Recaps

Lin Yu, Li Hua, and their allies assessed the crisis in Shenzhen and planned to gather scattered forces as the battle against Emperor worsened. After Lin Yu announced he could not continue with the group and might have to leave alone, the story left his next move unresolved.

• Li Hua told Lin Yu that Order and the Night Watcher were gathering nearby members, while Feng Shui Master and Grandmaster remained trapped fighting an increasingly powerful Emperor.
• Lin Yu explained that Diviner’s Instance could not be broken structurally and that they had to follow its clearance conditions.
• Yin Lan, Robin, and Carrier Pigeon arrived, and Li Hua revealed that he and Lin Yu had killed Secretary, a mole from Copper Furnace.
• Li Hua showed Yin Lan evidence from his Card Counter, and Lin Yu offered to reproduce his memories; Yin Lan accepted their account provisionally.
• Carrier Pigeon agreed with Li Hua’s plan to gather nearby allies, but Lin Yu said he might have to leave the group and go alone.

Diviner’s instance plunged Shenzhen’s scattered battles into chaos as powerful Ten Realms beings attacked the Convention Center, Chongming and Nicholas, and the Psychology Society. While Second Generation Freud fought Meiniedok and his allies, Qianhuan tried to persuade Swordsman and Bifang to stop fighting the Freedom Alliance.

• Ren Gu and Good Night saw the Third Island Lord of Mist Island arrive at the Convention Center, where two more dangerous figures soon appeared; Good Night’s attack was thrown back, leaving them facing a dire threat.
• Okfielst’s mana doppelgangers surrounded Chongming and Nicholas’s team, and Okfielst injured Nicholas before revealing that Diviner had sent him after them as valuable bounties and materials.
• Second Generation Freud confronted Meiniedok at Skinner’s bar after he attacked the Psychology Society, but First Generation Jung and an armored fighter joined the battle and forced her into a bitter fight.
• Qianhuan stopped fighting Swordsman and Bifang and urged them to consider that Diviner’s instance had trapped them all and that something beneath the battlefield might be waiting to take advantage of their conflict.

Swordsman and Bifang halted their fight and temporarily joined the Freedom Alliance as they investigated the powerful being emerging from Diviner’s vortex. The newcomer revealed himself as Demon Ancestor Gantuo, who said he had come to fulfill an agreement with Diviner.

• Swordsman and Bifang stopped fighting, and Bifang agreed to cooperate temporarily with the Freedom Alliance against their common enemy.
• Xiao Yun assessed the energy in the vortex as potentially containing authority or world will, while Old Wu and Comedian agreed they could not identify it.
• Li Nian returned Bifang’s stolen [Real Exam], and the group briefly teased her about her upcoming college entrance exams.
• Swordsman recognized the energy as the evil-of-heaven-and-earth cultivation used by snake yaoguai in the Dark Prison, and Chen Le recalled the Sun-Disc Moon-Melting Saint Lord.
• A chained, pitch-black man emerged from the vortex, but Swordsman said he was not the female Sun-Disc Moon-Melting Saint Lord.
• The newcomer named himself Demon Ancestor Gantuo and told Diviner he had come to fulfill their agreement.

The Emperor faced Gu Mo and Jian Cunyi as the Diviner’s summoned allies began arriving in the Instance. The Goddess of Shadow, Pain, and Nightmare intervened on the Emperor’s side, but a mysterious female voice challenged her from above.

• The Emperor deduced that the Diviner had brought Demon Ancestor Gantuo into the Instance through a breach in the Prison Mountain Realm’s outer barrier.
• Gu Mo and Jian Cunyi pressed their attack on the Emperor, gaining strength from the Instance while he warned that the Diviner’s allies could soon come to his aid.
• Gu Mo unleashed a powerful punch at the Emperor, but the Goddess of Shadow, Pain, and Nightmare appeared and used darkness to blunt the blow.
• The Goddess of Shadow offered to fight Gu Mo and Jian Cunyi, and the Emperor let her choose her opponent.
• A female voice emerging from streaming green garbled characters challenged the Goddess of Shadow to fight her instead.

