Chapter Summaries

Lynn pressured Messiah into an intimate act while using their alliance as leverage, then framed it as proof of their friendship and asked her to forgive the Apostles. The Apostles nearly attacked him, and the chapter ended with Lynn angered by the system's accusation that he had attempted abduction.

• Lynn restrained Messiah and demanded that she mend their rift, while the Fifth Apostle's jealousy and anger intensified.
• Messiah reluctantly reached toward Lynn, but the Apostles erupted in fury and prepared to attack him.
• Messiah said she understood, and Lynn used the encounter to argue that their closeness meant she should forgive the Apostles.
• The system awarded Lynn experience and permanent bonuses for an “Attempted Abduction” achievement, prompting him to clench his fists in anger.

Lynn and White Night met with Messiah and the Apostles to discuss the Flesh God Cult’s secret goal: finding the legacy of an Old Days Deity on Blue Star. The legacy was believed to lie in a forbidden zone controlled by the Hidden Cultivation Society, but the Apostles hesitated to explain what it was.

• Lynn dismissed his earlier mistreatment of the Apostles and told them to thank Messiah, while Messiah struggled with her changing feelings toward him.
• White Night calmed the room, then confirmed that he had called the Apostles to discuss the Flesh God Cult.
• White Night explained that the Flesh Dominator sought the legacy of an Old Days Deity who had escaped Hell and reached Blue Star long ago.
• White Night said the legacy was likely inside the Hidden Cultivation Society’s forbidden zone and asked the Apostles what it was.
• Messiah and the other Apostles hesitated to answer, and Lynn suggested their precepts forbade them from speaking about the zone.

Messiah revealed that the Hidden Cultivation Society had been founded after a seraphim came to Blue Star searching for her elder sister in Hell. Lynn confirmed that the angel was the Matriarch of Dark Night City, his teacher and beloved elder sister, and manifested her blessing before the shocked apostles.

• White Night asked Messiah about the Old Days' Legacy, and she admitted the Society did not know where it was.
• Messiah explained that the Society's Heavenly Lord and First Apostle had held their positions for two thousand years and that its sacred Hermitage could only be reached through a hidden array.
• Messiah recounted the Society's founding legend: a six-winged angel from the Outer Cosmos had come to Blue Star searching for her beloved elder sister in Hell.
• Messiah asked Lynn whether a holy angel still survived in Hell, and Lynn confirmed that the Matriarch of Dark Night City was the seraphim from the legend and his teacher and beloved elder sister.
• Lynn manifested the blessing of Angel's Embrace, revealing the phantom of a Holy Angel behind him.

Lynn and Messiah pieced together how the Seraphim fought an Old Days Deity in the Pacific Ocean two thousand years ago and may have imprisoned it there. They concluded that the Hidden Cultivation Society’s secluded sanctuary could be the forbidden zone where the Seraphim still remains trapped.

• Golden flames appeared on Messiah as Lynn’s holy apparition faded, and Lynn asked where the Seraphim had gone.
• Messiah recounted how the Seraphim founded the Hidden Cultivation Society and vanished after the first year of the Apocalypse, when a tentacled calamity rose from the sea.
• Messiah recalled that the Seraphim plunged into the ocean with a burning blade to silence the deep, then never appeared again; she identified the sea as the Pacific Ocean.
• Lynn and Messiah reasoned that the Seraphim had suppressed an Old Days Deity by trapping it with herself in a forbidden zone.
• Lynn concluded that the Society’s secluded sanctuary might be that prison, deep in the Pacific and in international waters.

The Apostles agreed on a plan to investigate the Hermitage, fight the Flesh God Cult’s spread, and protect the world from the Old Days entity. Lynn was assigned to provide emergency support while taking a vacation, then teased Messiah about calling him for a private healing session after she returned to the Vatican.

