Recaps

Celestial King escaped after trapping the Freedom Alliance behind flesh-and-blood magic arrays and summoning Swordsman and Bifang to fight them. Lin Yu left to pursue Chancellor, revealing that he too had a way to use the Marauders and calling A'yu to arrange a meeting.

• Celestial King formed flesh-and-blood magic arrays to hold off the Freedom Alliance and declared that she had achieved her objective.
• Celestial King escaped as Swordsman and Bifang arrived and attacked the Freedom Alliance; Order had designated the Alliance as the priority threat.
• Lin Yu realized Chancellor had influenced Order's strategic decisions, while the Freedom Alliance prepared to fight Swordsman and Bifang.
• Lin Yu refused to attack the people who had saved him and left to follow Chancellor.
• In the rain, Lin Yu changed his appearance with a pocket watch and called A'yu, claiming he had a way to use the Marauders too.

Lin Yu told A'yu he had recovered the Benevolent King's [Item Set] and asked for help locating the Director, who had ambushed him. The Celestial King said she was heading to a safe house and invited Lin Yu to bring the items there.

• Lin Yu explained that the Director had ambushed him, and vowed to defeat him the next time they met.
• A'yu told Lin Yu that Brother Zhan had left this world to carry out a crucial stage of the plan, so she could not ask him to divine the Director's location.
• Lin Yu revealed that he had found the Benevolent King's [Item Set] hidden by the Freedom Alliance and proposed leaving it with A'yu or the Celestial King for safekeeping.
• A'yu called the Celestial King, who said she had just seen the Director among several powerful allies and warned Lin Yu not to pursue him yet.
• The Celestial King told A'yu she was heading to a safe house and asked her to send Lin Yu there with the [Item Set].

Lin Yu visited Celestial King, who was sheltering Chancellor while he cleared anomalies left by the Freedom Alliance. Celestial King warned Lin Yu that provoking the Alliance would bring retaliation, while she and Chancellor argued over whether ruthless survival in the Death game could only lead to destruction.

• Lin Yu entered Apartment 404 through a magical passage in an electrical cabinet and found Celestial King and Chancellor inside.
• Celestial King explained that forbidden spells had cost her her tongue and said Chancellor was a partner of Brother Zhan, not a member of the organization.
• Chancellor refused Celestial King's offer to help remove the Freedom Alliance's tracking and corruption anomalies, saying he did not want to owe the Marauders favors.
• Lin Yu said he might target the Freedom Alliance for their fame and high bounties, and Celestial King warned that their members retaliated viciously against anyone who harmed them.
• Celestial King described the Marauders as an organization focused on profit and argued that betrayal and murder were necessary to survive, while Chancellor warned that this path would lead everyone to destruction.

Lin Yu handed the Benevolent King's [Items] to the recovering Celestial King and revealed his plan to hunt the Director, both for revenge and to uncover who had exposed his movements. The Celestial King suspected the Diviner had informed the Director, leaving Lin Yu stunned by a possibility that matched what had actually happened.

• The Chancellor left the Safe House after disagreeing with the Celestial King, and Lin Yu remarked that she disliked him.
• Lin Yu gave the Celestial King five [Items], which she judged genuine, then said he intended to take revenge on the Director during Shenzhen's chaos.
• Lin Yu explained that he also hoped to discover the Director's secret intelligence source, which he feared might be someone inside the Marauders.
• The Celestial King suspected the Diviner had betrayed Lin Yu and revealed that he had privately met with the Director before leaving for the Ten Realms.
• Lin Yu questioned how the Diviner could have learned about the [Items], and the Celestial King suggested he might have divined it or inferred it from A'yu's report.

Lin Yu left Celestial King's safe house planning to track Chancellor, whom he had secretly marked with mental power, but Liuli joined him after realizing Yayu and Director had been exchanging information. Lin Yu agreed to let her accompany him while privately deciding he needed to shake her off, and he set a new plan in motion with Old Zheng.

