Recaps

Yi Chen survived the cemetery, joined G&D, and helped destroy Green Lake’s controlling entity with Little Grape. He reached Zion with the surviving examinees, where they were about to be graded and assigned Gentleman’s Skin.

• Yi Chen discovered the Living Corpse in Graveyard Plot 4, teamed up with the Black Flesh Ball, and killed it despite the cemetery gate trapping him inside.
• Wilbert identified the corpse as a rare Plant Variant Infection, and Yi Chen swallowed its Orb to gain Pathogenization before agreeing to join G&D.
• Yi Chen traveled through the Grey Zone to Green Lake Town, where he found signs of a lake infection and met Edmund and his companions.
• Yi Chen explored the lake, fought Diseased Mermaids, and helped Boss remove the scales transforming her sister, Kadesi.
• Boss offered to disguise Yi Chen and the other examinees as sacrifices so they could reach the Root of Disease beneath the lake, and Yi Chen chose to trust her plan.
• Yi Chen touched the Giant Eye and let Little Grape drain it, but the mental assault showed him an abyssal laboratory and Fish Source—Nashatar, The Primitive Arowana.
• A White Feathered Owl rescued Yi Chen, and Boss and Kadesi disguised him as a corpse so he could leave Green Lake Town with the surviving examinees.
• Yi Chen reached Zion, passed decontamination with seventeen examinees, and followed Mr. Jeff to Divine Skin Manor for evaluation and assignment of Gentleman’s Skin.

Yi Chen chose the Purple Letter, became a Student, and endured Professor Chamberson and Zed’s training until he reached his physical limit. He joined Edmund’s team and set out for the Twilight Clinic, where unseen Sources of Peeping watched them cross Vinal City.

• George Chamberson awarded Yi Chen 96 assessment points and brought him to meet Alexis Jin Claude, who gave him a piece of Gentleman's Skin.
• Yi Chen chose the Purple Letter, gained a book-shaped Professional Emblem, and became Chamberson’s student and first mentee in Zion.
• Kolor Ivan created Yi Chen’s custom outfit, which revealed his unique Student profession and unusual traits.
• Chamberson arranged Yi Chen’s academy training, and Yi Chen read the library’s books before beginning special physical training with Teacher Zed.
• Zed examined Yi Chen and put him through months of brutal training until Yi Chen shed his damaged skin and raised his Physique from 2 to 3.
• Yi Chen joined Edmund Mariano’s team, and Gentleman Hall assigned them the secret medicine mission at the Twilight Clinic.
• The team learned that an Open Source Patient had caused the False Moon Incident in Vinal City, and Chamberson decided to escort them.
• Edmund bought Yi Chen a new Kerosene Lamp, and the team traveled toward the Twilight Clinic as Little Grape detected Sources of Peeping watching from Vinal City.

Yi Chen and his team uncovered Twilight Clinic’s secrets, killed Mr. Lee, and confronted Moon Scar. After recovering from the battle, they faced a confidential inquiry into what they had learned, just as the emblem on Yi Chen’s head began to move.

• Yi Chen, Edmund, Dagobert, and Julianna entered Twilight Clinic and found a destroyed refining area before Gray Fog trapped them in a moonlit Parallel Space.
• Yi Chen and Edmund escaped the Female Doctor, killed Francisco Holt, and met Mr. Lee, who tasked them with collecting Moon Mark skin in exchange for an antidote and rewards.
• The team hunted Moonified survivors in Vinal City, gathered Moon Skin, and enlisted Elton John to help them return to the clinic and confront Mr. Lee.
• Yi Chen and his companions tricked Mr. Lee into accepting a decoy, then fought him underground and destroyed the Pathogen Rat hidden in his throat.
• After Yi Chen learned the clinic’s secrets from Mr. Lee’s brain, Moon Scar appeared and invited him to walk onto the moon, but Chamberson and Aige intervened and drove Moon Scar away.
• The team recovered from their injuries, with Edmund receiving a reconstructed arm and Julianna continuing her recovery in a wheelchair.
• At a confidential settlement meeting, Yi Chen recounted the mission as Supervisor Aige explained that it had tested their investigative potential, and the emblem on Yi Chen’s head began to squirm.

Yi Chen received his forged Slaughter Moon axe, teamed up with Jin, and investigated the Newborn Church’s role in Shepherd Village’s Gray-Erosion. The pair entered the village, uncovered how its people reproduced through diseased unions, and confronted Village Chief Kaordi and his hound.

• Yi Chen gained an Extraordinary Intellect, tested his altered plant control, and received Slaughter Moon, a shape-shifting axe forged from a Tumor Crystal.
• Yi Chen encountered Jin, learned she had gained the Diseased Trait—Red Lotus, and agreed to join her on a mission to investigate the Newborn Church.
• At the Executioner’s Greenhouse, Baili assigned Yi Chen and Jin to investigate Shepherd Village and find two missing Gentleman Squads, while warning Yi Chen about Jin’s recklessness.
• Yi Chen and Jin reached the Tree Walls, entered the diseased forest, and fought mutated villagers and a Pig-Head Butcher after discovering the Church’s influence over the village.
• Granny Chicken explained that the Newborn Church had persuaded villagers to break their reproduction rules, and asked Yi Chen to return the village chief’s living head.
• Yi Chen and Jin entered Shepherd Village through its spore-filled Unnatural Gray Zone and discovered a Mother Entity giving birth to rapidly growing, malformed offspring.
• Yi Chen pieced together memories showing that the villagers produced different kinds of offspring, including rare Holy Fetuses taken to the Church, and concluded that the Sick Ones might be seeking a blessing.
• Village Chief Kaordi confronted Yi Chen and Jin with his human-headed hound, and Yi Chen killed the hound with Slaughter Moon.