Recaps

Lin Yu uncovered the Diviner’s plan to bring the Emperor into Shenzhen and confronted the Diviner while Gu Mo and Jian Cunyi fought the invasion. As Lin Yu evaded the Chancellor and Cold Cicada, the Freedom Alliance cornered the Chancellor, only for the Celestial King to arrive and begin casting Super-Tier Magic.

• Lin Yu defeated the First Generation Jung’s attack and took control of the abandoned Soul Fragments, but Xiao Yuan stole Jung’s core and warned Lin Yu to stay away from the Director.
• Lin Yu mapped abnormal energy points beneath Shenzhen and discovered that they were passages connected to the Ten Realms, then warned his allies as the Emperor began descending.
• Lin Yu realized the Diviner sought the Fragments of Fate and confronted him, but refused his offers and learned that the Emperor had killed Lin Zhao and wanted to prevent Lin Yu from bringing him back.
• Gu Mo and Jian Cunyi fought the Emperor and his summoned forces, while Jian Cunyi closed the main passage and Gu Mo used his Heart Domain and Immortal Essence to break through the Emperor’s army.
• Lin Yu evaded Cold Cicada and the Chancellor by fleeing through a reality loophole, but the Chancellor caught him before Li Nian revealed herself and freed him.
• Lin Yu and the Chancellor clashed over their allegiances until Old Wu, Chen Le, and the Freedom Alliance confronted the Chancellor as he entered the World Within the Painting.
• The Comedian forced the Chancellor out of the painted world, but the Celestial King arrived to rescue him and began casting Eternal Magic Flesh Substitution against the Freedom Alliance.

Lin Yu pursued the Director and uncovered Chancellor’s betrayal, but the Secretary’s death triggered the Diviner’s artificial Shenzhen instance. As Ten Realms allies prepared to enter the city, Lin Yu and Li Hua moved to regroup their people.

• Celestial King escaped the Freedom Alliance, while Lin Yu refused to fight the people who had saved him and followed Chancellor.
• Lin Yu met Celestial King and Chancellor at a safe house, gave Celestial King the Benevolent King's [Item Set], and learned the Diviner might have betrayed him.
• Knight attacked Lin Yu and Liuli, but Okfielst possessed Knight, killed Liuli, and escaped after Celestial King destroyed Knight.
• Lin Yu and Second Generation Freud cornered Chancellor, who revealed the Diviner planned to transport Shenzhen’s Players into Ten Realms venues, but Freud killed his body and Chancellor escaped.
• Lin Yu tracked Chancellor to a safe house and exposed Secretary as Order’s traitor using Sherlock’s “VII/120” riddle, while Li Hua agreed to testify.
• Secretary claimed he had betrayed Order to prevent the final trial from destroying their world, then attacked Lin Yu and died after using his [Exclusive item: Public Authority].
• The Death game recognized Shenzhen as the artificial [instance] [Shenzhen Pursuit], and the Diviner announced that Players could clear it by surviving 24 hours or killing a living being.
• Old Zheng explained how the Diviner had used the Lord of Mist Island’s soul to create the instance, while Lin Yu and Li Hua ordered their people to assemble before Ten Realms allies arrived.

Lin Yu and the Players fought to stop the Diviner from destroying the Instance and opening a passage to the Ten Realms, while Tengshe and Bifang helped contain the threat. After the Instance was cleared, the Emperor dragged Lin Yu, Li Hua, Qianhuan, and Old Zhou into his Divine Kingdom, where they faced his execution order and learned that Lin Yu had been isolated from the start.

• Li Hua and Lin Yu gathered allies and exposed Secretary as a Copper Furnace mole, while the Diviner drew dangerous figures into the Instance and brought Demon Ancestor Gantuo through the vortex.
• Lin Yu disrupted the Diviner’s plans across Shenzhen, weakening Gantuo and Okfielst, rescuing allies, and confronting the Diviner as hidden formations threatened the Players and the passages between realms.
• Lin Yu and his allies fought the Diviner while destroying the formations, and Tengshe absorbed the resulting energy to keep the Reality Passage from exploding.
• The Emperor advanced toward the Reality Passage as General challenged him, while Lin Yu returned to stop him and the other fighters struggled against the Diviner and the God of Shadows.
• Bifang trapped Gantuo in his classroom Heart Domain and died with him, while the Diviner escaped and the passage opened to demons and monsters from the Ten Realms.
• The Benevolent King sealed the passage with the General’s Divine Kingdom, and Lin Yu showed the Players how to leave the Instance before returning to Shenzhen.
• The Emperor’s authority and Secretary’s [Do Not Kill the Envoy] pulled Lin Yu, Qianhuan, and Old Zhou into the Emperor’s Divine Kingdom, where Li Hua joined them and the Emperor sentenced them to death by a thousand cuts.
• Li Hua and Qianhuan helped Old Zhou fight the Emperor’s eunuch, and Li Hua deduced that the Emperor could dominate those he had conquered before learning that the Emperor had kept Lin Yu isolated.

Lin Yu survived the Emperor’s assault and joined Order’s investigation into the Secretary, Supreme Evolution, and the God Creation Project. After uncovering the Death game’s history and preparing for Freud’s Trial, he entered the Barren Realm with his team.

• The Emperor trapped Lin Yu in his Heart Domain, but Li Hua used a probability game to help send Lin Yu and Old Zhou to safety while he and Qianhuan stayed behind and died.
• After the Prison Mountain Realm battle, Lin Yu learned of Li Hua’s and Qianhuan’s deaths, passed Order’s investigation, and agreed to lead a task force into the Barren Realm with Schreiber’s support.
• Lin Yu visited Freud’s bar, accepted her Trial in the Mist Island Realm, and asked her and trusted members to help eliminate a persistent threat.
• Lin Yu learned from Xiao Yun that she had failed to find Qianhuan’s and the Gambler’s bodies, then confronted the Diviner and secured his support and a blank Long Banner.
• Stiller told Lin Yu about Supreme Evolution’s surviving personnel and research, while Lin Yu assigned him to approach Paris in disguise and sought technology connected to Authority.
• Lin Yu entered Gan Duo’s memories and learned that the Death game had destroyed Gan Duo’s world after Players failed a cross-realm Instance, while the First Generation God of Game had controlled Deities and Authorities there.
• Lin Yu prepared for the Barren Realm mission by asking Fu Luo to probe the Nightless Sky Family Head and Old Zheng to resume playing Schreiber, while discussing the dangers of Freud’s Trial and the unexplored Absolute Sea.
• Lin Yu assembled the task force with a Team-up Card, and the group arrived at Xiao Nian’s residence in the Great Wilderness.