Arc 19Chapters 456–468

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Chapters 456–468 Vol. 5 Read

Ch. 456Gods (19): Who Journeyed a Thousand Miles into the City

White Crow asked Charlie Woodward to bring Zhou Ke back before the Eyes-Closed Dictator claimed the Scarlet High Priest. Meanwhile, Si Qi led the Listen Wind Guild through a hidden passage into Jiang City, where an explosion at the exit injured him and drew his demigod blood.

  • White Crow showed Charlie Woodward the turmoil gathering in Jiang City and asked him to retrieve Zhou Ke from the Eyes-Closed Dictator.
  • Si Qi gathered weapons and supplies, then ordered Yu Jinsheng, Jiang Jue, and Dream Teller to enter Jiang City with him through Yu Jinsheng’s hidden passage.
  • Si Qi suspected Lin Jue had prepared a countermeasure against him and the eerie, but chose to proceed without drugging the three guild members.
  • The group descended through a toilet into the underground passage and headed toward Jinjiang Residential District, where the Eerie Investigation Bureau was besieging Si Qi’s rose monsters.
  • Si Qi silenced his companions through their Soul Leaves and sensed an explosion just before the passage exit, which blasted apart the iron door and left his demigod blood on his arm.

Ch. 457Gods (20): Who Walks Alone

Si Qi escaped Lin Jue’s explosion and the Eerie Investigation Bureau’s ambush as the dying Sea God’s power engulfed Jiang City, but the godslaying ritual stripped him of his powers and he failed to find Qi Si’s body. Lin Jue received Chu Yining’s warning not to kill Qi Si, revealing that the gods’ plan involved humanity itself.

  • Lin Jue’s explosives gravely wounded Si Qi, Yu Jinsheng, and the Listen Wind members, while the Eerie Investigation Bureau waited to finish off anyone who survived.
  • Si Qi summoned the rose monsters and used the Sea God Scepter to unleash a supernatural flood, breaking through the investigators’ encirclement and reaching Jinjiang Residential District.
  • As the Sea God’s dying power faded, the city turned gray, eerie entities and divine powers vanished, and Si Qi realized Lin Jue had trapped him in a godslaying ritual.
  • Si Qi searched Qi Si’s apartment but found neither Qi Si nor the skeleton specimens, and he realized false memories had driven him into Lin Jue’s trap.
  • Lin Jue returned to the Eerie Investigation Bureau, where he watched Chu Yining warn that humanity was on the gods’ chessboard and urge Fu Jue never to kill Qi Si.

Ch. 458Gods (Final): The Schemes of Deities

Si Qi tried to escape the Eerie Investigation Bureau, but Li killed him after a series of violent interceptions. Lin Jue recovered two Identity Cards from the wreckage and realized the Ancestral God possessing White Crow had already arrived, while Qi Si’s return remained uncertain.

  • Si Qi jumped from the window and ran through Jinjiang Residential District as the Sea God’s power faded, but Lin Jue blocked his path with a tranquilizer gun.
  • Lin Chen regained consciousness and took the bullet meant for Si Qi, urging him to run before collapsing.
  • Charlie Woodward tried to drive Si Qi away, but Li, inhabiting Chang Xu’s body, rammed their jeep with a Lamborghini and dragged Si Qi from the wreckage.
  • Li strangled Si Qi, then leaped from the overpass into the river as the eerie domain spread beyond Jiang City.
  • Lin Jue recovered the [Despair Playwright] and [Scarlet High Priest] cards from the burned vehicle and recognized the threat posed by the Ancestral God possessing White Crow.
  • Li Yunyang asked whether Qi Si would return, and Lin Jue admitted he did not know.

Ch. 459Sinner

After Si Qi’s death, Jiang City and its people were restored, while Lin Jue lost his powers and surrendered to the Federation. Congressman Hayes sentenced him to life imprisonment, and Lin Jue was locked in a containment chamber as a dangerous human.

  • The eerie entities vanished, the dead returned to life, and Jiang City repaired itself after the rain brought by Si Qi’s death.
  • Investigators found the three wounded members of Listen Wind, and Li Yunyang told Yu Jinsheng that Lin Jue was in Federation custody.
  • Congressman Hayes confronted Lin Jue in the Jiang City Branch interrogation room and explained why the Federation would not let him lead humanity.
  • Hayes read the charges against Lin Jue and sentenced him to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity.
  • Lin Jue accepted the sentence and was locked in a containment chamber labeled “Fallen Savior.”

