Recaps

Zhong Yi entered the new King of Auctions mode and discovered how its auctions combined hidden loot, character skills, and changing sale rules. After winning the tutorial and studying the bidders, he tried to enter a high-stakes map but settled for Blind Box Pile, intent on turning his starting funds into a fortune.

• Zhong Yi entered King of Auctions and learned that players bid on a sealed shipping container using limited information and character skills.
• Using Mai Xiaowen, Zhong Yi recognized that inspecting the container worked like looting in Immortal Abyss Continent Operation.
• Zhong Yi learned that the winning bid requirements changed over five rounds and won the tutorial match, buying goods worth ninety thousand for forty-five thousand.
• Zhong Yi reviewed the characters and their skills, then bragged that he would be unbeatable in the strategy-focused mode.
• Zhong Yi could not enter the Deep-Sea Shipwreck map because he lacked the five million spirit stones required, so he entered Blind Box Pile with his two hundred thousand starting funds.

Lu Ze’s new King of Auctions mode gave players a way to spend their Spirit Stones, while Zhong Yi’s cautious strategy collapsed after he watched another player win big. After chasing the thrill of a huge score, Zhong Yi lost his funds and could no longer enter a match.

• Lu Ze used King of Auctions to drain Spirit Stones from players’ warehouses, allowing exchanges into auction currency but not back.
• Zhong Yi carefully valued a Shipping Container and bid 500,000, but another player won it for 800,000.
• The winner’s container revealed a red [Yongle Encyclopedia Fragment II], earning a million in profit and humiliating Zhong Yi after he mocked the bid.
• Envious of the winner, Zhong Yi abandoned his cautious approach and began bidding aggressively, repeatedly losing Spirit Stones.
• Zhong Yi ran out of Spirit Stones and could not meet the 100,000-Spirit-Stone entry requirement.

Zhong Yi watched other players stream King of Auctions after losing his spirit stones, while Zhou Yue entered a million-level auction lobby and gambled everything on a huge red collectible. Zhou Yue won the warehouse, only to discover the fifteen-slot prize was a low-value Bigeye Tuna, leaving him furious and ready to hunt a fish monster.

• Zhong Yi watched Zhou Qiaoling celebrate a jackpot, then saw Mu Yawen accidentally bid too much before rare collectibles turned her purchase into a profit.
• Zhong Yi joined Zhou Yue’s stream and watched him transfer one million spirit stones into King of Auctions and enter the million-level Quiet Mansion lobby.
• Zhou Yue used Deep Blue’s skill to spot a fifteen-slot red collectible and tried to disguise his information with a 380,000 bid.
• Zhou Yue raised his bids as the other players competed, then went all in with 1.91 million and won the warehouse.
• Zhou Yue watched the warehouse reveal its contents and discovered the giant red collectible was a Bigeye Tuna worth less than 20,000 per slot, then ended his stream to go kill a fish monster.

Zhong Yi entered King of Auctions hoping to avoid Zhou Yue’s bad luck, but discovered a Bigeye Tuna in the lot and tried to trick other bidders into overpaying. His bluff failed, leaving him with a million Spirit Stone loss and sending him toward the Soul-Burial Sea to kill fish demons.

• After watching Zhou Yue’s livestream, Zhong Yi exchanged two million for Spirit Stones and entered the Quiet Mansion auction.
• Zhong Yi used a Giant Object Sampler and revealed that the shipping container’s largest collectible was a red-rarity Bigeye Tuna.
• To make the other bidders think the lot held valuable goods, Zhong Yi raised his bid to 880,000 and then 1.4 million.
• Zhong Yi increased his bid to 1.6 million, expecting to withdraw in the next round, but he won the auction.
• Zhong Yi discovered the lot contained only the Bigeye Tuna, lost a million net, and quit the Illusion Realm in anger.
• Zhong Yi told Zhou Yue to wait for him and decided to go kill fish demons in the Soul-Burial Sea.

