Recaps

Xiao Yu escaped the time storm with help from his future self, who warned him that Shen Yuan was hiding another scheme and gave him an Hourglass of Time to pass along. After Shen Yuan’s forces seized a second hourglass from Maijiaer, Xiao Yu gave Shen Yuan the one with fewer Sands of Time.

• Xiao Yu recognized the white realm as the Prison of the Gods and failed to convince his past self to release him from cell thirteen.
• Xiao Yu’s future self appeared, warned him about Shen Yuan, and gave him an Hourglass of Time to hand over later.
• The Hourglass of Time’s Time Shield let Xiao Yu break free of the time storm and return to the Time Barrier’s main control room.
• Naiser killed Maijiaer during the battle, and Xiao Yu picked up the hourglass that Maijiaer had dropped.
• Xiao Yu chose the hourglass with fewer Sands of Time and handed it to Shen Yuan at the abandoned temple.

Shen Yuan raised the Overlord and assembled forces for an eventual attack on the Pantheon, then summoned major heroes and villains to an abandoned temple. He promised to reveal the truth behind their questions, leaving the gathered figures waiting for his explanation.

• Shen Yuan found only a little over a thousand Sands of Time in the Hourglass of Time, then planned to raise the Overlord in the Twisting Nether and attack the Pantheon after seven days.
• Xiao Yu found the battle at the Elemental Throne locked in a costly stalemate and assembled an army of more than two million for the coming assault.
• A week later, the Council of Sages saw the fully grown Overlord, whose power unsettled them, and Shen Yuan said he intended to use it against the adventurers.
• Shen Yuan invited the sages to an abandoned temple on the night of the full moon, where Illidan, Arthas, Maiev Shadowsong, Jaina, Sylvanas, Varian Wrynn, Azshara, Onyxia, Thrall, and other important figures appeared.
• Shen Yuan descended before the gathered heroes and villains and promised to reveal the truth behind the questions and confusion in their lives.

Shen Yuan revealed that the heroes and villains were being controlled by a predetermined story, then showed them a book detailing their pasts and future fates. The gathering ended with the characters reacting to their predicted deaths, betrayals, and other disasters, while Shen Yuan claimed they could still change what happened.

• Shen Yuan told the gathered heroes and villains that an invisible force had shaped their choices and destinies.
• Azshara admitted she had acted under outside influence, and Ner'zhul appeared to explain that he had escaped the force controlling him.
• Naiser revealed that even the Burning Legion was following orders, and Xiao Yu said he had destroyed Stormwind and Orgrimmar under orders.
• Shen Yuan gave each person a copy of the Sky World Plot Design Outline, which recorded their pasts and future fates.
• Arthas, Illidan, Kael'thas, Sylvanas, Jaina, and others reacted to their predicted deaths, betrayals, and tragedies.
• Shen Yuan said most of the book's events would happen if things continued as they were, but that they could still be stopped.

Shen Yuan explained that fate would thwart attempts to change the future and warned that adventurers were an overlooked, seemingly endless force. He exposed impossible population growth among blood elves and orcs, leaving Thrall and the others questioning where their people had come from.

• Kael'thas asked how they could prevent the future, while Arthas suggested killing Tirion Fordring or taking the Ashbringer.
• Shen Yuan said Arthas could not easily kill Tirion because fate protected important characters, and explained that destiny would keep arranging heroes and adventurers to defeat Arthas.
• Arthas realized he had never considered adventurers, and Shen Yuan pointed out that their numbers and apparent immortality made them a threat.
• Shen Yuan questioned how the blood elves could have over a million adult adventurers when their total population was around a million.
• Shen Yuan asked Thrall how many orcs he had brought to Kalimdor, then traced their losses through wars and asked how their population had grown to several million in less than ten years.

Shen Yuan told the gathered heroes and villains that the Hand of Fate had manipulated their histories and futures, identifying him as the God of Holy Light. He arranged for Lilith to summon the god’s projection so he could confront him, and the God of Holy Light appeared in a pillar of light.

