Recaps

Qianqi Weiming investigated Tianhai City’s Transcendents and requested reinforcements after learning the city held several formidable defenders. Chen Xi, Zhu Li, and Lin Yue captured an Evil Flower priest and began questioning him, but he resisted waking until Chen Xi threatened him.

• Qianqi Weiming received intelligence on three Third Rank Transcendents in Tianhai City and decided to request reinforcements instead of attacking.
• An Evil Flower member recalled how a powerful flame-wielding Transcendent had killed scouts, then recognized the red-haired devil approaching him and was engulfed in flames.
• Lin Yue explained that she had captured the Glamorous Man after spying on him and learned some of Evil Flower’s plans through her Shadow Puppet ability.
• Chen Xi, Zhu Li, and Lin Yue surrounded the bound Glamorous Man in an abandoned factory and prepared to interrogate him.
• Chen Xi tried water and a slap to wake the Glamorous Man, then threatened him until he finally opened his eyes.

Chen Xi interrogated and killed the Glamorous Man, learning that Qianqi Weiming was preparing an attack on Tianhai City, while hiding the threat of possible Fourth Rank reinforcements from Lin Yue. After Feng Tao went missing, Qianqi Weiming decided to stay in Hualv Hotel and rendezvous with her allies, determined to revive Ah Wu.

• Chen Xi told the Glamorous Man he would not survive, and he revealed what he knew about Qianqi Weiming's plan to attack Tianhai City.
• Chen Xi confirmed the Glamorous Man had told the truth and killed him with a Water Blade.
• Lin Yue agreed to face the expected Third Rank reinforcements, unaware that Chen Xi had concealed the possibility of Fourth Rank support.
• Qianqi Weiming learned from Wu Qiu that Feng Tao was missing and considered whether to withdraw.
• Qianqi Weiming told Wu Qiu to rendezvous with her and decided to stay with Ah Wu, vowing to find a way to bring him back to life.

Chen Xi met the Sixth Squad and revealed that her Fated Ripples Legend could let chosen people borrow power from their future selves through special cards. She gave cards to the squad, but Lin Yue received none, leaving the reason for her exclusion unclear.

• The Sixth Squad gathered at a café after Chen Xi requested a meeting, while Chen Shuo worried about Evil Flower's coming attack.
• Chen Xi asked whether the squad believed in destiny and explained that her Fated Ripples Legend could turn blank cards into tools for foreseeing the future and temporarily becoming their future selves.
• Qiu Ye realized that Chen Xi had invited them because only people who met the cards' conditions could use them, and Chen Xi confirmed that the Sixth Squad qualified.
• Chen Xi handed out six cards, but Lin Yue noticed that she had not received one and asked why.

Chen Xi gave Tianhai City Countermeasure Bureau Sixth Squad Destined Card Faces that temporarily drew on their future strength, while secretly inventing the cards’ rules and costs. After the squad revealed their cards and discussed their powers, Qiu Ye asked Chen Xi whether she had felt the power they had fed back to her.

• Chen Xi gave Lin Yue the Rose Lover card, which could temporarily raise her Rank when activated silently.
• Zhu Li completed the Queen card, and Chen Xi explained the cards’ duration, cooldown, restoration, and supposed costs.
• Luo Li and Lu Shaoqi revealed their Witch and staff-wielding cards, and Chen Xi explained Lu Shaoqi’s future self had chosen not to remain a support worker.
• He Guowei revealed a card that turned his High-Speed Passage ability into a repulsive force field.
• Qiu Ye and Chen Shuo revealed complementary cards that could let them fight together at the peak of Third Rank.
• Qiu Ye asked Chen Xi whether she had felt the power the squad fed back to her.

Chen Xi explained the powers and protections granted by the Destined Cards, then shared Evil Flower’s plans and agreed with the group to gather intelligence before acting. Later, Lin Yue admitted that she wanted to do it with Chen Xi, leaving Chen Xi unimpressed by the confession.

• Chen Xi told the group that the Destined Cards had raised her power to near the peak of Third Rank and that Fate would conceal their abilities from outsiders.
• Chen Xi revealed Evil Flower’s preparations, and the group agreed to gather intelligence before deciding whether to strike.
• After the meeting, Chen Xi and Lin Yue wandered along the roadside while Zhu Li left to prepare for her new album and avoid alerting Evil Flower.
• Chen Xi teased Lin Yue about what was troubling her until Lin Yue admitted that she wanted to do it with Chen Xi.
• Chen Xi dismissed Lin Yue’s confession with a curt, “That’s it?”