The Diviner revealed that he had captured Lin Yu and planned to turn the Instance into a permanent passage that would let him control the Players and influence the Ten Realms. Lin Yu’s apparent capture proved to be a distraction: the genuine God of Games and Rules arrived inside the Instance and threatened the Diviner’s allies.

• The God of Games and Rules appeared through streams of garbled data, while the God of Shadows, the Emperor, Gu Mo, and Jian Cunyi prepared to fight.
• The Diviner used [Gold Seeker] to locate and drag Lin Yu out of the data, prompting Jian Cunyi and Gu Mo to try to reach him.
• The Diviner explained that the Instance linked passages between four realms and would become a permanent route under his control, supporting his plan to become a god and manipulate the Ten Realms.
• Lin Yu laughed and pointed out that the Diviner had wasted a powerful combat asset on him, as the Instance’s streets and buildings began to turn into data.
• The genuine God of Games and Rules appeared atop a building in central Shenzhen and vowed to kill the Diviner’s allies and destroy his plan.

Lin Yu impersonated Shen Bingmiao and used the powers of Game and Rule to help the Freedom Alliance fight Demon Ancestor Gantuo, but the belief he gathered did not awaken Senior Sister. He then appeared at Skinner’s bar to help Second Generation Freud, who rejected his offer and confronted First Generation Jung.

• Lin Yu used Qin Siyu as his decoy and transformed himself into Shen Bingmiao, convincing Shenzhen’s powerful visitors that the God of Games and Rules had appeared.
• The belief surrounding Lin Yu failed to revive Senior Sister Shen Bingmiao’s consciousness, so he turned his attention to the battle below.
• Lin Yu used Game and Rule to slow and burden Demon Ancestor Gantuo with visible status effects, then left the four Tier 4 fighters to continue the fight.
• Lin Yu arrived at Skinner’s bar, where Second Generation Freud was fighting First Generation Jung, Eighth Pillar Meiniedok, and an armored Weirdo.
• Second Generation Freud accused Lin Yu of helping the Diviner, then refused his assistance and activated her Heart Domain, Dead Instinct, after First Generation Jung taunted her.

Lin Yu witnessed Second Generation Freud activate her destructive Heart Domain, Dead Instinct, and helped her counter a hidden alchemical device before leaving the bar. He then intervened at a factory, rescued Nicholas and Chongming from Okfielst, and used a tracking bomb to strike the Demon as it fled toward the Abyss.

• Second Generation Freud activated Dead Instinct, causing intrusive urges and breakdown across living beings and objects, including herself and her three opponents.
• Lin Yu found a volatile alchemical device above the bar, stabilized it with his Rules, and explained it had been prepared to explode under Dead Instinct; he then left.
• Lin Yu appeared above a factory and found Nicholas and Chongming gravely wounded while fighting the Second Pillar, Okfielst.
• Lin Yu immobilized and weakened Okfielst, then dropped an alchemical bomb empowered with lock-on and tracking traits from his Game Authority.
• Okfielst fled toward the Abyss, but the bomb struck it at the vortex and detonated; Lin Yu told Nicholas and Chongming to recover and rendezvous with Gambler.

Ren Gu and Good Night drove back the Mist Island creatures with Lin Yu’s help, while Lin Yu reached the battle in the sky and confronted the Diviner. The Diviner revealed a hidden insurance mechanism that threatened to kill more than half the Players and keep the passages to the Ten Realms open, forcing Lin Yu to choose what to save.

• Ren Gu weakened the two mysterious creatures with Rules while Good Night kept fighting the lord of Third Island.
• Lin Yu arrived, modified Ren Gu’s Rules, and sent the Mist Island creatures back through their vortex; Ren Gu left to meet Li Hua.
• Lin Yu found the Diviner holding the Director while the Emperor and the God of Shadows suppressed Grandmaster and the Feng Shui Master.
• The Diviner revealed that he had arranged for high-ranking Marauders members to evacuate and activated hidden Formations throughout the Shenzhen replica.
• The Diviner threatened to kill more than half the Players and keep the passages to the Ten Realms open, then demanded that Lin Yu choose which half would survive and what to do about the passages.

