Recaps

Lin Yu and Earl freed Nightless Sky Yong Shang from the Nightmare so he could duel the Director and satisfy the conditions for leaving the Eternal Prison. As Prisoners attacked the arena, Lin Yu teleported them to the audience seats just as the God of Shadows tried to crush them with a gigantic foot.

• Lin Yu persuaded Earl to ask the God of Fairness and Judgment to let him summon the God of Frost from prison as support, while Earl still planned to report the God of Frost's violations.
• Earl and Lin Yu found a Shadow Cocoon in the underground passage, and Lin Yu used the [Ancient Notebook] to pit the Information Authority against the Nightmare Authority and wake its occupant.
• Earl brought Lin Yu and the cocoon to an arena in the Middle Ring, where Nightless Sky Yong Shang emerged and agreed to duel the Director under Tier 2 restrictions.
• Prisoners stormed the stadium, and Earl raised walls of flame while some attackers broke through and rushed toward Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Yong Shang.
• Lin Yu used [Quick Teleport] to move himself and Nightless Sky Yong Shang to the audience seats as the God of Shadows' enormous, stocking-clad foot crashed down on the arena.

Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Yong Shang reached the Stadium, where Earl held up the God of Shadows’ Primal Avatar so they could resume their Duel. The God of Oblivion and allies from the Gray Domain then joined the attack, leaving Lin Yu to escape with Quick Teleport.

• Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Yong Shang evaded the God of Shadows’ attack by teleporting to the Audience Seats.
• Earl spread his flames across the Stadium and lifted the God of Shadows’ foot, urging Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Yong Shang to return to the Arena and finish their Duel.
• The God of Shadows revealed that he had allies, and the God of Oblivion emerged from the mist to block the way out.
• Mirror Man, the Trembling Queen, and Second Generation Freud appeared and joined the attack after Schreiber remained hidden.
• The God of Shadows explained that the allies had agreed to divide up Lin Yu’s body and soul, while Earl was already struggling to hold off the Primal Avatar.
• Lin Yu used Quick Teleport and vanished from the spot.

Lin Yu used Quick Teleport to evade his pursuers and conceal his plan to escape Eternal Prison through the breach in its boundary. He nearly reached the Divine Realm, but God of Shadows pushed him back before he could get through.

• Lin Yu repeatedly teleported to evade the pursuers who tracked him across Eternal Prison.
• In a prison cell, Trembling Queen tried to suppress Lin Yu, but he called on Medalo, who briefly restrained her before the Nightmare overtook her again.
• At the Movie Theater, God of Shadows trapped Lin Yu, but Hannah used the button to teleport him to another location.
• Lin Yu reached the breach in Eternal Prison's boundary, revealing that his earlier movements had concealed his attempt to escape directly into the Divine Realm.
• God of Shadows arrived at the breach and used its shadows to push Lin Yu back out.

After failing to escape the Eternal Prison, Lin Yu stopped resisting and negotiated with the God of Shadows over the Authority of “Fear.” He proposed erasing his memories of Fear so the Gray Domain could not uncover its location from his soul, leaving the God of Shadows to consider whether the plan could work.

• Lin Yu discovered that Shadows covered the Eternal Prison’s exit and gave up trying to escape.
• The God of Shadows appeared beside Lin Yu and admitted he wanted information about the Authority of Fear before the Gray Domain could obtain it.
• Lin Yu deduced that the God of Shadows had agreed to split his soul because the Gray Domain might read his memories and learn Fear’s location.
• Lin Yu offered to reveal Fear’s location in exchange for being allowed to leave, but the God of Shadows said killing him took priority.
• Lin Yu proposed erasing his memories about Fear so the Gray Domain could not find the information in his soul.
• The God of Shadows questioned whether Lin Yu could hide those memories from the Gray Domain’s will, and Lin Yu claimed he could erase them completely.

Lin Yu bargained with the God of Shadows for information while hiding that he had arranged a way to survive. As the God of Shadows dragged him into a nightmare, Lin Yu revealed that he had come to help someone get into the Eternal Prison, and Shen Bingmiao arrived with a mercenary who confronted the God of Shadows.

