Recaps

Lin Yu analyzed how the Death game altered the Ten Realms and confirmed from Bai Ying that it had created their apocalypses as a Final Trial for Players. He learned that Bai Ying’s group had caused predictable destruction across other worlds to avert their own worlds’ worse apocalypses, and the chapter ended with her explaining why they took turns carrying out the plan.

• Lin Yu reviewed Order’s records and concluded that the Death game anchored Instance entry times while unevenly accelerating time across the Ten Realms.
• Lin Yu reasoned that the Death game reshaped the Ten Realms through its Rules, Players, and influence on powerful beings.
• Lin Yu confirmed from Bai Ying that the Death game had created the Ten Realms’ apocalypses to put Players through a Final Trial.
• Lin Yu concluded that the Death game ought to disappear, though he knew he could not make it vanish.
• Lin Yu asked Bai Ying whether her group had created chaos and apocalypses in other worlds to prevent their own worlds’ destructive apocalypses.
• Bai Ying explained that they had staged predictable, limited apocalypses across worlds to satisfy the Game’s scrutiny and make the burden of destroying civilizations easier to bear.

Lin Yu learned that Bai Ying helped orchestrate an artificial apocalypse across the Ten Realms, partly to protect Princess Bai Yue and partly because she enjoyed studying how to destroy supernatural systems. Bai Ying identified the God of Frost as a former ally who now hunts Players, and revealed that the third familiar presence she sensed was another Player.

• Bai Ying admitted that she had willingly taken part in destroying other worlds and had protected Princess Bai Yue in a specially built Sleep Pod.
• Bai Ying told Lin Yu that more than thirty people joined the operation, with seventeen imprisoned and half the participants dead.
• Bai Ying confirmed that the God of Frost had become a god during the operation and was imprisoned in the Eternal Prison.
• Bai Ying identified the God of Frost as a former Great Sage and researcher from the Night Valley Realm who had visited Mist Island with the mysterious being.
• Bai Ying said the third familiar presence was a Player rather than a prisoner, and Lin Yu admitted he was also puzzled by the connection.

Lin Yu learned that the previous-generation Player Xiao Yuan had used an unfamiliar power and might have been connected to Shen Bingmiao and Lin Zhao. He suspected Xiao Yuan could disguise herself as the man described by Nightless Sky Yong Lian, then asked Bai Ying to guide him through the Eternal Prison's Core Zone.

• Bai Ying described Xiao Yuan as a powerful woman interested in the Ten Realms, whose unusual power let her crush targets from a distance.
• Lin Yu recognized Xiao Yuan's code name from Nightless Sky Yong Lian's account of a heavily built Player who had traveled with Shen Bingmiao, and suspected Xiao Yuan could change her appearance.
• Bai Ying admitted that she had admired Xiao Yuan and remembered her because Xiao Yuan was her type, though they had collaborated only briefly.
• Bai Ying explained that she had asked Lin Yu about Xiao Yuan and the Mist Island Realm, and thanked him for confirming that Bai Yue was safe.
• Lin Yu asked Bai Ying to take him around the Eternal Prison's Core Zone, and she said the request might be beyond her capabilities.

Lin Yu learned that Bai Ying would not leave her cell because she feared the God of Fairness and Judgment might revoke her leniency and imprison Princess Bai Yue. In the Divine Realm, Shen Bingmiao asked the God of Banquets to help a Player trapped in the God of Fairness and Judgment’s Divine Kingdom and hunted by other deities.

• Lin Yu asked Bai Ying to accompany him, but she refused because leaving her cell could endanger Bai Yue, who had participated in the crimes behind Bai Ying’s sentence.
• Bai Ying agreed to help Lin Yu in other ways as long as she did not have to leave the cell.
• The God of Banquets watched the commotion around the God of Fairness and Judgment’s Divine Kingdom and chose to focus on his food and wine.
• Shen Bingmiao appeared in cartoon form before the God of Banquets and asked him to assist a Player trapped in the Divine Kingdom.
• Shen Bingmiao explained that the Player was being hunted by the God of Shadow, Pain, and Nightmare and the God of Oblivion, and that a false deity from the Gray Domain had also become involved.