• Lin Yu told Celestial King he would make trouble for Director, then left the safe house and resumed tracking Chancellor through the Mental Power Network.
• Liuli came out to meet Lin Yu, saying she was worried he would fall into another trap and that Sister Yu had asked her to watch him.
• Liuli guessed that Yayu's Order informant was Director and revealed she had kept the secret after checking that Lin Yu posed no threat to her or Sister Yu.
• Lin Yu agreed to let Liuli accompany him, though he privately considered ways to shake her off as Chancellor moved farther from Shenzhen.
• Lin Yu told Old Zheng to play Schreiber and come out of an alley along his route in two minutes.

Old Zheng posed as Schreiber and announced that he had chosen Lin Yu and Liuli for a Trial, dismissing Liuli’s arguments that more powerful Players were better candidates. The Trial began when a burly man with a knight’s lance appeared behind them and identified them as Marauders.

• Old Zheng, acting as Schreiber, told Lin Yu and Liuli that the Psychology Society was only a means to his goal of designing Trials and helping Players reach their potential.
• Liuli questioned why Schreiber had selected her and Lin Yu instead of stronger, more prominent Players in Shenzhen.
• Schreiber insisted that Lin Yu and Liuli were the most promising candidates and declared that his Trial was unavoidable.
• Liuli accepted that the Trial would proceed, while Schreiber praised Lin Yu’s quick adaptability.
• A tall, burly man carrying a knight’s lance appeared behind Lin Yu and Liuli and announced that he had found Marauders who had escaped notice.

Knight arrived while Yayu and Liuli were together, creating a serious obstacle to their escape. Lin Yu suspected Knight might have been sent by Chancellor, but Knight’s confusion about Schreiber’s actions that morning left the group questioning what mission had brought him to Shenzhen.

• Liuli recognized Knight, Order’s powerful Northwest District head, and doubted that she and Yayu could escape him unharmed.
• Lin Yu and Old Zheng privately confirmed that neither had summoned Knight, and Lin Yu warned that Knight’s arrival might be part of a plot targeting him through Yayu.
• Lin Yu authorized Old Zheng to intervene as Schreiber if needed, while Knight noticed Old Zheng and delayed acting.
• Knight accused Schreiber of mentally influencing him and demanded that he stop interfering with Order’s mission.
• Old Zheng asked whether Order could still raise Schreiber’s threat level, but Knight did not know what Schreiber had done that morning, surprising Lin Yu, Old Zheng, and Liuli.

Lin Yu, Old Zheng, and Liuli fought Knight after discovering his mental state was abnormal and learning that he did not know Schreiber had hypnotized Shenzhen’s ordinary citizens. Knight trapped them in an Honorable Arena, but the three brought him down, leaving his mysterious condition unresolved.

• Old Zheng sensed that Knight’s mental state was abnormal, though his soul was genuine and showed no signs of mental interference.
• Liuli told Knight that Schreiber had hypnotized eighteen million people in Shenzhen, and Knight accused Schreiber of tampering with his mind.
• Knight raised an Honorable Arena that trapped Knight, Schreiber, Yayu, and Liuli until only one conscious mind remained.
• Knight charged Old Zheng, who blocked the spear and restrained him while Lin Yu wounded Knight’s hand and attacked his mind.
• Knight struck Lin Yu and broke his ribs, but Old Zheng and Lin Yu’s mental attacks disoriented him, and Liuli knocked him unconscious with a claw hammer.

Liuli knocked Knight unconscious while helping Lin Yu, but the Honorable Dueling Arena remained active after Lin Yu recalled Old Zheng. Lin Yu realized another consciousness was hidden inside Knight, who rose with black eyes and revealed himself.

