Recaps

Zhong Yi and his companions built up their Palworld base, challenged a High Tower, and struggled with unruly Pals and Berserk threats as Lu Ze watched the illusion realm’s ancient history unfold. Li Moran joined the group’s adventures and arrived at their base with Zhou Yue.

• Zhou Yue failed to capture a giant Direhowl, but Zhou Qiaoling caught it before a Forest Mammoth killed her and Zhou Yue, forcing the group to rebuild at a new base site.
• Zhou Qiaoling caught a Shiny Mischief Cat, and the group later defeated Zoe at the High Tower and learned that its Key Sphere was one of eight tied to the World Tree and an ancient seal.
• Zhong Yi and Zhou Qiaoling discovered that overworked Pals became sick and lost sanity, then experimented with Campfire Therapy as they planned and built a larger base.
• Lu Ze explained that Palworld was staging ancient history for the Evil Soul, which was identifying as Quivern, and warned that Berserk Pals would attack players beyond the starter village.
• A Berserk Relaxaurus killed the group’s Pals and repeatedly damaged their base, while Li Moran asked Lu Ze to enter Palworld and train her swordsmanship without relying on Pals.
• Li Moran gained levels through gathering and crafting, befriended a Shiny Lamball, and went with Zhou Yue to the group’s base, where they found Zhou Qiaoling threatening the workers.

Zhong Yi and his companions advanced through Palworld, captured powerful Pals, and uncovered the World Tree’s ancient secret as Lu Ze’s efforts purified the Evil Soul. The arc ended with Zoe and Quivern awakening and the Illusion Alliance deciding to challenge Lu Ze through Sword Dao.

• Zhou Qiaoling’s group summoned Bella Nova, whose shock wave destroyed their base, while Li Moran began testing her sword against the Forest Mammoth.
• Zhong Yi captured Zoe, and Li Moran defeated the Forest Mammoth before later sensing the Dao and capturing Frostallion.
• Cultivators’ relentless use of Pals weakened the Evil Soul, allowing the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao to recover as Lu Ze prepared to purify it.
• Zhong Yi developed a Shadowbeak production line for plasteel, while Zhou Yue, Mu Yawen, and Li Moran pursued opportunities and grew stronger.
• Zhong Yi raised his bond with Zoe to level ten, completed her quest, and gained the Cross True Art cultivation method.
• Lu Ze and He Muye sealed and purified the Evil Soul, and He Muye promised Lu Ze the Void Soul Crystal after the Void Dream Chi’s rebirth.
• Zhong Yi’s group defeated the Aocang Whale, explored the World Tree, and learned that Quivern’s feeding on its lifeblood had caused an ancient calamity.
• Zhong Yi’s group opened the World Tree’s sealed gates, awakening Zoe and Quivern as the Illusion Alliance’s formation collapsed, and Heart Demon’s allies resolved to challenge Lu Ze through Sword Dao.

Lu Ze used Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice to challenge the Limitless Sword Sect’s Sword Dao gathering, wagering the Three Tribulations Sword Art against proof that his realm could improve swordsmanship. Chen Yuan eventually defeated the Ashina General and pressed onward, only to encounter the Red Oni as cultivators crowded into the illusion.

• Zhong Yi’s team defeated Quivern and Zoe in Palworld, while the Heart Demon persuaded Chen Yuan to hold the Sword Dao Ruins in an illusion realm and promised him the Three Tribulations Sword Art.
• Lu Ze learned he could alter memories and consciousness with the Fearful Soul Entanglement Array, then joined the Sword Dao competition after the system announced a Sword Immortal was about to emerge.
• The Illusion Alliance distributed planted rewards in Sword Slashing the Stars, but Li Moran received only a basic manual until Chen Yuan gave her the Three Tribulations Sword Art and Lu Ze challenged him over the sham opportunity.
• Lu Ze wagered a Heavenly Dao opportunity against the Three Tribulations Sword Art and launched Sekiro, sealing participants’ sword-related memories so they would have to rebuild their skills through combat.
• Li Moran and Chen Yuan struggled through Sekiro’s early fights, and Lu Ze showed the watching cultivators that Li Moran could adapt and defeat Yamauchi Shigenori through precise deflections.
• Chen Yuan reached Genichiro Ashina, lost, and accused Lu Ze of rigging the realm, so Lu Ze wagered that someone would defeat Genichiro within three days or he would concede.
• After Genichiro cut off Sekiro’s arm, Zhou Yue received the Shinobi Prosthetic and pursued Kurō, while Chen Yuan rejected the prosthetic, suffered public deaths, and continued toward Ashina Castle.
• Zhou Yue defeated the Ashina General Kawarada Naomori and triggered a rush of cultivators seeking boss kills, while Chen Yuan later defeated the general after many attempts and reached the Red Oni.

Zhong Yi uncovered the Hirata Estate’s past and defeated Lady Butterfly, while Li Moran’s swordsmanship breakthrough led her to challenge Isshin Ashina. Zhou Yue finally killed Headless, and Lu Ze arranged for the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao to train Li Moran as she approached the end of the game.

• Mu Yawen defeated the Red Oni first, while Zhong Yi revealed he had been fighting Yamauchi Shigenori and Zhou Yue struggled to understand his skill at Deflection.
• Zhong Yi learned from a bald thief about a flame-shooting tool hidden at the Hirata Estate, then entered a vision of the estate three years earlier after receiving the Young Lord’s Bell.
• Zhong Yi found the Flame Arrow and Shinobi Axe at Hirata Estate, learned Mikiri Counter after grinding, and returned to the present as Zhou Qiaoling and Zhou Yue fought their way through the Illusion Realm.
• Zhou Yue defeated Gyoubu Masataka Oniwa without taking a hit, while Li Moran defeated Genichiro and awakened the Void-Returning Sword Intent, which Lu Ze learned.
• Zhong Yi defeated Gyoubu by luring his horse over a cliff, then returned to Hirata Estate and fought Juzou alongside Inosuke before discovering clues about an illusion and Kurō.
• Zhou Yue killed Headless after more than sixteen hundred basic slashes, while Zhong Yi defeated Lady Butterfly, was stabbed by an unknown attacker, and learned that Kurō’s Dragon’s Heritage allowed Sekiro to resurrect.
• Li Moran challenged Isshin Ashina, studied his Ashina Style moves after losing, and Lu Ze sent the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao to train her in person.