Recaps

Yi Chen and Catherine competed through Nightmare Town, dividing the Vanguard Squad and fighting over points while Zede proved overwhelmingly powerful. After repeated deaths and a final confrontation, Yi Chen revealed that Yuri’s maids had tracked Catherine’s Dream Entry Point and urged her to concede.

• Maco and Martin guided the Vanguard Squad through Dream Layer Twelve to Nightmare Town, where Yi Chen agreed to help Catherine divide the group.
• Catherine brought the Acrobatic Troupe against the squad, but Zede defeated Mosander while Spacy spread skin through the Dream Church.
• Yi Chen confronted Doctor Maco in the hospital, survived his attacks, and killed him by forcing enlightenment into his silver brain.
• Yi Chen allied with Catherine against Zede, but Zede crushed Yi Chen’s head and killed him during their first fight.
• Yi Chen returned in the Gentleman's Attire and fought Zede again, learning from his teacher’s physical techniques before Zede killed him once more.
• Catherine transformed herself into a Scare Box and joined Yi Chen in a renewed assault, but Zede destroyed most of her boxes and attacked them.
• Yi Chen had trained Yuri’s seven maids as an insurance measure, and they tracked him and Catherine to Vanishing Street with help from Marco and Martin.
• Yuri’s threat against Catherine reached the dream, and Yi Chen told Catherine that her Dream Entry Point had been found and urged her to end the game and admit defeat.

After the Nightmare Event, Yi Chen pursued greater strength and explored the Skin Field’s secrets while preparing to compete for First Gentleman. As the selection approached, he began training with Jin and Regan outside Zion, where a mysterious stranger arrived at the Twilight Clinic.

• Yi Chen left the Hall of Honor with the Skin Bible and later awakened Little Grape’s Ember State after Little Grape took Rudolf Fischer’s cursed eyes.
• Yi Chen studied Star Magic with Deslin, developed the Nebula Body, and caused a pathological outbreak when he and Jin read their Plague Books together.
• Yi Chen trained with Jin and learned that Gryph had passed the Prophet Examination, but a passing carriage’s drowsiness knocked him unconscious.
• Yi Chen tracked the Undead Carriage to Divine Skin Manor, met Galon, and learned the First Gentleman selection would begin in nine days.
• Yi Chen recruited Regan and Fei to prepare for the selection, then led them and Jin to the abandoned Twilight Clinic for mental-power training.
• Regan’s externalized personality overwhelmed Yi Chen and Jin during training, while Regan later detected a dead Fallen Gentleman approaching through the Black Fog.
• Scott arrived at the Twilight Clinic to investigate Twilight Silver Liquid, pursued a Woman in Red, and woke bound as doctors removed his brain and carved a character into it.

Yi Chen defeated Balte with Jin and Regan, then recovered and prepared for the First Gentleman selection while investigating the Death Plague. At Divine Skin Manor, Yi Chen passed the first assessment but struggled in the second, while Galon and Mandy advanced through their matches.

• Yi Chen freed Scott and recruited Jin and Regan into a plan to reclaim Lewenholm, while Scott lured Balte into a hidden chamber and trapped him there before the Woman in Red appeared.
• Jin fought Balte as Yi Chen joined forces with Little Grape, but Balte overpowered the group until Yi Chen entered his mind and destroyed him with the Black Liquid.
• The First Dead praised Yi Chen and invited him to visit the Original Tomb, while Deslin sent him to recover and later helped him identify Balte’s spine as the Dead Spine Lake.
• Yi Chen and Regan studied the Death Plague Bacteria, and Yi Chen later stopped Jin’s destructive testing rampage with a low-frequency whisper.
• Yellow Skin taught Yi Chen to read the Skin Bible as candidates and spectators gathered for the First Gentleman assessment at Divine Skin Manor.
• The First Gentleman’s first assessment gave Yi Chen full marks, but Yi Chen failed to escape Skin-Limbo in the second assessment before the time limit.
• Galon defeated Jessica with his Mental Power and an unseen creature, while Mandy battered Alex with a single precise strike and Alex’s killing intent continued to intensify.

Yi Chen faced Galon in the Promotion, surrendered the First Gentleman position, and prepared to travel into the Old World. After acquiring Bartosh and entering with Jin, he reached the Cancer Palace, where its Decomposition Baptism tested his Death Attribute and revealed his astronomer’s traits.

• Mandy and Yi Chen fought Sleeper Galon, but Yi Chen sealed the passage to the Void and then surrendered the Promotion after Galon explained his plans.
• The candidates returned alive, and Deslin helped Yi Chen deepen his star-based abilities until he gained a Nebula Body and short-range spatial movement.
• Yi Chen consulted Zed about the Monastery, agreed to travel with Jin, and received Bartosh after Little Grape merged with War Ironblood’s Holy Body.
• Yi Chen and Jin entered the Old World through the infected passage and stayed at Loop Inn, where they learned that selected guests could travel between regions.
• Yi Chen and Jin took a Black Earthworm train to Pus Lake, where Jin warned him about the Cancer Palace’s dangerous waters and the baptism awaiting outsiders.
• Jin left to report to her master as Yi Chen entered the Cancer Palace, endured its Decomposition Baptism, and recombined his cancerized body until a watcher recognized his astronomer’s traits.