Chapter Summaries

Deva Path and Asura Path sealed the monster and returned to Banyan City, where Elder Li organized guards and lifted the alert. Meanwhile, the Wood Clone was brought to the Eternal Night Church's headquarters in a human-only secret realm, where the Yin-Yang Emperor learned that he had fought Ya'en to a standstill despite reaching Emperor Realm strength.

• Deva Path refused to destroy the sealed monster and left it trapped in a rocky sphere until the main body returned or its black mist dissipated.
• Deva Path told Elder Li that the monster was sealed, then left Asura Path behind as Elder Li sent Ji Xuejun to guard the seal and Cao Yiming to calm the public.
• The Wood Clone examined the Eternal Night Church's vast secret realm and found that it contained humans but no magical beasts.
• The Yin-Yang Emperor introduced himself to the Wood Clone, and Ya'en returned to the hall in torn robes and said the Wood Clone had injured him.
• Ya'en told the Yin-Yang Emperor that the Wood Clone had Emperor Realm strength, and the two realized Dragon Glory had not sent a guardian to protect him.

Ya'en released Lin Yu's Wood Clone and offered him the position of Holy Son in the Eternal Night Divine Church, while explaining that the goddess would need to acknowledge him. The clone declined to decide immediately, then punched the Yin-Yang Emperor after he called him ungrateful.

• Ya'en removed the spatial restraint on Lin Yu's Wood Clone and invited him to ask questions.
• Ya'en revealed that they were in the Eternal Night Divine Realm, which served as the goddess's palace in the lower realm and the Divine Church's holy land.
• Lin Yu's Wood Clone confirmed that the secret realm was the Eternal Night Church's headquarters and considered how the original Lin Yu could use his Flying Thunder God mark to reach it.
• Ya'en offered Lin Yu's Wood Clone the title of Holy Son, explaining that the goddess's acknowledgment would place him above the Divine Envoy.
• Lin Yu's Wood Clone said he needed time to learn about the Divine Church, and the Yin-Yang Emperor rebuked him.
• Lin Yu's Wood Clone suddenly struck the Yin-Yang Emperor in the stomach with an Armament Haki-coated punch, sending him flying backward.

Lin Yu’s Wood Clone overpowered the Yin-Yang Emperor, then faced a standoff with Ya'en while Sakura Martial University scrambled to respond to Lin Yu’s abduction. Meanwhile, Sima Hao flew toward the Eternal Night Secret Realm, and Lin Yu left the Kamui Dimension to carry out his plan.

• The Wood Clone struck the Yin-Yang Emperor and taunted him until Ya'en stopped the fight, then sat down to wait while Ya'en and the Yin-Yang Emperor watched him.
• Wang Yunfei pressured Sakura Martial University’s officials to rescue Lin Yu, and Abe Taro ordered them to search while worrying about the missing Abe Ikyo.
• Sima Hao flew toward the Eternal Night Secret Realm, eager to see the person he had long coveted.
• Lin Yu finished cultivating, accepted the Fire Cloud Robe from Hu Meier, and left the Kamui Dimension after Huangfu Long urged him to abandon the plan if danger arose.

Lin Yu coordinated with Wang Yunfei and the Dragon Glory forces to prepare an assault on the Eternal Night Church’s secret realm, then traveled to Ghost Shadow’s pill shop to recruit Chris. He told Chris the operation was already underway and had come to bring her along.

• Lin Yu arrived at Sakura Martial University and met Wang Yunfei, who reported that District Chief Qin and two level 96 Domain-level experts were waiting near Changqi City.
• Lin Yu assigned the two experts to guard the perimeter and prevent the Eternal Night Church from escaping, then left Wang Yunfei to relay his plan to Qin Wangyan.
• Lin Yu used his Flying Thunder God Marks to travel to Ghost Shadow’s pill shop, where Ghost Shadow worried that Thousand Faces had failed to report in.
• Lin Yu appeared before Ghost Shadow and Chris, startling them, and told Chris that the plan had begun and he had come to pick her up.

Lin Yu defeated Ghost Shadow and learned nothing new about the Eternal Night Church’s hidden Eternal Night Secret Realm. With Chris’s help, he located the concealed realm and prepared to enter it, while Chris readied herself for the coming battle.

