Recaps

Lin Yu and Old Zheng escaped the Movie Theater through a back door opened by Drama, then returned to the Eternal Prison and found it transformed by the Benevolent King’s Authority. As the Authority repeatedly imposed peace on the Prisoners, Lin Yu and Old Zheng realized they alone seemed unaffected.

• Lin Yu and Old Zheng used the destruction of their Soul Fragments to escape the God of Frost and reach the Movie Theater’s back door, which Drama had unlocked for them.
• Drama bid farewell to Lin Yu, and he and Old Zheng left the Movie Theater for the Eternal Prison.
• Lin Yu found the Eternal Prison brightly lit by a strange white vortex, while the Prisoners stood peacefully despite their injuries.
• Old Zheng sensed that the Prisoners remained conscious but were overwhelmed by feelings imposed by an Authority.
• Lin Yu and Old Zheng watched a Prisoner briefly regain anger and panic before returning to calm, and concluded that they were special because the Authority still affected everyone else.

Lin Yu and Old Zheng investigated why they were unaffected by the Authority that had pacified the Eternal Prison, while Lin Yu concluded that the prison’s weakened defenses and strange changes made reaching the Core Zone urgent. They set out toward the center, leaving the cause of the Authority and the God of Fairness and Judgment’s predicament unresolved.

• Lin Yu and Old Zheng considered why the new Authority had not affected them, and Lin Yu tested whether hostility or attacking a Prisoner would trigger its effects; neither did.
• Old Zheng joked that Lin Yu’s chaos was too great for the Authority to suppress, but Lin Yu rejected the idea and noted that even the Eternal Prison’s Guardians seemed to be in standby.
• Lin Yu and Old Zheng suspected the God of Fairness and Judgment was too occupied or weakened to manage the prison, and Lin Yu decided to hurry to the Core Zone to meet his Clearance Condition.
• Lin Yu saw that the wounded Prisoner healed rapidly and worried that the peaceful Authority might later make the immortal, regenerating Prisoners berserk.

Lin Yu concluded that an unknown, likely anti-Order force had caused the Eternal Prison’s abnormality and hurried toward its Core Zone to clear the Instance. Meanwhile, the Benevolent King and the God of Fairness and Judgment realized an unseen god had trapped them in a shared Authority, just as a figure emerged from gray-white mist to address the God.

• Lin Yu suspected someone besides the Benevolent King and the God of Fairness and Judgment had caused the Eternal Prison’s abnormal state, so he rushed toward the Core Zone with Old Zheng to clear the Instance.
• In the Court of Justice, the Benevolent King and the God of Fairness and Judgment discussed how the new Authority had fused partly with the Benevolent King and partly with the God’s Divine Kingdom.
• The God of Fairness and Judgment said another god had likely arranged the situation to prevent the Benevolent King from becoming a god and weaken the God’s control over his Divine Kingdom.
• The God of Fairness and Judgment expected the culprit to make another move, and gray-white mist appeared beside the Benevolent King.
• A figure emerged from the mist and greeted the God of Fairness and Judgment, noting that he seemed to be in trouble.

The God of Oblivion appeared in the God of Fairness and Judgment’s Divine Kingdom and admitted that a client had commissioned them to attack a Divine Favor in the Eternal Prison. When the God of Fairness and Judgment refused to help, the God of Oblivion called on the hidden mastermind, who appeared but declined their offer.

• The God of Fairness and Judgment identified the newcomer as the God of Oblivion, and Benevolent King questioned whether they had caused the Authority fusion.
• The God of Oblivion denied causing the upheaval and said they had entered the Divine Kingdom to fulfill a client’s request, whose identity they could not reveal because of a Cooperation Treaty.
• The God of Oblivion said the commission was to attack a Divine Favor in the Eternal Prison and prevent him from obtaining something he desperately needed.
• The God of Fairness and Judgment recognized that the target might be another god’s Chosen of God and threatened the God of Oblivion for trying to harm someone in their realm.
• The God of Fairness and Judgment prepared to fight, and the God of Oblivion called on the mastermind to cooperate against them.
• A writhing black shadow appeared above the God of Fairness and Judgment and thanked the God of Oblivion, but said it did not need their help.