• Messiah realized the Hermitage might contain a real demon and urged the Apostles to return to the Vatican and warn the others.
• White Night reassured Messiah that the Flesh God Cult was unlikely to find the Hermitage quickly, and Lynn proposed searching for a way into the forbidden zone.
• The Apostles agreed that Messiah would seek clues at the Vatican, some Night Doctors would investigate the high seas, and White Night would lead the fight against parasites and demon ghosts.
• Lynn claimed he deserved a vacation for defeating the Flesh Dominator, and White Night assigned him to provide emergency support wherever the Apostles encountered enemies.
• Lynn stopped Messiah from leaving and told her to call him at the Vatican for a private healing session, angering the other Apostles and embarrassing Messiah.

After Lynn left, Messiah returned with the Apostles to the Church in Shu Capital and announced their departure for the Vatican the next morning. There, Prus attacked her and accused her of submitting to Lynn, and the chapter ended as he lunged at her again.

• After Lynn left, Messiah struggled with her feelings about how he had repeatedly crossed her boundaries.
• Messiah led the Apostles back to the Church in Shu Capital and told them to prepare to leave for the Vatican the next morning.
• As the other Apostles departed, Prus stayed behind and lunged at Messiah, but she slashed his wrist with her blade.
• Prus accused Messiah of letting Lynn touch her while rejecting him, and he insulted her despite her warning him to leave.
• Prus declared his desire to take Messiah and lunged at her again.

Lynn intervened when the Apostle attacked Messiah and challenged her to recognize the cruelty and complexity of human nature. After Lynn killed the Apostle, Messiah broke down as her idealized view of the world collapsed, and Lynn offered her a handkerchief.

• Lynn kicked the Apostle away from Messiah and told her he had come because he expected trouble.
• Lynn confronted Messiah about her willingness to sacrifice herself and urged her to judge whether the people she protected deserved it.
• The Apostle charged at Lynn, who shot and killed him without turning away from Messiah.
• Messiah collapsed and sobbed as her beliefs about the world shattered.
• Lynn crouched before Messiah, offered her a handkerchief, and told her that neither of them was a child anymore.

Lynn comforted Messiah after exposing the danger behind the Hidden Cultivation Society and urged her to become more discerning. He left her with medicine for her burns, and Messiah spent the night unable to stop thinking about him.

• Lynn told Messiah that the man who had deceived her showed desire, jealousy, anger, and greed in his eyes.
• Lynn warned Messiah that the Hidden Cultivation Society might have changed and that its strict order could conceal evil.
• Messiah asked whether Lynn had only acted forcefully to teach her a lesson, and Lynn told her to forget what happened.
• Lynn gave Messiah a potion for her burns and told her to deny knowing what happened to the corpse.
• Lynn left in a streak of blue light, and Messiah watched him go, feeling strangely bereft.
• Messiah lay awake all night, replaying Lynn's words and the day's events.

Bai Yi briefed Lynn on the aftermath of the Flesh God Cult’s invasion as they flew to Lynn’s childhood home in northern China. Lynn excitedly planned to meet his counterpart and take his place, while Bai Yi hinted that the counterpart was a girl.

• Bai Yi told Lynn that governments were resuming operations, supernatural incidents would soon be publicly announced, and Night Doctors would help fight parasite outbreaks.
• Bai Yi recalled that the other version of Lynn was Lin Ying, a seventeen-year-old girl with exceptional skills and intelligence.
• Lynn said he was eager to meet his counterpart and planned to knock him out and take his place with his parents for a while.
• Bai Yi asked whether Lynn would accept becoming a girl, and Lynn asked if that meant Bai Yi could have sex with him.

Lynn returned to his home in the parallel world with Bai Yi, but froze when he saw his mother outside. Just as he began to approach her, he panicked and fled into an alley.

• Lynn told Bai Yi he planned to reconnect with his family and old friends, while Bai Yi worried that the parallel world's altered timeline would make his return complicated.
• After they arrived, Lynn regained his original appearance with Flesh Regeneration Potion and bought ordinary clothes to disguise himself.
• Lynn froze at a crossroads near his home, bringing traffic to a standstill as Bai Yi urged him to move.
• Lynn saw his mother trimming plants outside their courtyard and nervously took a few steps toward her.
• When his mother turned toward the honking, Lynn disappeared and reappeared in an alley over a dozen kilometers away, panicked and covered in sweat.

