Recaps

After the sacrifice plunged the world into darkness, Qi Si witnessed a world take shape and found himself in the Ancestral God's place, able to create or alter it. The Rules then demanded that he sacrifice everything he possessed, including his past, future, desires, and existence, so all living beings could obtain them.

• Qi Si endured the accumulated thoughts and desires of the dead, then rejected a mysterious figure that urged him to become the Ancestral God.
• After the lama declared the ritual complete, the filled sacrificial pit was followed by the disappearance of all light and Qi Si's sense of existence.
• Prayers and hymns rose from the darkness as golden motes gathered into a planet and a vision showed the world, its life, and its people being created.
• Qi Si found himself standing in the Ancestral God's place, able to alter or create the golden world before him.
• The Rules told Qi Si that he had to sacrifice everything he possessed and desired, including his existence, so all living beings could obtain them.

Qi Si explored the isolated space and learned that his humanity could be offered as a weight in the contest for the Ancestral God's authority. He then arrived at the sacrificial altar from his dream, where Lin Chen approached and The Rules revealed that Pact had only one true believer left.

• Qi Si rejected the golden orb's apparent bargain and followed its motes through a world cut off from his perception.
• Qi Si encountered illusions of his parents, who claimed they had mortgaged their souls to the Main God to protect him from ghosts and monsters.
• Qi Si passed people from his past whose kindness formed a golden fruit, and learned he could place his humanity on the world's scales to compete for the Ancestral God's authority.
• Qi Si reached the altar from his dream, where Lin Chen walked toward him through the snow.
• The Rules revealed that Qi Si's believers could be offered as weights and told Pact that only one true believer remained.

Lin Chen learned that Lin Crow had exchanged places with him to give him the choice of how to stop Qi Si’s sacrifice, while Qi Si rejected becoming the Ancestral God and faced the ghosts hunting him. Lin Chen activated the Undead Shepherd’s hidden effect, becoming an undead leader who took the ghosts away from Qi Si and disappeared into the mountains.

• Lin Chen regained his future memories on the snow mountain, while Lin Crow returned to his ruined Game Space and surrendered his identity and memories to send Lin Chen back.
• Lin Crow recalled that he had given Lin Chen the Undead Shepherd card so Lin Chen could decide whether to save Qi Si, who planned to sacrifice thousands for godhood.
• Lin Chen found Qi Si at the altar, and Qi Si told him he had abandoned his ambition to become the Ancestral God and wanted to escape the dream instead.
• As ghosts and monsters surrounded Qi Si, Lin Chen revealed he was Lin Chen rather than Lin Crow and refused to leave, while Qi Si insisted that Lin Chen’s debt had already been repaid.
• Lin Chen used the Undead Shepherd card to control the attackers, then accepted its hidden effect, becoming an undead beacon who led the ghosts away from the wounded Qi Si.
• As Lin Chen’s memories faded, he turned away from Qi Si and walked into the darkness with the ghosts and monsters following him.

As the world dissolved around the snow mountain, Lin Jue revealed that the players were dreamlike reflections and said killing him could let the others clear the Instance. Elsewhere, Yu Jinsheng followed a trail of blood, found Qi Si gravely wounded after Lin Chen had diverted a horde of monsters, and was asked to carry him to an iceberg.

• Lin Jue told the group that their world was a god's dream, that he had seen a version of himself who said they were already dead, and that killing him could let everyone else survive.
• Yu Jinsheng reflected on how he had become a candidate to replace Asakura Yuko in the final Instance despite wanting only to survive.
• Yu Jinsheng encountered a procession of ghosts and monsters led by Lin Chen, who passed him without noticing him.
• Yu Jinsheng followed the blood trail to Qi Si, deduced that Lin Chen had lured the monsters away from him, and confirmed his suspicions that Lin Chen was connected to Qi Si.
• Qi Si recognized Yu Jinsheng and asked him to carry him to a nearby iceberg before he died.

