Recaps

Fan Daoyi entered Guixu’s exam after secretly changing the copied instances, turning the school into a nightmare he controlled. As he punished Wang Long and confronted the principal, he forced her to hear the story behind the Wild Rose curse.

• Fan Daoyi enrolled at Qingyun City No. 1 High School, where He Piaojian transferred in to watch over him and the two became entangled in a Council Hall investigation.
• Fan Daoyi tormented a student thief with visions until the boy became silent, then killed a girl to erase the tracking traces left by Wang Long’s family.
• Fan Daoyi entered the Guixu exam with Wang Long and the thief, while his altered rules disabled the monitoring insects and trapped the examinees in his version of the school.
• Fan Daoyi turned Jiang Lin against Wang Long, arranged for the girl to kill the teacher, and led the students into the classroom under his control.
• Fan Daoyi taught the students about the Wild Rose, using cursed thorns to kill many of them as Jiang Lin pursued Wang Long through the school.
• Fan Daoyi exposed the staged betrayal between Jiang Lin and himself, ordered Jiang Lin to kill himself, and drove Wang Long toward the principal.
• Fan Daoyi dragged the principal from hiding, accused her of altering the story, and restrained her as he began recounting the Wild Rose’s origins.
• Fan Daoyi’s story revealed how girls at a remote school resisted abuse with a picture book and poison, exposed their captors, and eventually built a real school where wild roses grew.

Fan Daoyi joined [Eight Trigrams], uncovered Guixu’s influence in the Wang Family and a city restaurant, and entered Dawnlight Academy after exposing himself as a powerful spatial ability user. He infiltrated a hospital’s human experiments and entered a Guixu story where players were untangling a plot against a duke.

• Fan Daoyi recovered in Kan Water’s hospital, learned that surveillance implicated Wang Long in the college exam incident, and joined [Eight Trigrams] as Tai Chi after demonstrating his teleportation ability.
• Fan Daoyi confronted Wang Haotian, uncovered a Guixu entrance and a grotesque monster in the family’s ancestral hall, and killed Wang Haotian after he tried to ambush him.
• Fan Daoyi and He Piaojian helped defeat an insect infestation at a restaurant, killing the mother creature and freeing the parasitized diners.
• Fan Daoyi qualified for Dawnlight Academy, stunned the admissions candidates by testing as an Initial Illumination Realm First Tier spatial ability user, and agreed to infiltrate a hospital used for human experiments.
• Fan Daoyi discovered that flowers led patients through an artificial passage into Guixu, copied a patient’s flower cluster to enter the plantation, and confronted the little gardener.
• Fan Daoyi disrupted the players’ gathering by knocking Mo Chengyuan unconscious, then explained how the guests had arranged for an unemployed vagrant to take the blame for the duke’s death.
• Fan Daoyi and Chu Yue considered whether the troublemaker was an NPC or someone absent from the story, while Fan Daoyi traded his shovel to Olivia Clark for a cane.
• Clark tested the shovel and found it broke the effect of her charm, while Chen Yang questioned Fan Daoyi about her, when the duke entered the banquet hall, Chen Yang approached him about compromising photographs.

Fan Daoyi and [Eight Trigrams] investigated the Insect Disaster and the Four Fiends Cult while a staged accusation and trial tested the team’s trust in him. After faking his death and escaping, Fan Daoyi entered Guixu as its entrances were sealed, forcing its bosses to prepare for his arrival.

• Fan Daoyi exposed the duke’s connection to a child-trafficking chain, helped disrupt the murder plot, and revealed himself as the Troublemaker after the birthday gathering ended in a hallucinated attack.
• Fan Daoyi returned from Guixu and joined the Eight Trigrams’ investigation of the hospital and the Insect Disaster, while Xun Wind foresaw insect swarms emerging from countless passages over Azure Cloud City.
• He Piaojian and Fan Daoyi uncovered Taotie’s attack at the academy entrance assessment, defeated him, and helped free the students from their mud shells.
• Fan Daoyi agreed to let Azure Dragon arrest him as bait, and Azure Dragon staged a dream trial that tested whether the Eight Trigrams trusted Fan Daoyi despite the evidence against him.
• Fan Daoyi arranged a fake murder by the Four Fiends Cult, and a masked attacker posing as Taowu stabbed him before escaping through a crimson door.
• After Kan Water revived him, Fan Daoyi vanished from the hospital, used a jammer and illusion to open a new Guixu entrance, and stepped through as Azure Dragon sealed the other entrances.
• Xuan Miao warned the Guixu bosses that Fan Daoyi was coming, and Puppet opened a crimson door to delay him while they prepared their explanations.

Fan Daoyi and He Piaojian uncovered the Four Fiends Cult’s preparations and faced the Insect Disaster, which Fan Daoyi ended by restoring balance and defeating the Insect Mother. Afterward, Fan Daoyi vanished into the black lake, while the [Eight Trigrams] questioned Dao Yi’s place among them and Kun Earth sensed trouble ahead.

• Fan Daoyi left Xuan Miao and the bosses after warning that the Insect Disaster needed to provide a perfect answer, then agreed to enter the university competition and fought alongside He Piaojian.
• He Piaojian defeated foreign competitors, including Rost, while Fan Daoyi helped stop Olivia’s father’s attack, and Azure Dragon later warned that too many people knew about Fan Daoyi’s power.
• Qian Heaven sent Fan Daoyi and He Piaojian to investigate Four Fiends Cult activity, where they found Taowu breeding insects and Dao Er infiltrated the cult by impersonating Taowu.
• Dao Er rallied the Four Fiends Cult around controlling Guixu and slipped in a call to slay Dao Yi, while He Piaojian broke through to the fifth rank of the Governance Realm.
• During the New Year gathering, Xun Wind saw a vision of He Piaojian asking if someone had died, then lost consciousness after trying to share it and wrote “Five Three.”
• The [Eight Trigrams] found a black hole and crimson entrance in Azure Cloud City, where a strange creature trapped Fan Daoyi and then vanished after restoring his clarity with the Scales.
• As the insect swarm overwhelmed the defenders, Fan Daoyi revealed that the Insect Mother had been deceived, used Balance of the World to restore power, and coordinated the warriors’ attacks against the swarm.
• A crow and a black cat pulled an Insect Mother from a soldier, and the strange creature delivered it to Fan Daoyi, who crushed it and ended the Insect Disaster.
• Fan Daoyi wandered into a black lake, was dragged beneath its surface by chains, then broke them and lay watching the white sky.
• At a meeting, Chen Dragon challenged Azure Dragon over admitting Dao Yi to the [Eight Trigrams], Qian Heaven and Mao Rabbit defended him, and Kun Earth felt a growing foreboding.