Zhou Yue used Luna and a lucky Treasure Scan to go all in on a Deep-Sea Shipwreck auction, only to lose money on worthless red collectibles after trusting advice from Genius Cultivator. Meanwhile, Lu Ze’s new game, “King of Auctions,” became a hit, and he prepared to transplant the Illusion Realm into a Secret Realm.

• Zhou Yue earned money cautiously in Shipping Container matches, then switched to Deep-Sea Shipwreck after drawing a gold Treasure Scan item.
• Zhou Yue bid all 5.16 million of his funds on a hold containing 86 slots of red collectibles and won it against a 3.2-million bid.
• Zhou Yue revealed a series of low-value red collectibles, lost 1.6 million, and realized the danmu user who urged him to go all in was Genius Cultivator.
• Lu Ze reviewed the game's strong player numbers and marked regular Great Qian Dynasty users as priority targets for bringing into “King of Auctions.”
• Lu Ze left the Illusion Realm and set out to transplant it into a Secret Realm.

Zhong Yi tried to use the French Gambling God's information and a feint to win a valuable container, but Mai Xiaowen outbid him and earned a huge profit. Back in the collection room, he received an announcement for a Great Qian Dynasty charity auction in two days.

• Zhong Yi used the French Gambling God's skill and a green item to reveal valuable outlines in a large container.
• Zhong Yi bid 886 to make his opponents think he had given up, planning to raise his bid sharply in the next round.
• Mai Xiaowen won the container for 2.8 million after the two Nameless players failed to raise their bids.
• Mai Xiaowen found three Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng and a Star of Africa, earning a profit of fifteen million and leaving Zhong Yi distraught.
• Zhong Yi returned to the collection room and received notice that the Great Qian Dynasty Charity Auction would take place at Leisure Cloud Mountain Villa in two days.

Lu Ze prepared a real-world Secret Realm auction and secretly drew ordinary people into the Illusion Realm to boost participation. As the auction approached, [Blood Crow] believed his scheme had secured victory, unaware that Chao Wendao and Nangong Yuan had helped over a hundred thousand people try the game.

• [Blood Crow] told [Heart Demon] that the warehouses had started with goods worth 170 million taels of gold, and that only 80 million remained after planned sales.
• [Heart Demon] noticed that Chao Wendao and Nangong Yuan were missing and wondered where the Spirit Cloud Sect elders had gone.
• Zhong Yi asked Lu Ze to let him join the auction, then worried about where his master and Elder Nangong had been.
• Chao Wendao and Nangong Yuan returned exhausted after helping more than a hundred thousand ordinary people enter the Illusion Realm at trial stations across the Great Qian Dynasty.
• Lu Ze explained that recruiting ordinary people had expanded the auction's audience, and Zhong Yi anticipated a spectacular event the next day.

Lu Ze opened his auction secret realm, but [Blood Crow]'s confidence that he could win the challenge collapsed when thousands of people flooded the venue. As [Blood Crow] realized the crowd treated the auction as a way to make money, he warned [Heart Demon] that something was wrong.

• [Blood Crow] arrived early to watch Lu Ze lose, but Qin Ming appeared and stopped him from threatening Lu Ze.
• Qin Ming asked Lu Ze to lend him money for chips, reassuring [Blood Crow] that the expert would not have funds to disrupt the challenge.
• [Blood Crow] saw a huge crowd enter Leisure Cloud Mountain Villa and realized Lu Ze had attracted far more participants than he expected.
• Lu Ze's secret realm offered rooms with different chip limits and required ten million chips to enter the ultimate [Secret Auction].
• [Heart Demon] was astonished by the enormous crowd, while [Blood Crow] heard commoners discussing their profits and warned [Heart Demon] that he had a bad feeling.

Lu Ze turned the “King of Auctions” Secret Realm into a profitable casino, earning 130 million and securing first place despite Blood Crow and Rakshasa’s attempts to prove he cheated. As the Elders worried about losing the Void Soul Crystal, Heart Demon insisted Lu Ze would fail the third challenge.