• Shen Yuan explained that the Hand of Fate had distorted population numbers and arranged the characters’ pasts and futures.
• Onyxia asked whether the Hand of Fate was a person, and Shen Yuan identified him as the God of Holy Light.
• Varian rejected Shen Yuan’s claim, while Shen Yuan insisted he would prove it.
• Shen Yuan called Lilith forward and asked her to summon the God of Holy Light’s projection.
• Merlin raised a Fate Field to hide the confrontation from the others, and Lilith prayed to summon the god.
• The God of Holy Light appeared before Shen Yuan as an image within a huge pillar of light.

Shen Yuan confronted Li Mingfei, the God of Holy Light, and pretended to seek a job in Sky World in exchange for revealing hidden secrets. As Li Mingfei grew suspicious and threatened to have him imprisoned, the holy light vanished, leaving the encounter unresolved.

• Lilith introduced Shen Yuan to the God of Holy Light, who recognized him as Li Mingfei and threatened legal action for entering Sky World.
• Shen Yuan reminded Li Mingfei that they had created Sky World together and argued over whether its NPCs should follow a fixed plot or choose freely.
• Shen Yuan offered to work for Li Mingfei and disclose hidden secrets in Sky World, and they haggled over his salary.
• Onyxia, Arthas, Maiev Shadowsong, and Illidan reacted with disbelief as the gathered figures realized the God of Holy Light had helped design their world and its fates.
• Li Mingfei noticed that the abandoned hall was unnaturally clean, suspected Shen Yuan was plotting something, and threatened to send him to prison.
• Li Mingfei left, and the holy light faded away.

Shen Yuan revealed that the God of Holy Light, Li Mingfei, and the adventurers came from another world and had shaped Sky World’s events as a story. Enraged by the revelation, leaders from both the Alliance and Horde agreed to join Shen Yuan’s assault on the Pantheon, set to begin at dawn under the code name Twilight of the Gods.

• After the God of Holy Light vanished, Shen Yuan explained that he and the adventurers were beings from a higher dimension who entered Sky World through projections.
• Shen Yuan revealed that Li Mingfei and other gods had written the Book of Fate and arranged the world’s tragedies and destinies for dramatic stories.
• Kael'thas, Arthas, Azshara, Maiev Shadowsong, and Illidan confronted Shen Yuan about the suffering and betrayals written into their lives.
• Shen Yuan offered to lead them against the Pantheon and promised to free Sky World from its scripted fate, saying he had at most three days before Li Mingfei sent him to prison.
• Maiev Shadowsong, Illidan, the Forsaken, Azshara, and representatives of the Alliance and Horde pledged to join the attack.
• Shen Yuan ordered the allies to gather their armies and announced that the assault would begin at dawn under the code name Twilight of the Gods.

A vast coalition entered the Divine Realm through Medivh and Lilith’s Gate of Heaven to attack the Pantheon. Xiao Yu’s forces overwhelmed its guards and split up to target Elune and the divine guardians, while the game company mobilized to respond.

• Medivh and Lilith’s Gate of Heaven opened, allowing millions of troops from Sky World’s factions and the World Destruction Legion to enter the Divine Realm.
• Xiao Yu chose to assault the Pantheon directly and assigned forces to fight Elune and her four guardians on the seventh floor.
• The coalition marched through the mist and defeated the Pantheon’s guards at its gates.
• The army reached the Moon Goddess Temple, divided its forces among the assigned targets, and sent the main force toward Elune.
• The game company erupted into an uproar, and Li Mingfei logged into the game after repeated calls.

Li Mingfei woke to find the Pantheon dungeon under attack as the allied monster army reached Elune, Moon Goddess. Xiao Yu and the other bosses began fighting her, and Xiao Yu realized that his Spirit of Chaos Empowerment might help them overcome her defenses.