The God of Nightmare appeared in the Court of Justice with his Divine Kingdom and challenged the God of Fairness and Judgment, then swallowed everyone there in shadows. Meanwhile, Lin Yu and Old Zheng discovered that pain had spread through the Eternal Prison’s prisoners and continued toward the Core Zone while concealing themselves.

• The God of Nightmare summoned his Divine Kingdom in the Court of Justice and challenged the God of Fairness and Judgment to a duel.
• The God of Fairness and Judgment accused the God of Nightmare of sin and defended the Eternal Prison as a means of punishing criminals.
• The God of Nightmare spread shadows from behind everyone in the Court of Justice and swallowed the God of Fairness and Judgment, the God of Oblivion, the Benevolent King, and himself.
• Old Zheng sensed soul-deep pain affecting nearly every prisoner around Lin Yu and reported the change.
• Lin Yu concluded that a new Authority was influencing the prisoners and might be part of a plan by a third party aimed at him.
• Old Zheng agreed to conceal himself and Lin Yu as they approached the Core Zone’s Boundary Wall, but warned that sustaining the concealment could expose them to anyone who sensed Mental Power.

Freud and two Gray Domain Sages entered the Eternal Prison to find Schreiber, taking advantage of the God of Fairness and Judgment’s apparent inability to sense the breach in his Divine Kingdom. Freud detected an eruption of Mental Power near the Core Zone and suspected it resembled her mentor Zheng’s power, though she was certain Zheng had not produced it.

• Freud entered the Eternal Prison with the Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch and Trembling Perodrila after the Central Mechanism helped locate Schreiber and identify a favorable moment to breach the Divine Kingdom.
• Freud found the Eternal Prison suspended in an abnormal state, with its prisoners and the white vortex in the Ring of the Sky Curtain frozen.
• Freud sensed a burst of Mental Power near the Core Zone, and the Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch suggested that Schreiber might have caused it.
• Freud warned that the conspicuous Mental Power could be a trap, but the Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch argued that Schreiber could not have known about their secret plan.
• Freud said the Mental Power’s characteristics resembled those of Zheng, her mentor and the original Freud, but concluded that Zheng could not be its user because he had been dead for a long time and would not use his power so clumsily.

Freud concluded that the Mental Power fluctuation might come from Schreiber imitating Zheng Jianshen and led the others to investigate. Meanwhile, Lin Yu worked out how to pass through the Core Zone’s Boundary Wall, but Old Zheng warned that someone had detected and located them.

• Freud insisted Zheng Jianshen would never use over-output Mental Power, then considered the Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch’s theory that Schreiber had imitated his mentor’s Mental Power.
• Freud decided to investigate Schreiber and used static to take the Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch and the Trembling Queen with her.
• Lin Yu explained to Old Zheng that the Core Zone’s Boundary Wall remained active despite losing consciousness, but that he could manipulate it to create a temporary passage.
• Lin Yu planned to use Narrative Trick to fool the Boundary Wall into granting him access by imitating someone with high authority.
• Old Zheng told Lin Yu that an expert had sensed his Mental Power and pinpointed their location using Soul Power perception.

Lin Yu and Old Zheng encountered Second Generation "Freud," who mistook Old Zheng for Schreiber and refused to believe his explanations. As Lin Yu began breaking through the Boundary Wall, Freud called in two allies to help capture Old Zheng and find Mr. Zheng's legacy.

• Old Zheng tracked the powerful intruder to their location, where Second Generation "Freud" emerged from grayish-white static.
• Second Generation "Freud" recognized Old Zheng as Schreiber, accused him of impersonating Mr. Zheng, and challenged him to a fight.
• Old Zheng tried to explain that he was the original Freud, but Second Generation "Freud" dismissed his claim and accused him of lying.
• Lin Yu began breaking through the Boundary Wall while Second Generation "Freud" summoned a tall, mirror-smooth figure and a dark-skinned wild woman to stop Old Zheng from escaping.