• Lu Ze explained that his group was trading with chips to stock a warehouse for another auction, while Blood Crow suspected them of cheating.
• Lu Ze profited by repeatedly auctioning goods and drawing wealthy participants into buying chips, then opened the Secret Auction that night.
• After the auction ended, Blood Crow challenged Lu Ze’s chip buybacks, but Rakshasa’s truth-detecting Formation showed that participants had joined willingly.
• The “King of Auctions” Secret Realm earned 130 million and took first place, giving Lu Ze his second point as Blood Crow lost his money again.
• The Elders worried that another loss would hand Lu Ze the Void Soul Crystal, but Heart Demon declared that Lu Ze could not complete the third challenge.

Heart Demon bribed Guo Yunfeng with a Mortal Tears Crystal to sabotage Lu Ze’s Illusion Realm challenge and praise the Illusion Alliance’s realm. At Leisure Cloud Lake, the Alliance announced a seven-day challenge to make Guo Yunfeng, who had severed her emotions, cry.

• Heart Demon offered Guo Yunfeng a Mortal Tears Crystal in exchange for giving Lu Ze’s Illusion Realm the worst rating and praising the Illusion Alliance’s realm.
• Guo Yunfeng accepted the requests, and Heart Demon revealed that the third challenge would require making her shed a tear.
• Two days later, Lu Ze and Zhong Yi discussed the Illusion Alliance’s increasingly difficult challenges at Leisure Cloud Lake.
• Rakshasa introduced Guo Yunfeng as the participant in the third challenge, which required contestants to move her to tears within seven days.

After realizing the Illusion Alliance had designed the third challenge to uncover his Dao Transformation Art, Lu Ze decided not to use it in their Illusion Tower. He chose “To the Moon” as the basis for an Illusion Realm that could move Guo Yunfeng without exposing his Spell.

• Rakshasa explained that Elder Guo Yunfeng would judge the third challenge, quieting the protesting cultivators.
• Zhong Yi warned Lu Ze that Guo Yunfeng’s Dao of Ruthlessness made the challenge’s outcome dependent on her judgment.
• Zhong Yi’s mention of “This Demonic Cultivator Is Not Too Cold” helped Lu Ze realize that the Illusion Alliance wanted to uncover his Dao Transformation Art.
• Lu Ze refused to recreate the Illusion Realm and resolved not to reveal the Spell inside the Illusion Alliance’s Illusion Tower.
• Lu Ze chose “To the Moon” as the model for a linear Illusion Realm that could move Guo Yunfeng.

Lu Ze finished adapting "To the Moon" into an Illusion Realm, while Zhong Yi’s misguided romance story left Lu Ze baffled. Guo Yunfeng praised Contestant Three’s entry before picking up Lu Ze’s crystal, leaving the result of his challenge unresolved.

• Lu Ze planned to make Guo Yunfeng cry and built an Illusion Realm based on "To the Moon," disguising its Spell secrets with layers of useless Spells.
• After five days, Lu Ze submitted his Illusion Realm and told Zhong Yi it could be finished in about two hours.
• Lu Ze examined Zhong Yi’s Illusion Realm and criticized its confused portrayals of the women in the story.
• Guo Yunfeng praised Contestant Three’s Illusion Realm, ranked it first, and then picked up Lu Ze’s crystal marked "To the Moon Realm."

Guo Yunfeng entered Lu Ze’s illusion, where she and Xu Ci were Dreamweaving Sect disciples tasked with fulfilling a dying client’s wish. After meeting Gu Yun and setting up the dream-making formation, she learned that his lifelong wish was to go to the Moon Realm.

• Guo Yunfeng began experiencing Lu Ze’s illusion and met Xu Ci, her talkative senior brother in the Dreamweaving Sect.
• After their Earth Dragon went berserk and crashed, Guo Yunfeng ignored Xu Ci and followed the mission to Gu Yun’s residence.
• Guo Yunfeng heard Chen Lili’s children playing the melody from the illusion’s opening and sensed that it stirred her emotions.
• Guo Yunfeng and Xu Ci met the dying Gu Yun, whose treatment relied on a Heart-Strengthening Gu, and set up a Dream-Making Formation.
• Guo Yunfeng asked Chen Lili about Gu Yun’s lifelong wish, and Chen Lili said he wanted to go to the Moon Realm.