• Liuli struck Knight with her hammer and knocked him unconscious, then tried to treat Lin Yu's injuries.
• Lin Yu explained that his wounds were healing quickly, and Liuli realized the arena would remain active while multiple conscious minds were inside it.
• Old Zheng spoke with Liuli before Lin Yu secretly knocked her unconscious and recalled Old Zheng into Item Space.
• The Honorable Dueling Arena did not disappear, so Lin Yu sensed another consciousness inside Knight's body.
• Knight rose in a stiff, puppet-like manner, opened black eyes, and addressed Lin Yu as the wielder of Night Blade.

Lin Yu fought the Second Pillar, Okfielst, who had taken control of Knight through a magic crystal implanted in his brain. After the arena vanished, Okfielst mistook Lin Yu for Schreiber and revealed that his real target was the nearby Celestial King.

• Okfielst charged Lin Yu in Knight's body, but Lin Yu drew on lingering Black Night Magic to disrupt the possession.
• Lin Yu sensed that a magic crystal inside Knight's skull was interfering with his brain and enabling Okfielst to control him.
• Lin Yu identified the possessor as Okfielst, the Second Pillar, and learned that he was drawing magic power through a breach beneath Shenzhen.
• The [Honorable Arena] disappeared while Okfielst was disoriented, and he deduced that Lin Yu was controlling Yayu while pretending to be Schreiber.
• Okfielst said he wanted to trade rather than kill Lin Yu and revealed that the Celestial King was his original target.

Okfielst asked Lin Yu to kill Knight, but Lin Yu refused and fought to drive the Demon from his body. Okfielst joined forces with Meinie, whose attack infected Lin Yu’s soul and left Liuli vulnerable; she died as blood-red crystals formed from her body.

• Okfielst revealed that he wanted Lin Yu to kill Knight because a contract prevented him from harming his host, and promised it would disrupt the Diviner’s plans.
• Lin Yu refused to sacrifice Knight and challenged Okfielst’s assumptions about the Third Pillar and her legacy.
• Okfielst attacked Lin Yu with his decay magic, but Lin Yu used Shenzhen’s mental network to withstand it.
• Okfielst summoned Meinie, whose magic infected Lin Yu’s soul and forced him to destroy the corrupted fragments.
• Lin Yu realized Liuli was also present, but she woke and died as blood-red crystals formed from her body.

Lin Yu witnessed Liuli's death, then watched Celestial King kill the possessed Knight, fulfilling Okfielst's hidden objective and destabilizing nearby reality loopholes. He abandoned the scene to pursue Chancellor and confronted him at the Cross-Sea Bridge checkpoint with the intent to kill.

• Lin Yu recorded fragments of Liuli's shattered soul, while Okfielst revealed that her death had achieved his objective.
• Celestial King arrived, mistook Knight for Liuli's killer, and destroyed Knight, allowing Okfielst to escape his body.
• Lin Yu explained that a demon had possessed Knight and arranged his death, then sensed instability spreading through nearby reality loopholes.
• Lin Yu left Celestial King and used the mental power network to track Chancellor toward the Cross-Sea Bridge.
• Lin Yu, using the identity of Beast Master, blocked Chancellor at the checkpoint and attacked him with the White Bone Flowing Light and Fear Torch.

Lin Yu and Schreiber arranged for Second Generation Freud to capture Chancellor, a traitor backed by the Copper Furnace and a Tier 5 Player. Lin Yu revealed that he had wounded First Generation Jung, and the chapter ended with Lin Yu planning to extract answers from Chancellor without relying on him to speak.

• Lin Yu overwhelmed Chancellor with his sword and torch, but Chancellor drew the Imperially Bestowed Shangfang Precious Sword and summoned its dragon to attack him.
• Lin Yu revealed that Schreiber was helping him, and Second Generation Freud arrived to seize Chancellor with her soul power.
• Second Generation Freud questioned why she should help Lin Yu, and Lin Yu said Schreiber had arranged the encounter as a trial for her.
• Lin Yu told Second Generation Freud that he had severely wounded First Generation Jung and that the Copper Furnace had helped Jung survive.
• Old Zheng confirmed Lin Yu's account, and Lin Yu said Chancellor could provide answers about the previous version's Players.
• Lin Yu calmly declared that he had a way to obtain what he wanted from Chancellor without making him talk.

