Recaps

Fan Daoyi used the pollen’s hallucinogenic effect to expose the duke’s connection to a child-trafficking network and convince Chen Yang and Chu Yue of his reconstruction. He then set a plan in motion to disrupt the mastermind’s pattern, while the duke’s birthday spectacle began to unfold.

• Fan Daoyi confirmed that the duke was hiding evidence, then let Clark approach him under the pollen-induced illusion.
• Chen Yang and Chu Yue followed Fan Daoyi to a hidden room, where he showed them photographs and records linking them and the duke to a child-trafficking chain.
• Chu Yue recognized a child on the records as the flower shop owner's lover's younger sister, giving her a possible motive for murder.
• Fan Daoyi explained that the mastermind intended to kill the duke and proposed disrupting the plan's pattern; Chen Yang and Chu Yue accepted his lead.
• At the birthday gathering, the duke accepted a bouquet from the reporter, Clark photographed them, Chu Yue sold the scattered flowers, and Sun Ruijie spent the duke's fortune buying a bouquet for Clark.

Fan Daoyi watched Chu Yue, Chen Yang, and Clark kill the duke, then confronted Sun Ruijie when he came upstairs. Sun Ruijie’s mental defense failed against Fan Daoyi’s control, and Fan Daoyi turned him into one of the lost.

• Chu Yue stabbed the duke, and Chen Yang stabbed him again after checking that he was still alive.
• Sun Ruijie left the others and went upstairs to speak with Fan Daoyi, while the three continued attacking the duke’s corpse in an illusion.
• Sun Ruijie attacked Fan Daoyi, but Fan Daoyi countered and exposed that Sun Ruijie had been pretending to be crippled.
• Fan Daoyi blasted Sun Ruijie with an explosion, then spread hallucinogenic pollen after Sun Ruijie’s mental defense failed.
• Fan Daoyi welcomed Sun Ruijie aboard as he became one of the lost.

Fan Daoyi confronted the Flower Tender over her secret work with the Apothecary and Xuan Miao to open a passage for guixu creatures into the Present World, then ordered her to help him. She filled the area with pollen for his plan before he warned her to stop.

• Fan Daoyi broke into the Flower Tender’s room and struck her three times before demanding to know what she was doing.
• The Flower Tender blamed the Apothecary, then revealed that she had worked with him and Xuan Miao to connect the Present World to guixu through one of her flowers.
• The Flower Tender explained that their one-way gate could not let guixu creatures out, so they had created a temporary passage to bring them into the Present World and generate fear.
• Fan Daoyi spared the Flower Tender and told her to do something for him.
• The Flower Tender used a gigantic flower to scatter pollen until Fan Daoyi warned that too much could cause a dust explosion, and she stopped.

After the players mistook the flower shop owner's lover for the troublemaker, the butler revealed that the lover had been dead and their investigation was fabricated. He exposed Fan Daoyi as the actual troublemaker, leaving the players to realize he had deceived them throughout the game.

• Flower Tender told Chen Yang, Chu Yue, Clark, and Fan Daoyi that the troublemaker was dead and directed them to report to the butler.
• The players returned to the starting point, where Mo Chengyuan sat with his memory lost, and voted for the flower shop owner's lover.
• The butler explained that the lover had died long ago and had never planned a murder, contradicting the players' hallucination-filled investigation.
• Clark noticed that the butler said there had been five strangers even though six people were present.
• The butler revealed that Fan Daoyi was not on the guest list and had lied about his occupation and stories.
• Fan Daoyi admitted that he was the troublemaker and said the game had provided hints earlier.

Fan Daoyi revealed that the Troublemaker was whoever secretly controlled the game and admitted he had returned as a smurf for the reward. After the others escaped, Fan Daoyi left the game and reunited with He Piaojian and [Eight Trigrams] outside the hospital, where the group discovered why the doctors had recognized He Piaojian as an outsider.