Zhong Yi and Qin Lien investigated why Gu Yun wanted to reach the Moon Realm, learning little from Chen Lili before beginning to search the old residence. As Zhong Yi explored with a Twin-Life Gu tracking Gu Yun’s failing health, Lu Ze revealed that the music was using a formation to draw out curiosity and emotion.

• Chen Lili told Zhong Yi and Qin Lien that Gu Yun was kind, had built the residence himself, and had lost his wife, but she knew little about why he wanted to reach the Moon Realm.
• Qin Lien explained that her Dream-Making Formation required them to discover Gu Yun’s reason and create a cause he would accept, then sent Zhong Yi to search the residence.
• Wen Yaoxin gave Zhong Yi a Twin-Life Gu that tracked Gu Yun’s condition and showed he had one day and fourteen hours remaining.
• Zhong Yi went downstairs and heard Chen Lili’s children playing a melancholy melody that made him curious about the mansion.
• Lu Ze revealed that the Fearful Soul Entanglement Array enhanced the music to guide Guo Yunfeng’s curiosity and, later, sorrow.

Zhong Yi investigated Gu Yun’s house and found paper rabbits, a music box, and a doll, including a uniquely colored rabbit at the lighthouse. He returned to Qin Lien and entered Gu Yun’s memories through the Dreamweaving Array, where they prepared to question him before his time ran out.

• Zhong Yi searched Gu Yun’s dark room, found origami rabbits, a music box, and a Platypus Doll, and took the doll with him.
• Zhong Yi visited the lighthouse with the children, saw Lin Xi’s grave, and discovered a distinctive yellow-and-blue paper rabbit to take as a clue.
• Qin Lien contacted Zhong Yi and told him the Dream-Making Formation was ready, so he hurried back to the old house.
• Qin Lien and Zhong Yi activated the Dreamweaving Array and entered an illusion realm based on Gu Yun’s memories.
• Qin Lien explained that memories could be incomplete or misleading, then headed out with Zhong Yi to find Gu Yun and ask him directly.

Zhong Yi and Qin Lien entered Gu Yun’s dream to learn why he wanted to go to the Moon Realm and begin helping him. Gu Yun could not explain his reason, but insisted that he simply had to go.

• Zhong Yi and Qin Lien searched Gu Yun’s dream and found him beneath the lighthouse with Chen Lili.
• Qin Lien introduced herself and Zhong Yi as Dreamweaving Sect disciples and asked Zhong Yi to demonstrate the Dreamweaving Spell.
• Zhong Yi froze Chen Lili and made her disappear, frightening Gu Yun before explaining that he was in a dream.
• Gu Yun asked whether they could send him to the Moon Realm, and Qin Lien said they needed to understand his motive first.
• Gu Yun said he did not know why he wanted to go, but insisted that he just had to go.

Zhong Yi and Qin Lien entered Gu Yun’s memories to plant the desire to join the Nine Heavens Sect, using meaningful objects to leap between earlier scenes. At the latest memory, they found Lin Xi alive in bed, while the mystery of Anya remained unresolved.

• Qin Lien proposed planting the idea of joining the Nine Heavens Sect in Gu Yun’s childhood so he could eventually reach the Moon Realm.
• Gu Yun gave Qin Lien a yellow-and-blue paper rabbit, and she and Zhong Yi used it to enter a memory of the white-haired Gu Yun playing the zither amid paper rabbits.
• Zhong Yi and Qin Lien followed an umbrella into a stormy memory where Gu Yun mourned Lin Xi at her gravestone and spoke of looking after someone named Anya.
• Qin Lien left Observer mode to question Gu Yun, and Zhong Yi froze him when his grief destabilized the Illusion Realm.
• The pair gathered dream power and used Gu Yun’s Platypus Doll to leap farther back in time, where they found Lin Xi lying in bed.

Zhong Yi watched Lin Xi refuse medical treatment and urge Gu Yun to finish a house where he could keep Anya company, while Gu Yun failed to understand what Lin Xi wanted him to recognize about her paper rabbit. As Gu Yun played his new piece, Guo Yunfeng continued exploring the memories and remained convinced the Illusion Realm could not make her feel love.