After Lin Yue and Chen Xi confirmed their relationship, they prepared to confront Evil Flower after the Sixth Squad located its High Priest, Qianqi Weiming, and the arriving Mist Man. The group gathered near Junlan Hotel to choose how to attack, with Qiu Ye outlining a direct assault that could let enemies on the perimeter escape.

• Lin Yue worried that she and Chen Xi had made their relationship official too casually, but Chen Xi reassured her that they could take things slowly from then on.
• Lin Yue woke to find Chen Xi making breakfast, and Chen Xi told her the Sixth Squad had located Qianqi Weiming through the clues they had provided.
• Chen Xi explained that they planned to capture Qianqi Weiming and Mist Man to disrupt Evil Flower’s assault on Tianhai City.
• Chen Xi’s group met the disguised Sixth Squad members at a dessert shop, where the team’s new strength had begun to shift its loyalty toward Chen Xi.
• Lin Yue confirmed through Skynet that Qianqi Weiming was in Room 504 of Junlan Hotel, Mist Man was in Room 505, and Evil Flower’s forces surrounded them.
• Qiu Ye presented a direct assault as one possible plan, warning that it could allow enemies on the outer perimeter to flee.

Lin Yue, Chen Xi, and Qiu Ye settled on a plan to encircle Junlan Hotel while Lin Yue and Zhu Li confronted Evil Flower’s leaders. At the hotel, Qianqi Weiming and Mist Man met Feng Shisan, whose arrival turned their tense preparations into a direct confrontation.

• Chen Xi proposed splitting the group to seal Junlan Hotel’s exits while a small team attacked Qianqi Weiming and Mist Man, and Qiu Ye warned that the plan left them vulnerable to reinforcements.
• Lin Yue volunteered to fight, and Chen Xi approved the plan, beginning the counter-encirclement operation against Evil Flower.
• Qianqi Weiming and Mist Man discussed Tianhai City’s strength and waited for Feng Shisan, whom they hoped would help suppress Zhu Li.
• Feng Shisan arrived at Junlan Hotel and startled Qianqi Weiming by seizing her hand before she could react.
• Feng Shisan demanded that Qianqi Weiming speak her thoughts aloud, and Qianqi Weiming drew her katana as Mist Man watched the situation grow hostile.

Zhu Li and Chen Xi’s team launched their planned ambush on Evil Flower at Junlan Hotel after discovering that Feng Shisan was a Fourth Rank Transcendent. Zhu Li opened her Domain against Feng Shisan, Qianqi Weiming, and Mist Man, leaving the battle underway as all three opponents unleashed their own domains.

• Zhu Li explained that her uncontrolled, hatred-filled Domain made her the best choice to charge in and exhaust the three Evil Flower members.
• Lin Yue and Zhu Li sensed Feng Shisan’s magic power and alerted the team that she was Fourth Rank; Qiu Ye and Luo Li considered retreating, but Chen Xi ordered them to continue.
• Chen Xi argued that their gathered forces had the best chance to defeat Feng Shisan now, and Lu Shaoqi rallied the team to fight.
• Zhu Li attacked as Qianqi Weiming dismissed her katana, spreading her Resentment Fire through the hotel lobby and trapping Feng Shisan, Qianqi Weiming, and Mist Man.
• Feng Shisan tested the flames with her umbrella and recognized their danger, while she, Qianqi Weiming, and Mist Man unleashed their domains in response.

Zhu Li used her hidden Empress trump card to reach Rank Four, and she and Lin Yue turned the battle against Feng Shisan, Qianqi Weiming, and Mist Man. The three enemies fled in different directions, with Zhu Li pursuing Feng Shisan and Lin Yue chasing Qianqi Weiming as Chen Xi arrived.

• Zhu Li's flames drove Feng Shisan, Qianqi Weiming, and Mist Man back, but Feng Shisan waited for Zhu Li to exhaust her magic.
• Mist Man sensed that Zhu Li was nearly depleted, and Feng Shisan expanded Tang Umbrella's shield to blast Zhu Li into the ruins.
• Feng Shisan rushed to finish Zhu Li, but Zhu Li activated Empress and her magic surged back as Lin Yue attacked from the darkness.
• Zhu Li's Rank Four flames and Lin Yue's shadows overwhelmed the trio, while Feng Shisan's barrier began to crack.
• Feng Shisan used Realm-Breaking Escape to open several rifts, and she, Qianqi Weiming, and Mist Man fled in separate directions.
• Zhu Li pursued Feng Shisan, while Lin Yue spotted Chen Xi arriving and chased Qianqi Weiming.