• Fan Daoyi explained that the Troublemaker identity belonged to the mastermind and that he had entered the game again to smurf for its generous reward.
• Chen Yang, Clark, Mo Chengyuan, and the others headed through the exit, unaware that Fan Daoyi had arranged for flower seeds to be planted on their wrists.
• Fan Daoyi restored the little gardener's memories, asked her to open a door, and returned from Guixu to the mortal world.
• Fan Daoyi found He Piaojian fleeing doctors at the hospital and told them He Piaojian was his visiting friend so they would release him.
• Fan Daoyi told He Piaojian he had a lead and that they should discuss it outside, while the hospital director told the attending physician to let Fan Daoyi leave.
• Outside the hospital, [Eight Trigrams] teased He Piaojian after noticing that his hospital gown identified the place as the First Psychiatric Hospital.

After Apothecary identified the growing flesh as an Insect Disaster, Xun Wind used Intuition to foresee countless passages opening above Azure Cloud City and insect swarms destroying the city. He was struck blind by the gaze of a red-eyed being, but Kan Water restored his sight, leaving the group with a warning of the coming catastrophe.

• Kan Water found Fan Daoyi in excellent health, and Fan Daoyi told him about entering the flower field in Guixu.
• Flower Tender slapped Apothecary three times over his role in sending Fan Daoyi into danger, and Apothecary identified the growing flesh as an Insect Disaster.
• The group considered ways to investigate the hospital and use Apothecary's research data, then Qian Heaven retrieved a potted flower and Kan Water, Kun Earth, and Li Fire used it to create an unstable passage to Guixu.
• Qian Heaven asked Xun Wind to use Intuition to determine whether people could create many passages, and Xun Wind foresaw masked figures opening countless doors above Azure Cloud City.
• Xun Wind saw insect swarms emerge from the passages and overrun the city, then met the gaze of a scarlet-eyed being and lost his sight.
• Kan Water treated Xun Wind's eyes until his vision returned, and Xun Wind warned the group that an Insect Disaster was coming.

Fan Daoyi and the Eight Trigrams investigated the insect disaster at a hospital, where they found patients who had long been dead and buried the corpses by destroying the building. The group planned to blame the Four Fiends Cult, while Fan Daoyi teleported them away from the hospital.

• Qian Heaven sent Kan Water, Zhen Thunder, He Piaojian, and Li Fire to seal off the hospital while Xun Wind, Kun Earth, and Gen Mountain went to brief the higher-ups.
• He Piaojian and Li Fire tested whether Fan Daoyi could teleport people touching him, and Fan Daoyi teleported the group outside the hospital.
• Fan Daoyi waited as the hospital descended into chaos, caught fire, and eventually collapsed after the four returned through the mist.
• Kan Water explained that the hospital's patients had been missing organs and should have died long ago, while Zhen Thunder said the flowers had created an illusion for them.
• Li Fire said they had destroyed the hospital to bury the corpses, and He Piaojian proposed blaming the Four Fiends Cult to turn public anger against them.

After reprimanding Kan Water and He Piaojian for blowing up the hospital, Qian Heaven sent He Piaojian to handle a dispute over an injured Japanese exchange student. Fan Daoyi then joined the discussion of the Insect Disaster, and a corrected drawing helped Xun Wind identify the insects as creatures that had emerged from the sky passages.

• Qian Heaven scolded Kan Water and He Piaojian for their hospital explosion, while Kun Earth ordered them to write self-criticisms.
• Qian Heaven assigned He Piaojian to settle the Council Hall’s complaint about the Japanese exchange student beaten at Wuan Academy.
• He Piaojian returned with a settlement of 280,000 in compensation and reported that the exchange student was hospitalized and might be paralyzed on one side.
• Qian Heaven told Fan Daoyi that the team planned to investigate the Four Fiends Cult in Azure Cloud City quietly, starting with the Wang Family’s branch families.
• Fan Daoyi mentioned that he and He Piaojian had seen similar insects at a hotpot restaurant, then corrected He Piaojian’s drawing.
• Xun Wind recognized the insect in Fan Daoyi’s drawing and said one had crawled out of every passage in the sky.