Lin Yu used Karma Threads to probe Chancellor’s past, but found fragments suggesting a life in the Ten Realms rather than a readable history. Chancellor revealed that Diviner’s Reality Loopholes were meant to bring in powerful allies from the Ten Realms, and warned that everyone in Shenzhen needed to leave before the scheme activated.

• Second Generation "Freud" restrained Chancellor, while Chancellor insisted that Lin Yu could not extract answers from him.
• Lin Yu used Zhu Qiansi’s Karma Threads to view Chancellor’s past, but saw disjointed scenes of an ancient official’s life.
• Chancellor claimed the fragments were his true past and suggested he came from the Ten Realms, though Old Zheng said such beings could not become Players.
• Lin Yu proposed restoring Chancellor’s original appearance to identify him, and Chancellor warned that Diviner’s arrangements were about to activate.
• Chancellor revealed that Diviner’s Reality Loopholes were meant to invite allies from the Ten Realms, including demigods, Chosen of God, and deities, to help encircle and destroy Order.

The Chancellor revealed that the Diviner planned to use reality loopholes to send Shenzhen’s Players into the Ten Realms, and Lin Yu realized the plan had begun early. Old Zheng and Second Generation Freud prepared to turn the Chancellor into an admission ticket for a trial against the Emperor, while Lin Yu rejected the Chancellor’s attempt to bargain for his life.

• The Chancellor explained that the Diviner’s reality loopholes were designed to tear away part of reality and transport Shenzhen’s Players into prepared venues in the Ten Realms.
• Lin Yu connected the plan to the earlier attack on a reality loophole and realized the Diviner’s preparations had been deliberately destabilized.
• The Chancellor said the Diviner had planned to launch the transfer within half an hour, but Lin Yu detected that the loopholes were already collapsing together ahead of schedule.
• Old Zheng told Second Generation Freud that killing the Chancellor would give her a chance to face Tier 5 and make her the Emperor’s foremost enemy.
• The Chancellor appealed to Lin Yu to spare him so he could reveal his identity and the truth about the Director, but Lin Yu said they could identify him by seeing which Order member disappeared.

Lin Yu tried to pressure the Chancellor into offering useful information, but the Chancellor instead appealed to Second Generation Freud and was killed. Lin Yu and Second Generation Freud realized the body might be a decoy, and she found that it was an old, preserved corpse from the Prison Mountain Realm.

• Lin Yu threatened the Chancellor and demanded information in exchange for a chance to survive.
• The Chancellor offered Second Generation Freud First Generation Jung’s location and secret information about First Generation Freud.
• Second Generation Freud detected the Chancellor’s deception with her Soul Power and killed him before Lin Yu could stop her.
• Lin Yu and Old Zheng suspected the Chancellor had escaped, noting his composure and the strange aura that appeared after his death.
• Second Generation Freud found a preservation formation in the corpse and identified it as the long-dead body of a native of the Prison Mountain Realm.

Lin Yu and Second Generation Freud realized the Chancellor had escaped in a body that was likely not his original one, weakening Schreiber’s Trial but leaving it intact. Lin Yu stayed in Shenzhen to pursue his unfinished business and called Li Hua to begin closing the net around the Chancellor.

• Lin Yu concluded that the Chancellor’s shriveled corpse had been his original body or another exceptionally well-matched body, and speculated that the Copper Furnace might consist of Natives who had taken Player identities.
• Second Generation Freud learned that the Chancellor had escaped and worried that his survival would weaken Schreiber’s Trial against the Emperor; Old Zheng admitted his plan had not gone as intended, though the Trial could still continue.
• Second Generation Freud offered Lin Yu a chance to rejoin the Psychology Society and warned him that the Diviner’s plans in the Ten Realms could be beyond his ability to handle.
• Lin Yu declined to leave Shenzhen, saying he had unfinished business, and set out to find the Chancellor.
• Lin Yu switched to the Director’s phone, called Li Hua, and said it was time to close the net.