Near death on the snow mountain, Qi Si discovered that the mirror held another version of himself, Zhou Ke, and exchanged places with him. Reborn as Si Qi with his wounds healed, he set out with Jin Yusheng to find a way off the mountain and pursue a chance to win.

• Qi Si lay dying after the ghosts' attack, with no believers left to help him, and imagined the end of his life.
• A black dog and the egg-pancake vendor appeared to Qi Si, before Jin Yusheng found him and carried him toward the glacier.
• At the glacier, Qi Si explained to Zhou Ke that people from different timelines could exchange places through mirrors and asked him to take his place.
• Zhou Ke agreed to the exchange, and Qi Si said he was betting on Zhou Ke to win the game.
• The exchange healed Qi Si's wounds and left him as Si Qi; he told Jin Yusheng they needed to find a way off the snow mountain.

Lin Jue sacrificed himself to clear the final Instance, while Qi Si returned to the past after switching places with Zhou Ke. In 2014, Qi Si found he existed as an untouchable ghost, unable to reach the contract, and was trapped in a past timeline.

• Lin Jue told Fu Jue he would die to save the others and asked him not to let Ark die with him.
• Zhang Yiyu revealed to Zhang Hongbin that she was his daughter from 2035, and that he had died in her timeline when she was two.
• Lin Jue stabbed himself, triggering the [Dark Judge] card’s judgment and completing the Players’ final quest.
• Qi Si emerged from a vision of Lin Jue’s death and returned to January 1, 2014, where people and objects could not perceive or touch him.
• Qi Si found the contract outside the hospital operating rooms, but it could neither sense him nor be touched, leaving him trapped in the past.

Fu Jue faced a divine throne in the final Instance and learned that claiming the Ancestral God’s authority required sacrifices placed on the Scales of the World. He chose to offer his followers, leaving their fate—and the outcome of the contest for godhood—unresolved.

• Fu Jue heard the pleas of people from his past, then encountered an entity wearing Lin Jue’s face that invited him to take the savior’s place.
• Fu Jue recalled how Lin Jue had died in the final Instance twenty-two years earlier and how he had used [Fallen Savior] to bring part of Lin Jue back within his own shell.
• Fu Jue sat on the thorn-covered divine throne and learned that claiming the Ancestral God’s authority required him to place valuable offerings on the Scales of the World.
• Fu Jue learned that his first-round offering had been his humanity and that the other contender had wagered divinity.
• Fu Jue recalled Lin Jue and Chu Yining discussing whether one player should die to end the Eerie Game, then considered the consequences of sacrificing followers.
• Fu Jue chose to place his followers on the Scales of the World as weights.

White Crow ascended as the Ancestral God through sacrifices gathered by the Church of the Scales, then used the God Mask to seal the god’s power and memories within herself. She hoped the imprisoned Ancestral God would create a fair and harmonious new world, leaving the story with her prepared for a possible future conflict.

• Followers of the Church of the Scales sacrificed themselves at altars across the world, summoning power that shaped the Ancestral God’s form in the glacier.
• White Crow declared herself the Ancestral God and drew nine upright cards from the Utopian Orator.
• White Crow accepted the Ancestral God’s awakening within her, asking it to create a world of absolute fairness and universal harmony.
• White Crow recalled Zou Yan, Nian Fu, and Asakura Yuko, recognizing that she had placed them on the altar as sacrifices even as she cared for them.
• White Crow put on the God Mask she had recovered in Jerusalem, sealing the Ancestral God’s divine power, spirit body, memories, and authority.
• White Crow revealed that she had given the Godslaying Sword to the right person and hoped she and the Ancestral God would never have to perish together.

Si Qi realized that Qi Si had exchanged places with him so he could compete to become the Ancestral God, and learned that the Eerie Game had ended while they remained stranded on the snow mountain. As dawn arrived, Si Qi proposed finding the other survivors and sharing the cost of a car.