• Players spread news that the monster army had entered the Pantheon, but Li Mingfei learned of the attack only after waking and logging in.
• Li Mingfei saw that Elune's guards were nearly defeated, and the final Moon Knight's death brought forth Elune, Moon Goddess.
• Xiao Yu assessed Elune's powers and recognized that chaos damage could bypass her Holy Armor.
• Azathoth called for Elune's death, and the monster army attacked her as she unleashed Divine Moonfire and destroyed scores of minions.
• The hero bosses surrounded Elune and dealt damage, while Xiao Yu considered using Spirit of Chaos Empowerment to strengthen an ally.

Xiao Yu’s forces overwhelmed Elune, and the Moon Goddess fell, weakening the Pantheon and affecting the world. Li Mingfei responded by ordering an emergency defense of the God of Holy Light and violently silencing Zhang Xinghun’s objection.

• Xiao Yu used Mass Spirit of Chaos Empowerment to strengthen his melee forces, heroes, bosses, and elite units against Elune.
• Elune unleashed powerful area spells, but the enormous army kept attacking until her health ran out and she vanished in a burst of light.
• A world announcement declared Elune’s fall, and the moon dimmed as druids lost access to Moonfire and related skills weakened.
• Li Mingfei realized the God of Holy Light could be the next to fall and ordered contingency plan 645, summoning contracted players and adventurers to defend the Pantheon.
• Zhang Xinghun questioned whether gathering former enemies made sense for the story, so Li Mingfei beat him unconscious and ordered everyone else to act.

Shiqian and his guildmates answered the God of Holy Light’s call and joined the defenders gathered at the Pantheon. As the enemy reached the gate, Li Mingfei prepared the heroes and adventurers for battle, knowing Odin had already fallen.

• Shiqian’s dungeon party received the God of Holy Light’s summons and abandoned their run to teleport to the Pantheon.
• Shiqian and his friends arrived in the vast temple as hundreds of thousands of adventurers, heroes, and monsters gathered to defend it.
• The God of Holy Light announced that Elune had fallen and granted the defenders buffs that allowed adventurers to revive after death.
• Shiqian’s party rushed toward the gate, where a world announcement reported that Odin had fallen and the Pantheon’s faction rating had dropped to “invincible.”
• Jiang Zeyan told Li Mingfei that the police were on their way to arrest Shen Yuan, while Li Mingfei dismissed concerns about Xiao Yu and vowed to defeat them.
• As the enemy blasted the bronze gate, Li Mingfei urged the company’s heroes and bosses to fight for Sky World, and the gate opened.

The adventurers charged into a seemingly endless monster army, but their numbers and willingness to respawn let them hold the line as Shen Yuan moved toward the hall. Deathwing attacked the adventurers and was trapped by the God of Holy Light, then accused him of a plot, startling Li Mingfei.

• The adventurers rushed through the bronze doors, recoiled at the monster horde, and then fought back as guild formations and rear-line spellcasters held the monsters at bay.
• Xiao Yu worried that Li Mingfei had gathered adventurers as cannon fodder, while Shen Yuan said he would deal with them once more arrived.
• Shen Yuan rode Overlord into the hall to confront the God of Holy Light.
• Deathwing charged through the adventurers, killing thousands with his flames, but the God of Holy Light trapped him in a pillar of light.
• Deathwing accused the God of Holy Light of a revealed plot and rejected madness and destruction as his fate, leaving Li Mingfei shocked that Deathwing knew about his design.

Shen Yuan and the other bosses confronted Li Mingfei, the God of Holy Light, over the truth about Sky World and the control of their destinies. After Deathwing launched the first attack, the final battle began, with the major heroes and bosses splitting into matchups while Li Mingfei, Shen Yuan, and Xiao Yu held back.

• Thrall, Varian Wrynn, Kael'thas, Illidan, Sylvanas, and Arthas accused Li Mingfei of manipulating their fates, and Li Mingfei realized Shen Yuan had revealed the truth.
• Shen Yuan urged Li Mingfei to surrender and log out, while Xiao Yu and Naiser explained why they had joined the rebellion; Li Mingfei dismissed Shen Yuan's warnings and trusted his immortal adventurers.
• Deathwing attacked with dragonfire, triggering both sides to begin the final battle, and Shen Yuan and Li Mingfei ordered their forces to fight.
• Jaina and Medivh faced Esmehalda and Feierdenan, Thrall and High Overlord Saurfang fought Ox and the orc heroes, and Arthas and Ner'zhul confronted Samat and the Necrolord.
• The Dragon Covenant clashed with Deathwing, Onyxia, and Nefarian, while Alliance heroes fought Varian; Kael'thas faced Elena, and Illidan and his council fought the Demon Lord and his servants.
• The battle spread into a fierce melee across the battlefield, while Li Mingfei, Shen Yuan, Xiao Yu, and several other key figures remained still.

