information about the Authority of Memory in exchange. Meanwhile, Lin Yu tried to convince Cheng Shuang and the Marauders that he had defected from Order, and prepared to prove it with his One-sentence Lie Detector.

• The Diviner told the God of Oblivion that the Previous Civilization had controlled the Authority of Memory, and offered to share what he knew if the god acted against Lin Yu.
• The God of Oblivion agreed to take action, while the Diviner said other helpers would appear through fate.
• Cheng Shuang challenged Lin Yu after learning he had been a member of Order, and Almond accused him of lying about joining the Marauders.
• Lin Yu argued that he had been imprisoned alongside them and said the God of Fairness and Judgment permitted the prison's existence.
• Cheng Shuang questioned whether Lin Yu was an Order member on a Trial, then asked him to prove he had defected.
• Lin Yu pretended to consider his answer before taking out his One-sentence Lie Detector.

Lin Yu used the Three-Minute Lie Detector to convince Almond and Cheng Shuang that his statements about joining the Marauders were true, though his wording concealed which identity had done so. Meanwhile, Second-Generation "Freud" argued with the Central Mechanism over its analysis of Schreiber before learning where he was.

• Lin Yu presented the Three-Minute Lie Detector, and Cheng Shuang confirmed that it was genuine and reliable.
• Lin Yu truthfully described his Marauders membership and deeds without revealing that he was speaking as Yayu, and the detector registered no lie.
• Almond accused Lin Yu of being a spy, but the detector stayed silent until it exposed Almond's own denial, showing that she had begun to believe him.
• Almond struggled to accept that Lin Yu had joined the Marauders, and Lin Yu challenged her for objecting to their members killing other players.
• Second-Generation "Freud" rejected the Central Mechanism's analysis that Schreiber was closely connected to First Generation "Freud" and asked for Schreiber's location.
• The Central Mechanism identified Schreiber's most likely location as the Divine Realm's Eternal Prison.

Freud questioned the Central Mechanism’s claim that Schreiber was in the Divine Realm’s Eternal Prison, then agreed to send two Sages there by having them parasitize her soul. The Central Mechanism named the Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch and the Trembling Perodrila for the mission.

• Freud challenged the Central Mechanism’s conclusion that Schreiber was inside the Eternal Prison and suspected the machine had malfunctioned.
• The Central Mechanism explained that a Mirror World disturbance had enabled it to evolve and use an informant belonging to its high-ranking Gray Domain ally to locate Schreiber.
• Freud said Schreiber might have entered the Eternal Prison voluntarily and insisted on catching him to avenge her subordinate and question him about Mr. Zheng.
• The Central Mechanism warned Freud not to enter the prison herself and offered to dispatch a Sage for suitable remuneration.
• The Central Mechanism proposed sending Sages as Freud’s summoned creatures by having them parasitize her soul, and Freud agreed.
• The Central Mechanism selected the Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch and the Trembling Perodrila for the mission.

Lin Yu joined Cheng Shuang’s group in the Eternal Prison and learned that she hoped to escape by building an army of powered Autonomous Machines. He told her about ownerless Authorities and the God Creation Project, revealing that he had once been selected for it before leaving Order.

• Cheng Shuang welcomed Lin Yu, who asked what her group did in the Eternal Prison.
• Cheng Shuang explained that she aimed to escape by mass-producing Autonomous Machines and accumulating enough power to confuse the Divine Kingdom’s Rules.
• Cheng Shuang said she believed the Death game might not last more than ten years, making a slow escape plan too risky.
• Lin Yu suggested that ownerless Authorities in the Divine Kingdom could help them escape.
• Lin Yu explained that Order’s Secretary had begun the God Creation Project to let promising newcomers grasp Authority directly.
• Lin Yu told Cheng Shuang that he had been selected for the project and that his selection had triggered his departure from Order.

Lin Yu explained that disappointment with Order's God Creation Project, rather than fear of death alone, had driven him to leave. After Cheng Shuang confirmed she could sense unclaimed Authorities, she decided they should act quickly to seek them.

• Cheng Shuang challenged Lin Yu's account of leaving Order, noting the organization would not force members into a deadly project.
• Lin Yu explained that he had joined Order for its strength, but the God Creation Project convinced him it could not help him grow stronger.
• Cheng Shuang described sensing higher powers in the Divine Kingdom and realized they might be unclaimed Authorities.
• Lin Yu learned that Cheng Shuang could locate some Authorities and encouraged her to plan carefully while concealing his urgency.
• Cheng Shuang rejected delay, saying her preparations were complete and they should seize the initiative before the god and Warden could interfere.

Lin Yu prepared to join Cheng Shuang’s expedition to capture ownerless Authorities, but Almond began training him with a punch. Elsewhere, Fluoxetine questioned the Goddess of Nightmare about her plan to enter the Eternal Prison, and inferred who had commissioned her.

• Cheng Shuang explained that the group would face Guardians and Prisoners while seeking ownerless Authorities, then began sensing for them.
• Cheng Shuang sent Almond to train Lin Yu, and Almond attacked him with spiked brass knuckles before he could respond.
• The Goddess of Nightmare celebrated her strength at an arcade before Fluoxetine arrived and complimented her dress.
• Fluoxetine revealed she knew the Goddess of Nightmare planned to use the Supreme Authority to enter another god’s Divine Kingdom through a clone.
• The Goddess of Nightmare said she had been commissioned to enter the Eternal Prison, and Fluoxetine guessed the identity of the confidential client.