• Lin Yu learned that the Diviner had commissioned the God of Oblivion and was at odds with the God of Change, then pressed the God of Shadows for more information.
• When Lin Yu asked which former-version Players remained alive, the God of Shadows refused to answer, leading Lin Yu to suspect that Copper Furnace or one of its members had commissioned the attack.
• The God of Shadows deduced that Lin Yu was stalling for time and used shadows to drag him into a nightmare.
• Lin Yu revealed that he had come to make it easier for others to enter the Eternal Prison, while a tiny Octopus used the Rule Authority to breach the prison’s defenses.
• Shen Bingmiao announced that a mercenary was coming, and a young woman in a dark teal outfit broke through the Boundary Wall and confronted the God of Shadows.

Lin Yu escaped the shadow blockade’s immediate danger by summoning Shen Bingmiao and Grandmaster to the Eternal Prison. Grandmaster faced the Goddess of Shadow, Pain, and Nightmare’s avatar, and began demonstrating her Heart Domain as the monster attacked.

• Lin Yu used the Cyber Ghost's Electronic Coffin to contact Shen Bingmiao, who explained that she had arranged Grandmaster’s rescue.
• Shen Bingmiao assured Lin Yu that Grandmaster was the best choice to face the Goddess of Shadow, Pain, and Nightmare.
• Grandmaster arrived in the Eternal Prison and told the Goddess that she respected her as a powerful opponent but could handle an avatar.
• The Goddess summoned a monster of shadow, pain, and nightmare and sent it to attack Grandmaster from behind.
• As the monster snapped its jaws at Grandmaster, she exhaled and silenced all sound, while Shen Bingmiao named her Heart Domain technique Subtlety of Hands and Feet and Heaven and Earth Momentum.

Before becoming a Player, Gu Mo fought a giant bear and a pack of wolves in the Alaskan wilderness, seeking a challenge after exhausting her martial growth. As she lay dying, the Death game chose her as a Martial Dao Apprentice, offering a path forward without restrictions on her personal growth.

• Gu Mo traveled to a remote Alaskan town and persuaded a local man she was equipped to survive in the wilderness.
• After learning about a huge bear called the Bear King in South Creek Valley, Gu Mo went into the mountains to find it.
• Gu Mo killed the giant bear but suffered severe injuries and wondered whether her martial dao had reached its limit.
• The bear's blood drew a hungry wolf pack, and Gu Mo defeated the wolves before collapsing from blood loss.
• As Gu Mo lost consciousness, the Death game welcomed her as a Player and granted her the Unique Profession Martial Dao Apprentice.

Gu Mo recalled how her growth as a Martial Dao Apprentice led her to challenge Diviner and how his Heart Domain exposed the limits of her martial arts. In a battle against a monster formed from shadow, nightmare, and agony, she awakened her own Heart Domain and struck with the momentum of the world will, shattering the monster’s authority powers.

• Gu Mo reflected on how her profession let her grow through training and combat despite lacking tier advancement and usable items.
• She joined Order and repeatedly sought out Diviner to gauge her strength, while he usually avoided fighting her.
• When Diviner reached Tier 4, he used Heart Domain against Gu Mo and nearly killed her, warning that her martial arts were vulnerable to high-ranking powers.
• Gu Mo reconsidered her path and realized that martial dao itself could wield power over reality, awakening her own Heart Domain.
• Gu Mo’s Heart Domain made her punches carry the world will, and she struck the monster fused from shadow, nightmare, and agony, shattering its authority powers.

Gu Mo fought the God of Shadows in the Eternal Prison, using her Heart Domain and grappling techniques to restrain his Authority-powered avatar. When the God of Shadows called on the God of Oblivion to attack Lin Yu, Shen Bingmiao’s promised Double Protection appeared to intercept it.