• Si Qi recalled binding the upright [Fool Deceiver] card, deceiving The Rules into believing he was a god, and later waking in the snow mountain with Qi Si's [Scarlet High Priest] card.
• Si Qi considered how Qi Si's former territories and disasters could provide sacrifices and Sin for his contest against the other competitors.
• Jin Yusheng asked Si Qi how to leave the snow mountain, and Si Qi told him the Instance had ended because the Ancestral God had been chosen.
• The Eerie Game's interface vanished, leaving Jin Yusheng freezing on the mountain while Si Qi remained calm.
• Si Qi watched dawn break and suggested finding the surviving players and splitting the cost of a chartered car.

In a frozen past timeline, Qi Si formed an uneasy alliance with Chu Yining, Fu Jue, and Xiao Fengchao and persuaded them to return to the snow mountain. In Xiang City, “Yuan” revealed his Calamity High Priest Identity Card and brought Dong Xiwen along on the same journey.

• Chu Yining reasoned that their timeline ran more than 120 times faster than the original one and suggested waiting until the timelines synchronized.
• Qi Si raised doubts about Lin Jue’s plans, then proposed that the group return to the snow mountain; Fu Jue and Chu Yining agreed, and Xiao Fengchao joined them reluctantly.
• Dong Xiwen confronted “Yuan” and learned that he had faked his memory loss to escape White Crow and reach the past timeline.
• “Yuan” explained that his Calamity High Priest Identity Card could create a disaster in a designated area, then told Dong Xiwen to accompany him to the snow mountain.
• Dong Xiwen and “Yuan” set out for the snow mountain the next day.

After the final Instance ended, Jiang Jue and Dream Teller were stranded on a freezing snow mountain without their inventories. Si Qi and Jin Yusheng rescued them and shared what they knew about the final Instance, while Si Qi wondered whether Fu Jue or White Crow would become the progenitor god.

• Jiang Jue and Dream Teller realized the Eerie Game had shut down and that they risked freezing to death without supplies.
• Jiang Jue persuaded Dream Teller to search for other Players, and they spotted two red-clad figures approaching with yaks and sheep.
• Si Qi gave Jiang Jue and Dream Teller fur coats, then led the four of them down the mountain on yaks.
• Jin Yusheng explained how the Eerie Game had split the Identity Card holders into three groups and how White Crow had partnered with Charlie Woodward to claim Scarlet Theater's Sin and activate the Altar of ascension.
• Si Qi asked whether Fu Jue or White Crow would become the progenitor god, and Dream Teller predicted Fu Jue would win.

Lu Li explained that the Ancestral God intended to reset the collapsing Rules and offered Lin Jue the chance to take the divine throne by cooperating against White Crow. Lin Jue refused, choosing humanity’s survival over his own ascension, and used divine blood to activate his Puppet Threads against Lu Li.

• Lu Li revealed that the Sea God had taken control of him after Lin Jue abandoned him in the Sea of Hopelessness.
• Lu Li explained that the Ancestral God planned to format the collapsing Rules and wanted Lin Jue to replace White Crow as the one to shape the new world.
• Lin Jue deduced that White Crow had restrained the Ancestral God and learned that a contract with the Ancestral God could secure him the divine throne.
• Lin Jue refused to cooperate because he believed humanity should decide its own fate rather than be sacrificed for a reset.
• Lin Jue used stored divine blood to activate the Eerie Game’s Puppet Threads in reality and declared that protecting humanity was the most rational choice for him.

Si Qi, Jin Yusheng, Dream Teller, and Jiang Jue descended from the snowy mountain and returned the herdsmen’s yaks before reaching Shangri-La Town. They found the inn from the final Instance again, where Si Qi recognized Baima and invited the others inside despite their suspicions.

• Si Qi avoided Jiang Jue’s questions about Lin Crow, while Jin Yusheng wondered whether Lin Chen and Lin Crow were the same person.
• The four returned a herd of mysteriously praying yaks to their owners and borrowed oxygen tanks in exchange.
• After reaching Shangri-La Town, the group decided to rest rather than flee from White Crow or Fu Jue.
• They found the inn from the final Instance beside the Mountaineering Supplies shop and suspected they might not have truly escaped.
• Si Qi saw Baima holding a mirror that filled his vision with colorful mist, then told Jin Yusheng the inn was safe and entered.

