Recaps

Ye Ting helped Nitocris reunify and reform Egypt, then learned how faith shaped divine power and resolved to end the gods’ rule by creating Alaya. As Hecate’s Magic Web spread across the world, Ye Ting considered El as a way to weaken the gods without empowering rival pantheons.

• Ye Ting’s catapults, Nitocris’s archers, and her Sunburst routed Meribre’s army, and she let survivors carry tales of her power while Egypt’s nomes surrendered.
• Nitocris made Ye Ting Grand Sage Regent and enacted reforms including merit-based examinations, schools, laws, banks, waterworks, and a new capital, and she later abdicated after ruling for sixty-seven years.
• Nitocris died in Mairan, and Necherikhet sent her crown and robes to her pyramid while Egyptians mourned her enduring legacy.
• Ye Ting joined Egypt’s ley lines with Hecate, learned the Heliopolitan gods’ history and acceptance of their eventual disappearance, and concluded that faith could empower gods and Heroic Spirits.
• Ye Ting resolved to end the Age of Gods by cutting off their True Ether and humanity’s faith, and returned to Greece with Bastet, whom he welcomed into his family.
• The Trojan War split the Olympians, but Toroi won after Atalanta killed Achilles, the Amazons ambushed the Greeks, and Paris and Apollo survived.
• Ye Ting extended Hecate’s Magic Web across Africa and traveled through the Americas, India, Persia, and Canaan, observing their gods and paths to power.
• Ye Ting rejected starting a divine war because victorious pantheons could absorb defeated gods’ faith, and decided to cultivate El to weaken the gods without empowering their rivals.

Ye Ting armed El to overthrow the Canaanite gods, then helped shape Israel’s magic and bound Dantalian to his plans. He turned to Qin, took the throne as Zhao Zheng, and encountered Yu Ji as he began searching for allies among the supernatural beings of the Nine Provinces.

• Ye Ting drew El into the Sea of Chaos, offered him a path to reclaim his throne, and gave him Genesis Eden, divine artifacts, and Icarus as a demonstration of his power.
• Ye Ting comforted Lilith, reunited her with Samael, restored Samael’s confidence and power, and made her a guardian angel under Hecate.
• Yahweh defeated Baal and the Canaanite gods, conquered other pantheons, and led the Israelites out of Egypt before establishing a kingdom under Saul and David.
• Solomon received ten Seal Rings from Yahweh, then rejected them before his death, severing Yahweh’s connection to humanity.
• Ye Ting revealed his role in separating the Seal Rings and contracted with Dantalian, who opened her vast library to him.
• Ye Ting chose Qin as the foundation for his bid to become humanity’s common sovereign, claimed the legacy of the Black Bird, and became King of Qin as Zhao Zheng.
• After Zhao Zheng’s coronation formed a blazing sun above him, Ye Ting questioned Yu Ji about the immortals’ departure and summoned Dantalian to help her find companions.

Ye Ting unified the Six States, became the First Emperor, and expanded Qin’s power into space before challenging Yahweh for the Genesis Eden seed. After Yahweh remade his world and tried to claim Ye Ting and Altera, Ye Ting invoked Hecate, and Genesis Eden began connecting to the world’s spiritual veins.

• Ye Ting welcomed Jing Ke’s assassination mission, exposed her plan, spared her, and made her an instructor for Qin’s Ghosts as the Six States fell to Qin.
• Ye Ting crushed Jixia Academy, proclaimed the Qin Empire, and became the First Emperor, joining the Nine Provinces’ spiritual veins to himself.
• Ye Ting unified Qin’s laws and systems, expanded into space, and reached Mooncell, where he used Potnia Theron’s authority to create BB and enlist her help against its final firewall.
• Ye Ting and Altera entered Heaven and confronted Yahweh, who revealed that he had severed his ties to believers and merged his spirit and godhead with Genesis Eden’s rules.
• Yahweh fused with Genesis Eden and attacked Ye Ting, but Ye Ting’s Sea of Chaos erased his assaults and resisted as Yahweh began recreating the world.
• Yahweh’s final Genesis rite tried to claim Ye Ting and Altera, but Ye Ting revealed that Dantalian had recorded the ritual in a Bible copied from Yahweh’s Genesis.
• Ye Ting dispersed his Reality Marble and invoked Hecate, causing Genesis Eden to connect to spiritual veins across the world as Qin officers and alchemists witnessed a vast web of light over Earth.

Ye Ting rebuilt Genesis Eden as Avalon, gained the First Magic, and forged Longinus to kill gods. After defeating Yahweh, he unleashed divine wars and led Qin to unify Earth, then began planning a worldwide transformation of the planet’s ether.

• Ye Ting and Hecate destroyed Yahweh’s Genesis Eden, then worked with BB to rebuild it as Avalon within Earth’s consciousness.
• Through Avalon, Ye Ting gained the First Magic and forged the godslaying spear Longinus with help from Hecate, BB, Athena, and others.
• Yahweh returned through Zadkiel and held the angels’ lives hostage, but Ye Ting destroyed the angels’ bodies and killed Yahweh with Longinus.
• Ye Ting restored the angels from the Angel Reincarnation Pool and joined them with Qin’s forces to prepare a campaign against the gods.
• Ye Ting and Hecate broke the gods’ seals, releasing their enemies and triggering wars that devastated pantheons and the mortal world.
• Qin’s armies swept across Eurasia and Africa as Ye Ting’s allies killed gods, and the campaign ended with Tamamo-no-Mae defeating Tezcatlipoca before Ye Ting killed him.
• Qin declared Earth unified under Ye Ting, and Tamamo-no-Mae proposed using the planet’s soul as an ether generator.
• Ye Ting explained that the group would draw True Ether through the leylines into the Inner Sea of Stars and replace it with ether, asking for help to perform the ritual worldwide.