Fan Daoyi and Kan Water dissected the mother body and discovered a living, shape-shifting ball of flesh inside it. Xun Wind’s prediction revealed that the ball controlled the insects, leaving Fan Daoyi wondering why Guixu had opened a passage and separately controlled the Insect Disaster.

• He Piaojian warned Qian Heaven that the mother body seemed smaller, and an investigation revealed that the investigators had cooked and eaten some of it.
• Fan Daoyi directed Kan Water to cut where the mother body had connected to the nest, and they found a living ball of flesh inside.
• Fan Daoyi trapped the ball of flesh after it transformed into water and tried to escape.
• Fan Daoyi proposed that Guixu might have created the new life-form, and Kan Water called Xun Wind in to use Intuition on it.
• Xun Wind reported that the ball of flesh controlled the insects, prompting Kan Water and Fan Daoyi to question why the Insect Disaster was being controlled separately.

Fan Daoyi learned that a fortune-teller from the [Twelve Hours] had said the [Eight Trigrams] suffered from the [Five Disadvantages and Three Deficiencies], including Qian Heaven lacking power. His casual claim that anyone could match his training results sent Xun Wind fleeing and drove Li Fire and Zhen Thunder to defend the training rankings.

• Fan Daoyi heard that the [Twelve Hours] fortune-teller had identified He Piaojian’s lack of money and Qian Heaven’s lack of power.
• He Piaojian and Zhen Thunder explained that the fortune-teller had once expected Qian Heaven to join the [Twelve Hours], but Xun Wind had recruited him into the [Eight Trigrams] first.
• Xun Wind emerged from under the table and argued with Li Fire and Zhen Thunder about his shooting skill after learning Fan Daoyi had taken his first-place record.
• Fan Daoyi said anyone with hands could achieve his results, prompting Xun Wind to storm off and Li Fire and Zhen Thunder to head to the training room.
• Kun Earth suggested that the rankings be removed because Fan Daoyi’s words had discouraged the others.

He Piaojian and Fan Daoyi arrived at Dawn Academy to register and were mobbed by seniors after revealing they came from Azure Cloud City. The academy’s leaders clashed at the gate, and Fan Daoyi casually watched the commotion while eating sunflower seeds.

• He Piaojian and Fan Daoyi found the academy’s old campus abandoned, followed its notice to the new campus, and told the sleeping senior they had come to register.
• The senior recognized that only two students from Azure Cloud City had enrolled and summoned the other seniors, who crowded around He Piaojian and Fan Daoyi.
• Principal Zheng arrived, criticized both new students, and tried to restrain He Piaojian with his pressure, but He Piaojian ran toward Principal Fu instead.
• He Piaojian and Principal Fu greeted each other with insults and wrestled at the gate while the students worried about the academy’s reputation.
• Fan Daoyi bought sunflower seeds, offered some to Principal Zheng, and watched as the vice principal spat blood and the crowd rushed to help him.

Fan Daoyi helped welcome new students at Dawnlight Academy after Principal Zheng was taken away, amid the upperclassmen’s chaotic antics. He learned that the new students would face island training and assessment, while later exams were expected to involve combat in Guixu.

• Fan Daoyi watched upperclassmen record Principal Fu being chased and struck by lightning, then recognized the scene as the curse he had reversed.
• A new student arrived at the registration desk, but the upperclassmen rushed off to watch He Piaojian and Principal Fu fight, leaving her bewildered.
• The upperclassmen cheered as the new student landed blows on Principal Fu, and Fan Daoyi wondered whether he had come to the right academy.
• Fan Daoyi helped direct the arriving new students to their colleges, and new students later praised him on the confession wall.
• The upperclassmen treated Fan Daoyi to a meal and told him the entrance assessment would take place on an island, while later exams would likely include combat in Guixu.

He Piaojian and Fan Daoyi entered the island’s secret realm for the freshmen’s combat assessment, but a sudden upheaval herded the students into a circle around eight suspicious figures. After the two found the circle’s center on He Piaojian’s map, a Fusion Realm mud figure trapped them and revealed ties to the Four Fiends Cult, which seemed unaware of recent incidents blamed on it.