After the Players reached an inn in Shangri-La Town, Si Qi discovered that its owner, Tsering Dondrup, was connected to the Eerie events on the snowy mountain. Si Qi used his blood to turn the guests’ signatures into a Soul Contract, then commanded Tsering Dondrup to believe in him as a God.

• Jiang Jue paid for the group’s last room, and Dream Teller bought supplies while the Players signed a blank sheet of paper.
• Si Qi learned that the innkeeper’s father was Sangji, who had died and been buried on the snowy mountain.
• Tsering Dondrup revealed that he had seen his dead father crawl out of his grave three nights earlier.
• Si Qi persuaded Tsering Dondrup to sign the paper, then used his blood to transform it into a Soul Contract guaranteed by the Rules of the world.
• Si Qi added Tsering Dondrup to his Mind Palace and ordered him to believe in Si Qi as a God.

Si Qi used the [Scarlet High Priest] Identity Card and the [Soul Contract] to gain power from the faith of four captives, then confronted Jin Yusheng about his ties to the Eerie Investigation Bureau. After revealing how long he had suspected Jin Yusheng, Si Qi left with hostages and leverage against the Listen Wind Guild.

• Si Qi compelled Tsering Dondrup and three Listen Wind Guild members to believe in him, and their faith healed his wounds and eased his exhaustion.
• Jin Yusheng tried to appeal to his friendship with Si Qi, but Si Qi called him President Yu and explained that he needed more bargaining chips.
• Jin Yusheng recalled how Ning Xu had recruited him to watch Qi Si and how he later rose within the Listen Wind Guild while trying to protect both his friend and the Players.
• Si Qi told Jin Yusheng that he had suspected him since becoming an Official Player and had pieced together his dealings with Ning Xu and the Eerie Investigation Bureau.
• Si Qi remembered Jin Yusheng's kindness at summer camp, then laughed bitterly as he considered their friendship and the way he had used it.
• Si Qi's familiarity with Jin Yusheng had let him lie low on the snowy mountain and take three Listen Wind Guild members by surprise, securing his first bargaining chip.

Si Qi took four hostages and forced Lin Jue to contact him, then learned why Lin Jue wanted to cooperate against the Ancestral God. He demanded a ride back to Jiang City, despite Lin Jue warning that the journey would lead through a world overrun by eerie beings.

• Si Qi used the Soul Contract to silence Dream Teller, Jiang Jue, Yu Jinsheng, and the other captive, then called the Public Security Bureau and threatened to kill them unless Fu Jue called him back.
• The operator relayed Si Qi's demand, and Fu Jue called the front desk half an hour later, explaining that he would soon return to the identity of Lin Jue.
• Lin Jue proposed continuing their cooperation because neither wanted the Ancestral God to restart the worlds and reclaim everyone else as fuel.
• Si Qi mocked Lin Jue's reasoning and described himself as a madman willing to welcome destruction, but admitted that he wanted the Eerie Investigation Bureau to send a vehicle to Jiang City.
• Lin Jue warned that everywhere beyond Shangri-La Town was overrun by eerie beings and ghosts, while Si Qi said he might welcome them as fellow townsfolk.

Si Qi arranged to return to Jiang City despite Yu Jinsheng’s warnings, driven by what he saw in Baima’s mirror: evidence that Qi Si might still be alive. Meanwhile, Xu Yao awoke in Qi Family Village beside what appeared to be Qi Si’s corpse.