Shen Bingmiao asked the God of Feasts to help protect a player trapped in the God of Fairness and Judgment’s Divine Kingdom, where Shadow and Oblivion were attacking. The God of Feasts agreed to consider helping after Shen Bingmiao invoked an old debt, and she proposed that he rescue her powerful player friend from a runaway Chaos Kingdom so the friend could enter the Divine Kingdom.

• Shen Bingmiao asked the God of Feasts to intervene against Shadow and Oblivion, but he refused to violate his principles or enter another deity’s Divine Kingdom.
• The God of Feasts argued that the player could handle the weakened avatars of the attacking deities while they focused on the God of Fairness and Judgment.
• Shen Bingmiao warned that demigod players who had commissioned the attack posed an additional threat and explained she could not accept harm coming to the player.
• The God of Feasts said his intervention could destabilize the Divine Kingdom further, so Shen Bingmiao offered to find a way for him to help without entering it or directly attacking anyone.
• Shen Bingmiao reminded the God of Feasts that her kindness had helped sustain his Divine Kingdom’s banquet and had placed the authority of fine food there.
• The God of Feasts softened, and Shen Bingmiao proposed that he rescue her powerful player friend, who was trapped in a runaway Chaos Kingdom.

Shen Bingmiao persuaded the God of Banquets to send help into the Chaos Kingdom of Ocean and Storm, while secretly arranging additional backup. In the Eternal Prison, Lin Yu used Bai Ying’s lessons to open another cell and prepared to question its prisoner.

• Shen Bingmiao secured the God of Banquets’ offer to have his Chosen of God guide a Player out of the Chaos Kingdom of Ocean and Storm.
• The God of Banquets realized Shen Bingmiao had chosen him because of his familiarity with Ocean and Storm, and Shen Bingmiao admitted her true body was already elsewhere.
• Shen Bingmiao said she would find another fellow as extra insurance while the God of Banquets set out to help.
• Lin Yu continued through the Eternal Prison after learning from Bai Ying how to use Mental Power and exploit the prison locks’ authorization systems.
• Lin Yu confused the next lock’s recognition function and opened the cell, hoping its prisoner could provide information about the previous Death game and Senior Sister.

Lin Yu encountered Yun Jushi, a Prisoner from the Prison Mountain Realm who had been suspended in his own blood, and questioned him about the Ten Realms’ apocalypse plot. Yun Jushi learned Lin Yu was an Inter-Realm Walker and lamented that the seal meant to bar such travelers had failed.

• Lin Yu entered the next cell and found a wounded man hanging upside down, still alive despite his severe injuries.
• The man awakened, guessed Lin Yu had come to break someone out, then freed himself and landed before him.
• Lin Yu explained he was seeking Prisoners who had participated in the plan to create apocalypses across the Ten Realms, hoping to learn about a missing sibling.
• The man introduced himself as Yun Jushi, a Daoist Mage from the Prison Mountain Realm, and questioned how little time had passed in Lin Yu’s world.
• Lin Yu revealed he was a Player able to travel between worlds, and Yun Jushi concluded that the effort to seal off the Prison Mountain Realm had failed.

Lin Yu told Yun Jushi that Prison Mountain Realm remained harsh but its people, Daoist sects, and traditions had endured, easing Yun Jushi’s despair over the Sealing of Prison Mountain. Yun Jushi then explained that he had inflicted his own wounds to use an old sacrificial technique to find brief relief from the cage’s denial of sleep.

• Lin Yu explained that the Sealing of Prison Mountain had kept players out for five hundred years and described the hardships and surviving traditions of Prison Mountain Realm.
• Yun Jushi asked for the truth about Prison Mountain Realm, and Lin Yu said demons and disasters plagued it but villages, Daoist sects, and martial arts halls remained.
• Lin Yu told Yun Jushi that the Daoist friends who sealed the Two Mountains and Six Hells were now called Dao Ancestors, and Yun Jushi thanked him for the news.
• Yun Jushi asked why Lin Yu had come, and Lin Yu asked whether the God of Fairness and Judgment had caused his wounds.
• Yun Jushi said he had wounded himself and used an old living-sacrifice method to put his soul into a brief sleep because the cage deprived him of sleep and the ability to stop thinking.