• Gu Mo’s punches cracked the God of Shadows’ Primal Avatar and disrupted his shadow Authority.
• The God of Shadows spread shadows across the Eternal Prison, but Gu Mo reshaped his avatar into human form and locked his hands with a grappling technique.
• The God of Shadows summoned Nightmare Monsters to bind Gu Mo’s arms and called on the God of Oblivion to eliminate Lin Yu.
• A pale man approached Lin Yu with tentacles, but a hooded figure formed from electric currents appeared and caught one with a skeletal hand.

Lin Yu learned that Fang Qing had come to rescue him at the request of someone important to him, and she protected him from the God of Oblivion with her powerful Heart Domain. As the God’s authority began affecting Fang Qing, she revealed that a true Player could save and reload, then restored herself after briefly forgetting who she was.

• Shen Bingmiao explained that she had negotiated with Fang Qing to help Lin Yu, but Fang Qing clarified that she had also accepted the request of someone else and warned Lin Yu to treat that person well.
• The God of Oblivion attacked Lin Yu and Fang Qing with gray mist that made Lin Yu’s body forget how to breathe and then stop its heartbeat.
• Fang Qing pulled Lin Yu behind her and used her Heart Domain, Heart Domain, Ninth Art, and game effects to shield him and restore his condition.
• Fang Qing explained that her Heart Domain could manifest game effects and gave Lin Yu a Universal Potion to restore health.
• The God of Oblivion’s authority briefly made Fang Qing forget who she was, but she jittered back to normal and revealed that a true Player could save and reload.

Fang Qing overloaded her abilities and gear to confront the God of Oblivion, but his true body descended into the fog and began affecting her beyond the reach of her automatic rewinds. Just as Lin Yu prepared to intervene, Fang Qing moved again, surprising the god.

• Fang Qing set her Save Point to rewind every millisecond and loaded the mods in her Heart Domain to resist the Oblivion fog.
• Fang Qing entered the fog in Doom Slayer's Archangel Armor and seized the God of Oblivion's Chosen avatar, taunting him as he struggled.
• The avatar began withering as the God of Oblivion extracted its Authority, and Fang Qing glimpsed a blurry figure before Oblivion overwhelmed her rewinds.
• Lin Yu recognized that the figure was the God of Oblivion's true body, which had descended into the fog by concealing itself from the Divine Realm's will.
• As Lin Yu prepared to intercept the true body, Fang Qing moved again, leaving the God of Oblivion startled that she had resisted his influence.

Fang Qing explained how her obsessive gathering of information and study of the Ten Realms had given her an unusually deep understanding of Authority, which she used to resist the God of Oblivion. She refused his offer to spare Lin Yu as a self-aware Chosen of God and revealed the Chaos Blade, whose power of Authority surprised the god.

• Fang Qing's drive to protect the Freedom Alliance led her to study powerful Players, the Ten Realms, and the nature of Authority, allowing her to create items such as the Resurrection Coin and Error.
• Fang Qing expelled the God of Oblivion's Forgotten Fog, explaining that Error within her body made her reject foreign Authority.
• The God of Oblivion recognized Fang Qing's defense and offered to let her go if she stopped interfering with his commission.
• Fang Qing rejected the offer because she had come to save Lin Yu, and the God of Oblivion warned that her attacks could not hurt him.
• Fang Qing summoned the Chaos Blade, and the God of Oblivion sensed its danger and asked why she possessed the Authority of Power.

Fang Qing used the Power and Rules Authorities to fight the God of Oblivion, whose attacks tried to make her forget her weapons. As their clash weakened the fog around the Eternal Prison, Lin Yu escaped while Grandmaster fought the God of Shadows.

• Fang Qing charged the God of Oblivion with the Chaos Blade and Archangel Armor, striking him with the borrowed Power Authority.
• The God of Oblivion used Oblivion to make Fang Qing forget how to use the Chaos Blade, but her prepared countermeasure triggered the Rules Authority and began corroding the fog.
• Fang Qing combined Power, Rules, and Error to keep the Authorities separate within the Chaos Blade and force the God of Oblivion to fight seriously.
• Lin Yu sensed that the God of Oblivion's influence was weakening and saw Grandmaster battling the God of Shadows' Primal Avatar.
• Lin Yu used the opening to escape the edge of the Eternal Prison.

