Chapter Summaries

Lin Yu led Cold Cicada and Chancellor on a chase through highway traffic, hoping to stall rather than fight them. When Chancellor and Cold Cicada cornered him, Lin Yu used the pressure of Chancellor’s binding seal to escape underground with his Talisman Earth Escape Armor.

• Lin Yu avoided a direct fight with Cold Cicada and Chancellor and led them across the roofs of vehicles in the traffic.
• Cold Cicada and Chancellor debated whether Lin Yu was leading them into an ambush, then decided no Tier 4 opponent was waiting ahead.
• Chancellor wrote seal script and stamped it with his Official Seal, weighing Lin Yu down and forcing him into the road.
• Cold Cicada summoned translucent jade bees as Chancellor ordered Lin Yu to surrender.
• Lin Yu activated his Talisman Earth Escape Armor and let Chancellor’s binding pressure drive him underground.

Lin Yu used a reality loophole to propel himself kilometers away from the Chancellor and Cold Cicada, but the Chancellor tracked him with the Hand Order and dragged him back. Lin Yu then called for help, revealing that he expected reinforcements from somewhere other than Order.

• Cold Cicada and the Chancellor realized Lin Yu was disturbing a reality loophole and feared he might trigger a disaster.
• Lin Yu used the loophole’s energy to launch himself underground, escaping several kilometers through passive movement.
• The Chancellor and Cold Cicada followed Lin Yu through an ink-painting-like path to downtown Shenzhen.
• The Chancellor used the Hand Order to locate Lin Yu and pull him out of the ground.
• Lin Yu shouted for help, then told the Chancellor his reinforcements were not from Order.

Lin Yu turned the tables on the Chancellor after Li Nian freed him from the Hand Order and Cold Cicada fled. Lin Yu accused the Chancellor of being a disguised Order member and warned that the Chancellor was now the one in danger.

• The Chancellor questioned Lin Yu's confidence, but Cold Cicada decided the operation could not succeed and escaped using a jade box.
• Lin Yu explained that Cold Cicada had fled because he sensed danger, while the Chancellor discovered that parts of his Hand Order had been stolen.
• Li Nian revealed herself as the Freedom Alliance's Master Thief and freed Lin Yu from the Chancellor's restraint.
• Lin Yu and Li Nian spoke as allies, while the Chancellor held back from attacking because he suspected Li Nian had brought reinforcements.
• Lin Yu accused the Chancellor of being an Order member in disguise, arguing that he had received current intelligence from the Makeup Artist, Xiao Yuan.
• The Chancellor admitted Lin Yu's theory might be correct and threatened to kill him before he could report his findings, but Lin Yu declared that the Chancellor was now the one in danger.

Lin Yu confronted the Chancellor about his ties to Order and the Copper Furnace while the Chancellor defended his plans to stop Lin Yu’s dangerous goal. Old Wu, Chen Le, and Li Nian revealed that they had cornered him, but the Chancellor escaped into an ink landscape painting, where a powerful laugh began to alter the scene.

• The Chancellor said he had joined the Copper Furnace before joining Order and claimed he was working to stop Lin Yu from bringing disaster to the Ten Realms.
• Lin Yu and the Chancellor argued over their organizations, while Li Nian teased Lin Yu about his connection to Zhu Ming.
• The Chancellor admitted he intended to kill Lin Yu, then asked how many Freedom Alliance members had come after him; Lin Yu said half the group, including two Tier 4s, were present.
• Old Wu and Chen Le emerged from a flooded manhole with a device that disrupted energy, and Chen Le revealed that the Chancellor had been preparing to perform Divine Descent.
• The Chancellor used ink-like water to open a landscape painting and walked into it, but Old Wu said Chen Le could fish him back if needed.
• A deep laugh rang through the painted forest, changing the lines of the landscape.

The Freedom Alliance cornered the Chancellor, but the Celestial King arrived to rescue him and clashed with the Alliance. The Celestial King began casting a forbidden spell to escape as the two sides prepared to fight.

• The Comedian drove the Chancellor out of the World Within the Painting, where Old Wu and the Freedom Alliance’s other members were waiting.
• Old Wu prepared to arrest the Chancellor, but the Chancellor warned that he had called for reinforcements.
• The Celestial King appeared through a shattered mirror-transposition spell and said the Diviner had ordered her to save the Chancellor.
• The Comedian attacked the Celestial King while Old Wu, Chen Le, Xiao Yun, and Old Zhou joined the assault.
• The Celestial King bit off part of her tongue and began casting Super-Tier Magic, Eternal Magic Flesh Substitution.

