Recaps

Zhuri and Mistblade began their duel after silencing disruptive spectators and exchanging words about Mistblade’s power and heritage. As Zhuri used her imagination ability to accelerate herself, she copied Mistblade’s Warden ability, setting their weapons and talents against each other.

• Zhuri and Mistblade asked for the audience to be muted, and the request silenced Zai Jiu Xunge and Isolated Island Huang Jin.
• Mistblade warned Zhuri not to underestimate her combat power, while Zhuri explained she had left it unchanged because she wanted a serious duel.
• The match began as Scarlet Chains bound Mistblade to the Clock Dial and Black Mistblade emerged to fight Zhuri.
• Zhuri used Brilliant Imagination to choose an accelerated state, then invoked Mistblade’s Warden ability and bound herself with white chains.
• Mistblade challenged Zhuri to compare Qihua with Beaver Duke and sent blood-red threads toward Zhuri’s clock.

Mistblade used [Flower Deception] to steal Zhuri’s [Brilliant Imagination], but Zhuri altered the skill with [Mail Carrier] and forced Mistblade to choose an outcome. The trick ended in another draw, and both accepted their ongoing Warden fight as a fair duel.

• Mistblade’s skill studies revealed that she and Huang Jin were far ahead of their classmates at learning [Flower Deception].
• Mistblade used [Flower Deception] on Zhuri’s three Time Pointers, while Zhuri modified [Brilliant Imagination] with [Mail Carrier].
• Zhuri’s altered skill made Mistblade receive several imaginations and choose one; Mistblade selected the outcome that Zhuri would temporarily gain her Deprivation Skill, then canceled [Flower Deception].
• Zhuri could not use the stolen skill, and the match ended in another draw without either fighter losing HP.
• Mistblade and Zhuri agreed that their Warden battle was a fair duel despite their differing experience, size, and soul fire costs.

Zhuri and Mistblade fought to a draw after a duel lasting over an hour, and Yu Xunge then defeated Maple Sugar by summoning her counterpart from another timeline. Maple Sugar conceded after questioning Dawn Maple Sugar about her history with Yu Xunge, and the original Maple Sugar returned furious about the time that had passed.

• Zhuri and Mistblade continued fighting until the Godly Game declared their hour-long duel a draw.
• Yu Xunge entered the arena against Maple Sugar, who demanded that Yu Xunge defeat her within ten minutes or she would refuse to help make cookies to save the Star Sea’s living beings.
• Yu Xunge used [Load Game] to summon Dawn Maple Sugar, who fought until she had only 3 HP left.
• Dawn Maple Sugar asked Yu Xunge about their relationship, and Yu Xunge explained that they were childhood classmates and arch-nemeses who needed each other’s help.
• Dawn Maple Sugar conceded on behalf of the current Maple Sugar, and Yu Xunge won the match.
• The Godly Game returned the original Maple Sugar to the arena, where she glared at Yu Xunge for making her wait.

The competition ended with Zai Jiu Xunge in first place, and the players were sent back to the Godly Educator's island instead of their worlds. Yu Xunge opened her anonymous reward and found a familiar revolver and a pocket watch, then taunted Yudun by claiming the Godly Game had given her the gun.

• Isolated Island Zhuri explained that she had extinguished her previous Deity Talent Word by firmly believing it was unworthy of her, and players with low comprehension eagerly considered asking her for help.
• The Pendulum Impact bell rang, and the standings showed Zai Jiu Xunge in first place with 32 wins, Isolated Island Zhuri in second with 30, and Zai Jiu Mistblade in third with 29.
• The players received glowing gift boxes and were teleported to the Godly Educator's island, where a notification said they would return to their worlds when the remaining 2 hours and 21 minutes of Game Time ended.
• Yu Xunge opened her reward and found a familiar revolver and a pocket watch inside.
• Yudun returned to the island, and Yu Xunge waved the revolver at her, claiming it was an anonymous reward from the Godly Game.

Yudun explained the Burial Ground and the pocket watch’s powers to Yu Xunge and the other students before Yu Xunge asked her to try the Romance bullet. The bullet’s effect promised to return a lost treasure if its wielder won a wager on a personality trait.