Lin Yue killed Qianqi Weiming after crushing the Armored Skeleton, then faced an old samurai who broke into her domain. She recognized him as a peak Rank Four and prepared to fight him.

• Lin Yue used her Dark Shadow Domain again and overwhelmed Qianqi Weiming's Armored Skeleton with a torrent of shadows.
• The Armored Skeleton shielded Qianqi Weiming until Lin Yue crushed it and killed the girl.
• Lin Yue sensed a powerful enemy approaching and reinforced her shadow armor.
• An old white-haired samurai tore open Lin Yue's domain and cut apart her shadow tentacles with his own domain.
• Lin Yue gauged the samurai's strength as peak Rank Four and challenged him to fight.

Lin Yue fought Ishii Masamitsu, relying on her Shadow Barrier while searching for a chance to unleash Myriad Agonies. She finally revealed the ability, but Ishii’s iaijutsu counter ground her invisible tentacles to powder, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Lin Yue and Ishii Masamitsu assessed each other after her tentacles endured his Draw Slash, while both considered how to overcome the other.
• Ishii Masamitsu used sweeping blade-energy attacks to destroy Lin Yue’s shadow tentacles and tried to wear down her mana.
• Lin Yue conserved her strength as Ishii taunted her and waited for her to weaken, sensing that her Heart Fire was close to igniting.
• Lin Yue unleashed Myriad Agonies, greatly strengthening her invisible shadow tentacles and forcing Ishii to change tactics.
• Ishii Masamitsu took an iaijutsu stance, and the tentacles rushing toward him were ground into powder when they came within half a meter.

Lin Yue defeated Ishii Masamitsu with her newly refined shadow technique, then recovered memories that made her confront Chen Xi for lying to her. Chen Xi tested whether Lin Yue would attack her and welcomed her back.

• Lin Yue used Threads that Cut the World to kill Ishii Masamitsu after he cut her in half, then dispelled her domain.
• Lin Yue's memories began returning, and she locked onto Chen Xi's location.
• Chen Xi killed Mist Man with a Spatial Water Blade after Feng Shisan had been defeated by Zhu Li.
• Chen Xi pretended to arrive from battle, but Lin Yue accused her of lying and attacked her with a lash of shadow.
• Chen Xi struck Lin Yue with a peak fifth-rank Spatial Water Blade, which left Lin Yue unharmed, then asked, "Welcome back, Lin Yue?"

Lin Yue and Chen Xi reunited after restoring their memories and defeating Evil Flower, then discussed Lin Yue’s transformed time-wielding powers and their coming fight against the Lamenter. Lin Yue explained that the Lamenter’s Death Duel Domain would force the two of them to face him alone, before stopping Chen Xi from leaving to avoid a conversation.

• Lin Yue and Chen Xi embraced after confirming they had succeeded in turning back time and recovering their strength.
• Evil Flower suffered a complete defeat, and its scattered members could no longer cause trouble in Tianhai City.
• Lin Yue told Chen Xi that she had reached the sixth tier and gained Supreme God-level power, while the Sand of Time had transformed her Shadow Dweller to wield most time authorities.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue agreed that Lin Yue would face the Lamenter’s first phase while Chen Xi handled his stronger second phase.
• Lin Yue explained that the Lamenter’s Death Duel Domain would drag her and Chen Xi into a battle no one else could enter.
• Chen Xi tried to leave, but Lin Yue entangled the stairwell in shadow and made her return.

Chen Xi used Dominion’s authority as a Supreme God to hunt down Evil Flower and judge its members according to her own values. She killed Ji Wushuang after uncovering that he had founded the organization to fulfill a ritual for advancing his Legend Wushuang, leaving Evil Flower destroyed.

• Lin Yue urged Chen Xi to stop playing around with Qiu Ye and the others and finish dealing with Evil Flower.
• Chen Xi expanded her domain and sent phantom chains across the world to hunt Evil Flower members.
• Long Jue and Tang Xue saw the chains in the sky, and Tang Xue realized their target was Evil Flower rather than the Spark Federation.
• Ji Wushuang watched Evil Flower’s members die and wondered why a Supreme God had attacked his organization.
• Chen Xi read Ji Wushuang’s hidden motive, learned that he had started a war to fulfill his advancement ritual, and killed him with a phantom chain.

After destroying Evil Flower, Chen Xi and Lin Yue prepared to face the Lamenter, confident that their strengthened abilities would let them win. They waited together on the academy rooftop, and at four in the morning the void descended.