Lin Yu recognized that the Diviner had set the unstable space to collapse in under thirty minutes, forcing Order and the Night Watcher to kill each other. He arranged for Jian Cunyi to identify the formations while Gu Mo held off the Emperor and the Diviner, then summoned Zhu Ming to confront the Diviner.

• Lin Yu realized the Diviner’s formations would destroy the space in less than thirty minutes and that the resulting crisis was designed to make Order and the Night Watcher violate their principles.
• The Diviner argued that people under extreme pressure would abandon their ideals, while Gu Mo insisted they could uphold them.
• Lin Yu asked Jian Cunyi to map the Prison Mountain Realm formations and told Gu Mo to protect him for ten minutes.
• Gu Mo strengthened herself by incorporating the World Will into her body, then fought off the Emperor’s shadow guards and a rain of arrows.
• Lin Yu explained that Zhu Ming had already arrived, and the God of Desire emerged with his divine rank and authority restored.
• The Diviner claimed the God of Desire’s tricks would not work on him, but Zhu Ming warned him not to underestimate a true god’s authority.

Lin Yu and the God of Desire attacked Diviner with the authorities of Desire, Game, and Rule, but Diviner used Fate to dispel their effects. Lin Yu then revealed that his true attack was Data Deletion, using his Death game administrator permissions to erase Diviner.

• Lin Yu restored the God of Desire’s divine standing, allowing him to bind Diviner with golden thorns, turn him to gold, and regress his body toward childhood.
• Lin Yu applied Instant Death to Diviner through the Death game, rapidly draining his life and soul.
• Diviner used his Heart Domain and a projected complete form of Fate to temporarily negate the effects of Desire, Game, and Rule.
• Diviner discovered that half his body had been digitized and was disappearing through a separate attack.
• Lin Yu identified the attack as Data Deletion and explained that his Game authority granted him Death game administrator permissions.

Lin Yu used [Data Deletion] to erase the Diviner, but the Diviner survived by using his Heart Domain to restore himself through fate, sacrificing his [Fragment of Fate]. As the Diviner prepared to counterattack with another authority, Lin Yu and the God of Desire escaped, and Gu Mo and Jian Cunyi vanished from the Emperor’s encirclement as well.

• Lin Yu used [Data Deletion] on the Diviner, who killed himself as the deletion continued to erase his corpse.
• The Diviner projected fate’s shattering into the present and returned, while his [Fragment of Fate] broke and its power returned to the Ten Realms.
• Lin Yu and the Diviner acknowledged that each had used a one-time measure, and the God of Desire appeared behind the Diviner.
• The Diviner used his Heart Domain to evade the God of Desire’s attack, then drew on another authority to make himself nearly nonexistent.
• Lin Yu and the God of Desire vanished in streams of data as the Diviner prepared to put them to sleep.
• Jian Cunyi revealed that he had finished his calculations, and Gu Mo and Jian Cunyi vanished from within the Emperor’s encirclement.

The Diviner's formations began detonating and collapsing the [Instance], but Lin Yu had staggered the explosions to weaken them and revealed that he had called on Tengshe to stop the disaster. The chapter ended with Lin Yu pleading for Tengshe to save the Players, Shenzhen, and the Real World.

• The Diviner and the Emperor watched the Players gather in central Shenzhen and discussed the uncontrolled passage connected to the Ten Realms.
• Lin Yu, Gu Mo, and Jian Cunyi reached the central battlefield, where the Swordsman and Bifang had driven the Demon Ancestor back into the passage with help from the Freedom Alliance.
• Jian Cunyi showed Lin Yu the formations' energy flows, and Lin Yu used rules and information to detonate the formations from the outskirts inward.
• The Diviner and the God of Shadows confronted Lin Yu as the [Instance] began collapsing, and Lin Yu explained that the staggered explosions would weaken before reaching the center.
• Lin Yu revealed that he had asked the Freedom Alliance's Beast Master for help and urged Tengshe to stop the explosion.