• Yudun led Yu Xunge and the other four students through the Toy Palace and explained that the next Godly Game would send all players from the Star Sea and the Mountains to the Burial Ground.
• Yudun described how gods’ and demons’ remnant souls appeared during specific stretches of time, and Yu Xunge asked whether her pocket watch was a map.
• Yudun confirmed that the watch would reveal the time in the Burial Ground, become a map whenever the bell chimed, and grow warm when a named god appeared.
• Yudun told Maple Sugar that Godly Relics could help players find when a particular god was buried, and advised Dawn Cicada and Queque to seek instruction from their own kind in the Burial Ground.
• Yu Xunge followed Yudun and offered to demonstrate the Romance bullet; she explained that its wielder had to wager a personality trait, and winning could return any lost treasure regardless of rules, time, or space.

Yudun declined to use the Romance bullet, saying she had no lost treasures, and later gave Yu Xunge a Burial Ground address to investigate. Queque and the others persuaded Yu Xunge to help search Flower Island in the clouds for Question My Heart, offering her a bag of gems in return.

• Yu Xunge offered Yudun the Romance bullet and asked whether she would wager a personality trait to recover a lost treasure.
• Yudun pushed the gun toward Yu Xunge’s throat, then returned it with the bullet and said she had no lost treasures.
• Yudun asked what IKEA was, rejected Yu Xunge’s joking answer, and called out a Burial Ground address as she left.
• Yu Xunge resumed exploring the Toy Palace and checked the Ladder Ranking while considering how the combat assessment might relate to the final competition.
• Queque, Rage Prayer, Dawn Cicada, and Maple Sugar asked Yu Xunge to join them in searching Flower Island in the clouds for Question My Heart.
• Rage Prayer gave Yu Xunge a bag of gems, and Yu Xunge agreed to go with the group.

Yu Xunge and her companions searched Flower Island for the dewdrops called [Question My Heart] while her Crown of Flowers Murder swept across the island seeking [Camellia Verse Jazz]. The petals gathered above the flower field where the escaped Camellia Verse Jazz had once grown, while Qihua watched.

• Yu Xunge arrived on Flower Island with her companions, and they carefully followed Dawn Cicada toward the Flowers of Deceit after Qihua allowed them to stay.
• Yu Xunge let her Crown of Flowers Murder scatter across the island as she searched for [Camellia Verse Jazz], and Mistblade joined the group on their way to find [Question My Heart].
• Tulan asked Little Seahorse about Xie Xie and learned that Qihua had called it in to discuss its search for a Deity Talent Word.
• Dawn Cicada explained how to recognize [Question My Heart] among the Flowers of Deceit, and Yu Xunge teased her about her pale-gold hair.
• Qihua watched the petals gather above a flower field where the flowers had all run away and remembered that [Camellia Verse Jazz] had grown there.

Yu Xunge watched a replay of her final encounter with Su Yitong and wondered what she had felt about their unresolved relationship. After returning to Zai Jiu, she learned that the Chaotic Star Sea had opened its first public vote on whether the next epoch should have an Invasion Sequence, and recognized that the coming war would involve all living beings.

• Yu Xunge watched Su Yitong's soul wave goodbye in the game replay and questioned whether she had felt helplessness, relief, or happiness about how their conflict ended.
• Yu Xunge asked Maple Sugar whether Feng Mu, Feng Cang, and Feng Ran were doing well, and Maple Sugar said Zaijiu Yitong's strength could be raised easily and that she might not know whether she was Feng Mu or Yitong.
• The Chaotic Star Sea announced that the final battle would determine whether the Star Sea or the Mountains faced the Order Pendulum at the end of the next epoch.
• The Chaotic Star Sea began its first public vote, asking existing Godly Game players whether the Star Sea would need the Invasion Sequence in the next epoch.
• Yu Xunge considered ways to spare most living beings from the war, then realized that letting a few players decide everyone else's fate would be unfair.

Yu Xunge voted for the Godly Game and chose her active magical items after the Star Sea’s second public vote ended evenly. The rankings and settlement rewards appeared, leaving her with the choice of manually upgrading Echoes of the Snow Country or letting a deity redraw it.

• Yu Xunge voted that the Star Sea needed the Godly Game, and the vote passed unanimously, though the later choice between the Godly Game and Demon Game ended in a tie.
• The Star Sea removed equipment slots and limited players to six effective magical items; Yu Xunge selected Furious Moon, Cat's Ideal, My Sigh, Cat's Schedule, and Gashapon Machine alongside her Player Relic.
• The combat rankings placed Yu Xunge first, Mistblade second, and Tingzhou Jing'e tenth, while Zhuri ranked 101st.
• Yu Xunge received the Godly Game No. settlement rewards, including a Star Sea Treasure Chest, honor points, and an opportunity to upgrade Echoes of the Snow Country manually or through a deity's redraw.

