Recaps

After She She took power, Lin Yu failed to secure a safe place among the established factions and turned to building a force of Half-Demons. As the war converged on the Wolf Tribe Sacred Land, he waited for the Players and Xiajin’s forces to create an opening for his plan.

• She She took power after the Northern King died, but White Sand confronted Lin Yu at the palace and forced him to flee when she intervened.
• Lin Yu traveled with Wolf Demons, investigated forbidden zones, and found evidence that Xiajin’s army had used an underground waterway before fighting Bandura and Fluoxetine.
• After escaping Fluoxetine, Lin Yu decided to form a faction and recruit Black Marsh natives by channeling their resentment, honor, and desire for revenge.
• As Xiajin’s army captured demons for Lu Gu’s tower, She She held her Ling Race forces back while the Human Race and demon forces fought across Fengze.
• Lin Yu organized the Half-Demons into a growing force and ordered them to prepare to capture a city when the war became chaotic.
• When Xiajin’s shamans fought the Wolf Tribe near the sacred land, Lin Yu waited for the Players to act and planned to direct the Half-Demons against the Human Race.
• The Wolf Tribe Tribe Leader charged Lu Gu’s Witch Soldiers but was driven back and surrounded with his elite warriors.

Lin Yu manipulated the war across Sanqiu and Xia Jin, gained Lu Gu’s trust, and awakened the Ancient Notebook’s power. The notebook drew five Players into a reconstructed school where they learned of Copper Furnace and began tracking missing students underground.

• Lin Yu used the Beast Tide and his wind-vein knowledge to confront Lu Gu, then exchanged insights into the Authority of Life for Lu Gu’s cooperation with his plan to settle the Half-Demons near Xia Jin.
• Lin Yu surveyed the spreading battles, directed the Beast Tide, and cut the Ancient Notebook with the Limit Breaking Jade Cleaver, awakening its scene-reconstruction powers.
• Lin Yu drew Qianhuan, White Sand, Bandura, Zuo Xi, and Fluoxetine into an information scene where younger versions of them introduced Copper Furnace and invited them to join.
• Lin Yu used the Players’ belief to turn the reconstructed scene into a Gray Domain World Projection, while the five Players realized they were trapped in the school and agreed to cooperate.
• The Players searched the school for a way out, found blood-painted eye symbols, and learned from Bandura that the Gray Domain held powerful lifeforms alongside Authority.
• After the group found the campus deserted, White Sand tracked the students’ scents to a warehouse, where Fluoxetine led them to a passage dug beneath the floor.

After escaping the memory illusion, Lin Yu led the Half-Demons to victory and began pursuing his Exclusive Item and the truth behind Fu Luo’s murder. He used the Ancient Notebook to reconstruct the Players’ memories, uncovering their pasts and resolving to approach Zuo Xi as Meng Yang.

• Lin Yu escaped the memory illusion, reached Stiller’s command post, and helped the Half-Demons seize a city near the Sanqiu border before clearing the game.
• Lin Yu learned that his Exclusive Item blueprint was named Empty Shell and began studying its requirements, his witchcraft Items, and the soul fragments preserved in the Ancient Notebook.
• Shen Bingmiao warned Lin Yu that his many roles could obstruct opening his Heart Domain, while Lin Yu insisted he would find a way to reunify his identities.
• Fu Luo died after warning Lin Yu about his killer, and Lin Yu vowed to avenge him as Li Hua investigated the murders of Fu Luo and Gao Shan.
• Li Hua recruited Good Night to investigate a possible mole and told Lin Yu that the Grandmaster was trapped in an Instance, prompting Lin Yu to investigate the Marauders as Yayu.
• Lin Yu used the Ancient Notebook to reconstruct Qianhuan’s, Bandura’s, and White Sand’s memories, creating Information Lifeforms and learning about their pasts and motives.
• Lin Yu explored Zuo Xi’s memories and learned how Meng Yang’s writing inspired her, how Meng Yang was murdered, and how Zuo Xi uncovered the truth about her and her boyfriend.
• Lin Yu discovered that Meng Yang had praised Zuo Xi’s writing and decided to appear before Zuo Xi disguised as Meng Yang.

Lin Yu created independent Information Lifeforms and allied with Bai You against her original self, Fluoxetine. He gathered intelligence on threats surrounding the South China election before Fluoxetine's airport appearance led him to investigate whether Lu Xi had been targeted.

• Lin Yu created an Information Lifeform from Zuo Xi’s Soul Fragment, but Zuo Xi rejected her existence and committed suicide.
• Fluoxetine’s independent Information Lifeform interrupted Lin Yu’s memory exploration, adopted the name Bai You, and agreed to help him kill her original self.
• Lin Yu released Zhu Qiansi for a week and secured Fang Qing’s help watching Zhu Qiansi and Xia Yang while accepting her request to bring Fishing Man to the Middle Sea.
• Lin Yu obtained the Portable Sea Moth from Fang Qing and secretly gained [Life or Death] after her Resurrection Coin transformed.
• Lin Yu learned from A'yu that the Marauders planned to disrupt the South China election, gathered intelligence on White Sand, and became an Order commander for regional support personnel.
• Shen Bingmiao warned Lin Yu that his Trial would occur in the Divine Realm and supplied intelligence on White Sand, Pen Name, and Fluoxetine.
• Lin Yu met Lu Xi aboard his flight and spotted Fluoxetine in her photo, while Fluoxetine ordered Potassium Chloride to carry out an assassination on the plane and headed toward Jiang City to destroy the Forum server.
• Bai You explained the Psychology Society’s methods for targeting potential Players, and Lin Yu sought Bandura’s assessment of Lu Xi while checking Old Zheng’s progress on the simulator.