Recaps

Chen Xi, Gu Yu, and Lin Yue returned from the God-Chosen Trial with gold Badges and met with Duke Casper. He questioned their role in Agatha’s death, while Chen Xi also learned that the Crow Brigade had generated a new member in Mithril Territory.

• Chen Xi, Gu Yu, and Lin Yue returned to the Duke’s Mansion and showed Iseriel their gold Badges.
• Chen Xi reflected on their past dealings with the Duke’s faction and discovered that the Crow Brigade had generated Zhi Yuan, a Tier 4 Upper member in Mithril Territory.
• Iseriel led the three women to Lord Casper and promised to help Chen Xi request access to the Duke’s treasury after their meeting.
• Casper asked whether the three women had helped Todds kill Agatha, then suggested they must have played a major part.

Chen Xi, Gu Yu, and Lin Yue convinced Casper that their identities and God-Chosen Trial stories were genuine, but the arrival of a girl at the end unsettled Gu Yu. The chapter left the trio facing an unexpected complication.

• Chen Xi, Gu Yu, and Lin Yue privately discussed whether Casper had discovered their secret, then agreed not to attack him.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue credited Todds's Heavenly Punishment for their victory over Agatha, easing Casper's suspicions.
• The three showed Casper their Gold Tier badges and revealed the Legends they had received as rewards.
• Gu Yu recounted a cover story about Chen Xi and Lin Yue being rescued from the Devil Mushroom near White Stone Town.
• Casper called someone into the room, and Gu Yu recognized the black-haired girl who entered as trouble.

Aveline used her Mirror Heart Legend to confirm Chen Xi and Lin Yue’s false identities as White Stone Town survivors, then helped them conceal the truth from Casper. After Casper left, Aveline revealed her abilities and demanded an explanation for why they had sneaked into the Duke’s Mansion.

• Casper brought Aveline Chednos in to identify Chen Xi and Lin Yue as Wex’s adopted daughters from White Stone Town.
• Aveline confirmed Casper’s mistaken belief, and Chen Xi and Lin Yue pretended to grieve over Wex’s death.
• Casper left the meeting room, while Gu Yu stayed behind with Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Aveline.
• Aveline checked that Casper was out of range and the room was protected from eavesdropping and magical detection.
• Aveline explained that her Mirror Heart Legend revealed personality traits and said Chen Xi and Lin Yue were each half gray and half white.
• Aveline warned the pair to explain why they had entered the Duke’s Mansion or she would tell Casper the truth through mind transmission.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue’s cover story as refugees from the Spark Federation was exposed when Duke Red Dragon Casper confronted them inside a magically altered Colosseum. Casper summoned his partner Kossarius after sensing Chen Xi’s overwhelming power, setting the stage for a clash.

• Chen Xi told Aveline that she and Lin Yue were refugees from the Spark Federation, and Aveline believed her after hearing her speak Spark Language.
• Lin Yue asked Aveline why she had approached them, but Casper emerged from the shadows and challenged their story.
• Casper used a mysterious item to transform the room into a Colosseum, knocked Gu Yu unconscious, and ordered Aveline to take her away.
• Casper chose to trust Aveline’s judgment, but sensed Chen Xi’s fifth-tier aura and urgently called on Kossarius.
• Kossarius left Casper’s body and appeared in the Colosseum as a Red Dragon, spreading his wings over Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Casper.

Chen Xi revealed Andres’s Tier 6 power to subdue Casper and Kossarius, then explained that she was preparing to unite nearby Tier 6 Transcendents against the Lamenter. Casper agreed to contact the Black Moon Pope, who would come to the North Wind Territory.

• Kossarius and Casper attacked Chen Xi, but Andres appeared and dispersed their lava assault with black mist.
• Chen Xi had Andres reveal her true name, and Casper and Kossarius realized they faced a Tier 6 powerhouse.
• Chen Xi invited Casper to talk, and they discussed the Lamenter’s possible return and the threat it posed to the Black Moon Empire.
• Chen Xi proposed uniting nearby Tier 6 Transcendents against the Lamenter and asked Casper to contact the Black Moon Pope.
• Chen Xi explained that she was helping Gu Yu in the Saintess Selection because she saw potential in her, and Casper left to notify the Pope.

Chen Xi confronted Lin Yue about her changed behavior and learned that Lin Yue had left her Erosion State but felt guilty about the pain she had caused Chen Xi. Chen Xi reassured her and welcomed her back, leaving them reconciled and leaning together at sunset.