Lin Yu returned to Earl and completed a brutal but fair Duel against Nightless Sky Yong Shang, winning the Alchemy Notes and the Eternal Trial. In the Settlement Space, he recovered from his injuries and received three bound Items, while considering how the knowledge and connections he had gained could help him.

• With the Eternal Prison in chaos and the God of Shadows distracted, Lin Yu returned to Earl at the Stadium.
• Earl opened the Arena, and Lin Yu agreed to wager the knife from the Autumn Family against Nightless Sky Yong Shang's Alchemy Notes.
• Lin Yu defeated Nightless Sky Yong Shang in a brutal Duel and completed the Eternal Trial.
• In the Settlement Space, Lin Yu reviewed the knowledge, allies, and opportunities he had gained during the Trial.
• Lin Yu received the Fairness Scale, Customized Fire-Resistant Formal Wear, and Forbidden Alchemy Notes as bound Items.

Lin Yu inspected the gifts he had received after the Trial and learned that Nightless Sky Yong Shang’s Forbidden Alchemy Notes contained a simplified Alchemy Hand Ritual. Back in the hotel, he told Good Night and Yin Lan about the crisis in the Divine Kingdom, and Yin Lan set off with Good Night to help.

• Lin Yu examined the Fairness Scale from God of Fairness and Judgment and recognized its potential to cancel energy and bolster his defenses.
• Lin Yu inspected Earl’s fire-resistant formal wear and Nightless Sky Yong Shang’s Forbidden Alchemy Notes, discovering that the notes contained a simplified Alchemy Hand Ritual.
• Lin Yu returned from the Settlement Space to the hotel, where Good Night and Yin Lan asked about his Trial.
• Lin Yu recounted the turmoil in the Divine Kingdom, including Benevolent King’s ascension, several gods’ arrival, and the Eternal Prison going out of control, while concealing his own actions and other sensitive details.
• Yin Lan decided to report the crisis and lead a team into the Divine Realm, then ordered Good Night to accompany her.
• Good Night protested, but Yin Lan dragged him out while Lin Yu wished them success.

Lin Yu questioned Old Zheng about the Second Generation Freud and proposed that Old Zheng’s resurrection might have altered or omitted his memories. The chapter left Old Zheng considering the possibility that his remembered death was not when his life had truly ended.

• After Yin Lan and Good Night left, Lin Yu summoned Old Zheng using the Ancient Notebook and The Sage's Active Brain.
• Lin Yu asked Old Zheng whether he recognized the Second Generation Freud, but Old Zheng said her identity and aura were completely unfamiliar.
• Old Zheng suggested that people in the Psychology Society might have backed the Second Generation Freud and used his reputation to legitimize her succession.
• Lin Yu wondered whether Old Zheng had forgotten appointing her or had been resurrected before she became his successor.
• When Old Zheng insisted his memories were complete, Lin Yu suggested his Resurrection Means might have made him believe Fluoxetine killed him while leaving out what happened afterward.

Lin Yu and Old Zheng considered why Freud believed she was Old Zheng’s successor, weighing hysteria against the possibility that Old Zheng had failed to recognize her. To protect the Director’s identity from suspicion of collusion with Schreiber, Lin Yu planned to stage a conflict between them during the Psychology Society’s upcoming activities in Shenzhen.

• Old Zheng rejected Lin Yu’s theory that gaps in his memories explained Freud’s belief, arguing that she might have hysteria and genuinely deluded herself into thinking he had taught her.
• Lin Yu suggested a simpler alternative: Old Zheng had encountered Freud but failed to recognize her, though Old Zheng doubted that was possible.
• Lin Yu concluded that Freud’s claim that Schreiber was her predecessor would make Schreiber and the Director seem friendly, risking suspicion that they were cooperating.
• Lin Yu asked Old Zheng to portray Schreiber as an enemy and ally of the Director, ideally as the Director’s opposite, to protect the Director’s standing.
• Lin Yu proposed introducing another of his identities as a supporting character in a staged conflict during the Psychology Society’s activities in Shenzhen.