Yu Xunge had Zhuri send her to the most brilliant timeline, where she received the Brilliance bullet. She discovered it could call a living being’s weapon in the Backup Timeline, while Zhuri asked to try it herself.

• Yu Xunge left Tulan to help Yan Tu with Zai Jiu’s renovations and went to Isolated Island to find Zhuri.
• Yu Xunge marked Ignorant Game with the Soul Fire brand before Zhuri sent her to the most brilliant timeline.
• A golden bullet struck Yu Xunge’s head, and Zhuri praised her as the brilliance of the moment.
• Yu Xunge read the Brilliance bullet’s ability to turn Ignorant Game into a temporary telephone for calling a living being in the Backup Timeline.
• Zhuri demanded to use the bullet to make a call, but Yu Xunge refused.

Yu Xunge and Zhuri used [Ignorant Game] to call Huang Jin in another timeline, and Huang Jin accepted and learned that many of her companions wanted to speak with their counterparts. After Zhuri began her own call, Yu Xunge checked the battlefield rankings and found herself listed as “Stop Fighting Already.”

• Yu Xunge let Huang Jin fire [Ignorant Game] until it triggered a call to Huang Jin in another timeline.
• Huang Jin accepted the call during a Godly Game and spoke with her counterpart from the Zai Jiu Xunge timeline.
• Zhuri, Undead Wildfire, and other players asked Huang Jin to arrange calls with their counterparts, and the two Huang Jins ended their conversation.
• Yu Xunge said she might trade calls for resources but would attend them herself and avoid involving people who disliked the timeline.
• Yu Xunge checked the battlefield rankings and saw her title listed as “Stop Fighting Already,” while Zhuri and Huang Jin ranked 999th and 1000th.

Yu Xunge opened the Star Sea Treasure Chest and gained a skill adjustment that let her God-Bestowed Talent Skills affect targets who had broken free of God's Gift. As she gathered leaders for a meeting, Zai Jiu warned her that the third Pendulum Impact could be reached through invasion, and battlefield announcements confirmed that new worlds had been shattered.

• Yu Xunge used Technical Adjustment on Romantic Detour, reducing its values while allowing its skills to work against targets who had broken free of God's Gift.
• Yu Xunge asked Zai Jiu whether it counted as her wealth, and Zai Jiu said Arbiter could be used without concern because it was Yu Xunge's responsibility, not her wealth.
• Yu Xunge revoked Zhuri and Huang Jin's access to Ignorant Game and returned to Zai Jiu after saying goodbye to them.
• Yu Xunge spent the night in her study, then summoned the leaders to her villa the next morning.
• Zai Jiu told Yu Xunge that invasion progress above 10% now unlocked the final Descent Stage, and warned that many players would choose war over coexistence.
• Battlefield announcements reported that Rage had shattered Jianqi and Tingzhou had shattered Maiquan.

Yu Xunge and the leaders discussed using Maple Sugar’s cookies to help worlds without World Skills survive the Bell Chime, but the plan required turning entire peoples into cookies. Yu Xunge explained that she would oppose the Star Sea’s destined course because she hated the stories and losses it imposed, and she left having written an epilogue to [World Sigh].

• Yu Xunge proposed finding worlds willing to let Zai Jiu shatter them and turn their people into Maple Sugar’s cookies so they could share World Skills.
• Yan Tu, Song Gui, and Xie Xie questioned Yu Xunge about the cruelty and purpose of the plan, while Mistblade recalled her past kindness.
• Yu Xunge said she disliked the plot imposed on the worlds and named the stories she hated, including those of Zelan Kufu, Maiquan Xiongni, Mistblade, Grapefruit, Xianchan, Mirror Goose, and Maple Sugar.
• Yu Xunge recalled writing the prologue to [World Sigh] and revealed that she had written its epilogue at sunrise: “Before the Last Bell Chime rings, I will steer the Star Sea off its destined course.”