Lin Yu recognized the two Sages who arrived to support Freud and realized Old Zheng might not be able to hold her off for long. Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch recognized Lin Yu too, but claimed the Central Mechanism’s will prevented him from acting with hostility, leaving Lin Yu to face him while the battle continued.

• Lin Yu identified the newcomers as Sages embodying Authorities of Life and worried their presence would shorten the time Old Zheng could buy him.
• The Dark-skinned Female Sage raised a thorn cage around Old Zheng and Freud, who began clashing through their spiritual and soul powers.
• Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch recognized Lin Yu as the Director and greeted him without showing hostility.
• Lin Yu questioned the Mechanism’s special investment in Freud and provoked Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch with his own past boasts.
• Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch said the Mechanism’s will overrode his personal will outside their world, and Lin Yu sensed that an unnatural force had erased his anger.

Lin Yu negotiated with Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch after Freud captured Old Zheng, learning that the Saint Monarch had been demoted and that Lu Xiao had supposedly been executed. He secured a promise that the Sages would avoid fighting him unless he attacked Freud, leaving Old Zheng’s fate uncertain.

• Lin Yu asked Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch to persuade Freud to release Old Zheng, but the Saint Monarch said Central Mechanism had no authority to interfere with her commission.
• Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch revealed that his authority had been reduced after his plan failed and that Lu Xiao had been executed by Central Mechanism.
• Lin Yu considered whether Lu Xiao’s death explained the vitality of the Calamity Authority he sensed through Black Swan’s Blood, and felt some regret at losing a potential ally.
• Lin Yu asked the Saint Monarch to turn a blind eye to his actions and protect him if Freud exceeded her commission by attacking him.
• Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch promised to minimize conflict between Lin Yu and Freud as long as Lin Yu did not attack her, reassuring Lin Yu while Old Zheng remained in Freud’s custody.

Lin Yu learned that a foreign god was disrupting the Eternal Prison and sending someone toward him, while the Gray Domain Sages agreed to offer limited help. Their attempt to set the terms of that help ended when Trembling Queen suddenly forgot the Mechanism’s request, leaving Lin Yu and Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch confused.

• Lin Yu saw Old Zheng use fragments of hidden memories to slow Second Generation "Freud" and resist her attempt to take control of his soul.
• Lin Yu noted that the two Gray Domain Sages had become less willing to assist "Freud" after negotiating with him.
• Trembling Queen sensed an otherworldly god's follower approaching and trying to decipher her Thorn Encirclement.
• Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch told Lin Yu that a god was likely causing chaos in the Eternal Prison, and Lin Yu suspected the newcomer might be coming for him.
• Trembling Queen said the Mechanism would provide minimum assistance in exchange for one request, but then forgot what the request was.

Lin Yu resisted an Authority-level power of Oblivion by recording information into his body and worked out how the others were protecting themselves. After refusing the Central Mechanism’s offer to trade for a Soul Fragment, he asked Old Zheng whether the new power shared a source with the memory-erasing method from Mist Island.

• Lin Yu recognized that Oblivion was erasing everyone’s memories and used the Ancient Notebook to engrave reminders into his skin.
• Old Zheng used the Dream Casket to loop his memories, and Lin Yu sent him information that helped prevent him from forgetting himself.
• Lin Yu observed Second Generation Freud purifying her Soul Power to resist Oblivion and realized the power could be at the level of an Authority.
• The Central Mechanism explained that it had taken over the Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch and Trembling Queen to shield their selves from Oblivion.
• Lin Yu refused the Central Mechanism’s proposed exchange for a Soul Fragment and asked Old Zheng whether Oblivion came from the same source as his Mist Island memory-erasing method.

Lin Yu and Old Zheng traced the asylum’s Oblivion mechanism to a god’s Authority, but Lin Yu realized the power was hiding a crucial clue. By erasing his memories and recovering them after a brief interval, Lin Yu identified the mist as the Authority’s extension and uncovered a mysterious man who had been watching him throughout multiple Instances.