• Yu Jinsheng warned Si Qi that the Eerie Investigation Bureau had prepared for him in Jiang City and that Lin Jue could arrange an accident along the route.
• Si Qi required Lin Jue to have the Listen Wind Guild provide their vehicles and supplies, forcing the guild to learn about the journey and making covert interference harder.
• Yu Jinsheng asked why Si Qi insisted on returning to Jiang City, but Si Qi told him to guess.
• After seeing Baima’s mirror, Si Qi recalled visions of Qi Si following him and decided to return to Jiang City to find or destroy Qi Si’s possible body.
• Xu Yao regained her memories in Qi Family Village and found Qi Si lying dead in a bedroom, then tried unsuccessfully to wake him.

Si Qi and his companions set out for Jiang City while Lin Jue learned that a blood-seeping bronze sword had appeared there and the rose Eeries had resumed attacking. Si Qi then posted publicly that his death would unleash several mass-killing Eeries, forcing people to oppose Fu Jue’s plan to kill him and inviting them to worship him.

• Si Qi secured an off-road vehicle from a Listen Wind Guild member, left Tsering Dondrup behind to monitor Shangri-La Town, and departed for Jiang City with Jiang Jue, Dream Teller, and Yu Jinsheng.
• Lin Jue boarded a Listen Wind Guild helicopter and read messages reporting a bronze sword in Jiang City and renewed attacks by the rose Eeries.
• Lin Jue recognized the bronze sword from a photograph of White Crow leaving a meeting with Red of Truth in the Gulan Autonomous Region.
• Si Qi told Lin Jue that several dangerous Eeries remained under his control and would cause mass casualties if he died.
• Si Qi posted on the Eerie Game forum that Fu Jue intended to kill him and that his death would unleash the Eeries, then urged readers to recite his divine name.

Qi Si, Fu Jue, Chu Yining, and Xiao Fengchao climbed to the snow mountain’s summit and witnessed the sky collapse in a vision resembling Ragnarok. As the guide and climber suddenly saw them, Chu Yining could no longer see Qi Si and Fu Jue.

• Chu Yining wondered whether the summit held the key to clearing the final instance, and the four followed a guide toward the top.
• Fu Jue discovered that they could influence certain people and objects after reaching Shangri-La Town, prompting Chu Yining to plan a message for the Eerie Investigation Bureau.
• The four pushed through a supernatural resistance and reached the summit, where the sky split and fire poured down from above.
• The guide and climber saw Chu Yining and Xiao Fengchao, while Chu Yining asked where Qi Si and Fu Jue were because she could no longer see them.

In 2035, as the Eerie Investigation Bureau contained threats across the ruined North Capital, Chu Yining asked to deliver a warning to Fu Jue. She revealed that Qi Si must never be killed, though the Eerie Game blocked her from explaining why.

• After the final Instance, investigators subdued an old locust tree and transported it to the North Capital Eerie Investigation Bureau for containment.
• A driver mistook the Bureau for a shelter, and an investigator explained that its underground levels were dangerous because they held many Eerie.
• At the Bureau, Chu Yining asked to see Fu Jue, but the investigator told her he was in Shangri-La.
• Chu Yining said she had finally understood His arrangement and warned that people who died, including Xiao Fengchao and Qi Si, could return.
• Chu Yining told the investigator to relay to Fu Jue that he must never kill Qi Si.

As Si Qi’s posts turned public opinion against Fu Jue, Lin Jue evaded an attempt to kill him and traveled toward Jiang City. There, he found the Rose Eerie had devastated Jinjiang Residential District, and he killed a dying investigator who begged him to end his suffering.

• Si Qi warned that the Eerie entities under his control could cause mass casualties, while influential players and ordinary people pressured Fu Jue to stop pursuing him.
• Lin Jue told Si Qi he planned to kill him and then himself, but Si Qi warned him that the [Fallen Savior] card would not save him again without his death.
• After a helicopter carrying Lin Jue was shot down, Lin Jue and the Listen Wind members traveled by bus toward Jiang City to avoid the people seeking his life.
• At Jinjiang Residential District, the Rose Eerie trapped and killed investigators who had mistaken an infected civilian for Qi Si.
• Qiu Lihua recovered her memories as Lin Jue shot her, and she saw the corpse of her son, Yang Yao.
• A dying investigator recognized Lin Jue as Fu Jue, asked him to end his suffering, and lunged at him as a rose emerged from his mouth; Lin Jue shot him.