Lin Yu learned why the Eternal Prison left its most dangerous prisoners alone and questioned Yun Jushi about his sister, Lin Zhao. Yun Jushi had no memory of a woman resembling Lin Yu, leading Lin Yu to suspect Lin Zhao had operated under multiple identities and connect her to a mysterious Player who worked with Shen Bingmiao.

• Lin Yu concluded that the Eternal Prison's quiet isolation forced its most dangerous prisoners to confront their doubts, while Bai Ying's daughter gave her hope that Yun Jushi lacked.
• Lin Yu adjusted his approach to Yun Jushi and asked whether he had met a young woman who looked like Lin Yu.
• Yun Jushi said he could not recall anyone who resembled Lin Yu and asked for more identifying details.
• Lin Yu believed Yun Jushi was telling the truth but found his lack of recognition suspicious because Lin Zhao had likely participated in the Ten Realms plan.
• Lin Yu concluded that Lin Zhao had used multiple identities in the Ten Realms and recalled a previous-version Player with similar abilities who had acted with Shen Bingmiao.

Lin Yu questioned Yun Jushi about Xiao Yuan and began to suspect that the mysterious figure was his elder sister, Lin Zhao. After Yun Jushi described Xiao Yuan’s past efforts to protect the Prison Mountain Realm, he asked Lin Yu to accept his inheritance and act in his stead.

• Lin Yu considered whether Xiao Yuan’s many connections to Shen Bingmiao and the creation of the Cyber Ghost's Electronic Coffin pointed to Lin Zhao.
• Yun Jushi recalled that a male Inter-Realm Walker named Xiao Yuan had advised Daoist practitioners and helped form Sealing Off the Two Mountains.
• Yun Jushi said Xiao Yuan was regarded as a benevolent, exceptionally talented cultivator, but he did not know where Xiao Yuan went after the Chaos of Huotian began.
• Lin Yu told Yun Jushi he would investigate Xiao Yuan’s whereabouts and determine whether he was Lin Yu’s relative.
• Yun Jushi reconsidered Lin Yu’s earlier hesitation and recognized that his own slumber offered little help to the suffering Prison Mountain Realm.
• Yun Jushi asked Lin Yu whether he would accept his inheritance and help the Prison Mountain Realm.

Lin Yu persuaded Yun Jushi to pass on his knowledge of the Prison Mountain Realm, claiming he hoped to help its suffering people. Yun Jushi used the Mind Imprint Secret Technique to transfer his lifelong insights, and Lin Yu left with a vast inheritance that he had fully recorded in the [Ancient Notebook].

• Lin Yu realized he could gain guidance from the prisoners by appealing to their sense of responsibility for their worlds.
• Yun Jushi offered to impart his knowledge of the Prison Mountain Realm through the Mind Imprint Secret Technique.
• Lin Yu hesitated and urged Yun Jushi to reserve the rare technique for someone from the Prison Mountain Realm, but Yun Jushi insisted on passing it to him.
• Yun Jushi pressed his hand to Lin Yu's chest and transferred his Daoist Arts, occult arts, martial arts, and personal insights.
• Lin Yu told Yun Jushi he had remembered more than half of the inheritance, though the [Ancient Notebook] had recorded all of it.
• Yun Jushi praised Lin Yu's character and trusted that he would help the people of the Prison Mountain Realm.

Lin Yu accepted Yun Fengyang as his master and promised to pass on his Daoist inheritance by establishing a sect in the Prison Mountain Realm. After leaving Yun Fengyang’s cell with new knowledge and leads, Lin Yu opened another prison door and found himself facing the God of Frost.

• Lin Yu told Yun Jushi he would honor him as his master and establish a sect to preserve and teach the Daoist arts.
• Yun Jushi accepted Lin Yu as his disciple, warned him to choose students carefully, and revealed his true name, Yun Fengyang.
• Yun Fengyang shared the locations of Daoist scriptures and sect Cave Dwellings, advising Lin Yu to return any treasures to surviving inheritors.
• Lin Yu bid Yun Fengyang farewell and continued through the Eternal Prison while recording the inheritance in his Ancient Notebook.
• Lin Yu opened another cell and recognized the white-haired mage inside as the God of Frost, but frost froze both his legs before he could escape.

