Recaps

Yi Chen escaped the Meat Factory, returned to Shepherd Village, and joined Jin in stopping the church’s Descension Ritual. After helping Lainey become a new kind of Sick One, he returned to Zion, where the First Gentleman chose him as a candidate and Chamberson warned him about the dangers of Gentleman’s Skin.

• Yi Chen escaped the Meat Factory, met Lainey Histria underground, and recruited her help against the village chief after killing Granny Chicken and freeing the chickens.
• Yi Chen and Lainey lured the village chief into a pit, where Yi Chen defeated him with moonlit attacks, learned of the Regeneration Church, and replaced his heart with the chief’s Steel Heart.
• Yi Chen infiltrated the church and found Jin bound as the Final Sacrifice, then freed her as the ritual’s holy fetus devoured Mother of New Life and attacked them.
• Yi Chen and Jin fought Marcos, using moon marks and explosive attacks to suppress his regeneration before Jin packed his remains into the Swollen Sac Bag.
• Yi Chen and Jin left the ritual chamber with Little Pei and the chickens, then Yi Chen carried Lainey to the nutrient mire, where she became the Black Woman of Life and gave him a regenerative Black Umbilical Cord.
• Back in Zion, Yi Chen reported to Baili Herta, concealed the cord from her, and revealed it to Professor Chamberson, who promised to keep it secret and manage the Gentleman Hall’s inquiries.
• At the evaluation, Yi Chen received rewards and met Alexis Jin Claude, who healed his wound and gave him Gentleman’s Skin, and Chamberson later explained its dangers and said the First Gentleman had chosen Yi Chen as a candidate.

Yi Chen completed his annual test, gained access to new sources of knowledge, and joined Jin and Regan for a Relic Event at Mount Grail. The team arrived at Yalsto Town and was told to select an affliction to eradicate or accept an assignment from Lame Field.

• Ivan repaired Yi Chen’s Gentleman's Attire and explained that deepening gray zones could open passages from the parallel Old World, while Yi Chen offered to help Edmund investigate a suspected outbreak at a Mariano factory.
• Yi Chen and Jin joined Edmund and Dagobert in Wendell Town, where they defeated the firearm-born Sick One Amis Tiller and Jin lost an arm-wrestling wager to Dagobert.
• Edmund gave Yi Chen The Body-Breaker, and Yi Chen later trained for a year before taking the academy’s Mind Space test despite being exempt.
• Principal Deslin trapped Yi Chen in an art museum and an orphanage memory, then calmed him and raised his Psyche to 4 before giving him access to the Power Station.
• Yi Chen met Ludwig Regan, learned about his efforts to restore Fei’s consciousness, and later invited him to join Jin and himself for the Newborn Passage Relic Event.
• Yi Chen, Jin, and Regan won their selection match, though Regan’s Fei struck Charvis and left him badly injured, and Yi Chen later stabilized Regan’s rejecting spinal device during their journey.
• The team’s documents revealed that Mount Grail’s passage led to the Old World’s shallow Surface Layer, and Yi Chen, Jin, and Regan arrived at Yalsto Town for the expedition.
• Lame Field described three afflictions near Mount Grail and told the travelers to choose one to eradicate or accept an assignment from him.

Yi Chen and his companions climbed Mount Grail, defeated the Yellow Robe, and crossed into the Old World, where Yi Chen traded and gambled with Duke Garryson. The gamble trapped Yi Chen and Lorien in a game built from Yi Chen’s memories, where Yi Chen awoke as a child and faced Snowy’s monstrous true form.

• Lame Field recruited Yi Chen and Regan to retrieve corpses from Cold Lake, where Yi Chen encountered Lorien and agreed to let the Female Doctor graft Lorien onto half his body.
• As the group set out for Mount Grail, Moon Scar entered Yi Chen’s body, and the climbers faced the mountain’s corpse-filled path and illusion maze.
• Yi Chen found a hidden hermitage, exposed the false monastery, and fought the Yellow Robe until Jin and Regan arrived and helped destroy its manifested body.
• Yi Chen, Jin, and Regan passed Olman Yude’s test and crossed the passage into the Old World, where they split up to explore the desert before returning to the temple within a day.
• Yi Chen let Little Grape replace his right half with a corpse-like body containing Gemhal’s remains, gaining amplified eye abilities and sorcery.
• Yi Chen and Lorien met Duke Garryson, signed a transaction contract, and wagered the Dead Egg toward an information-sealed relic.
• Duke Garryson built a role-playing gambling game from Yi Chen’s memories, and Yi Chen woke as a child in a house where his parents and Snowy forbade him from going outside.
• Yi Chen escaped the house to collect letters, but Snowy transformed into a towering creature with a skinless woman emerging from its body, stirring Yi Chen’s sealed memories.

Yi Chen and Lorien returned to Yi Chen’s memories of Black Mountain Orphanage, where they survived deadly trials and fought their way toward Director Cao. Yi Chen uncovered the truth of his birth and escape, killed Director Cao, and left the gambling world carrying a Suffering Iron Chain and the Box of the Mad.

• Yi Chen awakened his Death Attribute while killing Xuerui, then earned Orphanage Qualification by killing his monstrous parents and boarded the postman’s bus with Lorien.
• At Black Mountain Orphanage, Yi Chen and Lorien survived the freezing shower challenge, and Yi Chen later solved the Live Egg meal while Lorien exchanged his larva for Points.
• Yi Chen and Lorien killed Teacher Fang during Art Class, survived the chains of the Monastery of Suffering, and received Points and a chain relic after the match.
• Yi Chen caught Pang Guishan’s lethal dodgeball and worked with Lorien to kill him, then joined Chef Li in defeating the Security Office’s reinforcements.
• Yi Chen and Lorien entered Disaster Mode to confront Director Cao, but Lorien went on his own path while Yi Chen faced the orphanage’s experiments and learned that Director Cao had created him as her most perfect child.
• Yi Chen relived his final escape attempt, in which he shot himself rather than return to the orphanage, and remembered that his corpse disappeared before he emerged alive in the city.
• Lorien defeated Director Cao’s experimental subjects and left the arena, while Yi Chen returned to kill Director Cao and destroy Research Institute No. 1.
• Yi Chen exited the gambling world with a Rare-quality Suffering Iron Chain, bought the Box of the Mad, and asked the Duke whether he had seen skin resembling the Yellow Robe.