• Casper and Aveline left after Chen Xi asked them to keep her identity secret, while Gu Yu soon left the meeting room as well.
• Chen Xi questioned Lin Yue about acting strangely since absorbing Quicksand and realized Lin Yue had ended her Erosion State.
• Lin Yue confessed that she blamed herself for Chen Xi crossing worlds and suffering through repeated deaths and other painful experiences.
• Chen Xi told Lin Yue that her old life on Blue Star had not been carefree and that meeting Lin Yue had made her life more colorful.
• Lin Yue accepted Chen Xi's reassurance, promised not to leave, and leaned against her as Chen Xi welcomed her back.

While Chen Xi and Lin Yue returned to Gu Yu’s room, Iseriel told them that a new method of deploying domains had been introduced while they were in the God-Chosen Trial. The group learned the prayer and tested the stronger domains, leaving Chen Xi unable to see Lin Yue or Gu Yu because the domains were interfering with one another.

• Chen Xi comforted Lin Yue, and the two returned to Gu Yu’s room, where Iseriel and Gu Yu were waiting.
• Iseriel explained that Hand of God, Bai Ziqing, had announced a new domain deployment method two months earlier, making domains thirty percent stronger and allowing them to interfere with each other.
• Iseriel demonstrated the method by praying and unfolding Judgment of the Holy Pegasus, then explained how her domain affected those within it.
• Chen Xi used the new method to unfold Rain Disaster, increasing her aura, but she could no longer see Lin Yue or Gu Yu inside the domain.

Chen Xi and the others tested Lin Yue’s Death Duel Domain at the Duke’s Mansion, learning how it isolated opponents and disrupted their senses. After Iseriel left, Gu Yu explained that Iseriel regularly purged unimportant memories as a side effect of her Legend.

• Iseriel explained that Fourth Rank Transcendents could use a Death Duel Domain to isolate opponents, and that a gap of one major Rank could break it.
• Chen Xi led Lin Yue, Iseriel, and Gu Yu to the Combat Practice Arena to test their domains.
• Lin Yue trapped Chen Xi in her domain and revealed that she could control Chen Xi’s perception of time while suppressing her senses.
• Iseriel said there was only one important matter in the Black Moon Empire and rode away on her white horse.
• Gu Yu told Chen Xi and Lin Yue that Iseriel had taught etiquette at her academy and forgot students because her Legend required her to purge irrelevant memories.

Chen Xi and Gu Yu discussed the irreversible effect of Iseriel’s Legend, then Chen Xi and Lin Yue teased each other in private before an unexpected visit interrupted them. The chapter ended with Isha entering Chen Xi’s room alongside Gu Yu and Aveline, bringing an unknown matter.

• Gu Yu explained that Iseriel’s Legend made her personality resemble an impartial Judge Pegasus if she retained too many memories, and that the change could not be reversed.
• Gu Yu joked with Chen Xi in the corridor and scared away a petite blonde girl who had hoped to greet them.
• Lin Yue kissed Chen Xi, then said she no longer needed to indulge herself recklessly because Chen Xi was hers.
• Chen Xi teased Lin Yue, and the two settled into a standoff over who would make the first move.
• Isha entered Chen Xi’s room with Gu Yu and an apprehensive Aveline, and Chen Xi asked what she wanted.

Isha visited Chen Xi and the others after earning a Silver Badge in the God-Chosen Trial, then considered asking them to exchange badges so she could leave North Wind Territory. Casper later announced that the Black Moon Pope would meet them the next morning and had foreseen the Lamenter’s descent and location, while Lin Yue realized the Information Lock around it had weakened.

• Isha asked whether Chen Xi and the others had earned Gold Badges, and Chen Xi confirmed they had.
• Aveline explained that Isha had nearly earned a Gold Badge and wanted one so Casper would let her leave North Wind Territory.
• Isha revealed she wanted to exchange badges with the group, but admitted she had not made up her mind and left.
• Casper returned and announced that the Black Moon Pope would arrive at ten the next morning to meet them at his estate.
• Casper said the Pope had foreseen when and where the Lamenter would descend, and Lin Yue concluded that the Information Lock had weakened because the monster was baring its fangs.

Chen Xi learned that the Lamenter might be approaching Rank 7 and planned to report it to the Pope in person. Meanwhile, Gu Yu reflected on her family and agreed to spar with Isha, while Lin Yue pressed Chen Xi about what she would do if Zhu Li broke free of the Flame Ghost's Erosion.

