Recaps

As the orphanage’s reality merged with Ankaela’s nightmare, Yu Sheng found fragments of the old fairy-tale book hidden inside ordinary donated books. The Squirrel Knight recognized the book’s edition and revealed that the lost original had held stories written by the orphanage’s children.

• Baili Qing confirmed the danger inside the orphanage was worsening and ordered preparations for Dome Shatter if the angel descended or no stop order arrived within twenty-four hours.
• Yu Sheng found newly donated children’s books in the transformed Reading Room and had Eileen search them for hidden clues.
• Eileen pulled yellowed pages from the books, revealing that cultists had concealed fragments of The Squirrel Knight Reads You Stories inside them.
• The Squirrel Knight appeared from the book cover, and Yu Sheng explained that the recovered copy came from the same edition as her lost book.
• The Squirrel Knight said the original book had been filled with stories written by the orphanage’s children and cried over losing their shared treasure.

Yu Sheng and his companions fought through the Black Forest’s defenses as the Fairy Tales stage replaced reality, pushing toward the rift at its center. Little Red Riding Hood arrived and unleashed her own wolf pack, turning the forest into a battle between wolves.

• Yu Sheng recognized that the subset was closing and that he had gained the Hunter identity as the Black Forest replaced reality.
• The Black Forest summoned a huge pack of wolves to stop Yu Sheng and his companions from reaching the rift.
• Huli attacked the wolves with foxfire while Yu Sheng advanced and Eileen launched Fox Carrot Missiles.
• Little Red Riding Hood arrived with a pack of wolves and summoned every wolf she had seen, fought, or killed to attack the Black Forest’s pack.
• Huli transformed into a giant Nine-tailed Demon Fox and tore through the wolves, surprising Little Red Riding Hood.

Yu Sheng and his allies fought through the Black Forest toward the fissure, but Ankaela appeared and transformed the forest into a living nightmare. Unable to defeat Ankaela within its own dream, Yu Sheng used Eileen’s threads to connect the fairy-tale subsets, and the chapter ended as bombs and fire began raining into the forest.

• Huli and Little Red Riding Hood’s wolf pack cleared a path through the Black Forest as Yu Sheng’s group advanced toward the fissure.
• Ankaela’s shadow appeared above the fissure, extinguished the foxfire, revived slain wolves, and caused the forest itself to twist into hostile living creatures.
• Little Red Riding Hood asked Yu Sheng what the shadow was, and he identified it as Ankaela or part of it.
• Yu Sheng told Eileen to connect the subsets so he could destroy the fairy-tale system’s structure rather than try to defeat Ankaela directly.
• Yu Sheng used Eileen’s black threads to connect doors between the subsets, and fire and aerial bombs began falling into the Black Forest.

Yu Sheng tore apart the stories surrounding the Black Forest, distracting Ankaela and opening a crack that led behind the stage. He entered with Huli, Eileen, and the squirrel, and they arrived in a metallic corridor labeled “Ankaela—Maintenance Tunnel.”

• Snow White summoned seven Thunder Titans as characters and armies from different fairy tales poured into the Black Forest and fought amid the chaos.
• Dorothy rallied her forces, while the King sent newly summoned heroes to attack the vicious Queen.
• Yu Sheng revealed that he had torn up the stories while Ankaela watched the forest, leaving the entity in pain and unable to stop him.
• Yu Sheng told Little Red Riding Hood to keep causing trouble, then headed toward the crack with Huli and Eileen.
• The squirrel chose to join them, and Yu Sheng led the group through the crack into a metallic corridor marked “Ankaela—Maintenance Tunnel.”

Yu Sheng and his companions explored the artificial Maintenance Tunnel inside Ankaela, where visions and sounds from other times overlapped with their surroundings. As they followed traces of the Deep Dive Team, the Hunter’s Bullet grew scorching and an unfamiliar final report began.

• Yu Sheng led Huli, Eileen, and the squirrel deeper into Ankaela’s Maintenance Tunnel, guided by his instincts and the Hunter’s Bullet.
• The group saw the corridor transform into corrupted wreckage and heard invisible people running past them.
• Yu Sheng followed the sounds to a damaged blast door and recognized them as traces left by the Deep Dive Team from seventy years earlier.
• Beyond the door, Yu Sheng and his companions entered a control center that briefly appeared as a monstrous, corrupted hall.
• The Hunter’s Bullet became unbearably hot, and Yu Sheng heard an unfamiliar voice begin the Deep Dive Team’s final report for Operation Codename “Adulthood.”