• Christina asked Lin Yu about the Eternal Night Church’s move, and Ghost Shadow realized he had been exposed.
• Lin Yu revealed his identity, overwhelmed Ghost Shadow with Dark Water, used Human Path, Mind Layer Dive to investigate him, and fed his soul to Yama before erasing his body.
• Lin Yu told Christina that Ghost Shadow knew little and that he still could not see anything about the Eternal Night Secret Realm.
• Chris guided Lin Yu toward the realm’s location, and Lin Yu used God's Eye to see its barrier and spatial turbulence.
• Lin Yu waited on a tree for his Wood Clone’s information and sensed a Flying Thunder God mark near the realm, while Chris prepared for the battle ahead.

Sima Hao abandoned the Abe Family identity and joined the Eternal Night Church as its third Vice Pope. The Wood Clone refused Ya'en’s offer to join, then learned Ya'en had changed his mind because Sima Hao could investigate Lin Yu and Ya'en did not want to risk offending the divine envoy.

• The Wood Clone recognized Sima Hao and mocked him as Sima Hao spoke with Ya'en.
• Sima Hao accepted Ya'en’s offer to join the Eternal Night Church as its third Vice Pope, and the Yin-Yang Emperor noted that Sakura Special Zone had assimilated him.
• The Wood Clone assessed the Eternal Night Church’s formidable lineup and congratulated Ya'en on its strength.
• Ya'en asked the Wood Clone to decide whether to join, and the Wood Clone refused, saying their paths were incompatible.
• The Wood Clone was baffled when Ya'en did not try persuading him again, and Ya'en explained that Sima Hao could investigate Lin Yu and that he would not risk offending the divine envoy.

The Wood Clone confronted Ya'en, Sima Hao, and the Yin-Yang Emperor, then unleashed Super Almighty Push as a parting gift. The force pulverized the great hall, hurled the Yin-Yang Emperor away, and left Ya'en expanding his domain to protect the secret realm.

• Ya'en offered to hand Lin Yu over to Sima Hao, who agreed after Ya'en demanded a soul oath before the Goddess.
• The Wood Clone dismissed their plans and revealed that Lin Yu's original body was waiting, then activated Sage Mode and released his aura.
• Ya'en, Sima Hao, and the Yin-Yang Emperor rose and met the Wood Clone's aura, drawing attention from others throughout the Eternal Night Secret Realm.
• The Wood Clone unleashed Super Almighty Push, destroying the great hall despite Ya'en freezing the surrounding space.
• Ya'en and Sima Hao shielded themselves from the blast, while the Yin-Yang Emperor was flung away; Ya'en ordered an evacuation and formed an Infinite Cage within his domain.

Lin Yu’s Wood Clone destroyed the Eternal Night Church’s main hall and tricked Ya'en into believing he had captured the real Lin Yu, while Lin Yu located the Flying Thunder God mark and prepared to launch an assault. Qin Wangyan led the gathered fighters toward the secret realm as Lin Yu entered it, leaving a clone outside to guide them.

• Lin Yu’s Wood Clone clashed with Ya'en’s defenses, then turned into wood and vanished, revealing that Ya'en had been deceived.
• Lin Yu detected the Flying Thunder God mark and learned from the Wood Clone’s memories that three Domain-level fighters were present.
• Lin Yu called Qin Wangyan and confirmed that the group could begin its operation against the Eternal Night Church.
• Qin Wangyan led Emperor Taishan, two Domain-level seniors, and the other fighters toward the secret realm, while Lin Yu left a Wood Clone outside to guide them.
• Lin Yu entered the secret realm as Ya'en realized the captive had been a clone and demanded an explanation from Sima Hao.

Ya'en and the Eternal Night Church searched for Lin Yu after he destroyed the goddess's palace, while Steve mocked Ya'en and nearly provoked a fight. The Guardian ordered them to find Lin Yu, then roared in fury upon realizing someone had broken into the secret realm.

• Ya'en ordered Sima Hao to find Lin Yu, and Sima Hao suspected Lin Yu had seen through him from the beginning.
• Steve appeared and mocked Ya'en for being outsmarted by Lin Yu, prompting Ya'en to threaten him.
• The Guardian's voice stopped Ya'en and Steve from fighting and ordered them to find the intruder and bring him before Her Excellency.
• The Guardian suddenly roared with killing intent, and Ya'en and the others realized someone had broken into the Eternal Night Secret Realm.

Lin Yu confronted Ya'en and the Eternal Night Church at their headquarters in the Eternal Night Secret Realm, revealing power far beyond the fake who had been used to find the realm. He summoned two allies, including Huangfu Long, as the Church prepared for a fight.

