Recaps

Lin Yu recovered his memories in Yundu, found Lin Zhao at the Small World’s core, and crossed into the Mirror World to search for Li Nian’s soul. After infiltrating the Hero Training Center with Feng Tong, he entered a ruined Small World and encountered a colossal creature that mistook him for Lin Zhao.

• Lin Yu resisted the Gray Domain’s false memories, discovered Yundu was a bounded world sharing one connected soul, and learned that Memory Anchors exposed its distortions.
• Lin Yu summoned Leila Avi, learned that Li Nian’s soul might be in the Mirror World, and returned to school as the Gray Domain erased her.
• Lin Zhao picked Lin Yu up, revealed she was a contingency created from the original Lin Zhao’s Soul Fragment, and explained how the Mirror World’s rulers controlled the Small Worlds.
• Lin Zhao poisoned and attacked Lin Yu, revealing herself as Yundu’s core, but Lin Yu used his return-from-death ability to cross into the Mirror World.
• Lin Yu awakened as Apprentice No. 107053, learned how the Mirror World sent apprentices into Small Worlds, and explored its ring-shaped city while seeking Li Nian’s soul.
• Lin Yu disguised himself as Chong Ping, Chong Ning, and then Shen Qi to trace a route into the Hero Training Center, where a virus alert and Sea Urchin Essence attack disrupted the facility.
• Lin Yu manipulated Feng Tong into believing he was wounded and that enemies were targeting him, then persuaded him to break into the restricted research areas.
• Lin Yu and Feng Tong entered the concealed facility and found a portal to a ruined Small World, where Lin Yu sensed a colossal creature that accused him of destroying its world and called him Lin Zhao.
• Lin Yu summoned Old Zheng and Zhu Qiansi to calm the creature and investigate its history.

Lin Yu outmaneuvered the Central Mechanism, recovered Li Nian, and entered a supposed reward instance that proved to be a trap within the Gray Domain. There, Xia Yue revealed her plan to erase Li Nian and strand Lin Yu, but Lin Yu used the Death game's rules to turn the confrontation around.

• Lin Yu gained Sage authority by forcing the Central Mechanism to accept that he and the Myriad Transformation Saint Monarch were the same person, then escaped the Small World as Feng Tong attacked.
• Lin Yu revealed that he had distributed fragments of his soul and consciousness across the Mirror World, giving him leverage over the Central Mechanism and a way to bypass its restrictions.
• Lin Yu negotiated Li Nian's release from the Spirit Body Prison, learned that her Ancient Notebook was the Materialization Authority, and refused the Central Mechanism's offer to keep him in the Gray Domain.
• Lin Yu reunited Li Nian's soul fragments, and they entered the Ghost Ship Instance, where they investigated the empty cruise ship and collected materials from its casino vault.
• Lin Yu uncovered the film set's hidden monitoring room and realized the cruise ship was a decades-old reality show whose crew had vanished after violating a taboo.
• Lin Yu discovered that he and Li Nian were still in the Gray Domain, while Li Nian's soul remained incomplete, and Zhu Ming warned that the Central Mechanism might want the Ancient Notebook.
• Lin Yu saw through Xia Yue's disguise as Zhu Ming and learned that she had made a deal with the Central Mechanism to leave as a Player and trap him in the Film Studio.
• Lin Yu exposed Xia Yue's plan to erase Li Nian, sent Li Nian away through the Karma Threads, and used the Repaired Mist Pocket Watch and Tongue of Deception to make his claim of her return to reality come true.

Lin Yu returned from the Gray Domain, uncovered the Copper Furnace’s secrets, and prepared for his Tier 3 trial. In the Black Marsh World, he joined Qianhuan to protect the Tanuki people and disrupt Xia Jin’s invasion, then planned a direct attack on soldiers adapting to their mirror labyrinth.

• Lin Yu merged with the 21% of himself, rejected the Gray Domain’s attempt to enlist him, and returned to his middle-school classroom.
• Lin Yu completed the Town Life game, while Lu Xiao questioned Lin Zhao about freeing her and Lin Zhao urged her to leave the Gray Domain.
• Lin Yu returned to the hotel, reunited with the Freedom Alliance, and learned from Li Nian’s notebook that the Hidden Organization was called the Copper Furnace and led by Emperor.
• Lin Yu reported the Copper Furnace to Li Hua, examined his Gray Domain rewards, and continued the Drama club tour as Shen Bingmiao prepared him to reconsider his identity before his Tier 3 trial.
• Lin Yu entered Wildfire Burns a Thousand Miles of Bones, found villages burning in the Black Marsh World, and discovered Qianhuan sheltering Tanuki women and children underground.
• Lin Yu and Qianhuan agreed to escort the Tanuki people toward their sacred ground and learned that Xia Jin’s army was transporting a Giant Tower toward it.
• Lin Yu and Qianhuan used rain, fog, and Qianhuan’s Mirror Labyrinth to slow and scatter the Xia Jin army, while a blue-clad girl advised its leaders on how to respond.
• Lin Yu and Qianhuan realized that several squads were tracking the stable center of the maze, so they decided to attack before the soldiers could encircle them.

Lin Yu and Qianhuan helped the Tanuki Tribe resist Xia Jin’s army, while Lin Yu clashed with Zuo Xi and escaped to scout the Northern Royal Palace. There he uncovered She She’s coup and watched the Northern King face his former student in a duel.

• Lin Yu and Qianhuan reached the Tanuki Tribe’s sacred land, where the leaders prepared to defend it against Xia Jin’s elite army.
• Lin Yu and Qianhuan disrupted the Xia Jin attack, with Qianhuan stealing the Giant Tower and drawing the army away in pursuit.
• Lin Yu fought through Xia Jin’s soldiers and confronted Zuo Xi, who tried to trap him in a story before he escaped using Karma Threads Divine Ability and Mind-State Teleportation Gun.
• Lin Yu and Stiller infiltrated the Northern Royal Palace, where Lin Yu discovered that its foundations contained human and Spirit Race skeletons.
• Lin Yu found She She demanding that the Northern King abdicate, and Hannah revealed Lin Yu’s presence to both sides.
• She She admitted that he had timed his coup to coincide with Xia Jin’s attack and promised the humans two days to plunder the Demon Race.
• The Northern King challenged She She to prove his witchcraft was stronger, and She She’s golden threads began drawing blood as they fought.