Recaps

The authorities reached an agreement with Fate Seer’s organization, while the Calamity Crossing Squad took on high-difficulty Instances. The squad later entered a castle Instance tied to the Lily Weird Zone and investigated the Ravenhall family after a deadly reset.

• Elder Min met Fate Seer in the White Palace and discussed the organization’s pursuit of stability and the squad’s importance.
• Fate Seer gave the delegation a teleportation card, and the authorities considered trading with his organization.
• Qin Rang accepted the Calamity Crossing Squad’s role as the leading team for high-difficulty Instances.
• Bai Yang warned Qin Rang about missing investigators and hostile forces in the Lily Weird Zone.
• Lin Nieran supplied the squad with discounted Weird Objects before they entered the Ravenhall banquet Instance.
• A blood-soaked young man killed the squad at the castle, and Sheng Qingqiao woke before the banquet.
• Qin Rang and his teammates investigated the family and discovered that Bai Yang’s group was also inside the Instance.
• Luo Jiayu’s death triggered another reset, and the squad resumed investigating before Bai Yang joined the family at dinner.

The Calamity Crossing Squad investigated Ravenhall’s murders and struggled against its Rules while the castle’s supernatural threats repeatedly killed them. In a newly unlocked Special Dream, they uncovered more of the family’s conflict and were drawn into a deadly hunting contest between the Eldest Young Master and the Eldest Miss.

• An Ying and Sheng Qingqiao fled Cat Boy and found Luo Jiayu working in the kitchen, where she warned them that servants had been buried in the Garden.
• Qin Rang’s group investigated Ravenhall’s history, discovered evidence linking Kane, Qing Ge, Darren, and the Eldest Miss to the killings, and fought off the castle’s Weirds.
• The squad was overwhelmed by monsters and buried corpses, spent its remaining Dream Points, and entered a newly unlocked Special Dream in which Tao Yuan awoke as a maid.
• Wang manipulated the Second Young Master and Gui Ding, while the Eldest Miss used her Rules to force Bai Ao to stab An Ying and prepared to flay him.
• The squad escaped the Eldest Miss through secret passages, but the Count and Countess gathered witnesses in a guarded room, leaving the group to seek a way out of the Castle.
• In a later loop, the squad dug up the Garden’s corpses, and Bai Ao identified them, causing the corresponding Weirds to lose their immortality and disappear.
• Wang recruited the squad to take the servants’ places in a hunting contest between the Eldest Young Master and the Eldest Miss, who began shooting at them on the Racetrack.

Qin Rang’s group uncovered Wang and the Butler’s plot in the Ancient Castle, but the final round left Sheng Qingqiao dead and Qin Rang under the Evil Ghost Mask’s control. After escaping, the group sought ways to revive Sheng Qingqiao and suppress the mask’s invasion.

• Qin Rang followed the guidance beads toward the Count and Countess, but silver arrows killed the Rivenhall Family and the group restarted at the Castle gates.
• Qin Rang read Wang’s diary and accused him of orchestrating the deaths, and Wang confirmed that the siblings had been poisoned.
• Qin Rang and Tao Yuan brought the Count and Countess back in the sixth round, where Wang and the Butler attacked the group.
• The Butler merged with the Castle and scattered the group, who reunited outside and found Qin Rang trapped in a crystal coffin.
• Wang forced Qin Rang to wear the Evil Ghost Mask and attack his companions, and Tao Yuan captured him after a cookie reversed her death.
• Sheng Qingqiao died from his wounds, and the group left the cleared Instance without him while Wang joined the Judgment Office.
• Serlandin healed casualties after Wen Keke’s group fought Modian and his believers, but Qin Rang’s condition could not be fixed by healing.
• Moonlit Night advised the group to head toward the sea to find Sheng Qingqiao’s dispersed energy and seek the Saintess to suppress Qin Rang’s invasion.

Tao Yuan’s team prepared to search the expanding Chocolate Orphanage Instance for Qin Rang’s missing energy and soul while Lin Nieran worked to get close to the mission. As the Authorities planned their route, Lin Nieran celebrated New Year with his personas and upgraded the system, leaving him with new shops and a vast Persona Shop to explore.

• Serlandin suppressed the Evil Ghost Mask in Qin Rang and said he could be saved if the group found his missing soul and energy, leading Tao Yuan’s team to investigate places tied to his past.
• Tao Yuan named An Ying her vice captain and planned to enter the expanding Chocolate Orphanage Instance in Minchuan District, while Lin Nieran discovered the system had no records of the orphanage.
• Tao Yuan’s team recruited Cheng Shanshi, whose ability to switch people’s luck helped the squad clear an Instance, and Rivenhall Wang invited him to join his organization.
• Lin Nieran asked Cheng Shanshi to arrange a chance for him to join the Authorities’ search for the orphanage, while the Authorities suspended Sheng Qingqiao and confined Qin Rang to their base.
• Lin Nieran sent Bai Yang to investigate Wen Keke, who had used her Poppy Flower to make Qin Rang and the Evil Ghost Mask lose control and was seeking something Qin Rang possessed.
• Lin Nieran and his personas prepared dumplings and celebrated New Year, exchanging gifts as the Calamity Crossing Squad also shared a holiday meal with Wang Ding and the Purgers.
• An Ying and Mi Chuchu invited Lin Nieran to travel with them by ship to Luohai City, where he planned to visit a friend, but he postponed his decision.
• Lin Nieran upgraded the system to V3 with Performance Points and points, unlocking several shops and System Space V2 before opening the Persona Shop and finding hundreds of cards.