• He Piaojian suppressed his cultivation to the Open Source Eighth Tier and entered the secret realm with Fan Daoyi, where they discovered that Teleportation was blocked.
• Mountains shifted and forced the students toward the center, while He Piaojian and Fan Daoyi climbed to a peak and spotted eight people positioned around the crowd.
• Fan Daoyi asked for He Piaojian’s map, and He Piaojian used it to identify the circle’s center as the location of the two missing people.
• A mud figure emerged, pinned He Piaojian and Fan Daoyi with mud, and shrugged off He Piaojian’s darts.
• He Piaojian guessed that the figure belonged to the Four Fiends Cult, and the figure reacted with surprise that the cult’s reputation had endured.

He Piaojian and Fan Daoyi confronted the mud man, who admitted he was Taotie, a high-ranking member of the Four Fiends Cult. He Piaojian exposed Taotie's true body but struggled to attack while Taotie used students as cover.

• Fan Daoyi traced the mountains and ground to find the mud man's weak point, while He Piaojian played a recording of the man claiming to be Taotie.
• The mud man confirmed he was Taotie, and He Piaojian drew a sword from Fan Daoyi's bamboo staff and broke the restrictions sealing his abilities.
• Fan Daoyi told He Piaojian where Taotie's true body lay, and He Piaojian vanished to attack it despite Taotie threatening Fan Daoyi.
• He Piaojian struck Taotie's true body and forced him out of the ground, but Taotie used cultists and possessed students to hinder He Piaojian.
• Taotie mocked He Piaojian for refusing to hurt the students, while He Piaojian questioned whether Taotie was really who he claimed to be.

Fan Daoyi and He Piaojian fought Taotie and the Four Fiends Cult, disrupting their formation and defeating its members. Taotie escaped as mud, unsettled by He Piaojian’s questions about his powers.

• Fan Daoyi kicked Taotie to the ground, then distracted him while prompting He Piaojian to figure out how the mud puppets were controlled.
• He Piaojian sensed the formation’s weakness and attacked one of its eight controllers, but the cultists transformed into paper-like figures and trapped his sword.
• He Piaojian used Sword Control to reclaim his blade and set the figures and mountain ablaze, leaving Taotie surrounded by fire.
• He Piaojian overwhelmed Taotie and taunted him about lacking the legendary Shrinking the Earth to an Inch and an undying trick.
• Taotie turned into mud and escaped, still wondering whether he was truly Taotie.

After Taotie fled, Fan Daoyi stopped He Piaojian’s sword heart from controlling him and the two dealt with the students trapped in the burning secret realm. Principal Fu arrived after the students escaped, apologized for his delayed response, and He Piaojian resumed teasing him.

• He Piaojian attacked Fan Daoyi while [One Heart of the Sword] overwhelmed his humanity, so Fan Daoyi briefly removed the ability and slapped him back to his senses.
• Fan Daoyi explained that the puppet threads had weakened He Piaojian’s resistance to mental control, and He Piaojian resolved to train against mental abilities in Azure Dragon.
• He Piaojian and Fan Daoyi discussed the mud-covered students as the fire spread, and He Piaojian called them beggar’s chicken.
• The students broke out of their dried mud shells, and Principal Fu arrived with teachers to treat them after confirming nobody had died.
• Fan Daoyi criticized Principal Fu and warned He Piaojian about the danger of his loss of control, prompting Principal Fu to apologize for his negligence.
• He Piaojian cheered up and patted Principal Fu on the shoulder, telling him that correcting a mistake was a virtue.

After the attack on the academies, Fan Daoyi suggested searching Guixu for the Four Fiends Cult, and Kun Earth arranged for Azure Dragon’s team to investigate. At dinner, Fan Daoyi recognized Zhen Thunder as the man who had wished for Feiyin’s resurrection, and he agreed to let the investigators search his home.

• Fan Daoyi and He Piaojian delivered Principal Fu’s report to the Eight Trigrams, where Kun Earth explained that the Four Fiends Cult had targeted heaven’s chosen at the five great academies.
• Fan Daoyi suggested looking for clues in Guixu, and Kun Earth told Azure Dragon to search there within Azure Cloud City.
• Zhen Thunder brought Sister Feiyin’s cooking, and he said he planned to marry her after the Insect Disaster was dealt with.
• Fan Daoyi recognized Zhen Thunder as the person who had wished for his beloved wife Feiyin to be resurrected.
• Azure Dragon asked to search Fan Daoyi’s home, and Fan Daoyi agreed.

The Azure Dragon discovered that flowers in Fan Daoyi’s home carried an illusion and suspected someone was framing him, so he and Fan Daoyi staged an arrest to draw out the culprit. The plan left the Azure Dragon Guards and [Eight Trigrams] members facing off at headquarters over Fan Daoyi’s detention.

• The Azure Dragon found an unused Guixu contract item in Fan Daoyi’s home, then broke an illusion triggered by flowers in a vase.
• The Azure Dragon decided the flowers were part of a frame-up and ordered them removed while arranging to arrest Fan Daoyi as bait.
• Fan Daoyi told the Azure Dragon that someone’s purpose was unclear and that his efforts to uncover the truth were being blocked.
• The Azure Dragon and Fan Daoyi rehearsed their roles, then the Azure Dragon led his guards to [Eight Trigrams] headquarters to arrest him.
• He Piaojian, Kun Earth, Qian Heaven, Gen Mountain, Xun Wind, and Kan Water defended Fan Daoyi, and both sides prepared for a confrontation.

Fan Daoyi and Azure Dragon staged his arrest to fool the mastermind behind the evidence planted against him. At a temporary base, Azure Dragon revealed his governance ninth-rank power by casting Sinking Dream across the country.

• Azure Dragon accused Fan Daoyi of using a vase from Guixu to attack official personnel, and Fan Daoyi admitted bringing the flowers out of Guixu.
• Qian Heaven agreed to let Azure Dragon take Fan Daoyi, while warning him to investigate the case and give [Eight Trigrams] an account.
• Azure Dragon removed Fan Daoyi’s shackle in the car, and they discussed how Fan Daoyi had altered the script to provoke Xun Wind into using Intuition.
• Fan Daoyi explained that the mastermind had likely planted more than one piece of evidence and that the staged accusation would help expose them.
• Azure Dragon brought Fan Daoyi to a temporary base, ordered the guards outside, and used Sinking Dream to halt activity across the country.

Fan Daoyi questioned Azure Dragon about Guixu’s creator and the limits of power, while Azure Dragon prepared a dream trial designed to draw out the mastermind. As the trial accused Fan Daoyi of colluding with Guixu and the Four Fiends Cult, an unknown voice objected.

• Fan Daoyi asked Azure Dragon whether anyone had reached Limit Break and suggested Guixu’s creator might surpass even Heavenless.
• Azure Dragon explained that he wanted Fan Daoyi to succeed him and then prepared an illusion showing a trial taking place in a dream.
• Fan Daoyi asked how the dream trial would lure out the mastermind, and Azure Dragon said dreams revealed people’s truest selves.
• In the dream, Azure Dragon accused Fan Daoyi of colluding with Guixu, attacking official personnel, and working with the Four Fiends Cult.
• An unknown voice interrupted the trial and declared, "I object!"

He Piaojian and the other members of [Eight Trigrams] challenged Azure Dragon’s accusation against Fan Daoyi, while Xun Wind rejected his Intuition’s verdict and declared that Guixu was influencing it. Watching their loyalty in the illusion, Fan Daoyi said he understood the Four Fiends Cult’s objective.

• He Piaojian confronted Azure Dragon and fought through an illusion showing the evidence against Fan Daoyi, refusing to abandon his belief that the case was suspicious.
• Li Fire brought Gen Mountain and Zhen Thunder to the platform, where Zhen Thunder accidentally set his hair on fire and Kan Water healed him.
• Azure Dragon challenged Xun Wind to trust his Intuition, but Xun Wind questioned his ability and accused Guixu of influencing its feedback.
• He Piaojian, Zhen Thunder, Li Fire, Gen Mountain, and Kan Water stood with Xun Wind as he declared his doubts before Azure Dragon.
• Azure Dragon told Fan Daoyi that the illusion showed how indispensable he was to [Eight Trigrams], and Fan Daoyi said he understood the Four Fiends Cult’s objective.