Lin Yu confronted Shen Bingmiao about using him as bait during the Eternal Prison trial, and learned she had done it to expose which powerful beings wanted him dead. Shen Bingmiao praised Lin Yu for questioning her and urged him to keep doing so.

• After putting Old Zheng back in the [Item Space], Lin Yu waited in a hotel room until Shen Bingmiao appeared by tearing through the television screen.
• Lin Yu told Shen Bingmiao he was dissatisfied that she had used him as bait without giving him a choice.
• Shen Bingmiao saw through Lin Yu’s feigned anger, and he dropped the act to ask why she had concealed her plan.
• Shen Bingmiao explained that she had used Lin Yu to reveal which gods and powerful beings would attack him when tempted by sufficient benefits.
• Shen Bingmiao said that neither Order nor the General could be trusted absolutely, then praised Lin Yu for testing her and told him to keep it up.

Lin Yu questioned Shen Bingmiao about the risks she had taken by using him as bait, then asked about the Amusement Park Ticket and her connection to Heavenly Amusement Park. After learning that the park belonged to a previous God of Games and remained beyond Shen Bingmiao’s control, Lin Yu realized her reckless plan to target his enemies might signal that she was about to die.

• Lin Yu teased Shen Bingmiao about using him as bait, and she joked that she would pay for his death with her own life.
• Lin Yu showed Shen Bingmiao the Amusement Park Ticket and asked about its connection to the God of Game.
• Shen Bingmiao explained that she was the current God of Game, while Heavenly Amusement Park had been created by a previous God of Games and could not be controlled by her.
• Lin Yu asked Shen Bingmiao to try to kill Fluoxetine, and Shen Bingmiao readily agreed.
• Lin Yu realized Shen Bingmiao’s unusually aggressive plan to harm his enemies might have a deeper reason and asked whether she was about to die.

Lin Yu forced Shen Bingmiao to reveal why she had been preparing for his absence: her unusual path to godhood had left her soul bound to the Authorities of Rules and Game, and the Authority of Game was slowly devouring her. The chapter ended with Shen Bingmiao explaining that this process would eventually strip her soul away from Rules and consume it completely.

• Lin Yu confronted Shen Bingmiao through the television and insisted that her impending death meant she would soon vanish or lose the ability to affect the real world.
• Shen Bingmiao admitted that she had little time left and explained that she had become a god by using Lin Zhao's [Cyber Ghost's Electronic Coffin] to resurrect and accommodate the Authority of Rules while still a Tier 3 Player.
• Shen Bingmiao revealed that she later mastered the Authority of Game, which helped keep her soul from being consumed by Rules.
• Shen Bingmiao explained that the Authority of Game was unusually powerful and would gradually separate her soul from Rules and devour it completely.

Lin Yu learned that Shen Bingmiao had only seven or eight hours before her remaining sense of self vanished, and she sealed his ability to travel between worlds while promising to clear obstacles for him. She also revealed that Lin Zhao had masterminded the Ten Realms’ apocalypse plan, leaving Lin Yu with a new understanding of his sister’s past.

• Shen Bingmiao explained that using her Authorities would eventually erase her humanity and self, but said she had no regrets about becoming a god.
• Lin Yu refused to give up on Shen Bingmiao and urged her to seek another way to delay her fate, but she said she had only seven or eight hours left.
• Lin Yu tried to use his [Map] Authority to travel to Mist Island, but Shen Bingmiao revealed that she had sealed his ability to travel between worlds.
• Lin Yu agreed to keep pursuing his sister’s resurrection and asked Shen Bingmiao about the people who had appeared in accounts of the previous version.
• Shen Bingmiao revealed that “Shui Shui” was Lin Zhao, “Xiao Yuan” was a dead Player with the “Makeup Artist” ability, and she had disguised herself as the third man.
• Shen Bingmiao confirmed that Lin Zhao had been involved in the plan to create the apocalypse and revealed that she had been its mastermind.