Yu Sheng heard the Deep Dive Team’s final warning that Ankaela was gestating a dangerous new life, then met the Hunter who had been trapped in the Black Forest. He headed toward the umbilical cord room to connect with Ankaela as a baby’s cry sounded beyond the door.

• Yu Sheng heard a recording explaining that Ankaela had become a thinking ark and that its unborn child could kill countless people in the Crossroads.
• The Hunter appeared and explained that Ankaela had trapped the team in the Black Forest, and that the group photo had briefly awakened them from their roles.
• Yu Sheng told the Hunter that he and his companions had come as reinforcements, and the Hunter directed him to the umbilical cord room.
• The Hunter warned Yu Sheng that connecting with Ankaela was extremely dangerous, but Yu Sheng chose to proceed, with Huli, Eileen, and the squirrel following him.
• Yu Sheng opened the door to a dim corridor as a baby’s cry sounded from beyond the dark-red lights.

Yu Sheng discovered the damaged umbilical cord in Ankaela and fell through the collapsing platform, touching the break and receiving Ankaela’s memories of the Creators’ arks fleeing a cosmic catastrophe. He saw the dead Angel’s Fetus and learned that it was Ankaela’s child, leaving the cause of its death and the voice’s identity unresolved.

• Yu Sheng, Huli, Eileen, and the squirrel entered Ankaela’s umbilical-cord compartment and found its connection bundle severed.
• Yu Sheng experienced a vision of the broken cord as wounded flesh and glimpsed a strange hand reaching from below.
• Yu Sheng touched the cord, and the circular platform collapsed, sending him and the squirrel falling into the darkness.
• Yu Sheng touched the break again and heard Ankaela recount how thousands of arks fled their homeworld, only to be destroyed or lost as a rift consumed the universe.
• Yu Sheng saw the surviving Ankaela transformed into an incomprehensible, thinking entity and then saw its grotesque Angel’s Fetus lying dead on a birthing bed.

Yu Sheng discovered that the Angel's Fetus was dead but still growing, then read it stories in the hope that its unborn listener could hear him. The fetus crumbled, Ankaela declared her task finished, and Yu Sheng fell back through the passage to an unknown place.

• Yu Sheng recognized the Angel's Fetus as lifeless, and Ankaela asked whether her child was all right before realizing it was dead.
• Yu Sheng entered the fetus's darkness, found the book "The Squirrel Knight Reads You Stories," and read its stories to an unseen listener.
• Little Red Riding Hood and King noticed that the dark tower and defeated enemies had stopped returning as Ankaela's shadow withdrew into the rift.
• Yu Sheng finished reading, heard what might have been a baby's laugh, and returned to the mist as the Angel's Fetus disintegrated.
• Ankaela sighed that her task was over, and Yu Sheng fell through a passage before waking to a large reddish-brown tail beside his face.

Yu Sheng discovered Ankaela was shutting down and tried to save the Black Forest fairy tale by merging it with the valley. Outside, Huli and Eileen stopped the Special Operations Bureau from launching its countermeasure as a glowing object rose above the orphanage.

• Yu Sheng recognized the buried Ecosphere as Ankaela’s dead attempt to recreate its home world, then heard a warning that Ankaela was shutting down.
• Yu Sheng ordered Eileen and Huli to evacuate and alert the authorities, but decided to send the squirrel and hunter back to the Black Forest and merge the fairy tale with the valley.
• As Ankaela’s collapse shook the area, Eileen and Huli left through Yu Sheng’s door to warn the people outside.
• At the orphanage, Li Lin saw the barriers fail and a glowing object rise as Baili Qing prepared to execute “Dome Shatter.”
• Eileen and Huli emerged through a door and told Baili Qing to stop the operation, and Li Lin was ordered to stay on alert and observe the apparent angelic descent.

As the angel’s remains scattered and the fairy-tale wasteland collapsed, Yu Sheng switched himself into a dead state and began rebuilding the stories around the valley. Little Red Riding Hood and the others witnessed the first sign of the transformed valley when Long Hair’s tower began to emerge.

• Baili Qing ordered recovery teams to collect the angel’s falling fragments while Huli carried Eileen home at a run.
• Yu Sheng sat amid the ruined Black Forest, caught a piece of the shattered sky, and received an acorn from the squirrel.
• As the rift and wasteland collapsed, Yu Sheng turned himself into drifting ashes and spread them through the fairy-tale realm.
• A new story described the valley as a hub connecting countless fairy-tale places through hidden doors.
• Little Red Riding Hood heard the valley rumble, and she and the others saw Long Hair’s tower growing in the distance.

After the valley’s upheaval ended, Yu Sheng returned to the children and confirmed that everything was over. He reunited with the Fairy Tale Organization and prepared to explain the Otherworld’s changes and discuss their future arrangements.