Tengshe tried to contain the energy gathering in the collapsing passage by absorbing it into his evolving body, preventing a catastrophic explosion that would kill the players in Shenzhen. Though the pain threatened to overwhelm him, he kept eating the energy bars Lin Yu had prepared and continued holding back the blast.

• Lin Yu had sent Tengshe into the passage because his Heart Domain let him survive its chaotic energy without alerting the Diviner.
• Tengshe reached the passage’s energy convergence point and plunged his fingertips into it as the Hacker triggered the energy to explode.
• Tengshe absorbed the explosion into his body, stopping the central blast but suffering severe pain as his energy pathways and storage organs burst.
• The Diviner mocked Lin Yu’s plan, but Lin Yu said Tengshe could endure as long as he had enough food.
• Tengshe ate an energy bar from his waist pack and continued containing the energy, encouraged by the seventy-five bars he had left.

Lin Yu and his allies battled Diviner and the God of Shadows as Diviner used a hidden authority to restrict Lin Yu and invoke the instance space’s will. Lin Yu then triggered the trap on his own terms and disappeared, taking its energy upheaval out of the space.

• Lin Yu blocked the God of Shadows’ surprise attack, and Gu Mo fought her while Diviner trapped Lin Yu with an authority that would punish any counterattack by destabilizing the space and threatening Tengshe below.
• Lin Yu recognized Diviner’s trap and stalled him, while Old Wu, Swordsman, Bifang, and Comedian attacked Diviner after Jian Cunyi helped teleport them into position.
• Diviner invoked the instance space’s higher will, overpowering the attackers and pinning them down as he advanced toward the passage.
• Lin Yu triggered the trap himself and vanished, intending to carry the resulting energy upheaval out of the space.

Lin Yu escaped the Diviner’s trap, returned to the Instance to protect the Freedom Alliance, and arranged for Fang Qing to send him back. He confronted the Emperor at the Reality Passage, where Du Tiancheng appeared to challenge the Emperor to a fight.

• Lin Yu used belief and the powers of rules to escape the Diviner’s trap, leaving the Diviner to battle five buffed Tier 4s as the Emperor arrived and advanced toward the Reality Passage.
• Lin Yu reached Fang Qing’s Divine Kingdom and asked her to take back the permissions for game and rules and send him back into the Instance to save Zhu Ming and the Freedom Alliance.
• The Emperor dismissed the players’ attacks and broke through the defense held by Old Zhou, the God of Cookery, and Xiao Yun as he approached the passage.
• Lin Yu returned behind a water curtain and blocked the Emperor’s way, declaring that he was not the one who would stop him.
• Du Tiancheng appeared beside Lin Yu and told the Emperor he had come to kill him.

General confronted Emperor in Azure Sea Sky Dome, and the two deities clashed over whether the Death game should be resisted or accepted. General revealed a second Authority, Struggle, then began a fight using his Heart Domain as a Player.

• General joined Lin Yu in the Instance as a teammate, and Emperor claimed he had entered as part of the Instance and could use his Authority freely.
• General and Emperor tested their Authorities against each other, while General argued that mortals and demigods were his comrades and people.
• Emperor said resisting the Death game would doom everyone, while General insisted that he and the Players could eventually find a way to resolve it.
• Emperor overwhelmed General with Conquest and Domination, but General revealed his self-formed second Authority, Struggle, and pushed back.
• General acknowledged that their divine struggle remained undecided and activated his Heart Domain, summoning an array of weapons for their fight as Players.

The General and the Emperor fought while the God of Desire helped Gu Mo break free of the God of Shadows’ control, and the Diviner held off his opponents. Lin Yu then spotted Demon Ancestor Gantuo moving through the Reality Passage toward Tengshe, but the others were too occupied to intervene.

• The General and the Emperor drew power from their respective domains and struck each other, shaking the water curtain around them.
• The God of Desire merged with Gu Mo and turned her desire to kill into power that let her break free of the God of Shadows’ shadows and attack; the God of Shadows responded with three Authorities.
• The Diviner’s opponents kept him in a stalemate, and he told Jian Cunyi that delaying would help him in the short term despite benefiting the players later.
• Lin Yu warned Jian Cunyi that demonic energy was moving through the passage toward Tengshe, and Jian Cunyi recognized Demon Ancestor Gantuo as the threat.
• The fighters could not break away to help Tengshe, while the chaotic energy in the Reality Passage made reaching him difficult.