Lin Yu confronted the God of Frost in the Core Zone and used the Ancient Notebook and Information Authority to counter the frost’s effect on his soul. After the God of Frost attacked the notebook itself, he explained that Lin Yu’s dependence on the sealed Information Authority made him fundamentally different from a god.

• Lin Yu realized he had opened the God of Frost’s cell and found frost freezing his body and slowing his thoughts.
• Lin Yu used the Ancient Notebook to transform part of his soul into an Information Lifeform, restoring and accelerating his thinking.
• Lin Yu collapsed his frozen body and formed a new one, but the God of Frost used the brief transition to apply Frost Authority to the Ancient Notebook.
• Lin Yu and the God of Frost clashed their Authorities directly, warping the Divine Realm around them.
• The God of Frost told Lin Yu that gods control their Authorities, while Lin Yu’s existence depended on the Information Authority.

Lin Yu faced the God of Frost as she used her Authority to freeze the Ancient Notebook and carve out a Divine Kingdom inside the prison. Although she blocked his apparent calls for help and seemed ready to claim him, Lin Yu revealed that his real counterattack involved another Authority, and a photograph appeared behind her as the frost began to crack.

• The God of Frost’s Authority gained the advantage over the Information Authority, and Lin Yu felt its freezing effects return to his body and soul.
• The God of Frost formed a small Divine Kingdom within the prison, exposing and freezing Lin Yu’s hidden Mental Power and True Essence.
• The God of Frost explained that she had blocked Lin Yu’s call for help to avoid complications and insisted that neither his teachers nor other mortals could defeat her.
• Lin Yu admitted he had underestimated the God of Frost, then revealed that his apparent calls for help had only been a smokescreen and that another Authority could oppose hers.
• An old photograph appeared behind the God of Frost, and a fissure split the ice inside her Divine Kingdom.

Lin Yu used the damaged Authority of Destiny and his Karma Threads Divine Ability to pull the God of Frost into a vision of the god’s past. There, Lin Yu discovered a dead woman whose significance enraged the God of Frost, then exploited the god’s restrictions in the illusion to provoke him and prepare his next move.

• Lin Yu revealed that his incomplete Authority was Destiny, and the God of Frost recognized it as the source of the Karma Threads Divine Ability.
• The Karma Threads became real, pierced the God of Frost’s defenses, and dragged both him and Lin Yu into an illusion of the god’s past.
• Lin Yu and the God of Frost appeared in a mage tower, where they found a woman in a gray robe lying dead in a pool of blood.
• Lin Yu questioned the God of Frost about the woman, provoking the god into attacking him with frost.
• Lin Yu dodged the attacks, struck the God of Frost with an ore, and realized the god’s power was restricted and his anger was clouding his judgment.
• The woman’s body twitched and released a faint sigh.

Lin Yu used the Karma Threads illusion to show the God of Frost how her teacher Serina died, then argued that the death was an accident rather than a deliberate killing. He urged the God of Frost to reconsider her plan to take his identity and suggested she could end her suffering by finding a way to revive Serina.

• The God of Frost suspected Lin Yu had manipulated the illusion, and he explained that he had rewound its phantom past rather than resurrected Serina.
• Lin Yu witnessed Serina and her disciple Willen argue over whether to reveal a dangerous magical technology that might save people from the apocalypse.
• Serina attacked Willen, but his experimental Ice Surface Prism reflected her magic and fatally wounded her.
• The God of Frost admitted she felt responsible for Serina's death, while Lin Yu called it an accident and linked her guilt to her drive to return to the Night Valley Realm.
• The God of Frost said she would still take Lin Yu's identity and follow her plan, but Lin Yu claimed he could help her leave the Eternal Prison and suggested she try to bring Serina back to life.

Lin Yu convinced the God of Frost that the Death game might be able to resurrect her deceased teacher, Serina, and proposed reaching the game’s level of power as a path to do so. When she questioned why he had considered resurrection so deeply, Lin Yu revealed that he also wanted to bring someone important back to life.

