Recaps

The barista and Qihua discussed the Captain’s plan to force Zai Jiu Xunge through a world-shattering trial, concluding that He would prevent her from obtaining Tian Huhaoqi. In the Twilight Library, Yu Xunge fought Maple Sugar and realized her old friend had become far more dangerous and experienced.

• The barista told Qihua that the Captain would not let Zai Jiu Xunge win the gamble for Tian Huhaoqi, because He intended her to undergo a shattering and reshape Forest Sea.
• Yu Xunge searched the Twilight Library for numbers as apprentices began quietly fighting one another to steal them.
• Maple Sugar attacked Yu Xunge, and the two fought through the library while avoiding the librarians and protecting its books.
• Yu Xunge realized Maple Sugar’s combat experience surpassed her own and that Maple Sugar had changed dramatically since they last met.
• Yu Xunge summoned her lantern and escaped into the Shadow World, while Maple Sugar dodged a librarian’s whip and disappeared.

Yu Xunge fought Fengtang during Riot Time on the library’s third floor and learned that Fengtang wanted to kill her to secure several goals, including obtaining Zai Jiu’s tombstone. After escaping to the second floor, Yu Xunge spent the next several hours stealing numbers and attributes while evading Qi Hua.

• Yu Xunge avoided Fengtang and advanced by killing apprentices and using I Want to Improve So Badly to steal numbers and attributes.
• When the third floor entered Riot Time, Fengtang attacked Yu Xunge with Golden Thunder Cups and a shadow-related power, while Song Gui’s skill dispelled Yu Xunge’s Bubble Nebula.
• Yu Xunge escaped the third floor with the Deep Blue Ship’s Helm, then dodged Qi Hua’s Golden Lightning Whip on the second floor.
• Fengtang revealed that she wanted Zai Jiu’s tombstone and planned to repeatedly kill Zai Jiu Xunge to stop her growth.
• Yu Xunge hid in the Shadow World, stole numbers and attributes, bought useful vending-machine items, and used Qi Hua to disrupt groups of apprentices.
• Qi Hua complained that Yu Xunge was slippery, while Barista admitted that Fengtang’s Godly Relic would have made it easier to catch her.

Yu Xunge finished calculating her numbers, then followed the rabbit to the third floor when it pursued Maple Syrup, who had attracted the apprentices with the most numbers. Maple Syrup unleashed her Godly Relic, Faded Hometown, and controlled Yu Xunge’s shadow as the battle intensified.

• Yu Xunge used all 421 numbers to calculate a result of 15, then left the Shadow World after the rabbit went to the third floor to chase Maple Syrup.
• Apprentices rushed to attack Maple Syrup, hoping to take her numbers, while Yu Xunge killed several apprentices amid the chaos.
• Maple Syrup activated Riot Time, filling her HP and bringing the library’s tree shadows to life; Yu Xunge stayed near the rabbit to evade the attacks.
• Maple Syrup controlled Yu Xunge’s shadow, forcing her to fight it while dodging the living tree shadows.
• Maple Syrup revealed that her Godly Relic was named Faded Hometown.

Yu Xunge fought Fengtang amid the massacre in the library and pieced together clues that Astralana might be a game arena she had entered as an adult before returning to childhood. Fengtang confirmed she had to kill Yu Xunge because Yu Xunge had called her “Mother” for ten years.

• Fengtang slaughtered the apprentices on the library’s third floor and then attacked Yu Xunge with tree shadows, Thunder Wine, and Yu Xunge’s living shadow.
• Yu Xunge realized Fengtang had deliberately exhausted Moonlight Wetland’s revival attempts before coming for her, and fought back with her dagger despite her falling HP.
• While battling Fengtang, Yu Xunge connected clues from Zhuri, Tian Huhaoqi, her strange skill rewards, and her lost memories, and suspected she had entered Astralana as an adult before returning to childhood.
• Yu Xunge asked whether Fengtang had other memories or a reason to kill her, and Fengtang admitted she had to kill Yu Xunge because Yu Xunge had called her “Mother” for ten years.

