Recaps

Lin Yu outmaneuvered Zhu Qiansi in the Prison Mountain Realm, brought her into his world, and learned more about Shen Bingmiao’s plans and the God of Destiny. In Jiang City, Order’s pursuit of Li Nian drew Lin Yu, Good Night, Paper Kite, Qianhuan, and Xiao Yun into a rooftop confrontation that remained unresolved.

• Lin Yu pretended to accept Zhu Qiansi’s offer, then helped Xuan Yunzi and Yunzhen seal Willow Town while Zhu Qiansi’s hidden plan to replace him was exposed.
• Zhu Qiansi revealed she had been the Chosen of the God of Fate, Rule, and Change, but Lin Yu brought her into his world after she rejected his offer to leave the Prison Mountain Realm.
• Lin Yu learned from Shen Bingmiao that she had arranged his encounter with the Chosen and sent Gu Mo to weaken it, then decided to wait before asking Crow about the past.
• Good Night and Paper Kite identified Li Nian as the Phantom Thief and planned to detain her over Kres’s [Siren's Blessing], while Lin Yu secretly warned her that Order was watching.
• Good Night and Paper Kite confronted Li Nian in the hotel garden, but Qianhuan intervened and Lin Yu sided with Order as the BEST MAGIC-BUNNY appeared.
• Good Night powered up with his [Grievance Core] and battered Qianhuan until Xiao Yun arrived and blocked his finishing strike.
• Lin Yu reignited Good Night’s resentment, while Paper Kite challenged Xiao Yun after learning she collected corpses and had killed people for them.
• Qianhuan fought Good Night with his Focus on Your Miracle Stage as Xiao Yun admitted she held sixty-five corpses in her Item Space, and Paper Kite declared her crimes worthy of death.

Lin Yu helped arrange a five-match Gambling Duel between Order and the Freedom Alliance while concealing his own motives and learning more about the people around him. The duel began in the Ground of No Return, where Old Zhou defeated Nicholas in the opening match.

• Xiao Yun and Paper Kite fought with lethal abilities, while Good Night continued battling Qianhuan as his speed and dark flames grew.
• Lin Yu revealed his connection to Li Nian and negotiated a temporary truce, leading to a five-match Gambling Duel over the stolen Items and the demon.
• The two organizations selected their fighters, and Lin Yu shared information about A-Yin while hiding his own advancement and intentions from Order.
• Lin Yu learned that Li Nian had investigated his family and discovered that the Psychology Society and Kres were watching and protecting them.
• The contestants and spectators gathered in the Ground of No Return, where Li Hua and the Diviner chose the Storm Arena for the duel.
• Nicholas and Old Zhou began the first match, and Old Zhou overcame Nicholas’s eight reindeer before facing Nicholas directly.
• Nicholas used the Christmas Tree and Flying Sled to batter Old Zhou and drive him into the hurricane, but Old Zhou remained conscious.
• Old Zhou activated [Path of Redemption and Freedom], removed his items’ cooldowns and restrictions, and fought back with his lightning abilities.
• Old Zhou battered Nicholas for several minutes, but Nicholas detonated metal spheres and knocked them both down, and Old Zhou recovered, and the Earl of Flames declared him the winner after Nicholas stayed unconscious for more than ten seconds.

Snowy Owl, Robin, and Lin Yu fought for the Freedom Alliance in the Gambling Duel, while Lin Yu revealed his Film Emperor profession and defeated Wang Yuyang. The Diviner’s invitation to Lin Yu ended with a revelation that he had killed Lin Yu’s closest relative.

• Snowy Owl analyzed the Mountaineer’s malleable body and used precise cuts to wound her, but she lost consciousness before she could win.
• The Mountaineer revived Snowy Owl and returned her blade, while Bifang criticized Snowy Owl for relying on her opponent’s mercy.
• Robin defeated the God of Cookery by drawing away the path beneath his serving cart, then ate his fallen dish as Earl declared her the winner.
• Lin Yu entered the arena as Director and revealed his Film Emperor profession, which let him borrow the abilities of roles he had played.
• Lin Yu and Wang Yuyang fought with weapons, armor, machines, and water, as Lin Yu disabled Wang Yuyang’s mechanical swarm and flooded the tornado.
• Lin Yu distracted Wang Yuyang with Pan Yuqiang’s voice and poisoned him through the water and a syringe, winning the match for Order.
• The Diviner invited Lin Yu to join the Marauders, then discovered through a hexagram that he had killed Lin Yu’s closest relative.

Lin Yu defeated A-Yin, left the Psychology Society for the Freedom Alliance as Zhu Ming, and took on Order’s investigation into a hidden organization. After meeting Fluoxetine and learning more from Shen Bingmiao, Lin Yu entered the Night Valley Realm as Schreiber and encountered the Supreme Heresy Inquisition.

• Lin Yu disguised himself as Zhu Ming and entered the Arena, where A-Yin used the Hundred Blades Casket and martial techniques against him and Stiller.
• Lin Yu and his allies disrupted A-Yin’s attacks, and Lin Yu swallowed the missing tip of A-Yin’s Mother-Child Sword to block his control of it.
• A-Yin summoned an ancestor’s assistance and fought Lin Yu, but Lin Yu used an explosive gas attack, Spider Silk, and Karma Threads to reach A-Yin’s past and ask him to deliver a message to the Director.
• A-Yin conceded, and Lin Yu revealed that she was leaving the Psychology Society to join the Freedom Alliance under the code name Dog Trainer Zhu Ming.
• Order commended Lin Yu and considered Zhu Ming’s trustworthiness, while Li Hua promoted Lin Yu toward captain and assigned him to investigate a suspected hidden group in South China.
• Lin Yu met Fluoxetine, warned her of a possible traitor in the Psychology Society, and learned that she had hired Kres to protect Xia Yang, and he then declined her social contact request.
• Shen Bingmiao told Lin Yu that a hidden organization of Players was coordinating secret exchanges and opposing the Professor’s plan, then prepared him for his next Instance and gave him special Items.
• Shen Bingmiao knocked Lin Yu unconscious to send him into Night Valley, where he introduced himself to Huang as Schreiber and joined her investigation of a wrecked Inquisition carriage.
• When the Heresy Inquisition questioned them, Huang presented her credentials and Lin Yu showed a golden Cross Medal, prompting the patrol to lower its weapons and apologize.