Lin Yu and his allies struggled to keep the unstable passage from collapsing after Demon Ancestor Gantuo reached Tengshe, and Bifang volunteered to stop him. Lin Yu took Bifang’s place against the Diviner, with Chongming and Robin joining the fight, while Jian Cunyi’s formation helped trap the Diviner and land a coordinated attack.

• Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi realized that fighting Demon Ancestor Gantuo inside the unstable passage could worsen the chaos, while leaving Tengshe undefended would let the Demon Ancestor ruin their efforts.
• Bifang offered to enter the passage and use his Heart Domain to hold off Gantuo with minimal disruption, but Swordsman argued that he should go instead.
• Lin Yu blocked the Diviner’s copper coins and chose to replace Bifang on the battlefield; Chongming and Robin joined Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi against the Diviner.
• Bifang withdrew to the Reality Passage entrance, and Lin Yu opened the Azure Sea Sky Dome so he could descend toward Tengshe.
• Jian Cunyi handed Lin Yu control of his formation and attacked the Diviner alongside Swordsman and Old Wu; Robin’s cartoon trap immobilized the Diviner, allowing the three attackers to strike him head-on.

Bifang left the battlefield in his companions’ hands, then intercepted Demon Ancestor Gantuo before he could reach Tengshe. He trapped Gantuo inside his Heart Domain, the Key Class, and warned that breaking its rules could be deadly.

• Bifang sensed that Chongming, Robin, and Director could hold the battlefield, and reflected on his decision to step back from teaching graduating classes because of the Death game.
• Bifang used energy-sensing glasses to find Demon Ancestor Gantuo and saw that Tengshe’s energy absorption had created a temporary barrier around him.
• Bifang stealthily approached Gantuo and attacked, but Gantuo transformed, destroyed Bifang’s weapons, and seized him with his claws.
• Bifang told Gantuo that having no companions nearby let him use his Heart Domain, then asked him to return to his seat.
• Bifang’s Heart Domain transported Gantuo into a classroom, where Bifang declared himself the teacher and warned that breaking the Key Class rules could bring punishment or death.

Bifang used his Heart Domain’s exam rules to fight Demon Ancestor Gantuo, knowing ordinary punishments could not defeat him. After Bifang died, the final exam continued to punish Gantuo, carrying out Bifang’s plan to take the Demon Ancestor of the Prison Mountain Realm down with him.

• Bifang’s classroom rules punished Gantuo for speaking and daydreaming, but Gantuo chose to endure the attacks and challenged Bifang.
• Bifang began a final exam, and its rules pressed down on Gantuo as he struggled to understand the questions and threw away the paper.
• Gantuo attacked Bifang with the Black Lotus’s malice, while the Heart Domain inflicted increasingly severe wounds on them both.
• Bifang admitted that ordinary punishments could not hold Gantuo and revealed that killing the invigilator would trigger an unprecedented punishment.
• Bifang sat down and let the Evil of Heaven and Earth kill him, but his Heart Domain continued attacking Gantuo after his death.
• Gantuo failed to escape or stop the exam, and the loudspeaker announced that 45 minutes remained.

Bifang and Demon Ancestor Gantuo perished together, but Gantuo’s final attack accidentally struck Li Nian, letting her clear the Instance and escape. The Diviner and the other enemies withdrew, then the Diviner revealed that the passage to the Real World had opened and malicious beings were advancing toward real Shenzhen.

• Bifang and Demon Ancestor Gantuo died together, though a charred demonic embryo carrying Gantuo’s aura emerged from the passage.
• The embryo struck Li Nian, revealed a teacher’s envelope of exam materials, and vanished after she cleared the Instance.
• Old Wu and the Comedian used Fang Qing’s enhancement Items while Jian Cunyi and Lin Yu helped them corner the Diviner.
• The Diviner killed a rooster to withdraw from the Instance, and the Emperor and God of Shadows also departed.
• The Diviner revealed that the passage to the Real World had opened, and demons, monsters, and Yaomo began climbing toward real Shenzhen.