• Dorothy reported that her drone had seen Little Red Riding Hood’s transformed Black Forest and Rapunzel’s tower, while Little Red Riding Hood warned her not to approach changing areas.
• Rapunzel hurtled down a golden-hair slide to greet Yu Sheng, but he dodged, sending her flying into a mound of dirt.
• Yu Sheng told the gathered children and the King that it was all over, and the group gradually began celebrating.
• The King appointed Yu Sheng Minister of Belly Scratching Before the Throne, then bickered with Little Red Riding Hood about whether she smelled like a dog or a wolf.
• Yu Sheng announced a grand celebration and said he needed to discuss changes to the Fairy Tale Otherworld and the Fairy Tale Organization’s future.
• Little Red Riding Hood gathered the parents for a meeting in the orphanage’s castle, where Yu Sheng noticed the round table had a large rotating serving tray.

Yu Sheng explained how Fairy Tale had merged with the valley, making its stages safe and accessible while leaving its inhabitants’ abilities intact. He urged Fairy Tale to plan for its future, and the chapter ended with its members affectionately—and chaotically—calling him family.

• Yu Sheng learned that the house lacked a stairway to the second floor, then revealed one behind the hall.
• Yu Sheng explained that Fairy Tale had become a harmless wilderness-type Otherworld attached to the valley, with its stages accessible as real places.
• Little Red Riding Hood confirmed that the group’s abilities and companions remained, and Yu Sheng suggested they might still train future members.
• Yu Sheng urged Fairy Tale to consider its long-term future, including the orphanage, new members, and succession.
• Little Red Riding Hood called Yu Sheng Fairy Tale’s parent, and the group stood to greet him with a jumble of affectionate nicknames.

Yu Sheng and Little Red Riding Hood discussed the Fairy Tale Organization’s future, while the displaced children began imagining a permanent home and new lives. The chapter ended with Yu Sheng returning to No. 66 Wutong Road and facing Huli’s moving, colorful fox stew.

• Little Red Riding Hood told Yu Sheng she looked forward to training future recruits for the Fairy Tale Organization and helping them lead ordinary working lives.
• Rapunzel collected the sleeping Little Red Riding Hood and asked Yu Sheng whether the group would remain at the camp after their orphanage was destroyed.
• Rapunzel explained that Snow White and the King were discussing renovations, a small town called Fairy Tale Town, and a Titan altar; Yu Sheng approved the altar as long as it stayed away from his vegetable garden.
• Yu Sheng returned to No. 66 Wutong Road, where Huli greeted him and led him to the breakfast she had prepared.
• Huli presented Yu Sheng with a bubbling, colorful fox stew and said she hoped to make it taste like her mother’s cooking after a few more attempts.

Yu Sheng ate Huli’s spiritually infused stew and recovered his strength, while her two chicks appeared to be growing stronger as well. Outside the city, Song Cheng’s team recovered fragments of the fallen Dark Angel, then learned Team Three had found an empty impact crater.

• Yu Sheng struggled to eat Huli’s moving stew until she performed a ritual that made it settle down.
• Yu Sheng found the stew delicious and restorative, and he watched White Cut and Salt Baked eat their own portions.
• Song Cheng led Special Operations Bureau agents to a remote crater and identified a semitransparent crystal as a fragment of the Dark Angel.
• Song Cheng heard that another team found a fragment near a settlement and ordered his agents to withdraw quickly because temporal turbulence was forecast.
• Team Three reported finding an impact crater with no wreckage, leaving Song Cheng stunned.

Yu Sheng went to the Special Operations Bureau’s Nth Floor to meet Baili Qing and encountered her younger sister, Baili Xue, while waiting. After discussing the fall of a Dark Angel, Baili Qing arrived and warned Yu Sheng that Baili Xue’s inhuman state made her dangerous despite her friendliness.

• Yu Sheng left Eileen and Huli at home and opened a door to the Special Operations Bureau’s Nth Floor to meet Baili Qing.
• While Yu Sheng waited, Baili Xue appeared and introduced herself, explaining that she had been born human but had not used her name in many years.
• Baili Xue asked Yu Sheng about the Dark Angel he had killed, and Yu Sheng said it had chosen death and he had only stayed with it at the end.
• Baili Xue warned Yu Sheng that news of the Dark Angel’s fall would spread, but Yu Sheng said he did not mind and hoped it might reveal useful information.
• Baili Qing arrived and said Baili Xue had slipped away during her meeting, then warned Yu Sheng not to stare at her sister’s eyes because her inhuman state could be dangerous.