Yu Xunge fought Maple Syrup, who revealed startling claims about Yu Xunge’s past and family. Yu Xunge chose to face Maple Syrup directly and declared herself a Zhuri Apprentice and Tian Huhaoqi’s student.

• Maple Syrup claimed that Yu Xunge had Oak Owl’s wings because she was mixed-blood, and that she had killed an older sister with matching wings.
• Maple Syrup also said Yu Xunge had tried to deceive her aunt; Song Song confirmed that part of Maple Syrup’s story was false, while Yu Xunge questioned Song Rose about being her aunt.
• Maple Syrup revealed that Mo Ji had withdrawn from the game, and Yu Xunge responded that it was good before activating Lucky Number.
• Yu Xunge struck the Pumpkin Dice as she charged Maple Syrup, then explained why she would not use Moon’s Flipside to send her away.
• The Pumpkin Dice landed on 6, and Yu Xunge declared that she was a Zhuri Apprentice and Tian Huhaoqi’s student.

Yu Xunge struggled to kill Maple Syrup before the Fun Match ended, and Maple Syrup countered Lucky Number while continuing to seek victory. Yu Xunge used No Logic to distort the players’ understanding of the match, leaving the apprentices climbing stairs to adjust their numbers as Dullness waited for her.

• Zhuri admitted that she would fight an enemy as strong as Maple Syrup, calling her worth fighting.
• Maple Syrup used Self-Exile to turn Lucky Number’s doubled retaliation against Yu Xunge, foiling her attempt to kill her.
• Yu Xunge activated No Logic and distorted the players’ understanding of the Fun Match’s winning condition.
• Maple Syrup kept attacking Yu Xunge while repeatedly climbing the stairs to spend numbers.
• The apprentices across the floors began climbing the stairs to adjust their numbers, while some asked the librarian to whip them.
• Dullness watched as the apprentices gathered around Them and wondered why Yu Xunge was not there.

Yu Xunge kept the apprentices confused with No Logic while fighting Fengtang through the Fun Match. Fengtang realized Yu Xunge was not reducing her numbers and attacked her relentlessly, leaving both of them badly weakened with fifteen minutes left.

• During the first distortion, Yu Xunge evaded her shadow and attacked apprentices while watching Fengtang grow confused about the game’s rules.
• When the distortion ended, the apprentices resumed adjusting their actions to their numbers, while Fengtang fought Zai Jiu Xunge and the rabbit on the stairs.
• Yu Xunge began killing apprentices with negative numbers as her abilities refreshed, and Fengtang eventually noticed that Yu Xunge had not tried to eliminate her own numbers.
• Fengtang charged at Yu Xunge, who retreated and used her defensive abilities while the rabbit continued pursuing Fengtang.
• Xie Xie stole Yu Xunge’s Mysterious Power, and Fengtang’s sustained assault left both fighters losing HP as the apprentices and Librarian Director also fought Fengtang.

Yu Xunge and Maple Sugar fought amid a library-wide siege, each holding back a decisive skill until the last moment. Yu Xunge used Low-Risk Investment to erase Maple Sugar’s numbers, then paused time and calculated her own numbers to reach exactly 2, leaving her waiting for the contest to end.

• Yu Xunge and Maple Sugar fought through the apprentices’ attacks with nearly empty mana and both suffered critical wounds.
• Maple Sugar used Temporary Betrayal to temporarily take Mysterious Power from Yu Xunge, so Yu Xunge restored her health by swapping HP and activated Bubble Nebula.
• Yu Xunge revealed she had stored Low-Risk Investment in the Snowman and used it to make Maple Sugar’s numbers vanish, drawing the rabbit’s attention to herself.
• Yu Xunge kicked Maple Sugar away, used Waste Guide to pause the world, and healed herself.
• Yu Xunge combined her 2,233 numbers with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to calculate 2, then wrote down her working as the countdown showed 06:46 remaining.