Lin Yu confronted Chancellor in his Safe House after tracing properties through Hacker, then explained how Sherlock’s final riddle identified Chancellor as the mole. Chancellor attacked, but Lin Yu restrained him and revealed that lingering effects from Zhu Ming and Schreiber had let him suppress Chancellor’s energy.

• Chancellor escaped his destroyed doppelganger and hid in a Shenzhen Safe House, planning to kill Lin Yu before his disguise was exposed.
• Lin Yu found Chancellor with Hacker’s help and explained that he had investigated properties held under Chancellor’s identity.
• Lin Yu said Sherlock’s riddle, “VII/120,” had pointed to Chancellor, though it could not serve as evidence for Order because only Lin Yu could solve it.
• Chancellor tried to force the confrontation into a fight, but Lin Yu pinned him against the wall and demanded he hear the riddle’s explanation.
• Chancellor questioned how Lin Yu could suppress a super Tier 3, and Lin Yu revealed he had activated lingering Causal venom and Mental Seeds from Zhu Ming and Schreiber.

Lin Yu explained how Fu Luo’s puzzle identified Secretary as the traitor within Order’s senior leadership. Secretary argued that the clues were not evidence, but Li Hua entered and said he had heard Secretary admit to his crimes, offering to witness against him.

• Lin Yu restrained Secretary and explained that VII pointed to Veil Valetti, whom he had encountered with Fu Luo in the Barren Realm.
• Lin Yu linked 120 and the surname Valetti to the film The 120 Days of Sodom and its character the President.
• Lin Yu explained that the President clue pointed to Secretary as the traitor among Order’s four senior leaders.
• Secretary acknowledged that Sherlock had investigated him but argued that Lin Yu’s deductions were not substantive evidence.
• Li Hua entered the apartment and said he had overheard Secretary admit to his crimes, offering to testify against him.

Li Hua confronted the Secretary about betraying Order, and the Secretary explained that he believed the final trial would doom their world unless powerful gods were created. He revealed that Lin Zhao had stalled the previous trial through her death, but Lin Yu rejected the Secretary’s claims and said he did not believe him.

• Lin Hua questioned the Secretary about abandoning Order, and the Secretary said memories of the Copper Furnace and the final trial had driven his actions.
• The Secretary said passing the final trial could make their world part of the death game, while failing it might erase the world entirely.
• The Secretary defended killing colleagues and targeting players as necessary sacrifices to create more gods and preserve some chance for their civilization.
• Li Hua asked why the Secretary targeted Lin Yu, and the Secretary said he feared Lin Yu might resurrect his sister.
• The Secretary claimed Lin Zhao had stalled the previous final trial through her death and warned that resurrecting her could restart it and destroy their world.
• Lin Yu said the Secretary had no evidence and that he did not believe him.

Lin Yu and Li Hua fought the Secretary after he revealed his connection to Copper Furnace and tried to kill Lin Yu to protect his secrets. They defeated him, but the Secretary died after claiming he had still achieved his objective.

• Lin Yu rejected the Secretary's account of Lin Zhao's sacrifice and said he would wake her to learn the truth, prompting the Secretary to attack with the Chancellor's hidden half-soul.
• Lin Yu destroyed much of the Secretary's body and soul, but the Secretary used ink-written rules to stop their bleeding and restore his vitality.
• Li Hua warned Lin Yu about the Secretary's [Exclusive item: Public Authority], but the Secretary used its seal to impose a rule that would kill anyone who used supernatural energy.
• Lin Yu resisted the seal's effects with the Rule Code and attacked the Secretary with Water Control Witchcraft, while Li Hua froze the water and the Secretary's body with his cane.
• Li Hua said the Secretary would face the organization's judgment, but the Secretary claimed his objective had been achieved, dropped the seal, and died.