• Lin Yu used the God of Frost’s attachment to Teacher Serina to persuade her to hear him out.
• The God of Frost argued that ordinary deaths were irreversible, but Lin Yu pointed out that the Death game resurrected Players who had died in their own worlds.
• Lin Yu suggested that reaching a rank comparable to the Death game might grant them the power to resurrect the dead, though Serina’s long absence could make it difficult.
• The God of Frost asked why Lin Yu had told her about this, and he admitted that he also wanted to resurrect someone important to him.

Lin Yu persuaded the God of Frost to join him in seeking a way to resurrect Teacher Serina and proposed using the Death game to investigate how to surpass the World Will. He also offered her a supposed way to leave the Eternal Prison temporarily, then promised to negotiate with the God of Fairness and Judgment.

• Lin Yu honestly admitted that he had no concrete plan to resurrect Lin Zhao, but proposed that the God of Frost explore whether the Death game could lead beyond the gods.
• The God of Frost agreed to investigate, and Lin Yu said he would catch up as he advanced his tier and accommodated an Authority.
• Lin Yu told the God of Frost that he could use [Guest Appearance Invitation] to summon her into other worlds, including Night Valley, though he had invented the ability.
• The God of Frost believed the invitation could let her escape temporarily but worried the God of Fairness and Judgment would notice and punish her when she returned.
• Lin Yu promised to negotiate with the God of Fairness and Judgment, claiming he could persuade her as well.

Lin Yu and the God of Frost discussed resurrecting their loved ones, and the God of Frost revealed what the Sword of Judgment had looked like and done. Lin Yu recognized the figure as his older sister, Lin Zhao, and learned she had nearly wiped out the Blood Clan.

• Lin Yu ended the Karma Threads Illusion and reassured the God of Frost that he genuinely intended to help resurrect Serina and his own sister.
• The God of Frost returned the photograph and asked whether the woman carrying Destiny was Lin Yu’s sister; Lin Yu confirmed she was Lin Zhao.
• The God of Frost sculpted an image of the Sword of Judgment, whose appearance resembled Lily Sobieski as Joan of Arc rather than the woman in Lin Yu’s photograph.
• Lin Yu concluded that Lin Zhao had disguised herself as the Sword of Judgment and asked the God of Frost about her deeds in the Night Valley Realm.
• The God of Frost said the Sword of Judgment had slaughtered nearly the entire Blood Clan, leaving only second-generation species and a few purebloods.

Lin Yu learned from the God of Frost that the Night Valley Realm’s true apocalypse stemmed from the Abyssal Lord’s fall and the worsening fusion of planes, leaving the realm’s magic and resources increasingly uniform and scarce. As the God of Frost hoped to return and help, a new Authority began taking over the core of the Eternal Prison, and a huge black eye appeared beyond Lin Yu’s cell.

• The God of Frost explained how the Sword of Judgment weakened the Abyss, but the Abyssal Lord’s fall accelerated plane fusion and caused lasting harm to the Night Valley Realm.
• Lin Yu realized the realm’s shortages and poor living conditions came partly from its changing magic, not just its ongoing war with the Abyss.
• The God of Frost described the limits of the Night Valley Realm’s churches and said he hoped to return and research a way to separate planes.
• Lin Yu promised to try to persuade the God of Fairness and Judgment to let the God of Frost leave the Eternal Prison.
• The Eternal Prison shook as a new Authority eroded the God of Fairness and Judgment’s power over its core region.
• Lin Yu and the God of Frost saw a massive black eye staring at the prison beyond the cell door.

Lin Yu and the God of Frost faced the God of Shadows after she seized the Eternal Prison’s Core Zone and came for Lin Yu. The God of Shadows used Lin Yu’s Authorities to exploit the prison’s Rules, then reached for him while allowing him a chance to resist.

• Lin Yu recognized the enormous eye as the God of Shadows and realized she had come specifically to capture him.
• The God of Frost explained that the prison’s Rules still suppressed her and that she could not protect Lin Yu from the God of Shadows.
• Lin Yu took out the [Ancient Notebook] and [Fragment of Fate], but the God of Frost warned him to put them away.
• Shadows spread over both Authorities and covered Lin Yu and the God of Frost, allowing the God of Shadows to exploit the prison’s Rules and locate Lin Yu.
• The God of Shadows emerged from the shadows and sent crawling black substances toward Lin Yu, taunting him with a chance to escape.
• Lin Yu realized he could not directly stop the ancient goddess, who had already overcome the God of Fairness and Judgment for control of the Core Zone.