Lin Yu learned hidden history about several realms from Shen Bingmiao, then discovered she had seen through his attempt to delay her sacrifice. He accepted her final wish and promised to find a way to restore her self-awareness, sealing the promise with a hooked-finger vow.

• Shen Bingmiao explained that Zhao had erased the Abyssal Lord's consciousness and revealed the former Sea God and the Dao Ancestor's origins and powers.
• Shen Bingmiao warned Lin Yu about uncontrolled beings in the Mist Island Realm, and Lin Yu recorded her information with the Ancient Notebook.
• Shen Bingmiao revealed that she had recognized Lin Yu's attempt to use Karma Threads to keep her alive and asked him to let her complete her mission.
• Shen Bingmiao proposed that Lin Yu restore her self-awareness after resurrecting Zhao, and Lin Yu promised to do so.
• Lin Yu and Shen Bingmiao hooked their little fingers through the screen and reaffirmed their promise.

Lin Yu used "A Stone to Find the Way" to search for Paper Kite and discovered he was hiding in the Convention Center. He found Paper Kite in the security monitoring room, where Paper Kite began explaining the strange effect he had experienced during the incident.

• Lin Yu decided to search for Paper Kite and used Paper Kite's clothing as the object for "A Stone to Find the Way."
• Lin Yu followed the clothing's direction through the Convention Center and realized Paper Kite was directly below him.
• Lin Yu went to the first-floor security monitoring room and entered with his hands raised.
• Paper Kite, hiding behind the door with a gun, confronted Lin Yu, who assured him that they knew he had been framed.
• Paper Kite explained that he had stayed away from the Player Mutual Society because he wanted to prove his innocence himself and avoid renewed suspicion.
• Paper Kite told Lin Yu that his mind and soul had seemed affected during the corridor incident, then asked why Lin Yu was holding one of his clothes.

Lin Yu questioned Paper Kite about the deaths of Hongmu and two other Player Mutual Aid Society members, and Paper Kite recounted losing consciousness at the scene. They concluded someone had lured him away, then discovered that surveillance footage from a nearby corridor had also been replaced.

• Lin Yu explained how he had tracked down Paper Kite, and Paper Kite lowered his gun and returned to discussing the incident.
• Paper Kite said he had gone to find Hongmu because he considered him one of the Player Mutual Aid Society’s few clean members, then described losing his memory after opening the multimedia room door.
• Paper Kite recalled regaining consciousness beside the bodies of Hongmu and two unidentified members, firing at a fleeing figure, and chasing it from the Convention Center.
• Lin Yu and Paper Kite agreed the killer had likely set a trap to draw Paper Kite away from the scene.
• Paper Kite showed Lin Yu nearby surveillance footage, and Lin Yu noticed that the corridor recording had also been replaced.

Lin Yu exposed the Paper Kite impostor, restrained him with Soul Power, and discovered that he had a strange, simple soul. The impostor revealed Lin Yu’s own face, but Lin Yu bluffed him into revealing that he was Xiao Yuan, who had apparently survived.

• Lin Yu reasoned that the surveillance footage had been altered by someone who did not know what had happened upstairs and recognized that the person posing as Paper Kite was fabricating memories.
• Lin Yu accused the impostor of hiding the real Paper Kite, and the impostor attacked him with sharpened claws.
• Lin Yu used Soul Power hidden in his clothing to restrain the impostor and sensed that his soul had an unusually simple structure.
• The impostor transformed his face into Lin Yu’s and claimed to be Lin Yu from the future, but Lin Yu dismissed the claim as a familiar disguise.
• Lin Yu bluffed by saying “Xiao Yuan,” and the impostor’s reaction confirmed that he was Xiao Yuan and had not died.