Recaps

Qin Manjiang and his allies descended beneath Guanyin Village to confront the awakening White Pupil God, while Qin Manjiang uncovered the village’s sacrifice and the gods’ history. The arc ended as Yi Lianhai activated the Glass Cabinet and the God emerged from the collapsing ground.

• Qin Manjiang entered the underground Eye Realm, recognized little Yang as the future Bai Yang, and learned from the Guanyin Incarnation that she knew him.
• Qin Manjiang discovered how the Bai family and the underground God had used the Guanyin Statue and the villagers as sacrifices, while the Old Village Chief revealed that Zhao Laoda carried the Red Eyeball.
• Bai Gu pulled Qin Manjiang and Zuo Xian from the Flesh Swamp, retrieved the Red Eyeball from Zhao Laoda, and joined Yi Lianhai’s group for the descent toward It.
• Qin Manjiang led the survivors through the cavern, where skeletal claws and Vengeful Ghosts demanded sacrifices, and Yi Lianhai’s men offered fourteen unconscious people to pass.
• The group entered the Eye Realm, where the White Pupil God’s hallucinations made people attack one another, until Bai Gu revealed the giant eye and Qin Manjiang saw its face resemble his own.
• Qin Manjiang and Yi Lianhai realized the White Pupil God might need to be stopped before its awakening, and Qin Manjiang agreed to Yi Lianhai’s plan involving the Red Eyeball.
• Qin Manjiang learned the Guanyin Incarnation’s name was Nie Yunzhen, then entered the Glass Cabinet with her as Yi Lianhai prepared to transfer her power.
• Yi Lianhai announced that the White Pupil God had awakened, and an enormous head rose from the collapsing ground before them.

Qin Manjiang and his allies exposed the Eye Realm and tried to stop its invasion of reality, while the group uncovered temporal fractures in Lower River Village. Qin Manjiang entered a future where he met Xi Wutong and a faceless corpse, as Shen Hai became another victim of the strange phenomenon.

• Qin Manjiang returned to his own time, spread fog to evade the Bai family, and recruited Shen Hai to help liberate the true Eye Realm.
• Yan Xiao and Shen Hai concluded that the Bai family and Yi Lianhai sought to inherit the dead Creator’s legacy, while Yan Xiao helped restart the Eye Realm and Mei Sijun revealed it to the public.
• As fear caused the Eye Realm to invade reality, Qin Manjiang agreed to travel with Bai Yang, Zhong Xueran, Yan Xiao, and Shen Hai to Lower River Village and prevent a massive exit from opening.
• In Lower River Village, Qin Manjiang encountered another version of himself, then learned that the older Qin Manjiang was dead and that the future residents had taken unfamiliar roles.
• Qin Manjiang met Xi Wutong, who explained that they were deliberately created beings and urged him to stay with her, while Bai Yang investigated a faceless corpse resembling Qin Manjiang.
• Qin Manjiang doubted Xi Wutong’s account of his origins and recognized a woman arrested for spreading claims that time and the world were fake.
• Shen Hai found his reflection’s facial features disappearing, leaving him alive but without a face or senses.

As Fu City’s collapsing world turned its inhabitants into monsters, Qin Manjiang and his allies uncovered the newcomers’ role and prepared to return to Lower River Village. Mei Sijun’s experiment instead awakened the Red Pupil God, which summoned both cities to a seven-day Ghost Story Game demanding the White Pupil.

• Shen Hai escaped the police after finding a faceless double, while Zhong Xueran began investigating the corpse and its connection to Xi Wutong and Lower River Village.
• Yan Xiao and Qin Manjiang separately headed toward Zhen’s villa, while Shen Hai traced [Truth] to Wu Gong and Bai Yang fled after discovering his face was disappearing.
• Pale-faced residents began mutating across Fu City, and Qin Manjiang reunited with Shen Hai as Old Qin explained that real people could replace counterparts and that the five newcomers were accelerating the world’s collapse.
• Bai Yang became a Faceless Person, while Qin Manjiang and Shen Hai used mirrors to defeat the pursuing monsters and joined Yang, who planned to gather the others and go to Lower River Village.
• Lian Yan told Xinxin about the gods, the Eye Realm, and the intertwined timelines, while Bai Yang explained that the Red Pupil God was challenging the Bai family and that this world repeated time within a year.
• Bai Yang’s group led the monsters to the armed survivors, where Qin Manjiang used Xi Wutong’s mirror to make Yan Xiao see his reflection and transform into a Faceless Corpse that attacked the survivors.
• Yi Lianhai channeled Moon City’s negative emotions into Mei Sijun, but the experiment awakened the Red Pupil God, which summoned players in both cities to the Twin Cities Ghost Story and demanded the White Pupil within seven days.
• Bai Yang’s group reached Lower River Village and planned to search for mirrors and wait for Qin Manjiang, while Shen Hai found a full-length mirror and wondered whether Qin Manjiang was the White Pupil God.

Qin Manjiang learned the truth about Qin Manyi, the Spirit Pupils, and his own origins as the Red Pupil God’s power devastated the cities. As the survivors reached Snow Mountain, the Giant Ghost rose and swallowed everything in its palm.

• Qin Manjiang met Qin Manyi, who revealed that she had created the repeating world from her life in Lower River Village, then opened a gate as it collapsed.
• Qin Manjiang refused to abandon Qin Manyi, called on the White Pupil God, and took her toward the real world while Bai Yang and the others returned to Fu City.
• The Red Pupil God’s emergence devastated Fu City and Moon City, while Jiang Du and Qin Manjiang pursued the Players and Jiang Du erased Lin Ci and Zuo Xian.
• Qin Manjiang briefly regained control when Qiao Ziruo reached him, but Jiang Du severed her head, and Qin Manjiang fled with her body.
• Jiang Du revealed that Qin Manjiang was formed from his soul and the other Players, and urged him to choose his own future rather than merge with the Red Pupil.
• Yi Lianhai used Mei Sijun and the gathered souls to create a vessel for the Red Pupil God, which became a mindless mass that consumed Fu City and its people.
• Bai Yang led the surviving Players up Snow Mountain, where they avoided the monster’s tentacles, but frostbite stopped them short of the summit.
• A blizzard froze the monster as the Snow Mountain Giant Ghost rose behind the mountain and swallowed everything in its palm.