Recaps

Lin Yu and Chen Le joined Ka’s feast, where Celestial King attacked and Yin Lan fought to protect him. After Order’s reinforcements arrived, Lin Yu launched his plan to draw them to the Museum and take the Nine Treasures amid a Sea Demon diversion.

• Lin Yu passed La’s cooking trial with a scallop bisque, then accepted a jar of [Whale's Tear] from Ka and toured the octopus community with Hannah and Chen Le.
• At the Museum, Lin Yu and Chen Le identified three displayed artifacts as Nine Treasures, and Chen Le revealed that he already possessed two.
• Lin Yu proposed stirring up chaos to take Ka’s treasures, and he and Chen Le concealed their plan while attending Ka’s feast, where Yin Lan invited Chen Le to fight and offered Lin Yu a place in Order.
• Celestial King arrived seeking the God of the Ocean’s Divine Artifact and Hannah, then fought Ka as Lin Yu, Chen Le, and Yin Lan stayed to help.
• Yin Lan used her incomplete Heart Domain to attack Celestial King, but Celestial King awakened Pure Violence Aesthetics and wounded Yin Lan before Ka resumed the fight.
• Lin Yu rescued the unconscious Yin Lan from the battle, negotiated with Marauder Ling Xian, and returned her to Chen Le after Order’s reinforcements, including Director, arrived.
• Lin Yu and Chen Le went to the Museum with Hannah, summoned Sea Eye Venerable, and arranged for his Sea Demons to create a diversion.
• More than a hundred Sea Demons entered the Museum as Lin Yu showed Chen Le the Sealed Stone Box and instructed him to strike it, and Chen Le fired at the box with his [Auxiliary Landing Net Tool].

Lin Yu and his companions uncovered the Nine Treasures’ locations in the ruins of Mu Continent, where Lin Yu met the self-aware corpse Tuke and agreed to help end his existence. The God of Shadows trapped Lin Yu in a nightmare as Xia Yue, and Lin Yu discovered that Xia Yue had deliberately drowned a boy.

• Lin Yu and his companions escaped the Museum with stolen exhibits and Ka’s blood, then traveled to the Outer Sea to search for the remaining Nine Treasures.
• At the Museum, Swordsman redirected Celestial King’s Forbidden Spell, and Liu later attacked the wounded Order members until Lin Yu summoned Ka, who drove her away.
• Lin Yu, Chen Le, and Li Nian entered the puppet-filled ruins of Mu Continent, where a stranger secretly passed Lin Yu an SOS note warning him not to draw attention.
• Lin Yu activated the palace apparatus with the snake-shaped dagger, revealing the locations of two more Nine Treasures and giving Chen Le access to its inheritance.
• Lin Yu secretly spoke with the corpse Tuke, learned that an assassin had sought royal bloodlines to condense a new Authority, and agreed to help Tuke end his existence by shutting down the Azure Sea Sky Dome.
• The God of Shadows seized Lin Yu and trapped him in a nightmare, mistaking him for Xia Yue and placing him in a childhood memory at school.
• Lin Yu intervened when boys tormented a dog, then woke in the nightmare beside the drowned boy and found signs that Xia Yue had deliberately held him underwater.

Lin Yu escaped the God of Shadows' nightmare with Fang Qing's help, then bargained with the God of Desire while investigating the ruined city's Azure Sea Sky Dome. Night Watcher reinforcements interrupted his plans, and he trapped Tengshe in a repeating calamity before slitting his own throat inside the illusion.

• Lin Yu rejected the God of Shadows' threats against his friends and summoned Fang Qing, who secured his release by threatening to self-destruct.
• Lin Yu joined Chen Le and Li Nian to shut down the Azure Sea Sky Dome, and Chen Le fished up a Desire Orb that suggested the city's residents were manifestations of desire.
• Lin Yu entered Room 505 and uncovered the God of Desire's deception involving Xia Yue's old friend and the Nether Void Realm's destruction.
• Lin Yu demanded compensation from the God of Desire, received a Desire Mark and divine arts, and promised to find a way to free him.
• Tengshe, Chongming, Robin, and Mountain Sparrow arrived as Night Watcher reinforcements, and Lin Yu offered to hold them off while Chen Le summoned Comedian and Inventor.
• Lin Yu used Desire and deception to trap Tengshe, put Mountain Sparrow to sleep, freeze Chongming, and ensnare Robin in a vision of her ideal future.
• Lin Yu and Li Nian entered the Azure Sea Sky Dome's water sphere, where Tengshe escaped his confinement and pursued them toward the core.
• Lin Yu trapped Tengshe in a repeating Karma Illusion of his past, seized Tengshe's rusty knife, and slit his own throat.

Tengshe recovered the truth about Ruan Min and gave Lin Yu a Soul Fragment in exchange for help bringing her back. After the Freedom Alliance escaped Ruins City and Lin Yu secured Ka’s support, Lin Yu investigated Cold Cicada’s role in the election and began negotiating with the captured God of Desire.

• Tengshe relived his past, discovered Ruan Min among the victims of the college shooting, and learned from Lin Yu that she might be resurrected if he contributed a Soul Fragment.
• Lin Yu recorded Tengshe’s Soul Fragment as the Azure Sea Sky Dome contracted, flooding Ruins City, and Comedian’s Heart Domain helped drive Tengshe and the Night Watchers to retreat.
• Lin Yu confronted the God of Desire and forced his avatar into the Azure Sea Sky Dome, then Fang Qing warned Chen Le that the World Will of Pure Ruins had targeted him.
• Lin Yu summoned Ka for dinner, apologized for Octopus Town’s destruction, and received the Contentment Ladle and other gifts after Ka explained that a Cataclysm might be approaching.
• Lin Yu warned the Freedom Alliance about the Marauders and investigated the Player Mutual Aid Society election, where Penglai had surged into first place with Cold Cicada’s backing.
• A’yu told Lin Yu that Cold Cicada was the Diviner’s strategic partner, and Lin Yu informed Skinner that the Marauders had manipulated the election to put Penglai first.
• Lin Yu found the God of Desire’s will inside the Strange Desire Doll and asked him to help wield the Authority of Desire, offering to purify it in return.