• Chen Xi told Lin Yue that Evil Flower had been dealt with and that only the Lamenter remained, then Lin Yue teleported them home.
• The Spark Federation stabilized after Evil Flower's destruction, and historians named the event Crime and Punishment.
• Twenty-seven days later, nightmares signaled the Lamenter's coming, and Chen Xi and Lin Yue spent the final hour before his descent strolling together.
• Chen Xi teleported Lin Yue and herself to the academy rooftop, where they recalled their first battle together and shared a lollipop.
• At four in the morning, the void descended as Chen Xi and Lin Yue waited side by side.

Lin Yue defeated the Lamenter's first form inside the Death Duel Domain, and Chen Xi took over to face its reborn second form. Chen Xi's Dominion and Time Molding abilities thwarted the Lamenter's attacks, leaving its defeat imminent.

• The Lamenter created a second Death Duel Domain to lure Chen Xi into using Dominion, but Chen Xi stayed calm while Lin Yue confronted it inside the inner domain.
• Lin Yue unleashed her shadow origin and fought the Lamenter for seventeen days and twenty-one hours until its magic ran out and its first form was destroyed.
• Chen Xi caught Lin Yue as the domain shattered, then took her place against the transformed Lamenter.
• Chen Xi used Sovereign's Wrath to tear apart the Lamenter's fleshy shell and expose its human-sized second form.
• The Lamenter slashed Chen Xi into dust, but Dominion restored her, and she made weapons ineffective against her as the Lamenter weakened within her Time Molding domain.

Chen Xi destroyed the Lamenter and returned to the real world, where Lin Yue caught and kissed her. After peace returned to the Spark Federation, Chen Xi learned how Qiu Ye had protected the Sixth Squad’s Destined Cards and asked to see Qiu Ye’s card.

• Chen Xi outlasted the Lamenter’s transformations until Death Reversal erased it, collapsing its domain.
• Chen Xi let herself fall from the sky until Lin Yue caught and kissed her, and the two left the alley joking together.
• Long Jue began lifting the barrier that had kept ordinary people unaware of legends, and Chen Xi and Lin Yue invited the Sixth Squad to meet.
• Luo Li explained that Lu Shaoqi’s transformation had exposed the squad’s Destined Cards, while Qiu Ye claimed the Lord of Chains had arranged their abilities to protect them from scrutiny.
• Chen Xi reasoned that Long Jue had accepted Qiu Ye’s story partly because the cards bore Dominion authority, then asked Qiu Ye to show her card.

Chen Xi revealed to the Countermeasure Bureau that she was the Dominion and offered to restore their memories of other timelines before they left the Spark Federation. As she began meeting them one by one, Luo Li asked where her mother was.

• Chen Xi used her Dominion power to answer Long Jue’s message and arranged to meet her at the Dragon Palace at noon the next day.
• Chen Xi revealed that she was the Dominion and explained her connection with Lin Yue to the shocked Countermeasure Bureau members.
• Chen Xi moved the group to an abandoned rooftop and offered to restore their missing memories from other timelines.
• He Guowei chose not to recover his memories, while Lu Shaoqi asked to see his brother’s most tragic future and received memories of their deaths in another timeline.
• Luo Li approached Chen Xi and asked where her mother was.

Chen Xi shared memories of other timelines with Luo Li and Qiu Ye while Zhu Li declined hers and gave Chen Xi a song. After Chen Xi finished saying farewell to everyone in Tianhai City, an unfamiliar blonde girl arrived at a barbecue shop in Dongfeng City and met Crimson.

• Chen Xi told Luo Li that Tang Xue was her mother and shared Tang Xue’s memories with her, prompting Luo Li to ask to see her.
• Chen Xi teleported Luo Li to Tang Xue in Fulong City, then sent Chen Shuo away after he asked whether Qiu Ye had accepted his confession.
• Chen Xi shared memories of Qiu Ye’s past timelines, and Qiu Ye thanked her before leaving.
• Zhu Li asked whether she had fallen in love with Chen Xi in other timelines, declined to receive memories, and played music for her.
• A blonde stranger arrived at a barbecue shop in Dongfeng City, where Crimson asked who she was.

Lin Yue reunited with Chen Xi, and the two visited Long Jue and Tang Xue before leaving to pursue their next goals. The chapter ended with Chen Xi and Lin Yue arriving at Qianlang Mountain in Xianghe City.