• Old Zheng recalled that he had obtained the asylum’s Oblivion mechanism through a forgotten transaction with a god from Mist Island.
• Lin Yu sensed that Oblivion was preventing them from noticing a crucial clue, so he used the [Dream Casket] to extract his memories and let the power erase them.
• After Old Zheng restored the memories, Lin Yu recognized that the mist was how the Authority of Oblivion took effect.
• Lin Yu noticed a pale-faced man standing beside him, then realized the man had watched him throughout the current events and the previous [One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest] Instance.
• The man met Lin Yu’s gaze and said, “You finally... noticed me.”

Lin Yu confronted the Pale Man, who revealed that he was the God of Oblivion’s Chosen of God, merged with the deity’s will. The Pale Man explained why he had watched Lin Yu and why he had come to capture him, then refused Lin Yu’s attempt to negotiate.

• Lin Yu deduced that the Pale Man was more powerful than an ordinary Chosen of God or Demigod, and the Pale Man revealed that he and the God of Oblivion were one in will.
• The Pale Man explained that he had watched Lin Yu because an opposing deity had shown unusual interest in him, and he believed Lin Yu was destined to become a deity.
• The Pale Man said the God of Oblivion had accepted a Demigod’s commission to capture Lin Yu, while keeping his own existence forgotten even by his deity so he could observe Lin Yu unnoticed.
• Lin Yu argued that the Pale Man could change the capture order because he shared the deity’s will, and urged him to judge Lin Yu’s value for himself.
• The Pale Man rejected negotiation, saying he knew Lin Yu was likely to deceive him and that Lin Yu’s relationship with the opposing deity made them birds of a feather.

Lin Yu tried to negotiate cooperation with the Chosen of God of Oblivion, but discovered the conversation had been a means of stalling while Oblivion’s influence took effect. He realized he had not forgotten anything; instead, the mist had caused him to be forgotten, and the Chosen welcomed him to the Kingdom of the Forgotten.

• Lin Yu claimed he had no allegiance to the Crow and said he preferred the god of Pure Ruins, while the Chosen of God of Oblivion confirmed that his commission did not rule out cooperation.
• God of Oblivion said someone else had influenced the God of Fairness and Judgment, and Lin Yu inferred that a third outside group was involved.
• Lin Yu proposed cooperating directly or through Freud, but the Chosen of God of Oblivion admitted he had been stalling and had planned to make Lin Yu part of Oblivion.
• The Chosen of God of Oblivion explained that the mist itself manifested Oblivion, and Lin Yu noticed it had swallowed his senses and severed his Mental Power connection with Old Zheng.
• Lin Yu realized that Oblivion had not made him forget anything but had made him forgotten, and the Chosen welcomed him to the Kingdom of the Forgotten.

Oblivion God's Chosen tried to overwhelm Lin Yu with forgotten memories in the Kingdom of the Forgotten and make him surrender his sense of self. Lin Yu resisted with ease, revealing that he had endured an even greater flood of memories before, while Oblivion God's Chosen remained stunned by his ability.

• Oblivion God's Chosen told Lin Yu that the Kingdom of the Forgotten was a projection and that he intended to make Lin Yu a vessel for the Oblivion Authority.
• Oblivion God's Chosen filled Lin Yu's mind with other beings' memories, but Lin Yu recognized they were foreign and broke their influence by cutting his arm with a kitchen knife.
• Oblivion God's Chosen sent increasingly dense streams of memories into Lin Yu, expecting them to erase his sense of self.
• After ten minutes and tens of thousands of memories, Lin Yu remained self-aware and explained that he was naturally able to immerse himself in other lives and step back out.
• Lin Yu revealed that he had once divided his soul into more than a hundred million fragments and encountered the memories of over a hundred million people, leaving Oblivion God's Chosen astonished.