With six minutes left, Yu Xunge used Crime Simulation to search the library's battle records for a way to escape, and discovered Mistblade's On the Chessboard skill had marked her as expendable to Mistblade's ideal. Yu Xunge vanished from the battlefield, and Maple Syrup could not find her before the game ended.

• Yu Xunge copied Crime Simulation into a Snowman and used it to inspect the skills recorded from the earlier battle.
• Yu Xunge found Mistblade's On the Chessboard skill and realized Mistblade viewed her as a pawn that could be discarded for the Moon Fox clan's future.
• Maple Syrup saw Yu Xunge send the rabbit away with a miraculous skill before Yu Xunge vanished as well.
• Maple Syrup, Pomango, Mistblade, and the other apprentices searched the library for Yu Xunge but found no trace of her.
• Maple Syrup sat on the third-floor railing as the final countdown began, having won again.

Xunge won the match by hiding as an Orchid Mantis in plain sight, then announced that Zhuri Apprentice had returned. Maple Sugar accepted the result, drank the liquor named Senhai, and she and Xunge both comprehended an SSS-rank skill.

• Maple Sugar spotted the Orchid Mantis hidden inside the glowing number, but Xunge slipped into the Shadow World and outlasted Protagonist Time.
• Xunge won the match, transformed back into her original form, and declared that Zhuri Apprentice was back.
• Black Cat and Blood Elf celebrated Xunge’s victory while spectators discussed Qihua making figurines of her.
• Maple Sugar recognized that Xunge had won without borrowing anyone’s skill and worried she could no longer stop her from winning.
• Maple Sugar raised a cup to Xunge and drank the liquor named Senhai.
• Maple Sugar and Xunge both comprehended the SSS-rank Skill Arch-Nemesis.

Yu Xunge copied Xiexie’s Wind Doesn’t Speak skill as her Fun Match reward, despite it originating from the Godly Relic Whale Fall in the Wind. After Xiexie and Grapefruit chased her over their swapped skills, Yu Xunge convinced them to team up for the team competition so they could try to get their items back.

• Yu Xunge received the Arch-Nemesis skill and saw that her attributes and damage had increased while Maple Syrup’s killing intent remained.
• Yu Xunge chose Xiexie for her Fun Match reward and successfully copied the SSS-rank Wind Doesn’t Speak skill.
• The players discussed how the lingering will of Howl had allowed Yu Xunge to copy a skill connected to Whale Fall in the Wind.
• Xiexie chased Yu Xunge for Wind Doesn’t Speak, while Grapefruit pursued Xiexie for Whale Fall in the Wind.
• Yu Xunge persuaded Xiexie and Grapefruit to team up for the team competition, and they agreed.

Yu Xunge reunited with Queque and Yulü, who joined her ragtag team alongside Crabcrab and Grapefruit. After learning that Boman was paying for their tavern meal, they toasted her just as Boman arrived, furious at Xunge.

• Crabcrab and Grapefruit brought Yu Xunge to Thief Bug Tavern to meet Queque and another teammate.
• Queque startled Xunge with her rain skill, then joined the gathering and put her coffee on Xunge’s tab.
• Yulü arrived and ordered juice on Xunge’s tab, while Grapefruit explained that everyone knew Xunge had taken 170,000 gold coins from Boman.
• Yu Xunge judged Queque and Yulü to be strong additions to her team despite their selfish reputations.
• Yu Xunge raised a toast to Boman’s expense, and Boman arrived with Maple Sugar, vowing to kill her.

Yu Xunge spent the evening preparing for the team match and returned to the Twilight Library, where she reunited with Mistblade after three years apart. As they watched the mirage together, Mistblade began explaining that she had barely used On the Chessboard over the past year.

