Recaps

Yu Xunge led the players through Ash Prison, uncovered its harvesting games, and persuaded the Ash Inspector to cooperate as she built a faction to seize the prison. She left the players preparing to expand their fight beyond Prison 8017, while Su Yitong reunited with Liang Yuchuan and Liang Sha.

• Mistblade, Maple Sugar, Qihua, and other players faced visions of their regrets on the Bridge of Sighs, while Yu Xunge pulled them free and led them toward Ash Prison.
• Yu Xunge altered the players’ Orders, entered Ash Prison, and discovered that its Cube cells imposed games that tested prisoners’ talents and confiscated their creations.
• Yu Xunge defeated Yuguo in a Prisoner Game, brought her into Zichuan’s Sigh, and helped Cui Mang take the name Zichuan Cuimang.
• Yu Xunge confronted the Ash Inspector, learned that it recognized her authority and their connection as a Unique Key, and began testing how Soul Fire affected the prison’s Cube.
• Yu Xunge freed players from their shackles, made them jailers, and rallied the worlds to send top players into Ash Prison for the Final Battle: The Last Prisoner.
• Yu Xunge launched the War Game: Attack of the Jailer, summoned Star Sea Players, and expanded their control of Prison 8017 while the Ash Inspector recorded its own yearning for Soul Fire as an error.
• Yu Xunge named the prison the Abandoned Zone, lifted more of Ash Prison’s restrictions, and prepared the players to move into other prisons as Tulan challenged her decisions.
• Su Yitong arrived in Ash Prison after choosing to come home, then encountered Liang Yuchuan and Liang Sha, who joked about Liang Yuchuan treating her like a pocket pet.

Yu Xunge turned the Exile Grounds’ prisons into worlds and faced the Eye of Surveillance alongside the players. When Rust Tablet and the Ash Inspectors attacked, she fought to protect her allies and found a possible way to scramble predetermined fate.

• Yu Xunge gathered the Divine Wills’ Soul Fire, unlocked the Cube Prison through World Skill, and began linking the prisons while promising to avoid sacrifices.
• Yu Xunge learned that the Ash Inspector remembered earlier cycles and that a legendary prisoner had sent players from the second epoch into the twelfth to build a force against the higher-dimensional world.
• Yu Xunge connected and conquered prisons, painted the Exile Grounds and an enormous Order Clock, then faced the Eye of Surveillance as it opened across the sky.
• Yu Xunge used Moon 1 and World Sigh to turn prisons into worlds, defended the freed prisoners from the Eye’s attacks, and unlocked all the prisons by Day 28.
• Yu Xunge sent Zai Jiu’s Moon toward the prisons as the Eye opened again and released Ashen Precepts, while players fought the Ash Inspectors and the former master of the Exile Grounds.
• Rust Tablet ordered B80 and the Ash Inspector to kill Yu Xunge, and the fighting grew deadlier as Ash Soldiers revived and the Eye erased players without awakened Deity Talents.
• Yu Xunge woke, sent the players toward Mountains, and fought both B80s, who destroyed their own Cubes rather than kill their Unique Key, and Rust Tablet took the Third Epoch’s Cube.
• Yu Xunge used Disorder, Tranquility, and the Cube’s War power to coordinate the players against Rust Tablet, then answered that she was the Star Sea Prisoner as the Prisoner Codex offered a way to scramble predetermined fate.