Celestial King escaped after trapping the Freedom Alliance behind flesh-and-blood magic arrays and summoning Swordsman and Bifang to fight them. Lin Yu left to pursue Chancellor, revealing that he too had a way to use the Marauders and calling A'yu to arrange a meeting.

• Celestial King formed flesh-and-blood magic arrays to hold off the Freedom Alliance and declared that she had achieved her objective.
• Celestial King escaped as Swordsman and Bifang arrived and attacked the Freedom Alliance; Order had designated the Alliance as the priority threat.
• Lin Yu realized Chancellor had influenced Order's strategic decisions, while the Freedom Alliance prepared to fight Swordsman and Bifang.
• Lin Yu refused to attack the people who had saved him and left to follow Chancellor.
• In the rain, Lin Yu changed his appearance with a pocket watch and called A'yu, claiming he had a way to use the Marauders too.

Lin Yu told A'yu he had recovered the Benevolent King's [Item Set] and asked for help locating the Director, who had ambushed him. The Celestial King said she was heading to a safe house and invited Lin Yu to bring the items there.

• Lin Yu explained that the Director had ambushed him, and vowed to defeat him the next time they met.
• A'yu told Lin Yu that Brother Zhan had left this world to carry out a crucial stage of the plan, so she could not ask him to divine the Director's location.
• Lin Yu revealed that he had found the Benevolent King's [Item Set] hidden by the Freedom Alliance and proposed leaving it with A'yu or the Celestial King for safekeeping.
• A'yu called the Celestial King, who said she had just seen the Director among several powerful allies and warned Lin Yu not to pursue him yet.
• The Celestial King told A'yu she was heading to a safe house and asked her to send Lin Yu there with the [Item Set].

Lin Yu visited Celestial King, who was sheltering Chancellor while he cleared anomalies left by the Freedom Alliance. Celestial King warned Lin Yu that provoking the Alliance would bring retaliation, while she and Chancellor argued over whether ruthless survival in the Death game could only lead to destruction.

• Lin Yu entered Apartment 404 through a magical passage in an electrical cabinet and found Celestial King and Chancellor inside.
• Celestial King explained that forbidden spells had cost her her tongue and said Chancellor was a partner of Brother Zhan, not a member of the organization.
• Chancellor refused Celestial King's offer to help remove the Freedom Alliance's tracking and corruption anomalies, saying he did not want to owe the Marauders favors.
• Lin Yu said he might target the Freedom Alliance for their fame and high bounties, and Celestial King warned that their members retaliated viciously against anyone who harmed them.
• Celestial King described the Marauders as an organization focused on profit and argued that betrayal and murder were necessary to survive, while Chancellor warned that this path would lead everyone to destruction.

Lin Yu handed the Benevolent King's [Items] to the recovering Celestial King and revealed his plan to hunt the Director, both for revenge and to uncover who had exposed his movements. The Celestial King suspected the Diviner had informed the Director, leaving Lin Yu stunned by a possibility that matched what had actually happened.

• The Chancellor left the Safe House after disagreeing with the Celestial King, and Lin Yu remarked that she disliked him.
• Lin Yu gave the Celestial King five [Items], which she judged genuine, then said he intended to take revenge on the Director during Shenzhen's chaos.
• Lin Yu explained that he also hoped to discover the Director's secret intelligence source, which he feared might be someone inside the Marauders.
• The Celestial King suspected the Diviner had betrayed Lin Yu and revealed that he had privately met with the Director before leaving for the Ten Realms.
• Lin Yu questioned how the Diviner could have learned about the [Items], and the Celestial King suggested he might have divined it or inferred it from A'yu's report.

Lin Yu left Celestial King's safe house planning to track Chancellor, whom he had secretly marked with mental power, but Liuli joined him after realizing Yayu and Director had been exchanging information. Lin Yu agreed to let her accompany him while privately deciding he needed to shake her off, and he set a new plan in motion with Old Zheng.

• Lin Yu told Celestial King he would make trouble for Director, then left the safe house and resumed tracking Chancellor through the Mental Power Network.
• Liuli came out to meet Lin Yu, saying she was worried he would fall into another trap and that Sister Yu had asked her to watch him.
• Liuli guessed that Yayu's Order informant was Director and revealed she had kept the secret after checking that Lin Yu posed no threat to her or Sister Yu.
• Lin Yu agreed to let Liuli accompany him, though he privately considered ways to shake her off as Chancellor moved farther from Shenzhen.
• Lin Yu told Old Zheng to play Schreiber and come out of an alley along his route in two minutes.

Old Zheng posed as Schreiber and announced that he had chosen Lin Yu and Liuli for a Trial, dismissing Liuli’s arguments that more powerful Players were better candidates. The Trial began when a burly man with a knight’s lance appeared behind them and identified them as Marauders.