Yu Sheng recounted his encounter with Ankaela to Baili Qing in exchange for funding to rebuild two orphanages, and they considered what the Dark Angel’s origins meant for the world. He also explained that Fairy Tale had fused with his valley, leaving the organization living under his care but still independent.

• Yu Sheng asked Baili Qing to fund the reconstruction of two orphanages in exchange for his account of Ankaela, and she agreed within her authority.
• Yu Sheng described how he had encountered Ankaela, and Baili Qing learned that the Dark Angel had once been an Ark from beyond the universe that changed after an immense disaster cast it into their world.
• Yu Sheng and Baili Qing discussed whether other Dark Angels might have undergone similar mutations, and Baili Qing worried about identifying any that could communicate.
• Yu Sheng warned Baili Qing that the unusual circumstances that let him reach Ankaela could not be reliably repeated, and she assured him they would not act recklessly.
• Yu Sheng told Baili Qing that Fairy Tale had fused with his valley and expanded it, while Fairy Tale remained independent despite living at his place.

Yu Sheng learned from Baili Qing that the red light in Ankaela’s memories was the Annihilation that destroyed the old world before the second Singularity Eruption. They worried that the growing Dark Angel incursions might be driven by a danger approaching from beyond the observable universe, and the chapter ended when Baili Qing received a troubling phone call.

• Yu Sheng described the disaster in Ankaela’s memories, and Baili Qing recognized it as the Annihilation recorded in ancient accounts.
• Baili Qing explained that the old world had been destroyed and that the Ancient Holy Spirits recreated it after the second Singularity Eruption.
• Yu Sheng connected Ankaela’s experience and the increasing Dark Angel incursions, while Baili Qing said she thought Annihilation had ended.
• Baili Qing explained that the Ancient Holy Spirits now guarded the borders of the observable universe and had not contacted mortals for more than a decade.
• Yu Sheng wondered whether the danger beyond the universe was worse than the Dark Angel invasion, and he and Baili Qing agreed they still had to keep living.
• Baili Qing answered a phone call, and her expression changed as she listened.

Baili Qing told Yu Sheng that some of Ankaela’s remains had gone missing and ordered a search while the Special Operations Bureau investigated their properties. Yu Sheng invited her to the Fairy Tale children’s celebration, and after he left she discussed the Dark Angel’s communication and the risks of revealing it publicly.

• Baili Qing informed Yu Sheng that a recovery team found an empty impact crater where some of Ankaela’s remains should have been, and she ordered searches of transportation hubs, surveillance footage, and boundary markers.
• Yu Sheng and Baili Qing considered whether someone had secretly taken the dangerous fragments, and Baili Qing explained that the Special Operations Bureau would isolate and assess the recovered remains before further analysis.
• Yu Sheng invited Baili Qing to the Fairy Tale celebration in the valley, and she agreed to attend after learning that the Hunter and Squirrel would be there.
• After Yu Sheng left, the colorless eyes told Baili Qing that she had given Yu Sheng its name and asked when she would announce the angel fall.
• Baili Qing decided to brief only select organizations about Ankaela’s situation, warning that public knowledge of the Dark Angel’s ability to communicate could inspire movements that obstructed the fight against angel incursions.

Yu Sheng returned home with new clothes for Eileen and a comb for Huli, then joined them in the valley to help prepare for a celebration. The preparations were nearly complete, but Rapunzel asked him to darken the sky because the town stayed bright even at night.

• Yu Sheng found the Eileens researching an account ban and told them to stop appealing and work on improving their skills.
• Yu Sheng gave Eileen two new dresses and Huli a comb suited to her tail.
• Eileen tried on a dress, discovered its back was uncomfortable, and Yu Sheng promised to alter it.
• Yu Sheng left home with Huli and Eileen to help Little Red Riding Hood prepare for the valley celebration.
• Yu Sheng found the town square decorated and stocked for a bonfire party, but Rapunzel asked him to make the bright sky dark.

Yu Sheng helped the valley’s residents by drawing clouds across the sky to create an artificial night, then learned how Little Red Riding Hood and the others planned to furnish and rebuild their new home. The chapter ended with Little Red Riding Hood assigning him to reinforce foundations for their houses, classrooms, and playground.

• Rapunzel asked Yu Sheng to turn off the sky, and he used controllable clouds to create an artificial night over the valley.
• Yu Sheng sent Huli to play with the children and warned her not to launch them with her tails.
• Little Red Riding Hood explained that King had arranged supplies from fairy-tale subsets, including furniture and materials taken from Snow White's castle.
• Little Red Riding Hood described how the fairy-tale stages were unsuitable for living in and said Dorothy and Snow White planned to repurpose and renovate them.
• Yu Sheng offered to help build the new home, but Little Red Riding Hood repeatedly insisted that he reinforce the foundations.