Fan Daoyi watched Azure Dragon push He Piaojian and the others to the brink in the Illusion Realm to draw out their potential, then left the trial unfinished. Walking alone through the Present World, Fan Daoyi pondered his lack of belonging and the forces binding him to Guixu, while his bamboo staff changed into a light dagger.

• Fan Daoyi told Azure Dragon to intensify the fight against He Piaojian and the others so they would be forced to develop their potential.
• He Piaojian broke free of Azure Dragon's maze and surrendered control to his Sword Heart to continue fighting.
• Fan Daoyi suggested that he lacked a sense of belonging, then left Azure Dragon to continue the trial and arrange for the fighters to be taken away after their defeat.
• Azure Dragon asked Qian Heaven to cooperate and put Fan Daoyi's trial on hold until another day.
• Fan Daoyi influenced the Illusion Realm by sketching in a nonexistent person, then walked alone among unconscious people and questioned why Guixu sought to bind him to the Present World.
• Fan Daoyi reached a bridge as the bamboo staff in his hand transformed into a light dagger.

Azure Dragon showed that Guixu had arranged Fan Daoyi’s apparent betrayal, while Fan Daoyi decided his possessed body needed to die. As [Eight Trigrams] reunited with him on the bridge, a masked assailant stabbed him and escaped, claiming to be Taowu of the Four Fiends Cult.

• Azure Dragon recorded an illusion of a Four Fiends Cult member inviting Fan Daoyi to join Guixu, then saw the truth of Fan Daoyi’s actions in Guixu.
• Fan Daoyi decided to stage his death as a murder by the Four Fiends Cult, but hid his dagger when the people from [Eight Trigrams] arrived.
• He Piaojian, Zhen Thunder, and Li Fire greeted Fan Daoyi on the bridge, while Qian Heaven and Kun Earth approached them.
• A masked assailant suddenly stabbed Fan Daoyi through the heart, and Kan Water tried to treat him as Qian Heaven and Kun Earth steadied his falling body.
• He Piaojian, Zhen Thunder, and Li Fire chased the assailant, who revealed a black-and-white smiling mask and said he was Taowu of the Four Fiends Cult before escaping through a crimson door.

Fan Daoyi woke in the hospital after Kan Water’s breakthrough saved his life, and he sensed that part of his cognition was missing before deciding to put on a show. He then vanished from his hospital room, and surveillance footage showed him falling backward from the sixth-floor window.

• Dao Er told Fan Daoyi that Kan Water had entered the Governance Realm and revived him, while Azure Dragon’s illusion had also contributed to the breakthrough.
• Fan Daoyi realized his cognition felt incomplete and told Dao Er that they should put on a show.
• Xuan Miao said that every road led straight ahead and that the arrangements were proceeding smoothly, then left Guixu.
• He Piaojian entered Fan Daoyi’s hospital room with dumplings, found him missing, and alerted Kan Water.
• Kan Water reviewed the surveillance footage with [Eight Trigrams], which showed Fan Daoyi looking at the camera before falling backward from the window.

Fan Daoyi created a remote Guixu entrance on a snowy mountain and entered it, triggering a ripple that sealed every Guixu entrance. The Guixu bosses prepared for his arrival as Xuan Miao warned them he had reached Changgui.

• Fan Daoyi used a jammer and an illusion to secure a snowy mountain, then created a new Guixu entrance and stepped through it.
• Azure Dragon ordered all Guixu entrances sealed, while Qian Heaven questioned whether humanity still had hope and discussed the Five Disadvantages and Three Deficiencies.
• The ripple turned every Guixu entrance grayish white and stopped its vortices.
• Xuan Miao warned Apothecary and the other Guixu bosses that Fan Daoyi was coming, and they worried they would not survive until the insect disaster was complete.
• Puppet opened a crimson door to delay Fan Daoyi while the bosses prepared their explanations, and Xuan Miao said the deception served balance.