Recaps

Ji Minghuan used Gu Wenyu’s life to investigate the secrets surrounding his family, revealing himself as Black Cocoon and uncovering Gu Zhuoan’s identity as Ghost Bell. After a bitter family reunion, Ji Minghuan secured Gu Qiye’s tentative cooperation and gained enough Split Points to create another Game Character.

• Ji Minghuan created Gu Wenyu as his first Game Character and learned to use the Restraint Bands while investigating the secrets of Gu Qiye and the rest of the family.
• Ji Minghuan discovered that Gu Qiye was Blue Arc and intervened when Green Wing took hostages, killing the criminals and earning the codename Black Cocoon.
• Ji Minghuan told Gu Qiye that his mother, Su Ying, had been killed by an Esper and offered to help him uncover the truth about her death and Gu Zhuoan’s absence.
• Ji Minghuan recalled his childhood bond with Kong Youling, reunited with her under guard, and resolved to escape the laboratory with her.
• Ji Minghuan investigated Su Zimai and discovered that she was an Exorcist, then learned that Gu Zhuoan had returned home after two years away.
• Ji Minghuan identified Gu Zhuoan as Ghost Bell, and the family dinner collapsed into an argument over Su Ying’s death and Gu Qiye’s search for the truth.
• Ji Minghuan warned Gu Qiye not to investigate Black Cocoon and hinted that Gu Zhuoan was hiding something, securing Gu Qiye’s tentative cooperation.
• Ji Minghuan received the second-phase quest reward and collected three Split Points, unlocking the option to create a second Game Character.

Ji Minghuan created Xia Pingzhou and joined the White Crow Troupe, drawing him into the planned Tokyo auction heist and a conflict with the Exorcist Association. His investigation exposed the Welfare Home director’s connection to Sodalitas Salvifica and revealed more about the hidden layers of his Spirit World, as the Tokyo trip approached.

• Ji Minghuan learned from Instructor about Anecdote Envoys and Exorcists, then created Xia Pingzhou, a Rare Exorcist with an SS-rank Chess Heavenly Drive.
• Ji Minghuan passed the White Crow Troupe’s test by killing a Working Demon, joined as member 12, and persuaded the troupe to spare Ke Qirui and Su Zimai.
• Ji Minghuan learned the troupe planned to rob the Tokyo Underground Auction and pursued quests involving Jack the Ripper, Red Light, and Sodalitas Salvifica.
• Ji Minghuan explored the Welfare Home basement, found Xu Keyin chained there, learned the director had helped people marked with a hexagram take him and Kong Youling, and killed the director.
• Gu Qiye arranged for Xu Keyin’s rescue and helped conceal the director’s death as a suicide, while Ji Minghuan linked the hexagram to Sodalitas Salvifica and Red Light.
• Ji Minghuan discovered that Li Qingping possessed an Epoch-Grade Anecdote Fragment called Red Dragon Wales and followed him to meet Nabis about guarding the Tokyo auction.
• Instructor entered Ji Minghuan’s Spirit World and found his childlike True Self hiding in a wardrobe, but withdrew without persuading him to come out.
• Ji Minghuan remembered how he and Kong Youling had explored their Spirit Worlds before the laboratory, then woke in the Imprisonment Room and prepared to fly to Tokyo with Gu Qiye’s family.

Ji Minghuan investigated a demon event in Tokyo, met members of the White Crow Troupe, and built alliances for the coming auction operation. He learned that Su Zimai and Ke Qirui were implicated in his plans, while his laboratory mission brought Filio and White Greedy Wolf’s lost child into focus.

• Blue Arc and Silver Devourer stopped Da Zhonghou and captured Flying Ant, while Black Cocoon stole Flying Ant’s power and learned he had to help Blue Arc survive the Tokyo Auction Action.
• Ji Minghuan traveled to Japan with Gu Qiye and Gu Zhuoan, then entered Xia Pingzhou’s body and defeated the Spider Demon twins at Roppongi EX Theater.
• Ke Qirui urged Ji Minghuan to leave the White Crow Troupe for the Exorcist Association, while Ji Minghuan met Su Zimai and learned that she suspected Gu Wenyu was an Esper.
• The Instructor told Ji Minghuan that Filio was a human-demon child and that his parents were alive, while Ji Minghuan resolved to protect Kong Youling and escape the laboratory with her.
• Ji Minghuan met Jack the Ripper and White Greedy Wolf, who took his heart as collateral, then connected White Greedy Wolf’s search for his child to Filio.
• Black Cocoon persuaded Ke Qirui and Su Zimai to cooperate, confirmed to Ke Qirui that Gu Wenyu was Blue Arc, and completed his quest to gain Su Zimai’s cooperation.
• Ji Minghuan learned Restraint Belt Avatar, tested its ability to imitate people, and raised Black Cocoon’s Strength to B+ Grade as he prepared for the auction operation.

Ji Minghuan helped bring the White Crow Troupe and its opponents toward a confrontation at the Tokyo underground auction while trying to protect Gu Qiye and uncover Sodalitas Salvifica’s role. The Troupe gathered in Tokyo, but its leader and the auction’s mysterious guest had yet to arrive.

• Ji Minghuan befriended Filio and Kong Youling in the Imprisonment Room, then decided to help Gu Zhuoan learn that Gu Qiye was Blue Arc.
• Ji Minghuan gave Gu Zhuoan a recording identifying Gu Qiye as Blue Arc, then met Bloodline and used nine bodyguards to advance his Heavenly Drive.
• Ji Minghuan followed Ayase Origami and encountered Li Qingping and Oda Takikage at the Cafe, while he used a Gu Wenyu avatar to deny being Blue Arc to Su Zimai.
• Black Cocoon captured Winged Man on a live broadcast, then Ji Minghuan arranged a meeting with Ghost Bell and urged him to help save Gu Qiye from the underground auction.
• Instructor revealed that Ji Minghuan’s parents were Ji Huaiye and Lin Xi, and said another child in the facility was bound to a Mythic-Grade Anecdote.
• Ji Minghuan spied on the Eight Underworld Families’ auction planning meeting, where Cherry Blossom Warrior’s team identified several Troupe members and discussed two possible guest allies.
• Ji Minghuan challenged Oda Takikage to a spar, revealed his evolved chess-piece army, and won after the Queen Statue countered Oda’s shadow attack.
• Ayase Origami and Oda Takikage brought Lan Duoduo, Hacker, and Andrew to Tokyo, and Ji Minghuan concluded that the coming battle depended partly on the unknown guest and the absent Troupe Leader.