Lin Yu recognized that the God of Oblivion also wielded memory authority and used his Limit Breaking Jade Cleaver to expand his mark’s connection to the God of Truth, Falsehood, and Change. As the crows arrived, the God’s Chosen attacked, but a falling feather began dissolving the mist tentacles.

• Lin Yu realized his unusual ability to absorb countless memories came from his weak sense of self, and deduced that the God of Oblivion also controlled memory authority.
• Lin Yu revealed he had been stalling too, then used the Limit Breaking Jade Cleaver to remove the limits on his mark’s connection to the God of Truth, Falsehood, and Change.
• Crows flew into the God of Oblivion’s kingdom, prompting the Chosen to launch a desperate attack with mist tentacles.
• Lin Yu found he had forgotten how to dodge, but a black crow feather touched a tentacle and turned it into foam.

Lin Yu summoned Crow to help him resist the God of Oblivion’s Chosen, and Crow revealed that he could easily protect Lin Yu despite being unable to defeat the enemy directly. Crow also explained that he had prevented the God of Oblivion from obtaining the Memory Authority because both gods sought greater power over their shared world.

• Lin Yu recognized Crow as an unusually powerful god who controlled three Authorities and had repeatedly interfered with the Death game.
• Crow appeared beside Lin Yu and said his Projection could not defeat the God of Oblivion’s Chosen but could easily carry Lin Yu to safety.
• Lin Yu warned Crow that the Chosen might wield the Memory Authority, and Crow explained that borrowing an Authority could resemble possessing it.
• Crow revealed that he had interrupted the God of Oblivion’s attempt to obtain the Memory Authority and hidden it away.
• Crow told Lin Yu that gods seeking power beyond three Authorities would aim to control the World Will of their own world.

Lin Yu learned how divine advancement and secret knowledge affected the Death game's difficulty, then escaped the Kingdom of the Forgotten with Crow's help. He returned to a shadow-covered Eternal Prison, where an upside-down girl appeared and announced that she had come to erase him.

• Lin Yu considered the risks of learning secrets and realized Order had suppressed the strategy of limiting knowledge because of the coming Final Trials.
• Crow revealed that the trapped Mist Island demigod was helping hold down the Pale Man, then showed Lin Yu the way out of the Kingdom of the Forgotten.
• Lin Yu crossed the mist boundary and returned to the Eternal Prison, where black shadows covered the terrain and everyone, including Old Zheng, while his mental link to Old Zheng remained severed.
• An upside-down girl appeared in the sky and told Lin Yu she had come to erase him.

Lin Yu escaped the Goddess of Shadow, Pain, and Nightmare by retreating into the Ancient Notebook and returned to the Kingdom of the Forgotten. Crow advised him to wait while the gods fought, then served him melted coconut-flavored ice cream that linked his soul to a high-level power.

• The Goddess of Shadow, Pain, and Nightmare swallowed Lin Yu in shadow, but he used the Ancient Notebook to shelter his soul and return to the Kingdom of the Forgotten.
• Lin Yu found Crow and learned that the Goddess of Shadow, Pain, and Nightmare had ambushed him and was fighting the God of Fairness and Judgment outside.
• Crow said he could not defeat the Goddess of Shadow, Pain, and Nightmare and advised Lin Yu to wait while Crow held off the Oblivion God's Chosen.
• Crow joked about putting a pebble into his drink to honor the crow from the story of 'Crow Drinks Water,' then drank from his cup.
• Lin Yu tasted Crow's drink, recognized it as melted coconut-flavored ice cream, and felt it establish a link between his soul and a high-level power.

Lin Yu accepted a permanent connection to an unknown Authority related to Deception, then chose to act against the gods instead of waiting. Crow used the Authority of Truth to make Lin Yu’s unfinished opening of the Eternal Prison’s Boundary Wall become real, transporting him to the prison’s innermost region.