• Old Zheng, acting as Schreiber, told Lin Yu and Liuli that the Psychology Society was only a means to his goal of designing Trials and helping Players reach their potential.
• Liuli questioned why Schreiber had selected her and Lin Yu instead of stronger, more prominent Players in Shenzhen.
• Schreiber insisted that Lin Yu and Liuli were the most promising candidates and declared that his Trial was unavoidable.
• Liuli accepted that the Trial would proceed, while Schreiber praised Lin Yu’s quick adaptability.
• A tall, burly man carrying a knight’s lance appeared behind Lin Yu and Liuli and announced that he had found Marauders who had escaped notice.

Knight arrived while Yayu and Liuli were together, creating a serious obstacle to their escape. Lin Yu suspected Knight might have been sent by Chancellor, but Knight’s confusion about Schreiber’s actions that morning left the group questioning what mission had brought him to Shenzhen.

• Liuli recognized Knight, Order’s powerful Northwest District head, and doubted that she and Yayu could escape him unharmed.
• Lin Yu and Old Zheng privately confirmed that neither had summoned Knight, and Lin Yu warned that Knight’s arrival might be part of a plot targeting him through Yayu.
• Lin Yu authorized Old Zheng to intervene as Schreiber if needed, while Knight noticed Old Zheng and delayed acting.
• Knight accused Schreiber of mentally influencing him and demanded that he stop interfering with Order’s mission.
• Old Zheng asked whether Order could still raise Schreiber’s threat level, but Knight did not know what Schreiber had done that morning, surprising Lin Yu, Old Zheng, and Liuli.

Lin Yu, Old Zheng, and Liuli fought Knight after discovering his mental state was abnormal and learning that he did not know Schreiber had hypnotized Shenzhen’s ordinary citizens. Knight trapped them in an Honorable Arena, but the three brought him down, leaving his mysterious condition unresolved.

• Old Zheng sensed that Knight’s mental state was abnormal, though his soul was genuine and showed no signs of mental interference.
• Liuli told Knight that Schreiber had hypnotized eighteen million people in Shenzhen, and Knight accused Schreiber of tampering with his mind.
• Knight raised an Honorable Arena that trapped Knight, Schreiber, Yayu, and Liuli until only one conscious mind remained.
• Knight charged Old Zheng, who blocked the spear and restrained him while Lin Yu wounded Knight’s hand and attacked his mind.
• Knight struck Lin Yu and broke his ribs, but Old Zheng and Lin Yu’s mental attacks disoriented him, and Liuli knocked him unconscious with a claw hammer.

Liuli knocked Knight unconscious while helping Lin Yu, but the Honorable Dueling Arena remained active after Lin Yu recalled Old Zheng. Lin Yu realized another consciousness was hidden inside Knight, who rose with black eyes and revealed himself.

• Liuli struck Knight with her hammer and knocked him unconscious, then tried to treat Lin Yu's injuries.
• Lin Yu explained that his wounds were healing quickly, and Liuli realized the arena would remain active while multiple conscious minds were inside it.
• Old Zheng spoke with Liuli before Lin Yu secretly knocked her unconscious and recalled Old Zheng into Item Space.
• The Honorable Dueling Arena did not disappear, so Lin Yu sensed another consciousness inside Knight's body.
• Knight rose in a stiff, puppet-like manner, opened black eyes, and addressed Lin Yu as the wielder of Night Blade.

Lin Yu fought the Second Pillar, Okfielst, who had taken control of Knight through a magic crystal implanted in his brain. After the arena vanished, Okfielst mistook Lin Yu for Schreiber and revealed that his real target was the nearby Celestial King.

• Okfielst charged Lin Yu in Knight's body, but Lin Yu drew on lingering Black Night Magic to disrupt the possession.
• Lin Yu sensed that a magic crystal inside Knight's skull was interfering with his brain and enabling Okfielst to control him.
• Lin Yu identified the possessor as Okfielst, the Second Pillar, and learned that he was drawing magic power through a breach beneath Shenzhen.
• The [Honorable Arena] disappeared while Okfielst was disoriented, and he deduced that Lin Yu was controlling Yayu while pretending to be Schreiber.
• Okfielst said he wanted to trade rather than kill Lin Yu and revealed that the Celestial King was his original target.

Okfielst asked Lin Yu to kill Knight, but Lin Yu refused and fought to drive the Demon from his body. Okfielst joined forces with Meinie, whose attack infected Lin Yu’s soul and left Liuli vulnerable; she died as blood-red crystals formed from her body.