• Yu Xunge ordered an expensive meal and sent food to Zhuri, Tian Huhaoqi, and Aihao, then confirmed that several teammates were determined to win the team championship.
• Yu Xunge wandered through the Endless Sand Sea, bought ingredients for Wrong Season and supplies to conceal her Godly Relic, and returned to the Twilight Library near sunset.
• Yu Xunge found Mistblade waiting by her door and noticed how much Mistblade's appearance and manner had changed.
• Yu Xunge and Mistblade watched the evening mirage in silence, and Mistblade said she had not used On the Chessboard much during the past year.

Mist Blade explained to Yu Xunge that she had used On the Chessboard to seek another answer, though she would have made the same choice again. After Yu Xunge returned to her room, Sun Chaser revealed that the Godly Game had broadcast embarrassing replays of Yu Xunge’s Time Skills.

• Mist Blade told Yu Xunge she had chosen whom to help based on her ideals and had used On the Chessboard because she wanted another answer.
• Mist Blade left Yu Xunge alone, while Sun Chaser and Tian Huhaoqi waited and talked in Yu Xunge’s room.
• Yu Xunge returned with Crab Crab, Grapefruit, Queque, and Yulü, then learned Mist Blade had been waiting outside since noon.
• Sun Chaser told Yu Xunge that the Godly Game replayed public Time Skill footage and that Thief Bug Tavern was selling clips of Yu Xunge sobbing and doing other embarrassing things.
• Sun Chaser and Tian Huhaoqi laughed as they recalled more footage, leaving Yu Xunge mortified.

Yu Xunge and her teammates entered a team match set in a circular arena, where they had to keep their bookshelves from being blocked. As book-shaped monsters appeared with glowing shapes above them, Yu Xunge recognized the game as Tetris.

• Yu Xunge and Mist Blade stayed apart in the waiting area while Fat Goose and Motorcycle teased them, and Maple Syrup watched with amusement.
• Yu Xunge invited teammates and hurried after the golden card, noticing Maple Syrup's team included Shark Leng.
• The team entered a match called Block Elimination, where the last team standing won and a blocked bookshelf meant failure.
• Yu Xunge inspected the colosseum-like arena and identified the other seventh-year apprentices as her main opponents.
• After the countdown, blocks began descending on each bookshelf as book-shaped monsters appeared in the arena, and Yu Xunge recognized the game as Tetris.

Yu Xunge and the other apprentices discovered that the falling-block game could help them clear the gray bricks appearing on their bookshelves, then joined the battle against Book Monsters to claim the blocks above their heads. Yu Xunge unlocked Arch-Nemesis by making eye contact with Maple Syrup and used Wind Doesn't Speak to absorb hundreds of battlefield buffs, while the fight for the monsters continued.

• Yu Xunge identified the joystick and rotation button as controls for a falling-block game, and the apprentices learned that completing rows cleared blocks.
• Gray bricks appeared across the bookshelves, leading Yu Xunge to divide her team between controlling the game and fighting Book Monsters for their blocks.
• Crabby and Grapefruit confirmed that the apprentice who landed the final blow received a Book Monster's block, so Yu Xunge and Queque rushed to attack one.
• Yu Xunge discovered that the Book Monsters changed defensive traits every ten seconds and triggered Arch-Nemesis after making eye contact with Maple Syrup.
• Yu Xunge used Wind Doesn't Speak to gather hundreds of buffs from the battlefield's winds, and Queque, Fat Goose, and Motorcycle teased her about taking their happiness and abandoning people.

Yu Xunge’s team handled the Book Monster game efficiently while she reflected on Maple Syrup and Mistblade, the two friends who had recently turned against her. After joking with Queque about their dramatic staring, Yu Xunge wondered what she herself would choose between loyalty to her ideals and the truth.

• Queque and Yu Xunge worked together to defeat the Book Monster and secure its block, while the apprentices learned that new gray bricks appeared every five minutes.
• Yu Xunge looked across the arena at Maple Syrup and recalled their friendship and the reasons Maple Syrup’s resolve had unsettled her.
• Yu Xunge watched Mistblade and reconsidered her explanation for attacking her, concluding that Mistblade had chosen to remain loyal to her ideals.
• Queque teased Yu Xunge about staring at Maple Syrup and Mistblade, and Yu Xunge joked that they were observing one another’s destinies.
• Yu Xunge guarded the base, arranged a falling block, and started making a Summer Snowman before wondering what she would choose.