Cornered by the God of Shadows, Lin Yu used the Fraudster’s belief ability to gain true knowledge of the Fear Authority’s location and tried to bargain for his life. The God of Shadows rejected both his offer of information and his promise to deliver the Authority, leaving Lin Yu’s fate unresolved.

• Lin Yu assessed his usable items and abilities, then used the Fear Torch and Sage’s Emblem to make the God of Shadows believe he knew where the Fear Authority was.
• The Fraudster’s ability turned that belief into reality, giving Lin Yu actual knowledge of the Authority’s location.
• Lin Yu offered the God of Shadows information about Fear, but the god said he preferred to find the Authority himself and resumed attacking.
• Lin Yu offered to bring the Fear Authority itself to the God of Shadows in exchange for being released.
• The God of Shadows called the proposal interesting but refused it.

Lin Yu’s attempt to bargain with the God of Shadows failed because she enjoyed the prospect of killing him, so he destroyed his constructed body to escape through the [Ancient Notebook]. He returned to the Eternal Prison only to find the God of Shadows had seized the entire prison, then teleported to Earl and learned that the God of Fairness and Judgment was trapped and his own return condition remained unfinished.

• The God of Shadows refused Lin Yu’s offer, explaining that killing him mattered more to her than the Authority of Fear and that she enjoyed the hunt.
• Lin Yu realized the God of Shadows had accepted the commission partly because she personally wanted to kill him, then destroyed his constructed body to release his soul from the [Ancient Notebook].
• Lin Yu returned to his own body in the Eternal Prison, but discovered the God of Shadows had taken control of the entire prison, including its outer rings.
• Lin Yu used the [Limit Breaking Jade Cleaver] on [Quick Teleport] and teleported to Earl in the Ring of the Sky Curtain.
• Earl told Lin Yu that the God of Fairness and Judgment was trapped but unharmed, and Lin Yu said he still needed one more Duel to complete his return condition.

Lin Yu and Earl tried to create a valid Duel inside the Eternal Prison by finding a Guardian to serve as Lin Yu’s opponent. As the God of Shadows sent sleepwalking prisoners to attack them, Lin Yu reminded Earl of their objective and they continued toward the hidden Guardians.

• Lin Yu and Earl decided a Duel could be held inside the prison if they found an opponent, a venue, and a Notary, and Earl agreed to help.
• Earl carried Lin Yu out of the Ring of the Sky Curtain toward a prisoner or Guardian with strong spiritual abilities, while the God of Shadows noticed them.
• The God of Shadows controlled sleeping prisoners through nightmares, making them attack Earl and Lin Yu in coordinated waves.
• Earl and Lin Yu fought off the prisoners, but the prisoners kept returning, and Earl began to lose control as the battle awakened his violent instincts.
• Lin Yu asked Earl to remember their objective, and Earl calmed down and concluded that the Guardians were hidden while the attackers were prisoners.

Lin Yu used Bidirectional Radar to identify a hidden Guardian, then led Earl beneath the ground after finding no one at the marked spot. They discovered a secret passage created by the God of Frost, whom Lin Yu had recently met in the Core Zone.

• Lin Yu helped Earl recover from the Nightmare Authority’s interference, and Earl restrained the approaching Prisoners with flame ropes.
• Lin Yu activated Bidirectional Radar despite Earl’s warning, making the Prisoners more agile but locating a suspicious, stationary presence beyond Lin Yu’s Mental Power perception.
• Earl and Lin Yu reached the radar’s marked location, but found no Guardian there, and Lin Yu suspected the God of Shadows had used something in the prison to deceive Earl.
• Lin Yu used Talisman Earth Escape Armor to take Earl underground, where they found a hidden passage.
• Lin Yu explained that the God of Frost had created the passage through a Player imprisoned in the Middle Ring, and Earl threatened to report him before Lin Yu asked him to let it go.