• Zhong Yi and Qin Lien overheard Lin Xi refuse to let doctors examine her, despite Gu Yun wanting to spend their money on her treatment.
• Lin Xi asked Gu Yun to use their money to finish a house and live there with Anya so she would not be lonely.
• Qin Lien disabled Zhong Yi's skills and silenced him when he tried to interrupt the memory.
• Lin Xi tested Gu Yun on what made her blue-and-yellow paper rabbit special, but he could only describe its shape and colors.
• Gu Yun played Lin Xi a piece called "Remembering Lin Creek," while Zhong Yi and the livestream viewers criticized Lin Xi's behavior.
• Guo Yunfeng dismissed Xu Ci's questions and gathered dream power to uncover another memory fragment, a pot of blue-purple wildflowers.

Guo Yunfeng found a memory of Gu Yun grieving over Lin Xi’s illness, while Zhong Yi and Qin Lien used a jar of pickles to coax Gu Yun into revealing a notice that could take them to the next memory. Zhong Yi noticed that the pickles in Gu Yun’s jar had never been touched, leaving him unsettled as they prepared to continue.

• Guo Yunfeng watched Gu Yun argue with Wang Qiao over whether to use their savings for Lin Xi’s treatment, then found the memory fragment in a jar of pickles.
• Zhong Yi and Qin Lien entered an earlier memory, where Gu Yun and Lin Xi had just decided to build a house on the cliff.
• Zhong Yi overheard Gu Yun tell Zhang Peng that Lin Xi had been folding paper rabbits after he told her about something connected to her Iceheart Bloodline.
• When the enclosed memory left them unable to proceed, Zhong Yi ate pickles with Gu Yun to gain his trust and get him to reveal a notice.
• Qin Lien froze the memory with the notice, and Zhong Yi noticed that Gu Yun’s jar of pickles remained untouched.

Zhong Yi and Qin Lien explored Gu Yun’s memories and realized Lin Xi had wanted to stay near the lighthouse, which she seemed to regard as Anya. They then witnessed Lin Xi obsessively folding paper rabbits and asking Gu Yun to describe one, but Qin Lien stopped Zhong Yi from questioning her and led him toward the next memory.

• Zhong Yi watched Gu Yun promise to build a house beside the lighthouse, and Lin Xi rejoiced at being able to visit it every day.
• Zhong Yi concluded that Anya was the lighthouse, but Qin Lien told him to focus on their mission of sending Gu Yun to the Moon Realm.
• Zhong Yi and Qin Lien found a yellow paper rabbit at the cliff and entered an earlier memory in Lin Xi’s old house.
• Zhong Yi found a chest full of paper and watched Lin Xi fold rabbits while asking Gu Yun to describe the one she had left for him.
• Qin Lien froze Zhong Yi before he could question Lin Xi, explaining that Gu Yun’s memories held no answer he did not already know, then took him toward the next memory.

Zhong Yi and Qin Lien traced Gu Yun and Lin Xi’s memories, uncovering more about Lin Xi’s Iceheart Bloodline and Gu Yun’s changing feelings toward her. They continued moving backward through the memories, still seeking the moment that would reveal why Gu Yun first approached Lin Xi.

• At the lighthouse, Gu Yun apologized to Lin Xi for the original reason he had approached her, but Zhong Yi and Qin Lien arrived too late to learn what that reason was.
• Lin Xi asked Gu Yun to throw her sandbag across the cliff, then rushed toward the edge when it fell, forcing Gu Yun to hold her back.
• Zhong Yi searched the cliffside and found Lin Xi’s travel bag as the next memory fragment.
• In a library joined to a teahouse, Gu Yun asked Wang Qiao about Lin Xi’s Iceheart Bloodline, which also explained Wang Qiao’s closeness to Lin Xi.
• Gu Yun told Lin Xi that he had stopped reading Battle Through the Heavens because he had grown up, and Lin Xi asked him what followed the phrase “Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river.”