• Casper recognized that the Lamenter might be transforming into a Rank 7 and tried to report the danger to the Pope, but Chen Xi said she would speak to him the next day.
• Casper left Aveline in charge beneath Iseriel and the others, and Gu Yu said goodbye to Chen Xi and Lin Yue before leaving.
• Gu Yu considered her family's political troubles and her wish to explore the world with Chen Xi and Lin Yue after resolving them.
• Isha asked Gu Yu to spar so she could test her strength, and Gu Yu agreed to meet her at the training ground.
• Lin Yue asked Chen Xi what she would do if Zhu Li broke free of the Flame Ghost's Erosion, and demanded an answer.

Chen Xi agreed not to take Zhu Li along when she and Lin Yue traveled to complete the Tier Five advancement ritual, after Lin Yue admitted she wanted Chen Xi’s attention for herself. Chen Xi then turned the questioning around and asked Lin Yue about her relationship with Crimson.

• Chen Xi said she would travel with Zhu Li and Gu Yu after Zhu Li recovered, but Lin Yue insisted they leave Zhu Li in the Black Moon Empire.
• Lin Yue questioned Chen Xi about her feelings and past with Zhu Li, and Chen Xi denied falling for, kissing, or sleeping with her during the regression.
• Chen Xi described her former life on Blue Star and her relationships with Yue Xing and Ademos, then admitted Lin Yue was being selfish toward Zhu Li.
• Chen Xi agreed they would leave Zhu Li behind, and Lin Yue visibly relaxed.
• Chen Xi asked Lin Yue what her relationship with Crimson was.

Lin Yue and Chen Xi argued over Lin Yue’s past closeness with Crimson before reconciling, and Lin Yue explained that her Hourglass ability had evolved after reaching Fifth Rank. Chen Xi discovered that Lin Yue’s Regression curses might have disappeared, leaving them uncertain about where the Erosion had gone.

• Chen Xi questioned Lin Yue about her relationship with Crimson and learned that Lin Yue had held Crimson’s hand during their time on Qianlang Mountain.
• Chen Xi claimed Lin Yue as hers and examined Lin Yue’s right hand before they became intimate, though Lin Yue asked her to stop using her Succubus features.
• Afterward, Chen Xi wondered whether she had been indulging too much and asked Lin Yue why she could reveal her time Regression ability again.
• Lin Yue said her Hourglass ability had evolved at Fifth Rank, allowing her to preserve the full state of her Legends and let two other people retain their Legend states during Regression.
• Lin Yue warned Chen Xi that the curse caused by Regression might no longer work, and Chen Xi checked her status panel and found that her curses were gone.
• Chen Xi wondered where the Erosion had gone if it had not turned into curses.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue discussed the danger that Lin Yue’s curse disappearing might cause new problems, but they could not reach Ailin for answers. Chen Xi decided their priority was to strengthen themselves against the Lamenter, while Lin Yue fell asleep before hearing the rest of her plan.

• Chen Xi asked Lin Yue how she sensed changes in her body, and Lin Yue agreed that the curse disappearing could bring trouble.
• Chen Xi said they could ideally ask Ailin about Lin Yue’s abilities, but the God-Chosen Trial prevented them from contacting her.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue settled on waiting to see what happened, and Chen Xi told Lin Yue to rest while she thought through the problem.
• Chen Xi decided they needed to grow stronger than the Lamenter and considered asking the Black Moon Pope for information about its abilities.
• Lin Yue fell asleep on the bed before Chen Xi finished explaining her plan.

Chen Xi explained her plans to Lin Yue, including working with the Black Moon Empire, helping Zhu Li, and making Gu Yu a Saintess. The next morning, Chen Xi and Lin Yue went to bring Gu Yu to meet the Black Moon Pope, leaving Gu Yu bewildered at the invitation.

• Chen Xi told Lin Yue she would work with the Black Moon Empire to raise her Legend Degree and adjust her Ascension Ritual plans based on the Black Moon Pope's information about the Lamenter.
• Chen Xi said they would work with the Black Moon Pope to help Zhu Li get rid of Flame Ghost and make Gu Yu a Saintess.
• Lin Yue agreed with Chen Xi's plan, then fell asleep, and Chen Xi joined her.
• The next morning, Chen Xi brought breakfast to Lin Yue, and they ate before heading to the rear garden pavilion.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue found Gu Yu at her room and invited her to come with them to meet the Pope, leaving Gu Yu confused.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue took Gu Yu to meet the Black Moon Pope and discuss the Saintess Selection, while talking about Gu Yu’s awakened Eye of God and the Lamenter’s transformation. The chapter ended with Gu Yu learning that Chen Xi and Lin Yue planned to take her along when they traveled the world, and the three of them playfully horsing around in the garden.