Shen Yuan’s forces gained the upper hand in the Pantheon, but the adventurers’ endless resurrection threatened to overwhelm them. He revealed that the Overlord could seize control of adventurers’ game permissions, and the chapter ended as the God of Holy Light summoned the Scepter of All Gods.

• Illidan slew the Demon Lord, Arthas and the other Lich King defeated the Necromantic Lord, and Deathwing killed Sirod the Ancient Black Dragon while other battles continued.
• Adventurers overwhelmed the monsters, prompting Xiao Yu to ask Shen Yuan whether they should send more troops; Shen Yuan said the Overlord could solve the problem.
• The Overlord rose into the air and released purple streams that transformed adventurers into his servants, and their protective skills could not stop the control.
• Shen Yuan explained that the Overlord had seized the adventurers’ game permissions, leaving them unable to log out or use private messages, and ordered them to attack the God of Holy Light.
• The God of Holy Light sent the other bosses to attack the Overlord and summoned the Scepter of All Gods as the enemy army surrounded him.

Shen Yuan explained that the Scepter of All Gods held the scattered godhood power and could grant divine offices, while concealing his plans to use it to gain control of Sky World. Xiao Yu doubted Shen Yuan would keep his promise and logged out to contact a trusted associate about a major deal.

• Kairoz asked Shen Yuan how the gathered heroes and bosses could become gods, and Shen Yuan explained the role of godhood in granting divine power.
• Shen Yuan revealed that the Scepter of All Gods contained the godhood fragments and could bestow divine offices on qualified targets.
• Shen Yuan privately considered how taking the scepter could give him control over the game system and optical computer resources.
• Xiao Yu grew suspicious of Shen Yuan and imagined using the scepter to claim power and pursue his own ambitions.
• Xiao Yu logged out and called a trusted contact, offering to make a very big deal.

The God of Holy Light used the Scepter of All Gods to hold back Shen Yuan’s army, but Merlin disabled the game’s login and logout functions, giving Shen Yuan time to continue the assault. As Li Mingfei’s health fell into the final phase, the Council of Sages and the army rushed in, all waiting to claim the scepter.

• The God of Holy Light unleashed a sustained Light of Divine Punishment that dissolved attackers within 300 yards, while Shen Yuan ordered his forces to keep charging.
• The Overlord’s attackers were driven back, and Shen Yuan’s army surrounded the God of Holy Light’s barrier as Xiao Yu worried the police might pull Shen Yuan offline.
• Merlin told Shen Yuan he had hacked the game’s optical computer console and disabled login and logout for about an hour, preventing Shen Yuan from being forced offline.
• After the Light of Divine Punishment weakened, the God of Holy Light summoned Naaru and battle angels, then changed into a shadow form as his health fell through successive phases.
• The God of Holy Light warned that his death could collapse the game, but Shen Yuan urged the army onward, and the Council of Sages charged as the fight entered its final phase.

As the God of Holy Light’s defeat triggered a ten-minute final interlude, Shen Yuan revealed his plan to trap millions of players in the game and rule them, while Xiao Yu struggled over whether to stop him. Just before the interlude ended, Li Mingfei called on GM 9527, and Medivh trapped Shen Yuan in a sphere of black light.