• Lin Yu unleashed his SSS-rank Conqueror's Haki, and its force collided with the auras gathering across the secret realm.
• Ya'en led Sima Hao, Steve, and the battered Yin-Yang Emperor toward Lin Yu, while the Eternal Night Church's people charged after them.
• Lin Yu removed his mask and taunted Ya'en, who demanded to know where Lin Yu's allies were.
• The Yin-Yang Emperor attacked Lin Yu with telekinesis, but Lin Yu crushed the invisible force with his blackened hand.
• Lin Yu opened two vortices and summoned Huangfu Long and another powerful figure.
• Huangfu Long mocked the Yin-Yang Emperor and turned his attention toward Sima Hao and the other Church members.

Lin Yu and his allies confronted Sima Hao and the Eternal Night Church in the secret realm. The church’s level-99 guardian appeared and revealed that his code name was Shouyi, the goddess’s first believer.

• Huangfu Long confronted Sima Hao over his schemes against Lin Yu, while Sima Hao challenged Huangfu Long’s reputation.
• Old Chen faced Ya’en, the Eternal Night Church’s pope, to keep the spatial ability user from escaping.
• Ya’en summoned the church’s mysterious Realm Guardian after recognizing Dragon Glory’s forces had come to destroy the church.
• Lin Yu identified the old man as a level-99 expert and warned Huangfu Long and Old Chen to be careful.
• The old man introduced himself as Shouyi, guardian of the Eternal Night Divine Realm and the Goddess’s first believer.

Shouyi challenged Huangfu Long, while Old Chen and Ya'en faced off elsewhere and Lin Yu stayed behind to confront the Divine Church members. Steve Davis appeared before Lin Yu and introduced himself as the Lord of the Black Prison.

• Shouyi revealed himself as the first believer and challenged Huangfu Long to follow him.
• Huangfu Long pursued Shouyi into the sky, and their clash sent waves of destruction through the secret realm.
• Ya'en opened a spatial gate and led Old Chen away to battle, leaving Lin Yu to face Sima Hao and the Divine Church's forces.
• Lin Yu sensed a surprise attack and countered with a black Armament Haki-coated kick, but struck empty air.
• Steve appeared from the air, introduced himself as the Divine Church's deputy leader, and said he preferred the name Lord of the Black Prison.

Lin Yu confronted the Eternal Night Church’s forces in the Eternal Night Divine Realm as the Yin-Yang Emperor activated a strange formation. While the formation suppressed Domain-level powers, Chris ambushed Sima Hao, leaving the enemy side seriously wounded and outnumbered.

• The Yin-Yang Emperor, Steve, and Sima Hao faced Lin Yu as the Eternal Night Church’s army and five peak ninth-rankers arrived.
• The Yin-Yang Emperor ordered the troops to form a formation that summoned a living face in the clouds and suppressed Sima Hao’s domain seed.
• Lin Yu mocked the formation, then Chris appeared behind Sima Hao and stabbed him with a dagger using Dark Assault.
• Sima Hao realized Lin Yu had lured him into an ambush, while Lin Yu explained that he and Chris had planned to target him first.
• The Yin-Yang Emperor and Steve recognized that Chris’s arrival had shifted the numbers against them and took comfort in the Divine Protection formation.

Sima Hao recalled how grief and his pursuit of immortality had turned him from a celebrated hero into a ruthless demon. Lin Yu and Chris attacked him, but Sima Hao survived by using a furry beast tail as a substitute and prepared to counterattack.

• Sima Hao laughed with admiration for Lin Yu and described how the death of the woman he loved and his discovery of immortality changed him.
• Lin Yu rejected Sima Hao’s offer of partnership and began raising his aura as Steve and the Yin-Yang Emperor braced against it.
• Chris used Shadow Explosion to destroy Sima Hao’s body, but Lin Yu noticed something was wrong when the remains turned into smoke around a furry tail.
• Lin Yu spotted Sima Hao standing unharmed nearby, and Sima Hao revealed that Chris had severed one of his beast’s tails.
• Sima Hao thanked Chris for the injury, drew a six-pointed star in the air, and called something forth.

Lin Yu and Chris faced Sima Hao, Yin-Yang Emperor, and Steve after the Divine Guardian Formation empowered their opponents. Lin Yu activated Sage Mode and Susanoo as the battle began, leaving him ready to fight at full strength.

• Sima Hao summoned two Emperor Realm monsters, and Lin Yu told Chris to look for an opening while he led the attack.
• Chris vanished into the shadows, and Lin Yu activated Sage Mode and unleashed Conqueror's Haki, but the Divine Guardian Formation blocked it.
• Yin-Yang Emperor used the formation's power to strengthen himself and attacked Lin Yu with a Psychokinetic Storm, which Susanoo's skeletal armor withstood.
• Steve concealed himself as Sima Hao merged with one monster, while the other charged Lin Yu and Sima Hao gathered spiritual power to attack.
• Lin Yu welcomed the fight and released boundless blue radiance from Susanoo as he prepared to use his full strength.