The General used half of his Divine Kingdom to seal the Reality Loophole, and the Benevolent King emerged as a False God who had survived thanks to Loquat Candy’s healing. Schreiber then offered a way to clear the Instance by destroying the points of light he had created, which the Death game would count as living beings.

• The General revealed that the Professor had prepared for the Diviner’s attempt to open another Reality Loophole and brought half of his Divine Kingdom to seal the passage.
• The Benevolent King appeared, revealed that he had become a False God with the Authority of Protection, and explained that Loquat Candy had healed him after his failed fusion.
• The Benevolent King took control of the General’s borrowed Divine Kingdom, blocking the monsters and demons from reaching the Real World.
• Schreiber appeared on a rooftop and offered to help the group clear the Instance by crushing points of light he said the Death game would recognize as living beings.

Lin Yu returned to Shenzhen after helping the Players escape the Diviner’s Instance, only to learn that his probability of death was rising. When the Emperor’s Authority erupted at the Secretary’s apartment and locked onto him, the Secretary’s posthumous Item, [Do Not Kill the Envoy], activated.

• Lin Yu created false lives from Life Force and Soul Fragments, then crushed one himself to prove Schreiber’s claim that Players could leave the Instance safely.
• The Players followed Lin Yu’s example and left the Instance, while he returned to Shenzhen and considered the casualties and the many tasks awaiting him.
• Li Hua warned Lin Yu that his probability of death was increasing and hurried to send help as Old Zhou and Qianhuan approached him.
• The Emperor’s Authority erupted beneath Shenzhen at the Secretary’s apartment and locked onto Lin Yu.
• The Secretary’s death-triggered Item, [Do Not Kill the Envoy], appeared before Lin Yu with a warning about rulers who killed Han’s envoys.

The Emperor used the Secretary’s [Do Not Kill the Envoy] to identify Lin Yu and Li Hua as the Secretary’s killers and drag them into his Divine Kingdom. Qianhuan and Old Zhou were caught as well, and the Emperor declared that he would judge them and sentence them to death.

• The Emperor’s authority combined with [Do Not Kill the Envoy] and the Shenzhen reality loophole to pull Lin Yu toward the Ten Realms.
• Qianhuan and Old Zhou tried to help Lin Yu, but the golden light spread to them, and all three were dragged into the Ten Realms as the Reality Passage closed.
• Lin Yu, Qianhuan, and Old Zhou arrived in a vast palace realm, where Li Hua identified it as the Emperor’s Divine Kingdom and explained that the Secretary’s [Item] had tracked its targets through karma.
• Li Hua warned that the Emperor had brought them there without any [Clearance Conditions], making their deaths highly likely.
• The Emperor appeared on a palanquin, called the group rebellious subjects, and declared that they would be executed by a thousand cuts.

The Emperor’s authority inflicted death by a thousand cuts while his summoned enforcers restrained Qianhuan and Old Zhou, but Li Hua’s dice and Qianhuan’s magic helped them escape and fight back. Li Hua identified the Emperor’s power as domination over conquered beings and said Lin Yu could carry that information out, but the Emperor revealed he had been using all his power to seal Lin Yu off.

• The Emperor punished Lin Yu, Li Hua, Qianhuan, and Old Zhou with death by a thousand cuts, while summoned guards trapped Old Zhou and constables chained Qianhuan and wounded Teacher Rabbit.
• Li Hua used his Twenty-sided Die to help Qianhuan escape, and Qianhuan transported the guards away from Old Zhou before joining him against the Emperor’s eunuch.
• Old Zhou attacked the eunuch while Li Hua used another successful die roll to capture the eunuch’s purple miasma in a Blood Chip.
• Li Hua deduced that the Emperor’s authority let him dominate beings he had conquered, and the Emperor confirmed the explanation.
• Li Hua said he could send information about the Emperor’s power to Order through Lin Yu, but the Emperor revealed that he had been sealing Lin Yu off from the beginning.