• Shen Yuan told Li Mingfei and Xiao Yu that he had seized the game console and intended to seal off Sky World, trapping the players inside.
• Li Mingfei explained that optical computers could retain players’ consciousnesses, and Shen Yuan argued that the trapped players would become his subjects and protect the game world from being shut down.
• Xiao Yu hesitated over Shen Yuan’s plan, while Li Mingfei urged him and the other players to resist; the heroes and bosses defeated the players who tried to intervene.
• Shen Yuan revealed that he had used up the Sands of Time, then ordered the Overlord to descend and pressured Li Mingfei to surrender the Scepter of All Gods.
• As the interlude neared its end, Li Mingfei announced an emergency plan and summoned GM 9527; Medivh appeared and trapped Shen Yuan in a sphere of black light.
• Shen Yuan recognized his captor as Medivh, who said, “Sorry, I'm a GM.”

Three years ago, Mu Gaohan was trapped in a vegetative state after a car accident until Li Mingfei brought him into a virtual world. Li Mingfei revealed that Mu Gaohan was inside an experimental optical-brain game, leaving Mu Gaohan horrified that his body was still in the hospital.

• Mu Gaohan remained conscious but unable to move in a hospital ward three weeks after his car accident.
• Li Mingfei and a woman placed a helmet-like device on Mu Gaohan, and he lost consciousness as it started up.
• Mu Gaohan awoke in a white virtual space and discovered he could move freely.
• Li Mingfei introduced himself as a game company owner and explained that Mu Gaohan was in an independent virtual world.
• Mu Gaohan realized he might still be lying in his hospital bed and asked whether that was the case.

Li Mingfei recruited the dying Mu Gaohan to become Medivh in Sky World, with his memories suppressed until a coded message ordered him to target Shen Yuan. After consciousness separation, Medivh awoke in Karazhan with no memory of his former life and set out to find a GM and learn the truth.

• Li Mingfei told Mu Gaohan that his life support would likely be withdrawn and offered him survival in Sky World in exchange for dealing with Shen Yuan.
• Mu Gaohan agreed to the mission, and Li Mingfei assigned him GM code number 9527 and gave him a world-announcement phrase to restore his memories.
• Three days later, Li Mingfei ordered the operators at Sky Group's underground base to separate Mu Gaohan's consciousness and activate it in Sky World.
• Medivh awoke in Karazhan, absorbed his implanted memories as the Guardian, and felt an unexplained relief at being alive.
• After overhearing adventurers discuss GMs, Medivh decided to find one so he could discover what had happened to him.

On the day of the Pantheon battle, Medivh revealed that he was a GM and trapped Shen Yuan, then used the power Li Mingfei had left him to stop Shen Yuan’s plan. As the others rushed to claim the Scepter of All Gods, Medivh demonstrated Greater Prophecy and hinted that he still possessed the Guardian’s power, while Shen Yuan realized his allies were focused on the scepter instead of rescuing him.

• Medivh apologized to Shen Yuan and revealed he was a GM, then trapped him with Void Imprisonment.
• Li Mingfei urged Medivh to stop Shen Yuan’s plot before his remaining time ran out and he died, leaving behind a divine soul.
• The gathered bosses and heroes charged toward Li Mingfei’s corpse to seize the Scepter of All Gods, while Merlin, Lilith, and Ner'zhul attacked Medivh to free Shen Yuan.
• Medivh blocked the three sages’ spells with Anti-Magic Barrier and shattered their weapons with Greater Prophecy.
• Shen Yuan realized Medivh might still possess the Guardian’s power, then saw Xiao Yu, Kairoz, Naiser, and the others ignore him and rush for the scepter.

The bosses fought over the Scepter of All Gods, while Naiser’s accumulated power let him overwhelm his rivals. Esmehalda’s switch revealed that Xiao Yu had secretly claimed the real scepter and ascended to godhood, but Naiser charged at him to seize it.

• Arthas, Illidan, Varian, Thrall, Deathwing, and other heroes fought over the scepter as Kairoz and Xiao Yu held back and Naiser charged in.
• Naiser shattered Frostmourne, drove Illidan away, defeated the Alliance and Horde heroes, and wounded Deathwing with a single strike.
• Naiser seized a Kirin Tor Elder's Scepter instead of the real artifact, and Azathoth appeared overhead holding the Scepter of All Gods beside Esmehalda.
• Xiao Yu recalled how Esmehalda had switched the scepters during the God of Holy Light’s final burst of light and secretly delivered the real one to him.
• Xiao Yu used the Scepter of All Gods to ascend to godhood, but Naiser recovered and charged at him with the Dark Ripper.