Zai Jiu Xunge explained her plan to turn willing living beings into cookies to save them from the coming Bell Tolls and wars, linking the project to her deity talent, “Sovereign.” The other leaders agreed to help, and Mistblade saw the plan as fitting her own talent, “Prisoner.”

• Zai Jiu Xunge said she wanted to shape the story’s ending herself and laid out a plan to let willing living beings become cookies, with a kingdom ready to shelter those who had nowhere else to go.
• Zai Jiu Xunge explained that cookies would not be controlled or made to fight unless they volunteered, and admitted that the plan would also help her comprehend “Sovereign.”
• The leaders agreed after Zai Jiu Xunge warned that waiting until the next invasion would leave too little time to test the plan.
• Mistblade, Xie Xie, and Yan Tu set out to approach leaders of worlds already fighting, while Yu Xunge planned to visit Maple Sugar with Song Gui.
• Mistblade told Zai Jiu Xunge that the plan also suited her “Prisoner” talent, and said she was fortunate to be a prisoner rather than a judge.

Yu Xunge met Maple Sugar at the top of the Tree Tower, where Maple Sugar recalled spending five minutes in another timeline with Wildfire and asking about the other Maple Sugar’s choices. Their conversation ended with Maple Sugar asking where Zai Jiu’s Yitong had gone.

• Yu Xunge and Song Gui arrived at the Owl Emperor’s palace, and Yu Xunge reassured Song Gui that she could help Maple Sugar train.
• Yu Xunge passed Su Yitong without speaking, and she told Song Gui that silence was the best ending.
• Song Gui stayed behind on the stairs, reflecting that she had fallen too far behind Maple Sugar to catch up.
• Yu Xunge reached the top of the Tree Tower and confirmed to Maple Sugar that she remembered the place and the High Tower from before the loops.
• Maple Sugar told Yu Xunge that she had spent five minutes in another timeline with Wildfire and asked about the other Maple Sugar’s fragments, wartime actions, cookies, and daughter.
• Maple Sugar added that she had asked Wildfire where Zai Jiu’s Yitong had gone.

Yu Xunge recruited Maple Sugar into a plan to save living beings by turning some into conscious cookies while others joined Zichuan. As Mai Mang prepared to choose its survivors, Maple Sugar wrestled with the gratitude and praise the plan could bring.

• Yu Xunge told Maple Sugar she wanted to save living beings on her own terms and refused to accept praise, ideals, or responsibility as demands.
• Maple Sugar agreed to join the plan if Yu Xunge could find living beings willing to survive as cookies.
• Mistblade told Yu Xunge that Zichuan and Mai Mang were willing to try the plan, and Yu Xunge brought Maple Sugar and the others to Mai Mang.
• Maple Sugar explained the limits and dangers of becoming cookies, including reduced Mana, vulnerability, and the need to bake themselves to recover Mana.
• Mai Mang's leaders negotiated with Zichuan while Mai Mang Songsong began deciding who would join Zichuan and who would become cookies.
• Maple Sugar admitted that accepting gratitude would feel ironic and hypocritical as the Forest Sea Ruins glowed with Soul Fire.

Maple Sugar explained how her [Whose afternoon tea] skill evolved and prepared to turn surrendered battlefield combatants into cookies. Grapefruit refused to entrust Zichuan’s future to Yu Xunge until Zichuan acquired two World Skills, leaving their cooperation limited to the current one-day arrangement.

• Maple Sugar said [Bear Cookies] had grown from a B-rank skill through repeated modifications until making cookies with Autumn Bear gave it the [Maple Sugar] suffix and ended further modifications.
• Yu Xunge explained her new Settings ability and proposed warning people that she would unpredictably change whether cookies could be controlled, while Maple Sugar said helpers could speed things up by surrendering and entering her oven.
• Yu Xunge, Maple Sugar, and the others reached a battlefield where undersea and Zichuan forces faced each other, and nearly half the combatants surrendered to Maple Sugar.
• Maple Sugar spread her fiery wings and used Owl Feather to cover up to a hundred thousand living beings with the Pain Oven.
• Grapefruit told Yu Xunge that Zichuan would not rely on outsiders until it acquired two World Skills, and said Zichuan had granted Maple Sugar one day to carry out the plan.

Yu Xunge helped Maple Sugar turn willing beings on Mai Mang into protective Cookie Items while negotiations over the world's fate continued. She refused to promise Mai Mang a place in the Zai Jiu-Zelan-Dawn sequence, but remained committed to finding worlds willing to join her effort to strengthen their chances of surviving the Bell Chime.