• Okfielst revealed that he wanted Lin Yu to kill Knight because a contract prevented him from harming his host, and promised it would disrupt the Diviner’s plans.
• Lin Yu refused to sacrifice Knight and challenged Okfielst’s assumptions about the Third Pillar and her legacy.
• Okfielst attacked Lin Yu with his decay magic, but Lin Yu used Shenzhen’s mental network to withstand it.
• Okfielst summoned Meinie, whose magic infected Lin Yu’s soul and forced him to destroy the corrupted fragments.
• Lin Yu realized Liuli was also present, but she woke and died as blood-red crystals formed from her body.

Lin Yu witnessed Liuli's death, then watched Celestial King kill the possessed Knight, fulfilling Okfielst's hidden objective and destabilizing nearby reality loopholes. He abandoned the scene to pursue Chancellor and confronted him at the Cross-Sea Bridge checkpoint with the intent to kill.

• Lin Yu recorded fragments of Liuli's shattered soul, while Okfielst revealed that her death had achieved his objective.
• Celestial King arrived, mistook Knight for Liuli's killer, and destroyed Knight, allowing Okfielst to escape his body.
• Lin Yu explained that a demon had possessed Knight and arranged his death, then sensed instability spreading through nearby reality loopholes.
• Lin Yu left Celestial King and used the mental power network to track Chancellor toward the Cross-Sea Bridge.
• Lin Yu, using the identity of Beast Master, blocked Chancellor at the checkpoint and attacked him with the White Bone Flowing Light and Fear Torch.

Lin Yu and Schreiber arranged for Second Generation Freud to capture Chancellor, a traitor backed by the Copper Furnace and a Tier 5 Player. Lin Yu revealed that he had wounded First Generation Jung, and the chapter ended with Lin Yu planning to extract answers from Chancellor without relying on him to speak.

• Lin Yu overwhelmed Chancellor with his sword and torch, but Chancellor drew the Imperially Bestowed Shangfang Precious Sword and summoned its dragon to attack him.
• Lin Yu revealed that Schreiber was helping him, and Second Generation Freud arrived to seize Chancellor with her soul power.
• Second Generation Freud questioned why she should help Lin Yu, and Lin Yu said Schreiber had arranged the encounter as a trial for her.
• Lin Yu told Second Generation Freud that he had severely wounded First Generation Jung and that the Copper Furnace had helped Jung survive.
• Old Zheng confirmed Lin Yu's account, and Lin Yu said Chancellor could provide answers about the previous version's Players.
• Lin Yu calmly declared that he had a way to obtain what he wanted from Chancellor without making him talk.

Lin Yu used Karma Threads to probe Chancellor’s past, but found fragments suggesting a life in the Ten Realms rather than a readable history. Chancellor revealed that Diviner’s Reality Loopholes were meant to bring in powerful allies from the Ten Realms, and warned that everyone in Shenzhen needed to leave before the scheme activated.

• Second Generation "Freud" restrained Chancellor, while Chancellor insisted that Lin Yu could not extract answers from him.
• Lin Yu used Zhu Qiansi’s Karma Threads to view Chancellor’s past, but saw disjointed scenes of an ancient official’s life.
• Chancellor claimed the fragments were his true past and suggested he came from the Ten Realms, though Old Zheng said such beings could not become Players.
• Lin Yu proposed restoring Chancellor’s original appearance to identify him, and Chancellor warned that Diviner’s arrangements were about to activate.
• Chancellor revealed that Diviner’s Reality Loopholes were meant to invite allies from the Ten Realms, including demigods, Chosen of God, and deities, to help encircle and destroy Order.

The Chancellor revealed that the Diviner planned to use reality loopholes to send Shenzhen’s Players into the Ten Realms, and Lin Yu realized the plan had begun early. Old Zheng and Second Generation Freud prepared to turn the Chancellor into an admission ticket for a trial against the Emperor, while Lin Yu rejected the Chancellor’s attempt to bargain for his life.

• The Chancellor explained that the Diviner’s reality loopholes were designed to tear away part of reality and transport Shenzhen’s Players into prepared venues in the Ten Realms.
• Lin Yu connected the plan to the earlier attack on a reality loophole and realized the Diviner’s preparations had been deliberately destabilized.
• The Chancellor said the Diviner had planned to launch the transfer within half an hour, but Lin Yu detected that the loopholes were already collapsing together ahead of schedule.
• Old Zheng told Second Generation Freud that killing the Chancellor would give her a chance to face Tier 5 and make her the Emperor’s foremost enemy.
• The Chancellor appealed to Lin Yu to spare him so he could reveal his identity and the truth about the Director, but Lin Yu said they could identify him by seeing which Order member disappeared.