Yu Xunge’s team survived the first librarian encounter and continued collecting blocks as the player count fell. When a second librarian arrived, rival apprentices attacked Xunge and her teammates, turning the game into a chaotic battle.

• Yu Xunge made a battered snowman with nine rollbacks, then named it Zhuri Xunge and reflected on the story behind it.
• Xiexie returned with Yulü, and Yu Xunge’s team collected blocks smoothly while players died, quit, and lost access to more bookshelves.
• A huge burning-orange librarian appeared after the first hour, hunted apprentices, and destroyed bookshelves before disappearing forty-five minutes later.
• A second librarian, shaped like a yellow cactus, descended as tree shadows curled toward Xiexie, Queque, and Yulü.
• Yu Xunge parried a spear attack and fought its wielder while Queque, Shark Leng, and Songgui attacked Xiexie in pursuit of its Godly Relic.

Yu Xunge fought Maple Sugar while resisting the choice to leave the game, then used Wrong Season to turn her wings and three relic ingredients into a cup of wine. She escaped to the highest level of the stands as the wine formed, leaving Maple Sugar unable to stop her.

• Maple Sugar repeatedly defeated Yu Xunge with her spear and urged her to leave the game, explaining that Yu Xunge's loss would let her reshape the Oak Owl's world.
• Yu Xunge realized Maple Sugar had gone easy on her before and that her own hesitation had kept her from withdrawing and delaying the appearance of Tian Huhaoqi.
• When Maple Sugar demanded that she leave the game again, Yu Xunge asked whether her wings were connected to Maple Sugar, who said the wings did not belong to her.
• Yu Xunge revealed that an owl feather, a candle flame, and a canine tooth could serve as ingredients for Wrong Season, and concluded that she needed to offer part of her own body.
• Yu Xunge used the Deep Blue Ship's Helm to escape Maple Sugar, then sacrificed her Flowing Fire Light Wings and combined them with the three ingredients using Wrong Season.
• The ingredients and wings vanished into a cup of wine that Yu Xunge called a cup of Story's End.

Yu Xunge used the Godly Skill Story's End to kill the Orchid Mantis and returned from the game, leaving Fengtang behind with their ties severed. The captain reflected on why he had pushed Fengtang to confront herself as the spectators reacted to Yu Xunge’s return.

• Yu Xunge drank the potion and comprehended the Godly Skill Story's End, which could kill a designated target at the cost of a random curse.
• Fengtang confronted Yu Xunge, acknowledged that they no longer owed each other anything, and raised her spear as Yu Xunge wished that neither of them would regret their choices.
• An Orchid Mantis fell from a vortex, and Yu Xunge used Story's End on it while falling, then landed in the champions' passage.
• Dull heard laughter from the demon stronghold, changed direction, and went to collect Flower Deceiver's nearly finished Zai Jiu Xunge kettle.
• Spectators discussed Yu Xunge's sacrifice of the Flowing Fire Light Wings and the unique conditions that let her use Story's End.
• The captain told Bitter Cup that he had guided Zelan Fengtang through hardship so she would see herself clearly, and said her intense feelings had repeatedly led her to make the wrong choices.

Yu Xunge celebrated her victory over Mistblade and revealed the skill she had gained from brewing Forest Sea. As the spectators erupted into celebration and fighting, Crab Crab, Pomelo, and Queque approached Shark Leng about cooperating to seize Whale Fall in the Wind.