• Maple Sugar turned tens of thousands of willing beings into little cookies, while Mai Mang Songsong brought a few holdouts to Zai Jiu Xunge.
• Mistblade, Yan Tu, and Xie Xie took over negotiations as Yu Xunge returned to Zai Jiu with her passengers.
• Yan Tu asked whether Yu Xunge would bring Mai Mang into the Zai Jiu-Zelan sequence if Zichuan spared it and it begged for help; Yu Xunge silently indicated she would not.
• Yu Xunge considered the scarcity of World Fragments and World Skills and concluded that worlds needed to consolidate around those with high-tier skills to improve their chances against the Bell Chime.
• Yu Xunge returned to Mai Mang's battlefield and told Tulan she was pursuing her plan for her own fulfillment, not for the Star Sea.

Maple Sugar baked cookies for Mai Mang’s living beings until the twenty-four-hour truce ended, then Yu Xunge took her to help other worlds facing destruction. Afterward, a sea squirrel recalled Mai Mang’s welcoming life and how its people understood their attachment only when their world shattered.

• Sea Squirrel gave Maple Sugar 10% of Mai Mang’s remaining resources as thanks, and Yu Xunge accepted the diplomatic payment for Zai Jiu.
• After twenty-four hours, Maple Sugar had made close to twenty million cookies, and the fighting between Mai Mang and Zichuan resumed.
• Yu Xunge summoned the Cat’s Ideal and carried Maple Sugar away to help living beings in other worlds survive as cookies.
• As they traveled from battlefield to battlefield, Maple Sugar baked cookies while Yu Xunge reassured her that millions of living beings survived each day.
• Yu Xunge stopped at shattered Mai Mang and turned its broken moon into a golden apple, which she plucked down.
• A sea squirrel recalled Mai Mang’s friendly customs, Xie Xie’s arrival, and how its people realized they feared hearing their lost world’s name because they could no longer merge with another sea.

Zai Jiu Xunge recounted Maiquan’s bears, especially Bear Mud’s dream of bringing the scattered little bears home, as Tingzhou’s final Descent Stage made a devastating war inevitable. As Maiquan faced destruction, she wondered where the Autumn Bears would go to chase bees.

• Zelan Fengtang baked ever more cookies while Zai Jiu Xunge traveled through worlds and struggled to answer why she kept trying to change their fate.
• Bears from many worlds gathered in Maiquan, where the powerful Autumn Bears became renowned for their honey and gentle climate.
• Zai Jiu Xunge followed Bear Mud as he made honey and learned he was saving jars as homecoming gifts for the little bears he hoped to bring back.
• After Godly Instruction ended, Yanshan and Zai Jiu Xunge returned to Maiquan as Tingzhou entered its final Descent Stage and its leaders appeared above the world.
• Bear Mud returned with a Deity Talent Word, but Maiquan still faced a war it was certain to lose.
• As Maiquan shattered, Zai Jiu Xunge asked where the Autumn Bears would go to chase bees in Tingzhou’s desert.

While traveling to Fuqing, Yu Xunge learned that the Order Pendulum primarily targeted Soul Fire and proposed concentrating worlds and turning living beings into cookies to reduce its effects. Offered two new skills, she chose Cookie King to evacuate willing inhabitants as permanent Cookie Items under her rules.

• Maple Sugar asked whether Bear Mud would permit more Autumn Bears to become cookies if Maiquan still existed, and Yu Xunge concluded that he would compromise to preserve his people.
• Yu Xunge recorded more details of Maiquan's sigh as the ship approached Fuqing, adding more stars to the Soul Fire jar.
• The Star Sea brought Yu Xunge back to the mysterious crossroads and explained that the Order Pendulum destroyed Soul Fire, with world destruction occurring as an aftershock.
• Yu Xunge learned that advanced civilizations would ignite Soul Fire even without Game Invasion and proposed nesting worlds and converting living beings into cookies to minimize fluctuations.
• The Star Sea offered Yu Xunge Star Sea Elegy, which increased a world's population capacity, and Cookie King, which permanently transformed willing evacuees into Cookie Items.
• Yu Xunge chose Cookie King without hesitation and accepted the authority to establish rules for the cookie houses.