After becoming the God of Elements, Xiao Yu used his new divine power to overpower Naiser and trap him in a black hole. Shen Yuan and Li Mingfei then urged him to help restore the game or rule its world, while the heroes and bosses demanded freedom, leaving Xiao Yu torn between becoming a virtual god and returning to a reality where he might face prison.

• Xiao Yu examined his new God of Elements powers, including divine skills, divine armor, and strength drawn from believers' faith.
• Xiao Yu blasted Naiser with elemental magic, then trapped him in a powerful black hole as the others attacked from a distance.
• Xiao Yu questioned Li Mingfei's divine soul and the trapped Shen Yuan about what to do with them.
• Shen Yuan urged Xiao Yu to use the Scepter of All Gods to seal the game world, while Li Mingfei offered rewards if Xiao Yu helped restore order and free the players.
• Thrall declared that the heroes and bosses would fight rather than remain controlled, and Medivh asked Xiao Yu what he would choose.
• Xiao Yu weighed ruling the virtual world against returning to reality and possibly facing prison.

Xiao Yu chose to use the Hourglass of Time and the Scepter of All Gods to reverse time across Sky World, restoring the infected adventurers and giving everyone a chance to begin again. As the rewind carried him into the past, he gathered 1,724 Sands of Time and cut a crack in the surrounding space.

• Shen Yuan and Li Mingfei argued over whether Xiao Yu should ascend to godhood or rewind the game to save the controlled adventurers.
• Xiao Yu realized he had already chosen to reverse time and revealed an Hourglass of Time, shocking Shen Yuan and Li Mingfei.
• Xiao Yu told the assembled bosses and heroes that the rewind would restore their lives to their starting points and prevent new gods from being born.
• Xiao Yu joined the Hourglass of Time to the Scepter of All Gods, activating its Time Reversal effect and sending the world into the past.
• While time reversed, Xiao Yu encountered his past self, transferred 1,724 Sands of Time into an hourglass, and slashed a crack into the edge of the space.

Xiao Yu traveled back to the game's open beta and met Medivh, who explained how time travel and self-aware NPCs might work. Medivh warned that Sky World faced an uncertain future now that the gods were gone and the game company had lost control.

• Xiao Yu gave his past self an Hourglass of Time and told him that Shen Yuan had another scheme.
• Xiao Yu rewound time to the game's open beta and found Medivh seeking a GM.
• Xiao Yu used a world announcement to order GM number 9527 to execute emergency contingency plan 666.
• Medivh told Xiao Yu that optical computers might enable time travel in the virtual world and that players' consciousness survived Time Reversal.
• Medivh explained that Sky World's NPCs were self-aware, but the company concealed this to avoid conflict with the Virtual Personality Protection Association.
• Medivh said the gods were gone and divine power was exhausted, leaving the game company unable to control Sky World's future.

After the game’s data rollback, Xiao Yu made Medivh a god and handed him the Scepter of All Gods before being forcibly disconnected. Police took Xiao Yu into custody to investigate the crisis, and he was placed in a secure facility where he immediately settled in and prepared to play another game.

• Xiao Yu used the remaining divine power to make Medivh a god and gave him the Scepter of All Gods, asking him to guide the world if it faced destruction.
• The game shut down, and armed police took Xiao Yu from his game pod to the National Cybersecurity Bureau.
• Xiao Yu saw Shen Yuan and Merlin brought in, followed later by Li Mingfei, as investigators questioned those connected to the incident.
• Xiao Yu told investigator Lin Yaoguang how he had encountered Shen Yuan’s scheme and helped save the players.
• Lin Yaoguang told Xiao Yu he would have to stay in a secure facility while the investigation continued, and Xiao Yu asked whether it had games.
• Xiao Yu was taken to a private suite, found a gaming helmet, and put it on.