After the Secretary died, Lin Yu and Li Hua concluded that his death was a deliberate sacrifice tied to an unseen plan. Shenzhen shifted into a new state, and the Diviner, Leng Jing, appeared to announce an officially authorized instance called [Shenzhen Pursuit].

• The Secretary died after declaring that he had sacrificed himself, and Lin Yu and Li Hua suspected his death was meant to trigger a hidden change.
• Lin Yu and Li Hua noticed the Secretary’s [items] remained because the Death game appeared to judge him as having died in a world or [instance], suggesting one of his items might still be operating.
• The sky over Shenzhen turned gold and grayish white, and Lin Yu sensed that he was becoming separated from the city’s mental power network as its players were affected by the reality changes.
• The Diviner, Leng Jing, emerged in the sky, and his voice announced that Shenzhen had become the officially authorized [instance] [Shenzhen Pursuit].

After the Diviner transformed Shenzhen into an artificial Death game instance, Lin Yu and Li Hua tried to assess their situation and identify the world around them. Lin Yu left Li Hua behind and confronted Old Zheng, asking him to explain what he had been keeping from him.

• The Death game recognized the Diviner’s artificial Shenzhen instance, turning the city into a faded, stripped-down landscape and disconnecting Lin Yu from the mental network of Shenzhen’s residents.
• Lin Yu and Li Hua discussed the instance’s unknown location and the reality loopholes that had become stable passages spewing energy from the Ten Realms.
• Li Hua agreed to let Lin Yu contact a private source, while Lin Yu joked that he was going to change clothes and left the bathroom.
• Lin Yu went to the Secretary’s rented bedroom and pulled Old Zheng from his Item Space instead of contacting a Marauders informant.
• Lin Yu confronted Old Zheng about the secrets he had withheld, and Old Zheng immediately admitted, “Boss, I’m guilty!”

Lin Yu questioned Old Zheng about the Diviner and the Lord of Mist Island’s living soul, learning how Old Zheng’s experiment had nearly enabled a player to create Death game [Instances]. He concluded that the Diviner had advanced that unfinished work by creating Copy Shenzhen and having the Death game recognize his rules.

• Old Zheng apologized for withholding information and promised to organize what Lin Yu needed to know, but Lin Yu clarified that he wanted to ask about the Diviner.
• Old Zheng explained that the Diviner had once sought cooperation through Ling Xian and Wundt while Old Zheng was planning against the Lord of Mist Island.
• Lin Yu theorized that the Diviner had targeted the Lord of Mist Island’s living soul because it could help create [Instances], and Old Zheng confirmed that the soul had a special connection to Mist Island’s world will and the Death game.
• Old Zheng said he had used the soul to make the Asylum on Mist Island 36th Island count as an [Instance] venue, hoping to use the Death game to drive trials and growth, but the experiment was cut short.
• Old Zheng concluded that the Diviner had taken his unfinished experiment further by creating an [Instance] as a player and getting the Death game to recognize his rules.

Lin Yu and Old Zheng realized that Diviner had created an officially recognized Instance in Shenzhen and was bringing Ten Realms allies into it. Lin Yu warned that Diviner would target isolated Players, but Li Hua had already ordered everyone to assemble.

• Old Zheng analyzed that the Instance could not be destroyed and that the Players would have to meet its Clearance Conditions.
• Diviner explained that the Instance was a replica of Shenzhen, that Players could clear it by surviving 24 hours or killing a living being, and that Ten Realms allies would soon enter.
• As mist spread through the city and black vortices gathered energy, Diviner vanished after declaring that the same rules applied to him.
• Lin Yu and Old Zheng worried that Diviner's powerful allies would attack isolated Players, so Lin Yu decided everyone needed to regroup immediately.
• Lin Yu told Li Hua that Diviner was likely planning to pick them off one by one, and Li Hua said he had already ordered everyone to assemble.