Lynn nervously searched for the other version of himself before trying to visit his parents, while Bai Yi desperately tried to warn Lin Ying. After failing to find the other Lynn, he sneaked up to his house and reminisced about his mother and the money his father hid in a flowerpot.

• Zuo Zuo mocked Lynn for hesitating to go home, and he decided to find the other version of himself before meeting his parents.
• Bai Yi repeatedly tried to contact Lynn's Mechanical Body, then called Sister Lin Ying to warn her, but got a busy signal.
• That night, Lynn searched the town for the other Lynn but found no trace of him.
• Lynn decided to sneak into his own home and told Zuo Zuo to pretend to be an ordinary left hand.
• Lynn peered through the window at his mother chatting with her friends, then went to the entrance and retrieved banknotes from his father's hidden stash beneath a flowerpot.

Lynn sneaked into his childhood home with Zuo Zuo to investigate his old room, where the contents suggested he had a girlfriend and a secret hideout. They discovered the hideout was a pink, doll-filled attic, leaving Lynn bewildered and Zuo Zuo convinced she had uncovered more of his strange past.

• Lynn hid beneath the eaves with Zuo Zuo while his mother saw her friends off, then reprimanded Zuo Zuo for nearly getting them caught.
• Lynn entered his bedroom through a hidden window mechanism and found it still as plain as he remembered.
• Lynn opened his wardrobe and found an assortment of girls' dresses, which he assumed belonged to a girlfriend.
• Lynn revealed a secret passage behind the wardrobe and led Zuo Zuo toward what he called his private hideout.
• The attic lights came on to reveal a pink room filled with plush dolls and cute toys, and Zuo Zuo concluded Lynn had always been unusually perverted.

Lynn searched the secret room in his childhood home for proof that he had not become a pervert, but found an old family photograph that revealed his memories had changed: the little boy in it was now a girl. As night fell, an agile figure climbed onto the eaves of his house.

• Lynn searched the pink attic and insisted that his other selves could not have perverted tastes.
• Lynn found a hidden mechanism that opened the floor and revealed an iron box.
• Lynn triggered a mousetrap inside the box but insisted that everything was still normal.
• Lynn opened the box and saw a family photograph in which the little boy had become a little girl.
• An agile figure vaulted over the courtyard wall and climbed onto the second-floor eaves at night.

Lynn and Zuo Zuo found an old family photograph showing a girl who looked exactly like young Lynn, leaving them to investigate whether this world’s Lynn had been raised as a girl. They sneaked out of the attic secret room to search for more photos, but a person emerged from the bathroom before they could leave the bedroom.

• A stealthily dressed woman returned home through a window, changed, and spoke with her mother, who mentioned tidying her room.
• Lynn and Zuo Zuo examined an old photograph of a girl identical to young Lynn, and Zuo Zuo suggested Lynn might have been born a girl in this world.
• Lynn rejected that idea and insisted his counterpart had probably been raised as a girl temporarily, then decided to search the family photo album for proof.
• Lynn and Zuo Zuo climbed out of the wardrobe and cautiously approached the bedroom door, agreeing not to expose anything strange to his mother.
• Someone opened the bathroom door nearby, and Lynn and Zuo Zuo argued over whether to look again.

Lynn discovered that the girl whose room he had entered was his female counterpart, Lin Ying, and realized Bai Yi had likely known the truth. He remained hidden beneath Lin Ying’s covers as she unknowingly cuddled up to him.

• Lin Ying returned to her room, read her friend’s messages about supernatural disasters, and watched a video of Bai Yi falling from the sky in Shu Capital.
• Lin Ying wondered about her relationship with Bai Yi and fell asleep without noticing Lynn beneath her covers.
• Lynn recognized the girl beside him as his counterpart and understood that he had become her.
• Lynn suspected Bai Yi had concealed the truth and considered whether to continue his plan to take Lin Ying’s place.
• Lin Ying rolled over and wrapped her arm and leg around Lynn like a stuffed toy.

