Recaps

Ren Yi awakened as an anomalous youngling, learned to control his new body, and used his illusion ability to help Lu Zihan manage an Escape Room Instance. After joining the Alliance’s planned harvest of the Three-City World, Ren Yi was documented as an anomaly that used positive emotions to create vision-controlling Seeds.

• Ren Yi finished his test, awakened as a weird, and learned that Ren Man and the rest of the Alliance had never been human.
• Ren Yi adapted to his mist-like body, discovered that positive emotions fueled his Illusions, and advanced to E-Rank.
• Ren Yi and Lu Zihan entered the Escape Room Instance, where Ren Yi deceived Lin Feng into helping them turn the participants against one another.
• Lu Zihan killed Old Deng, while Chen Fang betrayed Lin Feng and fled before Ren Yi killed them both and forced the remaining participants to leave.
• Ren Yi learned that the Alliance planned to harvest the Three-City World, and he received approval to join the operation with Lu Qing.
• Observers recorded that Ren Yi collected positive emotions into Seeds and used them to control targets’ vision.

Ren Yi cleared Lu Qing’s Instance by exploiting its work rules, then stayed long enough to learn about the wider Instance world and meet Chaye. In the Three-City World, he reached Holy City and faced a dispute over missing trial participants and the approaching apocalypse, while the Ember King asked what Method of Salvation he had received.

• Lu Qing brought Ren Yi and Lu Zihan into her Instance, where Ren Yi disguised himself as servant Mo Ming and found that he had to avoid sharing pain with others.
• Ren Yi survived the melon field and the night’s attacks, then discovered that the fog in the Herb Garden fused people together and that shared pain could erase those bound together.
• Ren Yi concluded that completing contracted work could clear the Instance, and Lu Qing made him Lu Zihan’s study attendant before he chose to remain during the extra exploration period.
• Lu Qing explained that the Instances formed an interconnected world and gave Ren Yi Energy Crystals, while Chaye described his shadow ability and exchanged Ghost Net contacts with him.
• Ren Yi and Lu Zihan entered the Three-City World, where Ren Yi killed a mutant centipede, reached Holy City, and was hailed as the Divine Son expected to know how to save the world.
• Ren Yi met Holy City’s pope and the Ember King by video, learned that King City’s prime minister could not produce its supposed surviving heroes, and suspected the prime minister was hiding what had happened.
• The Ember King warned Ren Yi that the apocalypse would destroy the world, explained that breaking the rule against sharing pain turned people into Blank, and asked Ren Yi what Method of Salvation he had received.