• Crow gave Lin Yu a drink that connected him permanently to an unknown Authority related to Deception and warned that pursuing it could lead to a dangerous struggle.
• Lin Yu decided not to wait for the God of Fairness and Judgment to deal with the God of Oblivion and the God of Shadows.
• Crow advised Lin Yu that the God of Shadows focused on souls and minds, coveted Fear, and should not be resisted if She dragged him into shadows and nightmares.
• Crow revealed that he was the God of Truth, Falsehood, and Change, then placed a black feather in Lin Yu’s collar and made Lin Yu’s unfinished action become Truth.
• Lin Yu found himself holding the [Ancient Notebook] in the innermost region of the Eternal Prison, with the fog and the gods’ presence gone.

Lin Yu descended into the Eternal Prison’s central pit and found a cell with a sentence of billions of years. The doors opened for him, and he entered to find a familiar-looking woman waiting inside.

• Lin Yu used Butterfly Wing and the Wind Vein Technique to descend the steep walls of the Eternal Prison.
• He found a cell whose golden lock displayed a sentence measured in billions of years and decided to contact its prisoner.
• The lock and both Metal Doors opened automatically when Lin Yu approached them.
• After the prisoner invited him inside, Lin Yu entered and saw a platinum-haired, radiant woman sitting in the cell.

Lin Yu learned that Bai Ying was Bai Yue’s teacher and one of her two mothers, and heard how Bai Yue had been conceived to preserve the royal succession. After Lin Yu reassured her that Bai Yue was safe on Mist Island, Bai Ying explained that she had approached him because his Mental Power and lingering auras resembled things from her world.

• Lin Yu recognized Bai Ying’s resemblance to Princess Bai Yue and questioned her connection to her.
• Bai Ying revealed that she was Bai Yue’s teacher, her aunt, and one of her mothers, while Lin Yu pressed her to explain the circumstances of Bai Yue’s birth.
• Bai Ying explained that she and the Queen had conceived Bai Yue to secure an heir after her brother became unable to reproduce, and admitted she had fallen in love with the Queen.
• Lin Yu told Bai Ying that Bai Yue lived peacefully on the 6th Island and had once saved his life.
• Bai Ying said she had approached Lin Yu because his use of Mental Power was unique to her world and familiar auras lingered on him.

Lin Yu learned that Bai Ying, a leading Mist Island researcher, had been imprisoned for participating in a planned campaign to destroy multiple worlds. She began explaining that the plan was offered by the powerful being worshiped by Kong Han, leaving the details of the arrangement unresolved.

• Bai Ying projected three familiar figures for Lin Yu, who recognized Kong Han and learned that he had once collaborated with her on alchemy research.
• Bai Ying learned that Kong Han was imprisoned in the Middle Ring, while Lin Yu explained that she was held in the Core Zone and their locations likely kept them apart.
• Bai Ying said Kong Han worshiped an unknown high-ranking existence connected to the reason she was imprisoned.
• Bai Ying revealed that she had been the Honorary President of the Spirit Domain Research Association and chief researcher of the Royal Academy of Sciences, leading efforts to prepare for an apocalypse.
• Bai Ying explained that she was sentenced for joining a trans-world plan to save her civilization by arranging for participating worlds to destroy one another.

Bai Ying explained that the game’s Final Trial caused escalating disasters across the Ten Realms, and that her era faced an impending apocalypse because its Players were far stronger than those of previous trials. Lin Yu began to suspect the identity of a Player who had killed a god, but the timing did not match the fall of the God of Destiny.

• Lin Yu questioned how invading other worlds could prevent an apocalypse, and Bai Ying confirmed that this was the method she had used.
• Bai Ying explained that the game’s will treated the Ten Realms’ inhabitants as expendable and periodically sent a Final Trial that caused upheaval across worlds.
• Bai Ying said Mist Island Realm’s records described two earlier trials with limited disasters, but her era’s omens threatened to distort every living soul.
• Bai Ying revealed that the current Players were exceptionally powerful, including some who had mastered Authority and one who had killed a god alone.
• Lin Yu wondered whether the dead god was the God of Destiny, then concluded the timing did not fit because that god fell during the Final Trial.