Qi Si entered the Happy Life solo puzzle Instance, killed Zhu Ming and his uncle, and discovered that the diary’s creator was a mirror version of himself. After escaping the Instance, he learned that the entity who created him as an incarnation of malice planned to put him at the center of a world-ending struggle fueled by Sin.

• Qi Si woke in a distorted version of his life and saw the Eerie Game’s quest to kill the creator of the world.
• Qi Si lured Zhu Ming to a secluded spot, killed him, and discovered that Zhu Ming returned as a vengeful ghost.
• Qi Si found a diary about the life he was playing and concluded that its owner was the world’s creator.
• Qi Si killed his uncle while fleeing, escaped the ghosts, and used the car’s rearview mirror to confront the mirror figure and clear the Instance.
• In the Game Space, the entity explained that it had created Qi Si from malice and asked him to take part in a coming struggle over the world’s fate, with Sin as its fuel.

As the Eerie continued ravaging the world, Lin Jue returned to Jiang City, claimed the Godslaying Sword, and announced a plan to end the game and resurrect the dead. He revealed his identities and threatened to unleash the incidents tied to his puppets if he died, leaving the Players to choose whether to oppose Si Qi or risk humanity’s destruction.

• Li Yan was nearly strangled by rose vines outside a mall, but Lin Jue rescued him and said he would end the disaster.
• Mu Dongxu told Lin Jue that Old Liao had died, and Lin Jue promised to resurrect everyone if he won the game.
• Lin Jue took the Godslaying Sword and concluded that he knew a guaranteed winning strategy for the round.
• Lin Jue addressed the world, promised to restore order and revive the dead, then revealed that he was also the Puppeteer and that his death would unleash thousands of incidents.
• Players learned that Lin Jue was using his puppets’ incidents as leverage to turn them against Si Qi, who mocked Lin Jue over the phone.
• Lin Jue agreed with Si Qi that they were both selfish and said they would continue their madman’s game.

Si Qi returned to Jiang City despite Lin Jue’s apparent trap because he needed Qi Si’s body to complete himself and compete for the Ancestral God’s authority. At his studio, he gathered his allies and coerced Bob into supplying materials for his plan, leaving the final confrontation approaching.

• Si Qi returned to his studio in Jiang City, spoke with Lin Jue, and accepted that he had to enter the trap to retrieve Qi Si’s body.
• Si Qi summoned Yu Jinsheng, Dream Teller, and Jiang Jue to the studio and teased Yu Jinsheng before preparing a list of needed supplies.
• Si Qi called Bob and asked him to gather the listed items within twenty-four hours.
• When Bob refused to help, Si Qi threatened Bob’s adopted granddaughter and revealed that Bob had helped spread the Insomnia Pathogen through the Mississippi River.
• Si Qi demanded that Bob deliver the supplies to the studio by noon the next day and reflected on Qi Si’s reluctance to embrace the coming conflict.

Meng Wenfei reflected on how Lin Jue and Fu Jue had shaped humanity’s hopes as the truth about Fu Jue shattered his public image. Meanwhile, Lin Jue confronted the corrupted Lu Li and used the Godslaying Sword to begin the final sacrifice by striking at the Sea God.

• Meng Wenfei recalled first hearing Lin Jue’s name, his death at the Ruins of Sunset, and Fu Jue’s rise as his apparent successor.
• Li Yunyang dismissed Meng Wenfei’s questions and led Team 3-518 toward Jinjiang Residential District to eliminate eerie entities.
• Investigators grappled with Fu Jue’s admission that he was the Puppeteer and questioned how much of their past faith had been built on deception.
• Lin Jue visited Lu Li in a containment chamber, where Lu Li described seeing a future in which Lin Jue won but left no place for him.
• Lin Jue drove the bronze sword into the ground, shattering the barrier and beginning the Godslaying Sword’s first attack on the Sea God.