Zai Jiu Xunge offered Fuqing’s players refuge as biscuits, while Maple Sugar defended her efforts and confronted the Godly Instructor over the choices made for Forest Sea. After rescuing survivors across multiple worlds, Yu Xunge heard that the coming Pendulum would trigger Tail-Cutting Mode, leaving the Star Sea calling her name.

• Zai Jiu Xunge invited Fuqing’s contributing players to become biscuits, and Fu Qingfengji and Fuqing Moji urged everyone who could leave to accept.
• Maple Sugar asked whether there was a limit, then added thirty million places to Zai Jiu Xunge’s one-hundred-million quota and answered the Godly Instructor’s challenge by condemning the Captain’s choices for Forest Sea.
• Yu Xunge filled a biscuit house with Fuqing’s players but failed to create another one there, so she left to rescue survivors in a previous world.
• Yu Xunge traveled from world to world with her dragon and cats, collecting biscuit castles until the Soul Fire jar filled again.
• The Star Sea announced that the Pendulum would arrive in three Star Sea days and that worlds could sever Invasion Sequences in Tail-Cutting Mode, prompting players across the world channel to call for Zai Jiu Xunge.

Yu Xunge met Dawn Cicada to discuss saving Dawn from the Invasion Sequence. Dawn Cicada proposed an immigration plan and offered her War Skills in exchange for Yu Xunge protecting the Fragrant Branch, but Yu Xunge had not yet accepted.

• Yan Tu urged Yu Xunge to rescue Dawn from the Invasion Sequence, and Yu Xunge asked what Dawn Cicada would offer for the fourth Bell Toll.
• Yu Xunge arrived at Dawn with Yan Tu and met Dawn Cicada, who asked her to help save Dawn.
• Yu Xunge warned that Dawn and Zelan could be abandoned if they became a burden to Zai Jiu at the fourth Bell Toll.
• Dawn Cicada proposed moving Dawn players to Zelan, transferring as many as possible to Zai Jiu after an invasion, and turning those who could not be transferred into cookies.
• Yu Xunge rejected Dawn Cicada's proposal to bring Dawn's other races directly into Zai Jiu, even when Dawn Cicada offered to change her name to Zai Jiu Cicada.
• Dawn Cicada offered her War Skills and [Light Up the Entire Star Sea] to help Yu Xunge cut worlds loose during the Bell Chime, asking Yu Xunge to protect the Fragrant Branch in return.

Yu Xunge agreed to help Dawn Cicada relocate Dawn’s people to Zelan before Zai Jiu destroyed Dawn, while Dawn launched a final descent on Zelan to facilitate the transfer. Yu Xunge then went to Tiger Ear, where Queque asked her to help protect Reef as well as Tiger Ear.

• Dawn Cicada proposed sacrificing Dawn so Zai Jiu could grow stronger, with its people relocated to Zelan; Yu Xunge agreed to the deal and planned to visit Dawn the next day.
• Yu Xunge left Dawn and declared that she no longer owed someone anything, while Dawn Cicada initiated a final descent on Zelan.
• Yu Xunge informed Zai Jiu’s leaders and legion commanders about the deal, then went to Tiger Ear as Dawn Cicada negotiated with Zelan Kufu over the arriving Dawn players.
• Queque told Yu Xunge that Tiger Ear’s four-star World Skill also protected Reef, and asked for help because Reef had shattered Midsummer and held many Celestial Phenomenon Tribe members.

Tiger Ear Que Que asked Yu Xunge to help Reef destroy Tiger Ear and evacuate its inhabitants, accepting that the plan would make her a traitor to her own world. After the journey, Hu Nao said Queque had acted well but would still be haunted by the people she had wronged.

• Tiger Ear Que Que told Yu Xunge she wanted Reef to invade Tiger Ear, destroy it, and save a hundred million players from each world, and she admitted she knew she would be branded a traitor.
• Queque explained that she could no longer try to do right by everyone, and Yu Xunge encouraged her to act without seeking universal approval.
• Yu Xunge took Queque and an ear-shaped cookie house to Reef, then left Maple Sugar stranded in Zelan before returning to Zai Jiu.
• Mistblade asked Yu Xunge whether she had let Fragrant Branch immigrate to Zai Jiu, and Yu Xunge said she no longer owed Fragrant Branch anything.
• At the Demon Tavern, Hu Nao said Queque had acted well but would continue to dwell on the people she had wronged.