Ch. 460The Ancestral God Approaches

Lin Chen’s deployment to purge eerie beings outside Dragon County ended when the white-haired woman seized his Identity Card, unleashing a worldwide mutation among children. As the Ancestral God’s power spread and civilization’s technology failed, Congressman Hayes proposed gambling on Lin Jue’s help.

  • Senator Hayes authorized Lin Chen to travel across Dragon County with his ghost army, and the Eerie Investigation Bureau sent him to Maple Leaf County.
  • Lin Chen ran toward the original eerie site of Red Maple Leaf Boarding School, where the white-haired woman removed his Identity Card and left him bleeding on the ground.
  • Children in Ruidanshen Casino’s basement mutated, broke out of their cages, and attacked Jack as children under fourteen transformed across the world on June 1st.
  • Congressman Hayes and the other officials learned that the white-haired woman’s actions had preceded the crisis, and Hayes identified the approaching threat as the Ancestral God rather than White Crow.
  • Hayes argued that humanity should make one final gamble on Lin Jue instead of waiting passively for the Ancestral God to destroy it.

Ch. 461The Final Wager

Lin Jue traveled to Shangri-La to confront the Ancestral God as the world fell to widespread contamination. He appeared to accept the Ancestral God’s offer to restart the world, but destroyed the [Fallen Savior] card, revealing that he was Fu Jue and ending the contract.

  • Senator Hayes told Lin Jue that every city except Jiang City had fallen and asked him to make one final attempt against the Ancestral God.
  • Lin Jue took the [Godslaying Sword] and traveled alone to the snow mountain in Shangri-La after the Ancestral God sent a vision of the world melting.
  • Lin Jue climbed the mountain with four Identity Cards and met the Ancestral God, who offered him the [Undead Shepherd] card and authority to restart the world.
  • Lin Jue vowed to restart the world as The Rules desired, and golden threads bound him under a world-guaranteed contract.
  • Lin Jue seized the [Undead Shepherd] and [Fallen Savior] cards, then destroyed the [Fallen Savior] card; the contract vanished, and the revelation showed that the person on the mountain was Fu Jue.

Ch. 462Brave New World (HE Ending: Dawn of Civilization)

After the Ancestral God died, the Rules declared that all eerie phenomena would perish, and the world’s dead returned to life. A year later, Lin Chen joined an expedition to Shangri-La and found Lin Jue’s frozen body, learning that Lin Jue had sacrificed himself to protect humanity.

  • A torrential rain fell across the world after the silver-white eye vanished, and the Rules announced that the eerie and mysterious things of past and future would perish in Godfall Land.
  • The councilors learned that Lin Jue had won, while rain restored the dead and ghosts to human life across the world.
  • A year later, Lin Chen returned to Jiang City, joined the Eerie Investigation Bureau, and volunteered to investigate the storm-shrouded Shangri-La mountain.
  • Lin Chen and Li Yunyang’s expedition found Lin Jue’s frozen corpse, and Li Yunyang explained that Lin Jue had become the Ancestral God and killed himself to protect the world.
  • Lin Chen and the expedition members saluted Lin Jue in silence.

Ch. 463The Forgotten Plan

Qi Si realized he could affect reality and suspected Zhou Ke’s death had triggered a forgotten plan to return him to the 2035 timeline. In Xiang City, “Yuan” revealed that he had made a deal with a god and decided to fulfill their agreement in Jiang City.

  • Qi Si tried to separate from Fu Jue, but Fu Jue followed him toward Jiang City until a supernatural catastrophe engulfed the mountain.
  • The [Fallen Savior] Identity Card was destroyed, and Fu Jue merged with the figure from the cross before disappearing from Qi Si’s sight.
  • Qi Si inferred that Lin Jue had become a god and brought Fu Jue back into his body, then wondered whether Zhou Ke’s death was part of a forgotten plan.
  • Qi Si made a snowman that a climber could see, realizing he could now affect reality and might be able to return to the 2035 timeline.
  • In Xiang City in 2014, “Yuan” told Dong Xiwen about his deal with a god and said he would go to Jiang City at the appointed time to fulfill it.

Ch. 464Time Began Flowing Again

Qi Si returned to Jiang City and uncovered the god’s memories of the plan that had shaped his life. Using the [Fool Deceiver] Identity Card, he deceived The Rules and began traveling back through the god’s past, arriving at the 2029 correction camp where the god first met him.