Zhong Yi and Qin Lien explored Gu Yun and Lin Xi’s wedding memories, collecting dream power and memory fragments. After finding a fragment of a rabbit trampled by an Earth Dragon, they moved on to the next memory, which opened on a grassland.

• Zhong Yi arrived at Gu Yun and Lin Xi’s wedding beneath the lighthouse, where Gu Yun’s mother explained why the place mattered to them.
• Zhong Yi and Qin Lien found Gu Yun and Lin Xi at the lighthouse on the night before the wedding, then witnessed their wedding ceremony the next day.
• Gu Yun explained that his mother called him Xiao Feng because it was his maternal grandfather’s name.
• Zhong Yi noticed the unfamiliar Wen Qingyun at the wedding feast and recognized a mark on his cheek, but left without investigating.
• Zhong Yi and Qin Lien found a memory fragment of a rabbit trampled by an Earth Dragon, poured dream power into it, and entered a grassland memory.

Zhong Yi and Qin Lien traced Gu Yun and Lin Xi’s memories backward, uncovering Lin Xi’s Iceheart Bloodline and the childhood events behind their relationship. They reached a shattered memory space they could not enter, leaving the mission unfinished and the truth unresolved.

• Zhong Yi learned that Lin Xi’s Iceheart Bloodline made it painful for her to express her thoughts, and that riding horses eased her heart-devouring symptoms.
• Zhong Yi watched young Lin Xi accuse Gu Yun of leaving their shadow puppet show early, though they had never actually met inside the theater.
• At the Academy, Gu Yun invited Lin Xi to a shadow puppet show, and she agreed; Zhang Peng later questioned why Gu Yun liked her, and Gu Yun said she was special.
• Zhong Yi concluded that Lin Xi had been hurt when Gu Yun revealed beneath the Lighthouse that he had first approached her to feel different from everyone else.
• Zhong Yi and Qin Lien entered a memory of Gu Yun returning home as a child, then collected a Cuju ball Memory Fragment.
• The Cuju ball led Zhong Yi and Qin Lien to a pitch-black, shattered memory space they could not enter, and Qin Lien teased Zhong Yi about being the Crow’s Mouth.

Guo Yunfeng and Xu Ci tried to plant an obsession in Gu Yun’s memories, but the Cause-and-Effect Formation failed to change his past. Zhong Yi and Qin Lien tried again in several memories, while the main quest updated to demand at least four clues that defied logic.

• Guo Yunfeng and Xu Ci reached a shattered Chaos Space and guessed Gu Yun’s missing childhood memories were tied to a serious illness.
• Guo Yunfeng and Xu Ci activated the Cause-and-Effect Formation, but Gu Yun remained an old man beside Lin Xi’s grave instead of reaching the Moon Realm.
• Qin Lien and Zhong Yi searched Gu Yun’s memories and found that none of his past had changed.
• Qin Lien and Zhong Yi tried planting causes in multiple memories, but Gu Yun and Lin Xi’s story always repeated the same ending.
• The main quest updated, requiring Qin Lien and Zhong Yi to collect at least four clues that defied logic in Gu Yun’s dream.

Zhong Yi used the Evidence System to uncover contradictions in Gu Yun’s supposed childhood interests and deduced that those interests belonged to someone called Xiao Feng. His search for the identity behind Xiao Feng led him to Wen Yaoxin, and he urgently asked whether Gu Yun had other Gu Worms inside him.

• Zhong Yi abandoned the paper rabbits and Platypus Doll as leads because he lacked evidence to support a conclusion.
• Zhong Yi connected clues about the untouched pickled cucumbers and concluded that Gu Yun did not like them.
• Zhong Yi found that Gu Yun had never read “Battle Through the Heavens” and deduced that both interests belonged to Xiao Feng, not Gu Yun.
• Zhong Yi recalled Wen Qingyun’s red mark and recognized the same mark beneath Wen Yaoxin’s eye.
• Zhong Yi asked Wen Yaoxin whether Gu Yun had any Gu Worms inside him besides the Heart-Strengthening Gu.