Recaps

Lin Yu faced the God of Oblivion’s attempt to claim him while Crow and other gods fought over the Eternal Prison. After Crow sent him to the innermost prison, Lin Yu met Bai Ying, who explained her role in preparing for an approaching Final Trial.

• Lin Yu and Old Zheng reached the Eternal Prison, where a new Authority kept the prisoners peaceful, and hurried toward the Core Zone as gods gathered to confront one another.
• Freud and her allies confronted Lin Yu and Old Zheng, but the God of Oblivion’s mist began erasing memories and the Pale Man revealed his plan to make Lin Yu a vessel for Oblivion.
• Lin Yu resisted the Pale Man’s flood of memories, and Crow intervened, revealing that he had hidden the Memory Authority and helping Lin Yu escape the Kingdom of the Forgotten.
• The Goddess of Shadow, Pain, and Nightmare attacked Lin Yu, but Crow gave him a drink that linked him to an unknown Authority and used his feather to turn Lin Yu’s unfinished action into Truth.
• Lin Yu found himself in the Eternal Prison’s innermost region and entered Bai Ying’s cell after its doors opened for him.
• Bai Ying told Lin Yu she was Bai Yue’s teacher, aunt, and one of her mothers, and explained that she had been imprisoned for joining a plan to save her civilization by making worlds destroy one another.
• Bai Ying explained that the game’s will treated the Ten Realms as expendable and sent periodic Final Trials, while Lin Yu considered whether a god killed by a Player had been the God of Destiny.

Lin Yu investigated the Ten Realms’ apocalypses in the Eternal Prison, learned about Lin Zhao and inherited Yun Fengyang’s arts, then joined forces with the God of Frost. The God of Shadows seized the prison, leaving Lin Yu and Earl searching for a way to complete Lin Yu’s final Duel.

• Lin Yu learned from Bai Ying that the Death game had created the Ten Realms’ apocalypses, then questioned her about the operation and Xiao Yuan.
• Lin Yu freed Yun Jushi, learned about Prison Mountain Realm and the Inter-Realm Walker Xiao Yuan, and received Yun Fengyang’s inheritance after promising to preserve his arts.
• Lin Yu confronted the God of Frost, used Destiny to draw them into her memories of Serina’s death, and persuaded her to investigate whether the Death game could enable resurrection.
• The God of Frost told Lin Yu that the Sword of Judgment had devastated the Blood Clan and weakened the Abyss before the Abyssal Lord’s fall accelerated plane fusion.
• The God of Shadows invaded the Eternal Prison to capture Lin Yu, overcame the God of Fairness and Judgment’s control, and rejected Lin Yu’s offer to bring her the Fear Authority.
• Lin Yu escaped to Earl using Quick Teleport and asked him to help arrange the Duel he still needed to complete his return condition.
• The God of Shadows turned prisoners against Lin Yu and Earl through nightmares, but they pushed onward while Earl resisted the Nightmare Authority’s influence.
• Lin Yu used Bidirectional Radar and Talisman Earth Escape Armor to find a hidden passage, then told Earl that the God of Frost had created it through a Player imprisoned in the Middle Ring.

Lin Yu survived an ambush in Eternal Prison with help arranged by Shen Bingmiao and completed his Eternal Trial. After learning that Shen Bingmiao had only hours left before losing herself, he promised to restore her self-awareness and then uncovered Xiao Yuan impersonating Paper Kite.

• Lin Yu awakened Nightless Sky Yong Shang for a duel, but the God of Shadows and several allies attacked him and blocked his escape from Eternal Prison.
• Shen Bingmiao arranged for Gu Mo and Fang Qing to rescue Lin Yu, and they fought the God of Shadows and the God of Oblivion.
• Lin Yu returned to Earl, defeated Nightless Sky Yong Shang, and completed the Eternal Trial to receive three bound Items.
• Lin Yu questioned Old Zheng about Second Generation Freud and proposed staging a conflict between his identities to protect the Director’s standing.
• Shen Bingmiao admitted that she had used Lin Yu as bait to expose his enemies and revealed that she was the current God of Game.
• Shen Bingmiao revealed that her Authorities would soon erase her self and that she had masterminded the plan to create the apocalypse.
• Lin Yu promised to restore Shen Bingmiao’s self-awareness after resurrecting Zhao when she rejected his attempt to keep her alive.
• Lin Yu tracked down an apparent Paper Kite, exposed his fabricated account of the murders, and identified the impostor as Xiao Yuan.

Lin Yu managed the fallout from the Divine Realm upheaval, helped conceal Shen Bingmiao’s condition, and entered Pure Ruins with Chen Le to search for the Nine Treasures. Their journey toward the Middle Sea brought them to Hannah’s aunt La, who tested Lin Yu’s cooking rather than his strength.

• Lin Yu confronted Xiao Yuan, who escaped after revealing that most of his soul existed beyond the world’s barriers, then questioned Paper Kite about the murders and learned of his tracking trail to a Marauder gathering place.
• Gu Mo explained the damage caused by the battle in the Eternal Prison and revealed that Shen Bingmiao’s soul was asleep, so Lin Yu agreed to use her gift to impersonate the Administrator and God of Rules.
• Gu Mo confronted the Player Mutual Aid Society over its demand to search Order, while Paper Kite admitted killing Yu Linling at Lin Yu’s suggestion, prompting Lin Yu to proceed with his plan to expose the hidden mastermind.
• Lin Yu met the Freedom Alliance as Zhu Ming, and Fang Qing told them she was nearing godhood before sending Chen Le and Lin Yu to Pure Ruins with a ticket.
• Lin Yu and Chen Le traveled through Pure Ruins aboard the Sea Moth, learned that Marauders had stirred trouble among the sea races, and headed toward the Middle Sea to seek the Whale’s Tear and the Nine Treasures.
• Hannah guided the Sea Moth through the dangerous Sea of Death, then greeted her aunt La, who challenged Lin Yu to prove himself.
• Lin Yu accepted La’s test, but La revealed that he had to prepare a satisfying dish with her kitchen and unfamiliar ingredients.