• Black Cat declared itself Yu Xunge’s follower, while Daychaser praised her victory and explained that the wine had helped her gain an unusual skill.
• Maple Sugar told Mistblade that it was not too late to use her new skill, All Beings are Drunk, on her after the two left the rooftop.
• Yu Xunge smiled at the spectators, quoted Arrogance of Sin, and declared that Mistblade had been worthy of a fight and that she had won beautifully.
• Black Cat and Blood Elves teased Daychaser about her old victory speeches, then Zhuguang startled Black Cat into flying into a Shark Forest Clan member and starting a brawl.
• Crab Crab, Pomelo, and Queque confronted Pine Rose over Whale Fall in the Wind, then asked Shark Leng to cooperate; he refused because he was not interested in Godly Relics.

Yu Xunge chose skills for the individual competition, then spent the night making Scratch-off Lotteries while Zhuri and Tian Huhaoqi visited her. After Wuren warned her about Feng Tang, Yu Xunge demanded her Game Console back and suspected it had mutated into something valuable.

• Yu Xunge chose Midnight Exile, Incorrigible, and Mysterious Fellow for the individual competition.
• Zhuri asked Yu Xunge to make Scratch-off Lotteries as payment, and the two discussed whether Yu Xunge would pursue Tian Huhaoqi and leave.
• Yu Xunge made eight thousand Scratch-off Lotteries for Zhuri, then Tian Huhaoqi arrived with lunch and left near dusk carrying another stack.
• Wuren warned Yu Xunge that Feng Tang would show no mercy once the wings were gone, and Yu Xunge demanded her Game Console back.
• Wuren shut and locked her door, so Yu Xunge concluded that the Game Console had probably mutated into something valuable.

Yu Xunge entered the individual Sudoku competition, where players had to complete their number plates while competing to loot numbers. As the game prepared to begin, she stood between Maple Syrup and Mistblade while nearby apprentices speculated that the two were wary of them.

• The Crimson Card selected the Sudoku Game, and Yu Xunge charged toward the White Sail alongside Fat Goose.
• Mistblade asked Yu Xunge about her lantern-shaped Godly Relic, but Yu Xunge ignored her as she entered the Instance Barrier.
• The Sudoku rules required players to complete a grid using numbers won through ten-minute free-for-all looting periods, with the first completed plate winning.
• Yu Xunge found herself standing between Maple Syrup and Mistblade on the library map before the game began.
• Pine Rose, Crabby, Moji, Boman, and Queque concluded that Maple Syrup and Mistblade were powerful figures wary of them, and Mistblade and Maple Syrup reacted with exasperation.

Yu Xunge used Mysterious Fellow to make Feng Tang forget her and prevent others from speaking her name or describing her, then prepared for the library game’s number hunt. After Yu Xunge grabbed a number, Mistblade spotted her and brought Feng Tang after her.

• Yu Xunge used Mysterious Fellow on Feng Tang, who immediately forgot Yu Xunge, while Mistblade found herself unable to say Yu Xunge’s name or recount key details about her.
• Yu Xunge examined her Number Plate, used Waste Guide to solve its Sudoku puzzle, and surveyed the library’s floors and bookshelves.
• Yu Xunge prepared Snowmen and Pumpkin Dice on the fifth floor, then waited for the time stop to end.
• Yu Xunge rushed to seize the number 5, making it shine above her head as other apprentices followed her.
• Mistblade spotted Yu Xunge and pointed her out to Feng Tang, who pursued her without knowing who she was.

Yu Xunge used Song Song’s Buy One Get Three skill to make Mist Blade, Fengtang, and Youzi forget her, then collected the missing number 5. With her two main rivals no longer remembering her, she began the real contest: completing the sudoku before them.

• Mist Blade dragged Fengtang away from the game task and tried to enlist her help in hunting Yu Xunge, but Fengtang had forgotten their agreement.
• Yu Xunge fled Mist Blade’s attacks while keeping an eye on Song Song, waiting for her to use Buy One Get Three.
• After Song Song used the skill, Yu Xunge copied it with Seal Crime Simulation and applied Mysterious Fellow to Mist Blade, Fengtang, and Youzi.
• Yu Xunge collected the number 5 as the free collection period ended and watched Mist Blade and Fengtang fail to recognize her.
• Yu Xunge left to complete the sudoku before Mist Blade and Fengtang.