Lin Yu and the others traded attacks as Chris wounded Ibaraki-dōji and Steve revealed his air-control ability. Lin Yu then unleashed Sage Art: Wood Release: Flower Tree World Advent against Sima Hao and his allies.

• Lin Yu's Susanoo smashed Ibaraki-dōji into the barrier, and Chris struck the monster with a shadow attack.
• Ibaraki-dōji expelled Chris's shadow power and healed its wound while Chris searched for another vulnerable opponent.
• Steve reappeared and destroyed Susanoo's other arm with an invisible attack, which Lin Yu identified as air control.
• The Yin-Yang Emperor and Steve guarded Sima Hao as he prepared his attack, and Sima Hao summoned Ibaraki-dōji back to his side.
• Lin Yu released Sage Art: Wood Release: Flower Tree World Advent, sending enormous trees surging toward the assembled enemies.

Lin Yu’s assault was stopped by Sima Hao’s allies, and his Kamui wounded Ibaraki-dōji instead of killing Sima Hao. Sima Hao then unleashed a devastating black beam that pierced Lin Yu’s Susanoo, leaving Christina horrified as the attack struck him.

• Ibaraki-dōji, the Yin-Yang Emperor, and Steve combined their powers to halt Lin Yu’s sea of trees.
• Lin Yu used Kamui against Sima Hao, but Sima Hao escaped and made Ibaraki-dōji take the attack, severely wounding the monster.
• Lin Yu concluded that Sima Hao’s rebirth ability had limits and suspected he might have nine lives.
• A black projectile struck Sima Hao from behind, and he countered by firing a powerful beam from his wine gourd.
• The beam pierced Lin Yu’s Susanoo and hit him as Sima Hao’s body exploded, leaving Christina shocked.

Lin Yu survived Sima Hao’s attack and revealed that he had hoped to use it to weaken the Divine Church’s formation. Sima Hao restored his shikigami and took command as Lin Yu prepared to fight seriously.

• Chris regretted failing to fight Sima Hao herself while Steve and the Yin-Yang Emperor assumed Lin Yu had died.
• Sima Hao’s attack struck the barrier, whose defenders suffered as they held it, but Lin Yu remained unharmed.
• Lin Yu explained that he had intended to use Sima Hao’s attack against the formation and pointed out how it concentrated the crowd’s energy into its defenses.
• Sima Hao restored his two shikigami, ordered Steve and the Yin-Yang Emperor to support him, and Lin Yu began activating Star Spirit Awakening.

Lin Yu fought Sima Hao, the Yin-Yang Emperor, and Steve, using his sealing technique and Limbo shadows against their empowered shikigami. Sima Hao prepared to expose the shadows briefly, while Lin Yu remained confident that revealing them would not weaken them.

• Sima Hao empowered his two Ghost King shikigami with a hexagram array, and they charged at Lin Yu alongside the Yin-Yang Emperor.
• Lin Yu used Sage Art: Gate of the Great God, but Steve detonated a vacuum bomb that destroyed the red torii gates.
• Lin Yu summoned Limbo shadows, which battered Sima Hao's shikigami while remaining invisible to the attackers.
• Sima Hao used the shikigami's source ghostly aura to reveal the shadows briefly, but the effort left the shikigami weakened.
• Sima Hao agreed to find a chance to expose the shadows again, and the Yin-Yang Emperor and Steve prepared to seize it.

Lin Yu continued his overwhelming assault on Sima Hao, Yin-Yang Emperor, and Steve with his armored Wood Human, forcing them to strengthen their defenses and summon giant shikigami. The battle remained unresolved as Lin Yu prepared an even more devastating attack.

• Lin Yu covered his towering Wood Human in Susanoo armor and attacked Sima Hao and the others with the Seven Limits Saber Art.
• Sima Hao, Yin-Yang Emperor, and Steve combined their barriers, but Lin Yu’s repeated strikes shattered Yin-Yang Emperor’s and Steve’s shields and rapidly drained the formation’s energy.
• Sima Hao empowered Ibaraki and Shuten-dōji, enlarging the shikigami until they could clash with the Wood Human.
• Yin-Yang Emperor and Steve attacked while the Wood Human reeled, but Lin Yu absorbed their combined assault with the Preta Path: Absorption Seal.
• Lin Yu reinforced his blade with Armament and prepared Shock: Earth Annihilation, splitting the sky around it.