• Chen Xi and Lin Yue dressed and groomed Gu Yu before pulling her toward the back garden to meet the Black Moon Pope.
• Lin Yue explained that Gu Yu’s eyes stayed open because her awakened Eye of God had made her much stronger, and Chen Xi compared her condition to the Lamenter’s.
• Chen Xi told Gu Yu what she had learned about the Lamenter the previous night as they walked through Casper’s flower-filled garden.
• Gu Yu asked whether Chen Xi and Lin Yue would leave the Black Moon Empire without her, and Lin Yue confirmed they planned to take her traveling with them.
• Gu Yu teased Chen Xi, who chased her around Lin Yue as the three of them laughed and horsed around.

Chen Xi met the Black Moon Pope and recognized him as Ademos, a being whose true self belonged to Lin Yue’s world. Ademos could not find memories of Blue Star in his clones, leaving Chen Xi uncertain about what had happened to her home, while Lin Yue began to question the effects of time and space.

• As they walked through the flower corridor, Chen Xi asked Gu Yu about the Black Moon Pope and learned that his presence could wash away people’s negative emotions.
• At the garden pavilion, Chen Xi recognized the Pope as Ademos and stopped Lin Yue from unleashing her domain.
• Chen Xi told Ademos that she came from Blue Star and explained that he had sent a Third-Rank peak clone to help when the Seven Deadly Sins descended.
• Ademos said he had searched his clones’ memories but found no record of Blue Star, and suggested its return might have failed or been disrupted by chaotic time and space.
• Lin Yue asked whether Ademos could be trusted, and Chen Xi immediately assured her that he could.

Lin Yue revealed that she was the weakened god of time, while Chen Xi disclosed that she was the god of death. After Chen Xi shared information about the Lamenter, Ademos identified its predicted arrival as the Hengsha Federation’s Boundless Desert, 280 days away.

• Lin Yue removed Ailin’s flower crown and revealed her identity as the god who governed time to Ademos, Casper, and Gu Yu.
• Chen Xi explained that she was the god of death, and Gu Yu realized that her supposed prophetic dreams had been real events obscured by a restriction.
• Ademos explained that he supported Gu Yu becoming a Saintess but warned that appointing her outright could draw unwanted attention from the Black Moon Territory’s factions.
• Chen Xi shared the group’s intelligence about the Lamenter’s phantom, prompting Ademos to explain that the Lamenter was a post-catastrophe Legend that had reached the peak of the sixth tier in two thousand years.
• Ademos told Lin Yue that the Lamenter would descend in the Boundless Desert of the Hengsha Federation in 280 days.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue learned that the Lamenter would descend in the Hengsha Federation in 280 days, and Ademos traced the changed timing to Lin Yue’s Regression and her power over time. Ademos proposed rallying Tier 6 Transcendents to fight the Lamenter, but the group realized the Eastern Continent had few strong allies and distant forces could not spare their protectors.

• Chen Xi learned that the Lamenter would descend in the Hengsha Federation in 280 days and realized the group could reach it in about two months.
• Ademos linked the altered descent timing to Lin Yue’s Regression, and Lin Yue confirmed that she and Chen Xi had died to the Lamenter in an earlier cycle.
• Ademos explained that the Lamenter’s brief contact with Lin Yue’s power of time had disrupted its sense of time, then said he had come to propose an alliance against it.
• Ademos identified Qu Sheng of the Tianzhou Federation as the Eastern Continent’s strongest Tier 6 Transcendent and said he commanded two peak Tier 5 Legends.
• Chen Xi explained that other continents’ forces were too weak or too far away to send their Tier 6 protectors without leaving their own federations vulnerable.

Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Gu Yu discussed the Lamenter’s threat and the changes to Domains, then Chen Xi asked Ademos to help strengthen her and Lin Yue before he and Casper left. Gu Yu was left feeling useless, while Chen Xi remained composed.

• Ademos explained that only five Rank Six peak beings existed and estimated their chances against the Lamenter at less than ten percent if it had a Second Life.
• Ademos said the changed Death Duel Domains had weakened their advantage, and clarified that Bai Ziqing had spread the new method to help Transcendents imitate a Legend’s Domain.
• Chen Xi told Ademos about the Ascension Ritual, and he agreed to handle the Legend Degree requirements for Chen Xi and Lin Yue.
• Chen Xi described Zhu Li’s year of controlling the Flame Ghost, and Ademos predicted Zhu Li might advance directly to Rank Five once the problem was resolved.
• Ademos and Casper left for urgent business, and Gu Yu slumped over the table and said she felt useless.

Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Gu Yu discussed Gu Yu’s frustration at falling behind and prepared for a banquet celebrating Isha’s Silver Tier Trial Badge. Chen Xi reassured Lin Yue about their chances against the Lamenter and revealed she had enough Wish Power charges to raise another CG to Legend, leaving her considering [Last Jasmine].

• Gu Yu lamented that she had fallen behind in strength, and Lin Yue and Chen Xi tried to comfort her.
• Chen Xi showed Lin Yue and Gu Yu news of the Duke’s Mansion banquet celebrating Isha’s Silver Tier Trial Badge, and both agreed to attend.
• After Gu Yu left to sleep, Lin Yue worried about the consequences of their limited time and asked Chen Xi whether they would win.
• Chen Xi assured Lin Yue they would defeat the Lamenter and said she still had a secret weapon.
• Chen Xi revealed she had more than six hundred Wish Power charges, enough to raise another CG to Legend, and identified [Last Jasmine] as her only eligible option.

Chen Xi upgraded Flower Cluster into a Legend*Wish ability that could seize and enhance seven Legendary abilities, giving her renewed confidence about defeating the Lamenter. She planned to seek more abilities in the Black Moon Empire and Hengsha Federation before facing the Lamenter, then hurried to prepare for the banquet.

• Lin Yue advised Chen Xi to spend her remaining Wish Power upgrading Flower Cluster, and Chen Xi used Last Jasmine to do so.
• Flower Cluster gained the ability to seize and enhance seven Legendary abilities, and it upgraded King of the Near Seas, Look Down, and Voice of Heaven.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue made a bet about whether Chen Xi would survive the Lamenter, then Chen Xi sent Ademos information and asked him to arrange the schedule.
• Chen Xi planned to search for Legendary abilities in the Black Moon Empire and Hengsha Federation before confronting the Lamenter.
• With less than two hours before the banquet, Chen Xi parted from Lin Yue and returned to her room to choose an outfit.

Lin Yue prepared for the banquet, expecting Chen Xi to make a clumsy attempt to outshine her. After waiting through the speeches and festivities, Lin Yue finally saw Chen Xi arrive in a striking black-and-red gown and was captivated by her beauty.

• Lin Yue dressed for the banquet and followed a maid to the Duke's Mansion hall.
• Casper introduced Isha as a Silver Tier trial-taker and announced Aveline as his newly adopted daughter.
• Gu Yu visited Lin Yue, asked where Chen Xi was, then left to find a charming partner.
• Lin Yue waited through the banquet and wondered why Chen Xi had not appeared.
• Chen Xi arrived in a black-and-red gown, and Lin Yue silently admired her beauty.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue danced together at the banquet, turning their playful rivalry into an elaborate performance before Chen Xi called a halt. They returned to the dessert corner and found a dejected Gu Yu pleading for help beside an orange-haired girl.

• Chen Xi accepted Lin Yue's invitation to dance, and Lin Yue explained that she had studied dance for six years and later took online lessons.
• Chen Xi quickly learned the tango, and she and Lin Yue grew closer as they danced across the floor.
• When the first song ended, Lin Yue started a second dance after Chen Xi teased her, and they competed with increasingly difficult steps until the song ended.
• Chen Xi said she was tired and left the dance floor with Lin Yue for the dim corner.
• Lin Yue teased Gu Yu about her supposed Princess Charming, and Gu Yu sprang up and asked Chen Xi and Lin Yue for help.

Gu Yu, Chen Xi, and Lin Yue encountered a mysterious orange-haired girl who begged to see Gu Yu’s domain. When Gu Yu revealed the Vast Starry Sky, the girl showed the power of a Sixth Rank Transcendent, took hundreds of pictures, and identified herself as Ju Xiu before reacting with shock that Chen Xi and the others had come back to life.

• Gu Yu asked Chen Xi and Lin Yue for help when an orange-haired girl clung to her and begged to see her domain.
• Chen Xi concealed their conversation from the other banquet guests, while Gu Yu warned that showing her domain might be dangerous.
• With Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Andres ready to intervene, Gu Yu revealed the Vast Starry Sky domain.
• The girl awakened, revealed a Sixth Rank magical aura, and took hundreds of pictures of Gu Yu without reacting to the others’ domains.
• Chen Xi asked the girl who she was, and she introduced herself as Ju Xiu before exclaiming that Chen Xi and the others had come back to life.