  • Qi Si returned to Jiang City, reached his childhood home, and watched scenes from his infancy, including Fu Jue questioning his parents about a newborn-swapping case.
  • “Yuan” told Qi Si that the crucial date was August 7, 2029, prompting Qi Si to use the date to recover the god’s missing memories.
  • Qi Si learned how the god had planned to end the Eerie Game, made deals with “Yuan” and White Crow, and arranged for Qi Si to return to reality.
  • Qi Si realized the god had orchestrated events from the beginning and used the [Fool Deceiver] Identity Card to deceive The Rules and fate.
  • Qi Si arrived in a correction camp as a sixteen-year-old, where the god visited him and offered birthday wishes seven months late.

Ch. 465January 1, 2038

On January 1, 2038, Lin Chen witnessed the Tower of Babylon emerge from Shangri-La Snow Mountain, revealing that the Eerie Game had not ended. A returning god who resembled Qi Si killed Lin Chen and climbed the tower alone, ultimately declaring that he would rather become The Rules than the new Ancestral God.

  • Lin Chen visited the memorial site in the snow mountain, where a sudden storm shattered the monument and destroyed Lin Jue's corpse, leaving the Godslaying Sword behind.
  • A black tower rose through the ice as the Ruins of Sunset spread across the sky, and Lin Chen realized the final Instance was still underway.
  • A red-robed god resembling Qi Si appeared before Lin Chen, pierced his chest, and tore out his heart.
  • The god entered the Tower of Babylon alone, and The Rules identified him as the only qualified participant for the next level.
  • He passed through successive tower levels and, above the nascent World Tree, said he would rather become The Rules than the new Ancestral God.

Ch. 466The Gods Return to the World

The returned Evil God reclaimed his scattered powers and brought the Eerie Game into reality, unleashing a world-ending disaster. After reuniting with Li at Qi Si’s grave, he rejected the role of Ancestral God and destroyed the orb, then asked Li to do one more thing for him.

  • The Evil God invaded Double Happiness Town, learned from Li Yao where Qi Si’s corpse was buried, and recovered his finger bone and the Humanoid Evil Spirit card.
  • He destroyed Double Happiness Town and Frog Hospital, reclaimed the Unknown Creature’s Left Hand, and restored his throne and control over the Soul Leaves.
  • The Evil God broke the barrier between reality and the Eerie Game, causing the two worlds to overlap and unleashing catastrophic Eerie contamination across the world.
  • Li guarded Qi Si’s grave in Qi Family Village until the Evil God arrived, then helped him reclaim the divine portion he had left in Qi Si’s body.
  • The Evil God refused to become the Ancestral God or restart the Third Epoch, crushed the World Tree orb, and asked Li to do one more thing.

Ch. 467Disaster and Destruction (TE Ending: The End of the Cycle)

Qi Si returned and unleashed a worldwide catastrophe, killing people and gods before destroying the world to ensure The Rules could not return. As the last god faced annihilation, Qi Si and Si Qi debated whether to become The Rules and left the decision to a coin toss.

  • Qi Si appeared at the Tower of Babylon, killed Lin Chen, and froze Li Yunyang to death while taking her [Immortal Shaman Priest] card.
  • In Jiang City, Yu Jinsheng was bound by blood-red threads and killed as the [Taboo Scholar] card was taken from him.
  • Scarlet vines and other disasters spread across the world, killing Qiu Lihua and countless people as floods and destruction consumed the earth.
  • After the last living being died, the god told Li that the world had no need to exist and stabbed him, then collapsed the world into darkness.
  • As the last god waited to be destroyed, Qi Si and Si Qi appeared and discussed becoming The Rules; the god tossed a coin to decide.

Ch. 468Final Thoughts

The author reflected on the difficult creation and completion of Infinite Eerie Game, describing its place in his youth and explaining the regrets and choices behind its ending. He planned to rest, prepare a new novel, and share future updates with readers in the group.

  • The author recounted how Infinite Eerie Game was banned, moved between platforms, and eventually returned to Qidian, where it reached one hundred thousand bookmarks and entered the premium channel.
  • The author said he began writing the novel at university and finished it shortly before starting work, calling it a portrait of his youth.
  • The author explained that he had not found the answer to good and evil he sought, and that after Qi Si became a god, the characters’ actions carried the story toward its planned ending.
  • The author regretted cutting the Church of the Scales and White Crow’s arc, and said Chang Xu’s death had disrupted the planned pacing.
  • The author described the open ending as an embrace of uncertainty and said the completed novel had exhausted him.
  • The author planned to rest and prepare a new infinite-flow novel, Open the Door, See God, while posting updates and possible side stories in the group.
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