Lin Ying discovered Lynn in her bed and fought him, but a gunshot revealed that they looked almost identical. Lynn claimed he was a devil who had come to replace her, and the chapter ended with him kissing her to stop her from calling for her mother.

• Lin Ying woke to find her Big Bear Plush taped to the ceiling and attacked the man beneath her covers, Lynn.
• Lin Ying fought Lynn with karate and shot at him with a Homemade Gun, but he dodged and pinned her down.
• Lin Ying grabbed the gun and shot through Lynn’s head, then recognized his face as the man she had met half a year earlier.
• Lynn told Lin Ying that they were not siblings and that he was a devil who had come to replace her.
• When Lin Ying’s mother came to the door, Lin Ying tried to call out, and Lynn kissed her to silence her.

Lynn and Lin Ying hid beneath the blanket while their mother searched the room after hearing a gunshot, and Lin Ying convinced her nothing was wrong. After their mother left, Lynn apologized and vanished through the window, leaving Lin Ying alone with proof that he had really been there.

• Their mother entered Lin Ying's room with a cleaver and flashlight to investigate a noise.
• Lynn pinned Lin Ying beneath the blanket, and she stopped him from using his Mechanical Body by telling their mother that nothing was wrong.
• Lin Ying claimed she was unwell and then said her period had started, persuading their mother to leave.
• After their mother closed the door, Lynn released Lin Ying, thanked her, and said he meant her no harm.
• Lynn vanished through the open window, leaving Lin Ying behind with reddened wrists and the knowledge that he had been there.

Lynn confronted Bai Yi after his temporary adult body burned away and learned that the girl in this world had discovered he was her parallel-world counterpart. He realized there had never been a second Lynn here: a girl surnamed Lin had occupied the place meant for him from birth.

• Lynn's potion-fueled body burned away, leaving him in his little-boy form as he fled to a hotel.
• Lynn angrily confronted Bai Yi for hiding that this world's version of him was a girl.
• Bai Yi admitted that Blood Doll and he had encountered the girl, who had tricked him into revealing information about Lynn and their world.
• Lynn recalled being struck by a car during his previous attempt to return home and realized the girl had likely seen him then.
• Lynn concluded that no second Lynn had ever existed in this world and that a girl surnamed Lin had taken his place from birth.

Lynn realized he could not return to his family in this world as their son, and he rejected the idea of deceiving them with a false identity. He secretly watched his mother from afar, overwhelmed by grief, while Zuo Zuo understood how deeply he longed to go home.

• Bai Yi suggested that Lynn use the Supernatural Operations Center to create a false identity, but Lynn shot him and rejected the plan.
• Lynn concluded that he could neither take the place of this world's female Lynn nor tamper with his parents' memories.
• The next morning, Lynn disguised himself in the market and supermarket to watch his mother without being seen.
• Mother Lin's friend noticed Lynn following them, but he disappeared before Mother Lin could spot him.
• Lynn hid in an alley and broke down, while Zuo Zuo recognized the fierce longing beneath his cheerful demeanor.

Zuo Zuo encouraged Lynn to stop fearing rejection and visit the family he still considered home, while Bai Yi revealed he had arranged a way for Lynn to stay with them under another identity. Mother Lin agreed to take Lynn in as a mission, though she wondered whether the boy was her former squad leader’s illegitimate son.

• Zuo Zuo punched Lynn and urged him to visit his parents even if they no longer remembered him as their son.
• Lynn thanked Zuo Zuo and decided to see his family so he would have no regrets.
• Bai Yi found Lynn and explained that he had worked with the Supernatural Operations Center and Mother Lin’s former military commanders to arrange for Lynn to stay with the Lin family under a different identity.
• Lynn threatened Bai Yi for investigating Mother Lin without permission, but Bai Yi dragged him toward the Lin home anyway.
• Mother Lin’s former squad leader asked her to take in a boy around her daughter’s age, and Mother Lin wondered if he was the squad leader’s illegitimate son.