• Lin Yue visited Crimson at the Barbecue Station, strengthened her with Dominion authority, and then teleported to Chen Xi.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue joked together before agreeing to meet Long Jue and Tang Xue the next day.
• Long Jue welcomed Chen Xi and Lin Yue to the Dragon Palace, where Chen Xi used Dominion chains to share information with Long Jue and Tang Xue.
• Chen Xi said they planned to travel to the Black Moon Empire, enter the God-Chosen Trial, and help Ailin repair the world.
• Tang Xue asked how she should treat Luo Li, and Chen Xi teased that Luo Li had already called her Mom.
• After spending the night visiting amusement facilities, Chen Xi and Lin Yue arrived at Qianlang Mountain in Xianghe City.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue destroyed Qianlang Mountain, then found Gu Yu in Casper's Duke's Mansion and restored her memories. Gu Yu reunited with them and explained why she had grown her blue hair, but left the reason she was at the mansion unexplained.

• Chen Xi used Dominion's chains to annihilate the consciousness of the Qianlang Mountain God, which sent the Transcendents inside back to reality.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue vanished from the Spark Federation and appeared in Gu Yu's guest room in Casper's Duke's Mansion.
• Chen Xi sent memories into Gu Yu with Dominion's chains, and Gu Yu recognized the two visitors and embraced them.
• Gu Yu said she had grown her hair while influenced by Chen Xi's memories, then cut it off and let Chen Xi make the fallen hair disappear.
• Lin Yue asked why Gu Yu had appeared at Casper's Duke's Mansion, and Gu Yu began to explain.

Gu Yu explained how she had sought out Casper after the Regression, then learned that Chen Xi and Lin Yue had already defeated the Lamenter. Chen Xi and Lin Yue eliminated Mortis and prepared to continue their journey, while Lin Yue revealed that Seventh Rank no longer existed.

• Gu Yu recounted how she had moved into Casper's Duke's Mansion but found no familiar feeling until Chen Xi restored her memories.
• Chen Xi told Gu Yu how she had retained her memories and helped defeat the Lamenter, and Gu Yu wondered why she had not joined the fight.
• Chen Xi invited Gu Yu to travel with her and Lin Yue after they dealt with Mortis, but Gu Yu stayed behind to serve the Black Moon Empire.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue crossed to the Black Mist Woodland, where Chen Xi used Dominion's authority to erase the sleeping Mortis.
• Lin Yue told Chen Xi that there was no longer a Seventh Rank when Chen Xi asked about advancing to it.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue visited Ademos, healed the lingering dangers in his body, and Chen Xi accepted the Lord's Cross. They then traveled to the Hengsha Federation to confront the Sand Lord and other calamities.

• Ademos spoke with Chen Xi, who struck him with illusory chains of Dominion and explained how she and Lin Yue had overcome the Lamenter.
• Chen Xi removed the hidden dangers in Ademos's body, and Ademos placed the Lord's Cross around her neck.
• Chen Xi told Ademos to have Gu Yu draw up the list of Saintesses before she and Lin Yue departed.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue chose the Hengsha Federation as their next destination, and Lin Yue teased Chen Xi about her supposed debt.
• Chen Xi sensed the Sand Lord and teleported herself and Lin Yue near its core, where Lin Yue prepared to deal with it.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue used Dominion to kill the Sand Lord and the Tree Spirit, then bickered over souvenirs from the Tree Spirit’s remains. They prepared to hunt the Forest King next, leaving their playful rivalry unresolved.

• Lin Yue used Dominion to erase the Sand Lord’s consciousness and collapse its massive body.
• Chen Xi flicked a pebble at Lin Yue in revenge, and the two exchanged teasing accusations before deciding to deal with the Tree Spirit and the Forest King.
• Chen Xi sensed that the Tree Spirit and the Forest King were on the Western Continent and chose to kill the Tree Spirit first.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue teleported to the Tree Spirit’s true body and killed him instantly with Dominion.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue each took a branch from the Tree Spirit’s remains and argued over whose was better.
• Lin Yue revealed she had been eavesdropping on Chen Xi’s thoughts, and Chen Xi threatened to take back Dominion as their taunting continued.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue waited for the Forest King after the Withered Tree Spirit’s death, and Chen Xi trapped him in her Dominion chains. As the Forest King tried to bargain for his life, Chen Xi asked whether death from a senseless vendetta or from retaliation caused greater despair.

• The Forest King sensed that the Withered Tree Spirit had died and rushed from the Azure Banquet to its last known location.
• The Forest King arrived and questioned Chen Xi and Lin Yue, who greeted him as if they knew him.
• Chen Xi formed a chain birdcage that cut the Forest King off from the outside world, and he recognized her as the Dominion god.
• Chen Xi tightened the chains as the Forest King tried to resist with the origin of abundance, but his power could not overcome hers.
• The Forest King claimed Chen Xi still had something to say, and Chen Xi asked which kind of death caused greater despair: a senseless vendetta or retaliation.