Yu Sheng and the others held a celebration for the children, with fireworks, food, music, and dancing filling the square. As the party continued, Baili Qing reunited with the hunter, whose greeting revealed a connection to her and the Deep Dive Team from seventy years ago.

• Yu Sheng brought Li Lin, Xu Jiali, and Baili Qing through the illusory gate to the celebration, where the gathered staff and children welcomed them.
• Rapunzel and Matchy launched fireworks, while Huli added foxfire to the display and the children celebrated around the bonfire.
• King summoned a Court Jester and musicians, and a girl with Long Hair sang as the celebration grew livelier.
• Yu Sheng found Baili Qing away from the crowd and learned that Baili Xue had been blinded by the fireworks.
• A squirrel arrived with the hunter, and Baili Qing greeted the hunter as an old acquaintance.
• The hunter called Baili Qing “Director” and said they had not seen each other in a long time, surprising Yu Sheng.

Baili Qing reunited with the Hunter and finally presented him with the long-promised medal, then brought him to the celebration where the children welcomed him warmly. As the bonfire festivities continued, she explained why the Special Operations Bureau’s staff were so intimidated by her, and she and Yu Sheng watched the lively gathering together.

• Yu Sheng learned that Baili Qing had served as Director for a hundred years and realized she had personally known the Special Operations Bureau’s people for generations.
• Baili Qing pinned a medal on the Hunter in a simple ceremony, while fireworks—including missiles launched by Huli—lit up the sky.
• Yu Sheng invited the Hunter to the square, where Little Red Riding Hood and the children greeted him without fear and the Squirrel joined their celebration.
• Baili Qing explained to Yu Sheng that generations of Bureau personnel feared her because she had watched and recorded their work for a century.
• Baili Qing and Yu Sheng sat beside the bonfire and watched Eileen, Huli, the Squirrel, Rapunzel, and the Mermaid enjoy the festivities.

After the bonfire party, Yu Sheng fell asleep beneath the night sky he had created, but a strange wind and cold reached him through a dream. He discovered that the room at the end of the second floor had overlapped with a snowbound cave, and pulled a torn strip of cloth through the mirror into his world.

• The bonfire party ended, and the Squirrel and the Hunter returned to the Black Forest after agreeing to visit the town regularly.
• Yu Sheng slept beside Huli and the three Eileens, then woke after sensing howling wind and cold in his dream.
• Yu Sheng realized the sensation came from home and told Huli to wake Eileen before he went through a door to No. 66 Wutong Road.
• Yu Sheng found wind and snow filling the room at the end of the second-floor corridor, with the mirror reflecting the snow-covered cave.
• Yu Sheng examined the room without touching the mirror and pulled a fluttering strip of torn cloth into his world.

Yu Sheng pulled a patterned scrap of cloth from the strange snowy room, where he and his companions discovered recent footprints before the blizzard and the connection to the cave vanished. After Yu Sheng posted about the cloth online, Nietu Sanqian replied with an image of a matching fragment.

• Yu Sheng examined the scrap of cloth and found its patterns resembled the runes on the metal lump from the previous visit.
• Huli and Eileen arrived, and Huli spotted recent footprints and cleared snow in the cave reflected in the mirror.
• The blizzard stopped, the cave vanished from the mirror, and Yu Sheng concluded the connection had been severed.
• Yu Sheng photographed the cloth and posted about it on Border Communication while Huli revealed she had learned to read everyday characters.
• Nietu Sanqian replied with an image showing a cloth fragment whose patterns matched Yu Sheng's scrap.

Yu Sheng discovered that a fabric fragment held by Nietu Sanqian matched the one he had found, and learned that Nietu Sanqian lived at Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain beyond The Crossroads. Their exchange left Yu Sheng wondering whether the place resembled the strange realm he had visited, while Eileen guessed he wanted to go there.

• Yu Sheng compared his fabric fragment with Nietu Sanqian's and learned their patterns appeared to share an origin.
• Yu Sheng searched for Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain and found news of its Beast Taming Championship, whose setting reminded him and Eileen of the realm beyond the door he had opened.
• Nietu Sanqian explained that his traveling senior brother had brought the cloth back and that he had stored it in the Treasure Pavilion.
• Yu Sheng asked Nietu Sanqian to share any new information about the cloth, and the two agreed to keep investigating it.
• After chatting through the night, Yu Sheng looked out at the morning streets, and Eileen asked if he planned to visit Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain.